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THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I MONDAY I 2 MARCH 2020 WEATHER NATION 9 SPORTS 16 TABLOID Max: 32.9OC | | Min: 20.2OC Opposition to CAA Lowly Watford stun leaders The (day)game RH: 42% Rainfall: likely will fail, says Shah Liverpool in English league of dating Forecast: Rain and thun- dershowers likely. deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 83 No. 61 Established 1938 | 40 PAGES | `6.00 Max/Min temp. 32/21ºC ASTROGUIDE Vikari; Uttarayana India may pull out Tithi: Phalguna Shuddha Saptami till 12.23 pm Shaheen dadis put riders Star: Krittika ti 8.53 am Varjyam: 1.58 am to 3.40 am citizens from Iran Protesters seek written assurance on citizenship to end agitation (Tuesday) Durmuhurtam: 12.45 pm to 1.39 DC CORRESPONDENT SANJAY KAW | DC pm; 3.12 pm to 4.01 PM NEW DELHI, MARCH 1 iNSIDE NEW DELHI, MARCH 1 Rahukalam: 7.30 am to 9 am HIJRI CALENDAR India and Iran are eng- TRUMP RULES As parts of northeast Delhi Rajjab 6,1441 AH aged in hectic parleys af- continued to suffer in the PRAYERS ter New Delhi is believed aftermath of the worst to be exploring ways to OUT PANIC AS 22 communal clashes in the Fajar: 6.00 am evacuate Indians strand- national capital in more Zohar: 1.30 pm ed in Iran after the out- FALL ILL IN U.S. than three decades, a large Asar: 5.00 pm break of the coronavirus number of people at Maghrib: 6.34 pm infection there. Shaheen Bagh, which has Isha: 8.15 pm There are apparently 1ST FATALITIES been the epicentre of the SUNSET TODAY 6.22 PM 2,000 Indians in Iran who anti-Citizenship Ame- SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.32 AM may have to be evacuated ndment Act (CAA) pro- in case New Delhi decides IN THAILAND, tests, on Sunday said that MOONRISE TODAY 11.26 AM to do so. Similarly, about they were ready to call off MOONSET TODAY N/A 2,700 Iranians may want AUSTRALIA their 75-day long agitation to return from India after if they were given a writ- the reported travel restri- ten assurance by the BJP COUNTER POINT ctions by India on flights FRIENDLY PECK government at the Centre between the two coun- that a `10 self-attested affi- tries. Iran is battling a POSES DILEMMA davit, supported by one or severe outbreak of the two witnesses, would guar- dreaded coronavirus whi- antee that their citizen- ch is believed to have FOR EUROPE ship is not snatched away. spread from Iranians who Soon after some TV news returned recently from ■ REPORTS ON PAGE 13 channels started a scroll China. that Section 144 of the New Delhi is “working Cr.PC, barring assembly of to facilitate the return of and South Korea that more than three people, those Indians wishing to have seen a lot of coro- was imposed in Shaheen go back home” and “dis- novirus cases. The MEA Bagh, a large number of cussions (are) underway had pointed out that advi- people, mainly women, with concerned authori- sories to Indians had been came out of their homes to Women during a sit-in protest against the CAA, NRC and the NPR, at Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi on Sunday. — PTI ties to work out arrange- issued earlier advising join the anti-CAA protest- ments”. Iran is reportedly them not to travel to these ers. ■ Page 9: Four more bodies found in nalas keen that New Delhi facil- three countries. India had Contrary to claims by itates transportation of also “temporarily sus- channels that a heavy SC to hear plea Iranians stuck in India pended” visas-on-arrival police deployment was put POLISH STUDENT who wish to return home. for Japanese and South in place in Shaheen Bagh, Display names of all those in Nirbhaya case India had last week said Korean citizens due to the a visit to the area revealed New Delhi: The Supreme it is closely monitoring coronavirus outbreak in there was not a single cop IN ANTI-CAA STIR Court will on Monday the situation in Iran, Italy those countries. near any lane or bylane of consider ‘in chamber’ the the protest site. arrested, demand activists TOLD TO LEAVE curative plea of one of Despite living in con- the four death row con- stant fear of violence and Kolkata, March 1: A victs, Pawan Kumar apprehension that they New Delhi, March 1: iNSIDE mation,” the letter posted Polish student of Jadavpur Gupta, in the 2012 Metro to display can be removed forcibly at Human rights activists on on Twitter by Bharadwaj University has been asked Nirbhaya gang-rape and any time, protesters made Sunday wrote to the Delhi said. by the Foreigner Regional murder case, a day it clear that they have police commissioner dem- OPPN TO RAISE “Despite the express Registration Office before their scheduled resolved not to retreat. anding that the names and DELHI RIOTS IN mandate of law, the names (FRRO) to leave the coun- hanging. ‘pucca’ language “Either take back CAA addresses of those arrest- and addresses of all arrest- try after he participated in or guarantee us that in the ed in connection with the ed persons are not being an anti-CAA rally in the 10 killed in two BALU PULIPAKA | DC ● ALL METRO stations absence of any document violence in the national PARLIAMENT displayed in North-East West Bengal capital, varsi- HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 will familiarise non- like Voter Identity card, capital be publicised as and Shahdra districts and ty sources said on Sunday. Hyderabadi people to Aadhaar or Passport, even mandated by the law. ■ police stations falling The incident comes close road accidents The stations of the Hyde- a self attested affidavit on In a letter, signed by REPORTS ON PAGE 9 within the area,” it said. on the heels of a Bang- Vijayawada: Ten people rabad Metro Rail Ltd. words like ‘kaiku, hau, `10 stamp paper, duly activists Anjali Bhar- The letter also stated that ladeshi student of Visva were killed in two acci- (HMR) will soon have nakko’, apart from signed by one or two wit- adwaj, co-convener of the the notice board outside the police has failed to Bharati University being dents in Guntur district primers for the uninitiat- pluralised words like nesses, will be enough to National Campaign for the control room. publicise the details of issued a similar directive on Sunday. In the first ed into the unique linguis- ‘busaan (buses), schoolan prove our citizenship,” People’s Right to Infor- “Compliance with Sec- arrested persons in previ- by the FRRO after she post- mishap at ‘5 mile junc- tic idiosyncrasies that (schools), collegaan said a 28-year-old Mirza. mation, advocate Prash- tion 41-C and providing ous incidents of unrest in ed photos of an anti-CAA tion point’ of Vattich- make up the ‘Hyderabadi’ (colleges) When asked if everybody ant Bhushan, CPI leader information regarding Delhi over the past months stir on social media. A JU erukuru mandal, six peo- tongue. agreed to the suggestion, Annie Raja, Amrita Johri details of those arrested as well. “In the present cir- source said Kamil ple were killed. In the With a large number of our city. We hope this will the 100-odd people at the among others, said Section and in custody is neces- cumstances, such clarity Siedcynski, a student of second mishap, four peo- migrants from other parts not only be an introduc- protest site shouted in uni- 41-C of the CrPC mandato- sary to provide families of will go a long way in dis- Comparative Literature, ple were killed at of Telangana, the neigh- tion to the city’s lingo but son “Ha Bilkul Yeh rily requires that a police those persons with clarity pelling rumours and mis- was summoned to the Ramapuram Thanda. bouring Andhra Pradesh also be an exercise in Manzoor Ha.. (Yes surely control room be estab- about their whereabouts information that are FRRO office in Kolkata on as well as rest of the coun- sharing information this is acceptable to us).” lished in all districts and to ensure that the correct plaguing those affected. February 22. “Siedcynski try making Hyderabad about our culture and A 48-year-old Akthar section 41-C(2) demands information is reaching We appeal to you to ensure was served a notice to 9mm rain lashes their home, the HMRL ethos,” N.V.S. Reddy, Khan said that many pro- that the names and all concerned and their compliance with this legal leave India within a fort- has resovled it is high managing director, testers know that the BJP addresses of all persons suffering is not worsened requirement,” it added. night,” a source said. Hyderabad time that newcomers to HMRL, said. government would not roll arrested be displayed on by the spread of misinfor- — PTI —PTI the city, in any case those These walls would not back the CAA, but all they Hyderabad: The month who use Metro Rail ser- just have words and want was a clear assur- of March began on a vices, should enjoy a bit of phrases but also their ance that their citizenship rainy note for Hyderabad cultural induction with meaning and contexts would not be snatched. with the Met officials an introduction to Hyder- they are typically used in. “People are scared as Violence continues in Shillong, toll 3 recording 9.2 mm (till abadi lingo. While “When engineers design many people do not have 8.30 pm) of rain, on Hyderabadis of long and build stations, they any document to even MANOJ ANAND | DC The third victim was Iewduh. Following the spo- wounded in clashes as a Sunday. After the year standing are no strangers view them purely as engi- prove their date-of-birth. GUWAHATI, MARCH 1 identified as Uphas Uddin, radic incidents of violence group of masked men went 2015, this is the highest to conversations peppered neering structures creat- All that the government 37, who hailed from Ass- in parts of Shillong, the on a stabbing spree in dif- rainfall recorded by IMD. with words like ‘kaiku, ed to serve a set of pre-des- should now do is to assure Violence continued to am, said security sources district administration of ferent parts of Shillong. hau, nakko’, not to men- ignated purposes. Our us that a self attested affi- rock Shillong, the capital adding that Uddin was East Khasi Hills on Some of the injured per- ■ Report on Page 3 tion pluralised words endeavour is to convert davit would be enough to of Meghalaya on Sunday attacked by three miscre- Sunday re-imposed curfew sons, who survived the such as ‘busaan (buses), our stations from merely prove our Indian citizen- with death of one more ants at Paikan village in from 8 am until further attack, recalled that the schoolan (schools), colle- serving as a get-in, get-out ship.” person in the sporadic Shillong at around 3 am on orders. Areas under Lum- incident happened within gaan (colleges), HMRL on areas for metro trains but When asked what they incidents of ethnic vio- Sunday. He was rushed to dengjiri Police Station, minutes when they just INSIDE Sunday said that newcom- into places for celebration would do if Section 144 was lence which broke out on hospital where he was Sardar Police Station and opened their shops. ■ CITY.. PG4 ers could use a bit of help of urban life,” Mr Reddy imposed, Asif (54) said: Friday after a clash declared brought dead. entire areas of the Cant- Most of the injured were in familiarising them- said. “We want our sta- “We will continue with between Khasi Students Another victim, who lost onment Beat House of Shi- from the turmeric line Earth mover busy on selves to words and phras- tions to be places to cele- our protest. We are all Union (KSU) members and his life has been identified llong city are under cur- inside Iewduh. The East call causes girl’s death es which might otherwise brate life,” he said. peaceful citizens of this non-tribals during a rally as 29-year-old Rupsang few. In the violence that Khasi Hills SP Claudia stump them. He said that HMRL was country. Instead of remov- on the contentious Dewan, who was residing broke out after the death Lyngwa told reporters that ■ POLITICS.. PG5 “We will create ‘Pucca inviting suggestions for ing us, any Central govern- Citizenship Amendment at Laban Jumma com- of a Khasi youth in the police was focusing in KTR penalises party Hyderabadi’ walls at all the ‘Pucca Hyderabadi’ ment nominee can visit us. Act (CAA) and inner line pound and originally from Ichamati on Friday, more most sensitive and vulner- leaders for flexis stations, with words and walls on the email id We will greet them with permit (ILP) in the state's Barpeta, Assam. He was than a dozen people are able areas like Motphran phrases that are unique to [email protected]. flowers.” East Khasi Hills district. working in a shop at reported to have been and Harijan Colony. HOUSE | HUNTERS Desperate tenants are forced to give up pets to get roof over their heads in city Pope expels priest People with pets find home search tough convicted of rape GEETA VALABOJU | DC lives in Shameerpet, is one ● House owners say that ten- across,” he said. Mr Rao believes that unruly, Kochi, March 1: HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 such. She had to give up on ants do not train or take care ESTRICTED said that once he decided untrained pets are ‘acci- Adhering to a policy of her puppy, passing it to on RENTING not to let out to pet owners, dents waiting to happen’. “zero tolerance” towards When it comes to finding an to one of her friends, who of their pets, or clean up his stress levels have fallen. “Though the pet might be clergy who sexually expl- apartment or a house to rent was willing to adopt it. after they leave. “I no longer have to keep tenant’s responsibility, oit minors, Pope Francis in the city, people with pets “We found it very hard to ● Tenants who have pets are cleaning up and fixing the there’s just no avoiding the has expelled a Kerala suffer an extra bite, besides find a house whose owner place because of damage fact that as landlords, we priest convicted of rape a few scary barks from irate would accept our pet. After forced to shell out additional unruly pets can do,” he said. are still held responsible,” from all priestly duties landlords. struggling to find a place, money as rent every month Ratnam Prabhakar Sha- he said. and rights, according to Interviews with several we finally decided to give up to keep pets. rma, a retired professor Meanwhile, M. Ravi church officials. Robin Vadakkumchery pet owners and landlords on our pup and handed it ● who lives in Kukatpally, Kumar, who owns a dog, Syro-Malabar Church revealed that having a pet over to a friend. Because In spite of dogs being vac- Phase 4, said that he lets out said he had to shell out priest Robin Vadakku- can be a divisive issue, and most house owners we cinated, many owners refuse a fully furnished place that `4,000 in addition to `8,000 mchery is currently serv- He was suspended from many a times, cruelly forces approached were not in to rent houses. invariably ends with furni- rent per month to the house ing a jail term for impreg- priestly duties soon after desperate tenants to give up favour of renting out to pet ture getting chewed and owner for being allowed to nating a 16-year-old girl in the news about his crime their pets so they can find a owners, we had no other Sundar Rao, a house owner pets, or clean up after them. scratched by pets. “Pets can keep his pet. “Despite my Mananthavady diocese. was reported in early roof over their heads. On option,” she said with sad- in Kukatpally, said he was In my experience, most dog definitely damage furni- dog being vaccinated and “Vadakkumchery has 2017. A POCSO court in rarer occasions, lucky ones ness. initially pretty okay with owners simply do not train ture, making them look sterilised, many owners been dispensed from the Thalassery last year had manage to find a landlord House owners, who are tenants having pets. “We their pets to behave. They worn out and less appealing refused to let out a portion,” exercise of priestly duties sentenced Vadakkum- who is just quite fine with a reluctant to rent their prop- did this for about 10 years. may claim to be animal to next tenant,” he said. he said. and rights. That means he chery to 20 years of tenant having a pet, as long erties to pet owners, have But over time, I realised lovers but are in reality Yet another house owner has been reduced to the Rigorous Imprisonment as the pet is well behaved. their own reasons. that most pet owners do not some of the worst animal in the same area, Vikram ■ Page 5: Owners not living state of a layman,” a and slapped a fine of `3 Deepshika Sharma, who According to a Ravula train or take care of their abusers I have come Pandey, said that he in same building a blessing Church official said. lakh on him. — PTI SPEAKOUT pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 2 GHMC neglects parks, okays illegal buildings GHMC parks Illegal layouts, bad roads are all in a spoil Godavari Gardens y wife and I are builders are constantly in shambles senior citizens, the habit of encroaching t is good that the GHMC is Maged 70 and 78 on the road, using it as a building many parks and respectively, and have dump yard for assorted Ifacilities but the enthusi- lived in this colony for building material and asm shown at the time of their over 20 years, and have debris resulting in block- opening is not seen later in been paying the property ade of the road, causing maintaining them. For exam- tax etc., every year. Ever great inconvenience to ple, many old parks like Indira since, there have been the movement of vehi- Park, Vengal Rao Park at problems galore faced by cles. Banjara Hills and NTR us. There is no proper Gardens used to have pedal- The road in front of the drainage in the colony, boating facility but this has house, the “second paral- post the initial makeshift been abandoned and the ponds lel”, has not been drainage provided by the have dried up or have a stink- laid/tarred since 2000, developer/promoter way ing smell. Parks like and dug up time and back in 1997 that has Barkatpura round chaman again for laying a become defunct, resulting used to have fountains with pipeline etc., whilst the in foul-smelling effluents lights but they are not work- other roads were tarred flowing on the roads or in ing. In most of the parks, the long ago. Construction of adjoining vacant plots. plants are not watered daily. buildings in the colony is Indiscriminate felling, Some times the lawns, hedges going on in full swing, chopping and uprooting and trees are not trimmed. but apparently flouting of substantial trees in the Toilets are unhygienic due to the rules and require- colony continues for con- poor maintenance and water ments of the layout as struction of buildings. scarcity. The GHMC should approved by the GHMC, Whether it is permitted focus on maintenance of the especially with regard to by the GHMC or forest existing parks before going for adhering to setback, department is not known. new ones. mainly in front. This There is no regular clean- — T. Kailash Ditya irregularity on the part ing of the roads nor is 3-4-871/A Barkatpura, of owners results in their there proper collection of Hyderabad. cars being permanently garbage from the resi- parked on the road(s) as dences. there is no porch or park- — Dr S.C. Bhargava General stores ing provided in the Founder President, house(s). This causes Godavari Gardens great inconvenience to Welfare Association don’t return other residents. (GGWA) Whilst the construction 18, Godavari Gardens, small change work is going on, the Yapral, Secunderabad ajor stores in the city have odd prices for Mcommodities like loose Plastic menace by veg groceries, vegetables and There is utter chaos at the Sangeet Crossroads as there is no proper stop line. fruits, like `22.90, `4.50, `1.80, `9.90 per kg or per piece. When vendors at Madinaguda I buy these, the counter clerk does not return the small Motorists find themselves at the crossroads near Sangeet egetable vendors Pranaam Hospital. I tried change saying the coins are indiscriminately stopping them but in not in circulation. This means he junction at station does not have a which halted at the signal beyond. It has become a to place stop line markers Vuse non biodegrad- vain. collecting extra money in a Sangeet Crossroads proper stop line. The awk- end up blocking the way of nuisance for all road and streamline the vehicu- able plastic bags in I request the authorities hidden way and customers feel Tis an absolute night- ward position of the the vehicles which want to users. On several occa- lar movement so that traf- Madinaguda, Miyapur, concerned to take strict cheated. mare to navigate. The road Metro Rail pillar further take a right turn and go sions, motorists end up fic jams can be avoided. especially at the Sunday action. — D. Manoj Kumar from Iskcon rotary going adds to the confusion of from Rail Nilayam arguing with each other. I — Dr Sudhir Mane, markets on the Manjeera — Prithvi Raj Secunderabad towards Secunderabad the traffic. The vehicles towards Iskcon rotary and request the traffic police Secunderabad Pipeline Road and near Hyderabad Air pollution is on the rise, kill it before it snuffs your lives out Curb smoke, Insist on air curtains to Switch to Ban diesel encourage prevent pollution inside public vehicles eople walking on pality sweepers to stop car pooling main roads amidst burning leaves on the transport in phases here are many reasons Pvehicular traffic roadside every morning. esponsible for over actories and diesel which cause air pollu- inhale more than their A local area composting five million prema- vehicles are mainly Ttion: smoke from vehi- normal air intake. pit for dried leaves could Rture deaths per Fresponsible to cles, factories, burning of Everyone stepping out on be a solution. year, air pollution is one spread the bad air pollu- garbage etc. It is our duty to to the road without a pol- When your neighbours of the biggest and the tion. There is a need to protect the environment. This lution mask or a handker- turn on their gensets dur- most consequential chal- take the strong steps to can be done by car pooling, chief to cover their nose ing power cuts, close all lenges in history. Effects control air pollution by travelling in buses and locat- is vulnerable. Even those windows immediately. range from respiratory shifting the factories in ing factories away from the in fancy air-conditioned Question people who park disease, like emphyse- the remote areas and cities. Chemicals from facto- showrooms without air their cars with the air ma, to brain stroke and banning all diesel vehi- ries released into the air, curtains at the entrance conditioner on, ask them other neurological cles in a phased manner. garbage not cleared regularly, are vulnerable. to turn off the engine and issues linked to cogni- The pollution control smoking etc., can be con- A major cause of air stop polluting our air. tive decline. Airborne board should chalk out trolled. Air pollution causes pollution is vehicles, Report excessive pollut- toxins reduce our the plans to control the many diseases, so this should especially diesel engines ing vehicles such as nation’s life expectancy air pollution for the next be taken as a major concern as well as two-stroke autorickshaws, buses, lor- by 1.5 years. 50 years and give the and every citizen must be petrol engines. Others are ries and bikes by taking a The surge in industri- clean environment for involved in the fight against it. diesel gensets used dur- photograph of the num- alisation, incineration A factory chimney emits smoke in thickly-populated Tarnaka area. —GANDHI our next generation. — Farhana Aziz ing power cuts and burn- ber-plate and send it to of wood during wild- — Syed Nissar 44, Teacher, Hyderabad ing of dry leaves as well the concerned authority. fires, gasoline in cars computer operator, 16- as plastic which is We can request all com- and burning of coals are 11-20/1/d, Malakpet, extremely carcinogenic. mercial establishments to a few of the many rea- Have grasslands more than trees Hyderabad Unpolished Coal burning for power instal air-curtains at the sons why air pollution is generation is another entrance. We can also rampant. Carbon mono- xperts in the 1970s es and 500 billion coffee but rather in the soil. major contributor. The invest in an air purifier xide for example is one forecast how much cups are major contribu- This is why grasslands Make the rice and a few more we save power, the for home or office. of the most deleterious Ewater the world tors to landfills every year. are often considered lesser the pollution we And lastly, plant more toxins that is harmful would consume in the Microwave ovens are no superior carbon sinks to cause. trees. for plants, humans and year 2000. The total usage less responsible. These forests because they switch to cosmetics The next time you step — Vishnu. R. animals. that year was half what ovens across Europe emit sequester their carbon ven our modern food out on the road, wear a 50, Business We can bring change was predicted, not as much carbon dioxide as deep in the soil where it is habits are adding to air pollution mask/handker- Road No. 14, Banjara by multiple ways: because there were fewer nearly seven million cars both stable and can per- green infra Epollution. To get double chief. Request the munici- Hills Switching to public humans but because according to a study. form a series of other e are always con- polished rice, the outer nutri- transport, switching to human inventiveness Replacing non-biodegra- miracles like water reten- cerned about tional layers of paddy is solar power, planting allowed more efficient dable items with bio- tion and cleaning, Wwhat we hand removed in rice mills which more trees and conduct- irrigation for agriculture, degradable alternatives increased plant growth down to our successive are major polluters. Let us eat Try traditional methods, ing programmes for the biggest user of water. is the first step to reduce and increased biodiversi- generations, such as our unpolished rice which contains raising awareness in Eighty per cent green- the use and emission of ty, healthy diet for live- assets, gold and wealth, more nutrition and reduce air both rural and urban house gases come from carbons. Instead of stock or ruminants. but are least bothered pollution to some extent. be responsible personally areas about the root fossil fuel consuming investing decades into — Molugu V. about saving pure water People use cosmetics, several ir pollution is now plants. Car pooling and causes that lead to air industries. growing more biomass Sreenivasulu and clean air. of which like face creams, a chronic concern use of public transport pollution. Disposable diapers and like trees, a better alter- 62, Movie artiste and Especially in the case lotions and perfumes are Afor the planet. should be prioritised. — Rudra Krishna sanitary napkins take native is grass which fashion designer, 8-1-394 of urban areas, air pol- shown to add to air pollution Global activists have Minimise the use of air 20 years, Engineering approximately 200-300 starts a cycle each year. Shivajinagar, Adjacent to lution has a devastating during their manufacture. We strived towards control- conditioners and refriger- 2nd year, GRIET, 204, years to decompose, 4.7 Grass stores carbon not Dargah, RP Road, impact on health. should reduce the use of such ling air pollution but it ators as much as possible. Shri Venkateshwara billion plastic toothbrush- in its biomass like trees, Secunderabad-500003 Pulmonary diseases are cosmetics. keeps increasing. We as Vegetables and fruits can Homes, one of the outcomes of We still use a pollutant like responsible citizens be placed in wet jute cloth Naren Estate, Miyapur, air pollution. We should bitumen to lay roads. Let us should try to curb air pol- in big earthen pots to Hyderabad-500049 switch to green infra- build cement roads which lution at an individual keep them fresh. Overall, Move all industries to city peripheries structure which is a wears less and also reduces level. We can try by plant- it’s time to understand nfortunately the lorries carry garbage on measures to increase staff worthwhile option. dust particles in the air. We ing air-purifying plants our personal responsibili- Recycle as byproduct of any the roads leaving behind in municipalities, pollution Almost all the developed can also control the bursting in our surroundings. ties to minimise air pollu- Uprogressive new an unbearable stench. control boards, food inspec- nations have shifted to of crackers. Instead of using mosqui- tion. development is pollution. Government and citizens tors and police to arrest green infrastructure. — A. Robert Caution to repellent sprays loaded — Raaga Jain much as Pre-World War 1, life was both should endeavour to and award punitive punish- — Thejaswini Kumar with chemicals, we can 18, Student, slow but the environment arrest this cancer-like ment to erring industries. Ambrose 63, Automotive engineering use natural oils like cit- 3/4/221/501/, Prasant was unpolluted. Now, problem of air pollution. Educate the people to coop- MA, TSSET(PhD), 1-19- 79/83, Ayodhya Colony, ronella and lemon grass Nest; Kacheguda possible industries such as the ones Government should merci- erate and comply. Research Scholar, ir pollution affects in Jeedimetla emit nox- lessly move all industries — Indramohan Department of Political those with asthma ious gases into thickly pop- to the periphery of residen- Cadaloori Science, Osmania Aand affects the ulated urban areas. GHMC tial zones. Take urgent Hyderabad University, Hyderabad. heart, eyes and other parts of the body. Acid rain caused by pollution destroys plant and ani- Implement Walta strictly mal life. Our cities are he major causes for gal construction activity. turning into concrete air pollution are Government must tell jungles due to cutting Tvehicular traffic, mandal revenue officials down of trees. Vehicular construction activity and to strictly implement the pollution is one of the felling of tress. To curb Water Land and Trees Act main reasons for air pol- pollution due to vehicle (Walta). Otherwise, lution. The use of plastic emissions, the odd-even Hyderabad will become a also causes air pollution. formula has to be imple- gas chamber like Delhi. By recycling and reuse, mented and old vehicles — Dharmender Singh we can reduce air pollu- must be seized and Advocate tion to an extent. destroyed. Government 12-2-417/43&35 Flat 504 — Gopal Krishna should strictly instruct SV Sumeru Nilayam A motorcycle spews noxious emissions on a flyover in A lorry emits thick dark smoke in Hyderabad on Sunday. — P. SURENDRA Hyderabad the GHMC to control ille- Saradaana Nagar Colony the city on Sunday. — DC SPEAK OUT pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 3 It’s an animal farm TS expands disabilities list: Asmangadh Dogs scare MS patients to get ID cards T.S.S. SIDDHARTH I DC the seven to 21, as listed by HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 the Centre in the Rights of DISABILITY road slippery Walkers at Persons with Disabilities The department for Act, 2016. CONDITIONS women, children, disabled “We will issue disability IN RPWD ACT after car wash KBR Park and senior citizens wel- certificates for all the 21 A car is being washed on the his is to bring to fare will begin distribut- disabilities listed by the z Blindness public road beside Tirumala your kind atten- ing Unique Disability Centre. The work is being z Low-vision Hills temple, Asmangadh, at Ttion of the stray Identity (UDID) cards to done by the Society for 12.30 pm on February 23, and dogs that are causing multiple sclerosis patients Elimination of Rural z Leprosy cured per- the water was flowing on the a lot of inconvenience (MSPs) within the next Poverty and we should sons road. This rendered the road to the walkers at KBR two months. have potential beneficiar- z Hearing impairment slippery, endangering two- Park. Sometimes they Eligibility criteria, ies with 21 listed disabili- (deaf and hard of hear- wheeler riders. The person chase the walkers and issued by the Centre, will ties enrolled by April,” ing) washing the car said he had women and children depend on data provided she added. z Locomotor disability been asked to do so by the get scared. Moreover, by the Software for Disabled people can now colony secretary. It is very the dogs defecate on Assessment of Disabled book an online slot at e- z Dwarfism common in Tirumala Hills the walking track and for Access Rehabilitation Seva and MeeSeva cen- z Intellectual disability Colony to see drivers washing many time walkers and Empowerment (SAD- tres. The new rule came z Mental illness the cars on the roads and let- stamp on it acciden- AREM). According to offi- into effect on January 1. ting the water run. I request tally which is nause- cial, the software is used Following the announce- z Autism spectrum dis- the authorities to look into the ating. by the state government. ment, members of the order matter. I request the GHMC “The UDID cards have Multiple Sclerosis Society z Cerebral Palsy K. Siva Kumar and the KBR park arrived from New Delhi. India (MSSI) Hyderabad, z Muscular dystrophy Advocate authorities to look Only the distribution is said that it would be a step into this matter and pending. To apply for the towards inclusivity for z Chronic neurological ensure the walk is cards, those eligible MSPs. conditions Control the peaceful and pleasant should first have their SADAREM certificates z Specific learning dis- for walkers. data fed into SADAREM, will help the government abilities — Rukhsana as the UDID card is also in maintaining a central- z Multiple Sclerosis cacophony Saleem issued based on the same ized database of disabled Srinagar Colony, information and ques- persons. It will generate z Speech and language Dogs surround a police vehicle near KBR Park. Hyderabad tions,” Ms B. Shailaja, details, including support disability at Badangpet director of the depart- services the disabled per- z Thalassemia he sound pollution is ment, told Deccan sons are entitled to be z Hemophilia unbearable in Badangpet Chronicle. based and a record of the Control dog population Every street has 10 z Sickle cell disease Tespecially at night. We To avail the card, MSPs services provided from are unable to sleep due to the will have to indicate a time to time. The details z Multiple disabilities loud noise from music bands at Khanamet urgently dogs in Maduranagar multiple disabilities card, to be hosted on a public including deafness- in function halls. The police is and follow the prompts of domain would enable blindness informed but the noise contin- n recent years in ans and vehicle-riders, arents are scared rottweiler is not really the website. service providers to reach z Acid attack victims ues till 2 am. For the old and Madhapur, the canine and bite children and eld- to send their kids concerned about its The state will expand the out to the disabled per- heart patients especially, it is a Ipopulation has multi- ers. In the recent past, Palone on the behaviour. I request list of disabilities from sons. z Parkinson’s disease nightmare. I request the plied. Efforts to draw the some children were bitten streets because of the the authorities con- Badangpet Municipal Corpo- attention of the authori- by a stray dog that led to presence of stray dogs cerned to take action ration officials and Meerpet ties to control the dog severe injuries. The gov- at Maduranagar. Each before someone is police to take necessary action population have not yield- ernment should take street has a minimum hurt. to ensure that the noise stops ed any result. Dogs on the strongest action to end of 10 dogs. Some of — Saravanan Night rain floods roads by 10 pm. streets of residential the menace. them chase two-wheel- Murugesan Kameswararao colonies now create — Nagarajamani M.V. ers especially at Maduranagar, DC CORRESPONDENT Sita Meadows, Badangpet anguish among pedestri- Khanamet, Hyderabad nights. The owner of a Hyderabad. HYDERABAD, MARCH 1

