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SONY'S PROFIT ZOOMS TO RECORD LEVEL US RUSHING ASSISTANCE TO INDIA TO MAHA GIVES RS 1,500 EACH TO 9.17 FOUR-DAY LOCKDOWN IN GOA FROM ON VIDEO GAMES, ‘DEMON SLAYER’ COMBAT COVID SURGE: JOE BIDEN LAKH CONSTRUCTION WORKERS TODAY AS CASES SPIKE: CM ony's January-March profit zoomed eight- ashington, Apr 28 (PTI) The US is rushing he Maharashtra government has transferred he Goa government on Wednesday fold to 107 billion yen (USD 982 million) a whole series of help, including life- Rs 1,500 in the bank accounts of each of decided to impose a strict lockdown Sfrom a year earlier as people stuck at Wsaving drugs and machinery, that India Tthe 9.17 lakh registered construction Tin the state beginning April 29 till home during the coronavirus pandemic needs to combat the massive surge in workers as assistance in view of the May 3, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant turned to the Japanese electronics and COVID-19 cases, President Joe Biden has COVID-19-induced restrictions, state said. Speaking to reporters, he said entertainment company's video games and said, as he again recalled New Delhi's Labour Minister Hasan Mushrif said on essential services and industries will other visual content. Sony Corp. reported a assistance to America when it was in a "bind" Wednesday. There are 13 lakh registered be exempted from the purview of the record profit of 1.17 trillion yen (USD 11 due to the pandemic. Biden spoke at length active construction workers in the state, an lockdown but public transport will not billion) for the fiscal year that ended March 31, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday official statement said. Mushrif said the relief be allowed. "The lockdown will come roughly doubling from 582 billion yen the and conveyed solidarity with India in its fight has been given to workers as Rs 137.61 crore into force on Thursday evening and previous fiscal year. The popularity of the “Demon against the viral disease. "We are sending immediately has been transferred into the respective accounts of remain effective till Monday morning to break Slayer” animation film also helped, along with solid sales in mobile a whole series of help that he needs, including providing for those 9.17 lakh labourers in "just four days". The Maharashtra Building the chain of the coronavirus transmission," he said. Goa on game applications and digital content. Demand persists for the Remdesivir and other drugs that are able to deal with this," Biden and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Board is implementing Tuesday reported 2,110 fresh cases and 31 deaths, taking the PlayStation 5 game console, which went on sale last year. told reporters at a White House news conference on Tuesday. the decision to assist the workers, it said. tally to 81,908 and the toll to 1,086, the government had said. Journos, you remain etched in our memory Next 4 weeks crucial to bring n the battle against Covid-19, journalists across the globe have worked shoulder to shoulder with doctors, nurses, paramedical staff as well as healthcare Iproviders and experts in various fields related to health and medicine to put things in perspective: be it a lowdown on Covid-19 caseloads, reproduction number down Covid second wave: DPH of the virus, positivity, recovery, mortality, analyses of countless data-driven studies relating to coronavirus, updates on what the governments are doing or not doing to help contain the virus, or 'ground' reports on the huge piles of bodies n Situation improving, thanks to the state government's measures and people's currently burning in makeshift crematoriums. In the process, these warriors, wielding pens or cameras, have been sucked into the dance n of death triggered by the pandemic. The Pioneer joins journalistic CM’s Covid rapid cooperation Only those with breathing difficulties should seek hospital beds circles in paying tributes to these intrepid Indian journalists who have lost their lives after contracting Covid-19 in line of duty. ML MELLY MAITREYI So far, 45 lakh preventive measures, aside from the test result negative n HYDERABAD people above efforts of the government and var- n Kosuri Amarnath, Hyderabad, n Srinivas, Yacharam, Telangana, PNS n HYDERABAD ious institutions. "If people extend- Editor, Scribes News Reporter, Andhra Jyothi Telugu Daily The second wave of the pandem- 45 years of age ed the same cooperation, then by n Sridhar Dharmasanam, Editor Maa n Kalpana, Hyderabad, Telangana, Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar ic, with corona cases surging across and healthcare May-end itself, we can gain control Hyderabad CEO, Bathukamma TV Rao, who has been in isolation at Telangana, has started stabilizing, and frontline over the pandemic, instead of wait- n Chinta Nagaraju, Siddipet District, n Chandrashekar Naidu, Srikakulam, his farmhouse, underwent Covid particularly over the last few days, ing till June or July," he said. TS, Reporter, Eenadu newspaper AP, Reporter, NTV tests on Wednesday. though the next three to four workers So far, 45 lakh people above 45 n P. Ramesh, Karimnagar, TS n Syed Shabaz, Kodangal, The Chief Minister's personal weeks are crucial to flatten the have been years of age and healthcare and n Bura Ramesh, Vemulawada, Vikarabad Dist, TS. Reporter, TV. physician Dr.M.V Rao and his Covid-19 curve. vaccinated frontline workers have been vacci- n team conducted Rapid Antigen Dr.G.Srinivasa Rao, Director of nated. Dr.Srinivas Rao said there Sircilla District, Telangana Journlists Ramzan Ali, Karimnagar, Representational Photo n Jayaprakash, Karimnagar, TS. Senior sub-editor, Eenadu. and RT-CPR and other tests on Public Health, said that, thanks to was no need for panic and anxiety. from Telugu KCR. The Rapid Antigen test various measures taken by the Addressing a media conference ple were wearing masks, observing In the first wave, the recovery rate states who n Telangana Madiraju Giri, Shadnagar, result came negative, while the State government to contain the at his office here on Wednesday, Dr physical distance, and avoiding was 99.5 per cent and even in the n BS Ramachandra Rao, succumbed RR Dist, TS. Reporter, ABN to Covid result of RT PCR test will be pandemic and the cooperation Srinivasa Rao said that over the last congregations. second wave the overall recovery Visakhapatnam, AP, former Andhra Jyothi. known on Thursday. extended by people, there was four weeks people had realized the The impact on controlling the would be 99 per cent. journalist with Sakshi n K. Srinivas Goud (32), a 'some improvement' in the last importance of Covid- appropriate pandemic would be greater if peo- n Sainath, Nirmal Dist, Telangana, reporter for Hindi Milap, Karimnagar 2 one week. behaviour and a majority of peo- ple took precautions and observed 2 Reporter, 99TV n Sammi Reddy (50), Vemanapalli n D. Ashok, Nizamabad District, TS, mandal, Vaartha newspaper Reporter, Andhra Bhoomi newspaper n Manoj, 33, Hyderabad n Prabhakar Reddy, Kadapa, AP n M. Parthasarathy, Tirupati n Surya Prakash, Visakhapatnam, AP n Madhusudan Reddy, Tirupati CoWIN servers crash, as Covid Crematoriums in Hyd n P. Tataiah, Ongole, Andhra Pradesh n N Seshacharyulu, 56, Nellore nd Brahm Kanchibotla, 66, New York Vikas Sharma, 35, Noida vaccine registration for 18+ begins cashing on Covid 2 wave Gulshan Ewing, 92, London Aarti Shejwalkar, 31, Mumbai n Pankaj Kulshrestha, 50, Agra Anjay Bohra, 50, Jaipur PNS HYDERABAD Packages for performing last rites Roshan Dias, 46, Mumbai Kamal Dixit, Bhopal 27 lakhs hits per minute Yogesh Kumar, 53 Kailassinh Pardeshi, 55, Saamana Although the Union Health ANUSHA PUPPALA s Covid vaccination registration n Haresh Munwani, 70, Mumbai Pramod Srivastava, 48, Lucknow Ministry has opened registrations HYDERABAD process opened, the centre's Javed Jivani, 84, Mumbai Sabaji Mohan Palkar for COVID-19 vaccines to be A website for the drive - CoWIN -- Davinder Pal Singh, Chandigarh Fatima Zakaria, 85 administered to those in the Cashing in on the surge in coron- seemed to malfunction at first. K. Ch. Ratnam, 75, Odisha Kapil Datta, 65, New Delhi expanded age group of 18-44 years avirus cases and deaths, some of Many complained that the site had Neelanshu Shukla, 30, Lucknow, UP Pradeep Arya, 58, Bilaspur from May 1, many people are the crematoriums in the city, along crashed but the glitches were soon Tarun Sisodia, 37, New Delhi Jatish Khamari, 46, Bhubaneswar unable to register on CoWIN por- with heartless, avaricious middle- fixed.The CoWIN site is getting Motichand Bedbuthe, Usmanabad Ankit Shukla, 35, Lucknow tal, which went public at 4:00 pm men, are offering pricey packages almost 27 lakh hits a minute, Sopan Bongane, Thane Vinay Srivastava, 65, Lucknow on Wednesday for the purpose, or for performing the last rites of government sources said. Ashok Tupe, Ahmednagar B. Goverdhan Joshi, 67, Bhopal via Arogya Setu app. Many report- those who died of COVID-19. Prakash Deshmukh, Mumbai Jamal Ahmad, Bhopal edly tried registering on CoWin Wednesday. Many people com- There are differing packages Shyam Sarma, Mumbai Sacchidanand Gupta ‘Sacche', Lucknow portal soon after 4:00 pm, but failed plained that registrations in the How to enrol for vax available for the last journey, from Rajiv Ketan, Gorakhpur Himanshu Joshi, Lucknow due to server issues. CoWIN portal were successful Whom to complain P mortuary to burial ground. Sanjiv Sinha, Dhanbad Pawan Mishra, Lucknow Apart from the Co-WIN portal, only for those in the age group of Middlemen are reportedly offering Ravinder Kumar, 30, HP Waseem, Lucknow the Arogya Setu app also went 45 years and above. about side effects packages that can go up to Rs down. They both crashed as soon 3 80,000 each. Naresh Bajaj, 57, Abohar Tavishi Srivastava, 73, Lucknow 2 FAQ on vaccination Arun Kumar Verma, 68, Patna Chanchal Pal Chauhan as the registrations opened on All this is happening because, Representational Photo Gowripura Chandru, 54, Bengaluru Ashish Yechury, 34, New Delhi due to lack of space in mortuar- S. Yadavatti, 49, Bengaluru Bharath, 32, Puducherry ies, hospitals are asking the rela- next day for funerals as they can't Ronny Roy, Kolkata, WB Chandan Jaiswal, New Delhi tives of the deceased to take away take the bodies home due to Pankaj Kulashrestha, Agra Vivek Bendre, 59, Mumbai Covishield price for the bodies. The relatives are forced COVID-19 protocol. E. Velmurugan, 41, Chennai Sadanand Shinde, 64, Mumbai T-BJP cornered for its to look for ambulances and freez- Priyadarshi Patnaik, 46, Tanmoy Chakraborty, 39, Agartala states reduced to Rs 300 ers to preserve the bodies until the 2 Hinjilicut Shailesh Raval, Gujarat PNS n NEW DELHI 140+ Indian Simanchal Panda, Odisha journlists Jodu Chutia, Assam huge election rallies Ramanathan, Chennai fell prey to Naresh Behera, Odisha Serum Institute of India's Jai Deep, Patiala Covid Karunakar Sahu, Odisha Covishield will cost states Rs 300 Covaxin ‘found to More than lack of Rantu Das, 54, Guwahati Manoj Kumar Sahu, Odisha instead of Rs 400, CEO Adar BJP says not violated Covid protocol Ashok Churi, 71, Palghar Govind Behera, Odisha Poonawalla tweeted today, calling neutralise’ Indian 617 Pandurang Raikar, 42, Pune Sukhnandan Gavai, Ulhasnagar it a "philanthropic gesture". PNS n HYDERABAD oxygen, undue Solman Sahu, Balasore, Odisha Jairam Sawant, Maharashtra "As a philanthropic gesture on variant: US adviser Rahul Dolare, 49, Aurangabad Amjad Badshah, 45, Jharsuguda behalf of Serum Institute of India, While the Union government anxiety kills Srinivasa Rao, Jaggaiahpet Yogesh Sharma, Ahmedabad I hereby reduce the price to the headed by the Bharatiya Janata PNS n NEW DELHI Florent C Pereira, 67, Chennai Aiyushman Dutta Guwahati, Assam states from Rs.400 to Rs.300 per Party is facing flak for not taking Golap Saikia, 52, Guwahati Kakoli Bhattacharya, 51, New Delhi dose, effective immediately; this proactive steps to contain the sec- Covaxin, India's home-grown Covid patients Ashwani Kapoor, 70, Ludhiana Radhakrishna Muralidhar, New Delhi will save thousands of crores of ond wave of Covid -19 raging Covid vaccine produced by Harish Choubey, 60, Jabalpur Manikant Thakur, New Delhi state funds going forward. This across the country, the Telangana Bharat Biotech, has been found P2 Anil Srivastava, 68, Basti Narendra Kaushal, Rishikesh will enable more vaccinations unit of BJP has given scope for fur- to neutralise the B.1.617 variant Ami Adhar Nidar, 50, Agra Rajesh Mishra, Indore and save countless lives," Mr ther criticism by holding huge ral- or the Indian double mutant TODAY Manoj Binwal, 55, Indore Durga Prasad Shukla, Bakshi Ka Poonawalla wrote in his tweet. lies, in stark violation of the Covid strain, White House Chief Pavan Hettur, 35, Mysuru Talab, Uttar Pradesh The higher prices of vaccines protocol, in connection with the Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci Kishore Bhimani, 80, Kolkata Brijendra Patel, 50, Agra for states and private hospitals ongoing elections to the urban BJP, in its official Twitter handle, said on Tuesday. ALMANAC Krishna Mohan Sharma, 63, Patna Shivanandan Sahu, 38, Kaushambi have provoked anger and debate local bodies. tweeted big rally pictures and later "Now, this is something where Month & Paksham: itendra Debbarma, 46, Agartala Prashant Saxena, Bareilly since Serum made the announce- On Wednesday, the last day for removed the photos after receiving we're still gaining data on a Chaitra & Krishna Paksha Ashim Dutta, 65, Silchar Rohitash Gupta, 36, Bareilly ment weeks ago. campaigning, the BJP held mega criticism from the public. daily basis. Panchangam Dhaneswar Rabha, 38, Tangla Nootan Saxena, 42, Bareilly campaign rallies in Warangal, Tithi : Tritiya: 10:09 pm P. Kumar Pradhan, 35, Bhubaneswar Ram Prakash Gupta, Bihar 2 Khammam and other places. The 2 2 Rakesh Taneja, 51, Faridabad Bijan Sarkar, New Delhi Nakshatram : Anuradha: 02:29 pm Pankaj Shukla, 50, Noida Sanjay Srivastava, New Delhi Time to Avoid : (Bad time to start Rajiv Katara, 60, New Delhi K.K. Sharma (Guddu), Indore any important work) Manglesh Dabral, 72, New Delhi Salil Jain, Indore, Madhya Pradesh Rahukalam : 01:48 pm – 03:22 pm D. Vijayamohan, 65, New Delhi Rauf Khan, Indore, Madhya Pradesh Politicos become ‘paper tigers’, courtesy Covid Yamagandam : 05:54 am – 07:29 am Mani Kumar Rai, 53, Siliguri Prakash Gangaram Desai, 68, Sangli Nandkumar Sonar, 50, Ahmednagar G.S. Yadav, Indore, Madhya Pradesh SNCN ACHARYULU leaders, workers, visitors having Varjyam : 07:32 pm – 08:58 pm n 200 HYDERABAD back-to-back meetings. Besides, Gulika : 09:04 am - 10:38 am the main political parties used to Good Time : (to start any important work) 180 Covid -19 has changed not only conduct at least two to three 160 people's lifestyle, but also work cul- media conferences daily. Beat Amritakalam : 04:11 am – 05:38 am 140 ture. In particular, coronavirus has reporters, cameramen and elec- Abhijit Muhurtham : 11:48 am – 12:38 pm 120 changed the functioning of politi- tronic media representatives used 100 cal parties and their offices. Locked to regularly cover activities of HYDERABAD 80 in, political parties have all become various parties. WEATHER 60 'paper tigers' - the term they use to These days no political leader, Forecast: Mostly sunny describe one another in the polit- worker or media person is seen in 40 Temp: 37/22 ical arena. any political party's office in the Humidity: 41% 20 Political leaders and workers Telugu states. Due to this, the offices 0 Sunrise: 05:51 am have stopped coming to their main of various political parties in the Sunset: related journalist deaths Italy USA Iran 06:35 pm Brazil India Peru Spain Mexico Turkey Russia offices. Some political parties have Telugu states wear a deserted look. 