Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer HYDERABAD, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2021; PAGES 12 `3 RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 Published From HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 229 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable www.dailypioneer.com Focus on vaccination rather than P HEAVYWEIGHTS take Nifty, Sensex to P Keerthy Suresh’s P fighting with Twitter: Good Luck Sakhi NCP to Centre 5 lifetime highs 8 to release in theatres 11 In brief AP govt extends likely to Covid curfew ALL ADULTS TO GET FREE COVID till June 20 lift daytime lockdown he government ML MELLY MAITREYI on Monday further extended n HYDERABAD n Low positivity rate, T the COVID curfew across the VAX FROM JUNE 21: PM MODI state till June 20. The curfew duration, The Telangana government is declining cases, vax however, has been curtailed by two PNS n NEW DELHI "For all people, whether it is the seriously considering further eas- hours a day and will be in force from 2 Centre to provide vax to states; poor, the lower middle class, the ing of lockdown norms in the State to high risk groups PM to 6 AM after June 10. The COVID The Central government will pro- middle class, or the upper-middle while enforcing Covid-appropriate favour relaxation curfew, first imposed on May 5, was vide free coronavirus vaccines to service charges for private hospitals class, under the Central govern- behaviour with all seriousness. supposed to end on June 10 but, at a states for inoculation of all above capped at Rs 150 per dose ment programme, everyone will get The strict lockdown imposed n high-level review meeting on the the age of 18 from June 21, Prime free vaccines," the Prime Minister from May 12 with relaxation from Need to boost pandemic situation, Chief Minister Y S Minister “For all people, whether said. 6 am to 10 am has been effective revenues to spend Jagan Mohan Reddy decided to extend announced on Monday, while it is the poor, the lower While BJP leaders and ministers in resulting in a declining trend. it for ten more days. A CMO release asserted that vaccine supply would middle class, the middle lauded Prime Minister Modi for the The positivity rate too has been on medical and said all government offices would be increased significantly in the 80 Cr Indians to class, or the upper- new vaccination policy, many oth- coming down in the State. health facilities and function from 8 AM to 2 PM daily till country in the coming days. middle class, under ers on social media were seen While the State reported 4,723 June 20. Coronavirus cases have The Centre has decided to buy get free ration till the Central govt crediting the Supreme Court and positive cases on May 12 with 87 be prepared for shown a significant decline in AP in 75 percent of jabs from vaccine Diwali: PM Modi programme, Justice Chandrachud for the change percent recovery rate and 31 the last two weeks. third wave makers, including 25 percent of the p to 80 crore poor everyone will in the strategy. Opposition deaths, the number of positive state quota, and give it for free to UIndians will receive get free Congress asked the government to cases came down to 1,436 on June state governments, the Prime free rations till Diwali, vaccines” stop creating confusion with chang- 6 with 14 deaths. The recovery rate CBSE tells schools Minister said in an address to the Prime Minister Narendra ing policies and demanded that improved to about 95 percent. to complete Class 12 nation. Modi announced today. Opposition Congress every citizen should get Rs 6,000 in The positivity rate which was at Private sector hospitals can con- This will be part of the their accounts along with free vac- 4.5 percent soon after imposition practicals online tinue to procure 25 percent of vac- extended Pradhan asked the government to cination. Modi said the Centre and of lockdown, came down to 2.1 cines, but their service charge states will make necessary prepa- percent as on June 3, according to he Central Board of Secondary Mantri Garib Kalyan stop creating confusion Education (CBSE) Monday would be capped at Rs 150 per dose Yojana. 2 rations in the coming two weeks as the Director, Public Health. Tasked schools to conduct their over a fixed price of the vaccine, per new guidelines. When the lockdown was tralised isolation centres in rural pending class 12 practicals and Modi said. While elaborating on the reasons extended last week from June 1 to areas. internal assessments only in online The change in the government's shortage of vaccines. over the 25 percent doses assigned for the change in the vaccination 9, the idea was to improve the pos- The special drive taken by the mode, and submit marks by June 28. vaccine strategy comes days after Justice DY Chandrachud had to states and this will be imple- policy, Modi said as the corona itivity rate in rural areas. Government to vaccinate different In a letter sent to schools, CBSE the Supreme Court asked the questioned the vaccine procure- mented in the next two weeks. cases started declining, questions After the household fever survey categories of high risk groups in Examination Controller Sanyam Centre to place on record all rele- ment policy and also raised the From June 21 (International Day arose about the lack of choice for and outpatient services provided in the 18 to 44 year age group has also Bhardwaj said that it has been vant documents and file notings issue of the digital divide question- of Yoga), the Centre will provide states and some people questioned all the government hospitals — been one of the reasons for the observed that some schools have not reflecting its thinking culminating ing the policy of mandatory regis- free vaccines to states...Till now, why the central government is from PHCs to district hospitals — State to think in favour of further been able to complete the school- in the Covid-19 vaccination poli- tration on CoWIN App for jabs. crores of people got free vaccines, deciding everything. the positivity rate was also found relaxing the daytime lockdown. based assessments in various subjects cy, and states questioning the cen- "It has been decided today that now the 18 years segment will be 2 to be improving in rural areas and 2 due to the Covid pandemic. "Thus, the tral government over the alleged the Central government will take added to this," Modi said. steps were taken to provide decen- schools with pending practicals and internal assessments are permitted to conduct the same now in only online mode and upload marks on the provi- Eatala likely to join KCR lures TDP chief Ramana, fills Etela ‘gap’ ded link latest by June 28," he said. Transformed TS as rice SNCN ACHARYULU erstwhile Karimnagar district and BJP on June 13 n HYDERABAD both are from the Backward Class Twitter seeks more K VENKATESHWARLU community. Etela is a Mudiraj and bowl for country: KCR n HYDERABAD Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Ramana a Padmasali. time to comply PNS n HYDERABAD president and Chief Minister K Ramana was elected to the undi- Former health minister Etela Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday vided Andhra Pradesh Assembly with new IT rules Extending this greetings to the Rajender is likely join the BJP on shot two birds with one stone — twice on a TDP ticket twice from witter is learnt to have approached people on the occasion of World June 13 in the presence of BJP giving a major shock to TDP Jagtial in 1994 and 2009. In 1996, he the government seeking more Food Safety Day, Chief Minister K national chief JP Nadda and national president N Chandrababu successfully contested for the T time to comply with the new IT Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday Union Home Minister Naidu by successfully wooing the Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituen- rules. According to sources, the hailed the efforts put in by the state in Delhi. TDP’s Telangana unit chief L cy. He served as Minister for micro-blogging site has said that it government to turn Telangana It’s learnt that the BJP top lead- Ramana to join the TRS fold and exit of Etela from the TRS made Handlooms and Textiles in the TDP intends to comply with the rules but into a rice bowl for the country ers gave Etela an appointment for offset any losses that his party may Ramana more amenable to accept- government from 1994 to 1996 and needs more time due to the pandemic from a region that faced famine Sunday. However, Amit Shah's incur by the exit of Etela Rajender. ing the offer and the icing on the had been heading the TDP situation in India. "Twitter has written and starvation in the undivided AP. presence at the joining ceremony To pull off the coup, KCR pressed cake was the option of an MLC tick- Telangana unit since the formation to Meity seeking more time to comply The measures taken by the State is not yet confirmed as he has been into service Telangana Panchayat et in the forthcoming elections. of the State in 2014. with the IT rules. It has said that it is government to increase production facing health problems, it is learnt. Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao It may be remembered that both unable to do so because of the of meat, eggs and fish besides fruits for consumption. It’s learnt that former MLA Enugu who reached out to Ramana. The Etela and Ramana belong to the 2 pandemic," a source told PTI. The and vegetables under various The Chief Minister said that Ravinder Reddy and former response from Twitter comes after the schemes yielded good results in within a short span of time, Karimnagar ZP chairperson Thula government issued a strongly-worded providing nutritious and quality Telangana state was able to create Uma would also join the BJP along final notice to the company regarding food to people, KCR said. two crore acres of fertile lands that with Etela on the same day. ‘Sometimes dynasty its non-compliance with the new rules. He said that the government was were being cultivated for two According to sources, the for- India’s first private taking all measures to stop adul- crops. “The State stood first in the mer minister may tender his res- better than nasty’: Covishield produces teration of food items and dealing production by producing 3 crore ignation from the Assembly before with a stern hand against the spu- metric tonnes of food grains. he leaves for Delhi on June 11. Mamata’s nephew’s more antibodies than rious seeds, fertilisers and pesti- gold mine to begin Covaxin: Study cides to ensure food grains are safe 2 2 dig at BJP he Covishield vaccine produces PNS n KOLKATA ops from 2022 more antibodies than Covaxin T though both generate a good Trinamool MP Abhishek SNV SUDHIR The only gold mines in the immune response , says a pan-India Kids face heart attack risk post Covid MIS-C Banerjee - newly promoted as n VIJAYAWADA country in at Kolar study of healthcare workers who had Niloufer hospital has treated 30 cases of MIS-C General Secretary - took a swipe and Hutti were opened in the received both doses of the preventives. at the BJP Monday over its use Work on Independent India’s first British era. While the gold mining The yet-to-be-published study, posted so far, 10 suspected cases still under treatment of the "dynasty" tag in attacks on private integrated Greenfield gold at Hutti was being carried out by on the preprint repository MedRxiv on him and criticised the opposition mining project in Andhra Pradesh the Karnataka government run June 4, covered 515 healthcare NAVEENA GHANATE According to Hyderabad-based for its use of "agencies and mus- is expected to begin in the next few enterprise, mining at Kolar has workers (HCW) -- 305 men and 210 n HYDERABAD paediatrician Dr Kishore Reddy, cle power" in campaigning for months and commercial produc- been suspended long ago. women -- from 22 cities in 13 states. “MIS-C can be serious, even dead- the April-May election that they tion is set to be launched either in No gold mining had begun after Covishield, from the Oxford- Delayed detection of post-Covid ly, but most children who were lost. the third or last quarter of 2022. Independence. AIRL will initially AstraZeneca stable, is manufactured complication Multisystem diagnosed with this condition have He mocked them for being As per the original schedule, take up open pit mining and will by the Serum Institute of India in Inflammatory Syndrome in gotten better with medical care. "rattled" by his appointment and production was supposed to begin go for underground mining Pune. Covaxin is the indigenously Children (MIS-C) can lead to a Detection of MIS-C, if delayed, can not practicing what they in 2020. However, Covid had depending upon the progress of manufactured vaccine by Hyderabad- heart attack. affect the heart around the coro- preached ; he said they hadn't delayed the plans of the project. production. based Bharat Biotech in collaboration First detected in the UK in chil- nary vessels. These will get dilated State-run Niloufer Hospital has passed a law on "dynastic poli- The project proponent — an While the initial production of with ICMR and National Institute of dren infected with Covid, MIS-C which leads to reduced blood flow, so far treated 30 cases of MIS-C tics" because they were "import- Indo Australian company — the Jonnagiri facility is aimed at Virology. Both vaccines elicited good is a condition where different eventually leading to heart attack. and currently has about 10 suspect- ing dynastic turncoats". Australian-Indian Resources Ltd 750 kg gold per annum, there are immune response after two doses. body parts, including the heart, In some kids, kidneys and the brain ed cases. As per the data compiled "You ran a campaign on (AIRL), is in the process of com- also plans to ramp it up to 1 tonne lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or can get affected. It’s important for by the Indian Academy of 'dynasty'. People gave you an pleting land acquisition in in the coming days. gastrointestinal organs, can parents to be alert.” Paediatrics Intensive Care Chapter, answer. I want to tell the BJP... Jonnagiri of Kurnool district. The preliminary exploration of TODAY become inflamed. These symp- Doctors pointed out that they are more than 2,000 cases of MIS-C sometimes a dynasty is better AIRL had also completed the the site and applying for the statu- toms emerge after 3-4 weeks of witnessing bleeding abnormalities have been reported in the country than being nasty," Mr Banerjee exploration and feasibility studies tory clearances for the project ALMANAC recovery. Doctors point out that in children apart from fluctuating in the wake of Covid first wave. said, referring to a campaign lit- with the highest international had begun in 2005. Month & Paksham: early treatment will lead to a 100 blood pressure and hands and legs tered with crass comments and standards and was satisfied with Vaishakha & Krishna Paksha percent survival rate. becoming cold. 2 sexist swipes. the viability of the project. 2 Panchangam Tithi : Trayodashi: 11:23 am Nakshatram : Kritika: Full Night All municipalities to Google alters ad Time to Avoid : (Bad time to start Latest govt SOP drops use of Zinc, multivitamins for Covid any important work) have veg, non-veg n practices after Rahukalam : 03:30 pm – 05:08 pm PNS NEW DELHI toms, for mild cases. markets, FSTPs The latest The latest SOPs also list clearly Yamagandam : 09:00 am – 10:37 am The Union Health Ministry has SOPs also who should be using Remdesivir France imposes fine Varjyam : 07:10 pm – 08:58 pm PNS n HYDERABAD revised the list of drugs to be used list clearly and Tocilizumab, along with who PNS n PARIS Gulika : 12:15 pm - 01:52 pm to treat Covid-19, dropping the use who should exactly must take steroids. be using Good Time : (to start any important work) Buoyed by transformation of vil- of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine For mild Covid infection, Alphabet's Google agreed to make lages under the Palle Pragathi pro- and anti-viral favipiravir from the Remdesivir asymptomatic patients can contin- changes to some of its widely-used Amritakalam : NIL gramme, the Telangana State gov- treatment guideline. and ue medications for other comorbid online advertising services under an Abhijit Muhurtham : 11:49 am – 12:41 pm ernment is now focusing on This was after a section of doc- Tocilizumab, conditions and can avoid visiting unprecedented settlement with improving town and cities under tors and medical researchers ques- along with hospitals with a six-minute walk France's antitrust watchdog released Pattana Pragathi with all amenities, tioned the lack of scientific evi- who exactly test three to four times a day. on Monday. The authority also HYDERABAD said Municipal Minister KT Rama dence that these drugs are helpful must take Medicines to be given to patients fined the Mountain View, WEATHER Rao on Monday. The Minister, who in treating Covid patients. steroids with mild infection, only to relieve California-based company 220 laid stone and inaugurated various The guidelines for the manage- symptoms. The patients must self- million euros ($267.48 million) Forecast: Scattered thunderstorms development works in Jagtial dis- ment of Covid patients, released by monitor fever, breathlessness and after a probe found it abused its Temp: 36/24 trict said that 42% to 43% of peo- the Union Health Ministry and after during the first wave. The chloroquine, vitamin C, vitamin D, SpO2 levels. market power in the intricate ad Humidity: 61% ple were now living in towns and Family Welfare skip mention of guidelines also skip the use of zinc, acetylcysteine, and inhaled The DGHS also mentioned that business online, where some of its Sunrise: 05:41 am cities hoping for better education ivermectin and doxycycline, two antibiotics. budesonide, or dexamethasone. steroids are harmful in asympto- tools have become almost essen- Sunset: 06:49 pm and employment opportunities. widely prescribed medicines across A typical prescription for Covid The DGHS has issued guidelines matic and mild cases of Covid and tial for large publishers. Current Weather Conditions the country, as well as hydroxy- in India includes azithromycin, to stop the use of all these medi- strictly warned against self-medica- Updated JUNE 7, 2021 5:00 PM 2 chloroquine which was sought doxycycline, ivermectin, hydroxy- cines, except those to treat symp- tion of steroids. 2 HYDERABAD | TUESDAY | JUNE 8, 2021 hyderabad 02 Centre did its best, only states are to be blamed for vax mess tela Rajender, who was a BJP national president JP Since medical and health time taken to control the sec- duced in the country. TRS member for 18 Nadda’s observation is true On the whole, it is very clear that the figure under the ond wave of the pan- Administrative decentral- years, MLA for 17 years that there is scope for the BJP political developments in TS favour the BJP states’ list, the demic, compared to isation is a healthy develop- Eand Minister for seven, has to form the government in Centre decid- TRULY the time taken to ment in a democracy. That is described the condition of Telangana, second in the as people are looking forward to getting rid ed to partner control the first why the PM took steps to ministers in the KCR Cabinet south after Karnataka. The of KCR’s despotic and corrupt administration. with states in SPEAKING wave, is less as evi- transfer funds directly into as “worse than slaves”. situation is conducive for procurement of denced by the reduc- the bank accounts of the Everyone regard Chief the TRS government to col- Etela, along with several party leaders, BCs, vaccines. But within tion in spread of the pan- people. Minister K Chandrasekhar lapse and Congress and other and Dalits, have opted for BJP realising this. a few days, states demic cases and nosediving The PM believed that Rao as an autocratic ruler, a political forces to disappear washed off their hands and death rate because of these democracy thrives only if feudal lord (dora) in from the political horizon of confined themselves to blam- measures. panchayats and local bodies Telangana, which has had a the country. way for making his son KTR half of the vaccine doses ing the Centre. Within a few days of being become self-reliant. However, history of fighting against On the whole, it is very the Chief Minister. The way supplied by the Centre to AP In spite of all this, the entrusted with the responsi- for the state governments slavery and feudal lords. clear that the political devel- KTR criticised the vaccine could not be administered. Centre remained unper- bility to procure the vac- administrative decentralisa- Y SATYA KUMAR The people of Telangana opments in Telangana favour policy of the Centre reflects Of 65 lakh doses given to AP turbed. cine, Opposition-ruled states tion would mean corrup- State, which is the result of the BJP as people are looking his lack of maturity. Of the from January to March, only BJP National Secretary While Opposition leaders started speaking in different tion, anarchy, nepotism and sacrifices by many and also forward to getting rid of 69.23 lakh doses of vaccine 26 lakh doses could be do the talking, the Modi tongues and trying to create hereditary politics. They have BJP support at the Centre, are KCR’s despotic and corrupt supplied to Telangana by the administered; even frontline states failed to administer the government is engrossed in confusion to spread disaffec- failed to be accountable to now looking towards finding administration. Etela, along Centre, as on June 1, 61 lakh workers haven’t been vacci- vaccine. creation of medical and tion against the Modi people. an alternative to KCR. with several party leaders, doses were administered nated. Rahul Gandhi had written health amenities. Government. Modi never shirked from Everyone is aware of the rea- BCs, and Dalits, have opted meaning that 2.25 lakh doses Governance in AP is to Modi seeking greater pow- It took measures on a war So the PM decided to his responsibilities to people. sons. for BJP realising this. were wasted. This is proof of derailed as Jagan is preoccu- ers to states in procurement footing to resolve the prob- checkmate them by announc- In the fight against Covid It’s quite clear that the BJP It’s unfortunate that KCR the ineffective administration pied with repressing his polit- of the vaccines. Leaders like lem of oxygen shortage. It ing that the Centre would during the first wave, he led has grown as an alternative to preferred to sack the health and of the rulers paying more ical rivals. Jairam Ramesh and Shashi tightened its belt to procure take over the vaccination the people and states from the TRS in Telangana. minister to victimise him attention to politics than In the wake of the pan- Tharoor tried to create fear medicines to treat Covid and programme and start admin- the front and boosted the Otherwise, a leader of the rather than dealing with governance. demic situation worsening, psychosis among the people focussed attention on finding istering vaccines to all free of morale of the people. stature of Etela would not Covid. The situation in Andhra the Centre supplied vaccines on the quality of the vaccine. solution to the problem in cost from June 21. The In the fight against the sec- have chosen the BJP as his TRS leaders say that KCR Pradesh is worse. Under free of cost to states during They also blamed Modi for the form of 2DG. Centre would procure 75 ond wave, he is not going to destination. got rid of Etela to pave the Jaganmohan Reddy, at least January-March period. The the oxygen shortage. It can be construed that the percent of the vaccines pro- take a step back. Transformed... Continued from page 1 Accusations, counter claims, vax CM KCR plays hide-and-seek Telangana could become No. 1 State in paddy production by completing all major irriga- war heats up between TRS and BJP with Centre, TS BJP gets dizzy tion projects like Kaleswaram, reviving and restoring tanks MARTHI SUBRAHMANYAM vaccine. demanded that the The Centre said that the SNCN ACHARYULU Bharat scheme. Ever since the But a few days later, the under Mission