March was welcomed I cleared all with showers with MET NTR Park officials recording 9.2 mm Work unbalanced at Nizampet PO of rain till 8.30 pm on dues, but SBI t Nizampet village, ing of savings accounts, Postmaster General, to Sunday. the post office has deposits and with- make it convenient for a snacks for Since 2015, this is the Atwo counters. The drawals. It is busy most surprise visit to the post highest rainfall registered buzzes me first one deals with of the time and people office to see the situation by Indian Meteorological took a credit card of SBI Speed Post, money have to wait for two to for himself and make kids costly Department (IMD) in when I was in service. I was orders and registered three hours before it is alternative arrange- visited NTR Park on March. On March 2, 2015, Iretired in May 2014. In posts. It gets few cus- their turn, As I am a sen- ments for senior citizens. Sunday last with my the city received 18.7 mm August when I went to the SBI tomers and closes by ior citizen, waiting for — Boddupalli Ikids. The overall expe- of rain. It was 4.5 mm in branch to close the credit card 11.30 am. The other such a long time is diffi- Subrahmanya Sastry, rience was good but one 2017 and 0.5 mm in 2018. account, they said I owed counter deals with open- cult. I request the Nizampet, Hyderabad shop, SVR Enterprises, An official of the depart- `30,000. I dropped a cheque for charged me more than ment said, “We are yet to the amount. A year later, I MRP rates for chips, kulfi receive data for 2019.” received a message seeking and chips. I asked him Sunday’s spell comes `2,500 as credit account bal- Sultan Bazaar roads are still not fixed the reason, for the higher after a heavy rainfall ance. I ignored it since I had prices and he refused to warning issued by IMD on Rainwater on the road makes it difficult for motorists at paid the dues. A few months here is no differ- lanes and they have to their customers’ sell me the items. As I Saturday. It had forecast Padmaraonagar on Sunday. — S. SURENDER REDDY later, I received a letter from ence to the condi- walk. Without a proper vehicles. Bus drivers was helpless at that time the possibility of rains SBI saying I was due `4,500 for Ttion of roads and parking lot, vehicles drive like they own the I purchased the items. I across the state. chief meteorologist, ‘One rain and the road final settlement. I was directed footpaths before and are parked everywhere. road. request the officer con- “There are chances of Skymet, a private weather (Balanagar to Kukatpally) to their field officer Shiva. after the Metro Rail Vendors take up vacant Are officials waiting cerned to take action rainfall over the state for forecaster. at Y junction, Kukatpally When I contacted him, he said work at Sultan Bazaar. spots. From the right for an incident to hap- against the vender. now. This would not per- Following the downpour, just disappeared (sic),’ I should pay the amount and The GHMC appears to turn towards Ramkote, pen. — Dr Juweriah Shima sist as the system that is net-savvy residents of the said one Aadith Kamal. he would issue a clearance cer- have forgotten that peo- shopkeepers reserve — Residents of Santoshnagar Colony, bringing the cumulonim- city took to micro-blog- Others expressed their tificate. I paid this too but I did ple reside in the inside foothpaths for Sultan Bazaar Hyderabad bus clouds would dissi- ging websites to pour out joy at the smell of petri- not receive the clearance cer- pate,” Mahesh Palawat, their motoring woes. chor. tificate. I contacted him sever- al times but he is not taking my calls. The messages from AC Guards road dug up, GHMC dumping trash SBI continue. — Shaik Tajuddin Runners trash UoH campus Hyderabad repair has been delayed in Azampura open area RAJESWARI PARASA I DC he road near Holy his big space garbage. The surround- HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 B’luru train Mary High School, between two road ings are occupied by TAC Guards, was dug Tunderbridges at vendors, also old vehi- While the University of up for civic works recent- Azampura Chaman is cles are abandoned Hyderabad claims to be late, there ly but has not been relaid. being used for garbage there. Nearby areas like eco-friendly, the The poor condition of the dumping by the GHMC. New and Old Malakpet marathons conducted by road is an inconvenience This causes a bad smell is taken care of but companies in the green- was no pantry to motorists and pedestri- last month and the to hang in the air and Azampura is ill-treated. campus are just piling up was travelling from ans. Local residents have authorities assured them affects local residents I request minister K.T. the plastic waste in open Hyderabad to Bengaluru by repeatedly expressed of necessary action but This has been brought Rama Rao, the area grounds and pathways. ITrain 12785 and it was run- their resentment through the problem has not been to the notice of repre- MLA and the corpora- Plastic waste is affecting ning three-and-a-half hours various platforms but addressed. sentatives and depart- tor to do justice. the wild life as well. late. Senior citizens have to nothing has led to a solu- Syed Shamsuddin ment officials several — Abu Mustafa A private company had take BP medicine after break- tion. People had also Maghrabi times but no action has Hussaini sponsored a marathon on Plastic littered on the UoH campus on Sunday. fast but there was no catering staged a demonstration Red Hills been taken to clear the Azampura Saturday. The Students' service on the train. Railway Union is conducting Night dents. Jillapalli from UoH. officials need to take note of Cup Cricket matches, and At least three marathons Plastic is still used in the this. when the students take place here every year university's food courts — Doraboina Waiting for more than a year for BSNL’s `728 reached the Sukoon open and students say most of and plastic spoons and Secunderabad dais at around 1 o’clock to the time they leave piles of plates can be seen in y WLL phone surrender at the for online transfer as almost one year now and practice, all they could see plastic waste. places such as Gops and (20030603) was Tolichowki exchange for suggested by Mr I have given up hopes of was plastic debris left Wildlife in the campus is Shopcom in the campus. Mwithdrawn stat- refund of my deposit. Narender, the then man- getting my refund. from the marathon. also being affected by the When the correspondent Bad road at ing that the scheme had Even after I completed ager of the Tolichowki — Narender Singh Students called in the plastic waste. “The plastic tried contacting the ended. I was asked to sur- the process, I am yet to exchange, and change of 201, GSR Towers, Sai university sanitation per- waste can be seen in the University officials, they school in render the instrument at receive the refund of address details. Repeated Harshanagar sonnel who cleaned the stools of animals,” said were unavailable for com- the Golconda exchange `728. I have also provided requests to Mr Narender Hydershakote place along with the stu- wildlife activist Ravi ment. SKD Nagar and submit the receipt of my bank account details have not worked. It is Hyderabad-500091 would like to draw the attention of the authorities Itowards the poor condition Cattle tied on public road, owner is stubborn of roads in SKD Nagar, Vanasthalipuram, near Bala ome residents in Kakatiya School. The roads Gandipet beside have several potholes. Things SGreen Trends turn worse when it rains. I think government request the authorities to get property is their own. the road repaired. We have requested Harsha Varun these people several SKD Nagar, Vanasthalipuram times to not tie their cows to the trees and electrical poles on the road. Dear Readers, We at The answer we get Deccan Chronicle is that they are using government property request you to kindly and not our property. send all your complaints, We have approached the municipal office issues, grievances, also but nothing has feedback and stopped the practice. At least by making suggestions to our this issue public, we government and all its hope that someone will take action. This departments by writing place is on the road to to Speak Out, the voice Gandipet lake and is of the people, to our causing a lot of inconvenience to email ID tourists heading to [email protected] the place. — Ramesh . — Editor Gandipet, Hyderabad CITY pg 4 DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 Umasankar

SHORT TAKES Decomposed body of man 34 KG GANJA 2 kids, among four, WORTH `1.5 found in abandoned shed LAKH SEIZED injured in gas blast DC CORRESPONDENT ● THE POLICE the-spot post-mortem was were alert- DC CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 conducted on the decomposed HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 ed about a foul smell ema- body. Miryalaguda (town) LPG leak, sparks in the fridge were the cause The decomposed body of an nating from an abandoned inspector Ch Sada Nagaraju A young man from Sangareddy unidentified man was found shed. The shed belongs to said, “A hotel was run in the district who was in possession DC CORRESPONDENT in an abandoned shed at shed belonging to Maruthi of 34 kilos of ganja was held by HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 Miryalaguda town. The shed T. Maruthi Rao, who was Rao. For over several months the Medak excise police on Four injured in another belongs to T. Maruthi Rao, accused of murdering now it is not in use and also Sunday. He had been arrested Four of a family includ- who is the prime accused in Pranay, a Dalit, for marry- does not have doors. The earlier for peddling the drug, ing two children below the case of murder of his son- forensics doctor opined that and was to supply the ganja to the age of 10 suffered in-law, P. Pranay Kumar. The ing his daughter. the deceased person could be dealers in Pune, in severe burns in an LPG gas explosion death could have occurred abandoned shed located on aged about 40 years and did Maharashtra. explosion that occurred over a week ago, and no exter- the road between Narkatpally not find any external injuries Working on a tip-off, the in their house in DC CORRESPONDENT nal injuries were observed and Addanki. The shed on the body.” Excise police raided the house Malakpet late Saturday HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 during the autopsy, said the belongs to T. Maruthi Rao, A case of suspicious death of Rathod Suresh at Shanti night. The police sus- police. who was accused of murder- has been registered by the Nagar in Sangareddy town, pect that leakage of Four members of a fam- On Sunday afternoon, the ing Pranay, a Dalit, for marry- police and their counterparts where about 17 packets con- LPG followed by sparks ily sustained injuries Miryalaguda Town police ing his daughter. have been alerted to share taining 34 kg of ganja was in the thermostat of the when cooking gas from were alerted about a foul The police and clues team information on missing per- present. Suresh, a native of fridge could have a cylinder exploded at a smell emanating from an inspected the shed and an on- sons, the inspector added. Mynelli Thanda in caused the explosion. house in Saroornagar, Sangareddy, had brought the According to the at about 2 am on contraband from the Agency Malakpet police, Yatam Sunday. The condition area located on the Andhra- Laxmaiah, 50, a native of the four injured per- Odisha border. of Feroz Nagar village sons is stable. They The police said that Suresh in Nalgonda district have been identified as had been arrested by the Pune lived with his wife S. Ramesh, 31, a watch- police on an earlier occasion Yadamma in a flat in a man, Laxman, 25, for peddling the drug, and three-storied apartment Leelamma, 62, and wanted to do so again. The at Asmangadh and Tejaswini. ganja worth `1.5 lakh was worked as an auto The explosion in the seized and Suresh arrested, driver. apartment damaged said the police. On Saturday after- vehicles parked near noon, Laxmaiah's the building, and shat- grandchildren, Moksh- tered the glass of the GIRL KILLED AFTER agna, 7, and Tejaswini, windows of the parked 9, came to his house to cars, leaving colony res- EARTHMOVER spend the night there. idents in a state of At around 12.20 am on shock. RAMS INTO WALL Sunday, a huge explo- According to sion occurred, that Inspector Srinivas DC CORRESPONDENT burnt all four sleeping Reddy, S. Ramesh was WARANGAL, MARCH 1 inmates, shattered win- suddenly woken up by dows of the house and the smell of gas that SHARDDANJALI Negligence of the operator of of nearby apartments wafted through the an earthmover cost a five-year- and also a church. Some house and alerted the old girl her life on Sunday. The vehicles too were dam- family. Everyone went operator, K Satya Prakash, was aged. Locals people res- outside. But later, when cleaning an open drain as part cued the victims who he switched on the of Pattana Pragathi works in were taken to Osmania lights so he could turn Burnt and damaged household items scattered in MEMORIAL SERVICE Subhashnagar of Hanamk- General Hospital for off the gas regulator, The memory of the righteous is blessed the room after the explosion in a house in Pro 10:7 onda when the bucket of the treatment. the explosion occurred, Saroornagar area on Sunday. earthmover hit the wall of a East Zone DCP, Joint which sounded like a house. Commissioner M bomb blast, Ramesh Two children playing in the Ramesh, who inspected said. The fire spread to and his family were has sustained 50 per veranda came under the wall the house, said that the opposite flat and a shifted to Osmania cent burns and her con- VAVILALA PRADEEP RAJ that collapsed. While one died though the impact of woman there was Hospital. One of them, dition is said to be DOB: 20.03.1950 --- DOD: 21.02.2020 Inserted by: on the spot, the other sus- the explosion was such injured. The watchman Lelamma, 62 years old, critical. V. Shoba Rani (Wife) tained severe injuries. Locals that it created a doubt Voora Srinivas - Anvitha along with the GWMC disaster of the presence of thermostat of the fridge aged. The auto driver, Rao of the Malakpet Vijay Kylas - Kavitha Koyya Rajesh - Pavithra management team removed explosives, the scientif- created a huge explo- his wife, and two grand- police said that the Garre Murli Krishna - Nethra the debris from the children ic teams have ruled it sion. Due to the explo- children suffered injured are being treat- and Grand Children and shifted them to the MGM out. sion, windows in the injuries,” said the offi- ed at OGH and are said Ph: 9849842593 BATHULA PREM KUMAR S/o Late B. John Bunyan (ACP Retd.) hospital. “The LPG leak fol- house and vehicles cial. to be stable. A case has H/o B. Lucy Lavanya Latha The deceased has been iden- lowed by sparks in the parked outside got dam- Inspector K.V. Subba been registered. Supdt. DGP Office D.O.B: 20.04.1960 D.O.D: 27.02.2020 tified as D. Princy, daughter of MEMORIAL SERVICE Memorial Service will be held today 02/03/20 D. Sambasiva Rao who works I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:6 at 6:30 p.m. at CSI Wesley Church, Ramkote. as a carpenter. Her eight-year- IN MEMORY OF FAMILY MEMBERS old brother D. Shahi sustained RELATIVE RAPES Ph: 8179128327, 8179698327. severe head injuries and is Cyber fraudster dupes (CA-3277) undergoing treatment at the SIX-YR-OLD GIRL OBITUARY SHRADHANJALI hospital. Warangal: A six-year-old Blessed are those who die in the Lord... * * The operator was allegedly girl was sexually assault- for their good deeds follow them. Revelation 14:13 speaking on the phone when woman of 21 lakh ed by her close relative at tragedy struck. He fled imme- ` Parlapally in Mogull-apal- diately after the incident. ly mandal of Jayashankar Government chief whip DC CORRESPONDENT ● THE VICTIM, a cy. She was asked to Bhupalpally district on Dasyam Vinay Bhaskar con- HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 pay an additional `19 Sunday. soled the family members at widow in her mid- lakh towards declara- Accused Jorika Ramesh, Mrs. LEELA SIMON the MGM hospital mortuary A widow from the city 30s from SR Nagar, tion charges and 38, an agriculture labour- W/o F.J. Simon and brought the incident to the was cheated of `21 registered herself taxes. er and victim’s close rela- D.O.B: 06.06.1938 D.O.D: 25.02.2020 IN LOVING MEMORY OF notice of Chief Minister K. lakh by a cyber crook, She was threatened tive, was a frequent visitor Will be held on Monday 2nd March 2020 on a matrimony site at 6.30 pm at Wesley Church, Clock Late Shri PRABODH Chandrashekar Rao and IT who introduced him- with a police case if to the house where the six- in December. A few Tower, Secunderabad. KUMAR AGGARWAL Minister K.T. Rama Rao. self as a shipping com- she failed to pay the year-old lived along with Inserted by: Family Members DOB: 14.10.1958 to DOD: 28.02.2020 Ph: 9866395383, 7093018670, 7207632331 “The state government will pany employee based days later, she amount and get the her grandmother. “Selfless friend’s soul always loving & give `5 lakh ex-gratia to the in Italy. He offered her received a request bag released. She paid She was thus quite famil- (S/1920/D01940) kind, such are memories you leave bereaved family. The education gold, cash, and gifts the amounts into the iar with Ramesh, who Mr BOLLEDU JOSEPH SUKUMAR behind you fell asleep without goodbye but memories of friend like expenses of the injured child after befriending her from a person, who bank accounts provid- lived alone as he had been Promoted to glory on 01.03.2020 - Grieving Family you will never die.” will be taken care of by the through a matrimony claimed to be work- ed by the courier divorced by his wife. 2nd REMEMBRANCE ** For since we believe that Jesus died and was Contact: 9550275953, 9908663311 Your’s KITTY FRIENDS government until he finishes site. ing in a shipping agent. raised to life again, we also believe that when hsi tenth standard. The victim, a widow When the woman did Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the (S/1920/D01946) (CA-3274) The girl’s mother in her mid-30s from SR company at Italy. not receive any con- believers who have died. (1Thes 4:14) Dhanalakshmi will be given an Nagar, registered her- signment, she called outsourcing job in the munici- self on a matrimony ly immediately. He up the agent and pal department,” he said. The site in December. A said he had given her threatened to lodge a family, hailing from few days later, she address. In the last complaint. Imme- Govindaraopet mandal in received a request week of January, the diately, thereafter the Mulugu district, moved to from a person, who woman received a call number was switched Hanamkonda for livelihood. claimed to be working from a man who off. Having lost huge in a shipping company claimed he was a amount, which she ● THE DECEASED has been at Italy. courier agent and that had borrowed from Late L.K. JESSICA identified as D. Princy, They developed there was a bag on her her friends, the victim (Retd. Govt. Teacher, Musheerabad) friendship and started name. She was to pay lodged a complaint W/o Mr. L.J. Krupaiah daughter of D. Sambasiva DOB: 13.03.1939 DOD: 02.03.2018 communicating `1.55 lakh towards cus- with the Hyderabad Inserted by: Rao who works as a car- through emails. In toms charges for get- cyber crime police. Eldest Daughter - Merlin penter. Her eight-year-old January, the stranger ting the bag. During the investiga- Son-in-Law - M. Yesurathnam brother D. Shahi sustained informed her that the After deposing the tion, the police found Grandsons - Sunny, Bunty ship he was travelling money, she got anoth- that the bank accounts (S/1920/D01943) severe head injuries and is had an issue and the er call informing that were in Bihar and undergoing treatment. ship’s captain asked the bag contained a Delhi. A team has him to send personal huge quantity of gold intensified efforts to belongings to the fami- and American curren- trace the culprits. 2nd ANNIVERSARY 2nd ANNIVERSARY The righteous shall be in everlasting 10 die in 2 accidents in Guntur remembrance. Ps. 112:6

DC CORRESPONDENT vehicle near a deep curve. ● AS MANY as 11 per- the injured. She promised VIJAYAWADA, MARCH 1 They were the locals of a house site and support Kakumanu village of sons were travelling in to construct a house to In two separate tragic Vatticherukuru who had the car when the inci- surviving members. incidents, a total of ten gone to Etukuru village in dent took place. The Giving details of the sec- people have died in Guntur rural mandal to ond accident, Macherla Late Mrs. LINGALA JESSICA car fell into a pit dug (Retd. Govt. Teacher) Guntur district on attend a function, and rural circle inspector P W/o Mr. L.J. Krupiah Sunday. were returning. up to over 15 feet Baktavachala Reddy said CHINTALA JAGAN MOHAN DOB: 13.03.1939 DOD: 02.03.2018 The first of the two road The vehicle fell into a that a speeding lorry DOB: 08-05-1960 DOD: 02-03-2018 Thank God for the pricelsss gift, depth. Five people Today, it has been 2 years and not a day accidents took place at the deep pit dug up close to a were killed on the spot. slipped into a deep quarry has passed without your memories. You we call her “DEAR MOM”. ‘5-mile junction point’ in local stream at the ‘5-mile after applying a sudden are eternally present amongst us. We Miss You MOM the Vatticherukuru man- point’ in Vatticherukuru The sixth person died brake at Bondalaveedu Inserted by: Grandsons, Wife, Inserted by: Family Members dal in which six people mandal. while being shifting to village of Veldurthi man- Daughters, Son-in-law. Ph: 9966768910 (Lingala Justin) died. The second accident As many as 11 persons the Guntur general dal in Guntur district. (S/1920/D01930) occurred at the were travelling in the car hospital. The lorry fell into a deep 6th DEATH ANNIVERSARY 9th DEATH ANNIVERSARY Ramapuram thanda in when the incident took quarry pit at Ramapuram OF Mr. GIRIGALLA JOHN Veldurthi mandal, in place. The car fell into a died on the way to hospi- thanda. It was carrying a which four persons died pit dug up to over 15 feet tal. Guntur urban SP load of red chilli, and fer- on the spot, while four depth. Five people were P.H.D. Ramakrishna visit- rying along agriculture others were injured. killed on the spot, a sixth ed the spot and initiated workers. Both vehicles turned person died while being an inquiry into the acci- The deceased include turtle due to negligence of shifting to the Guntur dent. Guntur district col- Sadanala Harikrishna the two drivers in the sep- general hospital, while lector I. Samuel Anand (25), Sadanala Srinivasa arate accidents, leading to the reaming five others Kumar also expressed Rao (36), Nayudu their respective vehicle were injured. condolences and visited Sambaiah (60), besides the falling into a deep ditch, The deceased were iden- the injured persons at the driver, who all died on the Mr. GIRIGALLA JOHN causing the death of 10 tified as Vannuru hospital. spot. Police are trying to D.O.B: 4.5.1925 D.O.D: 2.3.2014 T. PETER HEMANTH KUMAR persons. Prasadam (55), Pogartha Home minister identify the driver to con- Mrs. MARTHA JOHN Those special memories of you Six people were killed Ramana (48), Pogartha Mekathoti Sucharita tact his relatives. The D.O.B: 5.3.1929 D.O.D: 17.6.2018 always bring a smile when a seven-seat car in Sitamma (65), Pogartha expressed condolences police have shifted the Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen Your are forever in our hearts! love you and ordained you. you Daddy!. which they were driving Veeralakshmi (50) and and consoled surviving injured persons to We miss you everyday in our lives turned turtle after hitting driver Kammadulu Srinu family members. She Macherla area hospital for We remember your love and compassion Inserted by: We thank God for you both Wife, Daughters, Sons-in-law, a ‘caution board’ while (45), who died on the spot, directed doctors to give treatment and further Grand Sons & Grand Daughters trying to overtake another while Vajra Subbulu (48) best medical services to investigation is on. Inserted by: Children & Relatives (B/1920/D01925) (S/1920/D01937) POLITICS DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 pg 5