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MNC manager seeks sexual More than lack of oxygen, undue T-BJP cornered favour from job seeker, held for its huge PNS n anxiety kills Coronavirus patients HYDERABAD PNS n HYDERABAD and receive treatment without exercises, take nutritious food. The Jubilee Hills police unduly worrying whether they Those who receive treat- election rallies booked the manager of a A condition known as ‘hyper- would recover. ment while in home isolation private firm in the city for carbia’, which means excessive While a healthy person should check oxygen levels as Continued from page 1 parties across the nation, espe- sexually harassing a woman levels of carbon-dioxide in breathes 12-16 times a minute, frequently as possible. cially in Telangana, was pure- on the pretext of providing a one’s bloodstream, is proving Covid patients, out of anxiety, Performing light exercises, When The Pioneer confront- ly political: to blame the BJP job. to be the bane for Covid-19 breathe more rapidly thereby patients should receive the ed BJP's social media organiz- and the central government Police said the suspect, patients. pumping requisite quantity of treatment with the confidence ers on the removal pictures, for everything. identified as Sumanth, 30, The condition can lead to oxygen into the bloodstream. of recovering soon. In such they could not give reasons. Krishna Sagar Rao said that who worked briefly as an heart stroke and also that of This leads to increasing lev- persons, the virus can be They said it was done in the in Telangana the State Election assistant general manager of the brain. It can lead to forma- els of carbon-dioxide levels in defeated without any side- normal process and that there Commission ( SEC) was mon- a firm on Jubilee Hills Road tion of blood clots and also blood. As a result, the patient effects. were no instructions in this itoring the election process. No.36, collected the phone hormonal imbalance. passes out due to the hypercar- However, the patients undu- regard from the party. "What do they expect from number of the 25-year-old The condition is believed to bia impact on the brain. He is ly worrying about their recov- Meanwhile, BJP Telangana BJP? Do they want the BJP to victim from Himayathnagar, be one of the reasons for the also at risk of suffering heart ery will lead to steep fall in unit chief spokesperson K sit at home and not to cam- when the latter recently went death of some Covid-19 stroke. Moreover, Covid oxygen levels. Krishna Sagar Rao con- paign?" to attend an interview. patients. patients are at risk of forma- The stress levels by them- demned the TRS and He pointed out that the He started chatting with There are many examples tion of blood clots. When in selves will destroy their con- Congress for blaming the BJP SEC had decided to stick to its her on WhatsApp and that present a plausible expla- anxiety, the blood supply rate fidence and even if they get over spike in Covid cases. election schedule. Krishna promised to provide her a nation how hypercarbia has increases. The blood clots oxygen support, they are Speaking to The Pioneer, he Sagar Rao alleged that the suitable job using his con- led to death of patients who days, he breathed his last. died of hypercarbia. obstruct free flow of blood and unable to recover. Splitting of asserted that the BJP could not state government was behind tacts. For the last few days, he tested positive for the virus. In another case, Koti, a 38- In fact, 90 per cent of can lead to heart and brain blood vessels, reduction in sit at home without campaign- the 'plot' to complete the started harassing her by send- Sairam, a 40-year-old man year-old man from Nunna Covid-19 patients are under strokes. There is likelihood of the lungs oxygen imbibing ing in view of the elections. He election process before 2nd ing sexually explicit content from Vijayawada, tested pos- village, tested positive for the severe stress and complicating Covid patients collapsing sud- capacity and many other prob- claimed that the BJP was seek- May to see that there was no and demanding sexual favors itive for the virus. He virus a week ago. He got their cases and inching closer denly. Moreover, it can lead to lems surface. ing votes from people by fol- BJP impact on future elec- from her in exchange for the remained asymptomatic. admitted to a Covid-19 hospi- to death instead of defeating hormonal imbalance in them. The key is to nurse a posi- lowing Covid protocol. tions. job. Unable to take further However, he got himself tal for treatment. From the the virus successfully. The patients should have tive outlook and remain con- When asked about BJP It may be recalled that the harassment, the woman admitted to a hospital. His hospital, he used to call up his In April, the virus claimed the positive attitude that fident. posting huge rally photos in results of elections to five state approached the police and oxygen levels plummeted and family and friends and tell lives of over 64 in the region. receiving good treatment will Unlike earlier, the mutation Twitter and later removing Assembles and several bye- lodged a complaint on he frequently spoke to his them that there was something Doctors say that 50 percent of help them recover from the in the second wave is extreme- them, Krishna Sagar Rao said elections, including Tuesday, based on which a near and dear expressing con- bothering him. He spoke over the fatalities were due to severe virus. Without becoming ly virulent. As such, many that he was not aware about Nagarjuna Sagar Asembly bye case was booked and investi- cern at being infected. After the phone always setting aside anxiety. They advise the hyper anxious, the patients patients are requiring oxygen this. He alleged that the single- election in Telangana, will be gation taken up. receiving treatment for five the oxygen cap. As a result, he patients to remain confident should perform breathing support. point agenda of all opposition announced on 2nd May. CoWIN servers crash, as Covid Covaxin ‘found to Crematoriums in Hyd cashing... Continued from page 1 seeking help; so, we have to activist from Feed the Needy, preserve the body till morn- Hyderabad said: "Many of vaccine registration for 18+ begins neutralise’ Indian 617 Sai Teja, an activist from Feed ing. So, we arranged an ambu- our loved ones have lost their Continued from page 1 details, which is Rangareddy, to register in the first place the Needy, said, "One of my lance with freezer to keep the family members due to this but got to know that the vac- today as the server was down; friend's colleague was charged body for the night and cre- pandemic and still some are When citizens in 18-44 age cine is available only for 45+". for the first one hour server variant: US adviser Rs 82,000 by a private hospi- mated the body next morn- on death beds. We can only group tried registering on "In the current situation, was very slow. Later, I did not tal in Kukatpally, stating that ing." support them with our love CoWIN app, an alert read: vaccine is one of the important receive OTP till the next one Continued from page 1 important to get vaccinated." they will arrange an ambu- He further added, "The and care during this crisis. It "Currently registrations are things people are looking for. hour as the site was very slow. Covaxin was developed by lance. The ambulance charged cost for keeping the body in is very unfortunate that they open only for citizen older It is devastating to see the So far, we could only register But the most recent data was Bharat Biotech in partnership such a huge amount for a dis- freezer, along with the ambu- have been harassed by the than 45 years only". young ones losing their lives in names register as no slots were looking at convalescent sera with National Institute of tance of just 6 km. lance, had cost Rs 32,000. In middlemen from mortuary Twenty-eight-year-old the second wave. CoWIN.in is available as vaccine centres of COVID-19 cases in people Virology and the Indian In another incident, a pri- this Covid second wave, the room to burial ground". Dheeraj from Manikonda said: not efficient and effective. As are not allotted yet". who received the vaccine Council of Medical Research vate ambulance charged Rs government should work on He adds, "Everyone has to "I have been trying to register most of them tried to register, Meanwhile, the Union used in India, the Covaxin. (ICMR) and was approved 32,000 for ambulance and a alternative arrangements in go through this process; it will since 4:00 pm as advised on the it resulted in failure. In my Health Ministry stated that if And it was found to neu- for emergency use on January freezer as a person expired in cases where private hospitals not be different for the peo- website of Union Health case, while I tried scheduling anyone is unable to register, tralise the 617 variant," he 3 while still in clinical trial. a private hospital and the are not able to preserve the ple who are harassing the Ministry. For the first 40 min- my slot in Medchal district, it they can refresh the app or said, according to news Trial results later showed hospital refused to keep the bodies and crematoriums will affected families during the utes the server was down as said there are no details avail- open it after closing. They agency PTI. the vaccine has an efficacy of body overnight. The hospital not take bodies after 7pm, as difficult time. The Govt has to expected. Then, after trying able. I would request the gov- can also try opening the por- "So despite the real difficul- 78 per cent, according to asked family members to take per COVID SOP, bodies can't give proper guidelines to multiple times, finally I got reg- ernment to deal with it much tal in incognito mode after ty that we're seeing in India, ICMR. away the body due to lack of be taken home or apartment. ensure the burial grounds are istered after an hour. Later I more effectively and easily so sometime. The Health vaccination could be a very, The B.1.617 variant, most- mortuary. Crematoriums do It is a sad state of affairs charging as per the prescribed successfully registered the that everyone gets vaccinated Ministry also requested citi- very important antidote ly found in Covid cases in not accept bodies after 7pm. that for preserving a Covid rates to save public from this names of my wife and sister. without having any issues", zens to remain patient. against this," Dr Fauci was Maharashtra and Delhi, has With mental agony and left corpus body for one night looting. But when we tried to book the said Shashidhar Vuppala, a Everyone will get to register quoted as telling reporters. three new spike protein muta- with no other alternative, the cost Rs 32,000 due to lack of Middlemen are demanding slots, there are no vaccination resident of Hyderabad. and be vaccinated at the earli- "So I'll stop there with the tions. This variant is said to be patient's family had mortuary and no options left about Rs 80,000 amount as a centres in and around the area Santosh Thallam,28-year- est. Sometimes the server final statement. The one thing pushing the deadly second approached us as we are offer- to pay proper homage to the package from mortuary to falling under our Pin Code. old resident of Hyderabad, crashes if load is high, the you can gather from every- surge in Covid across the ing the last ride services in Covid deceased patients". burial ground. There is no bill Then I tried with the district said, "I found it really difficult Ministry added. thing I've said: that it's very country. Hyderabad city. They are Vinay Vangala, a social for this also". Case booked Arrangements in place Politicos become for comments for TS municipal polls ‘paper tigers’... against CM, PNS n HYDERABAD their political fortunes in four wards, while five candidates are Continued from page 1 huge gatherings in view of the KCR on Twitter The Telangana State Election in fray in Lingojiguda ward in Covid -19 pandemic. Commission said it has made GHMC. The political parties have con- In one way, local leaders of PNS n HYDERABAD elaborate arrangements for the The poll authorities have set fined themselves to issuing opposition parties are happy as elections to be held in two up 1,539 polling stations and statements. If there is anything there are no calls for agitations The Hyderabad Central municipal corporations and will deploy 9,809 polling per- important to share with the from their high commands. To Crime Station (CCS) police five municipalities on Friday. sonnel for smooth conduct of media, some political leaders conduct any agitation, the took suo motu cognisance of Polling will also be held for elections. To ensure compliance are conducting 'zoom' confer- related expenditure has to be derogatory comments post- the by-elections to four wards in of Covid-19 protocol, the ences. There is no activity on borne by local party leaders. ed against Chief Minister K four municipalities and one authorities have procured the ground by any political The party head office would Chandrashekhar Rao, IT ward in GHMC SEC C 28,810 masks, 14,505 face ARRANGEMENTS party. Generally political lead- not give any financial help to Minister KT Rama Rao and Parthasarathi on Wednesday shields, 22,910 hand gloves, FOR ELECTIONS ers belittle their opponents as conduct agitations. other politicians and celebri- held a review on the elections to 18,455 bottles of hand sanitiz- 'paper tiger', but now almost Some political parties have ties by unidentified persons the Greater Warangal and er and 22,230 rings marked for In view of GWMC election all political parties have arranged control rooms to on a Twitter account that Khammam Municipal queues of voters at polling sta- become paper tigers as they help Covid patients. If any claimed to be a parody Corporations and Siddipet, tions indicating social distanc- Mamnoor and Geesugonda have confined themselves to patient calls the control room account of the late actress Jadcherla, Atchampet Kothur, ing. The guidelines include sani- police conducted flag march in issuing press statements. Most for any help like vaccine, ven- Telangana Shakuntala with and Nakrekal municipalities tisers to be made available at the their jurisdiction on Wednesday of the leaders are staying put tilator or oxygen, the political her photo as profile picture. He instructed all the con- entry of polling station, social in their residences. The party leaders of the respective par- The twitter handle was cerned to monitor the elections distancing to be maintained as office bearers are not coming ties will speak over phone to being maintained by some closely following the guide- per Covid guidelines, use of to their offices. the persons concerned and miscreants to post derogato- lines issued by the SEC in view ArogyaSetu App by all persons Generally opposition parties request them to help the call- ry comments targeting var- of the Covid-19 and to conduct involved in elections, mandato- take up agitations to highlight ing patients appropriately. ious personalities. The CCS elections in safe and peaceful ry sanitisation of polling stations, Covishield price for states.... anti--people policies of the Due to corona, the state police booked a case and are manner. A total of 11,59,112 marking to demonstrate social state governments. Now the governments are not in a posi- investigating. voters including 5,84,963 distancing for queue lines near opposition parties have 'sus- tion to conduct full Budget women are eligible to cast their polling stations, kit containing Continued from page 1 ized policy to tackle the explo- lation, while the centre will pended' their agitations in sessions of Assemblies. While votes in these elections. As one mask, sanitizer and face sion of Covid cases State gov- buy the other half to contin- Telugu states against the the Telangana government cut HYDERABAD many as 1,307 candidates shield to be given to every From May 1, as vaccinations ernments and private hospitals ue vaccinating those above 45 respective State governments. short the Budget session, the BULLION RATES including 480 independents polling personnel, postal ballot open to all adults, states and can order up to 50 per cent of free of cost. Serum said it The leaders and party workers Andhra Pradesh government are in the fray in two corpora- for voters who tested Covid pos- private entities can buy doses Serum's Covishield and would continue to provide are afraid of coming out from chose to issue an ordinance on GOLD tions and five municipalities. itive after April 15 and PPE kits directly from manufacturers Bharat Biotech's Covaxin to vaccines to the centre at ? 