Kakatiya pro- n HYDERABAD Besides, Union Minister G Government brought back 50 state government administered n HYDERABAD scheme was introduced in Chief Minister changed his gramme. During the pan- Kishan Reddy and Telangana crore doses of vaccine from only 1.7 lakh doses out of 8.9 2018, the Chief Minister had stand on the farm laws after demic, the crops cultivated by The TRS and the BJP have BJP president have been visit- Canada. It created enough rip- lakh in January, 2.5 lakh doses It may be fair to say that strongly resisted it and refused meeting Prime Minister Telangana farmers have pro- engaged each other in a vaccine ing government hospitals ples at the national level as out of 13.8 lakh doses in Feb, Telangana Chief Minister K to implement it in Telangana. Narendra Modi and Union vided food security to the war with each trying to put its extensively and raising the none questioned the Centre 8.8 lakh doses out of 18.7 lakh Chandrasekhar Rao’s ‘guerril- The state BJP and other Home Minister Amit Shah in country,” the Chief Minister rival in self-defence mode in an issue of KCR government's like KTR. doses in March. Out of the la tactics’ vis-a-vis the BJP are parties also demanded the Delhi. stated. effort to project the other as the failure and TRS elders' hob- In twitter under the title 69.23 lakh doses given free of working wonders — the saf- Chief Minister implement the It’s well known that once In order to provide food culprit before the people. To nobbing with the private hos- "Ask KTR" hash tag, the dis- cost to the state, the govern- fron party, especially its Ayushman Bharat scheme, say- KCR decides to oppose any- security, each person was substantiate their statements, pitals. cussion held kicked off debate ment wasted 2.21 lakh doses, Telangana unit, is unable to ing that it would help the thing, he does it strongly and given 6 kg of rice in every fam- the TRS and BJP have been In this backdrop, KTR at the national level. the Centre said expressing its quite understand how to deal poor. However, KCR remained when he supports anything, he ily through ration card. Of the churning out statistics. While entered the fray and picked up However, the Centre came indignation towards the gov- with the TRS chief. adamant, saying that the State would go all out. Supporting 87.41 lakh families holding the TRS accuse the BJP of a quarrel with the Centre ques- out with statistics on supply of ernment of Telangana and The confusion in TS BJP is government's Arogyasri the Centre's farm laws, the TRS ration cards, 2.8 crore people exporting the vaccine at the tioning it on how the Rs 35,000 vaccine to Telangana and their called it inhuman. quite understandable, its lead- scheme was much better than chief said: “The state govern- were given 20 lakh tonnes of cost of the people of the coun- crore allocated in the Union use on Sunday night pushing Only 64 per cent of the ers are simply unable to decide Ayushman Bharat as the latter ment is not a business organ- rice at Rs 1 per kg per year. try, the BJP turns the tables on budget for 2021-2022 for vac- KCR government back into the health staff have been admin- whether to criticise KCR or covers fewer people. He also isation or trader. It is not a rice For this, the state govern- the TRS alleging that it has cines was spent. Comparing self-defence mode evoking istered vaccine by June 4 indi- praise him as they are unable termed Ayushman Bhart miller or dal miller. Sales and ment was giving Rs 2,088 wasted a lot of vaccines. India with other nations, he curiosity of one and all. cates the failure of the govern- to read the mind of the Chief scheme as "useless". purchases are not its responsi- crore subsidy at Rs 28.24 per Bringing new issues to light, observed that the rest of the The Centre specifically ment in making use of the vac- Minister. Then, inexplicably, KCR bility.” kg, KCR said. Fine rice was KTR gave a dressing down to nations are giving the vaccine accused Telangana govern- cines, the Centre said. While the state BJP wants to decided to implement the He also said that there was also being given to students, the Centre, kicking off the free of cost putting the BJP in ment of wasting 2.21 lakh The Centre churning out treat the TRS as its main polit- Ayushman Bharat scheme, sig- no need for the state govern- he said. vaccine war with the Modi self-defence mode. He accused doses of vaccine because of the statistics, in response to the ical rival, the party’s national nalling that he was not look- ment to purchase agricultural He also said that Ration government. the Centre of placing orders failure of the government. tirade launched by KTR leadership believes that KCR is ing for a confrontation with the produce as the new farm laws Card Portability was created The Telangana BJP secretary with companies to procure In spite of making available through his twitter account, their undeclared political Centre. KCR’s decision was were being implemented so that ration cardholders Dr S Prakash Reddy defended vaccines in advance. He 41.4 lakh doses of the vaccine pushed the TRS in self-defence friend. Believes, but cannot welcomed by the BJP nation- across the country, allowing could draw their ration any- the Centre saying that it paid demanded that the Centre to the state government, it mode again. Moreover, the sta- confirm. al leadership, but the party’s farmers to sell their crop any- where in the State and this had Rs 1,500 crore to a vaccine pro- took steps to bring back the administered only 13 lakh tistics became handy for the This is because KCR had ini- state unit lost one weapon to where. provided total food security to ducing company in Telangana unused doses of vaccine from doses to the people, blames the state BJP leaders to corner the tially opposed and later sup- attack KCR. In November 2020, the the needy. to reserve 30 crore doses of the overseas. Specifically, KTR Centre. TRS government. ported several of the deci- This was not an isolated Chief Minister KCR sions taken by the Central instance. KCR had strongly announced that he would hold government. While political opposed the Central govern- a meeting with the leaders of pundits have termed these as ment's contentious farm laws the country's main opposi- Kids face... Eatala likely to join BJP on June 13 ‘U-turns’, KCR’s close associates and on his directions, TRS tion parties in Hyderabad and India’s first private... Continued from page 1 who is confined to his resi- say that this is all part of the MPs had voted against these the agenda of the meeting Continued from page 1 tory clearances to do gold min- Continued from page 1 dence due Covid. It is also TRS chief’s political strategy. Bills in Parliament. Moreover, would be the “anti-people” ing in Jonnagiri belt. Sources say that Etela has learnt that Srinivas Reddy The latest example is KCR's he KCR also supported the policies of the Modi govern- Since then it had been a long Negotiations with farmers have A doctor at Niloufer said: been waiting for an appoint- advised Etela over phone to decision regarding the Central Bharat Bandh called against ment. The said meeting never drawn procedure for the project also been completed and land “We expect more MISC cases ment with Assembly Speaker give his resignation letter in his government's Ayushman the contentious farm laws. took place. proponents to obtain mining acquisition has also begun,” to come now that the second Pocharam Srinivasa Reddy office in the Assembly. leases and also completed the AIRL MD and CEO M wave has abated. Since the environmental public hearing Hanuma Prasad told The number of Covid cases were as they are getting ready to Pioneer. He aid that due to high, proportionately the KCR lures TDP... Telangana likely to lift... ground the project. Covid and some other local number of kids infected will be Google alters ad practices... Continued from page 1 While the project needed issues the timelines have been high. In the coming months — Continued from page 1 been hit after imposition of 1,500 acres of land, the compa- extended. Equipment has June-July — we will get more Continued from page 1 to seek damages from Google. Ramana was considered a lockdown but it is not as bad as ny had decided to go for the already been ordered and the MIS-C cases for which we are Many publishers globally have close confidant of Naidu and Sources said that the State that of last year. outright purchase of 350 acres work on the processing plant preparing.” Doctors advise The French watchdog's deci- expressed unhappiness over ad the TDP supremo and resist- Cabinet which will meet on There was a loss of about Rs where the core mining will take will begin soon. Already inter- parents to continue following sion is an attempt to rebalance practices employed by the ed calls for a change in TS Tuesday will take into account 2,000 crore to Rs 2,500 crore per place and the remaining 1,150 national mining experts who Covid norms to avoid infect- the power struggle over online tech giants. TDP leadership over the last the declining number of Covid- month over the last two months acres will be taken on a long specialise in gold mining and ing their children. ads in favour of publishers, "The decision to sanction seven years. Speaking to The 19 cases, falling positivity rate but the expenditure has lease. exploration have been hired, Dr K Shruti, a paediatrician which held sway in the busi- Google is of particular signif- Pioneer, Ramana confirmed to extend the relaxation hours increased due to unforeseen AIRL had earlier identified Hanuma Prasad said. at Aastha Speciality Clinic ness in the pre-Internet era, icance because it's the first that Errabelli did invite him to further from the present 6 am spending on the requirements four potential blocks in the “As soon as the land acqui- said, “See a doctor if high but lost considerable ground decision in the world focusing join the TRS. He said that to 2 pm by at least another three of the medical and health 1500 acre land site. Of the 1,500 sition is completed and the pro- grade fever continues for three with the rise of Google and on the complex algorithmic Errabelli put some proposals to four hours. department. The Centre’s deci- acres, mining will initially take cessing plant is set up, mining days or if you experience con- Facebook. auction processes on which before him and he would take This way, more time will be sion on Monday also brought place in one block. will begin. We are aiming to junctivitis, redness or rashes The watchdog said the deci- the online ad business relies," a decision “after discussing it available for essential services, some relief to the State as it will Simultaneously exploration launch production from either on skin and stomach pain, sion opens the way for pub- said France's antitrust chief with party leaders and his fol- trade and commercial establish- not have to purchase vaccines will also take place in the other the third or final quarter of motions and vomiting. We lishers who felt disadvantaged Isabelle de Silva. lowers”. ments, street vendors and petty on its own and to that extent, the three blocks and commercial 2022. Within two months, land have to suspect it as MIS-C. traders who have been hit pret- financial burden will ease a bit. mining launched one after the acquisition will be completed Based on what we know now ty hard due to lockdown. The State also has to meet its other. AIRL estimates that all and the physical works on the about MIS-C, the best way you With longer business hours, financial commitments like blocks have the production Greenfield integrated facility can protect your child is by people can also get out without Rythu Bandhu, medical and capacity of around 30 to 40 will begin from then. Once pro- taking everyday actions to All adults to get free Covid vax... crowding the streets in a short health infrastructure projects, tonnes of gold. duction begins it will be prevent your child and the Continued from page 1 smoothly, for which, the old window of three to four hours. super speciality hospital in “We have already obtained a Independent India’s first private entire household from getting 80 Cr Indians to get... system which was in place Though the mood of the Warangal and upgrading facil- mining lease and all the statu- gold mine facility,” he said. the virus that causes Covid.” Flexibility in lockdown and Continued from page 1 before May 1 will be brought State government is to lift the ities in existing government one-size-does-not-fit-all type "The government is with the poor back," he said. daytime lockdown, the Chief hospitals specially for children of arguments were forwarded during this pandemic. Over 80 Later, top official sources Minister has been speaking to and be prepared for the third HYDERABAD and the Centre took steps tak- crore of our population will get said India is on track to achieve district in-charge Ministers wave. BULLION RATES ing all such demands into ration till November. Nobody its target of vaccinating the about the situation in districts All these aspects will be dis- All municipalities to... account, he said. should sleep hungry," PM Modi entire adult population by and will take a decision whether cussed to arrive at a decision GOLD Continued from page 1 tions, KTR said. Noting that starting from said today during a national December as it will have a sup- to take a uniform decision for that will ensure improvement in ` 49, 970(10 gm) He reminded that the State has January 16 to April end, India's address. It was in October 2020 ply of 187.2 crore vaccine doses the entire State or continue State revenues while bringing that PM Modi first announced ` 430 Growing urbanisation has result- lost revenue due to pandemic, yet vaccination programme was by the year-end, almost enough lockdown restrictions for some down Covid cases further till ed in increasing the number of it did not curtail funds to munic- run mostly under the central that India had been providing to account for full vaccination districts where the cases are still enough vaccines are supplied to SILVER municipalities from 62 to 142 in ipalities and would spend Rs 500 government, Modi said free free ration worth about ? 1.5 lakh against Covid of 94 crore esti- high compared to other areas. the State to vaccinate a major- ` 76, 100 (1kg) Telangana, he said. crore during this financial year vaccination for all was moving crore to about 80 crore poor mated 18-year plus popula- The State’s finances have ity of the population. ` 1400 “Thus, the Government has to construct integrated veg and forward and people were show- amid the COVID-19 pandemic. tion. been focusing on development non-veg markets in 138 munic- ing discipline in getting vacci- While India will have 53.6 of municipalities under the New ipalities. nated when their turn came. made efforts, Modi said. crore doses between January CHICKEN Municipalities Act to develop Also, Vaikuntha Dhamams at In the midst of all this, However, he said, the states and July, the availability of vac- RATES `/KG greenery, drinking water supply, a cost of Rs 200 crore will be con- demands for decentralisation of soon realised that what kind of cines will increase to 133.6 sanitation and other basic ameni- structed in all the municipalities vaccination were raised, prior- difficulties come in such a big crore doses between August Dressed/With Skin `183 ties,” KTR said. except GHMC and completed ity to certain age groups was work and by the passage of two and December with more firms Without Skin `208 He said that to improve san- this year. In addition to the questioned and many types of weeks in May, some states start- supplying jabs and ramping up Broiler at Farm `126 itation and release of untreated amount sanctioned on infra- pressures were exerted and cer- ed saying openly that the ear- of production from the existing sewage into water bodies, the structure, the government was tain sections of media took it as lier system was better. companies, they said. government will set up Human releasing Rs 148 crore a month a campaign, he said in an "Gradually many state gov- In another major announce- EGG Faecal Sludge Treatment Plants for all the municipalities. apparent attack on opposition ernments started advocating ment, the Prime Minister said RATES `/100 in 140 municipalities at a cost of Keen to improve public health parties and the state govern- this... It was a good thing that a decision has been taken to Rs 325 crore this year. facilities and human resources, ments run by them. in time the states came forward extend Pradhan Mantri Garib HYDERABAD 508 In the first phase, 70 FSTPs the government sanctioned After a lot of deliberations, it again with the demand for Kalyan Anna Yojna till Diwali. VIJAYAWADA 456 would be taken up and one such seven more medical colleges was decided that states' demand reconsideration. On this This means that till FSTP was started at Korutla by and nursing colleges in addition should be taken into account demand, we also thought that November, 80 crore people will VISAKHAPATNAM 355 the Minister on Monday. The to five medical colleges started and 25 percent of vaccine pro- the people of the country continue to get a decided RETAIL PRICE `5.08 State was working to create after Telangana was formed, curement was given to them should not suffer and their amount of free food grain every (IN HYDERABAD) amenities for the future genera- KTR said. from May 1 for which they vaccination should be done month.

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Printed and published by B Krishna Prasad for and on behalf of CMYK Printech Ltd., Phone: 040-23322341, Hyderabad Office: F-502, Diamond Block, Lumbini Rockdale, Somajiguda, Hyderabad - 500 082. Telangana. Printed at Sree Seshasai Enterprises, Plot No.19, IDA Balanagar , Hyderbad-500037, Medchal -Malkajgiri District, Telangana. Chief Editor: Chandan Mitra. Resident Editor: B Krishna Prasad, AIR SURCHARGE of Rs 2.00. HYDERABAD | TUESDAY | JUNE 8, 2021 hyderabad 03 TS to encourage cotton cultivation, State government focuses on 5 sets target for crop in 75 lakh acres ML MELLY MAITREYI districts with most Covid cases n HYDERABAD In an effort to encourage farm- PNS n HYDERABAD AP and Chhattisgarh continue Khammam continues to see ers take up cultivation of crops to report surge in cases. Last the second highest number of which enjoy demand in the Telangana Chief Secretary week, Rizvi and Srinivasa Rao daily cases in the state after market, Agriculture Minister S Somesh Kumar on Monday visited Khammam and Greater Hyderabad. On June 5, Niranjan Reddy said farmers directed Collectors of five dis- Suryapet districts to review the Khammam reported 172 cases, should increase the extent of tricts to prepare a plan to situation. The district officials up from 144 the previous day. cotton crop during rainy sea- check the spread of Covid. were asked enforce the ongo- The daily count in Bhadradri son. On the direction of Chief ing lockdown more strictly to Kothagudem district also went A target has been set to cul- Minister K Chandrasekhar bring down the positivity rate. up to 120 from 110 on June 4. tivate in 75 lakh acres during Rao, the Chief Secretary held According to officials, the Nalgonda and Suryapet dis- this season. Chief Minister K a teleconference with the border districts are reporting tricts also reported large num- Chandrasekhar Rao is all for District Collectors, District high number of cases than the ber of cases at 156 and 95, increasing the extent of cotton when the supply of a product industrial subsidies. Medical and Health Officers state average. The Cabinet had respectively on June 5. cultivation, he said. exceeded the demand in the The number of ginning (DMHOs) and earlier instructed the Health While Telangana's daily pos- Addressing the meeting market. mills was within hundred in Superintendents of govern- Secretary and the medical and itivity rate came down to 1.5 with representatives of Niranjan Reddy said farm- the undivided State Telangana ment general hospitals of Collectors to prepare a plan Health Secretary, SAM. health officials to visit places per cent on June 5, these dis- Telangana Ginners Association ers should reduce paddy and and after formation of the Bhadradri-Kothagudem, and pay special attention on Rizvi, Director, Public Health, like Madhira, Satthupalli, tricts continue to report a here on Monday, Niranjan cultivate more of cotton in this State 350 new ginning mills Karimnagar, Khammam, control of Covid-19 in the vil- Dr Srinivasa Rao, OSD to the Alampur, Gadwal, Narayanpet, higher positivity rate. Reddy said that Telangana cot- rainy season. Even if there were were set up and another 30 Nalgonda, and Suryapet dis- lages and specific areas in the Chief Minister, Dr Gangadhar, Maktal, Nagarjuna Sagar, The Director of Public ton was rated as of number one no timely rains, water could be were under construction. The tricts on Covid situation, tests, districts where more cases also participated in the review Kodad, and Huzurabad which Health stated last week that the quality in national and inter- provided to the cotton crop as number of these mills was positivity rate and bed occu- were reported. He asked offi- meeting. are on state borders and where government may lift the lock- national markets. The Cotton there was no dearth of irriga- increasing every year. pancy in the hospitals. cials to focus on border villages While the number of Covid Corona spread is more to down from June 10 if the pos- Corporation of India too had tion facility in the state and Earlier cotton used to be Somesh Kumar reviewed and take preventive measures cases is on decline across the review the situation and take itivity rate in the border dis- endorsed this many times. with timely release of water, sent to Andhra Pradesh and the situation and instructed the duly increasing tests. state, some districts bordering the necessary measures. tricts drops below 5 per cent. Though the extent of cotton yields could be increased. for ginning due cultivation is more in The department was also to shortage of mills here. Each Maharashtra, Telangana leads giving priority for mechanisa- mill would give direct employ- the country in the average tion to withstand labour short- ment to 100 people and indi- production, he says. The age to work in cotton fields and rect employment to 500 peo- Telangana logs 1,933 Civic body rolls up its sleeve as Agriculture Minister appealed research was on for varieties ple. As the ginning mills were to the farmers to take up cot- that would give good yields. set up totally in rural areas, ton cultivation in a big way in The Minister assured the they played an important role new cases, 16 deaths monsoon knocks on Hyd's door the state and asked them to ginning mills representatives in increasing employment in think seriously about the merit that he would take it to the local areas and promoting PNS n HYDERABAD PNS n HYDERABAD in the government's advice. notice of Chief Minister to give rural livelihoods.There was Paddy was already being more encouragement to the also good demand for by- There were 1,933 new Covid As heavy rainfall led to water cultivated in surplus quantities sector with incentives. The products of cotton seeds such infections and 16 fatalities in logging and floods in some and thus the demand in the government already has as oil, cake, solvent etc., in the Telangana till Monday localities last year, the Greater market was coming down. It extended power subsidy and national and international evening, pushing the cumula- Hyderabad Municipal was natural for the prices to fall would consider giving more markets. tive number of deaths to 3,394 Corporation (GHMC) has and the total number of pos- drawn out a plan to prepare the itive cases to 5,93,103. The city for the monsoon season. number of active cases in the Greater Hyderabad Mayor Brar Squadron State as on Monday evening Gadwal Vijayalakshmi has was 25,406. six from Kamareddy, 87 from asked the officials of Greater wins trophy at Between Sunday and Karimnagar, 160 from Hyderabad Municipal desilting works of nalas by social media is flooded with Monday, authorities conduct- Khammam, 13 from Corporation (GHMC) to take June-end under any circum- representations, she asked the ed 1,32,996 Covid rapid tests Komaram Bheem Asifabad, 62 up desiltation works and works stances. She asked the officials authorities to respond on them AFA, Dundigal of which test results of 1,356 from Mahabubnagar, 67 from related to expansion of nalas to prepare the detailed project immediately. PNS n HYDERABAD samples were awaited. On Mahabubabad, 69 from on a war-footing to prevent reports for widening of the GHMC commissioner Monday, 3527 individuals Mancherial, 20 from Medak, overflowing of the nalas in the nalas and take steps to call ten- Lokesh Kumar asked the offi- An Inter Squadron drill com- recovered with a recovery rate 95 from Medchal-Malkajgiri, current rainy season and ders since the expansion is esti- cials to send photos of desilta- petition marked the culmi- of 95.14 percent. So far, a total 64 from Mulugu, 37 from thereby flooding of the adjoin- mated to cost Rs 858 crore. tion works along with geo- nation of competitions of of 1,59,94,238 Covid-19 tests Nagarkurnool, 148 from ing areas. She asked the officials to mapping to corporators and Under-Trainee Officers and have been conducted in the Nalgonda, 13 from Reviewing the progress of share the mobile phone num- MLAs without fail. Even if it Flight Cadets of the Air Force Two women killed State while 5,64,303 persons Narayanpet, 11 from Nirmal, expansion of nalas and their bers of emergency teams con- rains, desiltation works should Academy (AFA), Dundigal have recovered. 