SHORT TAKES EFLU ADOPTS TRS remains firm on breaking up GHMC CENTRALISED TEST PAPER Government may commission a detailed study; proposal to increase GHMC divisions is also under consideration DC CORRESPONDENT extent are ripe in the rul- likely to be held in (MCH) and dividing the DC CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 ing party and GHMC offi- GHMC SNAPSHOT December-end or mid- corporation into five zones HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 cial circles feel that the January, sources said. with 18 circles. Later, cir- The ruling TRS party, state government is keen Meanwhile, the govern- cles were increased to 24. In an attempt to bring in uni- which is keen on main- on a division on the lines Greater Hyderabad Municipal ment is likely to take up a Recently, the state gov- formity as part of structural taining its hold on Greater of Delhi and Mumbai Corporation was created in April detailed study into the fea- ernment set up Jawaha- reforms to the existing online Hyderabad Municipal municipalities. 2007 by merging several municipali- sibility and pros and cons rnagar, Nizampet, Bandla- entrance exams, English and Corporation (GHMC) by The recent comments of ties on the outskirts of the city with with regard to division of guda Jagir, Meerpet, Foreign Language University romping home in the ensu- the municipal administra- the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad. GHMC and firm up a deci- Peerzadiguda, Badangpet (EFLU) has centralised the test ing elections, is toying tion and urban develop- sion before elections, and Boduppal Corporation paper setting to ensure unifor- with either decentralising ment minister K.T. Rama The corporation is divided into five zones and sources said. around GHMC. mity across all entrance test it into three to four corpo- Rao are giving impetus to spread across 650 square km. It has over 60 Incidentally, GHMC Sources in the party papers at various levels, which rations or to increase the the division claims. came into being in 2007 by pointed out that this itself facilitate early entrance tests. number of divisions in the Mr. Rama Rao had told lakh population. the Congress government is an indication of the rul- This year, EFLU became the GHMC limits to give more reporters recently that he by expanding the area of ing party’s keenness to first university to finish its access to people. is in favour of decentrali- the rapid expansion and Hyderabad. GHMC Council ends next the erstwhile Municipal decentralise city adminis- online entrance tests, which Speculations to this sation of GHMC in view of growth of population in The term of the current February. Elections are Corporation of Hyderabad tration. began on February 29 and con- cluded on Sunday. They were held for admission to 34 cours- es in post-graduation, doctoral programmes and teacher training courses. According to EFLU officials, the total number of applica- tions received by the University is 15,168, including 5,634 male, 9,532 women and two transgender applicants. Online Entrance Examina- tion for admission to under- graduate courses is scheduled to be held on April 12, for which a record 3,345 have applied. Vice-Chancellor, Prof. E. Suresh Kumar said that there has been a sizable leap of around 2.65 times in the num- ber of applicants to the University since 2016-17, for admissions to various under- graduate, postgraduate, teacher education courses and doctoral programmes. From 5,739 applicants for the 2016- 2017 academic year, it stood at 15,168 for the academ- A flexi hoarding erected by Khammam municipal corporator and TRS town presi- ic year 2020-2021. The number dent K. Murali in Khammam on Sunday welcoming the visit of ministers K.T. Rama of tests conducting cities has Rao and Puvvada Ajay Kumar. — DC gone up from eight in 2016-2017 to 23 in 2020, while the number of test centres has gone up from 15 in 2016-2017 to 30 this year. KTR fines party leaders IT’S A BLESSING IF OWNERS ARE `1 lakh each for flexis DC CORRESPONDENT NOT AROUND KHAMMAM, MARCH 1 Corporators should From Page 1 TRS corporators of Kha- mmam Municipal Corp- For someone like Manisha oration (KMC) were sho- learn from CM: KTR Kandadi, whose family lives in cked when municipal a rented house in Yapral, the administration minister fact that the owner does not K. T. Rama Rao asked DC CORRESPONDENT ● The minister pointed live in the same house, or even the 16th ward corpora- KHAMMAM, MARCH 1 out that provisions have the same city, was a blessing. tor Kamartapu Murali been made to take “Though our daily commutes to pay `1 lakh fine to the Municipal administra- action against persons are long, we decided to live corporation for erecting tion minister K. T. Rama here because our owner flexis everywhere in the Rao asked people of who throw garbage on resides in Chennai and we can town without taking per- Khammam district to streets and in drains. keep our dog with us,” she mission from the KMC. pay their taxes promptly ● Mr Rama Rao under- said. KTR’s order to Murali, if they wanted their Bizarrely, some landlords who is also TRS town urban local bodies lined that it was the who have pets face trouble president, came when (ULBs) to develop at a responsibility of every from their tenants. the corporator tried to rapid pace. citizen to keep their According to Tara Chowdary, present him a memento While on a whirlwind municipality clean. who lives in Kalyan Nagar, at a meeting held on tour of the district as “We have tenants on our first Sunday in connection part of the Pattana ● The minister also floor. We have a puppy. The ten- with the Pattana Praga- Pragathi programme, observed that it is ants keep objecting saying that thi programme. Mr Rao the minister asserted incorrect to blame only the pup will bite them. The directed Mayor Papalal, that the new municipal citizens for streets tenant once kicked my puppy, who was there on the act will root out corrup- being unclean. after which we asked them to dais, to ensure that the tion in ULBs. For the vacate.” corporator paid the fine. purpose, permission for needs 4,000 public toi- KTR reacted in a simi- constructing houses on lets, 50 per cent of which lar vein against Yellan- 75 square yards to 600 should be for women,” TRS LEADERS du municipal chairper- square yards has been he remarked. son Dammalapati Venk- made online. Mr Rama Rao asked DIVIDED IN OLD ateswara Rao. Mr Rama Rao said the every corporator to Pointing to the flexis at new municipal Act lays learn from Chief the public meeting, the responsibilities not only Minister K. ADILABAD minister asked the on officials but also peo- Chandrasekhar Rao and DC CORRESPONDENT chairperson too to pay a ple. He pointed out that work hard for a clean ADILABAD, MARCH 1 fine of `1 lakh to the provisions have been Khammam. Yellandu municipality. made to take action “Just the minister and Differences have cropped up “We should conquer against persons who MLA cannot do every- among TRS leaders in erst- the hearts of people by throw garbage on streets thing. Corporators too while old Adilabad district in implementing develop- and in drains. He under- should join hands with the run-up to the appointment ment works for the soci- lined that it was the them in making of new ADCCB chairman. ety and not just erecting responsibility of every Khammam town clean Though senior party leaders flexis,” Mr Rama Rao citizen to keep their and green,” he stated. claim that everything is fine, remarked. municipality clean. For Mr Rao also inaugurat- relations between Sirpur (T) The municipal admin- the purpose, they could ed the integrated veg- MLA Koneru Konappa and istration and urban segregate wet and dry etable and meat market minister Allola Indrakaran development minister waste before the munici- at the NSP colony in were strained after the arrest said once people in pality collects garbage Khammam on the occa- of Konappa’s brother Koneru responsible positions from their houses. sion. Krishna for attacking a forest are fined for erecting The minister observed He appreciated works staff at Sarasala last year. flexis, general public that it is incorrect to taken up for widening of The party leaders in the old will stop putting up flex- blame only citizens for various roads and mod- Adilabad district were divided is on their own. The two streets being unclean. ernisation of the into two groups — one led by incidents became a topic He said there must be a Gollapadu channel. He minister Indrakaran Reddy of discussion among public toilet for every was also happy that the and another led by Jogu TRS leaders and offi- 1,000 people in the town. Gandhi Chowk was now Ramanna. cials. “That way Khammam free of traffic jams.

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DC CORRESPONDENT ● Congress MP questioned cards were eligible to apply HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 why TRS working president for the housing scheme, and municipal administra- over 20 lakh people have Congress MP A Revanth tion and urban development applied for the 2BHK hous- Reddy on Sunday alleged es. However, except for the that the ruling Telangana minister K.T. Rama Rao is houses at the pilot project at Rashtra Samithi has been not speaking about the Erravali village in the Chief luring voters by promising delay in completing the Minister’s constituency, them double-bedroom hous- promised houses during his none of the 2BHK houses es before every election, and visits under the Pattana were allotted till now. then deceiving them. Revanth Reddy Pragathi programme. The state government While addressing a press owes `900 crore to the con- conference on the conclu- tractors of the houses and sion of his week-long padya- not speaking about the delay 5.72 lakh double bedroom as the bills have not been tra (Patnam Ghosha) in the in completing the promised flats in the state. Of this, two cleared, the contractors bastis of his Lok Sabha con- houses during his visits lakh flats were planned in have stopped construction stituency, Mr Reddy said under the Pattana Pragathi Hyderabad. of the houses. that he embarked on the foot programme. The government had The Lok Sabha MP march to get to know the The double-bedroom hous- planned to construct 2.72 demanded that the state gov- people’s problems not for ing scheme for the poor was lakh houses by March 2019 ernment expedite the con- the sake of votes. announced in the election and another three lakh struction of double bed- The Congress MP ques- manifesto of the Telangana houses by the year 2024. room houses and construct tioned why TRS working Rashtra Samithi in May While around 85 lakh peo- the houses for the eligible president K.T. Rama Rao is 2014. It promised to build ple, who have white ration on government land. CITY pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 6

IN BRIEF Delhi violence is a genocide: Owaisi 165 underpasses to be lit from March 3 Accuses Nitish of lying on NRC, says states can’t amend NPR DC CORRESPONDENT DC CORRESPONDENT 62nd foundation day at speak up on this matter asked “Who are these peo- HYDERABAD, MARCH 1. HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 party headquarters and visit the ple saying 'Goli maaro Darussalam on Sunday, he violence affected Shiv desh ke gaddaron ko' All the 165 underpasses that All India Majlis Ittehadul alleged that "this commu- Vihar once as people who (Shoot the traitors)?” dot the Outer Ring Road Muslimeen (AIMIM) party nal violence happened died in the violence are all Owaisi slammed the around the city will be chief and Hyderabad MP, with full planning and Indians." Bihar Chief Minister, brightly lit beginning March Asaduddin Owaisi, has preparation. An atmos- He said "I want to tell the Nitish Kumar, for saying 3, Hyderabad Metropolitan called the Delhi riots as phere of hatred was creat- Prime Minister that this that he would adopting the Development Authority has "targeted structural vio- ed. It cannot be called a violence has happened 2010 model NPR in Bihar. said. In a release on Sunday, lence." He termed the vio- communal riot but is a because of the statements He pointed out that the the HMDA said that all ORR lence in northeast Delhi a genocide" made by leaders of his NPR and NRC are in the underpasses have been fit- “genocide.” He said that “I want to party. This is a genocide. I realm of the union gov- ted with LED lamps powered Stating that the responsi- ask Prime Minister why thought that the Prime ernment and the state gov- by solar power. bility lies at the doorstep he hasn't spoken a word on Minister got his lesson in ernments have no power Installation of these lights is of the BJP government, he the Delhi violence that 2002 in Gujarat but geno- or jurisdiction to meddle part of the appealed to Prime took place a few kilome- cide occurred in 2020 in with the questionnaire Pattana Pragati programme, Minister Narendra Modi tres away from his official Delhi too.” prepared for the NPR and the HMDA said citing to visit the affected areas. residence. More than 40 Referring to slogans NRC and the states have to AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi during his party’s 62nd Foundation Day Ceremony instructions While addressing a pub- people lost their lives in raised by some youths in a abide by the in Hyderabad on Sunday. MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi (left) and the party from Minister KT Rama Rao. lic meeting on AIMIM's the violence. Modi should metro station in Delhi, he questionnaire. chief’s son Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi (centre) could also be seen. — STYLE

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POWER| SHUTDOWN Addagutta Sub-Station Performing states must 11 am to 12 noon Centre will nail people Ambedkar Nagar, Teachers Colony Laya Nagar, Addagutta. be incentivised, says MP 12 noon to 1 pm behind CAA rumours DC CORRESPONDENT Biju Janata Dal govern- Polytechnic, govt domestic HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 KEY POINTERS ment in Odisha, indicating college, Hema Sai Residency, ● THE PANEL included that it had won only Shirdi Sai Residency, Kishan Reddy says law doesn’t cancel anyone’s citizenship G. Ranjith Reddy, the TRS Madhya Pradesh minister because of freebies. Municipal Park, Sai Mitra MP from Chevella, accused Jaivardhan Singh, BJP MP Ms Sarangi also attacked Nilayam. DC CORRESPONDENT the Centre of punishing the former Reserve Bank of HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 states which perform well from Odisha Aparajita India governor Raghuram 3 pm to 4 pm on various development Sarangi, Biju Janata Dal Rajan, who had recently Laxmi Plaza Apartment, Union minister of state indices during the devolu- (BJD) MP from Odisha said that the government Peethambaram Residency for home G. Kishan Reddy tion of funds. Reddy was Amar Patnaik and YSRCP was focusing on its social Apartment, Diamond View, blamed the recent riots in speaking at a panel discus- MP from Andhra Pradesh and political agenda more Meghana Apartment, Govt Delhi on rumour-monger- sion on “sustainable poli- Lavu Krishnadevarayulu. than the economy. “I expect Insitute of Electronics, ing and misinformation cy-making” held as part of no less from Rajan,” she Ramsir Cafe, Judge Quarters. on social media. the Policy Conclave at the ● Mr Reddy, a business- said. Mr Reddy, while deliver- Indian School of Business. man-turned-politician, said She added that she was an Patigadda Sub-Station ing the inaugural address The panel included that the devolution of “eternal optimist” when it 4 pm to 5 pm of the Policy Conclave at Madhya Pradesh minister funds happens after an came to the economy, Royal Enfield PT, Saibaba the Indian School of Jaivardhan Singh, BJP MP assessment of states on adding that it was neces- Temple, RM Motors, Ganesh Business (ISB), while from Odisha Aparajita the basis of 16 parameters, sary to be unpopular ini- Immersion. referring to the Sarangi, Biju Janata Dal including population and tially if one chooses to Opposition to the (BJD) MP from Odisha refrain from distributing KIMS Sub-Station Citizenship Amendment Amar Patnaik and YSRCP change in green freebies. 4 pm to 5 pm Act, claimed a section of MP from Andhra Pradesh cover. Mr Krishnadevarayulu, Mayfair Complex, KPR the people was unwilling Lavu Krishnadevarayulu. the YSRCP MP from Family Trust, VB Ramesh, to participate in dialogue Mr Reddy, a businessman- given some kind of an Narsaraopet, was asked to Vishka Industries and and instead was spread- turned-politician, said that incentive while deciding explain the freebie culture Bharani Complex, Sindhi ing rumours. the devolution of funds the devolution of funds. in Andhra Pradesh. Colony, Ashoka Builders. The Secunderabad MP happens after an assess- The panel indulged in a “We may call them free- said it was unfortunate ment of states on the basis heated debate on the cul- bies, but we can’t look at that many innocent peo- of 16 parameters, includ- ture of distributing free- them like that. It is impor- ple had lost their lives ing population and change bies and sops to the general tant to understand that IN BRIEF and property in Delhi, in green cover. public. these freebies are solving a including a constable. “We have seen that when Mr Sarangi, while trying problem. For instance, if “An Intelligence Bureau a performing state like to defend the NDA govern- girls are getting a bicycle, 3 in observation official also fell victim to Telangana does well in con- ment’s economic perform- the benefit to the economy evil designs and rumours trolling its population, it ance, claimed BJP’s from more women in edu- for Covid-19 unleashed by a section of gets a lesser amount of approach towards the mat- cation is very high. We can- DC CORRESPONDENT political parties and Minister of state for home G. Kishan Reddy at the ISB on Sunday. — DC funds,” he said. ter was a “sustainable” one not discount the larger pic- HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 media. A section of social The TRS MP said per- as opposed to an “ad-hoc” ture,” Mr media added fuel to this forming states need to be one. She threw shade at the Krishnadevarayulu said. Three persons have been fire,” he said. Pakistan, Afghanistan ● MR REDDY said respected its commit- kept under observation on Mr Reddy said the and Bangladesh who have Narendra Modi govern- ment, Pakistan violated Sunday at the Gandhi Narendra Modi govern- been facing persecution ment was determined to it. Now where will these Hospital pending results of ment was determined to based on religious uncover the truth and the minorities go,” he asked. FURNITURES & FURNISHINGS tests conducted on them for uncover the truth and the grounds,” he said. The minister claimed COVID-19, according to the “conspiracy” that trig- Mr Reddy said the “conspiracy” that trig- that Citizenship State Health and Family gered the riots. nation was partitioned on gered the riots. Amendment Act was in Welfare Department. The Mr Reddy spoke at the basis of religion, ● The minister said the line with the views and three individuals take the length on the controver- against the wishes of the nation was partitioned on ideas of Mahatma number of those tested in sial Citizenship people. Gandhi, Vallabhbhai the city so far for disease to Amendment Act. “It was assumed that the basis of religion, Patel, the late Prime 112. The three persons were “Citizenship Amendment the rights of minorities against the wishes of the Minister Jawaharlal among five persons who Act does not seek to would be protected. In people. Nehru and even the then self-reported to the hospital revoke the citizenship of 1950, the prime ministers Congress. “On what basis suspecting coronavirus, the any Indian citizen but of both countries signed steps to be taken for this. are they opposing it now,” department said. grants it to minorities in an agreement requiring However, while India Mr Reddy asked.

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IN BRIEF Trump recounts Two Lashkar HAL helicopter on par with militants arrested visit to India Srinagar: Two Lashkar-e- Washington, March 1: that’s about three Toiba (LeT) militants were Apache to be ready by 2027 US President Donald times...it’s cricket. It’s the arrested in Srinagar and Trump has said he would biggest stadium. And they arms and ammunition seized “never be excited about a had 129,” he said. from their possession, police Bid to stop import of over `4 lakh crore worth of military helicopters crowd again” after his Trump said he shared said on Sunday. They have visit to India where he the stage with Prime been identified as Vakeel New Delhi, March 1: In if the government gives ● India is one of the the proposed mega proj- includes a number of heli- addressed a rally of over Minister Narendra Modi Ahmed Bhat alias Abu Zarrar an ambitious project with the go ahead to the project largest importers of arms ect. “Like the LCH (Light copter like the LCH (Light 1,00,000 people. who is a “great guy” and and Omar Ismail Das, both strategic significance, this year. Combat Helicopter) we Combat Helicopter) and During his maiden visit is “loved by people of residents of Bijbehara, area aerospace major “One major project we and military platforms developed from the Dhruv multi-role ALH (Advanced to India on February 24- India”. of South Kashmir’s Anantnag Hindustan Aeronautics are focusing on is to pro- globally. The government platform, a similar vari- Light Helicopter) and 25, President Trump and “We had an amazing district. On a credible input, Ltd (HAL) has started duce a helicopter in 10 to has been focusing on pro- ant of 10-12 tonnes catego- Chetak choppers. First Lady Melania were thing. And I went in, and security forces intercepted a ground work to produce a 12 tonnes category to moting defence indigeni- ry can be produced to India is one of the given a rousing welcome here’s the problem. This car on Barzulla-Chanapora 10 to 12 tonne attack heli- replace the Mi-17 fleet. It sation by taking a slew of make it an Apache equiva- largest importers of arms in the presence of more is a big crowd and nor- road on Saturday, a police copter by 2027 which will will be an indigenous plat- reform initiatives includ- lent,” said Madhavan. and military platforms than one lakh people at mally, I like talking about spokesman said. He said be comparable with some form with the potential to ing liberalising FDI in The helicopter will be globally. The government the Motera stadium in my crowd because I get while checking the vehicle, of the best medium-lift manufacture around 500 defence sector. powered by twin engines has been focusing signifi- Gujarat’s Ahmedabad the crowds like nobody. officers recovered arms and military choppers globally helicopters. It will stop and will feature blade fold- cantly on promoting city. But, I just got back from ammunition from the two like the Apache of the import of more than `4 ing option for ship deck defence indigenisation by Addressing a rally in 140 or 50 or 60,000 people persons. Boeing. lakh crore worth of plat- on,” he said. A military operations. The planned taking a slew of reform South Carolina on and now I am coming Chairman and Managing forms from foreign coun- expert described the proj- roles for the helicopter initiatives including liber- Saturday, the US presi- here. What does this place Guj man, woman Director of HAL R. tries,” he said. ect as the biggest by the will be to support air alising FDI in defence sec- dent recalled the mega hold, 15? It’s hard to be Madhavan said the aim of Madhavan said an HAL after development of assault, air transport, tor. ‘Namaste, Trump’ event enthused. You understand the mega project is to stop amount of `9,600 crore the Tejas military aircraft. combat logistics and com- The IAF is procuring a at the Motera stadium that? I may never be excit- elope for 2nd time import of more than `4 will be required for design “We have done the pre- bat search and rescue. The total of 22 Apache and said, “In India, I hate ed again about a crowd Surat: A middle-aged couple lakh crore worth of mili- as well as to produce the liminary design. We have chopper will also have a Guardian attack helicop- to say this to you, they after going to India. from Gujarat has eloped tary helicopters for the prototype of the helicop- also been in discussion very superior weapons ters from aerospace major actually have 1,29,000-seat Think of this, they have once again, just over a three services in the com- ter. with the Air Force and the package. Madhavan said Boeing under a multi-bil- stadium. Did you see it? 1.5 billion people. We have month after they had ing years. “If we get the approval in Navy. The 10-12 tonnes cat- the helicopter will have a lion dollar deal. The place was packed, 350, so we are doing pretty returned to their respective Madhavan said the HAL 2020, we will be able to egory will have two basic huge potential for export. Additionally, the Army is and they did better than well, I will tell you what, homes, their family sources has completed the prelimi- manufacture the first structures on similar plat- The Mi-17 helicopters procuring six Apache heli- most.” but I love this crowd and I said on Sunday. The couple nary design of the helicop- chopper by 2027. We are forms. The naval version make up the backbone of copters along with “They gave me credit for love that crowd too,” the — Himmat Pandav (46), who ter and that initial plan is looking at producing at will have different dimen- the IAF’s helicopter fleet weapons systems, a deal 1,00,000. That was not bad. US president told his sup- hails from Surat and to produce at least 500 least 500 helicopters of the sion compared to the one and they are planned to be for which was sealed dur- It’s 129 (thousand)... The porters amid a rousing Shobhna Raval (43) of units with the first proto- variant. It will be a major for the Army and the Air phased out by 2032. ing Donald Trump’s visit stadium holds 100 (thou- applause. Navsari — had eloped weeks type set to be ready by 2023 project we are working Force,” Madhavan said on The HAL’s product range to India. — PTI sand). They had a field — PTI before the scheduled mar- riage of their respective son and daughter in January this year. They had returned to Floral fun AGHADI GOVT their respective families 21 farmers in after two weeks, only to UNBREAKABLE elope again it seems. “Pandav and Raval left their ‘bury’ themselves WALL, SAYS AJIT respective homes on Saturday. They are reported- ly staying in a rented house Jaipur, March 1: protest will escalate on Mumbai, March 1: in Surat,” sources said. Twenty-one farmers, Monday with 51 farmers Ruling out any fissures However, unlike last time, no including five women, taking the Samadhi. We in the Shiv Sena-led police complaint was filed buried themselves neck- will continue to protest coalition government in about the duo going ‘miss- deep in the ground in till farmers get their Maharashtra, senior ing’. Rajasthan’s Nindar vil- rights,” Nagendra Singh NCP leader and deputy lage on Sunday to protest Shekhawata, a leader of Chief Minister Ajit against the alleged land the Nindar Bachao Yuva Pawar on Sunday Blaze at chemical acquisition by the Jaipur Kisan Sangarsh Samiti, invoked a popular televi- Development Authority said. sion commercial on warehouse (JDA) for a housing proj- The farmers had also unbreakable wall to Chennai: The massive fire at ect. held a protest in October underline the unity of a chemical warehouse here The farmers have been 2017 against the acquisi- the ruling constituents. was put out on Sunday, after demanding that their tion of more than 1,300 Pawar’'s comments at a battle of more than 18 lands be acquired as per bighas of land by the the convention of the hours, a Fire and Rescue the amended Land JDA, with some of them Nationalist Congress Services official said. There Acquisition Act and com- even going on a hunger Party (NCP) here came were no casualties in the fire pensation awarded strike. against the backdrop of that broke out around 3 pm accordingly. The JDA has taken pos- statements by some BJP on Saturday and damaged They had first held the session of 600 bighas of leaders that the ruling raw material estimated to be ‘Zameen Samadhi land so far and deposited dispensation compris- worth about `100 crore, the Satyagrah’ in January `60 crore in a local court ing the Sena, the NCP official said. “The fire has but called off the protest as compensation. The vil- and the Congress might been put out. Since there is after four days as the lagers have refused to not last long owing to a heat atmosphere fire ten- state government assured accept the amount, claim- contrasting view points ders are still engaged in them that it would ing that it is not commen- of the member parties. cooling of the area by spray- address their concerns surate with the prevailing Visitors admire floral displays during the 33rd edition of the wGarden Tourism Festival, at Garden of Five Senses, in Recently, senior RSS ing water,” he said. within 50 days. market rates. Around New Delhi on Sunday. — PTI leader Suresh “Twenty-one farmers, 10,000 houses will be built ‘Bhaiyyaji’ Joshi caused NCW holds including five women, under the housing a flutter saying that for- have taken Zameen scheme which was mer chief minister Samadhi on Sunday. The announced in 2011. — PTI Devendra Fadnavis of power walk BJP will not remain in New Delhi: The National opposition for long. Commission for Women Three hawala operatives under “Some people are talk- (NCW) on Sunday organised ing about when the wall a “power walk” to promote 5,000 dabbawalas of the Maha Vikas gender equality and build Aghadi will develop awareness about crimes scanner of ED for scam at JKCA cracks. But that wall is against girls and women at unbreakable due to the public spaces. The walk from to get homes soon DC CORRESPONDENT and Gazanffer were Kashmir. attached,” the ED said in a cemented bonds (among India Gate to Janpath, which NEW DELHI, MARCH 1 allegedly in touch with The ED on Saturday statement issued here on the three parties). was led by NCW chief Rekha DC CORRESPONDENT demanded accommoda- certain hawala dealers. attached assets worth `2.6 Saturday. “Yeh Diwar Tutati kyu Sharma, saw the participa- MUMBAI, MARCH 1 tion, Maharashtra A day after attaching “At least three hawala crore allegedly linked to The ED case is based on NahiYe Mahavikas tion of hundreds of people, deputy chief minister assets worth `2.6 crore in operatives based in New Mirza and Gazanffer. a CBI FIR as part of which Aghadi ki Diwar tutegi including students and The Maharashtra govern- Ajit Pawar had recently a money laundering case Delhi and J&K are under A provisional order for they booked former office- kaise? Ambuja.. activists. Participants were ment will give homes to directed the concerned pertaining to alleged the scanner of the agency. attachment of assets was bearers of JKCA, includ- Narmada...ACC cement seen holding placards read- nearly 5,000 dabbawalas departments to provide embezzlement of Jammu We will soon call the issued under the ing general secretary se jo bani hai. (‘Why this ing “I have nothing to be under the Pradhan homes to dabbawalas and Kashmir Cricket hawala operatives for Prevention of Money Mohd Saleem Khan and wall of the Maha Vikas ashamed of” and “Don’t tell Mantri Awas Yojana under the PMAY — which Association (JKCA) funds, questioning”, sources Laundering Act (PMLA) Mirza. Aghadi is not breaking. me the time, tell them about (PMAY). aims to provide housing the Enforcement said. Former J&K Chief against them. The CBI later filed a How will it break the crime”. Maharashtra Housing for all. Directorate (ED) is now Minister and National “The attached assets chargesheet against because it is made up of and Area Development Under the scheme, dab- probing the alleged links Conference president consist of three FDRs Farooq Abdullah, Khan, Ambuja, ACC and Birla Authority’s Mumbai bawalas will get 300 sq ft of the Association’s for- Farooq Abdullah has (fixed deposit receipts) Mirza, Mir Manzoor cement..,” Pawar said NAVY WOMEN Repair and houses. mer treasurer Ahsan already been questioned totalling `1.29 crore with Gazanffer Ali, Bashir while mimicking the tel- Reconstruction Board Talking to media Ahmad Mirza and its by ED officials. J&K Bank’s Lajpat Nagar Ahmad Misgar and evision commercial. OFFICERS chairman Vinod Ghosalkar said, “Since finance committee mem- Abdullah has been branch in New Delhi in Gulzar Ahmad Beigh (for- The Sharad Pawar-led Ghosalkar on Sunday there is no open land in ber Mir Mansoor slapped with the Public the name of Mirza Sons, a mer accountant of JKCA) NCP shares power with PETITION SC said that due to lack of the Mumbai city, Mhada Gazanffer with three Safety Act (PSA) and is partnership firm of Mirza for misappropriation of the Sena and the open land in Mumbai, the has earmarked parcels of Delhi and J&K-based under detention since and his father. 11 Kanals of JKCA funds amounting to Congress. Chief PAWAN BALI I DC housing authority would land in Thane and hawala operatives. August 5 after the Centre land with structure and `43.69 crore from grants Minister Uddhav NEW DELHI, MARCH 1 develop the houses in Kalyan city. Collector According to sources, abrogated Article 370 pro- commercial shopping given to the Association Thackeray and Pawar Thane and Kalyan. owns the said land so it investigation by the cen- visions that accorded spe- complex at Pandrethan, by the BCCI for promoting had repeatedly asserted Women officers seeking per- After the world-famous will be available at rea- tral probe agency has cial status to the erstwhile Srinagar to the tune of the sport between 2002 and that the government manent commission in the Mumbai dabbawalas sonable rates.” revealed that both Mirza state of Jammu and `1.31 crore has also been 2011. will last its full term. Indian Navy have submitted before the Supreme Court that their plea is aimed at women RAM TEMPLE getting equal opportunity in Vatican rejects second appeal of nun nation-building roles and not for beneficial measures. STRUCTURE BY The apex court is in the final stages of delivering judgment expelled over lifestyle violation on the petition of women offi- 2024: VEDANTI cers seeking permanent Commission in the Indian Kochi, Mach. 1: The ing that the appeal was fight in the courts in the Congregation, seeking Indore, March 1: Navy retrospectively. Vatican has rejected the rejected,” George country against the the arrest of Bishop Working president of Commander Seema second appeal filed by a Moolechalil of “Justice alleged move to force her Franco Mulakkal, the Vishwa Hindu Chaudhary sought that Kerala nun against the for Sister Lucy,” a social out of the FCC convent accused of raping a nun, Parishad’s Ram women officers be given a fair decision of Franciscan media platform support- she is staying in was expelled by the FCC Janmabhoomi Nyas, chance to serve as proud offi- Clarist Congregation to ing the nun, said. Wayanad. in August last year. Ram Vilas Vedanti, on cers in the service of the expel her for “failing” to The nun has authorised A spokesman of the It may be recalled that Sunday said he felt that nation. “It is submitted that provide explanation for Moolechalil, who is also Mananthavady diocese in its notice to the nun in the basic structure of the plea of women officers of her lifestyle, which the leader of Kerala said the FCC congrega- January last year, the the Ram temple in the Indian Navy to serve as allegedly violated church Catholic Church tion has not received any congregation had termed Ayodhya would be ready Permanent Commission rules, sources close to the Refromation Movement communication from as “grave violations,” before the 2024 general Officers of Indian Navy, with nun claimed on Sunday. (KCRM), to communicate Vatican in this connec- Sister Lucy possessing a elections. fairness and in a just and rea- Few months ago, the with media on her tion. driving licence, buying a He was speaking to sonable manner, is not a wel- Congregation for the behalf. “She may have got com- car, taking a loan for it reporters here. fare measure being sought by Oriental Churches in He termed as “unilater- munication from Vatican and publishing a book “After the formation of women officers,” she said. Vatican had dismissed al” the decision taken by as she filed the appeal not and spending money the (Ram temple) trust She maintained that the Sister Lucy Kalappura’s the Vatican on her second through the system in the without the permission by the Centre, the issue is about allowing first appeal challenging appeal. congregation,” the and knowledge of her process of building the women, who are competent her expulsion by The nun had written to spokesman said. superiors. grand temple has begun. and capable, equal opportuni- Franciscan Clarist Congregation for the He said if her second The nun had dismissed I feel that the basic ty in nation-building roles. Congregation (FCC). Oriental Churches, seek- appeal was also rejected, charges levelled against structure of the temple “It is about being fair, just The nun filed the sec- ing an opportunity to her she cannot continue to her by the congregation, will be built before the and reasonable, and allowing ond appeal with the to appear in person stay as a nun in the con- saying many of them 2024 elections,” he said. gender equality in true spirit Vatican alleging that the before the Supreme vent. were a “deliberate “Sixty-seven acres of and purport,” Commander ‘disciplinary action’ was Tribunal of the A lay woman cannot attempt to paint her in land at the birth place of Seema stated. taken for participating in Segnatura Apostolica in stay in the convent meant bad light.” Lord Ram campus will In 2008, Navy had allowed PC protests by a group of Vatican to present her for nuns, he said about The FCC, under the prove to be inadequate to women officers from Short nuns seeking arrest of a views. the Sister Lucy’s status in Roman Catholic Church, as it would be the Service Commission. However, bishop accused of raping But, she was denied an the convent. had said the nun was biggest temple in the it was not given to officers who a fellow nun. opportunity to present Sister Lucy Kalappura, issued “proper canonical world and an interna- were already serving in the “The sister has received her views, he said. who took part in a protest warnings,” but did not tional tourist place as Indian Navy before the provi- a communication in He also said the nun by nuns belonging to show the needed well,” he added. sion of PC for SSC. Latin from Vatican say- would continue her legal Missionaries of Jesus remorse. — PTI — PTI NATION pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 9