150 their homes due to corona and budget without even conduct- ` 48, 160 (10 gm) Fourteen candidates are testing to the staff carrying ballot boxes. under the Centre's liberal- inoculate the younger popu- a shot. government restrictions on ing the Assembly session. ` 300 SILVER ` 73, 500 (1kg) ` 600 Next 4 weeks crucial to bring down Covid... CM’s Covid rapid test result... Continued from page 1 Continued from page 1 18 years from May 1 would be and anxiety as well as lack of tests only if flu-like symptoms said there was no dearth of CHICKEN issued in a day or two. awareness, people with mild like cold, cough and fever per- oxygen in TS hospitals as the KCR tested positive on April 19 and went into isolation at his RATES `/KG About 80 per cent of those Those above 45 years too symptoms were rushing to sist for two to three days. This state government had ramped farmhouse. Two days later, he underwent CT scan and other who were vaccinated would should book slots for vaccina- hospitals and seeking admis- way they would help spare test up oxygen lines to beds and tests at Yashoda Hospital, where the reports were normal. Dressed/With Skin `141 not get the disease and even if tion to avoid waiting and sions out of fear. This would kits for the needy. People improved oxygen storage Minister for IT and Industry KT Rama Rao and MP Santosh Without Skin `160 they contracted the infection, crowding at the centres. create artificial shortage of going for tests as a matter of capacity in 23 government Kumar, who had accompanied the Chief Minister to Yashoda Broiler at Farm `97 they would recover quickly. Priority would be given to beds. Infected persons would precaution might unneces- hospitals. The nodal officers Hospital, subsequently tested positive for Covid and went into The DPH said, as the Chief those requiring second dose. need hospitalization only if sarily expose themselves to the were monitoring oxygen home isolation. Minister announced, the State Dr Srinivasa Rao said that they experience any breathing virus by mingling with per- stocks, he added. EGG government would give vac- Telangana was in a better difficulty and 85 per cent of sons having Covid symptoms. The drivers of emergency RATES `/100 cine free of cost to those position in terms of beds, Covid positive people do not The DPH said the State has ambulance 108 would have above 18 years. They should medicines, and the Chief require hospitalization. One over 50,000 beds, including the details of availability of HYDERABAD 362 start registering themselves in Minister and Chief Secretary could take treatment as per over 18,000 beds with oxygen beds and take the patients to VIJAYAWADA 400 CoWIN website, though they were supervising the situation. doctor's advice at home or at facility and over 10,000 ICU the nearest hospital. would not be able to book the Committees of IAS officers an isolation centre, according beds. The government was Remdesivir injections should VISAKHAPATNAM 505 slots for some time. were monitoring the situation to Dr Srinivasa Rao. further augmenting the beds. be used only as per guidelines RETAIL PRICE `3. 62 Guidelines related to vaccina- relating to beds, medicines The DPH is of the view that Director of Medical and only if oxygen saturation (IN HYDERABAD) tion schedule of people above and injections. Due to panic people should go for Covid Education Dr Ramesh Reddy levels were below 92, he said.

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Bharani Kumar n HYDERABAD Aroll of Hysea said, "Some of People should not delay taking government doesn't the people are getting impact- Vaccination drives in IT firms Covid vaccine as this will give Technology can enable work- have restrictions on ed and there is a marginal drop PNS n HYDERABAD An employee from Infosys said virus an opportunity to devel- from-home option; yet, it can- how many come in productivity. In terms of that the firm was seeking op new variants and some of not ensure that all techies are in back to offices. About quantification, whether it is the Some of the IT firms in the city approvals for vaccination drive them may reduce the efficacy sound, working condition. With 60-70% might return to employee who is impacted or will be conducting on-campus on campus. The techie added, of current vaccines, say health- many employees of IT firms or his family member, it still vaccination drives for techies. "The vaccination drive started care experts. their family members falling offices by the year end. affects the employee; so, there Several employees of firms, on campus in other cities and They believe that those not prey to Covid, the available staff — BHARANI, Techie is some impact on productiv- including those of Infosys, not yet in Hyderabad. However, taking the vaccine are doing a are complaining of increased ity. There is difference in Wave Accenture and Deloitte, have if we are getting inoculated great injustice to their near and workload, while tech companies It is not just the employee, even 1 and Wave 2 of the pandem- confirmed that they have a outside, we can get the cost dear ones. decry decreased productivity. if their family member gets ic. In Wave 1, we had chal- tailored vaccination approach. reimbursed even for the family Government of India has Several techies have report- infected; the team member has lenges on the demand side and City-based IT companies have members.To give impetus to announced that all individuals ed that their workload has to be available for them. So, the supply side. But in Wave 2, planned to facilitate vaccination the vaccination drive and create aged above 18 years would be the efficacy of the current "Vaccination for all is about increased, particularly after a eventually they are not available it is impacting the supply side, for not only employees, but awareness, IT associations are eligible to get Covid-19 vacci- vaccine, which is surely not a controlling the pandemic at a member of their team or his or at work for 14 days or more. But which is us, but not the also their dependants. An looking at solutions to make it nation starting May 1. This desirable scenario to be in. population level through her immediate family member our company is taking good demand side. In America, employee from Deloitte said, easier for employees to get the must be considered as the end Hence, it is important people reaching herd immunity, and got infected. care on the employee side, as Europe things are picking up "As part of the vaccination jab Bharani Kumar Aroll of game for the deadly pandem- encourage each other to get the objective cannot be Employees of several com- there is a helpline, even ambu- and opening up, which leads to support program, our company HYSEA said, "We have tied up ic to be driven out of India but vaccinated at the earliest and achieved unless each and every panies like Accenture, Deloitte lance, apart from addressing our demand rising and improving will reimburse the cost of the with hospitals to do vaccination this would not be achieved if ensure the virus is driven out one joins the movement and and JPMC working in queries". Another techie from recruitment here". vaccine for all the employees on campus or off the campus. the young and the old hesitate of our lives before it gets to us," get themselves vaccinated. Hyderabad have confirmed Deloitte, who wished not to be However, HYSEA expects and the family members Because of shortage of supply, to take vaccine, say the experts. he said. Fight against coronavirus that there has been additional named, confirmed increase in that 60-70% of employees will included in the medical there were some challenges, Dr. Mervin Leo, Cluster Healthcare facilities across requires a community effort, pressure on projects. workload in some teams. The return to office by the end of insurance plan.The reimburse- but it will resume as soon as COO, Gleneagles Global Hyderabad are ramping up and everybody must step for- An employee of JPMC, techie said that this was not the year. Bharani said, "The ment is for both the doses at the vaccine supply is restored. Hospitals believes that Covid- their capacity to vaccinate ward in and get their vaccines, speaking to The Pioneer on evident across the board, but Telangana government doesn't the government rate and not Hospitals will set up camps on 19 virus still has many hosts more population in the weeks so that we can break the chain condition of anonymity, just in some teams. have restrictions on how many private rates". Accenture too is campuses or IT firms will have left to replicate in, and it has ahead. They believe vaccina- of transmission from one per- revealed: "There is increased With the US and other come back to offices. About 60- covering the cost of vaccina- scheduled slots in hospitals to more opportunity to random- tion for all is the most defini- son to another," said Dr. Riyaz workload due to rising infec- countries restoring operations, 70% might return to offices by tions for its employees. get vaccination done. ly develop new variants. "Some tive step in the fight against Khan, CEO, Continental tions and team mates taking off. the inflow of work has the year end." of these variants may reduce coronavirus. Hospitals. CITY LIGHTS 2 held for selling Differences in Orthopaedics wing Cops launch free ambulance Remdesivir vials of Gandhi pose problem to students for non-Corona emergencies in black market PNS n HYDERABAD The differences among the achakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat on PNS n HYDERABAD doctors in Orthopaedic wing Wednesday launched free ambulance services by technology Appointment of two internal are going on for over two Rservices provider SmartIMS for people in non-Covid-19 medical The Rachakonda Police SOT examiners for the practical years. While Valya is the HoD emergencies. Bhagwat said people in need of going to medical along with the Medipally examinations, which have been of Orthopaedics, another pro- checkups could use these services, which were available free of cost police caught two persons on scheduled from April 26 to fessor Satyanarayana has been and round the clock. SmartIMS associated with StanPlus Red charges of selling Remdesivir May 3, for Gandhi Medical appointed as the HoD as per ambulance services, were providing the ambulances fully equipped injection vials in the black College (GMC) has shocked the rules. The doctors have with oxygen, ventilation and other emergency facilities. Senior market on Tuesday. the MBBS final year students April 26 the university author- been divided into two groups 56 more succumb citizens, pregnant women and disabled persons in non critical The arrested persons were as the two examiners had ities issued orders appointing as the HoDs fight among them- emergencies could utilize these services to visit hospitals, diagnostic identified as K Anjan Kumar, recently argued in front of the Prof B Valya as the examiner, selves for the custody of the centres and blood banks.These ambulances will be active for the next 29, a private employee from students bringing the differ- leading to confusion among HoD’s room. The two groups two months under the Rachakonda Commissionerate region. to Covid in state Aler in Yadadri-Bhongir dis- ences among top professors of the students on the exam day. apparently clashed on several trict and K Bhaskar Rao, 39, Orthopaedics department of The medical students occasions. The problem remai- PNS n HYDERABAD The government and pri- a medical shop owner from the college to the fore. appeared for practical exami- ned unsolved even at the inter- vate laboratories tested 82,270 UoH among top institutions in Nacharam. Following a tip- However, the problem was nations. At the examination vention of the officials. Telangana hit a new high in samples during the 24-hour off that some persons were resolved with the interven- centre, both the professors The differences in fatalities due to Covid as 56 period as compared to 99,638 the Global RUR Rankings 2021 blackmarketing Remdesivir tion of the college authorities. resorted to arguments in front Orthopaedic department have more people succumbed to the on Tuesday. vials at higher prices to cus- The Kaloji Narayana Rao of the students, as both of them been posing problems not only virus during the 24-hour peri- The fresh Covid cases he University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been ranked among the tomers at Medilife Medical University of Health Sciences claimed to be the examiners to the students but also to the od. pushed the state's cumulative top institutions in the Global Round University Ranking (RUR) Stores, Boduppal, the police appointed Prof N Aravind and offered to conduct the patients. Therefore, the inter- This is the highest number tally to 4,19,966. TRanking 2021. Out of the 13 Indian institutions figuring in the team reached the spot and Kumar as the examiner for the examinations to the bewilder- vention of top officials is of daily toll since outbreak of The number of active cases RUR rankings, UoH was the only university to be ranked after IISc, caught them. examinations. However, on ment of the students. sought to resolve the problems. the pandemic last year. The jumped to 72,133. A total of the IITs and