28 from Nizamabad, 89 from desilting with the GHMC stituted to corporators and be completed, he said. here on Monday. The Flight The Covid-19 positive cases Peddapalli, 55 from Rajanna zonal commissioners and other elected people's repre- SNDP chief engineer Cadets presented a spectac- reported from the districts Sircilla, 116 from Rangareddy, engineering officials here on sentatives. She wanted the offi- Vasanta said that the state ular march past in synchrony as truck runs amok included six cases from 23 from Sangareddy, 56 from Monday, she asked the offi- cials to give details of those government gave administra- with the IAF band. PNS n HYDERABAD then ramming into the shops. Adilabad, 95 from Bhadradri Siddipet, 58 from Suryapet, 50 cials to focus on the areas who undertake desilting works tive clearance to implement Commandant, Air Both the victims died on the Kothagudem, 165 from areas from Vikarabad, 35 from affected by flooding last year and those who remove trees works with Rs 850 crore for Marshal IP Vipin presented Two women, including a san- spot. They were identified as under the GHMC, 45 from Wanaparthy, 37 from due to rains and take steps to from road side. development of nalas. Project trophies to winners of vari- itation worker, were killed Chandramma, 45, working as Jagtial, 25 from Jangaon, 48 Warangal Rural, 61 from prevent recurrence of flood- Stating that Municipal reports are being prepared to ous competitions. The Brar when a pickup truck ran amok a sweeper with the from Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Warangal Urban and 55 from ing in those areas. Administration Minister KT execute these works, she Squadron bagged the in Sangareddy district on Narayankhed Municipality, and 34 from Jogulamba Gadwal, Yadadri-Bhongir. She asked them to complete Rama Rao and the Mayor's added. Winner's trophy for the Inter Monday, police said. Patnam Vittam, 44. The bod- Squadron Drill Competition. Four shops were also dam- ies were shifted to Area The Commandant's aged when the vehicle rammed Hospital Narayankhed for Banner is conferred to the into them after knocking down autopsy. squadron, which has dis- the two women. The accident occurred when Hyderabad CP played exceptional perfor- The incident, which sanitation workers were busy mance in various Inter occurred at Ryakal Road in sweeping the road while shops inspects Covid Squadron competitions such Naraynkhed town between were opening for the day. as sports, debate, quiz, cross 5.30 am and 6 am, was caught The driver was arrested. country, drill and acade- on CCTV camera. Police suspect that he was vaccine centre mics. The cadets of the win- The driver, who was alleged- drunk, which led to the disas- PNS n HYDERABAD ning squadron will have the ly under the influence of alco- ter. Municipal Commissioner privilege of wearing a lan- hol, lost control over the vehi- Malla Reddy, along with police Hyderabad City Police yard on the shoulder over cle, leading to the accident. The officials, visited the spot. He Commissioner Anjani their uniform, according to speeding pickup truck is seen assured all support to the fam- Kumar on Monday visited the a press release. first hitting two women, and ily of the sanitation worker. Police Learning Centre at Petlaburj and reviewed the vaccination programme being held there. The Commissioner, Property registrations resume accompanied by South Zone DCP Gujarao Bhupal went around the premises and interacted with police per- after fixing glitch in SDC server sonnel and their family PNS n HYDERABAD load caused by thousands of Some of the applicants have members who had come to applicants trying to log into the requested sub registrar offices to take the Covid19 vaccine. He Property registration activities portal to book a slot. The heavy register their properties on said the City Police were resumed as usual from Monday rush of applicants on the por- Monday without cancelling taking all initiatives for the as the authorities resolved the tal is because the government their slots. After verification of welfare of the police person- technical glitch in SDC main has allowed only 24 slots book- the networks in sub-registrar nel and that all preventive server. Efforts made by the ing per day. All slots booked on offices, the authorities com- measures necessary were senior officials of Registration Friday and Saturday were can- menced the operations as usual, being taken to protect police- Department and software offi- celled by the officials and the cit- clearing the pendency of work men from the pandemic. cials to resolve the problem bore izens were asked to apply again piled up for the past five days. Anjani Kumar asked the fruit on Sunday afternoon. for Monday. Applicants, who The technical team worked people to take all precautions Property registration through reached the sub registrar offices hard to identify the file for the and stay safe. He asked peo- Aerial view of street lighting system at Telangana's first model park for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) at the Stamps and Registration on Saturday after booking their past two days. The problem ple to venture out of their Dandumalkapur in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district. The Green Industrial Park has been jointly developed by Telangana State website was stalled at all SROs slots, were angry after waiting became resolved as the officials houses only if necessary and and regional offices for the last for hours, only to be informed at last identified the corrupted unavoidable. Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC) and Telangana Industrialists Federation (TIF). five days due to a server over- that the servers were down. file and solved the problem. SCR delivers over 5,000 mt of TS procures 82 L tonnes of paddy, yet draws flak

PNS n HYDERABAD grow crops that were in short procure three to four lakh oxygen to T’gana and Andhra supply. more tonnes," he said. It appears to be a problem of Yet, government in view of He also said that 40 lakh PNS n HYDERABAD plenty so far as paddy cultiva- pandemic agreed to make tonnes of free rice to eight lakh tion is concerned in the state. arrangements to procure paddy beneficiaries was distributed South Central Railway con- Every year the pressure is on for FCI and make advance for the month of June so far. tinues to play a vital role in the the state to procure all the payments to farmers. It did BJP leader and National vice nation's service through the paddy that is cultivated mounts. procure on a record scale so far. presidentD.K.Aruna criticized speedy delivery of medical It also exposes government's But the farmers in some areas that the State which promised oxygen to the Telugu states. failure to motivate farmers to go are in distress that the state has to procure the entire paddy Overcoming all challenges, for other crops like pulses, oil not been lifting the paddy fast failed in making adequate SCR has successfully deliv- seeds that have demand in enough and there were no arrangements in proportion ered 5,045 MT of liquid med- market and ensure fair prices to steps to rein in rice millers who to the yield and extent of ical oxygen to Telangana and farmers by keeping exploiting were exploiting the farmers and paddy cultivation. Andhra Pradesh. Till date, middlemen at bay. paying them less than the actu- target in 19 districts. 'The state achieved during this Yasangi Even as farmers are getting 2,605 MT of LMO was deliv- Oxygen Express trains loaded With regard to the states Thanks to irrigation facilities al quantity of paddy on the pre- created a record by procuring and government procured 20 ready for Vaanakalam season, ered to Telangana and 2,440 with 293 tankers have helped in where the Medical Oxygen and increase in water table, text of removing wastage. 82 lakh tonnes of paddy lakh tonnes more than that was many farmers could not sell MT of LMO was supplied to bringing 5,045 MT of LMO to was delivered by Railways, a farmers in the State have grown Opposition parties have exceeding the target even fac- procured in the last Yasangi their paddy cultivated during Andhra Pradesh. the two states. In terms of the cumulative total of 2,440 MT paddy extensively in the State been highlighting the problems ing challenges of shortages of season. Government procured Yasangi. This clearly exposed In order to meet the medical sourcing states, 2,828 MT from of LMO has been delivered at in over 52 lakh acres during of farmers and cornering the Hamalis, lorries anddrivers," so far 82 lakh tonnes of paddy the apathy of government oxygen requirement of the Odisha was sourced from Guntur, Krishnapatnam Port Yasangi this year and got an government that many farmers said Civil Supplies Corporation worth Rs 16,000 crore from towards farmers. The Civil states in an effective manner, Odisha, while 1,208 MT of and Tadipatri in Andhra impressive yield. This was have been losing out due to Chairman Mareddy Srinivas 12.5 lakh farmers through Supplies department should the Oxygen Express trains have LMO was sourced from Pradesh, while 2,605 MT of despite the appeal of the agri- delay in procurement. Reddy here on Monday. 6,962 purchase centres. Of 82 lift the paddy from purchase been operated from both from Jharkhand, followed by 929 LMO has been delivered at culture department officials Yet, state in spite of financial He told media persons that lakh tonnes procured, 78 lakh centres, transport it on war- the Eastern and Western parts MT from and another Sanath Nagar Goods Complex and Ministers not to cultivate crunch, kept its word on paddy an all time record was created tonnes were transported to footing and make payments to of the nation. A total of 66 80 MT from West Bengal. in Telangana. paddy indiscriminately but procurement and completed its in paddy cultivation and yields rice mills. "We are expecting to the farmers. hyderabad 04 HYDERABAD | TUESDAY | JUNE 8, 2021

Uttam demands free treatment for Covid patients PNS n HYDERABAD

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president and Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Monday demanded the government free treatment to poor and middle-class people for Covid and black fungus dis- eases. Addressing the Satyagraha Deeksha of the PCC at Gandhi Bhavan demanding All set for launch of diagnostic free treatment to all BPL families for Covid related, Uttam Kumar Reddy announced that Satyagraha centre in Mahabubnagar GGH Deeksha would be taken up in the Assembly constituen- PNS n MAHABUBNAGAR Rao inspected the Telangana Speaking on the occasion, Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao cy headquarters on June 14. Diagnostic Centre to be set up Srinivas Gowd said all is set for for providing the poor people The government should People could get as many as 57 at the government general hos- launch of the Telangana diag- with all laboratory tests free of implement a High Court Harish Rao underscores types of clinical tests free of pital here on Monday. It may nostic Centre at cost. The Minister advised the order which said that the cost at the Telangana diagnos- be mentioned here that the Mahabubnagar and people doctors to establish an attrac- excess charges being collect- tic centre and from 400 to 800 government was opening would benefit a lot with the tive board for the centre and ed from the people by the reports could be taken through Telangana diagnostic centres establishment of the centre as widen the road leading to the private hospitals should be need for mulberry cultivation the modern equipment, across the state on June 9. He the modern equipment could diagnostic centre. Municipal recovered and given back to Minister for Excise, Sports, directed the health officials to general 400 to 800 reports. Chairman KC Narsimhulu, the patients. He said he PNS n SIDDIPET power in the united state, but paddy among all the states in Cultural and Tourism Dr V make arrangements for the People could get test reports Additional Collector (Local expected that government in the Telangana state, the the country, he added. Srinivas Gowd said on inauguration of the from their nearest Primary Bodies) Tejas Nandalal Pawar, would voluntarily come for- Foregrounding the cultivation government was spending Rs He said the present situation Monday. Diagnostics centre at Health Centres, CHCs and DM&HO Dr Krishna, GGH ward to implement the of mulberry in the modern 10,500 crore for free power and was like that work was going The Minister along with Mahabubnagar government other hospitals through blood Superintendent Dr Kiran and orders of the High Court, but methods, Minister for Finance quality power. smoothly only if hamalis from District Collector S Venkata general hospital. samples. He thanked Chief others participated. it did not. T Harish Rao called upon the Harish Rao said the KCR Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and farmers to raise it as it became government was only giving Chattisgarh unload the paddy an easy crop and also appealed rythu beema to farmers on the at the purchasing centres in to the sarpanches, MPTCs earth as no government in any Telangana. Workers from LOCKDOWN EFFECT and village and mandal-level country was giving the insur- Bihar and Chattisgarh were leaders to encourage mulber- ance cover to the farmers. migrating to Telangana to do Congress slams Govt for ry cultivation. Stating that the farmer was get- paddy transplantation and Launching the mulberry ting more profit than that of even in the poultries workers cultivation by planting a the salary of the Collector, he from other states were doing slow pace of vaccination sapling at a farm owned by said the Collector has to pay works like collecting eggs. Umapathi and Prabhakar at income tax, but the farmer has Informing that the country was PNS n MAHABUBNAGAR Chandalapur village in no such tax and farmers could losing Rs 90,000 crores of for- Chinnakodur mandal of get more profit if they raise eign exchange every year by The Congress party on Monday Siddipet district on Monday, crops which have huge importing oil seeds, Harish demanded that the Telangana the Minister said the farmers demand in the market. Rao said the farmers should be government should provide could gain more profits with The Minister called upon encouraged to raise palm oil free treatment for Coronavirus the lowest investment by fol- the young farmers to raise oil crops. The country was and black fungus for all the lowing the modern methods in palm and sericulture crops as importing 4,000 metric tonnes patients and ensure free vacci- agriculture. The expenditure Telangana produced maxi- of silk from China even if nation for all in a time-bound on agriculture was mere Rs mum paddy output even it Karnataka was cultivating ser- manner. 1300 crore in the erstwhile faced hardships to store the iculture in 2.5 lakh acres and Addressing the 'Satyagraha united government after the stocks. About 24 lakh metric Telangana in 12,000 acres. He Deeksha' at Gandhi Bhavan as years. The average vaccination hollow as his government could Telangana state was formed it tonnes of paddy was yielded exhorted farmers that there a part of nationwide protest so far has been 47,152 doses per not secure a single additional has gone up to Rs 14,500 last year and this year it has were plenty of chances in palm demanding universal free vac- day. If the vaccination drive dose. crore. The TRS government risen to 90 lakh metric tonnes. oil and sericulture. cination against Covid-19 continues at the same pace, it He alleged that KCR was giv- was spending ten times more Many changes had been ZP Chairperson Roja Sarma, organised by the Congress would take nearly 580 days or ing false statements to mislead on the farmer after the state brought in the last seven years MPP Manikya Reddy, farmer party on Monday, former min- about 19 months to vaccinate people and when the first case formation. Comparing the and people had died due to coordination committee dis- ister and senior Congress leader the entire adult population. of Coronavirus was reported in expenditure on the power sec- starvation and Telangana wit- trict president Vanga Mohammed Ali Shabbir con- Consequently, a majority of Telangana on March 1, 2020, he Strictly following the Covid norms, ration card-holders kept bags on their behalf tor in the undivided state with nessed suicides in the united Nagireddy, TRS state general demned the BJP Government the population would remain downplayed it by making a in the squares drawn in front of a ration shop at Dhanwada in Kataram mandal of Telangana, Harish Rao said it rule. Today, the state has pro- secretary Radhakrishna Sarma at the Centre and TRS govern- exposed to Coronavirus for statement in the Assembly. Jayashankar Bhupalapally district on Monday. was just Rs 300 crore on free duced the highest yielding of and others were present. ment in the state over the slow the next one-and-a-half years, People trusted him and pace of Covid vaccination. he said. remained careless which led to Shabbir Ali pointed out that The Congress leader said the spread of the disease in all as against the requirement of that the Telangana Government parts of Telangana, he added. BJP condemns about 3.4 crore vaccine doses, has failed to mount pressure on Consequently, over 5.91 lakh ‘Changing lifestyle causing harm to environment' as of today, only 66,95,704 the Centre in getting the vac- people got infected and thou- doses have been administered cine doses of adequate quanti- sands lost their lives. The CM PNS n PATANCHERU they could not protect the KTR's remarks which includes 13.03 lakh sec- ty. The tall claims made by was primarily responsible for environment unless they were ond doses. Telangana required Chief Minister K most of the Covid deaths and The ever-increasing population part of it. over vax supply over 2.73 crore doses to vacci- Chandrasekhar Rao over glob- he must be booked for homi- and changing lifestyles are Earlier, Prof K Siva Rama nate a population above 18 al tenders to get vaccines proved cide, he said. making the environmental Krishna, Vice-Chancellor, PNS n HYDERABAD problems more critical and GITAM recalled the services higher educational institutions made by Prof. Shivaji Rao and Refuting the comments can be the best solution to who was instrumental to bring made by Industries I am in PCC change the prevailing situation, environmental sciences to Minister KT Rama Rao Stick to lockdown MC Mehta, noted environ- GITAM. In the name of devel- that shortage of Covid vac- chief race, mentalist and Supreme Court opment, people were overusing cines was due to the mis- advocate has said. nature, if they go extreme, takes committed by the While delivering the Prof T nature will imbalance, he said. Centre, Bharatiya Janata claims Yashki Shivaji Rao endowment lecture Prof N Siva Prasad, Pro Party senior leader Gudur regulations, says SP PNS n HYDERABAD online on the occasion of Vice-Chancellor, GITAM, Narayana Reddy on PNS n JAYASHANKAR World Environment Day Hyderabad warned that unless Monday said the state gov- BHUPALAPALLY Announcing that the which was jointly organized by people save the environment it ernment failed to utilise the Congress party high com- GITAM School of Humanities could harm the survival of opportunities provided by Jayashankar Bhupalapally dis- mand was going to name the and Social Sciences (GSHS) He shared his memories with human being. Hence, people the Centre and it deliber- trict Superintendent of Police new PCC chief by the end of and Department of Prof Shivaji Rao and recalled have to protect the environ- ately caused for the vaccine Dr Sangram Singh has under- June, former MP Madhu Environmental Science, the Taj Mahal case, which was ment. crisis in the state. scored the need for executing Yashki Goud on Monday Institute of Science of GITAM the first case in his career and Prof VVV Nagendra Rao, In a statement, he said the lockdown induced by the said he was also in the race University on Sunday, Mehta also on the issue of the envi- Director, GSHS delivered the that the Minister has been second wave corona pandem- of PCC chief. said it was the role of colleges ronment. Every human has a welcome speech. Prof N playing a blame game to ic more strictly to save the lives Stating that process of and universities to educate right to breathe clean air and Srinivas, organizer of this webi- cover up the failures of of the people. selecting the PCC chief students and people of society. drink protected water as they nar presented the biography of the state government in He said on Monday that 225 going on in Delhi, he com- They must be instrumental in are nature's gift and why Prof T Shivaji Rao. controlling the Covid pan- cases were registered and 340 mented that it was not like the sustainability movement, should we buy them, he asked. Dr V Saritha, Associate demic as it was negligent in vehicles were seized apart a 20-20 match. The high he added. to motivate the students in the Terming the students as born Professor proposed a vote of controlling it in the past 15 from 43 cases booked by Covid and lockdown rules command had been request- He appealed to the lecturers protection of the environment. environmentalists, he said if thanks. months. establishing inter-state check- voluntarily in the critical con- ed to give the PCC chief posts and 1560 non-contact ditions of the corona. Since position to backward class- petty cases. About 1602 cases the government allowed lock- es and weaker sections, he were registered against the down relaxation up to 2 pm, said. Bandi urged people who were roaming on the traders and small vendors Meanwhile, Sangareddy Covid: CMO responds to tweet, the streets without wearing should close their shops and MLA T Jagga Reddy said he masks and 131 cases against reached their homes before 2 was also aspiring to the not to allow those who violated the rule of pm. The SP said people should PCC president post. Stating maintaining a physical dis- not come out of their homes that the state in-charge Eatela into BJP extends aid to auto-driver's family tance. under any circumstances after Manickam Tagore has not He appealed to the people to 2 pm and vehicles would be considered him, he said it PNS n HYDERABAD NS RAO extend support to the police seized from the people who was unfortunate that Tagore n WARANGAL personnel in implementing were coming onto the roads didn't recognise him as a On a surprising note, Eatela the lockdown and follow the without a valid reason. strong leader in Telangana. Rajender Bhadhitha Responding to a tweet post- Sangham urged Telangana ed by a youth seeking help to BJP Chief Bandi Sanjay a woman whose husband was Kumar to reconsider his succumbed to Covid, Chief party's decision to allow Minister's Office (CMO) Speed up clearance of Dharani Eatala Rajender into BJP. Additional Secretary Smitha The Sangham submitted a Sabarwal came to the rescue memorandum to Bandi of the woman and her three portal grievances: Collector Sanjay during his visit to the children. Huzurabad constituency on According to reports, an PNS n SIDDIPET the reports through their Monday. The Sangham rep- auto driver of Warangal Shaik respective RDOs. The Collector resentatives explained that Iqbal died of corona 20 days District Collector P Venkatrami said based on the report of the Dalits may leave BJP if ago. Iqbal's wife Rubeena was Reddy has directed the RDOs field-level staff he would clear Eatela was considered into wailing silently looking for and tehsildars to speed up the the pending issues and asked BJP as he instigated the help to grow her three small clearance of pending applica- the tehsildars to try to dispose police to foist false cases kids. A youth Fasi Adeeb of tions in different categories in of them at their level. He cau- against the Dalits. the same colony posted a the Dharani portal. tioned them that there should Sangham president tweet explaining her plight to The Collector spoke to not be any mistakes in the Thipparapu Sampath Smitha Sabharwal, who in OSD Dr Santha Thoutam Child Protection officials P RDOs and Tehsildars from the Darani portal. Since the govern- informed that Eatela also turn, tagged the post to the also handed over ration goods Santosh Kumar and G Mulugu Collector camp office ment interlinked the Darani encouraged the police to women and child welfare at Rubeena's doorstep. Mahender spoke to Rubeena through videoconference on 1,534 grievances regarding pro- portal with Rythu Bandhu, all book Dalits for postings on officials, Warangal urban and Children Protection Meanwhile, acting on the and assured to assist for the Monday and reviewed the hibited properties, 120 suspen- grievances related to land mat- social media over his illegal Collector and the Municipal authorities finally reached direction of District Collector education of her children. progress in settling the pending sion module and 115 muta- ters should be resolved. So, the properties. When he was Commissioner and requested the victim and assured her all Rajiv Gandhi Hanumanthu, Local people praised Smitha grievances in the portal. There tions. The revenue officials farmers would get farm invest- the minister ordered the them to help Iqbal's widow. help. Warangal rural and urban Sabarwal for extending sup- were 2,356 complaints about were asked to lay special ment assistance into their bank police to file cases under PD After struggling for 2-3 They provided her imme- Child Welfare committee port to Rubeena, who was in land issues in the Dharani por- emphasis on the clearance of accounts under the Rythu Act against some innocent days to trace the woman, the diate succour like rice and chairpersons A Anilchander distress after the death of her tal in Siddipet district and pending claims and send him Bandhu scheme during khariff. people, he alleged. Child Welfare Committee other essential commodities. Rao, K Vasudha, district husband on war-footing. nation 05 HYDERABAD | TUESDAY | JUNE 8, 2021