SHORT TAKES WILL CONTEST UNDER FIRE, PROTESTERS POLLS WITH THAKUR BATS VACATE ANTI-CAA NDA, CLARIFIES FOR ACTION PROTEST SITE NITISH KUMAR Chandigarh, March 1: Union minister Anurag Aligarh, March 1: Scores of DC CORRESPONDENT Thakur, who has been women who were holding a PATNA, MARCH 1 under opposition fire protest against the Citizenship over his alleged hate Amendment Act on the Bihar Chief Minister speech during Delhi Jiwangarh bypass road here Nitish Kumar on assembly polls, on for the past six days vacated Sunday said that the Sunday said strict the site in the presence of top JD(U) would contest the action should be taken district officials. next Assembly elections against those involved Barricades which were put along with NDA and win in the communal riots in up on the road in view of the more than 200 seats. the national capital. protest were removed on He was addressing The Minister of State Saturday night and traffic JD(U) workers at for Finance and resumed, bringing relief to Gandhi Maidan on the Corporate Affairs was commuters. occasion of his 69th addressing a press con- Senior Superintendent of birthday. ference here. Police Muniraj said the pro- While showcasing He was asked to com- testers handed over a five- achievements of his ment on the alleged hate point memorandum to the dis- government, Nitish said speeches made by him trict magistrate, which among “The government has and other BJP leaders in other points sought withdraw- worked for the uplift of the run-up to the Delhi al of cases filed against people every class in the state. elections and how such protesting at Jiwangarh and The scenario has vitriolic speeches led to the Aligarh Muslim become vibrant in the the riots in the city. University. field of education. “Strict action should The district officials with the Distribution of uniform be taken against those help of political and communi- and cycles has increased involved in (Delhi) the ty leaders assured the protest- the confidence of stu- riots. The strength of ers that they would discuss dents, especially girls, our country is that peo- their demands with the state who can be seen attend- ple of various faiths government. ing classes even in rural coexist and live unitedly District Magistrate Chandra areas”. contributing towards Bhushan Singh announced The rally is seen as a nation building,” that one of the demands of the show of strength ahead Thakur said. protesters to grant financial of Assembly elections, On the communal assistance to a youth, who was slated to be held in riots, he said, “Police is seriously injured in last October-November. Men check the interiors of a partially burnt mosque in a riot-affected area in New Delhi on Sunday. — AFP doing its job....” — PTI Sunday’s violence in Upper According to JD(U) Kot area, has already been leaders, the mammoth accepted. political event ahead of Tariq Munawwar, who had elections will serve as a sustained gunshot injuries in befitting reply to the the violence, has been given a opposition parties, Shah: Opposition to CAA will fail financial assistance of Rs two which have been lakh. Munawwar, whose lower involved in a campaign part of the body has paralysed, against NDA. BJP workers raise ‘Goli Maaro’ slogan en route to party’s mega rally addressed by Shah will be provided free medical “Earlier people used to treatment at the Jawahar Lal talk only about jungle RAJIB CHOWDHURI I DC claiming that her fierce ● Amit Shah on Sunday appointing a Rajkumar as CAA, tweeted in the morn- 254 FIRS LODGED Nehru Hospital. raj in Bihar but now law KOLKATA, MARCH 1 movement against the performed puja at the a successor cannot happen ing, “Today on @UN and order has improved. Citizenship Amendment famous Kalighat Temple in in Bengal.” #ZeroDiscriminationDay, RSS MEET TO The crime ratio is Exuding confidence that Act (CAA) would fail. the city, police said. The Union home minis- it pains me to witness the 903 PEOPLE among the lowest in the the saffron surge of last Several BJP workers ter added, “No shehzada politics of discrimination DISCUSS DELHI country”, he said. year’s Lok Sabha elections were heard shouting con- ● Soon after delivering (prince) would become the being woven into the fab- ARRESTED Kumar pointed out will continue in West troversial ‘goli maaro’ slo- his speech at a pro-CAA next Bengal CM. A son of ric of India. Let us pledge VIOLENCE that the Assembly had Bengal, Union home min- gans at Esplanade, en rally, Shah went to the the soil, who will emerge to uproot all forms of divi- New Delhi, March 1: The recently passed a unani- ister Amit Shah on route to their party’s mega Kalighat Temple, which is as a leader, will become sion based on caste, creed, Delhi Police has regis- New Delhi, March 1: mous resolution against Sunday predicted that the rally in support of CAA at only a few metres away the next Bengal CM.” and religion from our soci- tered 254 FIRs and arrest- Communal violence in Delhi NRC and NPR and there BJP would come to power the Shahid Minar ground, Spelling out a mobile ety. We will never stand for ed or detained 903 persons and protests against the new was no need to lose in the Assembly polls next where Shah kick-started from West Bengal Chief number he asked the discrimination of any in connection with the citizenship law are the issues patience on the issue of year by dethroning the the party's campaign Aar Minister Mamata crowd to dial it in support kind.” northeast Delhi violence, likely to dominate the proceed- CAA since the matter Trinamul Congress with a Noi Annay (No More Banerjee’s residence. of the CAA which, he Shah also cautioned a senior officer said on ings at the three-day annual was before the court. two-third majority. Injustice). assured, would give citi- those “planning to break Sunday. meeting of the Rashtriya “The NPR will be done He described the road to Waving BJP flags, they I am confident that the zenship to the refugees. and harm the country and Forty-one of the cases Swayamsevak Sangh’s top on the basis of 2010 for- success a “very tough bat- chanted, Desh ke gaddaron progression, which start- Shah asserted that it destroy its peace,” to fear were registered under the decision-making body starting mat and a resolution tle” before directing the ko, goli maaro saalon ko ed with 18 seats in the Lok would give citizenship to the National Security Arms Act, they said. from March 15, sources said on regarding the issue has party workers to fight it. (Shoot the traitors),” Sabha polls, is continuing the refugees while ending Guard (NSG). As a further According to police, they Sunday. been passed in the State Ruling out the possibility stumping the police. and is not going to stop.” a host of issues: injustice warning, he asserted that did not receive any PCR The annual meet of the Akhil Assembly”, he said. of dynasty politics, Shah Addressing the rally He told the BJP workers, to the people, corruption, the NSG would act tough if calls of rioting in the last Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha Bihar had become the also declared that no “she- Shah said, “Mamataji “It will rest with a BJP syndicate nexus, extor- such elements did not four days. The situation in will be held in Bengaluru from first NDA ruled state to hzada” but a “son of the would now wait and watch government’s formation tion, improvement in law relent. Shah, however, did the riot-affected areas is March 15-17. The Pratinidhi pass a resolution to soil” would become the how the BJP comes to with two-third majority in and order, industrialisa- not name his targets and under control, a senior Sabha is the highest decision- implement the NPR in next chief minister of the power with a thumping the next Assembly polls. It tion and infiltration under kept it in suspense. police official said. — PTI making body of the Sangh 2010 format with the state. majority in the next is a very tough battle. You the Trinamul’s rule of a He also advised the NSG which meets once a year to inclusion of a trans-gen- He tore into Trinamul Assembly polls. In 2014, will have to fight it for decade. to reduce “operational inauguration of NSG 29 take decisions and decide the der column. The House Congress supremo and the BJP got 87 lakh votes Bengal's development. The His blistering attack on time” of its counter-terror Special Composite Group future course of action. has also passed a resolu- Chief Minister Mamata here. But in 2019, we got 2.3 entire leadership includ- the Trinamul chief was mechanism in order to Complex, an upgraded and BJP president J.P. Nadda and tion that NRC will not be Banerjee after her tweet crore votes here resulting ing me will be with you for significant as Banerjee, in make it swifter. permanent address of the the party’s general secretary implemented in Bihar. on “discrimination” while in the BJP getting 18 MPs. this. The thought of an oblique reference to the Shah was speaking at the elite counter-terror force. (organisation) B.L. Santhosh are expected to attend this all- important meeting, a source in the Sangh said. Oppn to raise issue of Another senior Sangh func- Another pro-Pak tionary said the recent vio- lence in Delhi, protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act are among the issues like- graffiti found Delhi riots in Parliament ly to dominate the brain- storming sessions during the Bengaluru, March 1: staged a demonstration DC CORRESPONDENT the Rajya Sabha. democratic values in this meeting. Another incident of in front of Chowk Police NEW DELHI, MARCH 1 “The government has country. The functionary said Sangh’s Pakistan Zindabad and station in Kalaburagi in miserably failed to main- “The manner and form Delhi unit may be asked to anti-Modi wall graffiti in north Karnataka, As the second half of the tain law and order. I think of protest inside or out of come up with a detailed pres- Karnataka came to light demanding that those Budget Session of there must be some sort of Parliament is a matter of entation on the violence. in Kalaburagi on Sunday behind the anti-national Parliament begins on a nexus between the riot- coordinated strategy and The annual meet will also morning, prompting the act be arrested immedi- Monday, the Congress and ers and a section of police not an issue to be publicly discuss ways to take Sangh to police to launch a probe ately, police said. other Opposition parties officials which resulted in aired. But the country is areas and people where it is to find out the culprits Recently, writings such plan to corner the Union gruesome killings and assured that we will dis- yet to reach. behind the act. as Pakistan Zindabad Government in both arson that has tarnished charge our responsibili- Police said the writings and Tipu Sultan Shale Houses with demands for our image across the ties vigorously and with- BSF JAWAN in English on the wall of (Tipu Sultan School) on the resignation of Home globe. This is a matter of out fear, despite extreme a house in Saath Gumbaz the wall and door of a Minister Amit Shah over serious concern for us,” and illegal intrusion and Security personnel patrol a violence-affected area of area hailing Pakistan and government school in the Delhi riots. Congress Leader in the harassment,” Singhvi Northeast Delhi on Sunday. — PTI GETS `10L AID carrying ‘derogatory’ Budarsingi village in The Congress party is Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan said. comments against Prime Hubballi had created a likely to submit adjourn- Chowdhary said. Opposition parties led FROM ODISHA Minister Narendra Modi flutter with locals staging ment motions in the Lok He said that the by the Congress have were likely to have been a protest against it. Sabha seeking a discus- Congress will keep already approached AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO | made on Saturday night. In another incident, sion on the widespread demanding the resigna- President Ram Nath 4 more bodies DC Police, who visited the three students from violence in Delhi last tion of Union Home Kovind demanding that BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 1 spot on receiving a com- Kashmir studying at a week. RSP leader N.K. Minister Amit Shah on Shah be removed as he is plaint, erased the writ- private engineering col- Premachandran said he the floor of the House. in charge of the Delhi Odisha Chief Minister Naveen ings and were investigat- lege in Hubballi were would give an adjourn- Senior lawyer and police which was totally found in nalas Patnaik on Sunday announced ing to find out those arrested on sedition ment motion demanding a Congress Rajya Sabha unable to control the riots. `10 lakh as aid for a BSF jawan behind the act. charges last month for response from Prime member Abhishek Manu The Budget Session of DC CORRESPONDENT urging residents to report posted in Maoist-hit Officials said CCTV allegedly raising pro- Minister Narendra Modi. Singhvi said the party Parliament commenced NEW DELHI, MARCH 1 about rumours directly to Malkangiri district whose footage from the area was Pakistan slogans and Indian Union Muslim will take up in both on January 31 and contin- the authorities. house was recently torched on also being analysed as posting a video of it on a League and CPI and Houses of Parliament in ued till February 11. The A week after deadly com- No untoward incident February 25 during communal part of the probe. messaging platform. CPI(M) will also give the strongest possible second half will continue munal violence erupted has been reported from riots in Delhi. A group of people — PTI notices under rule 267 in terms the destruction of till April 3. in northeast Delhi, the the northeast district Expressing grief over the situation in riot-hit areas over the past three days, incident, Patnaik spoke to BSF remained peaceful but he said, adding that the constable Mohammad Anees tense on Sunday though police is urging residents and empathised. He sanc- GRIM | SITUATION Several bodies in GTB Hospital mortuary remain unidentified there was movement of to not pay attention to tioned aid from the Chief more people and vehicles rumours and report them Minister’s Relief Fund on main roads amid to authorities. (CMRF) for the loss. heavy police deployment. All the bodies recovered “Constable Mohammad Four more bodies were on Sunday were sent to Anees is working in the 9th Anxious family members visit mortuary traced from drains in GTB Hospital for post- Battalion deployed in the Gokulpuri ans Shiv Vihar mortem. The deceased Maoist affected district of New Delhi, March 1: District Legal Services book binder, went missing on the sixth day of the are yet to be identified. Malkangiri. This Battalion of With a photograph of her Authority at a help desk, during the riots on violence, taking the total Art of Living founder BSF is responsible for the over- youngest brother in her providing information February 24. death toll to 46. The Sri Sri Ravi Shankar vis- all security in the Swabhiman hand, Nabi Jan frantically and other help to the rela- “He had gone to old Delhi National Human Rights ited some of the riot-hit Anchal (erstwhile Cut-off) went around the GTB tives of the missing per- for some work. He told Commission (NHRC) has areas, including area, which includes the Hospital mortuary on sons. over phone that situation deputed a fact-finding Brahmapuri, and con- Gurupriya bridge in Sunday, hoping that he “God knows what will was not good and he was team to investigate the soled the people dis- Malkangiri district,” the CMO was not among those happen to Salman’s two near Usmanpur, Pehla cases of violence. turbed by the worst vio- stated in a release on Sunday. killed in the northeast sons, aged eight and six Pushta. I have searched in “The situation is under lence in three decades in Currently, Anees is posted at Delhi communal violence. years, as their mother is many other hospitals and control and we did not Delhi. Hantalguda camp in A woman, whose 19-year- already dead. I have now came here,” said receive any PCR calls of Even days after the vio- Chitrakonda area. old son has been missing lodged a complaint with Naeem’s brother rioting in the last four lence, there was an eerie Anees’ house at Khajuri from northeast Delhi’s police but there is no Najmuddin. days. There is adequate silence in the streets Khas extension in Delhi was Mustafabad area, fell information about my Mumtaj, a high court force deployed in all areas that once used to be teem- pelted with stones and burnt unconscious after seeing a him,” Jan said. lawyer, who is helping peo- of northeast district. We ing with people and down during wide spread com- corpse at the mortuary. Sources said till ple along with her col- are holding talks with hawkers. munal violence on February Her family later con- Saturday six bodies were leagues Farhan, Faraz and locals and trying to In Shiv Vihar, among 25. The Border Security Force firmed that her son’s body Charred remains of vehicles set ablaze by rioters in a unidentified at the mortu- a team of volunteers, said rebuild confidence,” a the worst hit areas, the (BSF) has extended helping was not in there. violence-affected area of Northeast Delhi on Sunday. ary, out of which two were record was being main- senior police official told lanes were deserted and hand to rebuild the house. Jan, whose younger “Salman worked as a to him,” Jan said. None of identified and claimed. tained by them to find this newspaper. almost all the houses The 29-year-old BSF brother Salman, 25, has labourer and had gone to the bodies in the mortuary One body was charred about those missing. No untoward incident were locked. In Constable hails from Munger been missing since the Gokalpuri on February 26. was of his brother, he said. and three others were also “We are also helping peo- has been reported from Mustafabad, people were district of Bihar. His family riots, was one among the He kept a phone, but it is Jan also spoke to a group unidentified. ple in the release of the the northeast district wary of stepping out of has settled in Delhi four desperate people looking switched off and there is of young lawyers and a Naeem, 45, a resident of identified bodies,” over the past three days, their homes in narrow decades ago. for some clue about him. no clue of what happened team of the Shahdara Jafrabad who worked as a Mumtaj said. — PTI he said, adding police are bylanes. EDIT pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 10