IISER-Pune, in the top six in India, the UoH said on state had reported 52 fatalities 5,093 people recovered from Wednesday. The university's global rank stands at 350 in 2021, on Tuesday. the virus during the last 24 showing an improvement from the 363 position in 2020, the The overall toll has mount- hours, taking the total number university said, adding that it's teaching rank was at 84 globally. The ed to 2,150. The case fatality of recoveries to 3,45,683. RUR Rankings Agency in partnership with Clarivate Analytics TV actor held for cheating businesswoman rate stands at 0.5 per cent as The recovery rate has announced the release of RUR 2021 World University Rankings on PNS n HYDERABAD from Sindhura Reddy for the husband of TV anchor game zone there. compared to the national aver- slipped further to 82.31 per Tuesday. The RUR is an international ranking of leading world investment into real estate but Shyamala, had approached Sindhura Reddy, in her com- age of 1.1 per cent. cent as compared to the universities published by the RUR Ranking Agency (Moscow, Television actor Lakshmi failed to develop the property Sindhura Reddy and invited plaint to the police, said she The state reported 8,061 national average of 82.3 per Russia). Narasimha Reddy was arrest- or return her money. Police her to make the investment. He paid Rs 85 lakh in the form of new Covid cases, down from cent. The health authorities ed on Wednesday on charges of also arrested a woman identi- told her that he owns four acres cash and cheques in 2017 but 10,122 on Tuesday. The num- tested 82,270 samples, taking cheating a businesswoman to fied as Jayanti Goud who was of land land valued Rs 100 no construction was taken up. bers appear to have come the total number of tests to the tune of Rs 85 lakh here, also threatening the victim on crore in Gandipet area in When she demanded her down due to relatively low more than 1.27 crore. Samples police said. behalf of Narasimha Reddy. Hyderabad and plans to build money back, he started threat- number of tests conducted tested per million population He had taken the money Narasimha Reddy, who is a swimming pool, pub and ening her. during the 24-hour period. improved to 3,42,519. BIE mulls promoting Inter II yr students based on I yr marks PNS n HYDERABAD hardly any chance of the exam- pound the issue. Moreover, science records of students as inations being held now. only 20 to 25 days regular class- well. With Coronavirus cases surging The state government of es were held during the current The Secretary of TSBIE, in the state, and the Telangana Telangana had announced ear- academic year of 2020-21. Syed Umer Jaleel, has instruct- State Board of Intermediate lier that a high level meeting Considering all these factors, ed all colleges to dispatch the Education (TSBEI) being will be held in the first week of TSBIE officials are reviewing marks of Ethics, Human Values unable to conduct exams for June to take a final decision how to assign marks to the stu- and Environment education Intermediate students, the regarding the exams. dents if the exams are can- assignments by May 3. He also Board is considering a propos- However, experts have said celled. In case of students not warned college managements al to assign second year students that there is no possibility of agreeing to the marks assigned not to link the assignment the same marks they scored the Covid pandemic receding to them, it has been learnt, they marks with their fees. Strict during their first year. by then. are considering to provide an action shall be taken if parents Experts deem that the cur- If the Intermediate second opportunity to such students to complained that their wards' rent situation in Telangana is year is delayed further, then it write exams. assignments were not taken not conducive to hold second will create problem for the medicine, NITs, IITs and other by private lecturers will further There is a proposal to assign due to non payment of fees, he year exams and that there is entrance exams of engineering, such exams. The slow checking delay the result, and com- practical marks on the basis of informed. 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‘Centre, state ‘UNLAWFUL' ASSOCIATIONS Shortage of RAT kits halts failed to curb ‘Govt must withdraw GO 73’ ML MELLY MAITREYI Covid spread' n HYDERABAD The statement by the organisations PNS n RAJANNA SIRCILLA said that, from the closure of Dharna corona testing in districts Several rights organisations TPCC secretary Adi Srinivas, under the umbrella of Chowk to the recent NIA raids on P ANAND KUMAR in-charge of Vemulawada Telangana Praja Assembly activists in Telugu States, the n NARSAPUR constituency, said that the expressed their alarm at the Central and State govern- decision of the Telangana gov- democratic space to question the People were facing difficulty ments had failed to curb the ernment to declare 16 demo- failures and due to a severe shortage of spread of Coronavirus. cratic organisations as unlaw- rapid antigen kits for conduct- Government hospitals should ful and requested it to with- excesses of ing Covid test in the govern- be readied on a war footing draw the GO No 73 immedi- the state ment hospitals and primary so that those could provide ately. health centres (PHCs) across oxygen as well as Remdesivir The GO 73 was issued on have the districts of Telangana, and medicines to those affect- March 30, 2021 under the shrunk especially in the Narsapur ed by corona. Telangana Public Security Act, constituency of Medak district. If there is a shortage of 1992 with effect from that Out of 200 people who vis- ambulances, ambulance facil- date declaring 16 organisations ited the Narsapur area hospi- ities should be set up imme- as unlawful associations. tal on Wednesday, only 50 of diately at a rate of at least two In a joint statement, to any undemocratic and ill NRC-NPR, how did opposing them got a Coronavirus test. per zone, he said. A 50-bed Telangana Praja Assembly and conceived actions in these them become a reason for Boards of 'No stock test kits' covid hospital should be set other organisations said that extra-ordinary times. declaring the 16 organisations were displayed at the up temporarily at each zonal the freedom of association The reasons cited by the as 'unlawful'. Reddipalli primary health cen- centre. Corona should also be was available to every Indian government in the GO for The statement issued by tre. Similarly, hundreds of included in Arogyasree, he citizen under the Constitution declaring the associations as Jeevan Kumar of Human people were making rounds said. of India. unlawful were vague and Rights Forum, Meera for corona testing to He said that if the govern- They said that as democra- sweeping without any onus on Sanghamitra of National Sivampeta, Koudipalli, ments had learned their tic groups they strongly the government to prove com- Alliance of People's Veldurthi, Hutnoor and lessons properly from the believed in the freedom of cit- mission of unlawful actions. Movements, Kanneganti Ravi Kolcharam PHCs. The med- 25 patients succumb to Covid first phase of corona, they izens to organise for social jus- The GO also found fault with of Rythu Swarajya Vedika, P ical staff told the patients that would not have been found tice and on various issues of the associations for question- Shankar of Dalit Bahujan Front there was a shortage of rapid wanting in the second surge State policy and the unilateral ing the Central or State gov- and others said that ever since antigen test kits, so they could in 24 hours at MGM Hospital of the disease and it would declaration of the government ernments which were the the formation of Telangana in not do tests for all the people. not have been so severe in the terming some associations as rights of any citizen. 2014, the attacks on the right The people expressed their NS RAO been reported. The family the hospital. Both the ministers second stage. Covid deaths unlawful was unacceptable They wondered how to organise and dissent have ire at the medical staff as they n WARANGAL members of many patients had reviewed the prevailing were on the rise, he said, and undemocratic. protesting against the Farm been incessant. From the clo- were standing in queue lines have alleged their patients have situation at the hospital. The adding that action should be At a time when the country Laws, which even the sure of Dharna Chowk to the since morning for tests, now Panic gripped the erstwhile not been receiving proper state has taken all precautions taken at this juncture. was reeling under the pandem- Telangana government initial- recent NIA raids on activists in they were saying there were no Warangal district as news of treatment in the MGM to give good health service to He reminded that even in ic, nothing should be more ly opposed, was crime. When Telugu States, the democratic test kits. 25 deaths of corona patients in Hospital. The massive spread the people in these trying the past, dengue had come important than saving lives the Telangana Assembly itself space to question the failures The people alleged that the 24 hours in the Mahatma of corona in the second wave times, Minister Dayakar Rao and most of the poor had and public health now and the passed a resolution against and excesses of the State have state government was Gandhi Memorial Hospital, has put the hospital under said. Very soon we will provide spent up to lakhs of rupees in government should not resort the unconstitutional CAA- shrunk completely. announcing that it was taking Warangal, spread. The biggest tremendous duress. However, the hospital with more doctors, the hospital and even then it measures in a big way to con- hospital in north Telangana has never in the past had so many the minister said. The TRS was not included in trol the coronavirus in the of late been facing several patients died in such a short government gives top priority Arogyasree. state, but there were no prop- problems, including lack of span in the hospital, sources to better treatment, the Even now many families er facilities at the village level. experienced doctors, other said. Recently, Telangana minister said. The role of the affected by the corona are Ruling party They appealed to the officials staff and equipment.Observers Health Minister Eatala Rajender Health department has, in the being treated at private covid of state and central govern- said the hospital is in a had visited the hospital. On wake of the second wave of hospitals costing them mil- faces trouble ment to protect them from the deplorable condition now. In Wednesday another state corona, has become very lions of rupees. They could corona pandemic as it was the last month 10 deaths had Minister E Dayakar Rao visited important, the Minister said. have been treated in govern- from rebels in devastating the state. ment hospitals, he said. GWMC polls PNS n WARANGAL Micro-observers to play key The rebels have created a big problem in the GWMC ‘Bring quality grains elections this time. The ruling TRS has felt role in election management the rebel heat the most. to purchase centres' Many were interested to get PNS n WARANGAL a TRS ticket in this GWMC PNS n MAHBUBNAGAR Further he appealed to the election. farmers to bring quality grain The role of micro-observers in However, persons denied Farmers are required to bring to the centres considering the the conduct of election polling ticket had filed their nomi- quality grains to the purchas- issue of poor-quality grains is crucial, said election gener- nation and stayed in the fray ing centres to avail the support being encountered with dur- al observer Christina Jed as independents. In almost price said Minister for Excise, ing weighing in the purchas- Chong. On Wednesday, Urban five divisions of the munic- Sports, Culture and Tourism V ing centres as it takes double District Collector Rajiv Gandhi ipality the TRS faced the Srinivas Gowd while inspect- time for the officials to sepa- along with Hanuman and Villagers protest against worst problems due to the ing the purchasing yards in rate low-grade grains and Greater Commissioner Pamela presence of rebel candi- Palakonda and Mahabubnagar high-grade grains in the cen- Satpathy were the general dates. in the district on Wednesday. tres. observers of the election. Three persons even He said that the setting up The Minister said, the state The Warangal Metropolitan MLA for staying abroad attempted suicide after of the purchasing centres even government had introduced Corporation conducted train- CCTV and BSML feasibility. boxes on polling day, setting up PNS n RAJANNA SIRCILLA tion in India was not con- being denied TRS tickets. during Covid times showed Rythu Bandhu and Rythu ing for micro-observers on The rest of the polling stations stickers on them, only agents ducive. Ravi Teja Gowda said Attempts had been made to the government's thoughtful- Bheema schemes for the wel- elections at Vishnupriya will be under the supervision with pre-issued identity cards A group of villagers protested the TRS MLA admitted that appease the rebels and final- ness towards the welfare of the fare of farmers and further Gardens on Hunter Road. On of micro-observers. at polling stations, monitoring against Vemulavada MLA there was no proper health ly coax them to withdrawing farmers. "The state govern- they would provide irrigation this occasion, she said that He said micro-observers materials required for polling Chennamaneni Ramesh Babu system in India and hence, he nomination. ment has set up grain purchas- water to every acre in the dis- municipal elections are being should perform their duties and monitoring the registra- at the Ambedkar statue in was staying in Germany. However, many who did ing centres for the welfare of trict through the Palamuru- held in 66 wards in the greater effectively in order to conduct tion of individual details of Rajanna Sircilla on Wednesday Chief Minister KCR and IT not get party ticket stayed in farmers and is buying harvest- Rangareddy upliftment area and 878 polling stations election polling as an armory. exercising the right to vote. for staying in Germany for the Minister KTR were also the fray as independent can- ed grains from farmers to scheme, which was heading have been set up, taking into She suggested that on the day Micro-observers had a key past 13 months. infected with the Covid and didates creating problems help them in this pandemic for completion by the end of account past experiences. of polling, micro-observers responsibility to ensure the Independent MLA candi- they could get high-level cor- for the ruling TRS. situation also," he said. this year. As many as 167 polling sta- should reach the polling sta- secrecy of the ballot and that date Burra Ravi Teja Gowd porate treatment, he said The main contestants in He also said that arrange- The event was attended by tions were categorized as crit- tions by 6 am and observe the there should be no webcasting alleged that the TRS legislator adding that but the common this election are from TRS, ments have been made to pay Market Committee Chairman ical, 159 as hypersensitive, 203 polling process. Micro- on the voting compartments in forwarded a message stating