HERPES, HAIR FALL, NAIL ISSUES Focus on vaccination rather than Doctors sound warning on post Covid dermatological problems fighting with Twitter: NCP to Centre PNS n NEW DELHI PNS n MUMBAI months. cities and districts, which have From reactivation of herpes Malik on Monday said while a positivity rate of five per cent infection to loss of hair, sever- The NCP on Monday said the the BJP and the central govern- and the oxygen bed occupan- al Covid patients in recovery ruling BJP at the Centre should ment are fighting with Twitter cy of less than 25 per cent, have phase are facing one dermato- focus more on vaccinating cit- over the issue of the 'blue tick', been allowed to open up com- logical complication or anoth- izens against COVID-19 rather citizens of the country are pletely with regular timings of er due to lowered immunity, say than fighting with micro-blog- fighting a battle to get them- essential and non- essential doctors. ging site Twitter over its 'blue selves vaccinated against shops, malls, theatres, audito- Skin care experts at leading tick' verification badge. COVID-19. riums, restaurants, private facilities in Delhi, Mumbai and NCP national spokesper- "Whether it is the issue of the offices, public places and sports other cities concurred that son Nawab Malik made the 'blue tick' or vaccination, the establishments. coronavirus patients even after remarks while talking to Centre is being criticised, but In the level-2 category, cities being discharged from hospitals reporters here, days after out- it is ignoring the criticism and and districts where the positiv- or having finished their home rage over the removal of the indulging in arrogance," the ity rate is five per cent and oxy- quarantine period should watch 'blue tick' badge from the NCP leader claimed. gen bed occupancy is 25 to 40 out for any skin inflammation personal accounts of Vice "The BJP should focus more per cent, essential and non- or consult a doctor immediate- President M on vaccinating citizens rather essential shops are allowed to ly if "it grows uncontrollably". and RSS top functionaries than fighting over the 'blue tick' open as per the regular timings, Dr D M Mahajan, senior including Mohan Bhagwat with Twitter," he added. restrictions. ment has announced a five- but malls, theatres, multiplex- consultant, dermatology, tion of the varicella-zoster virus. by Twitter, only to restore it To a query, Malik, whose "If districts and cities in level plan to relax the coron- es, auditoriums and restau- Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals It is usually a painful but self- later. party shares power with the level-1 do not follow COVID- avirus-induced restrictions in rants will function at 50 per in Delhi, says many post-Covid limited dermatomal rash. Twitter said as per rules, the Shiv Sena and Congress in appropriate behaviour, they the state with effect from cent capacity. patients with skin complica- Skin experts, who are seeing blue badge and verified status Maharashtra, said if people will slip to the second or third- Monday, based on the weekly Likewise, the state govern- tions are rushing to OPDs, post-Covid patients, say cases could be automatically follow COVID-19 prevention level," said Malik, who is also positivity rate and the occupan- ment has also issues guidelines fearing they have contracted of herpes zoster are being removed from an account if it norms, the entire state "would a state minister. cy of oxygen beds. for places falling under the mucormycosis or black fungus reported more than herpes is incomplete or inactive for six come out" of the lockdown-like The Maharashtra govern- Under the level-1 category, other three categories. but people should be cautious from HSV. not paranoid. Mahajan said cases of infec- "Several Covid patients in tion from Candida fungus have Dr D M Mahajan, senior recovery phase are facing skin also been seen among the consultant, dermatology complications and the most Covid patients who are in Government ‘suppressing’ Covid data, govt allots common one being reported to recovery phase. It is a mould ed in large number of Covid us are cases of herpes. In many like infection and can result patients during recovery phase patients with a history of her- from excessive medication or even a month later. Besides hair propaganda top on agenda: Priyanka Rs 25 cr from CMPRF to pes it is get retriggered and in use of steroids. This infection loss and nail complications are others they are just contracting can cause white patches on gen- too happening with many PNS n NEW DELHI that the infection and death it afresh, both due to lowered italia. patients," she said. rates were not alarming, while procure Amphotericin B immunity," he told PTI. Candidiasis is a fungal infec- As far as nail complications Congress leader Priyanka the testing rates were sufficient. PNS n CHENNAI Infection with herpes sim- tion caused by a yeast (a type of are concerned, cases of Gandhi Vadra on Monday In fact, it was exactly the plex virus, commonly known as fungus) called Candida. melanonychia or Beau's lines accused the Centre of sup- opposite," she said. Tamil Nadu has allotted Rs 25 herpes, can be due to either her- Mumbai-based dermatolo- are also being seen in such pressing data related to the The Modi government crore from the Chief Minister's pes simplex virus type 1 (HSV- gist and hair transplant surgeon patients. Melanonychia entails Covid pandemic, and said the seems to be following the Public Relief Fund (CMPRF) 1) or herpes simplex virus type Dr Sonali Kohli said COVID- whitish or brown lines on nails, Modi government's emphasis exact same pattern on data sur- towards procurement of 2 (HSV-2). Herpes labialis 19 compromises the immuni- she said. on propaganda over saving rounding the vaccination pro- Amphotericin B drug and which occurs around the lip ty of a patient leading to mul- Kohli, consultant dermatol- lives had caused "immense gramme today, Priyanka other medicines to treat black area with lesions in cluster pre- tifarious complications, includ- ogist, Sir H N Reliance damage". Gandhi said. fungus-affected patients in ceded by burning pain is caused ing in skin, hair and nails. Foundation Hospital in Going ahead with her "The Modi government's the State. by HSV. "Though there is no clinical Mumbai, said patients should "Zimmedaar Kaun (who is emphasis on propaganda over The announcement on Herpes zoster is viral infec- study to correlate the two but consult a specialist if hair loss responsible)" campaign, in saving lives has caused Monday comes in the back- tion that occurs with reactiva- herpes infection is being report- persists. which she has been asking immense damage. It is answer- drop of the State government sufficient supply of liposomal questions of the government able to the people of India," declaring the black fungus as Amphotericin B, which is over its handling of the pan- Priyanka Gandhi asserted. a notified disease. being allotted by the Central demic, the Congress general Gandhi added in a statement. Experts from across India According to the Medical government, are increasingly People above 45 secretary focused on the data The government's propa- have been demanding that Minister M Subramanian, the becoming critical issues which related to Covid put out by the ganda machinery repeatedly data surrounding the viru- number of those infected by it need urgent intervention," yrs will be given government. indulged in the "suppression lence and spread of the pan- stands at 921 in the State as of Stalin had said in his letter to Is it more important to save and manipulation" of data to demic should be made public, Sunday (June 6). Union Health Minister Harsh vax at polling the prime minister's image serve the government's polit- but this has never been done, "Chief Minister M K Stalin Vardhan last week. than it is to save Indian lives, ical agenda even as lives were she asserted. has issued orders to allocate Rs The government has already she asked in her posts on lost in “battling the scourge of Citing the examples of 25 crore to procure appealed to the public to booths: Kejriwal Facebook, Twitter and a century", she alleged. states like Uttar Pradesh, she Amphotericin B and other donate to the Chief Minister's PNS n NEW DELHI Instagram while alleging that To emphasise her point, said the government present- life-saving medicines towards Public Relief Fund in its fight the government was using Priyanka Gandhi said right ed RT-PCR and antigen test treatment of black fungus," an against the COVID-19 pan- Polling booths in Delhi will data as a "propaganda tool". from the beginning of the data together in order to official release said. demic and several individuals, be turned into vaccination "From the very start of the pandemic, deaths and infec- "manipulate the truth". Stalin had urged the Union industrialists and corporates centres and booth-level offi- pandemic, the Modi govern- tions were reported as a ratio "In fact, it is widely known Health Ministry to allocate an have been extending their cers (BLOs) will visit all the ment's attitude towards data of the population while testing that antigen tests are unreliable adequate number of support. households to book slots for was to utilize it as a propagan- was reported as an absolute fig- in comparison. In UP even Amphotericin B drugs. "As of today (June 7), the people in the 45 plus age da tool rather than an invalu- ure. now, the ratio of RT-PCR tests "The emergence of State government has received group under the 'Jahan Vote, able weapon in the fight "This was designed to mis- versus antigen tests is 65:35 per mucormycosis aka black fun- Rs 280.20 crore funds," the Wahan Vaccination cam- against COVID-19," Priyanka lead the public into believing cent," Priyanka Gandhi said. gus among the patients and release said. paign, Chief Minister Arvind Heavy rain warning in Kejriwal said on Monday. There are 57 lakh people in Delhi in the 45 plus age AR Rahman, son Train driver saves coastal Maha; CM asks group and of them, 27 lakh Delhi Metro resumes services after have been given the first receive first dose life of 79-yr-old dose of the coronavirus vac- officials to stay alert cine while 30 lakh are yet to of Covid vaccine nearly 3 weeks with 50% capacity man attempting get the jab, Kejriwal said in an PNS n CHENNAI PNS n NEW DELHI PNS n MUMBAI and Konkan region...prepare online briefing. suicide yourself to face any eventuali- "We have noticed that peo- Music maestro AR Rahman The Delhi Metro resumed ser- Maharashtra Chief Minister ty," he said. ple in the 45 plus age group and his son, singer AR vices on Monday after a hiatus PNS n THANE Uddhav Thackeray on Thackeray directed the are not coming to vaccination Ameen, on Monday said they of nearly three weeks in view Monday directed the state administration at the state centres set up by the Delhi have received the first dose of of the improved Covid situa- A Central Railway motorman administration to stay alert and district levels to work in government and vaccines are the COVID-19 vaccine. tion in the national capital, but managed to halt his train in and be prepared to tackle any co-ordination and ensure peo- not being utilised," he said. Rahman, 54, shared a self- with 50 per cent seating capac- time and save the life of a 79- eventuality in the wake of the ple do not face any hardships. There are around 280 ie with 18-year-old Ameen ity and no provision for stand- year-oldman who attempted forecast of heavy rains in The Regional wards in Delhi. The BLOs on his Instagram page. ing travel for commuters, offi- suicide by jumping onto the Mumbai and other coastal Meteorological Centre (RMC) will visit households in 72 "Vaccinated #1stjabdone cials said. tracks in Vitthalwadi station in areas of the state during this at Mumbai in a tweet said, wards from Tuesday to iden- #covishield have you?" the Delhi Metro Rail Thane district, police said on week. The CM in a statement "Severe weather warnings over tify and send eligible persons Oscar winner wrote alongside Corporation (DMRC) services Monday. The incident took said patients, including of the region during next 5 days. for vaccination at the polling the photo. were fully suspended since place on Friday, said Inspector COVID-19, should not face Increase in rainfall activity booths, he said. Ameen shared the same May 20 in view of the Covid- Shardul Walmiki of Kalyan any hurdle in their treatment. expected over Konkan and The chief minister said selfie on his account and cap- induced lockdown, which was railway police station. People living in low-lying adjoining ghat areas of Madhya polling booths are close to the tioned the post as "#vaccinat- first imposed on April 19 and plying, with the scheduled Arvind Kejriwal announcing "The elderly Kalyan resi- areas, dilapidated buildings Maharashtra from 10th June." homes of the people so they ed". The central government then successively extended by starting time for services being various relaxations on dent jumped onto the tracks and landslide-prone areas In another tweet, the RMC will not have to travel long launched the nationwide the city government. 6 am. Saturday, allowing metro to commit suicide as a subur- should be moved to safer said thunderstorm accompa- distances to get the vaccine. drive in March this year to Metro services initially ran "Only half of the available trains to operate with half ban train was approaching. places, he told the state admin- nied with lightning, gusty Also, the government has vaccinate everyone above 60 partially, catering only to peo- trains will be inducted into ser- capacity and shops in markets The motorman managed to istration. He also asked winds and moderate to intense arranged e-rickshaws to ferry years of age and those aged ple from essential services, vice with a frequency ranging and malls to reopen on odd- stop the train in time by guardian ministers to convene spells of rain very likely over people to the vaccination between 45 and 59 with co- but from May 10, it was sus- from nearly five to 15 minutes even basis from June 7. applying emergency brakes. meetings of district disaster Thane, Raigad, Palghar, centres. morbidities. From May 1, the pended in view of rising cases on different lines," a DMRC He asserted that the city's The man was sent home with management authorities. Ahmednagar, Pune, Beed, The BLOs will give slots for central and state governments amid the second wave of the official had said on Sunday. economy needs to be revived his son," he said. "There is a forecast of heavy Jalna,Parbhani, Hingoli, vaccination to people in the started vaccinating people coronavirus pandemic. The move comes in the in view of improving COVID- A video of the incident rains from June 9 to 12 in the Nanded, Aurangabad and 45 plus age group at the aged between 18 and 44. On Monday, trains begun wake of Chief Minister 19 situation. went viral on social media. Mumbai Metropolian Region Latur during next 3-4 hours. nearest polling centre. Goa nightlife will resume Early diagnosis of MIS in kids can reduce morbidity in later stages: Minister PNS n NEW DELHI till now, its impact can increase digestive system, brain, skin or with some patients requiring among them if there is a change eyes, become severely inflamed. intensive care and monitoring. PNS n PANAJI the COVID- 19 situation in Early diagnosis of Multisystem in virus behaviour or epidemi- “Any child presenting with “At present, social distancing the country comes under con- inflammatory syndrome, a coro- ology dynamics, and steps are three days of fever with signs of and using masks to avoid Covid Nightlife in Goa should not be trol," he said. navirus-linked disease, in chil- being taken to strengthen pre- at least two organ involvement, infections are the only way of allowed to resume till the The minister said the lives dren can significantly reduce paredness to deal with any such for instance, diarrhea, vomiting, preventing the development of COVID-19 situation in India of people are more important morbidity, say healthcare experts situation. breathlessness, fatigue, rashes, this syndrome,” he adds. comes under control, state than the economy of Goa. as they advise parents and care- A national expert group has conjunctivitis etc, with the his- Manish Mannan, HOD, Ports Minister and BJP leader "We have seen our close givers not to take fever among been formed to review COVID- tory of Covid infection or con- Paediatrics & Neonatology, Michael Lobo said on Monday friends dying due to COVID- the kids lightly. 19 infections in children and tact to Covid patient, should Paras Hospitals Gurugram says as he stressed the need to pro- 19. We have to be very careful. Experts say some children approach the pandemic in a report to a doctor immediately it is crucial for parents to iden- tect the lives of people. The economic activity can with asymptomatic or mild renewed way so as to strength- for further evaluation. tify the problem early. Lobo represents the resume after we see that COVID-19 have also devel- en the nation's preparedness, “The disease can present with “So if anybody is having high Calangute Assembly segment COVID-19 cases across India oped this disease. NITI Aayog Member (Health) varying severity from mild grade fever, they should consult which has many nightclubs are coming under control," he Multisystem inflammatory V K Paul had said at a press con- forms to life-threatening disease. the pediatrician early, preferably and bars. said. Lobo suggested tourism syndrome in children (MIS-C) ference last week. The illness, if diagnosed on on the first or second day. If we Speaking to reporters, Lobo be opened in a phased manner is a serious condition that is usu- According to the experts, time, responds to therapy like diagnose the disease early and said it will take another year prioritising those activities ally seen two to four weeks after early diagnosis of Multisystem steroids, IVIG (Intravenous intervene early, the treatment for the pandemic-hit economy which won't trigger transmis- getting infected by the novel inflammatory syndrome in chil- immunoglobulin), low molecu- needed is less. And the morbid- to return to normalcy. sion of coronavirus. coronavirus infection and dren can significantly reduce lar weight heparin, among oth- ity is also less. The longer you "Goa is a world-famous "When we reopen hotels infants as young as two months morbidity and the condition can asymptomatic COVID-19 have who become infected by ers, very well,” he says. wait, the greater the morbidity,” destination for its nightlife. guests should be asked to old have reported this disease. be treated well with therapies also developed MIS-C. COVID-19 have only mild ill- Noting that most major hos- he says. Mannan also says that The nightlife has been shut carry a COVID-19 negative The government has also like steroids. They also advise Anurag Agarwal, Professor, ness, but in children who go on pitals of Delhi have reported there have been instances of chil- down (due to COVID-19 certificate and they should cautioned that even though parents and caregivers to not Pediatrics, Maulana Azad to develop MIS-C, some organs such cases with varying severi- dren, who were asymptomatic curbs) and I feel that it should abide by all the protocols," he COVID-19 has not taken a take fever in their children light- Medical College and Lok Nayak and tissues such as the heart, ty, Agarwal says till date mortal- or had mild COVID-19, devel- continue to remain closed till added. serious shape among children ly as some children who had Hospital says most children lungs, blood vessels, kidneys, ity has been less in such cases oping MIS-C. HYDERABAD | TUESDAY | JUNE 8, 2021 06