2 MARCH 2020

New Delhi must show Subhani pragmatism in Kabul

he US-Taliban agreement, signed in Doha on February 29, is his- toric. It may just lead to peace in Afghanistan after 40 years of unremitting warfare, but that is a prospect that cannot be said to Tbe in sight since nothing is yet known about the shape of the intra- Afghan talks that is expected to ensue from the Doha deal, also described as America’s race to the exit. The agreement also goes to show that yet another empire has gone down in Afghanistan, after the British and the Soviet. Why don’t invaders succeed in Afghanistan is a fascinating question. The outlines of a possible answer may lie in the fact that the landlocked country, with its harsh terrain, does not have enough resources (though potential hydrocarbon reserves have been spoken of) to keep imperialists incentivised for long. That is why they have come for geopolitical compulsions and have cut LETTERS and run once those lose their salience. In 1842, the British had been chased out militarily but retained enough influence for 67 years after that to have their foreign policy goals met. This they did by playing the right kind of DELHI VIOLENCE politics. It is to be seen if America attempts something similar. Delhi 2020: The twisted The difference between the Soviet departure in 1989 and the American The violence in Delhi promise of departure now is that when Moscow departed Kabul, it was shows how politicians suc- able to put in place a political compact leading to a short-lived govern- cessfully programme some mental arrangement, no matter how shaky, under the jihadi groups which had fought it, though these people did not know how to rule and brought people’s minds to separate chaos to the country due to vicious internal warfare. logic of ‘riot’ messaging the word secular from On the other hand, the US under President Donald Trump is just upping India’s identity. There is no and going. It is leaving the political groups in the country, which have only suggestive of defeat in the Delhi need to feel awkward enjoyed political power or privilege since 2001 (when the Taliban had been attempts being made to Assembly elections. militarily ejected by the US forces backed by an Afghan military faction), re-enact the 1992 blood- Intriguingly, little about condemning such to their own devices, merely urging them to engage in intra-Afghan talks, Nilofar shed and the 2002 Gujarat importance was given by acts. If one part of your with the Taliban holding the whip hand. It is anyone’s guess where this carnage. analysts to the timing of body is injured, it needs to may lead. Suhrawardy Describe it as humani- the Delhi bloodbath. It It may be in America’s interest, and that of its allies, including principal tarian and/or Indian, but took place in the national be mended soon. regional ally India, to continue supporting the people of Afghanistan and help extended by the peo- capital at a time when Sami Uddin their government with badly needed aid. This may help moderate the ple to one another, cutting United States President Warangal Taliban, who may now be expected to call the shots and dominate other across religious lines, Donald Trump was visit- political trends. Perhaps this will help keep Afghanistan on its version of n the immediate Congress leaders. The bears its own signifi- ing. It may well have been Delhi speaks emphatically through the democratic track. aftermath of the demolition of Babri cance. It proves that this a ploy to show him that its injuries and wanton destruction India can have a role to play in this if in the changed context it is able to mayhem in Delhi, Masjid in Ayodhya on communalism is not truly India was being troubled over the last few days. A pattern of persuade all Afghans, including the Taliban, that its friendship is for the the communication December 6, 1992, was an outburst of mob fren- by terrorism fomented by inaction against political trouble people of Afghanistan and not any particular political dispensation. Only Istrategy of those accompanied by an anti- zy. The tag, “religious”, Pakistan. This may be makers reflects poorly on true such an outlook on India’s part can keep Afghanistan out of Pakistan’s involved in the provoca- Muslim communal frenzy cannot apply to the vio- linked with the greater democratic governance. pernicious grip even when the Taliban are in command. tion of violence needs to provoked by the saffron lence. It would be erro- circulation of “news” Deficiencies of the police are also New Delhi could have chosen to engage the Taliban earlier and was be scrutinised carefully. brigade in most parts of neous to even describe about “jihadis” (Muslim obvious as they did not function short-sighted not to do so. It labored under the pre-conceived notion of the The reported incidents of the country. rioters as “religious” for extremist/terrorists) sup- independently. The need of the Taliban being terrorists principally because it had been harboured by lives being lost and prop- While the Ayodhya that would be equivalent ported by and/or from hour is to move out of dogmatism Pakistan. A stiff dose of realism is now called for. erties targeted were not issue is politically dead, to denigrating whichever Pakistan being responsi- into pragmatism for the nation's the result of mob frenzy. certain extremist ele- religion they belong to. ble for the violence in sake and to equally respect all peo- In fact, India needs to be ments are still engaged in Humanitarianism is, northeast Delhi. This ple without discrimination. credited for having come poisoning the minds of after all, the basic princi- communication strategy H.R.S. Sastry A roof for the homeless a fairly long way from the people with anti-Muslim ple of all religions. The has failed. Hindutva Hyderabad times when groups of peo- rhetoric. Yet, during the present rioting appears to extremists have largely he Left Democratic Front government in Kerala has expanded the ple could easily be pro- initial phase of bloodshed have been well-planned been blamed for the vio- Things will fall apart if the Centre scope of Article 21 of our Constitution — the right to life with digni- voked into communal vio- in Delhi, the slogan circu- with a set agenda. That lence in Delhi. does not hold. Being at the Centre, Tty — when it completed the first phase of LIFE (Livelihood Inclusion lence on religious issues. lated focussed on 1984 and includes a negative cam- There is yet another it is high time the BJP shed its anti- and Financial Empowerment) Mission on Saturday constructing 2,14,262 This reality has not yet not 1992. Two inferences paign against the angle that needs atten- Muslim prejudice among Hindus houses for people living below the poverty line. Each eligible family was sunk into the minds and may be drawn from this. Opposition, particularly tion. Instigating violence and ensure that such ugly riots do sanctioned `4 lakhs to complete the project and the total expenditure was hearts of those still being One is that the extremist the Congress and of this kind may be a not happen again. about `6,000-odd crores. The state government tapped every resource to guided by the assumption elements responsible for Muslims. The rioters pri- strategy by the political Mansoor Dashti complete the houses - as many as 65,092 houses were built using funds that it is not a difficult provoking anti-Muslim marily included “external leadership to divert the Secunderabad from the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana — `1.5 lakhs each for 48,445 urban task to incite people of dif- hysteria hoped to also elements”, groups of peo- attention of the people homes and `72,000 each for 16,647 rural homes. Local self-governments ferent religious groups conduct, to some degree, a ple from outside the tar- away from its failure to It is not the Muslims alone who bore half the total estimated cost for each house. The beneficiaries were into engaging in commu- negative campaign geted areas. control inflation and were affected by Delhi riots. Many fully spared the financial burden. nal violence. But if this against the Congress. The Delhi mayhem solve economic problems. Hindus were also hit by petrol There are a lot of takeaways from such an impressive project. One is the were to be the case, not Second, they apparently seems to be a continua- People are fed up of their bombs and stone pelting. One extra mile the government walked to help complete those 50,000-odd part- just northeast Delhi but hoped that reviving the tion of the incidents of Pakistan card and no Bajrang Dal activist was killed in ly-constructed houses. They had their foundations done; some even had the entire national capi- memories of 1984 would hooligan and/or police longer moved by the stone pelting and his body was walls but the residents had no financial means to complete them and had tal, and may be the give them access to the violence at Jawaharlal Ayodhya subject. Shaken dragged on the road. MIM leader given up hopes on them. With a small but significant help, the govern- nation, would have been Sikh mindset. Some right- Nehru University, Jamia by reports of loss faced by Waris Pathan's statement is also ment fulfilled their dreams of living in a fully done home. The other was up in flames. wing elements seemed Millia Islamia, Aligarh victims, a large number responsible for the riots. the thought went into the planning. The 420-sq ft houses do not look simi- So let us analyse the var- quite frustrated by Muslim University and have opened their homes Sreekanth lar; they are not built in colonies; they bear no government stamp. They ious aspects of what hap- Citizenship (Amend- other places where anti- and hearts to them. They Hyderabad look like any other Kerala home. The families get them as their right and pened in Delhi. Initially, ment) Act protesters CAA protests have taken have not shied away from not as an offering of the state. This is not a common feature of a govern- in response to a petition receiving the support of place. The difference is blaming the Central and ment-aided programme anywhere in the country, even in Kerala. filed by social activist Sikhs. They hoped that a that the 1984 angle was state governments for not Email your letters to info@deccan- As per LIFE Mission data, there are 4.32 lakh homeless families in the Harsh Mander for investi- reminder of the 1984 riots not brought in during taking steps to instantly mail.com, [email protected]. state, of which 1.58 are landless homeless. The first phase was aimed at gating the violence in would draw Sikhs closer these instances. check the violence. You can also send them to Editor, them. In the next phase, the government is planning to cover the entire northeast Delhi, the Delhi to the Hindutva brigade Outsiders, with apparent Communication is not Deccan Chronicle, 36, Sarojini Devi homeless population. It's an endeavour every state can think of emulating. high court bench, headed and thus away from anti- support of policemen, just at the command of Road, Secunderabad-500 003. by Justice S. Muralidhar, CAA resistance. This per- seemed to comprise the leaders desiring to spread stated, “We’ll not allow a ception, evidently, has bulk of the perpetrators unrest though they seem DECCAN CHRONICLE repeat of 1984. Not under fallen flat. Sikhs have in all these cases. Except oblivious to this reality. Purses to go in the watch of this court.” gone out of their way to in JNU, an anti-Muslim For it is interpersonal current session ADITYA SINHA T. VENKATESWARLU Here, the judiciary did ensure safety in gurd- bias when it comes to communication among Editor Printer & Publisher play its part even as con- waras for Muslims hit by choosing the victims is Indians that is keeping NEW DELHI, MARCH 1. tinuation of the violence the violence. visible in all these Indian secularism alive. Home Minister Y.B. Chavan DECCAN CHRONICLE offices are located at: signals the limited impact Whether 1984 is talked instances. One failure Here interpersonal com- assured both the Houses of that it had. But certain about or 1992, both years after another has appar- munication implies indi- Parliament today that legisla- Hyderabad: 36, Sarojini Devi Road, Secunderabad - 500 003, Ph: 040-27803930-4; Fax : 040-27805256 outlets of communication were witness to commu- ently led extremist ele- vidual and groups of tion to abolish the privy purses Vijayawada: No.C-3 & 4 Patamata, Industrial Estate, Auto Nagar, Vijayawada (A.P.), Ph: 0866- 2555284/2555287; Telefax: 0866-2555234 chose to simply reiterate nal frenzy marked by ments to try their hand at Indians going out of their and privileges of former rulers Visakhapatnam: Survey No.1/3A Beach Road, Near Kailasagiri Ropeway, Sector-9 MVP Colony, this statement. What did Indians killing Indians. It worse and worse way to help the victims of will be introduced in the current Visakhapatnam - 530 017 (A.P), Ph: 0891-2552333/2552334; Fax: 0891-2755285 the latter gain from giv- is possible that the issue inhumanities. violence. The lives lost session. Rajahmundry: Vemagiri, Dhawaleswaram Rd, Rajahmundry, Ph: 0883-2417618/2417208; Telefax: 0883- ing importance to only of not repeating 1992 was They are chafing at the cannot be brought be Making a 2417208 1984? Why wasn’t the not mentioned as essen- continuation of the anti- back. But at least this statement 50 YEARS AGO IN Anantapur: Thapovan colony, Bangalore By-Pass Road, Anantapur - 515004, Ph: 08554-276903; Fax: same consideration tially this was (and per- CAA protests and tasting phase of violence spells a after objec- 08554-276904 accorded to 1992 and even haps is) not the purpose of lesson for us all. Indians tions were Karimnagar: Survey No.1341, Vavilalapally Colony, Jagityala Road, Karimnagar - 505 001, Ph: 0878- Gujarat 2002? the message. Anti- don’t take long nor wait raised 2228908; Telefax: 0878-2220433 Perhaps, as 2002 was Muslim propaganda Communication is for official permission before the presentation of the Nellore: Survey No.527/2, Burranpur Village, Venkatachalam (M), Chemmudugunta Panchayat, Nellore, not just at the com- Ph: 0861-2348581/82; Telefax: 0861-2348580 confined to Gujarat, it doing the rounds seems when it comes to helping Budget in the two Houses, Mr. Chennai: SP-3 Developed Plot, Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai - 600 032, Ph: 044-22254747/ was not mentioned by clearly inclined towards mand of leaders other Indians in grief. Chavan said the passage of the 48/50/51; Advt Fax: 22254765/22254766/42305325 them. But the same can- once again inciting the desiring to spread Hats off to each and all of legislation depended on the busi- Bengaluru: 5th Floor, BMTC Commercial Complex, 80 Feet Road, Koramangala, Bengaluru-560 095 Ph: not be said for 1992. It is majority against the unrest though they these Indians! ness schedule. In the Lok Sabha, 080-43460500; Fax: 080-22960552. well-documented history minority community on Mr. Madhu Limaye rose on a Coimbatore: 77, Vivekananda Road, Ramnagar, Coimbatore - 641 009, Ph : 0422 2231255 that, following the assas- the ground of religious seem oblivious to The writer is a point of order as soon as the Kochi: No.3-B, 3rd Floor of DD TRADE TOWER, Kaloor-Kadavanthara Road, Ernakulam, Ph: 0484- sination of then Prime differences. Incidentally, this reality. It is inter- journalist with Speaker arrived in the House to 4039408 Minister Indira Gandhi the inhumane manner in specialisation in commu- point out that the order paper Thiruvananthapuram: St Joseph s Press, TC 15/1040, Cotton Hill, Thycaud (PO), Thiruvananthapuram personal communica- 695 014 in 1984, Delhi witnessed which some individuals tion among Indians nication studies and made no mention of the Kozhikode: Door No 6/1002 E, First Floor of City Mall, Opp. YMCA, Kannur Road, Kozhikode - 673 riots in which thousands have been brutally that is keeping Indian nuclear diplomacy. promised legislation to abolish 001, Fax : 0495 4019 018 of Sikhs were killed, injured or killed and their She is also the author of the privy purses and privileges. Gram: CHRONICLE Postal registration no: No. H/SD-348/2006-08 allegedly at the behest of properties destroyed is secularism alive. several books.

t’s just as well that Donald and the chip Indians carry on their permitted in Pakistan. But as soon as end and a 20-day-old infant on the Mercifully, many decent Indians — Trump wears a bulletproof vest shoulders has got bigger. A few years I was critical of India, I would receive other, it is bound to offer us a new Hindus and Muslims alike — are under his shirt, otherwise the ago, I met the Economist correspon- a flood of complaints. grammar of protest, a new language resisting the Hindutva onslaught. IIndian prime minister’s repeat- dent in Delhi who had come to These days, we are witnessing of resistance.” But given the power of the Indian ed bear hugs might have bruised his Lahore to cover our general elec- large-scale killings of Muslims by As this protest movement grows state, I doubt if they will be able to ribs by now. tions. When I asked him how cover- BJP thugs in the Delhi district of and spreads, thinking Indians need succeed. Narendra Modi probably clings to ing India compared with writing Maujpur. These attacks have been to ask what dark hole Mr Modi is Can the world do anything to stop Irfan Husain Trump to show everybody how close about Pakistan, he replied: “When I aided and abetted by the police. A dragging their country into. Do they the carnage? I doubt it. While people he is to the American president. But do a negative story about India, all newspaper cameraman described really need a leader who will aban- in Maujpur were being killed, the expression on the latter’s face the Indians I know are furious; but how he was stopped several times by don the secular path India’s founding Donald Trump was holding talks says: ‘Get this guy off me!’ when I am critical of Pakistan, my RSS bullyboys who demanded to fathers had laid out? Clearly, this is a with Modi. Instead of reprimanding I know I’m going to get a lot of flak friends here all agree with me.” know if he was Hindu or Muslim. matter for Indians to decide. him, Mr Trump sold India $3 billion from Indian readers for daring to So why are Indians so sensitive to One hoodlum threatened to pull off However, as I live in the neighbour- worth of arms. Other Western coun- suggest that their prime minister criticism? Why can’t they take a joke his trousers to check if he had been hood, India’s destiny is a matter of tries will similarly defer to India’s Thin skin, big comes across as a bit of a clown at at their expense? I suspect this has to circumcised. As I write this, over 30 concern to me, whatever my Indian size and power, and avoid criticism. times, but the truth has to be faced. do with the fact that India has been people have been killed in these sec- detractors may think. Indeed, given Had Pakistan committed similar When I wrote a piece a fortnight ago ruled by Muslims and Brits for close tarian riots. India’s size and power, the entire atrocities against its minorities, all bemoaning India’s slide into violent to 1,000 years, and won independence But before the Maujpur riots, we region has cause for apprehension. hell would have broken loose. I am chip, yes; yet nationalism, my inbox was flooded just over seven decades ago. This has witnessed the Shaheen Bagh sit-in It would seem that under Mr Modi, not suggesting that we treat our non- with indignant emails defending made them averse to criticism. And that was spearheaded by women who India’s trajectory is fixed, given the Muslims well, but the large-scale their country. One Indian reader had the Hindutva poison being injected had never before participated in any huge support he is getting from his mayhem we are witnessing in Delhi Hindutva rise the temerity to ask what gave me the into the mainstream has only made form of political action. Irfanullah RSS/BJP/Hindutva supporters. Just today is very rare. right to write about India. I replied matters worse. Farooqi writes: “…At Shaheen Bagh, as the Gujarat police were told not to So I will request Indian readers to that I considered myself free to write Some years ago, when I wrote a col- the script is rewritten simply intervene in the anti-Muslim pogrom please refrain from shooting off on any subject, and hardly needed umn critical of Pakistan — some- because the protester is endowed unfolding before them, so, too have nasty emails as I plan to make good impacts us all his permission. thing I frequently do — Indian read- with a very different vantage point of the Delhi police remained passive use of my “delete” button. Over the years, it would appear ers would write admiringly that they belonging. Moreover, when the spec- witnesses as barbaric BJP thugs beat that Indian skin has become thinner, didn’t think articles like mine were trum has a 90-year-old woman at one Muslims and tore down mosques. By arrangement with Dawn TECHNOMICS pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 | HYDERABAD 11

SHORT TAKES SAMSUNG SHUTS Silicon Valley braces for Super Tuesday DOWN FACTORY Young and idealistic voters in Silicon Valley are largely united against Trump but split over Democratic hopefuls San Francisco, March 1: emerging tech firms, said West. politics. AMID COVID-19 The young and idealistic San Jose State University SILICON VALLEY’S TRYST WITH POLITICS “He understands how Former vice president Seoul: Samsung Electronics voters in Silicon Valley are political science professor businesses operate and Joe Biden “is hardcore shut one of its mobile device largely united against US Melinda Jackson. ● Tech companies in Silicon Valley have been at the forefront of what they need in order to normalcy, but he is just too factories in South Korea after President Donald Trump, “Focus on big ideas, resisting US President Donald Trump's policies. In February 2017, do well.”West added that old,” Koenig said. a worker tested positive for the but split over the rival political revolution, gener- just days after he was inaugurated, 127 tech companies opposed while idealistic tech “We want normalcy 2.0, coronavirus, the Yonhap news Democratic hopefuls as ous universal benefits -- comspany workers are or even 3.0,” he added, agency reported, citing a com- the crucial Super Tuesday these ideas really appeal to Trump's travel ban policy. It is to be noted that many high profile inclined to support pro- using a reference to pany official. The factory in primaries loom. a lot of folks,” Jackson tech firms rely on an international talent pool. gressive candidates, sen- improved second or third Gumi, close to Daegu where Frontrunner Bernie said. ior executives worry about generations of a technolo- most of the South Korean Sanders has gotten the ● Of late, tech hon- ● Nevertheless, while regulatory backlash. gy platform. virus cases have been con- most donations from the DEBATING INCOME He sees former South firmed, was temporarily “internet industry,” INEQUALITY chos have been tech firms have been ‘THE OTHER POLE’ Bend, Indiana mayor closed last month after an ear- according to tracking by donating money to opposing Trump, at least Buttigieg as in tune with lier case was discovered. The the Center for Responsive With Californians set to political causes. two Democratic proba- Buttigieg has the vote of Silicon Valley ways of floor where the infected Politics with rivals Pete vote on this week's Super Manu Koenig, who has thinking, from climate employee worked will reopen Buttigieg and Elizabeth Tuesday, when 14 states go LinkedIn co-founder bles for the presidency, worked at a series of tech change to quickly rolling on Tuesday afternoon, Yonhap Warren not far behind in to the polls, support for Reid Hoffman had Vermont Senator Bernie startups and is running out solutions and then said. Samsung did not have the tallies. Sanders and Warren donated money to Sanders and for an elected position in improving on them as immediate comment. Auto “Silicon Valley is many comes even with the two four Democratic Massachusetts part of Silicon Valley. feedback or data dictate. giant Hyundai Motor also shades of blue,” said Vivek progressive candidates primary candi- Senator Elizabeth “For my friends and I, it “I think it is just an stopped operations at one of Wadhwa, an entrepreneur pledging to sharply raise is just that we want some awareness of our inter- its Ulsan plants after an and author who is a pro- taxes on high earners and dates, while Warren, have return to normalcy rather connectedness and realiz- employee tested positive for fessor at Carnegie Mellon break up the largest tech Salesforce CEO also supported than swinging from one ing we are developing solu- the coronavirus. — Reuters University's Silicon Valley companies which domi- Marc Benioff breaking up of pole to the other,” Koenig tions together,” Koenig branch. nate key economic sectors. had provided Facebook and told AFP. said. “It is polarized, and it is “Sanders does appeal to “Clearly, Bernie is the Volition startup founder polarized on the extreme many of the workers who money to Amazon. other pole. That's what and chief Nick Pinkston left. There is a consensus feel the downsides of three. excites a lot of people sees support for Michael here that Donald Trump is income inequality,” said about him and scares a lot Bloomberg and Buttigieg the enemy.”Sanders, who Jackson. of people about him.”The in the venture capital com- at 78 is from a different Some analysts see sup- 34-year-old cited the popu- munity. “Venture capital- generation than the typi- port for 38-year-old Netflix chief Reed denounced by rivals as the tech-friendly agenda and a larity of Buttigieg and ists don't want to be taxed, cal tech worker, connects Buttigieg, with a more Hastings and attended by “wine cave” fundraiser. moderate stance in regula- Amy Klobuchar as a sign and feel like Bernie and with the younger crowd by moderate platform. people linked to Google, “Pete Buttigieg is the tion,” said Brookings Silicon Valley voters want Warren are sort of out to promoting himself as a Reports said a Buttigieg Facebook and other large favored candidate of Institution governance reason and collaboration get Silicon Valley,” “disruptor,” like many gathering was hosted by tech firms, an event Silicon Valley as he has a studies director Darrell returned to US national Pinkston said. — AFP

‘DOWNPLAY GREENNESS OF ‘CoronaCoin’ allows users to PRODUCTS’ bet on international epidemic London, March 1: Companies looking to promote New York, March 1: their environmentally friend- Cryptocur-rency develop- ly products should downplay ers have created a digital Gig economy to be hit by Covid-19 their green credentials to get coin that allows traders to more customers, according to bet on the coronavirus epi- DC CORRESPONDENT ● MOST OF THEM ers in the United States, a study which says by over- demic, based on how WITH AGENCY INPUTS working in the gig econ- which included measures advertising green attributes, many people fall ill or die. HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 omy are considered to protect themselves firms risk generating associa- Called the "CoronaCoin," independent contractors from the deadly virus that tions with weak product per- its supply will diminish The ongoing Covid-19 and hence are ineligible originated in the central formance. every two days based on scare is most likely to for sick leaves or health- Chinese province of The researchers said this is the rate of new cases, impact workers part of Wuhan. because of the performance according to its website - the gig economy, especial- care benefits. Meanwhile, China ability sometimes associated suggesting its price could ly in the United States, a reported a fresh spike in with green products which People check the temperature of journalists wearing face masks as they enter the move higher the more peo- Washington Post report Covid-19 infections on make consumers perceive Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea. —AP ple the virus kills. has said. tractors who don't have Sunday. The virus has them as being less effective. The coronavirus epidem- According to the report, very good health insur- spread to more than 60 According to their study, by ic is becoming global, with those providing on- ance. They're not going to countries around the downplaying a product's six new countries report- demand ride services and have better protections globe, prompting the greenness, firms may be more ing their first cases on delivery services are at a than anyone else, but they World Health likely to persuade consumers Covid-19 rumours on Friday and the World greater risk due to the may have higher risk," Organization to raise its to buy them, if promoted on Health Organization rais- spread of Covid-19. This is said Alex Rosenblat, the risk assessment to its more traditional, rather than ing its global spread and because most of them are research lead for the non- highest level. performance, aspects. impact alert to "very considered independent profit organization Data & Worldwide, nearly 3,000 It said green products usual- high." contractors and hence are Society was quoted by the people have been killed ly include environmentally app cripples Koreatown Latest WHO figures indi- ineligible for sick leaves publication as saying. and about 87,000 infected friendly features that are less cate more than 82,000 peo- or healthcare benefits. Nevertheless, companies since the virus was first harmful to the planet and pop- Los Angeles, March 1: ● HAN BAT Shul Lung Kakao Talk app on ple have been infected, "With the gig economy like Taxi aggregator serv- detected late last year in ulation, such as biodegradable In a Koreatown restaurant Monday. with more than 2,700 specifically, it's full of low- ice Uber recently sent an the central Chinese city of and nontoxic ingredients, that known for its beef bone Tang was one of five One message circulating deaths in China and 57 income, independent con- in-app message to its driv- Wuhan. enhance energy efficiency, and broth soup, the lunchtime restaurants that lost busi- on the app provided deaths in 46 other coun- include recycled components. crowd on Friday was half ness after being named in details of the flights the tries. However, while it has been its normal size. The rea- posts on a messaging app attendant worked on and The rapid spread of the documents the spread of suggested that consumers are son was a virulent that warned a Korean Air listed the restaurants that virus, which emerged in HOW IT WORKS the virus and the token willing to buy such products, rumour about a customer flight attendant with the said she purportedly visit- China in December, has ALTRUISM MEETS scan be bought and sold on these attitudes rarely result in with coronavirus. virus had dined there dur- ed with the message: stoked a frenzied selloff in ● The token supply CAPITALISM? some online exchanges, purchases, and they often buy Han Bat Shul Lung Tang ing a layover at Los “Please share with global markets, with the is based on the ● A portion of the tokens such as Saturn.Network, the conventional alternatives, was one of five restau- Angeles city, situated on evUUeryone to avoid these three major U.S. stock world population, according to Kemp. the scientists said. rants that lost business ktown spots,” using an indexes on track for their (20 per cent) has been set Around 20 per cent of Based on earlier studies, after being named in posts the Western coast. abbreviation for worst week since the 2008 which stands at aside for donation to the supply of supply will be they said consumers tend to on a Korean messaging Koreatown. financial crisis. 7,604,953,650 Red Cross to fund relief allocated for donation choose products with superior app that warned a Korean impact on the restaurants “In the Korean- Total supply for the as per the efforts. By putting the infor- monthly to the Red Cross functional performance over Air flight attendant with was a prime example of American community CoronaCoin is based on cryptocurrency's mation regarding infections using a well-known cryp- products with better sustain- the virus had dined there how fears of the virus here, it went like wild- the world population, and site. Every 48 hours, and deaths, the cryptocur- tocurrency payments ability characteristics, indi- during a layover in Los combined with the speed fire,” Alex Won said tokens will be burnt once the token is burned rency reportedly enables processor, Kemp said. cating that this choice is often Angeles more than a week and reach of social media Friday as he ate a bowl of every 48 hours based on to reduce supply in data to enter authoritarian Some users of social related to assumptions about ago. “It's fake news,” can quickly cripple the beef brisket soup at Han the number of those that line with reports on countries. The data report- media platform Reddit the performance ability of owner John Kim said, and healthiest of businesses Bat Shul Lung Tang. have been infected or have the Covid-19' users criticized the token. green products. The current he had proof. His restau- and focus suspicion on Won said he got the mes- died, according to its web- edly allows people to "Frankly, this is amoral," study showed that the product rant was closed at the ethnic communities. sage from friends and site. spread. So for every understand the true impact said one. "Tasteless," com- category can influence the time because of a water The virus, which began family members, but "Some people speculate a one infection, one of the virus and prepare for mented another. "This is effect of a green product leak, a fact confirmed by in China, has been spread- never really believed it large portion of the sup- token is burned. any potential situations. why we can't have nice advertising strategy. the Department of Public ing worldwide and has because it wasn't reported ply will be burned due to things," wrote a third. 'Implicit' messaging is more Health. taken a big toll lately in in the news. He stopped at the spread of the virus, so Asked whether the token effective in conditions under The rumor about the South Korea. Lawmakers the restaurant at the start they invest," Sunny Kemp, could be seen as morbid, which consumers have more flight attendant was dis- and advocates for immi- of the week and found it a user who identified him- Kemp said: "There are cur- concerns about the product's pelled Friday morning by grant communities have closed because of a water self as one of the develop- rently active pandemic performance, or have lower the Republic of Korea con- warned about xenophobia leak. He was happy to ers, said in a chat on mes- bonds issued by the WHO. expectations about its green- sulate in Los Angeles. In a and discrimination aimed return for a late lunch saging app Telegram. How is that different?" ness, the researchers added. statement posted in at Asian Americans. Friday and was surprised Kemp said the team com- New York: According to the study, when Korean on Facebook, the State Assemblyman to find he was the only prised seven developers Cryptocurrency develop- the product-related attributes consulate general said the Kansen Chu, D-San Jose, diner. Owners of other with more coming on ers have created a digital are prominent in advertising, attendant who visited Los said Chinese businesses, restaurants named in the board. He declined to iden- coin that allows traders to if consumers perceive them as Angeles on Feb. 19-20 had in particular, were experi- post said business died tify others, but said they bet on the coronavirus epi- being at odds with the benefits gone to two businesses but encing large economic almost instantly. were located mostly in demic, based on how associated with the product neither was in Koreatown. losses as a result of At Honey Pig, a Korean Europe. many people fall ill or die. category, the resulting incom- Later in the day, public racism and fear. barbecue restaurant with Cryptocurrencies like Called platform Reddit patibility may further reduce health officials said the A group representing 25 tables, only six parties bitcoin are digital curren- users criticized the token. how the customers evaluate flight attendant was not Koreatown restaurants were seated during one cies that rely on advanced "Frankly, this is amoral," their performance. contagious while in the said business in general bad day of business this cryptography to validate been plagued by frequent ed through a digital ledger said one. "Tasteless," com- —PTI city. was down about 50% since week, owner Chin Kim their transactions. The price crashes and scams. called blockchain. The mented other. The rumor and the the rumor spread on the said. —AP nascent asset class has Transactions are record- CoronaCoin blockchain — Reuters IT professionals, be careful of Mexican men in uniforms able operations in Mexico. ● About 60,000 Indians had Venkateswar, who still works in had a similar experience last scammed at airports in Mexico, TCS’s big campus is in travelled to Mexico in 2016 Monterrey for the same multi- year. Suryaprakash Sahoo, 32, a including one involving his col- Guadalajara, Wipro’s in Jalisco national firm that has a large senior software engineer at league from a different team. and Infosys’ in Monterrey. as more than five Indian IT presence in India. Infosys from Bhubaneswar, who There have also been incidents Shrenik Avlani Venkateswar, 30, a software firms, including the big three The trouble started now. arrived in Mexico City in of tourists, Indian and other engineer from Hyderabad came have sizeable operations in “They put us in a cab and five January this year, on his first nationalities too, being robbed to Mexico City in October 2017 minutes into the ride, the driver international assignment, was by armed beat policemen while on his way to his first overseas Mexico. stopped the car and asked us for scammed at the airport. “I need- conducting random checks and project at Monterrey in north- ● money. He threatened to delay ed directions to get to my con- pat-down searches on travellers eastern Mexico. Shortly after The Indian embassy takes us long enough to make us miss necting flight. I asked a security in Tulum, the popular beach International Airport disembarking from his KLM note of such complaints and our flights and even hurt us if woman but she spoke Spanish holiday destination in south- t is not just thieves and con- (Aeropuerto Internacional flight, he cleared customs and then raises it with Mexican we didn’t give him money. Both which I didn’t understand. A western Mexico on the men, Mexico-bound Indian Benito Juárez). There are 6,500 checked in his bags for the con- Srikant, also from Hyderabad, smartly dressed man who was Caribbean coast. IIT workers and tourists have Indians living and working in necting flight, which was taking authorities when the ambas- and I were scared but said we nearby spoke English and The Indian embassy takes to be wary of the men in uni- Mexico at the moment, while off from a different terminal. sador meets them. had no money. He didn’t buy our offered to help. He asked me to note of such complaints and form too. Several Indian info- the number of Indians who “My colleague and I were trying bluff and after a few more follow him, which I did. After a then raises it with Mexican tech and software professionals travel to Mexico is much higher, to figure out how to get to the threats, each of us ended up minute or so I sensed something authorities when the ambassa- who transit through the said N Sivan, second secretary domestic terminal when a cou- they said that the airport train paying him $100 each,” wasn’t right, so I said I’d man- dor meets them, Sivan said. Mexican capital on their way to at the embassy of India in ple of men in police uniform, was cancelled for the day and Venkateswar added. He didn’t age from here on. He didn’t lis- “When we get such complaints, their new postings in Mexico City. About 60,000 complete with ID cards, came KLM was providing free trans- go to cops because he was ten to me and started pushing the victims expect us to help Guadalajara, Jalisco and Indians had travelled to Mexico and asked where we came from fers. They even showed us a scared that he might run into my trolley. Luckily, he took me them recover the money, which Monterrey have been robbed in 2016 as more than five Indian and where we were going? KLM letter saying as much. the same cops or their friends at to the train but forced me to pay we can’t do. We let the Mexican and scammed by policemen in IT firms, including the big three When we said Monterrey, they They spoke English and showed the airport. him,” Sahoo said. Sahoo said he officials know and ask them to uniform as well as by scamsters —Tata Consultancy Services, asked if we were on the KLM us papers that looked real so we An Infosys employee from has heard of other incidents of stop the recurrence of such at Mexico City’s Benito Juarez Infosys and Wipro — have size- flight. The moment we said yes, went with them,” said Pune on his way to Monterrey Indians being robbed and incidents,” he added. WORLD pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 12