people, journalists and low- Congress and BJP. the money to the farmers Amarender Raju, marketing as sensitive out of 529 polling observers should ensure that polling stations to ensure that that he should protect his level employees were losing Observers feel that corona immediately for their harvest- committee directors, assistant stations. The arrangements polling agents comply with people exercise their right to health as already two legisla- their lives due to lack of prop- will also take its toll on this ed grains which completed all director and district civil sup- were being made for live web- state election commission vote with complete freedom tors died of Coronavirus in er medical care, besides sell- election. the process in the purchasing plies Manager Jagadish and casting at 46 centers with guidelines on making ballot and peace. Telangana as the health condi- ing their properties. centres itself. others. Cops recover Hearing on SCCL Telangana loses liquor bottles Distribute rice stocks in open cast mining ‘Ensure rational use of oxygen’ another journo PNS n SIDDIPET through tele conference mode ties are provided to the worth Rs 1.3L deferred in view from his Mulug camp office on patients. to Coronavirus schools to needy: TPCC District Collector Venkatrami the premises of Horticulture The medical and health Reddy has directed district University here on Wednesday, department officials have been PNS n HYDERABAD from a cellar PNS n MEDAK without food, how far it was of spurt in Covid authorities to ensure rational the district collector asked asked to show initiative in PNS n SIDDIPET justifiable to waste rice leftover PNS n PEDDAPALLI use of oxygen cylinders in the them to ensure that the 70-bed increasing the oxygen beds in Senior journalist Sridhar Telangana Pradesh Congress in the schools, he asked. district by taking steps to run Covid Care Centre in Siddipet the district. He wanted the Dharmasanam passed away The two-town police on Committee (PCC) Organising He said there were plenty of The public hearing scheduled the oxygen plant here to run at night shelter, near the District officials to prepare Plan-A and due to Covid at the TIMS Wednesday recovered liquor Secretary Myadam rice stocks and other essen- to be held at Godavarikhani its full potential of producing Headquarters Government Plan-B to provide better hospital here on Wednesday. bottles worth Rs 1,38,000 Balakrishna on tial commodities in the on SSCL open cast mining on 13,000 litres per day and to Hospital, be revived. He want- amenities to Covid patients He was the Editor of Maa stored in the cellar of a build- Wednesday gurukul schools and Wednesday has been postpo- maintain 7000 cylinders as ed the officials to provide all under any circumstances as the Hyderabad and a TV ing which is under construc- demanded that the other colleges. The ned in view of spurt in Covid buffer stock after meeting the amenities there - including Covid cases are on the rise. Producer and Director. tion on Road Number 4 in rice stocks lying in government should cases due to second wave. oxygen requirements of Covid food and medicines and Under Plan-A, better medicare Chief Minister K Adarsh Nagar of the town. the government identify these stocks Earlier, Manthani MLA D patients in the district. deploying medical personnel. in government hospitals Chandrasekhar Rao has On a tip off, MCC team's schools should be and take immediate Sridhar Babu and people of He asked the officials to Later, he asked the authori- should be prepared, whereas mourned the death of two-town SI Sriram and oth- distributed to the action to supply them various colonies and villages ensure that the existing cylin- ties to revive the Covid Care the Plan-B should focus on Dharmasanam who partici- ers went to the building and poor and the needy. to needy persons. urged the SCCL authorities to ders are maximum used to treat Centre located in Dr Babu government authorities taking pated actively in the found 311 Royal Stag half Speaking to media Otherwise, lakhs of postpone the public hearing. Covid pateints. He asked them Jagjivanram Bhavan depend- over private hospitals to pro- Telangana movement bottles and 12 Blender's Pride persons here, Balakrishna said rupees of public money would However, the authorities to review the oxygen availabil- ing on the need. vide Covid-19 treatment and through his Maa Hyderabad full bottles worth Rs 1.38 lakh thousands of metric tonnes of get damage without useful to made arrangements for pub- ity in the district on daily He asked the additional col- prepare an action plan gather- organisation. Rao conveyed stored in the building. rice piled up in the govern- none, he added. lic hearing setting aside their basis. If the demand for oxygen lector to issue orders indicat- ing details of private hospitals his condolences to mem- The team also seized Tata ment high schools in Medak He also urged the govern- representations. After the surges, he told the officials to ing job chart to the officials in the district within five days. bers of the bereaved family. Ace auto, which belongs to district. He recalled that the ment to provide succour to the Congress in-charge filed a ensure that there would be no and staff to run the Covid Care Additional Collector Sridhar earlier worked Haji and a motor cycle, which rice stocks were eaten by low-level employees working writ in High Court against shortage of oxygen. Centre effectively in his name. Muzammil Khan, district with three English newspa- was deserted by Imran on bandicoots during the lock- in schools and the government the public hearing. The HC Addressing district medical He wanted the authorities to medical and health officer pers and was associated with seeing the police. The Two- down last year. When the should think over this and ordered to postpone the pub- and district authorities and inspect these centres very often Manohar and others were pre- Jain TV and a few maga- Town CI Prasuram Goud poor people were starving make a decision. lic hearing. medical college principal and ensure that better ameni- sent on the occasion. zines. said that the liquor was stored illegally to induce voters in the municipal elections here. He warned of stern action against anyone illegally MLA holds meeting violating EC norms Addl Collector inspects poll steps hoarding liquor in houses PNS n WARANGAL scribes went to the meeting Responding to the queries CP PNS n SIDDIPET and other things in polling sta- and supplying it to voters to place to cover the meeting. said that they were examining tions. He said that no one induce them and running Violating the norms set by the Enraged MLA loyalists brought the video and the photographs Additional collector cum would be allowed to cast vote belt shops. election commission Warangal the presence of the media per- and later will take up the issue municipal commissioner of without a mask and everyone If there are any anti-social East MLA N Narender held sons to the notice of the MLA with the EC. Siddipet, Muzammil Khan and should follow all the Covid activities going on in villages meeting with the locals in and obstructed the media per- As per EC guidelines, assistant municipal commis- precautionary measures while under three-town police sta- Shivanagar area of Warangal sons physically from covering Tuesday was the last day of poll sioner Narsaya inspected standing in the queue in the tion should be intimated by town. April 30. Soon after the locals the meeting. They also abused campaign for GWMC elec- polling stations in 43 wards of polling stations. They further dialling 100 or alert the police On Wednesday, the MLA had gathered, the MLA the media persons in filthy, tions; however, the MLA held the Siddipet municipality on tionary measures followed on said all the voters would on WhatsApp number called the locals to attend the reached the meeting hall and unprintable language. the meeting in the Shivanagar the account of municipal cor- the day of elections and min- undergo temperature check 7901100100. The names of meeting arranged in the directed the cadre to demon- Scribes raised the issue in area on Wednesday and the poration elections for Siddipet imum basic facilities available in the polling stations and those who furnish informa- Aryavysya Sangham meeting strate how to successfully cast the joint press conference of videos and photographs of the Municipality due on April 30. to the voters in the polling sta- those who would be found tion would be maintained as hall in Shivanagar to discuss votes. Coming to know about the district collector and the meeting went viral in social He went through all the tions. The duo examined the with covid symptoms would strictly confidential, he said. the GWMC elections due on the meeting, local channel commissioner of police. media groups. information regarding precau- ramp, toilets, electric boards not be allowed to vote. HYDERABAD | THURSDAY | APRIL 29, 2021 nation 05 SC allows Vedanta to run oxygen 1 in 4 experience side effects from Covishields: Lancet plant in TN to meet requirement PNS n NEW DELHI One in four people experience PNS n NEW DELHI modification permitting it to mild, short lived systemic side operate only the oxygen plant,” effects after receiving either The Supreme Court has the bench said. the COVID-19 preventive by allowed Vedanta to operate its The role of the Committee to Pfizer or AstraZeneca vac- closed oxygen plant at be nominated by the state gov- cine -- known as Covishield in Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu in ernment will be to oversee the India -- with headache, fatigue view of "national requirement" proper functioning of the oxy- and tenderness the most com- amid the raging COVID-19 gen plant in compliance with mon symptoms, according to pandemic. the above directions, it said. a study published in the Lancet A bench of Justices D Y The apex court said the oxy- Infectious Diseases journal. Chandrachud, L Nageswara gen plant shall be run and The researchers from King's Rao and S Ravindra Bhat managed by the Vedanta sub- College London in the UK directed the Tamil Nadu gov- ject to such directions as may also found that most systemic ernment to form an oversight be issued by the Committee to side effects -- meaning side Systemic effects who self-reported systemic committee to oversee the func- secure compliance with envi- effects excluding where the included headache, fatigue, and local effects within eight tioning of the plant. ronmental and safety norms. injection took place -- peaked chills and shiver, diarrhoea, days of receiving one or two It was closed in May 2018 “Before allowing the entry of within the first 24 hours fol- fever, arthralgia, myalgia, and doses of the Pfizer vaccine or after 13 people in the area were any of the workers into the lowing vaccination and usual- nausea. one dose of the AstraZeneca killed in police firing during plant, the applicant shall sub- ly lasted 1-2 days. Local side effects -- mean- vaccine between December 8 protests over pollution con- mit to the Committee a plan The analysis of data from ing side effects where the and March 10. The study also cerns related to the company's indicating the number of work- the ZOE COVID Symptom injection took place in the arm found that side effects were copper smelting operations. uploaded on Wednesday. respondent (organisation of the State of Tamil Nadu from ers and other technical and Study app found much fewer -- included pain at the site of more common among people “We are inclined to allow the Accepting the memo filed on affected families) from a panel out of the panel”, the bench non-technical staff essential side effects in the general injection, swelling, tender- under 55 years of age and prayer (of Vedanta) for permit- behalf of Tamil Nadu, the apex proposed by the Union said. for running the oxygen plant. population with both the ness, redness, itch, warmth among women. ting the operation of the oxy- court asked the state govern- Ministry of Environment, The top court made it clear “The Committee shall on Pfizer and AstraZeneca vac- and swollen armpit glands. Participants who had a con- gen plant on a stand-alone ment to form a committee Forests and Climate Change. that the plant shall be operat- due verification take a decision cines than reported in trials. "The data should reassure firmed case of prior COVID- basis for meeting the national comprising Collector, Tuticorin The MOEF shall indicate the ed only for the purpose of pro- on the number of persons to be The study also reports a sig- many people that in the real 19 were three times more requirements during the pan- as Chairperson, proposed names for the panel ducing medical grade oxygen permitted within the premises nificant decrease of infection world, after effects of the vac- likely to have side effects that demic. Superintendent of Police of to the State of Tamil Nadu and for no other purpose. of the plant for the purpose rates from 12 to 21 days after cine are usually mild and affect the whole body after “This shall not create any Tuticorin, Sub Collector of within a period of four work- “The applicant shall not only of managing and conduct- the first dose of the Pfizer (58 short-lived, especially in the receiving doses of the Pfizer equities in favour of the appli- Tuticorin, District ing days. under the present order be ing the oxygen production per cent reduction) and over 50's who are most at risk vaccine than those without cant to demand or expect the Environmental Engineer, state The affected families' organ- entitled to enter upon the cop- facility,” it said. AstraZeneca (39 per cent of the infection," said Professor known infection. running of the plant as a whole pollution control board, a gov- isation "shall be at liberty to per smelting plant or any of its The committee will be at lib- reduction) vaccines compared Tim Spector, lead scientist on Those with a confirmed in the future. The present order ernment officer having techni- indicate its choice of any two appurtenant facilities, includ- erty to engage with the resi- to a control group. the ZOE COVID Symptom case of prior COVID-19 num- is being passed only in view of cal knowledge of oxygen plants members from the panel ing for maintenance. dents of the area to redress any The drop in infection at Study app and Professor at ber were almost twice more the present need to enhance and two environmental drawn up by the MOEF, with- The applicant shall abide by legitimate concern in regard to least 21 days after the first dose King's College London. likely to have side effects that the availability of medical grade experts. in two days thereafter, failing all previous directions which the nature or modalities for for Pfizer is 69 per cent and for The data comes from affect the whole body after the oxygen at this time,” the bench “The environmental experts which, the names of the two have been issued by this Court, operating the oxygen plant on AstraZeneca 60 per cent, 627,383 users of the ZOE first dose of the AstraZeneca said its Tuesday's order are to be chosen by the tenth experts shall be nominated by save and except for the present a stand-alone basis, it said. according to the study. COVID Symptom Study app vaccine.