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People, especially in rural and low-income GORADIA areas, are in mortal dread of getting the jab not just writing it PRAFULL t is over a fortnight since hundreds of Government vaccination centres for the 18- The leaders of every era should leave behind some architecture that represents 44 age group in Delhi have remained shut because of vaccine shortage. The story Iis the same in several other States. It is the primary reason for the vaccination pro- the ethos of that era, like the Central Vista project gramme slackening. The other, and more important reason with serious implications, he Parliament House, is vaccination hesitancy. It has afflicted the low-income group residential colonies, slums where I sat until April and the countryside the maximum. People are simply refusing to take the jab. They 2000, made one feel are running away from accredited social health activists (ASHA). Along with infection welcome and impor- in the second wave, misinformation and rumours too have trickled into the rural areas. tant. It inspired me to Tparticipate in speech after Several voluntary agencies that have visited the villages across the country return with speech. Our best speakers were the same message: It is very difficult to convince vil- in the Vajpayee Ministry and lagers. They believe what they have heard or read or could not debate, only reply or seen on television. Nothing shakes their belief. In late wind up debates. It is the non- Ministers who had to do the April and May, there were reports of villagers running debating and the routine speak- away from health workers carrying the infrared ther- ing, plus asking questions. I mometers, thinking them to be guns. That is what they attended every session day and are called in the villages of Uttar Pradesh, for instance. generally sat until the House was adjourned for the next day. Their orthodoxy and conservative beliefs strengthen In a different way, I loved the rumours and the half-baked information they get my mother and she reciprocat- to hear about the vaccines. One of the bizarre rea- ed as I was her only child. When sons is that vaccines cause impotence. Or that they she became 78, I wished she would live another 70 years or heard on television that vaccination after-effects can more. But she had become old show after even two or three years. Some think vac- with a broken femur; it was bet- cines cause death, some that they offer incomplete protection against COVID-19. ter for her to go. I let her go and, Some migrant and daily wage workers are diffident about taking vaccines because gracefully, did not shed a tear. Life is growth and progress, if they get fever as reaction, they might lose a day’s wages. People, particularly mem- change is the inevitable law. The bers of tribal communities in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Parliament complex, in the year spacing has to be more liber- comes to political opposition, done decades ago but we Jharkhand and Rajasthan, use any and all excuses to not visit the vaccination cen- 2000, was already getting old. al, which means the halls leaders say how can you waste should now put these right. tres. These centres have vaccines, but the queues are just not forming; at best the The plaster, paint and what-not should be twice as large. money on the luxury of the Europe gave great impor- applied during the non-session Ditto goes for all the other Central Vista when the tance to architecture as the people are a trickle. The Union Government urgently needs to run a national cam- time made it look elegant as do facilities: the Central Hall, the COVID treatment needs the sentinels of an era. Look at paign to dispel the rumours in rural areas. It needs to be a top-down campaign because rouge, powder and make-up canteens, the library, the min- greatest attention. What an the number of lovely State the villagers and tribals are hardly listening to ASHA and health workers. The people make a lady pretty. Nevertheless, isterial chambers, the com- extraordinary contradiction buildings in Mumbai, the will hear those in power or position who they can trust. It is their messages they will ageing was inevitable. mittee rooms et al. between the economic mas- statues of Kolkata which are There were many commit- The existing Parliament ters, including Nobel now hidden at the back of hear and believe. The countryside has had experience with several national immuni- tee and standing committee House was to train Indian Laureates, on the one hand Victoria Memorial. sation programmes in the past, polio drops for example, and workers never had any meetings and, if the convener representatives to be legisla- and the only national Not as a lesson in icono- problem administering the doses. The Chief Ministers have only now begun to per- was not a VIP, we were allotted tors. They were expected Opposition, on the other? clasm but as the historical sonally tour rural areas to convince people to vaccinate themselves. The vaccination pokey little rooms on an upper then to legislate or even WE ARE NOW The leaders of every era importance of architecture, let floor. I wondered why, in the debate subjects. For those should leave behind some us quote Sir Arnold Toynbee, drive is boiling down to a paradoxical situation where vaccines are available in the first place, such small rooms limited intentions, everything UNDER THE architecture that represents the great philosopher of his- rural areas for free but people are hesitant to take the jab, while in urban centres where were built. Then I discovered at Parliament was spacious. SHADOW OF COVID the ethos of that era. That is tory: “In the course of the first vaccines are available at a cost in private centres, people with low financial means that a junior officer vacated his But time has not stood still, making, not writing, history. Russian occupation of are unable to afford them. Later in June, and certainly in July, India will have plenty room for the sake of the meet- nor has the clock stopped AND THE NEW The Muslim rulers were con- Warsaw, the Russians had ing; there was no other space for ticking. A century has passed SPACING HAS TO scious of this requirement; built an Eastern Orthodox of vaccines. What will be needed are people to take the jabs. us. We were then a total of 795 by and it has taken its toll. the Hindus did build endur- Christian Cathedral in the members. This was the number Those visitors who have seen BE MORE LIBERAL, ing temples but little else. city that had been the capital after a revision in the 1950s only the ground floor might WHICH MEANS THE Unfortunately, iconoclasts in of the independent Roman PICTALK when the population of India question the need to build it north India did not allow Catholic country, Poland. The was 40 crore plus. Today, India again but those like me who HALLS SHOULD BE many temples to survive. In Russians had done this to give is believed to be at least three have toured the upper storeys TWICE AS LARGE. a way, some history was thus the Poles a continuous times as much. would know what is overdue lost and we should be aware demonstration that the I enquired from late Chief and what is not. DITTO GOES FOR of this lacuna. Russians were now the mas- Minister Sahib Singh the num- Reading newspapers and ALL THE OTHER Those who have been ters. After the re-establish- ber of people he earlier repre- watching the TV channels, I inside the offices in, say, ment of Poland’s indepen- sented in the Lok Sabha. His have found for months that FACILITIES: THE Shastri Bhawan and its com- dence in 1918, the Poles answer was “at least 30 lakh”. the widely given advice is to CENTRAL HALL, panions Udyog, Nirman or pulled this cathedral down. I Now, the large constituencies spend and spend money to THE CANTEENS, Krishi Bhawans know what do not blame the Polish must be unmanageably huge. It distribute to the last man in they are like. The first floor Government for having is high time the number of the queue of poverty. Beyond THE LIBRARY of Nirman Bhawan has been pulled down the Russian members increased to 1,000. a point, how does one distrib- AND THE refurbished very well, the church.” The seating is close, although ute money except by spend- rest I don’t know. They are (The writer is a well- comfortable. ing it on public works, as MINISTERIAL probably constructed in a known columnist and an We are now under the shad- President Roosevelt had done CHAMBERS hurry or cheaply or careless- author. The views expressed ow of COVID and the new 1932 onwards. When it ly, or all three. That was are personal.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SOUNDBITE

People in the Workers pluck tea leaves during the monsoon season at a tea estate in Dibrugarh PTI A TALE OF TWO VACCINES Sir —The findings from a real-world study 45-plus age group Vaccine inequity between nations are not coming to of the vaccinated health workers that vaccination centres in the armoury of the world against the killer Covishield and Covaxin — the two vaccines on their own. So, currently being used in India — produce a virus. This was recently admitted to by WHO we will now visit high-immune response in up to 95 per cent Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus their homes. Trouble in Nepal when he said that a “scandalous inequity” in vac- of the recipients and prevent serious diseases Its Supreme Court has formed a new Bench to in those infected after two doses should dis- cine distribution is perpetuating the ongoing Corona crisis. The height of inequality that the Delhi Chief Minister pel all mistrust and hesitancy about vacci- —Arvind Kejriwal help tide over the constitutional crisis there nation and instil trust in these two vaccines. pandemic has demonstrated can be gauged Both the vaccines were found to work well from the fact that only 10 developed countries ur immediate Himalayan neighbour, Nepal, seems to be slowly but steadily slip- and produce good results. have received 75 per cent of all vaccines admin- It’s (the turning ping into the anarchic ways of Myanmar. Just like the Generals of the armed forces It is of some immunological significance istered so far, while only 0.3 per cent have gone around of her of Myanmar (called the Tatmadaw), Nepal’s acting Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli that Covishield produced more antibodies to the lower-income nations, with the African plane) a technical O issue. There are doesn’t want to part with his powers at any cost. Just like the Burmese people, the against spike protein of Sars-CoV-2, the ne of the primary reasons for the mass continent receiving just one per cent. vaccination programme not gaining It would be foolish to assume that if some no major safety causative agent of COVID-19, than Covaxin. concerns. Nepalese citizens are also fed up with their Prime Minister over his inept handling of So is the fact that there were fewer “break- Omomentum is the stark inequity between parts of the world reach 100 per cent vaccina- pressing issues and overtly corrupt ways. Now, with the Nepal Supreme Court order- through infections” or post-vaccination the rich and the poor countries. We, as human tion target while others are left behind, the virus ing the formation of a new Constitutional Bench to decide upon a clutch of petitions infections among the Covaxin recipients. race, have failed to vaccinate the world, even with several mutants will spare the former. Global US Vice-President — Kamala Harris against the May 22 dissolution of the House of Representatives, mainly on the recom- The data showed that the recipients of as various variants of the virus continue to vaccination requires focused financing, solidar- the vaccines suffered or displayed no severe mutate. The blame partly also lies in the limit- ity and substantial investments. Just a handful mendation of Oli and acceded to by his rubber stamp, or unsolicited side-effects. The study was ed applicability and relevance of global organ- of pharma companies, governed only by the My 1st Birthday President Bidya Devi Bhandari, the Himalayan State is isations like the WHO and the UN. This is the greed to book profits, should not be allowed to after getting conducted on 515 vaccinated healthcare Married to My situation when mass vaccination and COVID- decide the fate of the entire humanity. experiencing a fresh political crisis. Considering Oli’s workers from across India between January Prince Charming quest for absolute control over the Government and and May 2021 as against the lab-based stud- appropriate behaviour remain the only weapons Vijay Singh Adhikari | Nainital @rohanpreetsingh I political affairs, he will try again to derail the forma- ies (both the lab-based and real-world stud- can't tell you all ies are valid and reliable) should convince whaaaaat he's given to me. tion of a new Government. An egoist, authoritarian and everyone that getting vaccinated has signif- ical leadership. This isn’t true just for the decades. The latest US intel report on UFOs icant benefits and no significant risks. The Congress nationally but for the entire that has not ruled out the existence of aliens assertive Prime Minister, he has successfully plunged gamut of regional parties. While vast has given additional hope to people who Singer Nepal into a greater, humanitarian, crisis even as the importance of COVID-19 vaccines that are —Neha Kakkar safe and effective and provide protection majority of the political parties are crowned strongly believe that aliens do exist. country is in the throes of a significant health crisis cannot be overemphasised; they are the key by dynasts and family members, there is an The mystery that shrouds Area 51, com- amid the second peak of COVID-19. uncertain future for parties like the bined with the US intelligence report that So yeah, (India to ending the pandemic. are) a brilliant G David Milton | Tamil Nadu AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, the BJD in “strange objects” have been sighted by the Even at its best, thanks especially to Oli’s Odisha and Nitish Kumar’s JD(U). US Navy pilots and such incidents — num- side, ranked right (mis)governance, Nepal lacks all fundamental policy Mamata has looked at all these experi- bering over 120 in 20 years were not relat- up the top, which THE DYNASTIC TURN IN THE TMC is fair enough frameworks concerning disaster management, human- Sir — Buoyed by a massive victory in the ences and, unfortunately, picked a family ed to objects like our research balloons — member as her heir. While there are com- adds to the hunch of the alien-chasers. and an exciting itarian crises or foreign policy. In a nutshell, on May Assembly elections last month, TMC chief opportunity for us. 10, despite a protracted political battle, the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (UML) failed and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has plex factors behind the resilience of dynas- Considering the above, I have to fall in appointed her nephew Abhishek as the tic politics — the brand recall value of lead- line with the thinking of my 15-year-old to prove majority in the Lower House of Parliament. The Prime Minister has since held ers, a quicker route to mass legitimacy, con- grandson who closely follows all news con- New Zealand skipper party’s all-India general secretary. With this —Kane Williamson a series of parleys with the Opposition, including the Nepali Congress and the Janata appointment, he has become the official heir trol over finances — it leaves the Indian nected to aliens and the UFOs that even if Samajbadi Party, for support after the erstwhile faction of the CPN(UML) led by former to Mamata through the dynastic root to democracy poorer. Mamata has followed, Area 51 is keeping the aliens and their space- rather than led, this time around. crafts have been captured, they would Pyaar ke teen Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ withdrew support to Oli’s Government, political leadership. That makes the TMC rang, khoon ke the latest entrant to the big list of political N Sadhasiva Reddy | Bengaluru never make it public as it would lead to lots which is now in minority. Though India has carefully avoided making any comment on of problems and put a big question mark on chheeton ke sang parties which have practised the dynastic (three colours of the matter, calling it “Nepal’s internal issue”, our main concern should be to pre-empt various theories relating to creation, evolu- route rather than democratic processes to AREA 51 AND THE UFOS love, served with any attempts to thwart democracy and peace in the region. As the world’s largest democ- choose their leadership. Sir — The belief that the remains of tion and so on. droplets of blood). racy, it is India’s moral responsibility to not only ensure a healthy and vibrant democ- The episode throws up a larger question crashed UFOs are stored in Area 51 in Tharcius S Fernando | Chennai racy in its neighbourhood but also peace and development in the region, especially at about the resilience of dynastic politics — Nevada and the military is holding aliens where the bloodline determines the polit- there, has been haunting alien-chasers for Send your feedback to: Actor this sensitive time when the world is busy battling the COVID-19 pandemic. [email protected] —Taapsee Pannu HYDERABAD | TUESDAY | JUNE 8, 2021 07 www.dailypioneer.com facebook.com/dailypioneer | @TheDailyPioneer | instagram.com/dailypioneer/ FIRSTCOLUMN Economy needs a SEVEN YEARS OF MODI REGIME strong stimulus PRIYANKA CHATURVEDI The Government must concentrate on gradual That India was a perfect growth story before 2014 would be incorrect to claim, but is it but serious systemic changes to ensure reforms any better seven years down the line under a single-party majority? t is the economy, Stupid! An oft repeated reminder, the world over, to nations, its leaders and to its people that all other argu- ments are irrelevant if you do not have an economy that ensures- jobs, per capita VK BAHUGUNA income,I welfare schemes and a thriving growth n May 26 the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) gov- market. In India, it is a story of a nation that was deliberately waylaid from its goals at the altar ernment led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi complet- of one party's inability to get it right for the Oed seven years in office. For the first time since 1984 a nation. We have a nation that has been distract- single political party won absolute majority in 2014. The BJP ed by an agenda that only creates more schisms improved its tally in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. However, the in anation as diverse as ours. That India was a Shiv Sena and Akali Dal are no longer in the NDA. The BJP perfect growth story before 2014 would be incor- celebrated the occasion as 'service day'. This is the longest rect to claim, but is it any better seven years down but a tumultuous period of a stable government in power. What the line under a single party majority that can ride roughshod over opposition? The answer is does this 'service day' means for the common man? no, an emphatic no. Modi government have some solid achievements during The National Statistical Office released the the first term which got him solid support in Uttar Pradesh and latest GDP figures, and it paints a grim picture other North Indian states and West Bengal. The linking of Aadhar of our economy, it exposes the government inep- card to mobile and bank accounts is a key achievementAnother titude to not just handle the economy but also was to open 38.35 crore 'Jan Dhan' accounts. The digitization the pandemic.An annual GDP that touched a of government departments and banks helped in checking grass- high of 8.3 per cent in 2016-17 has recorded a negative growth of 7.3 per cent, this is the first roots corruption as money of more than 300 schemes is trans- time India has recorded negative annual growth ferred directly in the accounts of the beneficiaries — the gov- since 1979-80.An annual nominal GDP that ernment saved Rs 1.5 lakh crore which otherwise would have stood as high as 13.8 per cent in 2012-13 now leaked out due to corruption. stands at -3 per cent. So, should the COVID-19 Eradicating open defecation by sanctioning toilets which pandemic alone be blamed for this? The dataw- along with 'Swatch Bharat Scheme' is estimated to have pre- ill show you that it is otherwise.It started to fall THE GOVERNMENT from an unthought out demonetization in OF INDIA 2016, which Dr Manmohan Singh had rightful- ly called "organized loot & legalized plunder" and CONTINUES TO followed it up with the implementation of flawed DEFEND THE FALL GST in 2017, that GST has been an idea gone IN INDIAN awry in implementation is clear from all the non- ECONOMY AS BJP states calling out its unfairness in the recent BEING MUCH that claimed it had a solution to the caused due to the lockdown.The pick up, increased government Council meet. The disagreements in the GST LESSER THAN problem has in fact aggravated the Prime Minister announced an expenditure besides that of the Council should be an indicator of how this will OTHER problem RBI estimates suggest Aatmanirbhar package that would Central Vista, direct transfers of unfold. COUNTRIES, BUT that India's NPAs bad loan ratio be 10 per cent of GDP, but when cash - 200 million womenwith The government of India continues to THAT'S could surge to 13.5 per cent. Finance Minister speltit out it JanDhan accounts were given a defend the fall in Indian economy as being much INCORRECT, INDIA which will add further burden to turned out to be barely one per sum of Rs.500 per month for a lesser than other countries, but that's incorrect, HAS BEEN the GDP growth. cent of the GDP as confirmed by quarter in 2020 and after that the vented three lakh deaths from water- borne diseases and India has been amongst the worst hit. AMONGST THE Joblessness in the country has economic experts. families have been left to fend for "Ujjawala Scheme" under which eight crore households were Acceptance to the truth is the only way to course WORST HIT. been steadily rising under the As the cases of Covid in the themselves. provided gas connections won the hearts of rural people, par- correct. However, a party unwilling to learn will ACCEPTANCE TO watch of a party that promised 15 first wave began to slide we had The second wave of the pan- find that a difficult ask. Leaving some data, crore jobs. A year after demoneti- BJP leaders calling it an endgame demic hit the nation hard, the gov- ticularly women. Kitchenswere made smoke-free. Rural THE TRUTH IS THE which government can refute at leisure, GDP ONLY WAY TO sation, as per government's own of COVID-19 and the party in its ernment that was busy patting homes enjoyed the luxury of toilets. It drastically cut the polit- growth rate of USA in 2020 -3.5 per cent, COURSE CORRECT. data - India's unemployment rate National Executive Committee itself on its back was caught ical base of caste-based opposition parties in the Hindi heart- Germany -4.9 per cent, France -8.2 per cent, HOWEVER, A hit a 45-year high. India has start- applauded the Prime Minister for unawares and their disconnect to land. The 'Ayushman Bharat' scheme is unique which covers China 2.3 per cent, Japan -4.8 per cent and India PARTY UNWILLING ed witnessing unemployment rates ending COVID in the nation. The the situation on ground created 50 crore population under one of the largest government-spon- at -7.3 per cent. India's GDP per capita income TO LEARN WILL close to 6-7 per cent in the years finance minister and the panic and havoc across the coun- sored health programmes in the world. Fifteen more AIIMS were has come down from 10.6 per cent in 2016-17 FIND THAT A leading up to Covid-19. It is esti- RBIstarted to speak of V- try, the damage to the economy created and 157 Medical Colleges opened, increasing med- to -5.4 per cent in 2020-21. Many countries DIFFICULT TASK mated that 12.2 crore people have shapedand K-shaped recoveries. will take a long time for recovery, including Bangladesh have overtaken India in lost their jobs during Covid-19. The truth?We were hurtling not despite RBI now claiming a W- ical seats by 35,000. The government also started National per-capita-GDP terms. India's middle class has shrunk by just into a second Covid wave shaped recovery, moving away Digital Health Mission for telemedicine. The country has been seeing a steady rise in 3.2 crore and over 7.5 crore have which would be much worse but from V and K! However,India has The government had promised housing to two crore slum prices of essentials and with fuel prices hitting been pushed into poverty. also bring along with it some known to rise like a phoenix in the dwellers and so far 48 lakh houses had been constructed and a century in many cities it is a question worth When the first wave of the more disastrous economic condi- past, from a moment in time more than a crore are under construction. The Mudra schme asking of the central government what it has pandemic hit