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"#$# %#&$''() *+, + 2 *+! !,!(! , -./ +!! ! %16, .! - - ( ( % 1 3!+ !* .45.!! 1 0(!1 ! --1 * . !,4( % , 64666 0! 3!7- ; " ( ( @ /? )@ ) / 6 & '/ " ' % '/ ;; " # @ A%B / # $ % & '% - # @ % B # '1 " 9 $ : ' "? & ' : $ ' ( '/ ' ')* " $ @ $ $ " '& ; /" : % + , : ;%1' ' ' )% ' 3 0 !$: Firm on clearing hurdles in way of English medium: CM :& ; ( 91?/8/&/#/ Expressing a firm resolve to ( 48#*/:/# the Andhra Pradesh govern- usher in sweeping reforms in ment to accord administrative the education system and going The Krishna River approval to the new projects ahead with the introduction of Management Board has direct- through a May 5 2020 English medium from prima- ed the Andhra Pradesh gov- Government Order was viola- ry level by clearing all hurdles, ernment not to go ahead with tive of provisions in the Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan irrigation schemes to draw Andhra Pradesh Reddy on Wednesday said that water from the Srisailam reser- Reorganisation Act (APRA), education was the only answer voir till appraisal is received 2014. to poverty. from KRMB/Central Water The state had also not sub- “Some vested interests have Commission and the Apex mitted the Detailed Project tried to block our decision of Council on River Water Report to the KRMB/CWC for introducing English medium Resources. appraisal, it said and directed from Class 1 to 6. They made 9 KRMB stated this in a letter it not to go ahead with the pro- it an issue in the Assembly and ner of ‘Our Governance, Your option and an overwhelming to the Special Chief Secretary, jects pending appraisal by outside. When the Bill was sent Suggestion’ was conducted with 96 per cent said that they want Water Resources Department, KRMB/ CWC and the Apex back we reintroduced it and education system as the theme. to send their children to study on May 20, sources told PTI. ter said. from the Srisailam reservoir council of Telangana and passed it. They then went to Jagan said that the govern- in English medium. “SCERT The Union Ministry of Jal The Andhra Pradesh gov- under different irrigation Andhra Pradesh governments. court. We have moved to the ment has conducted a survey has suggested that one Telugu Shakti has given a direction to ernment had planned to draw schemes. Supreme Court and our resolve taking the views of various par- medium school per mandal KRMB on the matter, the let- over six TMC water per day The letter said the action of > is firm and we will go ahead ents committees on the English would be a good option. We with the reforms,” the Chief medium and 94 per cent will explore all options and will Minister said, addressing the replied in the affirmative. decisively go ahead with the brainstorming to mark the Another survey was con- English medium as poverty can first anniversary of his govern- ducted, this time reaching out be fought only by education,” Woman dies, kin blame gas ment. to parents of 40 lakh students he said. leak from LG Polymers plant The session, under the ban- asking them to pick their > )* -R= ; # ( 91$/;4/%/-/ over 500 fell ill after inhaling the harmful Styrene. If the % ; Another victim of the LG woman’s death is linked to ( 91?/8/&/#/ ! # Polymers styrene gas leak has styrene, toll in the styrene gas died at King George Hospital. tragedy in Vizag will rise to # ! However, the hospital is yet 13. The Telugu Desam Party’s ( 91?/8/&/#/ to confirm the cause of death Superintendent of KGH, : #; annual meeting — Mahanadu of the 73-year-old woman as Dr G Arjuna said the woman, — being organised online for Telugu Desam Party supremo she was admitted again at Pala Venkayyamma was ??;: the first time in its history in N Chandrababu Naidu 8 KGH on May 19 after her dis- admitted to KGH on May 8 (a view of the lockdown to con- launched a blistering attack on charge on May 13 with recov- day after the Styrene vapour %$ ; tain the Coronavirus, got the YSRCP government on ery from the uneasiness due leakage) and she was dis- underway on Wednesday at its Wednesday, saying it had put to inhalation of the toxic gas. charged from the hospital on ( 91$/;4/%/-/ headquarters in Mangalagiri. Andhra Pradesh in a bankrupt She was readmitted to May 13 and she was given a The two-day meet kick- situation and wrecked all sec- KGH on May 19 after com- compensation of Rs 1 lakh. Visakha Sri Sarada Peetham started with party