INDIA CORNER ‘Appalled by Tejas cleared to carry Maha: Vaccine shortage leaves Vardhan's hopefuls fuming and frustrated Python-5 air-to-air missile ith just two days to go statement on before Covid vaccination PNS n NEW DELHI Wopens for the people Covid’ above 18 years and only two Indigenously-developed light days after Maharashtra PNS n NEW DELHI combat aircraft Tejas has been administered the highest cleared to carry fifth genera- number of 5 lakh doese in a Senior Congress leader P tion Python-5 air-to-air missile day, reports of the shortage of Chidambaram on as part of its weapons package the vaccines poured in from Wednesday said he was that would significantly Declare vaccines various parts of the state on Wednesday including Mumbai, officials appalled by the health enhance the combat prowess of said. In Mumbai, people stood in long queues outside thevaccination minister's statement that the jet, officials said on centres in scorching heat and humidity but were left disappointed. there is no shortage of Wednesday. Several people complained that at some of the 75 functional centres out free for all: Stalin oxygen or vaccines in the The decision to allow Tejas of the total 135 in Mumbai, the vaccine stock got over within a couple of country and asked people to carry the missile came on maneuvering aerial target and Tejas, manufactured by PNS n CHENNAI heightened fear. The informa- hours after the process began in the morning. The situation was no to "revolt" against a gov- Tuesday following a series of the Python missiles also state-run aerospace behemoth tion was that hospitals had no different in cities like Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Nashik and Nagpur ernment that is "assum- trials to validate the perfor- achieved 100 per cent hits, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, No preventive, precautionary beds, medicine, oxygen and where people stood up in long queues for hours for receiving the shots ing them to be fools". mance of the aircraft, they said. thereby validating their com- is a single engine and highly measure to tackle Covid was vaccines and 'not available' was but left fuming and frustrated. "Citizens need to book an appointment "I am appalled by the "Tejas added the 5th gener- plete capability. The trials met agile multi-role supersonic taken by the Central and Tamil the refrain one found in news through the government for inoculation, but in some centres the statement of the Union ation Python-5 air-to-air mis- all their planned objectives," fighter aircraft capable of oper- Nadu governments during the reports from northern states, vaccination carried out on a walk-in basis also. However, with the cases Health Minister that sile in its air-to-air weapons the official said. ating in high-threat air envi- gap between the first and sec- Stalin said. rising, more people started rushing for vaccination, but they were there is no shortage of capability on Tuesday. Trials Prior to these trials, exten- ronments. ond waves of the pandemic, Not only the two govern- affected by the shortage of supply, " a Mumbai civic body official said. oxygen or vaccines or were also aimed to validate sive missile carriage flight tests The aircraft is a potent plat- DMK president M K Stalin ments learnt lessons from Remedesivir. "I am also enhanced capability of already were conducted at Bengaluru form for air combat and offen- alleged on Wednesday. the'wrong committed' during appalled by the statement integrated Derby beyond visu- to assess integration of the mis- sive air support missions while PM Modi should announce the first wave, but they did a Man booked for seeking of the UP CM that there al range AAM on Tejas," said sile with the aircraft systems on reconnaissance and anti-ship that Covid vaccines would be bigger 'second wrong.' "No is no shortage of vaccines an official. board the Tejas. operations are its secondary provided free of cost to peo- protective, precautionary mea- oxygen cylinder on Twitter in UP," he said on Twitter. He said the test firing at Goa "Python-5 missile live firing roles. In February, the govern- ple and implement it immedi- sures were taken by Central He asked whether all completed a series of missile was conducted to validate tar- ment sealed a Rs 48,000 crore ately, he said. Urging the union and TN governments during he police have booked a man here the television channels trials to validate performance get engagement from all deal with the HAL to procure government to 'save people' the intervening six month under the Epidemic Act, accusing were telecasting fake visu- of the aircraft under extreme- aspects as well as beyond visu- 83 Tejas light combat aircraft and avoid getting blamed in period between the first and Thim of creating fear among the people after he went on Twitter asking als and all the newspaper ly challenging scenarios. al ranges. In all the live firings, in the biggest-ever indigenous the pages of history, he said second waves of Covid and we for an oxygen cylinder for his 88-year- stories incorrect. "Derby missile achieved missiles hit the aerial target," defence procurement pro- information from northern are seeing its result now in old relative. "Need oxygen cylinder, direct hit on a high speed the official said. gramme. states on the Covid scenario front of our eyes," he alleged. ASAP," Shashank Yadav had tweeted on Monday, and tagged Bollywood actor Sonu Sood. On Tuesday, Union minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani tweeted in response, "Called Fire kills Shashank thrice...no response on the number shared by you in your ‘Ensure smooth supply of Maha lockdown to be tweet." She also said she had alerted the District Magistrate and Amethi Police to find the person and help him. When asked about the matter, woman; 6 Superintendent of Police Dinesh Singh said on Wednesday Yadav had extended by 15 days tweeted for a distant relative. "When he was called, he did not pick up. firewood to crematoriums’ houses burnt We thought he might be in some problem and therefore he was not n n picking up the phone. So we used surveillance and tracked his location PNS NEW DELHI wood to these crematoriums PNS MUMBAI n and reached his house, where he was found sleeping," Singh said. without fail," Prakash said in PNS SHIMLA With municipal-run cremato- his letter to Kejriwal. The lockdown in Maharashtra A woman died and six riums facing a shortage of As Covid-19 wreaks havoc, will be extended by another 15 houses were gutted in a fire wood for funeral pyres in the there is a queue not just at the days beyond April 30, state in Himachal Pradesh's Arunachal Pradesh reports face of surging Covid-19 fatal- hospitals, but also at cremato- Public Health Minister Rajesh Shimla district on ities, North Delhi Mayor Jai riums. Such is the flow of the Tope said on Wednesday. Wednesday, police said. 123 new Covid cases Prakash Wednesday urged CM bodies that crematoriums have He said all members of the Bimla Devi died in the t least 123 people Arvind Kejriwal to direct the and in March 117. started building additional cabinet, who participatedin a end lockdown and restric- incident in Fanel village in including 15 security forest department ensure "As you are aware that the platforms to accommodate meeting chaired by Chief tions on the movement of the district's Kotkhai area. Apersonnel tested positive smooth supply of firewood to number of deaths due to them. He added in his letter, Minister Uddhav Thackeray, people in the night during the The fire broke out at her for Covid in Arunachal Pradesh, these facilities. The national COVID-19 is on the rise and "Kindly give appropriate direc- pitched for such extension. weekdays till April 30. house and then spread to pushing the total caseload in capital has reported 4,063 Covid- to cremate the bodies in the tions to the forest department "It (the lockdown) will be The government had also the others, Additional the northeastern state to 19 deaths in April so far, over traditional manner a large so that the crematoriums can extended by 15 days," Tope clamped other restrictions like Superintendent of Police 17,898, a senior health 2,500 of them in the past seven amount of wood is required. continue doing their work said. In view of the alarming the closure of private offices, Parveer Thakur said. department official said here on Wednesday. Of the fresh cases, 109 days alone in the terrorising sec- "This is to request you to uninterrupted and the rise in the COVID-19 cases, theatres and salons to curb the An investigation is were detected through rapid antigen tests, while nine through RT- ond wave of the pandemic. In all direct the forest department to bereaved families are not put the Maharashtra government unprecedented surge in the underway to ascertain the PCR and five through TrueNAT methods, SSO Dr Lobsang Jampa of February, the death toll was 57, ensure steady supply of fire- into any kind of trouble." on April 4 announced a week- cases. cause of the fire, he added. said. Barring 13, all the fresh cases are asymptomatic, the official said. Thirty fresh cases were reported from the Capital Complex Region, Lower Dibang Valley (22), Lower Subansiri (15), Papumpare (14), eight each from Tawang and East Siang and West Kameng (6), he said. Four fresh cases were also reported from West Siang, three Andaman records Indians reach out with helping each from Changlang and Lower Siang, two each from Lohit, Namsai and Tirap and one each from Pakke Kessang, East Kameng, Leparada and Anjaw district respectively, the SSO said. 48 new Covid cases hand as Covid spirals PNS n PORT BLAIR Just so they can, without any etarian – and sends the food gated communities. In many Haryana's Covid situation worse PNS n NEW DELHI motive in mind. From people through portals like Dunzo or places, including Mumbai Forty-eight more people test- offering to run errands and Porter for a nominal fee. The and Gurgaon, neighbours than Delhi’s: Abhay Chautala ed positive for COVID-19 in Even the darkest cloud, it is home kitchens delivering inspiration for Rama's Kitchen, have set up a roster system to enior INLD leader Abhay Andaman and Nicobar said, has a silver lining. And meals to organisations and she said, came when her son ensure that all quarantined Singh Chautala has hit out at Islands, pushing the coron- because most oft-quoted individuals stepping in to sup- Aravindh's friend asked if she families in their complexes are Sthe BJP-JJP government in avirus tally in the union terri- clichés are rooted in reality, ply oxygen cylinders, oximeters could food to the home quar- provided food. Haryana over its COVID-19 tory of 5,764,a health depart- myriad acts of kindness, be it and the like, the goodness antined as they are not in a Help comes in many shapes management, saying the the ment official said on home cooked meals for the ill runs like an undercurrent position to cook at home. and sizes. Gopi's e-rickshaw in situation in the state is worse Wednesday. Forty-one new cases with 133 patients in or arranging an oxygen cylin- through the tragic times. The story is replicated in Lucknow is one of them. With than that of Delhi."The situation in COVID-19 cases were detect- South Andaman district and der, are shining through India's And so, realising that entire umpteen localities across the cases rising in the Uttar Haryana is worse than that of ed during contact tracing three in North and Middle gravest health emergency. families are in quarantine in length and breadth of the coun- Pradesh capital, the 45-year-old Delhi. There is no bed available in while seven were airport Andaman district. The As India reports upwards of many homes in her city and try from Chennai to Chandigarh. hasn't been getting much busi- the hospitals, there is a shortage arrivals, the official said. Nicobar district has no active of 3.5 lakh fresh Covid cases a there is no one to cook nour- Lists of home kitchens and thali ness but is busy helping those of oxygen. "This government does not have any right to stay in power. Passengers arriving by flight Covid case at present, he said. day, people infected and isolat- ishing meals for them, meals, sometimes at a nominal in Shivaji Nagar locality. He Forget about providing the basic needs to the people, they have even from other places have under- Forty-two people recovered ed find that succour is close at Chennai's Rama Parthasarathy price and other times free, have gets milk, newspapers and veg- failed to give them emergency services," Chautala told reporters here on go Rapid Antigen Test before from the disease in the last 24 hand – sometimes neighbours opened up her kitchen on been circulating on WhatsApp etables for those who can't Tuesday. He said state Health Minister Anil Vij should resign for the they are allowed entry into the hours, taking the total number and other times a faceless April 14, Tamil New Year Day. groups, Twitter and other social move out from their homes, alleged failure in the handling of the situation. Haryana has registered a islands. The union territory of COVID-19 recoveries in the name on social media reaching The 61-year-old dishes out media platforms. Community and often medicines and even sharp rise in the numbers of COVID-19 cases and fatalities this month. now has 136 active COVID-19 archipelago to 5,562. out to help in any which way. healthy preparations – all veg- kitchens have opened up in X-Ray reports and the like. HYDERABAD | THURSDAY | APRIL 29, 2021 06

www.dailypioneer.com facebook.com/dailypioneer | @TheDailyPioneer | instagram.com/dailypioneer/ PAPER WITH PASSION Eyes shut tight Remembering Neither politicians nor the poll panel seem to have learnt any lessons from the courts' censure KUSHAN MITRA oronavirus may have grown into a deadly scourge in India, thanks to the criminal Jagdish Khattar apathy by every section of our society and important stakeholders of our democ- Cracy, but no lessons have been learnt yet. Even after the Madras High Court (HC) fumed that the Election Commission was singularly responsible for the spread of the Maruti Suzuki India's former MD should be remembered for virus, mass mobilisation continues unabated for the local body elections in Uttar Pradesh and Telangana. The Allahabad HC on Tuesday issued notices to the State Election what he did with the company, not his later failures Commission (SEC) to respond to a news report that 135 officials have so far died of t might not be the best way COVID-19 during the four-phase panchayat elections and asked it to explain why it failed to start an obituary, but the to enforce the COVID protocols. In a damning criticism, the HC said: “It appears that nei- last time Jagdish Khattar was in news before his passing ther the police nor the EC did anything to save the awayI on April 26 was last year people on election duty from getting infected.” It’s high when the Central Bureau of time that the judiciary took tough measures against Investigation chargesheeted him those who plunged the country’s most populous State for conspiring to defraud the Punjab National Bank of `110 into a frenzy of electioneering when COVID-19 was crore. This surrounded his one- at its peak. The election started on April 15, when stop shop for car sales and service India was clocking more than two lakh cases a day, called ‘Carnation’, which he had and will end today. It’s needless to point out that mas- begun as a 65-year-old after he retired from the helm at Maruti sive political mobilisation goes into such elections and Suzuki. ‘Carnation’ was a good COVID-appropriate protocols are tossed aside by the idea at the time, indeed such a ser- contestants and their supporters. The fact that the vice remains a good idea, but one State Government didn’t do anything to postpone these reason it failed was that many of those who Khattar had counted elections makes it equally culpable. upon to help him, did not come One hopes that in future, the judiciary will take a proactive view of such situa- to the table. The man who culti- tions and come down hard on the institutions that prostrate before the political lead- vated an entire generation of ership and compromise the well-being of the State and nation. The situation in Telangana leaders in the automotive indus- try was let down by some of them. is equally chaotic. Television channels are flooded with the footage of massive ral- Of course, the argument can be lies and