the country, the tions, history will remember both. where it was on the brink of a col- was launched to promote the young entrepreneurs to start their done to bring relief to aamaadmi? The party that Prime Minister unilaterally The year 2020-21 has been the lapse and was written off by most own ventures and so far more than 28 crore loans worth 14.9 fought on the slogan mehengai ki maar is clear- enforced a strict lockdown. India worst year for India's economy& world economies. It rose at the ly in pyaarwith the rising prices. In the first three barely gotfour hours to follow the growth story in four decades. back of some well thought out lakh crore rupees were sanctioned creating 1.12 crore jobs. years, the government greatly benefited from orders- it led to unprecedented Aatmanirbhar Bharat was to revive policies and with an acknowledge- The Goods and Services tax (GST) is the biggest tax reforms very low crude oil prices, the Prime Minister migrant crisis that India ever wit- the economy and provide support ment that major reforms were since independence and is now paying dividend. Yet another even called himself a naseebwala, sadly the nessedin its independent history, to businesses however despite its needed. The liberalisation of econ- epoch-making reform was declaring triple talaq illegal -- opposed badnaseebi is that we have elected a government the union cabinet ministers con- lofty promises the targets were omyhelped unleash high growth by the opposition, it was accepted by Muslim women. The one not being able to control the prices. Despite a tinued to firefight with fudged data missed. Many industries which years for the nation, today India rank one pension in 2015, Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019 are two sharp fall in oil prices, instead of passing the ben- and made-uptruths to escape were badly hit such as hospitality, stands at that decision making more successful schemes. efits to the people the government has levied accountability. People went hun- food and beverage, entertainment place in time, it has to go full throt- additional taxes on fuel at the cost of people's gry, they died, they lost their were kept out of the ambit. Despite tle to propel itself into India 3.0 in However, unemployment is still around 11 per cent thanks misery. India has been struggling with bad loans The writer is a Rajya incomes and their homes but the the government's absolute con- economic revival, backed by poli- to COVID-19 pandemic. The doubling of farmers' income is and NPAs in the banking system, a partial lega- Sabha MP and Deputy government continued to sing All tempt for experts, they have sug- cies that keep best interests of the still nowhere near the target and the situation was compound- cy of the UPA cannot be denied, however it has leader Shiv Sena. is Well, India still does not have the gested that the economy needs a nation and not the politics of The views expressed ed by the stalemate caused by the farmers' agitation. The gov- seen a phenomenal rise under BJP watch, a party are personal. data to the number of deaths strong dose of stimulus for it to elections in mind. ernment first must concentrate on gradual but serious systemic changes to ensure holistic long-lasting reforms.The second is to make drastic changes in the health sector and move to uni- POINTCOUNTERPOINT versal health care like the one in Britain. A new comprehen- sive Act for the health sector needs to be enacted so that health infrastructure is modernized, monitored and is people friend- WHY IS THE BJP RISING TO HIS DEFENCE? ASSERTION @MAHUAMOITRA IN TWEET THAT SIX ly. Third, we need to provide best education to children by sub- IS HE A BJP FUNCTIONARY OR A GOVERNOR? COTERMINOUS APPOINTEE OSDS IN PERSONAL stantial increase in Navodaya type schools and creating infra- I DARE HIM TO SUE ME FOR DEFAMATION. STAFF ARE RELATIVES IS FACTUALLY WRONG. structure in government schools at par with public schools. —TRINAMOOL CONGRESS MP —WEST BENGAL GOVERNOR (The author is Chairman of Centre for Resource Management MAHUA MOITRA and Environment. The views expressed are personal.) JAGDEEP DHANKHAR Lack of consumer poise, low growth may cause upheaval The RBI outlook on consumer confidence is a mere indicator of the stark reality. The indices touching record lows may indicate a graver situation onsumer confidence is tion also came down to 35.69 not easy to say. ages of `15000 crore for kitty rising to $590 billion may large net-worth groups. at all time low, says RBI, percent. The GDP had contracted MSMEs, it is not certain how not be as rosy as it looks. The Globally, phantom FDI Camid slumping of The lockdowns are being 24.4 percent and 7.4 percent, many would be in a position to RBI does it by various gold and investments amount to an Indian growth to minus 7.3 stated as prime reasons for the respectively, in the first two avail them. foreign currency management astonishing $15 trillion. India is percent in 2020-21, highest grim situation. The unemploy- quarters of 2020-21 and grew by It is also linked to global much to the chagrin of the US also a part of it. Such siphoning jobless rate at 18 percent and ment situation may remain 0.5 percent in the third. But the trade situation. Trade minister as it feels that dollar prices are and rerouting of investments impoverisation of 97 percent of SHIVAJI SARKAR high for six months more amid second wave of lockdown has has put a target of suppressed. It also needs to be affect the basic economic con- the population. policy uncertainties and admin- hampered recovery. The eight $400 billion export target this assessed against total external ditions and increases disparity. The RBI also lowered istrative highhandedness. In core sector industries in April, year against $290 billion last debt, and corporate external Whether this should be linked 2021-22 growth forecast to Noida, close to Delhi, eateries 2021 slumped to 126.7 (IIP), the year. But India's trade deficit commercial borrowings (ECB) to increasing hunger and pover- 9.5 percent from 10.5 percent and restaurant have shut shops lowest since November 2020. touched an eight-month low in and repatriation costs. ty in the country or not is a due to COVID-19 second permanently as the owners The RBI report notes that May at $6.3 billion because of The rising figures of FDI, moot question. It is sometimes wave. This one percent in real have lost their reserves. the values of other indices on fall in imports due to lack of not all, are suspect. The IMF believed that 80 crore people are terms downsizes a number of The RBI outlook on con- non-essential items are in the domestic demand. The May says it is being used for routing on food dole for this kind of activities. By CAG's provision- sumer confidence is a mere negative. RBI has drastically cut exports remained at $32.2 bil- black money. According to inversion. al deficit estimates at `18.21 indicator of the stark reality. quarterly projections. Its revised crisis. A large population still is lion but imports contracted to RBI, large percentage of the The lack of consumer con- lakh crore, GDP projection Consumers do not have cash to projections are - 18.5 percent, getting food doles though all $38.5 billion. The WTO last FDI, $20,110 million came fidence and purchasing power may come to 9.3 percent. buy products.The indices 7.9 percent, 7.2 percent and 6.6 beneficiaries of last lockdown month said that merchandise from Mauritius and Singapore emanates from such opera- The impact is reflected in touching record lows may indi- percent against the original are not included. Large num- trade would continue to and a mere $3,401 million tions. Ignoring it for long is high joblessness at 17.88 per- cate a graver situation. The estimates of- 26.2 percent, 8.3 bers of people lost jobs, includ- increase by 8 percent - consid- from the US. This is not con- never desirable. It is a bubble cent, according to CMIE on The writer is a senior wariness is because of the feel- percent, 5.4 percent and 6.2 per- ing in the IT sector, in the first ered a bit more optimistic. The sidered a quality FDI but pro- but if it bursts there could be May 30. It has risen by three journalist. The views ing of uncertainty about the cent. wave and are still without jobs. world uncertainty may dent jects a larger-than-life picture social trouble. Cosmetic percent a fortnight earlier. expressed are personal. future.Whether this would The tiny daily use goods Though the government has India's trade. through virtual inbreeding. It promises and doles cannot Urban labour force participa- mean grimmer future or not is market is reeling under a cash announced special loan pack- In this situation the forex calls for a proper scrutiny of contain it for long. HYDERABAD | TUESDAY | JUNE 8, 2021 Money 08 HEAVYWEIGHTS take Nifty, Financial creditors may realise Rs 55K-60 K-cr through IBC Sensex to lifetime highs PNS n MUMBAI Financial creditors may realise PNS n MUMBAI Rs 55,000-60,000 crore in fis- cal 2021-22 through successful Equity benchmark Sensex A sharp resolution plans from the jumped 228 points to its fresh rebound was Rupee surges Insolvency and Bankruptcy lifetime high on Monday, track- seen in private Code (IBC), credit rating ing gains in index heavyweights 19 paise to agency Icra has said. Reliance Industries, TCS and banks, auto The realisation for financial ICICI Bank. and IT which close at 72.80 creditors from the resolution of After starting on a tepid Corporate Insolvency note, the 30-share BSE index supported PNS n MUMBAI Resolution Process (CIRP) rose 228.46 points or 0.44 per market, while under the IBC declined signif- cent to finish at its all-time high The rupee appreciated by 19 icantly in FY2021 with a total of 52,328.51. metals and paise to end at 72.80 (pro- resolution amount of around Similarly, the broader NSE pharma visional) against the US Rs 26,000 crore, almost a quar- awaiting the NCLT's approval ating environment may result Nifty surged 81.40 points or witnessed dollar on Monday, buoyed ter of the realisations in but is also under litigation in in a slowdown in the resolution 0.52 per cent to a record by persistent fund inflows FY2020, the agency said. the higher courts, he said. process, especially for smaller- 15,751.65. profit into capital markets. "As per our estimates, the In the current financial sized entities, and would also PowerGrid was the top booking Besides, softening crude financial creditors could realise year, the realisation by the result in an increase in the gainer in the Sensex pack, ral- oil prices also strengthened about Rs 55,000-60,000 crore financial creditors would haircuts for the lenders. lying over 4 per cent, followed domestic forex market sen- in FY2022 through successful depend on the successful res- The agency said the pan- by NTPC, UltraTech Cement, timent. However, stronger resolution plans from the IBC," olution of 8-9 big-ticket demic has increased opera- Tech Mahindra, Reliance as sharp decline in daily case- profit booking. He further ended with gains, while Hong dollar overseas against key the agency's Vice President accounts, as more than 20 per tional challenges for the vari- Industries and IndusInd Bank. load and states started easing noted that midcap and small- Kong was in the red. rivals capped the rupee's and Group Head – Structured cent of the agency's estimated ous parties involved in a CIRP, On the other hand, Bajaj business curb lifted senti- cap stocks were again in focus Stock exchanges in Europe gain, according to forex Finance, Abhishek Dafria, said realisation for the year could be which resulted in limited cases Finance, Bajaj Finserv, HDFC ments," said Binod Modi, Head as investors appeared to be lap- were largely trading with loss- traders. The local unit in a report. from these alone, he added. yielding a resolution plan. and Dr Reddy's were among - Strategy at Reliance Securities. ping up these counters in the es in mid-session deals. opened at 72.85 against the The increase in the resolu- Dafria, however, said if the The suspension of new pro- the laggards. A sharp rebound was seen backdrop of improved visibil- International oil benchmark greenback and witnessed an tion amount in FY2022 would second wave of the pandemic ceedings under the IBC for the "Domestic equities extend- in private banks, auto and IT ity of earnings recovery. Brent crude was trading 0.58 intra-day high of 72.74 and depend on the expected reso- does not subside soon, it could entire FY21 resulted in a sharp ed gain with benchmarks which supported market, while Elsewhere in Asia, bourses in per cent lower at USD 71.47 per a low of 72.88. lution of a large housing have a bearing on the agency's slow-down in the resolution recording fresh all-time highs metals and pharma witnessed Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul barrel. finance company which is estimates as the difficult oper- process. MONEY MATTERS Average spot power price up Central Bank Roca Parryware aims for Q4 net loss sharp sales growth in 2021 10 pc to Rs 2.83/unit at IEX narrows to athroom and sanitary PNS n NEW DELHI Rs 1,349 cr ware major Roca BParryware on Monday Average spot power price has PNS n NEW DELHI said it expects a sharp spurt in increased over 10 per cent in demand beginning this month May to Rs 2.83 per unit com- State-owned Central and July with easing of pared to same month a year Bank of India on Monday lockdown and Covid second Cashfree raises ago at Indian Energy Exchange reported narrowing of its wave losing steam. The (IEX) due to low base effect. net loss to Rs 1,349.21 company said it is optimistic The average market clearing crore on a standalone to log a 25 per cent jump in funding from SBI price was Rs 2.57 per unit in basis in the last quarter of revenue to Rs 1,600 crore. The company committed investments of day ahead market (DAM) in the fiscal ended March Rs 50 crore in 2021 to modernise factories and eyes for acquisitions PNS n NEW DELHI businesses like Zomato, CRED, May 2020, as per the IEX data. 2021. in faucets and plastics segment, a top company official said. In the Nykaa, Delhivery, Acko and The average spot power The bank had posted current takeoff after a lull in May due to strict re-imposition of Digital payments and bank- Shell for various business pay- price in DAM at IEX was Rs a net loss of Rs 1,529.07 lockdowns across markets, the large players will reap greater ing technology company ment needs like e-commerce 3.34 per unit in May, 2019. crore in the same quarter benefits as the current turmoil is estimated to have wiped out about Cashfree on Monday said it payment collection, vendor pay- According to the power of the preceding fiscal 30 per cent of small and tiny players, officials said. "As a company, has received an investment ments and marketplace settle- ministry data, electricity con- 2.83 per unit. achieving 9 per cent YoY (year- year. Sequentially, there Roca Parryware is ready for the second helicopter take-off during from State Bank of India (SBI). ments. sumption had slumped nearly The market clearing price on-year) growth amidst contin- was a net profit of Rs June-July 2021. All our eight factories continue to run at full The company, however, did Cashfree processes transac- 15 per cent in May 2020 due to saw a steep decline of 24 per uation of the COVID-19 lock- 165.41 crore in the capacity.” not disclose the amount of tions worth USD 20 billion lower commercial and indus- cent on MoM (month-on- downs as well the cyclonic December quarter of funding raised from SBI. annually. Apart from India, trial demand and showed month) basis since average disturbances which affected FY21. "The company's total fund- Cashfree's products are used in impact of lockdown restric- monthly price was Rs 3.70 in the overall power demand in Net profit (standalone) ing since inception is USD 42 eight other countries including tions. the month of April 2021, it the country. for the entire fiscal 2020- million. The total valuation of the USA, Canada and the UAE. This year also, many states added. Thee real-time electricity 21 was down by 20.84 per L&T bags significant orders Cashfree is around USD 200 "The investment from India's imposed lockdown restrictions The sell-bids at 2.2 times of (RTM) market witnessed a cent to Rs 887.58 crore as million," Cashfree CEO and co- largest bank shows its trust in to contain spread of COVID- the cleared volume during the monthly volume of 1,436 MU against Rs 1,121.35 crore for various businesses founder Akash Sinha said. Cashfree's innovation and the 19 amid its second wave in month (of May) ensured ample with average monthly price at in 2019-20, Central Bank arsen & Toubro (L&T) on He added that the company way we are rapidly scaling up May. Besides, two cyclones last availability of power and dis- Rs 2.53 per unit seeing 28 per of India said in a regula- Monday said its construction will use the proceeds of the the payments business. This also month also affected power covery of competitive prices cent MoM decline, it stated. tory filing. Larm has bagged significant investment to continue invest- underscores Cashfree's role consumption. thereby providing optimisa- With sell-side bids at 2.6 Income (standalone) orders from "prestigious" clients for ing in the payment infrastruc- towards building a payments An IEX statement said that tion opportunities to the distri- times of cleared volume, the during Q4FY21 also fell various businesses. The water and ture. Incubated by PayPal, ecosystem that enables the the DAM traded 4,364 MU bution utilities, it explained. market continued to have to Rs 5,779.84 crore from effluent treatment business of L&T Cashfree is backed by Apis fastest and easiest way to collect (million units) volume in the According to the statement, ample availability of power Rs 6723.73 crore in Construction has bagged an order from Bangalore Water Supply & Partners, Smilegate and Y payments and make payouts for month of May 2021 with the IEX traded 6,540 MU of elec- and competitive price discov- Q4FY20. Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to design, build and operate sewage Combinator. Cashfree is used by growing businesses," Sinha said. average monthly price at Rs tricity volume in May 2021 ery, it explained. treatment plants and intermediate sewage pumping stations along with construction of main sewers, the company said in a statement. The project funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will benefit 18.04 lakh people in Bengaluru city. The heavy Gold declines civil infrastructure business of the company has secured an order Chinese exports jump as Coronavirus Coal India’s e-auction to construct various facilities within 42 months for the BARC at Tarapur, Maharashtra. Besides, the buildings and factories Rs 152 on business, it said, has secured an order from a prestigious client for pandemic wanes in US, other markets sales up 53 pc in May the construction of sports infrastructure facilities in the Kalinga PNS n BEIJING weak global Stadium at Bhubaneswar, Odisha and a New International Hockey PNS n NEW DELHI Stadium with 20,000 seating capacity at Rourkela, Odisha in time China has reported its exports and trends for the Hockey World Cup, 2023. imports surged in May on grow- PNS n NEW DELHI State-owned CIL on Monday ing demand as the pandemic was said its e-auction sales regis- waning in the US and other key Gold declined by Rs 152 to tered a growth of 52.5 per cent markets, though the pace of Rs 48,107 per 10 gram in at 21.5 million tonne (MT) in Skoda Auto India commences growth is leveling off. the national capital on the first two months of the Customs data released Monday Monday in line with weak ongoing fiscal year. showed exports rose 28% from a global trends, according to CIL's total allocated quan- garner 16 per cent add-on production of upcoming SUV year earlier and imports soared HDFC Securities. tity under the five auction over the notified price during koda Auto India on 51% — at the fastest annual pace In the previous trade, the windows was at 14.1 MT in April-May compared to seven Monday said it has in over a decade. Total exports precious metal had closed April-May 2019-20, the coal per cent of same period last Scommenced production climbed 40% in the first five at Rs 48,259 per 10 gram. behemoth said in a statement. financial year. of its upcoming SUV months of the year from a year Silver also tumbled Rs "Coal India's (CIL) e-auc- To encourage coal con- KUSHAQ, the deliveries of earlier. They were up 29% from 540 to Rs 69,925 per kilo- tion sales are beginning to look sumers lift additional coal which will commence in July. the same period in 2019. gram from Rs 70,465 per up as the company posted quantities, reserve price under The model, which is the first China has led the global recov- competitors. The base level boost European Union fell 43% to $12.7 kilogram in the previous 52.5 per cent growth, in auc- all e-auction windows was production car as part of the ery from the pandemic, which is from last year's slump is fading, billion. trade. In the international tion bookings, during the first kept at par with notified price company's India 2.0 project, still raging in many parts of the however, and the $263.9 billion in While the increase in exports market, gold was trading two months of the ongoing fis- during the first six months of is being rolled out from the globe but receding in some places, Chinese exports in May was was robust in May, it was lower lower at USD 1,883 per cal," the statement said. the last fiscal year. Skoda Auto Volkswagen India mostly where vaccinations have about level with the previous than some economists had fore- ounce and silver was flat at The company's total allocat- The upward trend in the Pvt Ltd (SAVWIPL) plant in Chakan, Pune. Based on the MQB-A0- been widely deployed. month. China's imports of $218.4 cast and analysts said one reason USD 27.55 per ounce. ed quantity this fiscal year till allocation was primarily driven IN platform, a variant of the modular MQB-A0 platform, the Chinese manufacturers bene- billion in May were 1.2% lower might be delays at ports in south- "Gold prices declined on May 2021 moved up to 21.5 by non-power sector which KUSHAQ is specially adapted by Skoda for the Indian market, the fited from strong demand for pro- than in April. Beijing's political- ern China, the main shipping hub, Monday pressured by the MT, under the five auction evincing a healthy appetite for company said in a statement. The model was unveiled in March this tective gear and other products as ly sensitive trade surplus with the due to increased precautions to stronger dollar," according windows, it added. the dry fuel accounted for 50 year and the company is yet to announce its prices but it is slated other countries battled COVID- United States rose 14% to $31.8 fight an outbreak of coronavirus to HDFC Securities. With the demand for coal per cent of the total booked to take on the likes of Hyundai Creta and Kia Seltos, which are 19, gaining market share from billion, while the surplus with the cases. gathering steam, CIL could quantity of 21.5 MT. priced between Rs 9.95 lakh and Rs 17.7 lakh, in the fastest growing mid-sized SUV segment in the domestic market. Yes Bank to raise ICICI Pru Life announces bonus fund via bonds in Rs PSU bank privatisation plan could face hurdles or foreign currency PNS n NEW DELHI "Nonetheless, the bold move require sufficient interest from of Rs 867 cr for policyholders to privatise state-run banks investor(s) willing to acquire CICI Prudential Life Insurance PNS n NEW DELHI Fitch Ratings on Monday said faces risk from political oppo- large stake(s) in state-owned on Monday declared its the plan to privatise two state- sition and structural challenges banks and run them," it added. Ihighest-ever annual bonus of Yes Bank plans to raise funds in owned banks in the current including heightened balance- The rating agency said that Rs 867 crore for the Indian or foreign currency by financial year ending March sheet stress due to the Covid- state banks in general have long policyholders for FY21. "ICICI issuing debt securities, it said on 2022 could face delays amid 19 pandemic, which is likely to been plagued with muted Prudential Life Insurance has Monday. A meeting of the board renewed challenges for the keep bank performance sub- investor appetite due to struc- announced an annual bonus of of directors of Yes Bank will be Indian banking sector due to dued for the next two to three turally weak governance frame- Rs 867 crore for all eligible held on June 10, to consider, the second wave of Covid-19. years," it added. works which have resulted in participating policyholders for approve and seek shareholders' The government in the Fitch believes that political persistently weak performance, FY2021. The bonus declared is the highest ever by the company till approval for borrowing/raising Budget announced plans to support in favour of legislative reflected in significant asset- date and is also 10 per cent higher than the bonus announced in funds, the bank said in a regula- privatise two public-sector changes to the Act, which are quality problems. the last fiscal" it said in a release. Bonus is the share of profits tory filing without quantifying banks. NITI Aayog has been required in order to go through The Covid-19 pandemic has generated by the company's participating policyholder's funds, the amount. The bank said it will entrusted with the task of with the sale, could be a signif- further dampened business which are added to their guaranteed maturity benefits, thus raise funds in "Indian/foreign selecting the banks and one March 2022) could face delays agenda to reform the Indian icant hurdle for the govern- and consumer confidence, with enhancing the corpus. All participating policies in force as of March currency by issue of debt secu- general insurance company for amid renewed challenges for banking sector and reduce the ment. "There could also be the impact on reported 31, 2021, are eligible to receive this bonus and will be added to the rities including but not limited the privatisation. the Indian banking sector," number of state-owned banks more resistance from the trade impaired loans manifesting policyholders' benefits, said the insurer. A total of 9.8 lakh to non-convertible debentures, "The Indian government's Fitch said in a statement. further, which have come unions this time around, who potentially over an extended participating policyholders will benefit from this, taking them closer bonds, medium term note." Yes plan to privatise two state- Fitch said the current pri- down from 27 in 2017 to 12 in will be against the safety-net timeframe, considering the to their long-term financial goals. ICICI Prudential Life said this is Bank stock traded 5.75% up at owned banks in the current vatisation plan is an extension 2020 after three successive withdrawal of state ownership. various forbearance and relief the company's 15th consecutive year of declaring a bonus. Rs 14.52 apiece on BSE. financial year (FY22, ending of the government's broader rounds of consolidation. Success of the plan would also measures by the authorities. Follow us on @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/ dailypioneer