IN BRIEF Speak on bullying, 13,000 migrants at Turkey’s border: UN Opposition to Priti Turkish Prez promises not to close gates to refugees, says European Union has to keep its promises London: The UK’s Opposition Labour Party on Sunday Kastanies, March 1: The called on Home Secretary United Nations migration Priti Patel to address organization said Sunday EU border agency Parliament on the allegations that at least 13,000 people of bullying against her follow- were massed on Turkey’s ing the resignation of one of land border with Greece, her top civil servants. Sir after Turkey officially dec- issues ‘high alert’ Philip Rutnam resigned from lared its western borders the important post of were open to migrants and Brussels, March 1: The Tayyip Erdogan said he Permanent Secretary in the refugees hoping to head EU’s border protection “opened the gates” for Home Office on Saturday into the European Union. agency Frontex said Sun- them after dozens of his blaming the 47-year-old Turkish President Recep day it is on “high alert” on troops were killed in Indian-origin minister for fail- Tayyip Erdogan’s decision Europe’s borders with airstrikes in northern ing to engage with him or to open his country’s bor- Turkey as thousands of Syria by Damascus’s address his concerns around ders with Europe made migrants seek to enter the Russian-backed regime. her conduct with officials in good on a longstanding bloc, adding it is deploy- He is seen to be using the the department. “The home threat to let refugees into ing support to Greece. migration flow to try to secretary has a duty to come the continent. His “We... have raised the pressure the EU and its to Parliament on Monday to announcement marked a alert level for all borders NATO member states to explain the allegations made dramatic departure from with Turkey to high,” the lend him support in about her own conduct,” said the current policy and an Frontex spokeswoman Turkey’s military opera- Sir Kier Starmer, the frontrun- apparent attempt to pres- said in a statement said. tion in Syria. Frontex said ner in the ongoing Labour sure Europe. “We have received a it was monitoring closely Party leadership contest to The UN’s International request from Greece for the situation along the replace Jeremy Corbyn. Organization for Migr- additional support. We Greek and Bulgarian bor- ation said Sunday that by have already taken steps ders with Turkey and “we the previous evening, its to redeploy to Greece tech- are looking into other Mahathir seeks staff working along the nical equipment and addi- ways of supporting EU land border “had observed tional officers,” she added. countries bordering Parliament vote at least 13,000 people gath- Thousands of migrants Turkey”. The statement ered at the formal border were getting unimpeded added: “We are in close Kuala Lumpur: Mahathir crossing points at Pazar- passage across Turkey to contact with Greek aut- Mohamad called Sunday for kule and Ipsala and multi- the borders of European horities regarding addi- an urgent sitting of Malaysia’s ple informal border cross- Union member countries tional support we can pro- Parliament to contest the ings, in groups of between Greece and Bulgaria. vide in this rapidly evolv- appointment of a former ally several dozen and more Turkish President Recep ing situation.” — AFP as prime minister under a than 3,000.” Migrants walk on railways toward Meritsa river, near Edirne, to take a boat to attempt to enter Greece by crossing Malay-majority coalition that Greek authorities fired the river on Sunday. — AFP could further split the nation tear gas and stun ate Syrian civilians. gates to refugees,” he said. following the collapse of grenades through Minister Alkiviadis Stefa- said they arrested 66 making the short but often ern Syria’s Idlib province Nearly 950,000 displaced “The European Union has Mahathir’s multiracial refor- Saturday to prevent repe- nis told the local broad- migrants Friday, 17 of perilous sea crossing from that has forced hundreds civilians have been to keep its promises. We mist alliance. Muhyiddin Yas- ated attempts by a crowd caster Skai there were whom were sentenced to the Turkish coast to the of thousands of Syrian pushed toward the Syrian- are not obliged to look sin, a seasoned politician who of more than 4,000 people around 9,600 attempts to 3.5 years in jail for enter- Greek islands. civilians to flee fighting Turkish border amid the after and feed so many once famously quipped that massed at the border illegally cross Greece’s bo- ing the country illegally. At least three dinghies there. The mass displace- cold winter weather. refugees.” Under a 6 bil- he is Malay first and Malaysian crossing in Kastanies to rder during the night All Afghans, they were carrying migrants arrived ment in Idlib has raised On Saturday, Erdogan lion euro deal in 2016, second, was sworn in as the cross, and fought a cat- Saturday to Sunday. Stefa- the first migrants sente- on the Greek island of the possibility that said Turkey would not Turkey agreed to stem the new leader at the palace Sun- and-mouse game with nis said all were success- nced for illegal entry since Lesbos Sunday morning. Turkey might come under stand in the way of ref- tide of refugees to Europe day after getting the support groups cutting holes in a fully thwarted. Previously 2014. On Saturday, Greece Turkey’s decision to open growing international ugees and migrants alre- in return for financial aid of several opposition parties. border fence along the several dozen migrants arrested another 70 people the borders with Greece pressure to open its now ady in the country who after more than a million Among the supporters was border to crawl through. had managed to make it who tried to cross the bor- came amid a military sealed border with Syria hope to head to Europe. people entered Europe in the corruption-tainted United Greek Deputy Defense through. Greek officials der illegally. Others were escalation in northwest- and offer refuge to desper- “We will not close the 2015. — AP Malays National Organisation, which was ousted by Maha- thir’s Alliance of Hope in a historic vote in 2018. Biden pockets SL Parliament may Prisoner release: First snag in Afghan deal Kabul, March 1: Afghan- ● THE TINY NATION of There are spoilers both be dissolved: Min South Carolina istan’s president said Sun- Qatar expressed disap- within Afghanistan and day that he will not free th- pointment Sunday that outside, you will have to Colombo: Sri Lankan Presi- Washington, March 1: SANDERS SAYS HE ousands of Taliban priso- nearly all of its Gulf keep a lookout for them and dent Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is Former US vice president ners ahead of all-Afghan neighbours snubbed invi- likely to dissolve the Parlia- Joe Biden won the South power-sharing talks set for deter them. You have to ment later on Sunday, paving Carolina primary on Sat- RAISED $46.5M IN next week, publicly disag- tations to attend the identify them and put them the way for snap elections in urday, giving a big boost reeing with a timetable for weekend peace signing to blame and shame - a mec- the country months ahead of to his presidential cam- a speedy prisoner release ceremony between the hanism is needed for that FEBRUARY ALONE US and the Taliban. the schedule, a top minister paign. Biden, 77, scored laid out just a day earlier — SHAH MEHMOOD said. President Rajapaksa in more than 50 per cent of in a US-Taliban deal. ● December named his elder the total votes counted in Virginia, March 1: Ber- President Ashraf Gha- PEACE, BUT NOT at QURESHI brother and former strongman the crucial state of South nie Sanders’ presidential ni’s comments pointed to our cost, say Afghan Pakistan Foreign Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa as the pri- Carolina, where the pri- campaign said it raised the first hitch in impleme- women fearing the me minister of the caretaker maries for the Dem- more than $46.5 million nting the fragile deal, Taliban return cabinet until the general elec- ocratic party’s presiden- in February, a show of which is aimed at ending ● AMERICAN LAWMAK- a nation convulsed by con- tion in August 2020. He can tial race were held on financial strength America’s longest war aft- flict since the Soviet inva- now legally dissolve Parlia- Saturday. announced Sunday, after er more than 18 years and ERS have described the sion in December 1979. Yet ment and call an election. The Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator fin- getting rival Afghan facti- landmark US-Taliban it could also unravel president could issue the dis- 78, was a distant second ished a distant second ons to agree on their coun- peace deal as a step in quickly, particularly if the missal order on the parlia- with 17 per cent of the behind Joe Biden in try's future. Still, the US Former Afghan Taliban fighters stand next to weapons the right direction to br- Taliban fail to deliver on a ment on Sunday night, the votes counted. On the South Carolina’s primary. has said a planned US before handing them over as part of a government ing peace in war-torn Af- promise that no terror earliest he could force a fresh Republican side, Presi- Sanders’ team also troop withdrawal over the peace and reconciliation process in Jalalabad on ghanistan, but expressed attacks would be launched parliamentary poll. The cur- dent Donald Trump, who announced that it was next 14 months is linked to Sunday. — AFP skepticism over the Afg- from Afghan soil. rent parliament was appoint- is seeking re-election, de- making television ad the Taliban’s counter-ter- han militant group adher- The intra-Afghan talks ed on September 1, 2015. “Yes cisively won the GOP pri- buys in nine more states: rorism performance, not begin March 10 in the the release of prisoners between squabbling politi- we will definitely look to dis- mary. The first primary Idaho, Michigan, Missi- to progress in intra-Afg- Norwegian capital of Oslo. was a decision for his gov- ing to its commitment. cal factions and rival solve, we were prevented win in the 2020 presiden- ssippi, Missouri and han talks. The US-Taliban The Taliban would release ernment to take and that Taliban in Afghanistan from going for early polls due tial race gave Biden the Washington, which vote deal signed Saturday envi- up to 1,000 prisoners. he wasn’t ready to release the negotiations but it can- are even more intricate — to 19A mistake of the previous much-needed boost to his on March 10, and Ariz- sions the release of up to Ghani told a news confer- prisoners before the start not be a precondition,” even if a potential failure government,” Foreign Minister White House ambition. ona, Florida, Illinois and 5,000 Taliban prisoners by ence in the Afghan capital of negotiations. “The req- Ghani said. The US-Talib- might not slow the with- Dinesh Gunawardena said. He had lost the previous Ohio, which vote a week the Afghan government of Kabul on Sunday that uest has been made by the an deal is seen as a histor- drawal of American forces primaries and caucuses later. The campaign said ahead of talks between this wasn’t a promise the US for the release of pris- ic opportunity to extricate from the country. in Iowa, New Hampshire it is “currently on the air Afghan factions meant to US could make. He said oners and it can be part of the US from Afghanistan, — AP and Nevada. The last two in 12 out of the 14 states” ‘IMMEDIATE’ were won by Sanders and that are voting on Super Iowa was a tie between Tuesday, in two days. Sanders and Pete “The senator’s multi- ANNEXATION, Buttigieg. Now all eyes generational, multiracial are on “Super Tuesday” working class coalition Will down ‘enemy’ aircraft: Damascus or March 3 when presi- keeps fueling his cam- PLEDGES BIBI dential primaries would paign for transformation- Damascus, March 1: The ● FRENCH PRESIDENT Turkish drone strikes and Jerusalem, March 1: A day ah- be held in as many as 15 al change a few bucks at a Syrian military Sunday EMMANUEL Macron has bombardment since Frid- ead of Israel’s third election in a states, including Alab- time,” Sanders’ campaign threatened to down any called for Turkey and Rus- ay to 74, said the Britain- Op. ‘Spring Shield’ year, Prime Minister Benjamin ama, Arkansas, Califo- manager Faiz Shakir said aircraft over northwest sia to implement a lasting based monitor, which reli- Netanyahu pledged Sunday that rnia, Colorado, Maine, in a statement. — AP Syria after Turkish drone es on sources inside Syria. if re-elected he would annex sw- Massachusetts, Minn- strikes killed dozens of ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib Ten Hezbollah fighters athes of the occupied West Bank esota, North Carolina, pro-regime forces in the province in conversations and four allied militiamen on: Defence Minister within weeks. In an interview Oklahoma, Tennessee, week, we said our come- embattled region. “Syrian with the two countries’ also died, the Observatory with Israeli public radio, Neta- Texas, Utah, Vermont and back started in Nevada military high command leaders the Elysee said. said. Since December, Ankara, March 1: Tur- and continuing operation. nyahu said annexation of the Virginia. The results of and you and the voters of announces the closure of Russia-backed regime key said Sunday it was “Following the heinous Jordan Valley and other parts of “Super Tuesday” would South Carolina made it the airspace for planes and said it was pursuing a mil- forces have led a military continuing a military attack on February 27 in the West Bank was his top prior- allocate 1,357 of the 3,979 happen!” Biden said in an any drone above north- itary operation dubbed offensive against the last operation against the Rus- Idlib, operation ‘Spring ity among “four major immedi- pledged delegates for the email to his supporters western Syria and espe- “Spring Shield” in north- major rebel stronghold of sian-backed Syrian regi- Shield’ successfully con- ate missions”. “That will hap- Democratic National soon after winning the cially above the Idlib west Syria after regime air Idlib in northwest Syria, me in Syria’s northwest- tinues,” Turkish Defence pen within weeks, two months Convention in Wisconsin South Carolina primar- region,” reported a mili- strikes on Thursday killed where Turkey supports ern Idlib region but insist- Minister Hulusi Akar said at the most, I hope,” he said in later this summer, which ies. Sanders, however, is tary source as saying. 34 Turkish soldiers. some rebel groups. ed it did not wish to clash in a televised speech. “We the interview. “The joint US- would select its nominee still ahead in the dele- “Any aircraft breaching The Syrian Observatory The onslaught has with Moscow. don’t have the desire or Israeli mapping committee for the presidential elec- gates count with 45 our airspace will be treat- for Human Rights said caused almost a million Though Turkey has intention to clash with started work a week ago,” he tions in November. “We pledged delegates. Biden ed as enemy aircraft that Turkish drone strikes people — mostly women reported striking targets Russia,” the minister added. did it! We won South with 29 has jumped to the needs to be downed and killed 26 soldiers in north- and children — to flee in Syria since dozens of added.Thirty-four US President Donald Trump’s Carolina! We couldn’t be second spot with his deci- prevented from carrying west Syria on Saturday. their homes and shelters, its troops were killed Turkish troops have been widely-criticised Middle East more grateful for this sive win in South out its goals,” the source That brought the number the United Nations says. there Thursday, it was the killed in Syria since peace plan, unveiled in late incredible team. Last Carolina. — PTI said. Turkey, meanwhile, of soldiers killed in —AFP first confirmation of a full Thursday. — AFP January, gave the Jewish state a green light to annex the area and proposed a committee to set out the exact borders of the ter- WEDDING | BELLS Carrie Symonds’ pregnancy had been an open secret in government circles: Reports ritory to be annexed. Netanyahu listed his other priorities as signing an “historic” defence treaty with the United States, Israel’s key ally, and “eradicat- ing the Iranian threat”, without Boris proposed to me late last year, says GF elaborating on his plan for Tehran. London, March 1: British out from me. “Many of you and friends talked about a columnist who has four conservation charity Oce- He has repeatedly pledged to Prime Minister Boris already know but for my baby shower. grown up children with ana. “Carrie previously le- stop the Islamic republic from Johnson proposed to part- friends that still don’t, we The news makes John- Johnson. Their eldest dau- d communications for the developing a nuclear weapon ner Carrie Symonds late got engaged at the end of son, 55, the first sitting UK ghter Lara is a few years Conservative Party in the and has not ruled out the use of last year, his pregnant last year and we’ve got a Prime Minister to divorce, younger than Symonds. UK where she helped pro- force. He has also acted to roll fiancee revealed on social baby hatching early sum- marry and have a baby Johnson and Wheeler mote policies on the envi- back Iranian and allied forces media to her friends after mer. Feel incredibly while in office at 10 had separated in 2018 and ronment and animal wel- active in neighbouring Syria. the couple formally anno- blessed.” The timing of the Downing Street, where the announced their divorce fare,” notes her profile for Israel routinely fires missiles at unced their engagement. engagement raises the pos- couple have been living plans soon after reports of the charity. His marriage what it says are Iranian targets Symonds, who turns 32 sibility that Johnson pro- since July last year. Johnson’s affair with to Symonds will be in Syria, where elite Iranian later this month, con- posed when the couple The news of the impend- Symonds became public. Johnson's third, following forces and allied militia play a firmed their baby will were on their Christmas ing wedding and baby Symonds, a former com- his divorce from first wife key role in the country’s con- “hatch” in early summer vacation on the Caribbean were made public soon munications chief for the Allegra Mostyn-Owen and flict. Netanyahu said that his which would mean around island of Mustique in after Johnson’s divorce Conservative Party, first then second wife Marina fourth “immediate” goal if he June. In a post on her pri- December last year. from his Indian-origin ex- met the future Prime Wheeler, and their child wins another term —despite vate Instagram account on According to the reports wife Marina Wheeler got Minister during his Lon- will be his sixth, four with facing trial on multiple corrup- Saturday, she said: “I wou- the pregnancy had been an finalised last month. don mayoral re-election Wheeler and a fifth follow- tion charges — would be major ldn’t normally post this open secret in government Wheeler, whose mother campaign in 2012. ing an affair with art con- economic reform to bring down kind of thing on here but I circles as Symonds kept a Dip Singh hailed from She now works as a sultant Helen Macintyre. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Carrie Israel's high cost of living. wanted my friends to find low profile in recent weeks Punjab, is a barrister and Senior Adviser for ocean — PTI Symonds. —AP WORLD pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 13