road shows as part of the political mobilisation for the civic body elections. made that the industry did not But the SEC once again showed criminal apathy by declaring on Tuesday that the want to help Khattar establish a European products and, having the Tea Board of India’s oper- where I was at the time. polls to two municipal corporations and five municipalities would be held as sched- business which would directly tasted success in China, ations in London, he thought Khattar’s maniacal obses- impact their dealers’ main revenue believed they could dominate it would be a good idea to use sion with controlling costs and uled on April 30. Several political parties and activists had urged the SEC to post- stream, but a professionally run India. Also, Korean carmakers India’s World Cup team to try reducing wastage transformed pone the urban body polls but to no avail. C Partha Sarathi, the SEC, said the elec- third-party service might have Daewoo and Hyundai with and sell Indian tea. As we the company. He implemented tions would be held “with strict adherence to all COVID-19 regulations”. Doesn’t he succeeded and its failure was relatively fresher models, par- know, the Kapil Dev-led team the Kaizen system that dramat- know that any such exercise could jeopardise the lives of lakhs of people? It’s time unfortunate, maybe undeserved, ticularly the Matiz and Santro, went on to an epic victory and ically reduced problems with for all political parties to come together and resolve to put off elections till normal- just like the case against Khattar. respectively, had recently the campaign was a success. finished cars at the end of the Now that it is out of the way, arrived. It was not as if Suzuki But most importantly, line, improving processes at cy returns. The HCs and the Supreme Court should also take cognisance of such I will remember Khattar sitting in did not have products to com- Khattar’s role was to mend the suppliers and on the final criminal apathy by the SEC officials and sentence a few of them to jail to sensitise his corner office at the Life pete with the Koreans but the HE TRANSFORMED ties between the partners and assembly line. Bringing in ele- the lot of them about the grave danger lurking in the air. It’s heartening to note that Insurance Corporation building relations between Suzuki and THE INDIAN persuade Suzuki Motor ments of the Just-In-Time pro- the Supreme Court has said it will not intervene to stop the HCs from hearing such on Delhi’s KG Marg, sipping tea the Government of India, their Corporation to send new tech- duction system, he brought with me and my former colleague joint-venture partner in Maruti AUTOMOTIVE nology and models over to inventory costs down for matters of public interest. The observation is significant as it comes just days after Deepak Joshi. The Hindustan Suzuki, had nosedived. The INDUSTRY BY India. The WagonR was already Maruti as well as vendors. He the apex court reversed a decision by the Allahabad HC telling the UP Government Times office where I worked at the partners were equal sharehold- scheduled for launch but it was slashed inefficient dealers and to impose strict lockdown in five districts. When the executive and bureaucracy fail, time was a two-minute walk ers and everything worked “in KEEPING MARUTI supplemented by the Alto. The added new suppliers when the judiciary must step in. Thankfully, it’s finally happening. away. What is remarkable about turns” but the Government’s SUZUKI NOT JUST Maruti 800 and Zen, which others were not up to the task. this was that I was just starting out appointment of RSSLN were India’s most popular small Despite all his globe-trot- as an automotive industry Bhaskarudu as the Managing RELEVANT BUT AS cars at the time, felt relatively ting on work and remaining PIC reporter and Khattar was in the Director (MD) ruptured rela- old-fashioned compared to the immensely busy, he always TALK midst of transforming India’s tions with Osamu Suzuki. Only THE BIG DADDY. IN new Korean competition. The had time to answer his phone largest carmaker. Yet he was gen- after the fear of Maruti Suzuki NO OTHER MAJOR WagonR and Alto changed the and meet up for a cup of tea. I erous with his time and patient potentially becoming irrele- market for Maruti. It is a testa- will be eternally grateful for his with my queries. Not every auto- vant after the sales success of AUTOMOTIVE ment to those launches that the time, and I regret that I did not motive industry chieftain was the Matiz and Santro did the MARKET IN THE Alto remains one of India’s best keep in touch with him over like that, although I will say that partners relent, agreeing on selling cars alongside the Swift, the past few years. But I will BVR Subbu at Hyundai was also Khattar as the MD. WORLD DOES ONE another car in whose develop- remember him as the man extremely good with journalists. Khattar had left the Indian COMPANY OWN ment and production Khattar who transformed the Indian Khattar understood the power of Administrative Service and played an integral role. He automotive industry by keep- communication for marketing. joined Maruti on the advice of HALF THE MARKET ensured that Indian engineers ing Maruti Suzuki not just rel- He had taken the helm at RC Bhargava, an ex-IAS offi- had a say in the Swift’s devel- evant but as the big daddy. In Maruti Suzuki in mid-1999 and cer who established the com- LIKE MARUTI DOES opment and also negotiated no other major automotive one must remember the state of pany and still serves as IN INDIA, AND with the Haryana Government market in the world does one the Indian automotive market and Chairman. From the UP for a massive new factory at company own half the market Maruti Suzuki at the time. The cadre, he joined Maruti Suzuki THAT IS THE Manesar to build this new car. like Maruti does in India, and market was being transformed by as the Director, Marketing, in LEGACY OF I was fortunate to be the very that is Jagdish Khattar’s legacy. the entry of foreign carmakers; the 1993. He told me once that his first journalist to be allowed (The author is Managing Americans Ford and General introduction to marketing JAGDISH KHATTAR access to this factory for a cover Editor, The Pioneer. The views Motors had come with their started in 1983 when, heading story I wrote for Business Today expressed are personal.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SOUNDBITE A worker cleans a monument for heroes of Krasnodon who died fighting against the Nazi troops in World War II PTI BEAT THE COVID SOCIAL STIGMA The BJP Government Sir — At a time when COVID-19 cases are Lesson for Indian Richie Riches at the Centre promotes rising exponentially, the most important the concept of one thing apart from breaking the chain of virus nation, one election; What's in a name? Indians. He said that the love and affection that why is there different transmission is to break the social stigma he got from the people of India, both during pricing for vaccines? attached with the infection. Also, there is a his professional career and even after his retire- ‘Janata curfew' or ‘local restrictions', the curbs DMK president need to deal with the mental issues the pan- ment, holds a special place in his heart and it — MK Stalin are almost as distressing as in the hard lockdown demic has created. The stigma can under- saddens him deeply to see the people suffer- mine social cohesion and prompt possible ing due to the ongoing pandemic. We stand in t’s been more than a year since the Union Government acknowledged the onslaught social isolation of groups, which might con- We should be thankful to these internation- solidarity with India of the COVID-19 virus and obligated the citizenry to officially follow the hard lock- tribute to a situation where the virus is more al players who have not only shared their love and commend its down rules. It led to myriad problems of a severe nature: People stayed indoors and likely to spread. This can result in more and affection but have also opened their purse healthcare workers I severe health problems. People who are strings for us in these trying times. On the con- for saving lives. were affected by loneliness leading to mental health or psychological issues; industries infected with the virus should also be given trary, Indian cricketers, who enjoy all the wealth and businesses shut down, leading to a sudden spike in unemployment; all intra- and psychological counselling for free by the ail Australian cricketer Pat Cummins and and fortune and are hailed as heroes here, have New Zealand Foreign Minister inter-State travel was banned, and public transport was taken off the roads. The sum Government. The Government should his countryman former pacer Brett Lee for only disappointed us. The big question is, has — Nanaia Mahuta total of it all was that the multitudes of jobless migrant engage experts and mental health profes- Hgenerously donating to help India in its any of our players donated to the PM CARES sionals for this purpose. fight against the raging COVID-19 pandemic. fund? Indian cricketers earn a lot of money I would like to say that labourers, with their malnourished families in tow and Many incidents have been reported Cummins on Monday won lots of hearts when through advertisements, being brand ambas- this is not the time for worldly possessions balanced precariously on their where people are dying of fear once they test he announced a $50,000 donation towards the sadors and other promotional events apart from self-pity because head or hanging from shoulders, had to walk hundreds positive for Coronavirus. On the other hand, PM CARES fund for oxygen supplies in their salary for playing matches. They own cost- people who are really of kilometres under the sweltering sun back to their there are many ignorant people who stereo- India’s hospitals ravaged by the deadly second ly bikes and high-end cars and most of them battling this, don't type and discriminate against those infect- wave of the pandemic. Lee has decided to have bungalows in big metropolitan cities in have the time to feel native places. The arduous journey claimed many a ed. Such treatment negatively affects those donate one bitcoin to help India. This should India and abroad. Cricket is like a religion in disheartened. life. The heart-wrenching scenes, after the people’s with the disease as well as their caregivers, be an eye-opener for Indian players who, our country and cricketers are like gods. But Actor patience wore thin when the situation didn’t signifi- family, friends and communities. People despite being rich, are reluctant to donate. The it seems that these gods care little for those — Kangana Ranaut cantly improve for months, steadily turned the public must not panic and remember that the rate statement of Lee, which he posted on Twitter, who are devoted to them. of recovery is very high as compared to the speaks volumes about his love for India and Bidyut Kumar Chatterjee | Faridabad Rishabh Pant is mood against the establishment. And so it remained death rate. People who have recovered from growing every day as until the second wave of COVID-19 erupted. COVID should come forward, donate plas- order”, speak volumes about the incompe- vials in the Capital. Remdesivir is one of the a captain and person However, having grown wiser with its last lock- ma and spread positivity. Not every person tence of the Delhi Government to manage most sought after experimental drugs for the and would have learnt a lot about himself in down experiment and unwilling to further stir the swell who tests positive requires a hospital bed or the crisis. The High Court asked the Delhi treatment of COVID and States like Delhi, oxygen. It’s mostly for patients who are Government to take over an oxygen refill- Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh Delhi Capitals' narrow of public disillusionment, the Centre this time round chose not to invite the blame on its already suffering with comorbidities and ing plant with immediate effect and served are facing its shortage. Investigations must defeat to Royal Challengers Bangalore door and did two clever things. First, it allowed the individual States to decide if any curbs those who start the treatment quite late. We contempt notices to five other refillers. The be carried out at the biggest wholesale med- in the IPL. hospitals in Delhi are facing an acute icine market of Asia, Bhagirath Palace in were necessary in their respective provinces; and, two, it explicitly and unequivocally need to be aware, but must not panic. Cricket coach Ravi Teja Kathuripalli | Hyderabad shortage of oxygen. On April 23, as many Chandni Chowk. stated that there won’t be any “lockdown” per se this time. Surely, the restrictions are as 25 “sickest” Coronavirus patients died Black-marketing of several medicines — Ricky Ponting not as universal as last time but these are no less severe in their degree of limitation. DELHI GOVT MUST ACT EXPEDITIOUSLY overnight in a hospital due to the scarcity and other equipment is done with the We are working to Only these have been given new, fancy names to distinguish them from last year’s hard Sir — It made sense for the Delhi High of oxygen. A day later, at least 20 patients involvement of local authorities. It is time died in another hospital. The Delhi to rein in such illegal activities. India is fac- bring down the lockdown. For instance, if one were to look out the window during the “day/night/week- Court to rebuke the Arvind Kejriwal-led mortality rate, but it is AAP Government on the poor supply of Government needs to pull up its socks and ing an existential crisis and black-market- end curfew” in Delhi or Noida-Ghaziabad, the eerie silence and the sight of vast vacant stop the black-marketing immediately. ing of medicines and medical oxygen not the responsibility roads give one the sense of déjà vu. On weekdays, the roadside markets and other shops medical oxygen supply and handling of the of the doctors alone. pandemic. It should be a matter of shame Bhagwan Thadani | Mumbai weakens its fight against the virus. Those Please reach out to are forcibly shut before 8 pm by lathi-wielding cops and loudspeaker-toting police jeeps. for the AAP and Kejriwal that the court said involved in the sale and purchase of illegal REIN IN BLACK-MARKETING OF REMDESIVIR villagers who have symptoms to get Even the revenue-generating avenues such as alcohol vends are not operational in Delhi if the Government was unable to handle the medicines must not be spared. themselves tested and hospitalised if Subhash Chandra Agrawal for over a week now and in the NCR during the weekends. Not much has changed on the situation, it will ask the Central Government Sir — The Delhi Police has done a com- | New Delhi they test positive. to send its officers and take over. mendable job by busting two inter-State ground since last year, so the question remains: Doesn’t naming it something else but Strong observations by the Bench like gangs with the arrest of four persons who Send your feedback to: Goa Chief Minister retaining its intrinsic “lockdown” spirit amount to cheating the public by the politicians? “enough is enough” and “set your house in were allegedly black-marketing Remdesivir [email protected] — Pramod Sawant HYDERABAD | THURSDAY | APRIL 29, 2021 07 www.dailypioneer.com facebook.com/dailypioneer | @TheDailyPioneer | instagram.com/dailypioneer/ FIRSTCOLUMN Geopolitics trumps DITCH YOUR POOR FINANCIAL HABITS geoeconomics ANIL GUPTA Sometimes, the simplest of activities result in bad financial management. These can be easily avoided The sum total of the U-turn by Prime Minister Imran Khan is that Pakistan is not yet grown up enough to give up its belief of India being an existential threat