Tuesday June 8, 2021 RACHEL DAMMALA MONITOR ll of the world and its leaders came together to observe and cele- brate World A Environment Day CHILD'S over the weekend. People across the globe made promises, took an oath to do their best to keep them, and NUTRITIONAL make small to big changes in their lifestyle to ensure we don’t abuse nature anymore. For too long, human beings have taken the planet for grant- INTAKE ed. We’ve exploited nature to the point of destruction. But with the theme for the year — Ecosystem Restoration (2021- DURING THE 2030), a global mission to revive billions of hectares, from forests to farmlands, from the top of mountains to the depth of the PANDEMIC sea, there's hope. Apart from personal resolutions, brands in India too, have vowed to do their best in conserving precious resources and not adding much to the various waste that remains stagnant at landfills. One such brand is Numero Uno whose ‘One Glass water denims’ are making all the noise. Numero Uno, one of India’s first indigenously manu- factured denim labels, forayed into sustainability with the launch of its unique collection. Traditionally, a pair of jeans requires 70 liters of water to complete the washing and fin- ishing process, but at Numero industrial wash processes of hence more desirable to the cus- environment” the founder adds. and extracted from the seeds of Uno, through its new sustain- making jeans on our environ- tomers. Priced from 1899 Another such brand is the castor plant. The year 2020 able process and improvised ment,” shares Narinder Singh, onwards, the jeans are available Anastasia Beverly Hills, one of marked the first time a watch- technology, they have managed CMD and Founder, Numero on their website, their Numero the world’s leading beauty inno- maker has succeeded in replac- to reduce the water and chemi- Uno.Further, the brand has Uno stores, Amazon, Myntra, vators for 2 decades. The brand ing all conventional plastic with cal consumption drastically by employed G2 / Ozone process, and other fashion portals. “We is known and well-respected bio-sourced materials. using just one glass of water to ECO wash / Nanobubble tech in are also further consciously among all beauty connoisseurs, Swatch Next comes with a create 1 pair of jeans. order to reduce the consump- switching to using more and influencers, beauty vloggers, and new and unique mix of Two- “Sustainability has been on our tion of water, and of harmful more blended fabrics (instead of make-up hoarders for its prod- thirds ceramic, one-third bio- ovid-19 has changed three snacks work well for most radar for many years and we’ve chemicals. The laundry has ETP 100% cotton), using fabrics ucts’ DNA — cruelty-free, sourced plastic in the Big Bold lives beyond compre- children. Breaking the meals been investing towards this ini- plant, as well as zero discharge made from recycled and post- paraben-free, fragrance-free, oil- collection. Bioceramic is more hension, and chil- into numbers ensures your child tiative in terms of installing and technology, wherein the entire consumer waste yarns, and free, and dermatologists tested. than ceramic, offering more C dren are no excep- is eating controlled portions at using laser machines to replace water discharged, is recycled Tencel and hemp blends, etc., as ABH has also invested in pro- resistance and a soft touch at the tion. Like adults frequent intervals. These meals sandblasting from much earlier. and reused after getting treated a step towards conserving the viding the best Vegan makeup same time. The 47 mm diameter working from home, should include foods from dif- We believe that we can create ensuring minimal or no harm to across the categories. Their see-through case, deep and children are schooling from ferent food groups so that the attractive-looking pieces of the ecosystem. The design team Vegan makeup products are architecturally structured, pro- home, technically spending their child could relish variety. denim and protect our natural works closely with the wash labeled with a ‘Vegan tag’ on the vides plenty of room to appreci- entire time indoors. This shift in Keep healthy foods and snacks resources at the same time. The technologists Jeanologia to cre- products’ packaging. They have ate the pure and refined charac- lifestyle has raised concerns in easy access: Storing healthy ‘one glass water’ collection is an ate collections that have reduced recently launched their summer teristics to the fullest, while the about children’s health and over- foods and snacks in the front of initiative towards revolutionis- impact on the environment collection called ‘Iced-out’ in bracelet, glass, and loops are all all well-being at an alarming the refrigerator or storage ing the harmful impact of besides being fashionable and India which is completely vegan made from bio-sourced plastic. rate. shelves is best. In this way, and cruelty-free featuring Brow By the end of 2021, all key No one knows when life will the child can easily see and Freeze, Highlighter, and lip Swatch product lines will further get back to normal, so parents access them. The kitchen gloss. They will soon set out to explore the use of bioceramic. should ensure their children eat counter and dining table are launch their 3-in-1 Glam Face Besides this, Swatch also intro- healthily and stay fit. We bring other areas where you can keep Palettes, for the first time in duced biodegradable packaging you tips that will help you mon- food for easy reach. Whatever India on June 10. Infused with made of paperfoam — a mix of itor your child’s nutritional foods you keep in the open, Vegan formula, the competent industrial starch, natural fibres, intake during the pandemic and ensure they are appropriately compact trio featuring bronzer, water, and premix. This environ- even beyond. covered. highlighter, and blush ramps up mentally friendly packaging is Try to eat main meals with the Hide processed foods away every lady’s getaway feels of bio-base, home compostable, or child: It allows you to monitor from the child’s sight: Biscuits, warmth and glow. So if you’re recyclable with paper, produced what your child eats and in what noodles, cookies, spreads, such looking for a guilt-free make-up with low-carbon emissions and quantities. If the child is under as mayonnaise, are some ready- brand, you know where to head. in an energy-efficient way, and it eating or overeating, you can to-eat products that you should And the last one’s for those provides a responsible and eco- keep a check and rectify it keep away from your child’s that love to accessorise! So friendly solution for manufac- promptly. Young children mimic sight. If you are buying any ‘watch’ out for the brand turers and consumers. Priced at their parents, so ensure you eat readymade foods online, ‘Swatch’. Their latest innovation Rs. 9605, they are available on healthy yourselves to motivate remember to read their nutri- in their efforts towards a green- Myntra. them to eat healthily. tion label carefully. 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While for young children, ruption and unem- the domains of microbiology, Make meals wholesome: Add you can use these apps, encour- T ployment worldwide, Career counseling in biotechnology, biochemistry, and foods from different food age older children to use them prompting both a other applied programmes. The groups to each meal. Low-fat themselves. financial and a humanitarian cri- amalgamation of biological and dairy, lean meat, whole grains, Maintain a food diary for your sis. Career counsellors need to medical sciences in these applied fresh vegetables and fruits, nuts, child: No matter how small the now focus on how they can pro- programmes has made them and seeds are healthy choices serving size is, record every- vide effective career counselling a post-Covid world very much sought after in recent over refined and processed thing the child eats. It will help for the post-Covid world. times among the student com- foods. Buy seasonal fruits and calculate the total calorie intake Abhishek Gupta, Founder and munity who are looking for veggies as they offer more nutri- in a day. Besides, it gives you a CEO of High School Moms alternatives to medical sciences. ents. Feed a well-balanced diet check if you missed adding any (HSM) and International Careers in computational biol- to get vital nutrients, such as vit- food group in the diet. You can Alliance of Counselors and ogy have also emerged to be amin C and zinc, for robust use a food logging app to main- Educators (INACE) suggests promising in recent times. immunity. tain your child’s food diary. A what one should be mindful of, Computational biology is basi- Prepare healthy snacks: Fruit food logging app is helpful as it hereon. cally the study of physical princi- and nut smoothie, fruit bowl can also keep a record of the At the outset, it is important to ples which are the part of biolog- with toasted nuts and seeds, child’s height and weight that understand that career guidance ical phenomena and processes. roasted makhana, homemade can help monitor their growth. helps learners understand their Statistics say that this is excep- granola bars, and stir-fry veggies The pandemic has made chil- strengths and weaknesses and tionally a great time to start a with homemade dips, such as dren more vulnerable to fall out then match them with their skills career in computational biology. hummus, are some options to of schedules and dwell in erratic and interests so that they can get With a relevant degree, students try. Give your child multiple habits. But it’s you who has to the best suitable career choice. can work in the commercial, aca- options to choose from to kick take control and ensure your The pressure to make career and demic and government domains. off boredom. Involve your chil- child is adjusting to the changes higher education choices is a As the pandemic spread across dren in cooking whenever pos- and not compromising on their nerve-wracking experience for India, most of the processes went sible to help them understand health. Monitoring their dietary most learners. Career coun- online, generating huge amounts ways to make healthy choices. intake is one step towards that. selling enables students to man- of data across sectors. This has Feed small meals frequently: (The writer Swati Patwal, is a age their careers and move from led companies to develop more Three main meals (breakfast, Clinical Nutritionist at a general understanding of life sophisticated algorithms, creat- lunch, and dinner) and two to MomJuntion.com) and work to a specific under- ing a need for more data science standing of the realistic learning roles. and work options that are open With the world starting to to them. open amid the Covid-19 pan- demic, the number of jobs avail- able in data science is seeing an upward trend in India as we inch closer to providing vaccines for everyone. Coronavirus is turning our As society is trying to come to gy to statistical rhetoric, govern- demic world. world upside down. It has shown terms with this global crisis, ment operations, and civics. This Gone are the days when medi- us how fragile so many of our technology inevitably has pandemic has shown us the cine and engineering were the political systems are and how emerged as our knight in shining power of technology, exposed only two options that students dependent our normal lives are armour in many ways. Nicholas cyber security risks, and helped were presented with. The pan- on things that we take for grant- Picic, a US-based lecturer, rightly businesses develop new ways to demic has compelled us to turn ed. This is where career guidance pointed out, our new Covid- use data effectively. It is now to virologists, yet, virology has comes in as it is essentially a set related glossaries have forced us time for students to up their been a neglected area. The field of tools that helps people to to learn and get crash courses in game in order to expect greater is a rapidly evolving branch of think through how they live their a number of unanticipated fields job opportunities or alternate medicine with immense rele- lives, manage their work-life bal- — from biology and immunolo- career options in the post-pan- vance to medical studies. ance and so on. 10 art Hyderabad Tuesday June 8, 2021 AMID ART WORLD Your summer art SLOWDOWN, DIGITAL AUCTIONS SAVE THE DAY auction calendar Masters. It says that it has year 1990, estimated at Rs 80 witnessed this trend, along lakhs-1.2 crores. Alfred and William Law at ccording to the response for all our auctions, with an increase in first time The auction will also the turn of the 20th century Artprice 2020 Art signifying a sustained bidders indicating a signifi- include multiple significant and has since been main- Market Report, demand for art,” Sneha cant interest among new col- and rare works by the greats tained with care by genera- A the cancellation of Gautam, Vice President — lectors as well. Over half the from the Bengal School of tions of the Law family. A fairs, exhibitions Client Relations, AstaGuru works being sold in this Art including Jamini Roy, unique treasury replete and sales since shares. upcoming sale are market Gaganendranath Tagore and with cornerstones of British March last year has impacted Ahead of presenting the debuts. Nandalal Bose, as well Jogen culture, its re-emergence the art industry at large. But sale “Collectors Choice: Highlights of the auction Choudhury, also works by after almost 100 years in unlike museums, which have Modern Indian Art” on June include, ‘Ivory Eyes’ an distinguished artists such as obscurity marks a defining suffered the full impact of 25-26, which will showcase a enamel on canvas work by Ganesh Pyne, Amrita Sher- moment for bibliophiles in Covid-related restrictions, well curated line-up of works Prabhakar Barwe from the Gil, K.H Ara, Anjolie Ela what is set to be the one of auction houses quickly found by Modern Indian masters, year 1976, estimated at Rs Menon, K.K. Hebbar, the great library sales of ways to preserve the core of AstaGuru asserts that the 20-30 lakhs. M F Husain’s Krishen Khanna, K. G. recent years. their activities thanks to dig- auction market is performing Untitled from his ‘Calcutta Subramanyan, Akbar Among the library’s hold- ital technology. well, and collectors are great- Series’ a large acrylic on Padamsee, Lalu Prasad Shaw, ings is the most important In the case of Mumbai- ly inclined towards investing paper work, circa 1990 pays and many of them appearing material by the Bronte sis- based online auction house in important and well-pre- homage to one of his in an auction for the first ters to come to light in a AstaGuru, which has been sented assets. favourite cities, Kolkata, and time. generation — unrivalled in online since its inception, the “Furthermore, the number demonstrates his love and Speaking on the trailblaz- importance by any other connection with their target of new bidders is an encour- bond with the city. It is esti- ing trend of NFT (non-fun- private collection. The rare audience was not lost. aging trend and strengthens mated at Rs 20-30 lakhs and gible token) art taking the art pieces open a window onto “Owing to this we were the market’s foundation. We is making its auction debut. market abroad by a storm, the short but amazing lives able to stay connected with expect a healthy and stable Another first-time Husain Gautam says Astaguru does of Charlotte, Emily, Anne our target audience/collec- performance with regards to is a rare set of four untitled not deal with NFT Art. and even Branwell Bronte. tors and stay relevant in the the summer sales,” it says. works, accompanied by a set “With the world becoming The more than 500 historic current times. Our secure In the context of the of four limited edition increasingly digital there is manuscripts, exceptional and easy remote accessibility upcoming sale, AstaGuru posters, circa 1985, which are space for all forms of creativ- first editions, intimate let- features further accorded our shares that modern Indian based on the presented art- ity to co-exist and for the ters and beautiful bindings bidders confidence to con- art remains the proverbial works. Also being auctioned same reason, there will also will be offered across three tinue participation in our jewel in the crown for art for the first time is S H be a specific audience for the uction houses 21st century. view, one that opens a new auctions at Sotheby’s, com- auctions. We have been collectors with consistent Raza’s, ’Nidhi’, an acrylic on same,” the spokesperson globally may have In its first auction dedi- door to the world of art.” mencing this summer (first receiving an enthusiastic demand for works by canvas painting, from the signs off. seen very different cated to female artists He also speaks about auction open for bidding trends during the across the centuries, many demystifying art “so that from 2-13 July). A Covid-induced of whom have been cate- people can understand it Memorabilia lockdowns in 2020 gorised or marginalised by better”. exhibitions and books, and 2021, but a mix of history due to their gender, Bonhams Hong Kong Christie’s is also holding important historic retro- online and live auction for- auction house Sotheby’s had Fine Chinese Paintings sale the largest sneaker auction Virtual show opens spectives and expositions. mats is keeping the art mar- staged the ‘(Women) in June has also presented ever for the auction house “Open to influences from ket going, and the collec- Artists’ sale in May. It “Calligraphy Couplet in in partnership with the West, reaching deep into tors’ community thriving. explored the art historical Running Script” — the Stadium Goods, featuring a window to the roots of their own cul- contributions and personal largest-ever couplet by rare early samples; a com- ture, exploring and experi- HERE IS WHAT YOU stories of these artists modern master painter plete set of Original Air Indian modernism menting across mediums, CAN LOOK FORWARD across 400 years. Zhang Daqian. The monu- Jordans 1-14; game worn absorbing ideas, reinterpret- TO IN THE UPCOMING Asian modern and mental and exceedingly rare shoes; and Jordan-related curated miscel- art practice across an ing established norms, contemporary art work, measuring three and items from Kobe Bryant, lany of Indian art eventful one hundred years. works by The Lesser-Known Indian art defies any easily MONTHS: a half metres tall, is an LeBron James, Drake, will feature a hun- Opening for a week on Greats who have remained tailored silos to carve for Women in art The inaugural edition of exemplar of the creative Eminem, Derek Jeter, dred works by a June 11, on the gallery web- shy of the marquee that is lit itself a confident assertion a major contemporary art pinnacle of Zhang’s career, Russell Westbrook, Ray A hundred artists in site — www.dagworld.com - up with very few names of its own identity within a For the first time, auction, “Contemporary and had its market debut Allen, and Jimmy Butler. the second edition - The Centum Series — including those who broke global context, while being a Christie’s in France will Curated: Asia” by Sotheby’s, after nearly 80 years since Bidding begins online from of The Centum Series by Edition 2 explores a rich the mould like Gogi Saroj part of its larger assimilative hold a sale dedicated to will take place both as an its creation. 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Hyderabad Tuesday June 8, 2021 tollywood Kavya Thapar wants to KEERTHY SURESH’S work with Ram Charan ew bee Kavya Thapar who is basking in glory GOOD LUCK SAKHI and success of Santosh TO Sobhan-starrer Ek Mini N Katha, opened up about her interest to work with Mega Power Star Ram Charan. The film is directed by RELEASE IN THEATRES debutant Karthik Rapolu and written by Merlapaka Gandhi, alented actress Keerthy Suresh that we are going for a direct OTT jointly produced by UV already had two OTT releases release all over media. Kindly Concepts, UV Creations, and since the onset of the Covid request the media to refrain from Mango Mass Media. pandemic — Penguin and Miss saying so. None of it is true. We The Ek Mini Katha fame said, “I T India. However, neither of these will come with an update in am eagerly waiting for an oppor- films managed to garner a any.” tunity to work with Mega Power unanimously positive response. Recently Good Luck Sakhi is touted Star Ram Charan. He is my there was a buzz in the film industry that to be a sports-based roman- favorite actor in the Telugu film the makers of her upcoming woman-cen- tic drama which also has industry and I really like the way tric movie Good Luck Sakhi are planning Aadi Pinisetty and Jagapathi he presents himself on the big to release the film on an OTT platform. Babu in crucial roles. It is screen.” Rubbishing those rumours, the makers of helmed by Nagesh Kavya Thapar also talked about the film announced that the film will Kukunoor and bankrolled Charan’s father, Megastar release only in theatres and not on the under Worth A Shot Motion Chiranjeevi and Young Tiger Jr web. The makers also added that they Arts banner. NTR. According to her, would inform if they have any intentions On the otherside, Keerthy Suresh will be Chiranjeevi and Jr NTR are one of releasing the movie on any OTT plat- seen working with Mahesh Babu in of the best dancers in Tollywood. form. Good Luck Sakhi makers released a Parasuram’s directorial venture Sarkaru On the work front, Kavya is statement that reads: “There are rumors Vaari Paata. currently listening to a few scripts and she is yet to lock her next film, so stay tuned for more on Rashmika finds that. her ‘bundle of joy'