national tions of the state. Stating that plaining of uneasiness. On The woman was re-admitted seer Sri Swaroopanandendra president and former Andhra the one year of the YS May 26, her health condition yet to confirm the death to KGH on May 19 with crit- Swamy predicted that the Pradesh Chief Minister N Jaganmohan Reddy govern- deteriorated and she died late linked to the Styrene gas. ical condition. time for shifting of Andhra Chandrababu Naidu hoisting ment was a "painful year", in the evening. It may be recalled 12 peo- Though the woman was on Pradesh capital from the party flag. Speaking at the inaugural Naidu said major projects like Though the woman died ple, including two children, ventilator support in the Amaravati to Vizag city is About 14,000 party cadre session, Naidu narrated the the Polavaram and a new state on Tuesday evening, her died when styrene vapour KGH, she lost her final breath favourable in October and and leaders are expected to developmental works his capital remained incomplete, demise came to light on leaked from the LG Polymers on Tuesday evening. possibly during the Vijaya participate through Zoom government undertook when and new taxes were imposed Wednesday. However, the plant at RR Venkatapuram in Dasami season. video conferencing, a senior he was the Chief Minister. on the common people. medical teams of the KGH are Vizag city on May 7, while > > party leader said. > > - %1-!!.(/ Bid to make me lose my mental health: Dr Sudhakar >9 -141!1 ! ( 91$/;4/%/-/ ter hospital. The inhuman try. He was suspended for The AP High Court has being given anti-psychotic ( 91?/8/&/#/ government said on manhandling of Dr Sudhakar complaining against shortage directed CBI to investigate drugs even though he is per- Wednesday. The lone Accusing the doctors treating Rao, a civil assistant surgeon at of N-95 masks at hospital the matter. fectly "normal". “The drugs With134 fresh infec- death was reported in him of giving irrelevant drugs Narsipatnam area hospital, by where the frontline staff In a hand- given to me will turn me into tions, the total num- East Godavari District. resulting in serious side-effects, Vizag police has drawn sharp are risking their lives to written letter to a psycho,” said the doctor. ber of Covid-19 cases Of the fresh cases in Dr K Sudhakar Rao, under sus- criticism from across the coun- treat Covid-19 patients. the mental “The drugs are resulting in in Andhra Pradesh the past 24 hours ending pension for protesting against hospital side reactions such as my lips breached the 3,000 mark, 9 AM on Wednesday, nine the lack of safety equipment, ! superinten- drying up, urination stopped, reaching 3,117 while one were linked to the has requested the superinten- "!"#""#$%& dent with blurred vision. The major side death due to the virus was Koyambedu market in dent of the Government Tuesday date- effect is broncho pneumonia,” reported, taking the toll in the Chennai, the bulletin said. Hospital for Mental Care '(($" line, the doctor, the letter read. state to 58, a bulletin from the > (GHMC) to shift him to a bet- alleged that he was > ! " ##$" ) ( " # " 48#*/:/# !# %& " Just 400 km away! # 1 " ( ( A swarm of locusts, currently #"K*" stationed at a distance of 400 km ( CD(CC $ # + "K " away in Maharashtra, is headed 3D(3E '/ %& ,"K,**" towards Telangana and the 32(ED dreaded insects (see box) could ( -, ".#*$ " = E3( cause large-scale damage to (# % " ( standing crops. G 2(2 ! + "K$- " Called 'desert locusts', they 2(2E !)& ##+ "K#*," have started causing extensive $%& 2(2 damage to crops in Rajasthan, $ 23(2D MP and Gujarat. ' Although it is predicted that 2C(2C3 the locusts may enter Telangana 2C2(2== / !""# via Maharashtra, experts in TS / 2=2(23 0"+*1* say a clear picture will emerge in $%%$$%%&$%%'$%!% / % ' 2" +3 two days. +# " Locusts eat more than their $+" body weight (see box). Greenery age to standing crops. Nizamabad, Nirmal, Kamareddy over their fate should the locusts will disappear in areas raided by Farmers in Asifabad, districts — all bordering descend on their farms and locusts. They cause heavy dam- Mancherial, Adilabad, Maharashtra — are worried homes. + !') , -./-0-0 nearly 1.3 billion people. Economists suggest that it $"" %&' would not be a bad idea to allow loans by the Indian gov- ernment to go up to 85 pent of ut of adversity from the blue. changed the scenario drastical- their projects