IN BRIEF Mexico confirms 22 sick but don’t fourth infection panic: Trump Mexico City: Mexico confirm- ed its fourth case of the new Washington, March 1: Covid-19 — all linked to rece- Seeking to reassure the IRISH MAN BACK nt travel to Italy — after a American public, Preside- young woman tested positive nt Donald Trump said th- FROM ITALY for infection. Health authori- ere was “no reason to pan- ties on Saturday said the 20- ic” as the new Covid-19 cl- year-old from northern Coa- aimed its first victim insi- TESTS POSITIVE huila state was carrying the de the US. The White Ho- virus without showing symp- use also announced new Dublin, March 1: Irela- toms. She had recently trav- restrictions on internati- nd on Saturday confirm- elled to Milan and was now onal travel to prevent the ed its first case of Covid- under isolation in her home, virus from spreading. 19 after a man who had according to the state gov- Trump appeared at a returned from northern ernment. Another eight peo- hastily called news confe- Italy tested positive. Heal- ple are being tested for sus- rence in the White House th officials said the man, pected infection, authorities briefing room with Vice from the east of Ireland, said. The other three confi- President Mike Pence and was “receiving appropri- rmed cases — two men in top public health officials ate medical care” after Mexico City and one man in to announce that the US they followed “estab- northern Sinaloa state — are was banning travel to lished protocols” in test- all believed to have visited Iran and urging America- ing and diagnosing him. northern Italy, authorities ns not to travel to regions “The case is associated said Friday. of Italy and South Korea with travel from an affect- where the Covid-19 has ed area in northern Italy, been prevalent. rather than contact with Nigeria patient He confirmed that 22 another confirmed case,” people in the US had been the Department of Health gets better care stricken, of whom one said in a statement. Lagos: Nigerian health had died while four were The authorities were authorities said Saturday an deemed “very ill”. Additi- working rapidly to identi- Italian who tested positive onal cases were “likely”, fy any contacts the pati- for the Covid-19 in Lagos, he added. “This is very ent may have had, “to pr- the first case in Nigeria, has serious stuff,” he said, but ovide them with informa- been relocated for better still insisted the criticism tion and advice to prevent care, a health official said. Health officials, wearing face masks amid fears over the spread of Covid-19, check the body temperature of policewomen before an anti-govern- of his administration’s further spread”, it added. The Italian, quarantined at ment rally in Bangkok on Sunday. — AFP handling of the virus out- Health Minister Simon the Infectious Disease Hosp- break was a hoax. He also Harris said the develop- ital in Yaba on Friday, had added that the governme- ment was “not unexpect- complained of poor facilities, nt is considering additio- ed”. “We have been prepa- Lagos health commissioner nal restrictions, includi- ring for this since Janu- Akin Abayomi told journal- ng closing the US border ary,” he added. ists. He was moved to a ren- 1st fatalities in Thailand, Oz with Mexico, but added Meanwhile mainland ovated facility with air-con- that “This is not a border UK has seen 23 cases so ditioning and the patient that seems to be much of far. In the northern Irish was now comfortable. “As of China Covid-19 deaths at 2,870 while casualties in Iran spiral to 54 a problem right now... case, the woman involved this morning, his condition We’re thinking about all had travelled through has improved, he hasn’t Bangkok, March 1: A ● THE SPREADING Covid- Andrew Robertson, borders,” he said. Dublin Airport on her developed any new symp- patient in Thailand who 19 epidemic shut down Western Australia’s chief way home to Northern toms, but he’s still got a mild contracted the novel France’s Louvre Museum medical officer, said the Gatherings of 5,000 Ireland from northern fever,” he added. Meanwhile, Covid-19 infection has on Sunday, with workers couple initially seemed to cancelled in France Italy. — AFP Nigeria consumer officials died, the first fatality in have only a mild version of France cancelled gather- warned against arbitrary the country involving the who guard its trove of art the illness, but that the ings of 5,000 people or hikes in prices of protective outbreak. The 35-year-old works fearful of being man’s condition subse- more after a surge of new kits and products. It retail worker had dengue contaminated by the quently deteriorated. He cases were confirmed the- urged pharmacies and fever and the new disease museum’s flow of visitors insisted both had been iso- re on Saturday. The coun- department stores to stop known as Covid-19, Suwa- from around the world. lated early and that their try’s total stands at 100, hoarding the products. nnachai Wattanayingch- ● cases posed “no risk to the with two deaths logged. aroenchai, director gener- “WE ARE very worried general community or In two regions hard-hit al of the Department of because we have visitors (medical) staff”. by the virus, Oise and La S Africa to airlift Disease Control, said in a from everywhere,” said Earlier Sunday, health Balme-de-Sillingy, some briefing Sunday. The pati- Andre Sacristin, a Louvre authorities in New South schools were closed, whi- 151 from China ent had been hospitalised employee and union rep- Wales state confirmed a le authorities warned ag- Simon Harris for nearly a month and resentative of staffers. 26th case of Covid-19 in ainst non-essential travel Johannesburg: South Africa died on February 29 after Australia after a man in Pedestrians wearing face masks cross a square in and encouraged people to DEVELOPMENT will evacuate 151 citizens multiple organ failure. his 40s who had travelled Tehran. — AP/PTI work from home. WAS not unexpec- from the Covid-19-hit Chine- The patient had tested officials said. His 79-year- from Iran was diagnosed ted. We have been se city of Wuhan within days, negative for the virus old wife was also infected with the disease. He was reports of 573 new con- lives lost to 54 and cases to Cases in Italy go up preparing for this since the health minister said Sun- since February 16 but “the with the disease during the second Australian firmed cases of novel 978. “Eleven people lost Italy saw a jump in new day, as the death toll and nu- damage was already done the cruise and remains in infected in Iran. Covid-19 infection and 35 their lives in the past 24 cases on Saturday, with January. mber of infected worldwide to his body” from the a Perth hospital, a spokes- deaths on Saturday from hours,” spokesman Kiano- infections exceeding 1,000 SIMON HARRIS, mounted. The decision to air- infection, said Tawee woman for the Western China’s confirmed cases the Chinese mainland. ush Jahanpour said. and the death toll rising Irish Health Minister lift the trapped South Africa- Chotpitayasunondh, Australian state health surge to 79,824 Among the deaths, 34 by eight to 29. — Agencies ns came after President Cyril adviser to the Department department told AFP. Beijing, Mar. 1: China’s were in Hubei and one in Armenia joins ‘hit’ list Ramaphosa on Thursday dir- of Disease Control. The The couple were among Covid-19 death toll Henan Province. Covid-19, Armenia on Sunday con- ected the repatriation of tho- health ministry is still about 160 Australians eva- climbed to 2,870 with 35 which at one time started firmed its first case of se who have asked to return looking into the case, cuated from the Diamond new deaths, while the con- spreading rapidly all over coronavirus, an Armenian home. “We were asked by Suwannachai said. Princess last month and firmed cases increased to China, showed a declining citizen who recently the president to start the pr- they tested positive for the 79,824 even as the infec- trend with three new con- returned from Iran and S Korea wages ocess immediately — (so) wi- 78-year-old succumbs to Covid-19 during their tions outside the worst-hit firmed cases reported out- who was in stable condi- thin seven to 10 days (the ev- virus in Australia flight home. Hubei province dropped side Hubei on Saturday. tion in hospital. acuation team) must have Sydney, Mar. 1: A 78-year- They were immediately with only three positive Around 30 people who completed the task,” Health old man evacuated from transferred to isolation cases reported in a single 385 infections in Iran had been in contact with ‘all-out response’ Minister Zweli Mkhize said. the Covid-19-stricken Dia- units in the Perth hospital day, continuing the trend Tehran, Mar. 1: Iran’s he- the patient had also been The minister told a news con- mond Princess cruise li- on February 21 while the of slowdown in the rest of alth ministry on Sunday placed in isolation, Seoul, March 1: South rstars BTS were among ference at the country’s main ner in Japan died at a Pe- rest of the evacuees were the country, health offi- reported 11 new deaths Armenian Prime Minister Korean President Moon cancelled events. K-pop OR Tambo International air- rth hospital on Sunday, quarantined in a former cials said Sunday. The from the novel Covid-19 Nikol Pashinyan said on Jae-in said Sunday the star Chung Ha was placed port that there were 201 Sou- becoming Australia's first miners’ camp near the National Health Commis- and 385 infections, bring- Facebook. government was waging in self-quarantine when a th Africans in Wuhan, and fatality from the disease, northern city of Darwin. sion (NHC) said it received ing the overall number of — Agencies “all-out responses” to co- member of her staff test- that “151 have indicated they ntain the novel Covid-19 ed positive after visiting want to be repatriated”. The as the country added 586 Italy last month, Yonhap group will be kept in quaran- more cases, taking the news agency reported. tine for 21 days at a site aut- PAK TO CLOSE total to 3,736. South Korea The singer tested nega- horities have refused to disc- Crew left Japan ship: Minister has the largest national tive. Nearly 90 percent of lose. “The people we are AFGHAN BORDER total in the world outside the cases were in Daegu, bringing in are South Africa- China, after it saw a rapid the centre of the coun- ns who are healthy and as far Tokya, March 1: All tories before being allo- surge in the number of try’s outbreak, and neigh- as we are concerned, are not FOR SEVEN DAYS crew members from a wed to leave Japan, while Covid-19 cases. bouring North Gyeon- infected,” Mkhize said. Covid-19-stricken cruise the vessel will be disinfec- With 12 new cases, Scores of events have gsang province, the Korea Islamabad, March 1: ship off Japan have now ted before sailing again. been cancelled or postpo- Centers for Disease Cont- Pakistan will close its disembarked, the coun- At least six people who ned over the contagion, rol and Prevention said in border with Afghanistan try’s health minister said. were hospitalised after while the country’s cen- a statement. for seven days from Mo- The crew began leaving being taken off the ship UK tally rises to 35 tral bank has warned of a The country reported POPE CANCELS nday to prevent the spre- the Diamond Princess on have died, including a minus growth in the first one more death Sunday, ad of novel Covid-19, the Thursday for quarantine British male passenger, London, March 1: Whitty said medical quarter for the world’s taking the total death toll RETREAT DUE Interior Ministry said ashore after the last of the the health ministry said. British health authorities workers were still investi- 12th-largest economy, not- to 18. South Korea has an on Sunday, as authori- passengers had departed. Japan quarantined the on Sunday announced 12 gating the cause of that ing the epidemic will hit advanced health system ties ramped up efforts to “Including the captain, cruise ship after an 80- more confirmed cases of one infection. both consumption and and a free media, factors TO ‘COLD’ stop the new cases. all crew members disem- year-old passenger who the new Covid-19, bring- Three of the new Covid- exports. “The governme- observers say improve Vatican City, March 1: Pope The announcement barked,” health minister disembarked on January ing the country’s overall 19 patients were contacts nt is now waging all-out the reliability of its stati- Francis on Sunday said he was came a day after two Katsunobu Kato told 25 in Hong Kong tested po- tally to 35. of an existing patient. responses after raising stics, with the numbers cancelling a planned six-day more people tested posi- reporters late Sunday. sitive. The quarantine has The government’s chief Of the remaining eight the crisis alert to the hig- expected to rise as it chec- spiritual retreat south of tive for Covid-19 in Paki- Around 130 people — been heavily criticised medical officer, Prof. new cases, six infected hest level,” Moon said at ks more than 260,000 peo- Rome after coming down with stan, taking the total nu- including the captain and after more than 700 people Chris Whitty, said one of people had recently trav- an Independence Movem- ple associated with the a “cold”. “Unfortunately, a mber of infections in the 98 health ministry offi- on board tested positive. the new patients had no eled from Italy and two ent Day ceremony, scaled Shincheonji Church of cold forced me not to take part country to four. The bor- cials who were working Kato said the govern- relevant travel and it is had arrived from Iran, down due to the outbreak. Jesus. A 61-year-old fema- this year,” the 83-year-old pon- der at Chaman in Baloc- aboard — tested negative ment “will have to review not yet clear whether they both countries hard hit by “We will be able to overco- le member developed fev- tiff said after coughing a cou- histan will remain clos- for the virus as they left the whole process”, but for contracted it directly or the coronavirus that me the Covid-19 outbreak er on February 10, but att- ple of times during his weekly ed for seven days from the vessel, he said. They now authorities were focu- indirectly from an individ- emerged late last year in and revive our shrunken ended at least four church Sunday appearance from a Va- March 2 “in order to pre- will spend 14 days at gove- sing on efforts to contain ual who had recently central China. economy,” he added. services in Daegu before tican window in front of supp- vent the spread of Cov- rnment-designated dormi- the spread of the virus. returned from abroad. — AP Concerts by K-pop supe- being diagnosed. — AFP orters. The cancellation of the id-19 on both sides of the retreat, which was supposed to border in the best inter- start Sunday, came as Italy bat- est of the people of the tles Europe’s worst outbreak brotherly countries”, FEAR | NOT No official edict on the social custom in the wake of spread of contagion in Italy of the new Covid-19 that has said a statement issued spread from China across by the Ministry of Inter- much of the world. ior. “During the period, The number of cases in Italy necessary measures will surpassed 1,000 on Saturday. be taken to safeguard he- Friendly kissing poses European dilemma There have been 29 confirm- alth of the people of ed deaths and 105 people were both countries,” it said. Milan, March 1: When northerners are grappling ● AT VIRCHOW hospital different from how I am.” receiving intensive care treat- The authorities have French President Emman- with whether to forgo the in Berlin, doctors not In neighbouring France, ment in hospital — all of them shut schools in Sindh, uel Macron leaned in to hallowed handshake. The Health Minister Olivier in three adjacent northern including in Karachi, give Premier Giuseppe government’s special com- only stopped shaking Veran on Saturday advised regions near Milan. where the first case was Conte the Italian double- missioner for Covid-19, hands with their patients people to cut back on la The Vatican quickly shot reported, and Baluchist- cheek kiss not once, but on Angelo Borrelli, has sugg- but are encouraging bise, the custom in France down speculation that the an, which borders Iran, two separate occasions, ested that Italians’ demon- them to follow suit. and elsewhere in Europe Pope himself had come down The Express Tribune during a Franco-Italian strative nature could be ● of greeting with kisses, or with Covid-19. “There is no reported. They have also summit in Naples this contributing to the virus’ ● HEALTH EXPERTS air kisses, on the cheeks, evidence to suggest a diagnos- begun to trace nearly week, it was much more spread, with more than have been warning that along with shaking hands. is of anything other than a 8,000 pilgrims who rece- than a greeting. It was a 1,100 people testing positi- shaking hands is a prime France, which has had 100 slight ailment,” a Vatican spo- ntly returned from Iran. signal to citizens not to ve and 29 deaths, almost way to spread the virus cases and two deaths, kesman told AFP Sunday. Authorities have kept fear their neighbours as all in the country’s north. made a similar recommen- The Pope himself looked rel- more than 200 of the pil- Covid-19 spreads, with But there have been no ● IN NORTHERN Italy, dation during the swine atively strong Sunday despite grims in quarantine at Italy established as official edicts on the social with schools, museums flu epidemic a decade ago. two coughing fits that forced the Taftan border and Europe’s hotspot. custom of kissing, which & offices closed, people French President Emmanuel Macron gives Premier In Germany, where child- him to briefly turn away from have stepped up scanni- Friendly kissing in the sociologists say is rooted are staying at home and Giuseppe Conte a kiss on both cheeks during a joint ren are taught to shake ha- the crowd. Yet concerns about ng measures at airports time of Covid-19 has beco- in Italy’s Mediterranean avoiding social contact press conference on the occasion of a French-Italian nds with adults and the fi- his health have been mounti- and other border cross- me a fresh dilemma, espe- culture as well as its stro- summit in Naples. — AP rmness of the grip can be ng. He first looked like he mi- ings, including in west- cially in effusive southern ng family and social struc- seen as correlating to stre- ght have a cold on Wednesday ern Afghanistan, said Europe, with perhaps the ture. “We have a collective have lots of contact, we sh- Borelli told reporters. and do not have too much ngth, health experts and and lightened his workload for government health advi- power to reshape customs. social life that is very flor- ake hands, we kiss each ot- “Maybe it is better in this contact, and try to be a bit doctors are trying to pers- the rest of the week. — AFP ser Zafar Mirza. — PTI But even more-reserved id, very expansive. We her, we hug each other,” period not to shake hands, less expansive, which is uade people to quit tradi- pg MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 | HYDERABAD 14 quick ■ Other automakers closely monitoring situation Even in bloodbath, Indian Covid-19 hits sales at equity market stands apart ASHWIN J. PUNNEN BITES MUMBAI, MARCH 1 How indices fared Tata, M&M, MG Motor Despite the massive sell off Index % change* INDICATORS % in the domestic market last Dow -12.3 week, Indian equity Sensex 38,297.29 -3.64 MICHAEL GONSALVES A Hyundai spokesperson indices like Sensex and Nasdaq -10.5 Nifty 50 11,201.80 -3.71 PUNE, MARCH 1 said the company was Nifty-50 did better than S&P 500 -11.5 S&P 500* 2,954.22 -0.82 closely monitoring the sit- their global peers like the FTSE -11.2 February sales at Tata uation. “However, at the Dow, FTSE, Nikkei, DAX -12.4 Dollar (`) 72.17 0.79 Motors, Mahindra and moment there is no Nasdaq and S&P 500. CAC -11.9 Pound Sterling (`) 93.39 0.99 Mahindra and MG Motor impact on the function- Investors in the Indian Nikkei -9.5 have been hit hard by com- ing.” market were spooked by Euro (`) 79.93 1.60 ponent supply constraints Similarly, Toyota the global meltdown in Nifty -7.2 Gold (10gm)* (`) 43,358▼222 0.51 from China while Maruti, Kirloskar Motor said equities, leading to bench- Shanghai -5.2 (*In last week over previous week) Brent crude ($/bbl)* 49.67 0.001 Hyundai and Toyota, there has been no immedi- mark indices falling by 7 which also reported sales ate impact so far on sup- per cent last week. IN 10-Yr bond yield 6.371 -0.007 decline for last month, ply of parts and its pro- However, relatively the and second quarters of cal- Rs 99,430.93 crore to Rs 8.42 US 10-Yr T-bill yield* 1.163 0.001 said production schedules duction from coronavirus Indian indices outper- endar year 2020, with lakh crore followed by were unaffected till date in China. ofmed the US and downside risks still per- Tata Consultancy Services, * As of 9:30 pm IST but were closely monitor- “Our tier-I and tier-II European indices, which sisting. Global oil demand the country's second most ing the situation. “The ramp-down of BS- break has severely affect- suppliers are not yet fell over 11 per cent, as has also been lowered with valued firm. TCS’s m-cap Vehicles sales at Tata IV vehicle production has ed our European and effected. However, we are fears of an impending downward revisions in fell by Rs 58,293.29 crore to Motors, India’s biggest been in line with our plan Chinese supply chains, continuously monitoring global economic slowdown demand from China and Rs 7.50 lakh crore. HDFC FPIs invest just firm by revenues, fell 34 for February. However, disrupting our production the operations of tier-III turned the week into the other Asian countries, lost market cap by Rs per cent at 38,002 units in because of the unforesee- and impacting our sales in and tier-IV suppliers to worst since the 2008 finan- experts said. 33,222.99 crore, Hindustan February, from 57,221 units able challenges on the February and will contin- grasp any possible slow- cial crisis for equities. Even in the Indian mar- Unilever by Rs 15,792.31 `1,820 cr into sold in the same month parts-supply from China, ue through March.” down that may come forth According to analysts, ket, sectors having global crore and HDFC Bank by last year. But car sales at our BS VI ramp-up has He said the company was due to the slowdown in the selling was mainly on exposure, such as metals Rs 21,369.47 crore. equities in Feb. Chinese-owned MG Motor been affected,” Veejay working towards stabilis- logistics flow in China, account of a sharp and IT, witnessed major “As corona virus spread Foreign portfolio investors put more than halved to 1,376 Ram Nakra, chief of sales ing the situation and is especially Wuhan,” increase in the number of selling last week. Shares of rapidly around the world, in only Rs 6,554 crore in Indian units in February from and marketing, automo- hopeful that reasonable Naveen Soni, senior vice warnings from the top metal companies were the hopes that it would be con- markets on net basis in 3,130 units in January tive division at Mahindra normalcy would be president (sales and serv- global companies, includ- worst hit as the negative tained has vanished and February, as they adopted a while Mahindra took a and Mahindra, said. restored by the end of ice) at Toyota Kirloskar ing Apple, Disney, impact of the coronavirus market fears that it could cautious stance amid coron- sales hit of whopping 42 This has resulted in a March. Motor, said. Microsoft and Qualcomm outbreak on economic turn into a pandemic. avirus scare, subdued economic per cent at 32,476 units high de-growth in billing The Association of Sales at month at Maruti that the coronavirus is hit- growth raised concerns of Investors are fearful that it data and disappointing corpo- from 56,005 units sold in volume for February and Indian Forging Industry Suzuki, which sells one ting their businesses. Also, weak demand for metals. might lead to global reces- rate earnings. Depositories data February 2019. Its exports dealer inventory is now has said that disruption in car out two bought in companies have seen a The uncertainty and fear sion as the outbreak is shows FPIs invested a net Rs dropped 40 per cent to 1,839 under 10 days, he pointed supplies due to the coron- India, fell 1.1 per cent at sharp reduction in demand in the market were visible spreading to the world's 1,820 crore into equities and Rs units in Februrary from a out. avirus outbreak in China 1,47,110 units. Its exports for the products and servic- from the 33 per cent spike largest economy, USA as 4,734 crore into the debt seg- year ago. “Going into March, we has hit domestic forging were up 7.1 per cent at es, especially in Asia. in the volatility gauge, well as Europe, which will ment between February 3 to Girish Wagh, president, anticipate the challenge industry along with auto- 10,261 units year-on-year. Manufacturing, technolo- India VIX, the steepest impact the global supply 28, taking the total net invest- commercial vehicles at on parts-supply to contin- mobile and auto compo- Hyundai’s sales were gy and pharmaceutical such rise in two years. chains big time and derail ment to Rs 6,554 crore. Tata Motors said the out- ue for another few weeks, nent manufacturing sec- down 10.3 per cent at industries are seeing their The top 10 Indian compa- economic growth. Markets break of Covid-19 virus in before we get back to nor- tors. 48,910 units and its supply chains disrupted by nies saw a combined ero- would remain volatile and China and a recent fire malcy.” Nakra said. “We do not foresee any exports declined 22 per factory closures in China, sion of Rs 3.35 lakh crore weak till the fast spread of incident at one of its Rakesh Sidana, direc- problem as of now. We will cent to 8,900 units. triggering sell off in the in market valuation last corona virus gets con- strategic vendors affected tor–sales at MG Motor keep in touch with our Other automakers did sector stocks. week. RIL was the worst trolled,” said Siddhartha the vehicle production India, said, “The unfore- suppliers,” a Maruti not share their numbers Global GDP forecast have hit, as its market capitali- Khemka, head-retail Labour ministry and wholesale volumes. seen coronavirus out- Suzuki spokesperson said. till press time. been lowered for the first sation (m-cap) declined by research, Motilal Oswal. keen to retain 8.65% EPF rate GST mopup LIC Q3 net up 21% at `8,632 cr Federal Bank gains Bank credit growth dips at ` 1.05 L cr FALAKNAAZ SYED over Rs 10,000 crore of its rose to Rs 10,197 crore as at MUMBAI, MARCH 1 investments from tradi- December 31, 2019 com- tional and pension funds pared to Rs 7,880 crore in market share as to 8.5% in Jan. in February A rising equity market made into Yes Bank, IFCI the corresponding period has helped public sector Ltd, Dewan Housing of the previous year. The New Delhi, March 1: behemoth Life Insurance Finance Ltd, ECL Fin- bad loans in the Ulip funds Mumbai, March 1: The government has Corporation of India (LIC) ance, GMR Pochanpalli amounted to Rs 431.25 PSBs stay troubled Bank credit growth collected Rs 1.05 lakh report a 21 per cent rise in Express-way and India- crore (book value) while declined to 8.5 per cent in crore as GST revenue in profit from sale of invest- Bulls Housing Finance the provisions made were SANGEETHA G January from 13.5 per February, up 8 per cent ments to Rs 8,632 crore for being downgraded by rat- to the tune of Rs 363 crore. CHENNAI, MARCH 1 cent in the year-ago peri- The labour ministry is keen to over the same month the third quarter ended ing agencies while as on Like banks, LIC too has od, led by a sharp slow- retain 8.65 per cent interest rate last year. December 31, 2019. date Rs 66,254 crore invest- been facing a problem of Kerala-based Federal down in loans to the serv- on provident fund deposits, a The collection from However, its provisions on ments from traditional bad loans in the last sever- Bank has gained market ices sector, according to source said. The Central Board goods and services tax impaired assets have risen and pension policies have al years as loans given to share while its public sec- RBI data. of Trustees of the Employees' in February was, how- too. been downgraded by vari- various municipalities, tor counterparts have Growth in advances to Provident Fund Organisation is ever, lower than the Rs While most of the profits ous rating agencies. state governments, corpo- been busy tackling rising the services sector decel- likely to consider the rate of 1.10 lakh crore collected have come from sale of LIC’s provision for rate houses have turned bad loans and merger of erated to 8.9 per cent interest on Employees' in January 2020. equities, LIC also holds doubtful assets on its long- bad and have been classi- associate banks. from 23.9 per cent in Provident Fund deposits in its "The gross GST rev- older government securi- term exposure to bonds fied as loss, sub-standard Public sector banks have January 2019. March 5 meeting. The agenda enue collected in the ties at attractive price and more than doubled to Rs and doubtful. been reeling under pres- Bank loan growth to for the CBT meeting has not yet month of February, 2020 normally holds them to 12,197 crore as at Of its life fund or premi- sure to reduce their non- non-banking financial been finalised and the rate will is Rs 1,05,366 crore of maturity. The margin December 31, 2019 com- um from traditional life performing assets. credit and has doubled its companies (NBFCs) be fixed on the basis of EPFO's which CGST is Rs 20,569 from equities is higher pared to Rs 5,633 crore as insurance business, loans Further, in the Kerala mar- share in incremental cred- slowed to 32.2 per cent in income projections for FY20. crore, SGST is Rs 27,348 compared to debt invest- at December 31, 2018. given to several state gov- ket, State Bank of it in the past four years. January from a growth crore, IGST is Rs 48,503 ments. Similarly, on short- term ernments, municipalities Travancore was being “The NPA of PSU banks of 48.3 per cent a year crore and cess is Rs During the December investments its provisions and state-owned entities merged with SBI along and the SBT merger have ago. 8,947 crore," the finance quarter, the behemoth saw for doubtful investments have gone bad. with other associate banks. helped our growth. Simul- During the month, the ministry said in a state- Federal Bank has taneously, we also under- personal loans segment ment. utilised this opportunity took measures to increase grew by 16.9 per cent. SBI Cards allots The number of GSTR to gain market share in its our distribution through Within personal loans, 3B returns filed for core Kerala market as well branches as well as other credit to the housing seg- `2,770 cr shares January up to February as outside the state. channels,’ said Warrier. ment grew by 17.5 per 29 stood at 83 lakh— Govt in tax overdrive on Vishwas “In the Kerala market, Federal Bank has been cent from 18.4 per cent, same as last month. our market share in terms undertaking a ‘branch- while education loan to 74 investors The government has of total business has light, distribution heavy’ showed a negative SBI Cards and Payment settled Rs 22,586 crore to K. J. BENNYCHAN taxpayers by tax officials. . mally be launched on moved up from 12-13 per strategy for the past five growth of 3.1 per cent as Services made allotment of CGST and Rs 16,553 MUMBAI, MARCH 1 Soon after the dispute set- Monday, when Parliament cent four years back to 15 years. It formed a network against a negative shares worth Rs 2,769 crore at crore to SGST from tlement scheme was resumes the second leg of per cent as of September of relationship managers growth of 2.3 per cent in Rs 755 per equity share to 74 IGST as regular settle- The Central Board of announced, the depart- the Budget session. 2019. Outside Kerala, the to focus on areas like cor- January 2019. anchor investors ahead of the ment. Direct Taxes (CBDT) will ment asked the field offi- There are 4.83 lakh direct bank’s market share has porate banking and prior- Advances growth to opening of the IPO on March 2. "The total revenue link annual appraisals and cers to work on holidays/ tax cases worth over Rs 9 inched up from 0.4 per ity banking. Partnership agriculture and allied The SBI Card IPO is offered in earned by Central gov- postings of field officers Saturdays so that when the lakh crore pending in vari- cent to 0.6 per cent,’ said with fintech companies, activities contracted to the price band of Rs 750 to Rs ernment and the state with their performance in scheme is formally ous appellate forums— Shalini Warrier, executive reaching out to customers 6.5 per cent from 7.6 per 755 per share. The allotments governments after reg- terms of collection under launched they get a head- Income Tax Appellate director of Federal Bank. through its own NBFC cent rise last year. at the upper price band in the ular settlement in the the 'Vivad se Vishwas' start on the collection Tribunal, high courts and In Kerala, which is and thrust on digital Credit growth to indus- Rs 10,350-crore plus issue were month of February, 2020 scheme. front. the Supreme Court. largely a deposit-oriented banking have helped the try decelerated to 2.5 per made to institutional investors, is Rs 43,155 crore for A February 21 office 'Vivad se Vishwas' According to the memo- market, its share in bank increase its distribu- cent from 5.2 per cent. including 12 mutual funds, CGST and Rs 43,901 memorandum from the scheme for resolving randum, the department deposits stood at 17 per tion network. By the latest quarterly through 48 schemes and FPIs. crore for the SGST," the CBDT said that collection income tax cases was has told field officers that cent at the end of The bank has recently statistics on deposits and statement added. outcomes would play a big- announced during the their annual performance September. It grabbed 22 launched Retail 2.0 to credit of banks, bank The GST revenues in ger role in the future post- 2020-21 Budget presenta- and increments would be per cent of the incremen- focus on high margin loan growth decelerated February from domes- ings of the field officers. tion by Finance Minister linked to the collection out- tal deposit growth in the businesses. 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SHORT TAKES ACC meet put off due to virus scare Kolkata: A decision on the Asia Cup’s venue will have to wait as the upcoming Asian Cricket Council meeting has Boult & bountiful been postponed after a few members, including BCCI presi- dent Sourav Ganguly, refused to Sixteen wickets fall on Day Two as Boult takes Kiwis closer to 2-0 whitewash travel to Dubai due to the coro- navirus threat. reducing India to 90 for six the game. The ACC meeting was sched- in their second innings at A target of 250 in the SCORECARD uled to be held in Dubai on stumps on day two as a fourth innings could well India (1st Innings): 242 Tuesday but with the UAE third day finish is on the be a challenge for the Black New Zealand (1st innings): Tom Latham b Shami 52, reporting over 700 cases over cards. Caps as there is still some- Tom Blundell lbw b Umesh 30, Kane Williamson c Pant the last few days, it had to be India is now effectively 97 thing in the track for the b Bumrah 3, Ross Taylor c Umesh b Ravindra Jadeja 15, postponed till the end of this runs ahead with only four speed merchants despite Henry Nicholls c Kohli b Shami 14, BJ Watling c month. wickets in hand and it will batsmen getting a value for Ravindra Jadeja b Bumrah 0, Colin de Grandhomme b Ravindra Jadeja 26, Tim Southee c Pant b Bumrah 0, “Ganguly was supposed to take a herculean effort to their shots. India would Kyle Jamieson c Pant b Shami 49, Neil Wagner c leave tonight but the coron- avert another series white- have ideally hoped that Ravindra Jadeja b Shami 21, Trent Boult (not out) 1. avirus scare in the UAE has led wash after the ODIs. Trent skipper Kohli would end Extras (B-20, LB-4) 24. Total (in 73.1 overs) 235. to the postponement of the Boult (3/12 in 9 overs) got his dreadful tour of New FoW: 1-66, 2-69, 3-109, 4-130, 5-133, 6-153, 7-153, 8-177, meeting,” a BCCI source said in Mayank Agarwal (3) and Zealand with one big knock 9-228. Kolkata. Cheteshwar Pujara (24) but it was not to be as Colin Bowling: Bumrah 22-5-62-3, Yadav 18-2-46-1, Shami The BCCI chief and secretary with conventional de Grandhomme trapped 23.1-3-81-4, Jadeja 10-2-22-2. India (2nd innings): Prithvi Shaw c Latham b Southee 14, Jay Shah were to attend the inswingers that tails into him leg before with an off- Mayank Agarwal lbw b Boult 3, Cheteshwar Pujara b meeting. right-handers. cutter. Boult 24, Virat Kohli lbw b de Grandhomme 14, Ajinkya A Pakistan Cricket Board Prithvi Shaw (14) was out No wonder Trent Boult Rahane b Wagner 9, Umesh Yadav b Boult 1, Hanuma source added, “The chairman of in familiar fashion, fending was happy having kept Vihari (batting) 5 Rishabh Pant (batting) 1. Extras (B-9, the PCB, Ehsan Mani, is already a short ball from Tim Kohli quiet. “Obviously, he LB-10) 19. Total (for six wickets in 36 overs) 90. in Dubai but CEO Wasim Khan Southee, while skipper is a big player for them and FoW: 1-8, 2-26, 3-51, 4-72, 5-84, 6-89. didn't fly out on Sunday.” Virat Kohli’s (14) indecisive we just tried to put enough Bowler: Southee 6-2-20-1, Boult 9-3-12-3, Jamieson 8-4- — PTI Christchurch, March 1: footwork brought his down- pressure on him, keep him 18-0, Grandhomme 5-3-31-0, Wagner 8-1-18-1. India’s top-order frittered fall once again. Vice-cap- quiet and soak up those Klaasen does away a golden chance with tain Ajinkya Rahane, who boundary balls, and it was another shoddy batting was hit on the helmet, paid nice to see him make a few show as New Zealand the price for an ugly shot, errors,” Boult said about Don’t want to play the it for Proteas regained complete control while Umesh Yadav expect- the Indian captain whose Paarl: A maiden interna- of the second Test after edly didn’t survive a ram- highest score in the whole tional century by Heinrich Mohammed Shami and paging Boult series is 19. blame game: Bumrah Klaasen set up a 74-run Jasprit Bumrah’s hostile after he was In the morning, the first win for South Africa in fast-bowling spell had given inexplicably sent two sessions belonged to Christchurch, March 1: which he believes is an the first one-day interna- the visitors a slender first- in as nightwatch- Shami and Bumrah, who Indian bowlers’ impres- exercise in futility. tional against Australia at innings lead here on man when nearly were nothing short of bril- sive performance in “See we don’t play Boland Park. Klaasen hit Sunday. half an hour was left. liant with their precision the second Test has the blame game. In 123 not out in a South Shami (4/81 in 23.1 overs) “In our culture, we don’t length, sideways move- been largely undone our (team) culture, African total of 291 for and Bumrah (3/62 in 22 look at blaming anyone. ment and an occasional by a dismal batting we don’t look at seven. Australia were on tar- overs) were brilliant in Everyone is trying very heavy ball that was show, but pace spear- blaming anyone. get midway through their reply their execution, dismissing hard and we know how the slipped in between. head Jasprit Bumrah Some days if as a bowl- but lost their last seven wickets New Zealand for 235 in 73.1 sport works. Some days, if — PTI doesn’t want to ing unit we don’t pick for 43 runs to be bowled out for overs as they showed why as a bowling unit we don’t indulge in a “blame up wickets, then that 217 on Saturday. Steve Smith they are one of deadliest pick up wickets that doesn’t game” doesn’t give the batsmen and Marnus Labuschagne put fast bowling pair in Test give the batsmen liberty to liberty to take our case, on 84 for Australia's third wick- match cricket. However, take our case, isn’t it?” isn’t it?” asked Bumrah, et after the early loss of open- India’s top-order failed mis- asked pace spearhead trying his best to defend ing batsman Aaron Finch and erably once again as New Jasprit Bumrah, as he the dismal show by the David Warner, both dismissed Zealand bounced back, defended the batsmen after Jasprit Bumrah top-order batsmen. — PTI by Lungi Ngidi, who finished with three for 30. Smith and Labuschagne hit only three boundaries between them as scoring proved difficult on a slow pitch and a big outfield. Batsmen need to adjust to the spongy bounce When they tried to accelerate Labuschagne was caught at ne of the biggest Both ended their sojourn the general fans of Indian long-on off left-arm spinner challenges faced by at the crease playing shots cricket. The same ones Keshav Maharaj. Mitchell Marsh Omodern day bats- that were not meant to be who have put the skipper helped Smith add 41 for the men is switching their bat- played. The other 50-plus on a pedestal. They are the fourth wicket but Marsh was ting techniques between Hemant Kenkre Indian, the dependable only reason for the dynam- bowled by Ngidi and three balls formats. There are very Cheteshwar Pujara too ic batsman to be a highly later Smith was trapped leg few, barring lack of form, Silly Point offered his wicket on a rated athlete in commer- before wicket by Nortje. — AFP that have succeeded across platter. It just may be that cial terms. all three configurations of the comments made by When a captain calls a Sciver half-ton as the game: Test, One Day Wellington. In the third Indian skipper Virat three-zero loss to the Internationals (ODI) and Test inning (ongoing sec- Kohli, after the dismal loss Kiwi’s in the ODIs as England in semis Twenty20 (T20). Playing ond Test at the Hagley by 10 wickets in the first ‘irrelevant’ and goes on to back to back interna- Oval, Christchurch) the Test, exhorting his team say that India will not be Sydney: Nat Sciver tional matches in all visitors looked slightly mates against being cau- bothered if they lose the struck a half century three can take its toll better than in the earlier tious or wary and keep second Test match at before the spinners on the best of bat- two innings but squan- playing shots would have Christchurch it goes put up a fine bowling ters. dered the advantage to been at the back of the against the basic grain of performance to help India started its Kane Williamson’s Kiwis minds of Vihari and the narrative of giving England seal a semi- tour of New getting out for a below-par Pujara. your best for your country. final berth with a Zealand towards 242 runs. After the Indian bowlers A loss is a loss, no matter 46-run win over ^ the end of The pitch looked as had got their team back how irrelevant and ^ West Indies in the ^ January this green as a Kiwi fruit with into the game with a slen- against who, it hurts the Women’s T20 New Zealand’s Trent Boult year with five the zing of the famed Ravindra Jadeja pulls off a der lead of 7 runs, the Indian fan. World Cup here celebrates an Indian wicket on the T20s that they gooseberry but had no spectacular catch to batsmen once again disap- One guesses that Kohli on Sunday. second day of the second Test at won, struggled demons for batsmen to be dismiss Neil Wagner. pointed. At the end of the was probably trying to All-rounder to keep afloat in worried about. Yes, it was second day’s play, India convey that no matter Hagley Oval on Sunday. — AP — TWITTER Sciver picked up the three ODIs a green track but not the are ahead by 97 runs and what the outcome is, team from where she that followed. kind teams would be up to great hurry, trying to put have four wickets in the India will continue to had left off in the Obviously, Kohli is a big player for They then in England’s early sum- pressure on the Kiwi kitty. Cricket’s a great maintain the aggressive last game to score them and we just tried to put capitulated mer. To succeed on such a attack with pointless game and it’s never over and in-your-face psyche her third half-century of in the first surface the batsmen need stokes. If one analyses the till the fat lady sings. each time they take the the tournament and help enough pressure on him, keep him Test match to adjust to the spongy first innings of the second While on Kohli and his field against all-comers. England post 143 for five on a quiet and soak up those boundary balls, at Basin bounce that the Hagley Test, one will see three top needless comments after Victories and defeats are tricky pitch. In reply, West Reserve, Oval has on offer. The order batsmen going past the first Test to ‘block all part of the game and ever- Indies struggled to get going and it was nice to see him make a few operative word on pitches the 50 run mark, two of the noise from the outside’ yone who follows cricket with the bat and eventually errors. We were lucky to get two that such as these is patience, them - Prithvi Shaw and was akin to the fictional knows that, and India may folded for 97. — PTI lined up and hit him on the pads nicely which was missing from Hanuma Vihari had (ODI character from La well end up squaring the Brief scores: England 143/5 in the visitors arsenal. The type) strike rates of 84.37 Mancha, Don Quixote, series. It’s good to see that 20 overs (Nat Sciver 57, Danni and it was a good feeling to see the back switch from one format to and 78.57 respectively. who kept chasing and tilt- Kohli’s shoulders are up Wyatt 29) bt West Indies 97 in of him. the other seems to have Shaw’s 54 runs had 8 ing his lance at windmills, and about and not sagging 17.1 overs (Lee-Ann Kirby 20; affected the batsmen. boundaries and a six while imagining they were evil after losing four consecu- Sophie Ecclestone 3/7, Sarah — TRENT BOULT, The Indians looked as Vihari ended up with 10 characters. If there indeed tive matches — three ODIs Glenn 2/16). on taking Kohli’s wicket though they were in a hits to the fence. was any noise, it was from and one Test. Milind misses century; FMC RANJI TROPHY SEMIFINAL zip past Zoroastrian in T20s Porel’s fifer puts Bengal in command Kolkata, March 1: Ishan DC CORRESPONDENT ● C. V. Milind smashed Deccan Club and Jubilee Porel complemented BRIEF SCORES HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 96 while his father Hills Club will be played on Anustup Majumdar’s Saurashtra 304 (Sheldon Jackson 103, Kishan Parmar Anand scalped three March 7 and the second unbeaten century with a 37, Arzan Nagwaswalla 5/81) vs Gujarat 119/6. Mayank Gupta and Arvind between Secunderabad Club five-wicket haul to put Bengal 312 in 92 overs (Anustup Majumdar 149 n.o, Shetty helped Fateh Maidan wickets in and Press Club will be con- Bengal in command Ronit More 3/52, Abhimanyu Mithun 3/77, Prasidh Club (200/3) register a 12-run Secunderabad Club’s tested on March 8. against a star-studded Krishna 2/78) vs Karnataka 122 in 36.2 overs (K. L. win over Zoroastrian Club victory. BRIEF SCORES Karnataka in their Ranji Rahul 26, Ishan Porel 5/39, Akash Deep 3/30, Mukesh (188/4) in the inter-club T20 Trophy semifinal here on Kumar 2/46) & 72/4 (Mithun 3/9). cricket tournament organ- ● Mayank Gupta (70) QFateh Maidan Club 200/3 in Sunday. ised by the Secunderabad and Arvind Shetty (68) 20 overs (Mayank Gupta 70, After Majumdar’s 149 not semifinal defeat in a row. through Sheldon Jackson Club. scripted the win for Arvind Shetty 68) bt out propelled Bengal to 312 Earlier, Majumdar and Chirag Jani (29), Batting first Mayank, Fateh Maidan Club. Zoroastrian Club 188/4 in 20 after being down at 67 for 6 played the innings of his Saurashtra negated the aggressor of the two, hit the overs (Jamsheed 88, Manek 43, at one stage, the 21-year- life in a 207-ball knock early challenge posed by opposition bowlers all over Jehangir 33). Man of the Match: old Porel snared 5 for 39 as spanning five hours as the opposition bowlers. the park for a well-made 70 Nizam Club (143/8) by nine Mayank Gupta. the three-pronged Bengal Bengal pulled off a heist Jackson got a reprieve and Arvind added 68 to the wickets to make the semifinal Q Jubilee Hills Club 185/5 pace attack dismissed the with their last four bats- on 82 when skipper team’s tally. Jamsheed’s 88 stage. Batting first, Shabaz (Anirudh Sompalli 75, Vivek batting-heavy Karnataka men adding 245 runs in a Parthiv Patel dropped a went in vain as Zoroastrian shone with the bat for Nizam Mechineni 44, C. V. Anand 3/23, for a paltry 122 in 36.2 spectacular rescue-act. catch off pacer Arzan lost the game. Club with a hard-fought 45 Shravan Maddui 2/35) lost to overs, their lowest total Nagwaswalla. He made Jackson, bowlers give In another game, Man of the while Mohit (30) played sec- Secunderabad Club 188/3 in 18 this season. the most of this by notch- Saurashtra upper hand Match C. V. Milind with his ond fiddle. In reply, Shan Muk overs (C. V. Milind 96, Mickil India opener Rahul, who ing up his 19th first-class brilliant 96 helped hosts with his 84 made short work Jaiswal 61). MoM: C. V. Milind was adjudged man-of-the- Sheldon Jackson struck a hundred and third this Secunderabad Club (188/3) of Nizam Club’s bowlers as Secunderabad Club. series in their 5-0 T20I gritty hundred before the season. beat Jubilee Hills Club (185/5) Ratna mounted the pressure Q Nizam Club 143/8. in 20 whitewash of New bowlers shone as Jackson and Jani were by seven wickets. Batting with his fluent 60. overs (Shabaz 45, Mohit 30, Zealand recently, looked Bengal’s Ishan Porel celebrates a Karnataka wicket in Saurashtra gained the looking good before first, Anirudh Sompalli (75) Karan (69) and Sesha Giri Faraz 20, Shan Muk 3/22, out of sorts and scored a Kolkata on Sunday. — PTI upper hand on the second Gujarat bounced back and Vivek Mechineni (44) (56) ensured Deccan Club’s Nitesh 2/19 D. Ashwin 2/24) forgettable 67-ball 26 day of their Ranji Trophy with medium-pacer Roosh helped JHC post 185. C. V. (149/2) resounding eight- lost to Press Club 144/1 in 13 (2x4s). Spinner A total of 15 wickets tum- Ronit More, as Bengal semifinal against Gujarat Kalaria sending both the Anand impressed with the wicket victory over New Club overs (Shan Muk 84, Ratna 60). Krishnappa Gowtham (31) bled on day two as Bengal brightened their prospects at Rajkot on Sunday. batsmen back to the pavil- ball, taking 3/23. (148/9) in another one-sided MoM: Shan Muk. top-scored for Karnataka were 72 for 4 at stumps to make their first final in Jackson’s knock of 103 ion. He first trapped Jani Chasing 186 for a win, affair. Batting first, Vineeth QNew Club 148/9 in 20 overs in a quick 56-run (46 balls) with Sudip Chatterjee giv- Ranji Trophy after 13 helped Saurashtra post 304 in front of the wicket and Milind and Mickil Jaiswal (58), Shreyas (28) and Sai (Vineeth 58, Shreyas 28, Sai eighth-wicket stand with ing Majumdar company, years. Having already con- and then the home team then got Jackson to edge to (61) ensured they reached the Venkatesh (23) helped New Venkatesh 23, Praneeth Raj Abhimanyu Mithun (24) to extending the hosts’ over- ceded the first-innings bowlers wreaked havoc on Parthiv as Saurashtra target with two overs to Club post 148. Praneeth Raj 3/31, Saket Dattrak 2/35, help Karnataka avoid the all lead to a sizeable 262- lead, Karnataka will now Gujarat’s batting line-up slipped to 266 for seven. spare. (3/31) shone with the ball for Ashwin 2/24) lost to Deccan follow-on but only to con- run. In the fag end, have to pull off something to reduce them to 119 for Jackson and Jani added In another lop-sided match, Deccan Club. Club 149/2 in 17.1 overs (Karan cede a massive 190-run Majumdar survived after special in their second six. Resuming on 103 run wicket for the Press Club (144/1) trounced The first semifinal between 69, Sesha Giri 56). MoM: Karan. first innings lead. getting out off a no-ball off essay to avoid their third overnight 217 for five, sixth wicket. — PTI GAMES pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | MONDAY | 2 MARCH 2020 | HYDERABAD 16