cooking, gardening, some others are busy playing games. Popular actress Rashmika Mandanna has been very active on social media and has been keep- ing her fans entertained by sharing some of her spe- cial moments from quar- antine on her Instagram handle. The Bheeshma girl, who is also a pet lover and has numerous furry babies back home in Coorg, has welcomed home, and into her life, a new puppy dur- ing the current lockdown. The actress took to her social media to introduce lil one! They say you can On the work side, her new puppy and says fall in love with someone Rashmika Mandanna will that she fell in the love. in three seconds but she be seen sharing the screen he Covid pan- into their hidden talents The Geetha Govindam (the puppy) melted my space with Allu Arjun in demic and the and make the best use of actress wrote, “I found my heart in 0.3 milliseconds. Pushpa. The year also subsequent lock- it, and celebrities are no bundle of joy, which kept Anyway just wanted to marks her entry into T down has led less. me sane the whole time. I keep you updated! Love Bollywood with two big everyone dig While some are busy am introducing you to my and strength to you! (sic)” projects. Akhil taking on Upendra as Agent? Vakkantam Vamsi. Akhil transformed his looks for the film and bulked up his physique. His first look as Agent thrilled all Akkineni fans. Now reports are coming that Akhil will be locking horns with star Upendra who will be seen as a pow- erful antagonist in the film. Upendra earlier starred in Allu Arjun’s S/O Satyamurthy and is playing a powerful role in Varun Tej’s Gani. The film is gen- erating immense interest as Surender Reddy is coming after scoring a hit with Mega Star Chiranjeevi’s Sye Raa. Apart from this film, Akhil is starring in a feel- ing Nagarjuna’s good romantic entertainer RADHE son Akhil is star- Most Eligible Bachelor Chiranjeevi, Akshay ring in a high- romancing Pooja Hegde in K octane action the direction of Bommarillu SHYAM entertainer Bhaskar. Akhil is pinning Corona Ko Agent. The film is his hopes on these two films Kumar's directed by Surender Reddy to score his first hit at the GETS RS and the story is provided by box office. Harana Hai 400 CRORE initiative arious organizations, celebrities, and NGOs DEAL? along the respective state governments and union rabhas-starrer Radhe V government have taken Shyam which is going numerous initiatives to through a rough time create awareness among people over due to a halt in shooting, the coronavirus pandemic and the P has got a lucrative deal steps they have to take when affected from an OTT giant, it is with corona. learnt. According to sources, According to the latest, The Radhe Shyam has got a staggering Federation of Indian Chambers of Rs 400 crore offer from Amazon Commerce & Industry (FICCI) is Prime Video for an outright deal. planning to launch a campaign with One of the producers of the film – top film stars to create awareness T-Series — is said to have got the across the country regarding corona. offer from Amazon. The program will be titled ‘Corona It is learnt that the Radhe Ko Harana Hai’ and is planned in Shyam’s budget and interests Hindi, Marathi, and Punjabi. The together have mounted to over Rs campaign will feature Bollywood 330 crore. A small portion of the Khiladi Akshay Kumar, Mega Star film’s shoot is pending, which is Chiranjeevi, Tamil actor Arya, and expected to be wrapped up as soon Kannada Actor Punit Raj Kumar. prepare them for the future and as the shootings resume. FICCI Meda and Entertainment minimise the impact of the virus an An official confirmation regard- Committee’s Chairperson Sanjay effective preventive program is ing the same is yet to be made. Gupta speaking to scribes said the to required and so the organisation has bring awareness among people and decided to launch the camaign. HYDERABAD | TUESDAY | JUNE 8, 2021 sport 12

shortpasses OSAKA OUT OF BERLIN TOURNEY BERLIN: Naomi Osaka has pulled out of next week's Berlin WTA grasscourt tournament in Djoker survives French Open scare the wake of her controversial exit from the French Open, organisers confirmed on Monday. “We have received notification that AFP n PARIS of Musetti’s career — he won his is an Italian who is 19. Naomi Osaka cannot start in Berlin. After third-rounder that way — while consulting her management, she will take a ovak Djokovic went from a Djokovic improved to 34-10 when ALEX BEATS ZVEREV break,” said a spokesman for the Berlin big deficit to his best tennis going the distance. Sixth seed Alexander Zverev tournament, which starts June 14. Nat the French Open on Djokovic wound up 9 for 9 on thrashed Kei Nishikori in straight Monday, erasing a two-set hole and French Open (Day 10) his break-point chances and with a sets 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 to enter French SUSHILA PROVISIONALLY QUALIFY grabbing 13 games in a row in a 53-30 edge in winners. Open quarter-finals late on Sunday. BUDAPEST: ndian judoka Sushila Devi has dominant display before his oppo- Live from 2:30pm IST How surprising was it just to see This was German Zverev’s fifth provisionally qualified for the Tokyo Olympics nent stopped playing because of a STAR SPORTS NETWORK Musetti take the opening pair of sets win over the Japanese and his 16th by claiming the continental quota but her back problem. against Djokovic, who is seeking his win in the clay-court Grand Slam participation in the Games will be confirmed The result officially goes into the second French Open championship event. only after the final list of qualifiers is released books as a retirement by Lorenzo and 19th Grand Slam trophy over- Zverev, who defeated the likes of on June 28. Sushila, who lost her first round at Musetti, a talented 19-year-old from all? Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem and the World Judo Championship here on Sunday Italy making his Grand Slam debut. The top-seeded Djokovic never Matteo Berrettini on way to victo- in the 48kg category, currently has 989 points, The score when he quit showed had been beaten at Roland Garros ry in Madrid Open last month, was which puts her at seventh spot in the Asian list. Djokovic ahead 6-7 (7), 6-7 (2), 6- by someone ranked as low as the No in impeccable form as he did not 1, 6-0, 4-0. 76 Musetti. Djokovic’s only previous allow Nishikori to get into a position GERMANY WIN EURO U-21 TITLE It took Djokovic more than loss against a teen at the French of challenging him. LJUBLJANA: Germany won the Under-21 two sets and two hours to get going Open came back in 2006 against Coming into his fourth round European Championship for the third time as in the right direction at Court some kid by the name of Rafael match, Nishikori had won two five- Lukas Nmecha's second-half goal secured a 1- Philippe Chatrier, but once he did, Nadal. And Djokovic entered the day setters. However, he struggled to take 0 victory over Portugal in Sunday's final. The it became a one-way journey. That 14-0 in the fourth round at the place. the German to the distance. goal arrived just four minutes into the second included a 19-point run for him Plus, consider Djokovic’s recent Zverev, who became only the half, with Ridle Baku setting up Nmecha and bridging the end of the third set and form: He was 10-0 in Grand Slam second German after Boris Becker the striker's first touch taking him around start of the fourth. matches in 2021 and hadn’t ceded in the Open Era to reach French goalkeeper Costa before he slotted home. Musetti, so good at the outset more than four games in any set in Open quarter-finals thrice, ham- with his one-handed backhand and Paris — let alone an entire set — mered five aces against Nishikori ASTON VILLA SIGN BUENDIA tremendous touch, is hardly used to while dropping a total of just 23 and won 73 percent of his first ser- BIRMINGHAM: Aston Villa have reached an this best-of-five-set format at the games until Monday. vice points against 61 percent by his agreement with Norwich to sign Argentine majors and he took a medical time- Eventually, he earned his fifth opponent. international forward Emiliano Buendia for out after the fourth. The French ten- career comeback from two sets He also won 75 percent of his what will reportedly be a club record fee. nis federation said Musetti’s reason down by limiting his mistakes and second service points and convert- Buendia, 24, won Championship player of the for stopping was back pain. making Musetti look like what he is: ed eight of the 11 break-points. year this season, scoring 15 goals and This was the second five-setter Someone with plenty of promise but As against him, Japanese providing 16 assists, as Norwich romped far less experience than Djokovic. Nishikori converted only two out of straight back to the Premier League. The 34-year-old from Serbia four break-points her got and won reached his record 15th quarterfinal only 47 percent of his points on sec- US WIN NATIONS LEAGUE FINAL in Paris and 49th major quarterfinal ond serve. He could not hit an ace. LOS ANGELES: The United States won the Sakkari knock out 4th seed Kenin in all. It will come against another The sixth seed will now meet inaugural CONCACAF Nations League final Italian, No 9 seed Matteo Berrettini, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina after following Sunday's relentless 3-2 defeat of AFP n PARIS I’m having a great time and I don’t and so today I was really ready for who advanced without needing to the 22-year-old Spaniard defeated Mexico. Substitute goalkeeper Ethan Horvath want to leave anytime soon,” said a battle.” swing his racket once Monday. Federico Delbonis in four sets — 6- capped off a superb performance with a reece’s Maria Sakkari demol- Sakkari, who reached the last 16 in That’s because the man 4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 earlier in the day. penalty save deep into extra time to preserve Gished last year’s French Open Melbourne and New York last year. COCO CREATES HISTORY Berrettini was supposed to face in his team's one-goal lead. Christian Pulisic, who runner-up Sofia Kenin 6-1, 6-3 on “I’m actually enjoying myself, Coco Gauff became the the fourth round, 20-time Grand BOPANNA OUT was quiet for much of the encounter, smashed Monday to reach the quarter- that’s the most important thing. youngest Grand Slam quarter- Slam champion Roger Federer, with- India’s campaign in the French a crucial spot-kick into the top corner in the finals of a Grand Slam for the first I’m not actually torturing myself finalist in 15 years on Monday drew in order to let his surgically Open came to an end as Rohan 114th minute. time. when I’m on court.” when she defeated Tunisia’s Ons repaired right knee and the rest of Bopanna and his Croatian partner The world number 18 needed The win over Kenin was Jabeur at the French Open. his 39-year-old body rest with an eye Franko Skugor lost their men’s dou- DE BRUYNE WINS PFA AWARD just 68 minutes to defeat the Sakkari’s third win over a top-five Gauff, seeded 24, swept to a on Wimbledon later this month. bles quarterfinal on Monday. LONDON: Kevin De Bruyne became just the fourth-seeded American and set player this season. It also left 53-minute 6-3, 6-1 win and takes In other fourth-round men’s The 41-year-old Bopanna and third player to win the English Professional up a clash with reigning champi- eighth seed Swiatek as the highest- on Barbora Krejcikova of the action on the top half of the draw, Skugos went down 5-7 3-6 to the Footballers' Association's player of the year for on Iga Swiatek or Ukrainian ranked player left in the women’s Czech Republic for a place in the No 10 seed Diego Schwartzman Spanish duo of Pablo Andujar and a second consecutive season on Sunday. The teenager Marta Kostyuk for a draw. semi-finals. saved seven set points in the open- Pedro Martinez in a match that last- Belgium midfielder follows in the footsteps of place in the last four. “The match before yesterday At the age of 17 years and 86 ing set on the way to eliminating Jan- ed one hour and 17 minutes. Thierry Henry and Cristiano Ronaldo as the Sakkari broke Kenin six times gave me a lot of confidence,” said days, Gauff is the youngest woman Lennard Struff 7-6 (9), 6-4, 7-5. The unseeded Indo-Croat pair- only other players to win the award in back-to- as the 2020 Australian Open win- Sakkari, who beat 14th seed Elise to reach the last eight of a Slam Schwartzman, a semifinalist at ing had received a walkover in the back years. De Bruyne was vital to City's third ner committed 32 unforced errors Mertens in three sets in the previ- since Nicole Vaidisova who made Roland Garros in 2020, next will face pre-quarters on Sunday against Premier League title in four years and a fourth and served nine double faults. ous round. the quarter-finals at Roland Garros 13-time champion Nadal or No 18 Netherlands’ Matwe Middelkoop consecutive League Cup triumph. Agencies “I’m speechless. I love Paris. “I played really good tennis in 2006 aged 17 years and 44 days. Jannik Sinner — who, like Musetti, and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador. BCCI may push back India-SL series England suspends pacer Boult likely to play 2nd Test to be played b/w IANS n LONDON IPL final to Oct 15 July 13 & 25 ace bowler Trent Boult, who PTI n NEW DELHI window,” a BCCI source said. Robinson from Int’l cricket Pleft for home to rest instead “So if October 15, which is New Delhi: India will play of travelling with New Zealand he BCCI brass is exploring a Friday is zeroed in on, it’s three ODIs and as many T20 AFP n LONDON added. squad to United Kingdom after Tthe option of using the full basically start of weekend in Internationals in Sri Lanka The paceman led England’s suspension of Indian Premier window of Indian Premier India and in Dubai, it’s a hol- between July 13 to 25, broad- llie Robinson will miss attack with 4-75 in the first League (IPL), will likely play League by pushing the final iday which will allow fans to caster Sony announced on Onext week’s second Test innings at Lord’s and followed second Test against England back to October 15 in order to come in and enjoy a high-pro- Monday. against New Zealand at up with 3-26 in the second that begins on June 10 at reduce the number of double file game of cricket. It serves Indian selectors are expect- Edgbaston after being sus- while in between making a use- Edgbaston and acts as warm-up headers in the UAE’s searing dual purpose. Also, the num- ed to pick plenty of fringe play- pended from all International ful 42 with the bat. for World Test Championship September heat. ber of double headers could be ers for the limited overs tour cricket pending an investiga- But he found himself mak- (WTC) final against India. As per reports, the tourna- reduced to five or six, instead with Shikhar Dhawan and tion into racist and sexist ing an unreserved apology “There is a chance,” New ment will start on Sunday, of 10,” the source said. Hardik Pandya in the fray for Twitter messages, the England after stumps on Wednesday, his Zealand coach Gary Stead told September 19 and while the Currently, BCCI president leading the side. A fully-fit and Wales Cricket Board first day in Test cricket, for media after the end of first Test final was tentatively planned Sourav Ganguly, vice-presi- Shreyas Iyer is another captain- announced on Sunday. tweets that included comments against England at Lord’s on week. Stead said that since the for October 10, the BCCI as dent Rajiv Shukla, acting cy option. Sussex quick Robinson suggesting Muslim people were Sunday. left-arm seamer will be getting well as the Emirates Cricket CEO Hemang Amin, Sony Sports announced the made an impressive on-field linked to terrorism, and “There are a few things that free from quarantine three days Board are mulling stretch- treasurer Arun schedule via social media. England debut in the drawn derogatory remarks about have changed since I first said earlier, he will get to play. ing the lucrative T20 event Dhumal, joint secre- “Indian waves will crash first Test at Lord’s concluded on women and people of Asian that [Boult wouldn’t play] a few Boult reached London till October 15. tary Jayesh George and against the Sri Lankan shore Sunday. heritage. weeks ago. The British from New Zealand on Friday. “September 15 to IPL chairman Brijesh with #JeetneKiZid,” t h e c h an n e l But his efforts with bat and His messages re-emerged Government has relaxed their “Being out of isolation three October 15 is the win- Patel are in the UAE to tweeted with the schedule. ball were overshadowed by the on after both teams lined up quarantine stipulations here, days earlier than anticipated dow. Initially, BCCI finalise the arrangements. The ODIs will take place on re-emergence of racist and sex- before play on Wednesday for and Trent’s actually out of iso- does put a slightly different spin was thinking of hav- Secretary Jay Shah is July 13, 16 and 18 while the ist social media messages the a ‘Moment of Unity’ designed lation. on things. Trent is more keen ing 10 double head- back in India T20Is will be played on July 21, 27-year-old had posted as a to show their opposition to dis- “The original plan, with the (to play) than he was a week ago ers. But, in third after a 23 and 25. The venues for the teenager in 2012 and 2013. crimination, with England information we had at the time, as he is over here now and part and fourth week of series of the games are yet to be “England and Sussex wearing T-shirts stating was that we were not going to of the environment but it’s too September, having meetings announced. bowler Ollie Robinson has ‘Cricket is a game for everyone’. play him in the second Test and early to make that call now,” 10 afternoon with the It will be a rare occasion been suspended from all selection for the LV= Insurance Robinson, in a statement that two or three days’ training said Stead. matches can be Emirates when two India squads will be International cricket pending second Test against New issued after play on Wednesday, would not be enough to get him “He has only been here 48 physically Cricket playing in different countries at the outcome of a disciplinary Zealand starting at Edgbaston said he was “embarrassed” and to where we needed,” he added. hours and he is probably still a exhausting Board officials the same time. The Virat Kohli- investigation following historic on Thursday 10 June. “ashamed” by the posts. Boult had expressed his bit jet-lagged. We have to weigh for player and a recce of the led side will be preparing for the tweets he posted in 2012 and “Robinson will leave the “I want to make it clear that willingness to play the second up all the pros and cons and the in such venues. five-match Test series against 2013,” said an ECB statement. England camp immediately I’m not racist and I’m not sex- Test immediately after Stead risks before we make that deci- short England at the same time. PTI “He will not be available for and return to his county,” it ist,” he added. had said he won’t play last sion,” added Stead. Neeraj reaches Portugal, White replaces Chhetri nets brace in India’s win Alexander-Arnold PTI n DOHA 73rd goal in International foot- to compete on June 10 ball and the move worked for AFP n LONDON ndia recorded their first win beleaguered coach Igor Stimac PTI n NEW DELHI Iin FIFA World Cup quali- as the captain scored his and Indian women archery areth Southgate has chosen fiers in six years after talisman the team’s second just before lympic-bound star Indian GBen White to replace the Sunil Chhetri struck twice for the final whistle. Ojavelin thrower Neeraj team reaches Paris injured Trent Alexander-Arnold a 2-0 victory over Bangladesh Despite being ahead, India Chopra has reached Portugal to in England’s Euro 2020 squad in the joint preliminary round looked to add to their tally with take part in an event in Lisbon Paris: Indian women’s archery after an impressive performance match here on Monday. both Ashique and Chhetri on June 10, which will mark his team, led by former world in the 1-0 win over Romania. Chhetri first found the linking up well, even as most return to International compe- number one Deepika Kumari, The 23-year-old Brighton back of the net in the 79th of the Bangladesh players tition after more than a year. reached here on Monday to central defender made his minute to keep his team on moved up in search of an Chopra, who has not taken compete in their Final Olympic International debut in the 1-0 course for entry into the third equaliser. part in any International event Qualification event on June 20. friendly win over Austria last qualifying round of the 2023 In the end, the equaliser after qualifying for the Tokyo The women’s trio of week and backed that up in Asian Cup. did not materialise but India Olympics in January last year in Deepika, Ankita Bhakat and Sunday’s match against the Starting the match on the surely ended on a high, giving South Africa, reached Lisbon on train as well as take part in com- Komalika Bari will have to fin- Romanians. bench, second-half substitute their campaign the much- Sunday. He will compete at the petition. That is the most impor- ish in top-3 to make the last Alexander-Arnold was Ashique Kuruniyan delivered a needed boost after a series of Meeting Cidade de Lisboa tant thing as many countries available berth for the Tokyo ruled out after suffering a thigh cross from the left for Chhetri, winless outings. (Meeting, City of Lisbon) on have stipulated hard quarantine Olympics which opens on July injury in the Austria match and after a long run and from a With his two goals, June 10 at Lisbon University for arriving Indians.” 23. Southgate took his time to tight angle, headed in brilliant- Chhetri, International football’s Stadium. Chopra had spoken about While the men’s team has decide which of his standby ly from behind Topu Barman second highest scorer among “Chopra will take part in a lack of competition hampering secured the Olympic berth players would come in. at the Al Sadd Stadium. Singh from the right flank. years. It was also their first vic- active players, more than made competition in Lisbon on June his Olympic build-up during an during the 2019 World White had an outstanding It was that man Chhetri The double strikes meant tory in World Cup qualifiers up for the fumble in the 63rd 10. We are trying for other interaction a few weeks ago. Championships, India so far season for Brighton — his first again as he rounded off his India registered their first win away from home in 20 years. minute when the unmarked events also, including the The 23-year-old was to leave has an individual quota among in the Premier League — after night with another fine strike in what was turning out to be A confident India found captain missed a free header Karlstad Grand Prix in Sweden for Europe on Monday last for women, achieved by Deepika being pivotal to Leeds United’s in extra time (90+2) after one of their worst World Cup themselves pressing in the after a fine ball from Brandon on June 22,” a source close to a training-cum-competition at the Continental Qualifiers in promotion from the receiving the ball from Suresh qualifying campaigns in many opposition half after Chhetri’s Fernandes. Chopra said on Monday. stint but it was delayed by a few Bangkok two years ago. PTI Championship while on loan in “In Lisbon, he will be able to days due to visa related issues. the 2019/20 campaign.