SHORT TAKES Ranga Reddy raid Hyderabad Bulls DC CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD, MARCH 1

The Ranga Reddy Raiders got the better of Hyderabad Bulls Wat the ford! with a 28-22 win on the eighth day of the Telangana Premier Kabaddi League season three currently under way at the Relegation threatened Watford terminate leader Kotla Vijay Bhasker Reddy Indoor Stadium in the city on Sunday. Liverpool’s 44-game unbeaten run with 3-0 win Riding on nine points from raider Yugander Reddy and four defending points from Naresh, the Ranga Reddy London, March 1: Raiders triumphed. Liverpool’s unbeaten sea- DEFEAT COULD Despite raider Raj Kumar’s son in the Premier League brilliant 24-point performance, was ended in spectacular PROVE POSITIVE defending champions fashion as Ismaila Sarr’s Cyberabad Chargers lost to a double moved Watford out resurgent Mancherial Tigers 33- of the relegation zone FOR US: KLOPP 39. The best defender of the with a 3-0 win at Vicarage match was awarded to Road. London, March 1: Far Shubham for the four points he The comprehensive from being deflated by earned for Mancherial Tigers. scoreline helped the his team’s first Premier The results: Rangareddy Hornets edge ahead of League reverse of the Raiders by Hyderabad Bulls 28- Bournemouth, who held season at Watford on 22; Mancherial Tigers bt Chelsea to a 2-2 draw, Saturday, Liverpool’s Cyberabad Chargers 39-33. while West Ham also ever-positive manager boosted their chances of Juergen Klopp reckoned survival with a 3-1 win the shock 3-0 setback over Southampton on could prove liberating Hockey Olympian Saturday. for his treble-seeking Liverpool remain 22 Reds. Kullar no more points clear and well on “I see it rather positive New Delhi: Former India hockey course for a first league because from now on we player Balbir Singh Kullar, who title in 30 years. But their can play free football was a part of the 1968 hopes of doing so by again. We don’t have to Olympics bronze-winning team, matching Arsenal’s invin- defend or try to get a has died after suffering a heart cible season in 2003/04 record, we can just try attack at his home in Punjab. were ended by an inspired to win football games He died on Friday afternoon at display by Watford. again and that is what the age of 77. “You have to accept it, we will do,” Klopp said. Kullar is survived by his wife, it’s not so easy, but it’s the Liverpool’s Andrew Robertson (from left), manager Jurgen Klopp and Alex Oxlade- Asked if there was any one son and two daughters. proof we were not good Chamberlain react at the final whistle after losing their English Premier League disappointment, he “My father was to travel with enough tonight,” said match to Watford 0-3 at Vicarage Road Stadium in Watford on Saturday. — AFP added: “Not really, me to the US but suddenly he Liverpool boss Jurgen because I don’t think had a massive heart attack and Klopp after his team’s 44- ● Jurgen Klopp’s champions-elect served you can break records he died on Friday afternoon at game run without defeat up their worst performance of the year as THE RESULTS because you want to our family home in Sansarpur in in the league came to a break records; you Jalandhar district,” his son crashing end they were outplayed by a Watford side Watford 3 break records because Kamalbir Singh, who is based in Sarr struck twice in six who started the game one from the (Sarr 54, 60, Deeney you are 100 percent US, said on Sunday. minutes early in the sec- 72) focused on each step. bottom of the English Premier League Liverpool 0 Kullar’s cremation will be con- ond half before the table and 55 points adrift of his runaway And for that you have to ducted on Monday. Senegalese turned leaders. Bournemouth 2 perform. “His last rites will be done on provider for Troy Deeney (Lerma 54, King 57) “The boys performed Monday,” he added. to wrap up a famous win. ● It was Liverpool’s first loss in the Chelsea 2 and that’s why we won Born at Sansarpur village of “Ismaila Sarr is an unbe- (Alonso 33, 85) the games, but tonight Jalandhar district in Punjab, lievable player, unbeliev- English Premier League since January we were not good Kullar made his India debut in able talent. He still has a 2019. They remain 22 points clear at the Brighton 0 enough. 1963 in Lyon in France. He was lot to learn, and will con- Crystal Palace 1 “It’s not now a plus for top and well on course for a first league (Ayew 70) member of the Indian team that tinue to learn, but I think title in 30 years but their hopes of doing me that in history, when won the Asian Games gold in it’s a full team perform- so by matching Arsenal’s invincible season Newcastle 0 they look back in 500 1966 (Bangkok) and the ance,” said a proud Burnley 0 years, they will say, Olympic Bronze in 1968 Watford captain Deeney. in 2003-04 were ended. ‘Liverpool nearly did it.’ (Mexico). Balbir was also part ALONSO RESCUES You cannot change that of the gold medal winning CHELSEA blow to Chelsea’s chances to get a draw but we line day in January and he and it was always clear, Indian team in 1966 Bangkok of holding onto their place should win the game,” made a huge impact with sometime we would lose Asian Games. — PTI Bournemouth were also in the top four. said Lampard. a fine finish to open the a game.” victims of Liverpool’s col- Alonso’s predatory head- “People talk about the scoring. “I think that’s the Klopp dismissed the lapse as they fall into the er after Aaron Ramsdale defence but if you are 1-0 way it went in my dreams suggestion that weari- bottom three after failing parried Pedro Rodriguez’s up and leave teams in the last night!” Bowen said. ness might have crept Veteran athletics to hold out for victory shot at least ensured the game then one set piece “We held on and got the into his side, who lost in against Chelsea. visitors left the Vitality can change the game. three points which is real- the Champions League coach Saini dies Philip Billing missed Stadium with a point. “We should score more ly important.” first leg at Atletico Patiala: Veteran athletics two big early chances for However, Frank goals and then we don’t The hosts’ lead did not Madrid and then had coach and Dronacharya the Cherries and Eddie Lampard’s men have now have that problem.” last long as Michael not been at their awardee Joginder Howe’s men were pun- won just five of their last BOWEN’S DREAM Obafemi quickly levelled sharpest in defeating Singh Saini, who ished as Marcos Alonso’s 16 league games and could DEBUT for Southampton. West Ham United in groomed calm finish after Olivier see their lead over fifth- But the Hammers their previous two some of Giroud hit the bar gave placed Manchester United West Ham moved out of responded well to that matches. India’s finest Chelsea a half-time lead. cut to just a point if the the bottom three with a blow as Sebastien Haller “Nothing to do with track and Two goals in three min- Red Devils win at Everton first league win since New restored their lead five tiredness,” he said. “It’s field stars, died Liverpool’s utes from Jefferson Lerma on Sunday. Year’s Day. minutes before half-time not easy to explain but it here on Sunday Mohamed and Josh King turned “We had a bad 10-minute David Moyes handed and Michail Antonio should not be now the due to age-related the game around spell where they scored Jarrod Bowen his first added a third early in the biggest sensation in Salah is dejected problems. He was and inflicted and that I don’t like. I’m start since a £20 million second half. world football that it 90. after the match. another pleased with the character move from Hull on dead- — AFP happened.” — Reuters Saini, who remained the — AFP chief national athletics coach for many years from the 1970s to 90s, was not keeping well for the past few days. Born on January 1, 1930 in Hoshiarpur district in Punjab, Saini was a science graduate HUMPY EDGES and became an athletics coach in 1954 after completing a OU paddlers second best, WORLD CHAMP Saina wants Olympics cut diploma in physical education and a course in coaching at the NIS Patiala. FOR NO.2 SPOT — PTI Dutee claims 200m gold Chennai, March 1: off dates to be extended Grandmaster Koneru DC CORRESPONDENT Humpy has moved up as New Delhi, March 1: HYDERABAD, MARCH 1 No.2 player in the latest Indian shuttlers Saina world ranking, displac- Nehwal and Parupalli DJOKOVIC, The Osmania University ing reigning world Kashyap feel that the BWF table tennis team had to champion Ju Wenjun. should extend the Olympic NADAL WIN ATP settle for silver as they Humpy, the world qualification period in lost the title clash 1-3 to rapid champion who view of the novel coron- Chitkara University at recently won the presti- avirus outbreak wrecking TOUR TITLES the Khelo India gious Cairns Cup in the havoc on the qualifying Dubai: Novak Djokovic set his University Games in US beating a strong field events for the Tokyo sights on another marathon run Bhubaneswar on that included Wenjun, is Games. of invincibility after capturing Sunday. ranked behind China’s Concerns over the rapid his 79th career title. In the first match, SFR Yifan Hou as per the spread of the deadly virus The world number one Snehit blanked India March FIDE ratings. had forced the postpone- claimed the Dubai No.8 Arjun Ghosh 3-0 to Humpy, who won or ment of the four Olympic Championships for the fifth give Osmania University tied for the first place in qualifying events so far — time, defeating Stefanos a solid start. three elite tournaments Lingshui China Masters Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-4 in the final on However, that was the in a row, is now on 2586 (February 25 to March 1), Saina Nehwal in this file photo. Saturday. lone rubber that (Elo), trailing only Yifan Vietnam International Djokovic is now on an 18-0 Osmania managed to on 2658. Challenge (March 24 to 29) ● Saina is currently lying at 22nd in the Race winning run this season, and 21- win as Md Ali lost to GM Harika Dronavalli and German Open (March 3 to Tokyo list and needs a rapid rise in the 0 overall since late 2019, as he Ronit Banja 2-3, M. is ranked ninth while to 8) and Polish Open ended an eight-match win Raghuram went down to Mangalore University, overall champions in athletics Tamil Nadu player R. (March 26 to 29). rankings to qualify for the Games. streak for his Greek opponent, Jeet Chandra 0-3 as the at the Khelo India University Games, pose with the Vaishali moving up to “Qualification period can ● Parupalli Kashyap and Kidambi Srikanth champion last weekend in scoreline read 2-1 in trophy in Bubaneshwar on Sunday. ninth place from 10th be extended if the tourna- Marseille. Chitkara’s favour. rank in February in the ments are getting cancelled are at 24th and 21th spots respectively in Meanwhile, World No.2 Rafael Then, in a one-sided Mahapatra from Utkal tled for bronze with junior girls category. cause of #coronavirus,” Race to Tokyo list. Nadal captured his first ATP reverse singles rubber University took the 11:23.08 seconds. Interestingly, no Saina wrote on her twitter Tour title of 2020, easily Snehit lost to Ronit bronze, clocking 25.19 Panjab University Indian man figures in handle, tagging the defeating unseeded Taylor Fritz Banja 1-3 as OU handed seconds. pipped Savitribai Phule the top ten in the world Badminton World Her husband Kashyap, a squeeze into the top 16 to in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2, in the the title to their rivals. MAHESHWARI WINS Pune University to be rankings for the open Federation and the 2014 Commonwealth qualify for Tokyo. final of the Mexico Open. Meanwhile, Dutee STEEPLECHASE SILVER crowned overall champi- section. Former world International Olympic Games champion, and for- The prestigious All The 33-year-old Nadal didn’t Chand won her second ons of the Games while champion Viswanathan Committee. mer world no. 1 Kidambi England Championships drop a set all week and gold at the Games after Maheshwari Golla of the Mangalore University Anand is ranked 16th in “It will be unfair for most Srikanth are at 24th and (March 11 to 15), offering improved to 19-2 all-time at this bagging the top honours Palamuru University walked away with the the world, followed by of the players who are real- 21th spots respectively in 12,000 ranking points for event. in the women’s 200m won silver in the title in athletics. Vidit Gujarati at 22nd ly close to qualifying for Race to Tokyo list. the winner, is next in line, In women’s singles final in final on the last day of women’s 3,000 metres place. Gujarati is now Olympics 2020.” For them and several top followed by Swiss Open, Doha, Aryna Sabalenka won her the event. steeplechase event. TABLE TENNIS FINAL the second highest Saina, the London players around the world, India Open (Super 500), sixth career title when she The 24-year-old, who is With a timing of Osmania University lost to ranked Indian player, Olympic bronze medallist, including China’s two-time Malaysia Open (Super 750), swept past former two-time representing Kalinga 10:41.90 seconds, the Chitkara University 1-3 jumping four places is currently lying at 22nd in Olympic champion Lin Dan and Singapore Open (Super Wimbledon champion Petra Institute of Industrial Andhra Pradesh girl (SFR Snehit bt Arjun from the 26th spot last Race to Tokyo list and need (currently placed at 30th), 500) before qualification Kvitova 6-3, 6-3 in the Qatar Technology, took the top took the second spot on Ghosh 3-0 — 11-7, 11-6, 11-7; month. World champion a rapid rise in the rankings the next few tournaments period ends on April 28. Open final and dedicated victo- place with a time of 23.66 the podium. Md. Ali lost to Ronit Banja Magnus Carlsen tops to qualify for the Games. will be crucial as they try to — PTI ry to her father who died last seconds. Savitribai Phule Pune 2-3 — 11-5, 11-5, 7-11, 8-11, the open rankings. year. The 21-year-old said the Kirti Vijay Bhoite from University’s Komal 13-15; M. Raghuram lost to In the juniors section, Regd. No. H/SD/509/2018-20 memory of her father Sergey, the University of Jagadale got gold with Jeet Chandra 0-3 — 5-11, Indian GM Nihal Sarin Printed and Published by T. Venkateswarlu on behalf of Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited. Printed at who died in November, was Mumbai settled for sil- 10:26.63 seconds, while 6-11, 8-11; SFR Snehit lost was ranked 10th in the Deccan Chronicle Press situated at Plot No. 9 Alwal Village, Vallabh Nagar Taluk, Medchal Malkajgiri Dist. very much in her mind on ver with a timing of Shaili Dhama of the to Ronit Banja 1-3 — 11-4, world. — PTI Telangana and Published at 36, S.D. Road, Secunderabad-3. RNI Registration No. 3081/1957. Saturday. — AFP 24.98 while Deepali Panjab University set- 9-11, 8-11, 9-11). Editor: Aditya Sinha