he “thawing process” in Indo-Pak relations which appeared to have begun in TFebruary-end with the sudden announce- NIRAJ BORA ment by the Director Generals of Military here are some things in life that we do involuntarily, like breath- Operations (DGMOs) of both nations of a cease- fire on the Line of Control (LoC) and the desire ing. Or, for instance, while driving we apply the brakes without to implement in letter and spirit the 2003 Teven thinking about it. This also applies to our money manag- Ceasefire Agreement, came to an equally sud- ing and financial habits. Having good financial habits is a rarity. den end early this month. It happened when Sometimes it’s the simplest of activities that cause poor financial Prime Minister Imran Khan’s beloved Pakistan habits and can be avoided by following a few simple rules. enacted a comedy of errors which many refer Save first, spend later: When you are assigned to complete a to as a “flip-flop” or “Khan’s U-turn.” The state- task within one week, you are most likely to take the entire seven ments emanating from Pakistan in the month of March, especially during the stage-managed days to finish it. However, if the same task needs to be wrapped up Islamabad Security Dialogue, raised a ray of hope in five days, you will do it anyhow. It’s the same with spending money. of some improvement in the extremely bitter As soon as you get paid, you tend to start spending it by first pay- relations between the two countries, that were ing all your bills and then indulging in shopping. You tend to spend adversely affecting not only bilateral ties but the higher than you intended to and this results in fewer savings. entire South Asian region as well. Financially-smart people do the exact opposite. So, it’s better to put The trigger for all this was provided by the a portion of your earnings into an automated deduction mode for worsening economy of Pakistan which many economists said was “on the verge of collapse.” investments. Take care of all your other expenses after you do this. It emerged from the Islamabad Security Dialogue that the neighbouring nation had realised the mistake it made in investing heav- ily in geopolitics at the cost of geoeconomics. ONE WONDERS FOR It also realised that it was paying a heavy price HOW LONG CAN private sector.” He also announced abrogation of Article 370 is because it needs some breathing for its unilateral decision to suspend all trade PAKISTAN AFFORD that the ban on the import of raw repealed.” space and time to rejuvenate the with India post the events of August 5, 2019 in TO BEHAVE LIKE AN cotton from India would be lifted The whole episode is termed morale of its army which has been relation to Kashmir, which has been a bone of OSTRICH? AS OF “by the end of June.” “There is a as a comedy of errors because badly battered by the Indian Army contention between the two neighbours for long NOW, THE large demand for cotton in Imran Khan, during the Cabinet on the LoC. and has been termed as it’s “jugular vein” by a Pakistan right now. Our exports meeting, flayed the Finance The dwindling economy and belligerent Pakistan. PROPOSED SHIFT have increased in textiles and the Minister and asked Azhar who the burden of repayment of loans It is a well-known fact that anti-India sen- FROM GEOPOLITICS cotton crop was not good last year. authorised him to resume trade is also adversely affecting the timents form the bedrock of Pakistan’s internal TO GEOECONOMICS So, we allowed imports of cotton with India? The beleaguered army’s upgradation and moderni- policy and geopolitics. This sentiment has time APPEARS MERELY from all over the world, but it is Finance Minister had no option sation programme. This explains TO BE LOUD Needs vs wants: Thinking that making more money is a way and again been exploited to its advantage by the not allowed from India and that but to name Imran Khan himself. the army chief’s keenness for a political and military leadership in Pakistan to THINKING WITHOUT causes a direct impact on (small The “U-turn Khan” lost no time in shift towards geoeconomics, which to be financially free is a mistake many of us make. Until and unless come out of various adversities faced by the EVOLVING A and medium enterprises),” he said. toeing the line of the hardliners in seems to be more out of compul- you don’t respect your hard-earned money, your spending will expand country. “It grows and diminishes with the CONSENSUS. IT Another contributory factor was the Cabinet led by Foreign sion rather than conviction. But to consume all your earnings. No matter how much you earn, your requirements of Pakistan’s foreign policy,” says WOULD NEED the ban on Chinese Xinjiang cot- Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, certainly, he failed to change the expenses will keep on increasing with your rising income. So, mak- Khurram Husain, a Pakistani business journal- SERIOUS ton and products made thereof by who felt short-changed for not mindset of hardliners in the ing more money and letting your expenses eat all of them will get ist. This India-bashing may have benefitted GROUNDWORK TO the United States (US) and being consulted by the Prime Pakistan Army or he has lost his you in some serious financial trouble. Saving first and spending later Rawalpindi, that dictates the nation’s India pol- FRUCTIFY INTO European Union (EU) nations, Minister before allowing such an clout since he is on extension, a is the way to get financial freedom. Even for rich people, it doesn’t icy rather than Islamabad, but definitely made REALITY. TILL which are a major source for the important measure. Pressure from decision that has not gone down no economic sense. PAKISTAN READIES local industry. China, which naturally was peev- well with the other ambitious stop at a big bungalow, or a luxury car. It will go on to owning a pri- Hence it was music to the ears when at the TO WALK THE TALK, Year-on-year, the price of sugar ed due to the ban on its cotton, is Generals. vate plane, a yacht, a private island and so on. Do you think there Islamabad Dialogue, Pakistan’s Army chief IT WOULD MAKE has risen by more than 17 per cent, also believed to be another The sum total of the U-turn by is any amount of money that is sufficient to fulfil unending desires? General Qamar Bajwa talked of a shift in PRUDENT causing great resentment against causative factor. Khan is that Pakistan is not yet The answer is an emphatic “no.” The key is to differentiate between Pakistan’s strategy from geopolitics to geoeco- ECONOMIC SENSE the Imran Khan Government. In the end Azhar was removed grown up enough to give up its your needs and wants. Ask yourself, “Do I really need this?” By going nomics. It received support from Imran Khan TO LET THE The announcement was made from the office of Finance Minister belief of India being an existential after benefits like rewards and discounts that credit cards offer, peo- who talked of making Pakistan a gateway to the ‘THAWING by Azhar in his capacity as the in mid-April, less than a month threat. One wonders for how long ple end up spending way more than they would have spent other- Central Asian republic nations’ economy and PROCESS’ head of the Economic after his appointment and replaced can Pakistan afford to behave like also act as a bridge between the South Asian and Coordination Committee which by ex-Pakistan Peoples Party an ostrich? As of now, the pro- wise. This just cancels out all the benefits of having these credit cards. CONTINUE AND NOT Central Asian economies. Realising that his HOLD IT HOSTAGE earlier had given a green signal to Minister Shaukat Fayyaz Ahmed posed shift from geopolitics to Buying something you don’t need, even at a discount is an avoid- nation’s economy was in the doldrums it made the proposal. Though there was no Tarin who was also given the addi- geoeconomics appears merely to able spend. TO A SINGLE-POINT better economic sense to Khan to buy goods AGENDA official response from the Indian tional portfolio of revenue. The be loud thinking without evolving Keep track of your money: If you are not sure about how you’re urgently needed by his country from where they side, for those following the “thaw- flip-flop and the removal of the a consensus. It would need serious spending every month, then it’s time to consolidate everything. You were available at cheaper rates. Hence, the Prime ing process” of the hostilities Finance Minister clearly indicates groundwork to fructify into real- can do this in many ways. One of the easiest methods is to use a Minister wearing the hat of the nation’s between the two neighbours, it was that Imran Khan hardly wields any ity. Till Pakistan readies to walk the Commerce and Finance Minister as well, signed a welcome decision. power and is incapable of ensur- talk, it would make prudent eco- money management app. There are quite a few of them out there on a note to purchase cotton and sugar from However in a classic case of the ing unanimity even within his nomic sense to let the “thawing that can help you keep track of your transactions. Organising your India, thus setting in motion a reversal of his ear- “left hand not knowing what the Cabinet, let alone a national con- process” continue and not hold it finances can be a good start to managing your money better. lier decision not to trade with us. The writer is a right hand is doing,” the sensus. hostage to a single-point agenda. Don’t compete or compare: Everyone around you has differ- Hence, Pakistan’s newly-appointed Finance Jammu-based veteran, announcement was followed by Even more surprising is the The recent trade U-turn by Minister Hammad Azhar announced in political commentator, the unfortunate Cabinet decision audacity of the hardliners to take Pakistan clearly demonstrates how ent tastes and budgets. Be it in cars, food, travel, clothing and other columnist, security and accessories. So if you are one of those people who try to keep up Islamabad, “In our neighbouring country, in strategic analyst. The of deferring the trade and holding on the Army chief, a rarity in geopolitical considerations — with everyone even when their budget doesn’t allow them to, then India, the price of sugar is much lower than in views expressed it hostage to oft-repeated insis- Pakistani politics. Pakistan Army rather than economic considera- Pakistan. So we have decided to open sugar trade are personal. tence by Pakistan of “no improve- is very keen for the thaw in rela- tions or rational thinking — drive this is going to leave you in debt. Also, don’t be fooled by the lav- with India, to the limit of 5,00,000 tonnes in the ment in Indo-Pak relations till tions between the two neighbours policymaking in Pakistan. ish social media posts of some of your friends that show their exot- ic lifestyle. Doing things as a status symbol will trap you for the rest of your life. POINTCOUNTERPOINT We live in a society where almost everyone carries a debt on their shoulder. Just because everyone lives with debt doesn’t make it normal for you to have it too. Don’t make it a habit to get your DELHI HAS HARDLY BEEN ABLE TO ARRANGE FOR THERE IS SHORTAGE OF TANKERS. WE ARE IMPORTING resources on loans every time. Get them on debt only when nec- TANKERS THOUGH MANY DAYS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE 18 TANKERS FROM BANGKOK. ONCE THEY ARRIVE, THE essary and pay it off soon to avoid ongoing interest every time. CENTRE MADE THE ALLOTMENT OF OXYGEN. PROBLEM IN TRANSPORTING OXYGEN WILL END. Once you begin saving money, set aside a weekend to learn about investing and get started on that path as soon as you can. —UNION HOME SECRETARY —DELHI CM (The writer is founder, Surmount Business Advisors. The views AJAY BHALLA ARVIND KEJRIWAL expressed are personal.) Independent transition to renewable energy critical for India In order to counter the growing Chinese dominance in rare earth elements, India must step up its cross-national collaborations and secure mines he oil age was triggered ditional energy sources such tainable renewable energy significance. As a first step cobalt and vanadium have but will also foreclose any by the invention of as fossil fuels. Perhaps the regime. towards gaining self-reliance electrical and magnetic prop- Chinese strategy to monop- Tkerosene in 1846 and biggest energy rush after the However, seeing the cur- in the renewable energy sec- erties that can help store olise the global market in rare got further consolidated with great oil boom is the haste to rent state, India seems to be tor, India must concentrate on wind, hydel and solar energy. earth elements. Furthermore, the development of the oil build renewable energy everything but self-reliant in securing control over essen- These elements are available India must also invest in drilling process in 1859. Both capacity and to harness crit- the renewable energy sector. tial components and critical across the world only in some state-of-the-art research that these events accelerated the ical minerals required to In 2019-20, India imported minerals required for manu- geographical pockets and can focus on reducing depen- use of oil which, in turn, SRIRAJ manufacture rechargeable about `8,500 crore worth of facturing batteries on a colos- India must have continued dence over rare earth ele- fueled global economic pros- KOTA batteries in large scale. Lithium (Li)-ion batteries. It sal scale. availability of these elements ments such as cobalt on perity. The period from the This is understandable was the same in 2018-19, Worryingly, China has for transiting to a green econ- whose availability China is end of the second World War given the fact that India aims which saw a six-fold rise as already developed enviable omy. developing a stranglehold. to the early 1970s saw an to generate 40 per cent of its compared to 2014-15. hegemony over the 17 rare In order to counter the The coming years will uninterrupted oil boom as the energy needs from renewable India’s dependence on earth elements that play a piv- growing Chinese dominance witness a considerable shift rising oil output matched an sources by 2030 and aspires to global resources, especially otal role in the making of over rare earth elements, from oil to rare earth miner- ever-increasing oil consump- become a country with 30-40 Chinese inputs, to feed its rechargeable batteries. India must step up its cross- als. This will mark a new tion globally. per cent electric vehicles renewable energy ambitions According to a 2019 working national collaborations and chapter in global geopolitics. But as the oil-fed (EVs). India’s overdepen- is flawed to say the least. Our paper of the Organisation quickly secure the mines In the past, developed economies started to see the dence on fossil fuel left the energy transition cannot take for Economic Co-operation through investment and co- economies built their pros- collateral damage unleashed nation at the whims of the place by simply importing the who wield a considerable and Development (OECD), ownership, so that the raw perity by riding on the fossil by fossil fuels in the form of Organisation of the necessary products. clout in the global market of eight of the 14 large cobalt material for energising the fuel boom. This is true even climate change, the popular- Petroleum Exporting The recent tension with renewable energy raw mate- mining firms in Congo are country’s future is safe. today. India, too, must devel- ity of oil started to wane Countries (OPEC) in terms of China and the subsequent rial. now Chinese-owned. Similarly, aggressive and eco- op the ability to independent- post the 1970s. This also her- production and prices for a constraints in sourcing the As India is transiting Significantly, they account friendly rare earth element ly transit to green energy by alded the advent of renewable The writer is an very long time. renewable energy products from a fossil fuel-economy to for half of Congo’s cobalt prospecting must be taken up harnessing the potential of energy. environmental journalist. But this scenario can and raw material have shown an electro one, the local pro- output. to discover new mines in rare earth materials. This will Today, renewable energy The views expressed change by having control how India’s dependence on duction of renewable energy Some of the elements India and elsewhere. usher in a green economy is steadily gaining momen- are personal. over the critical raw materi- the OPEC is now merely components, especially bat- such as neodymium, molyb- This will not only de-risk that is prosperous as well as tum and preference over tra- als needed for building a sus- shifting to Chinese suppliers teries, assumes unparalleled denum, titanium, lithium, the raw material supply chain good for the planet. HYDERABAD | THURSDAY | APRIL 29, 2021 Money 08 Surge in coronavirus cases may put economic recovery at risk PNS n NEW DELHI South Asia is expected to cent in 2022. Developing Asia Progress on the production rebound to 9.5 per cent this Excluding the compris and delivery of COVID-19 The Indian economy is pro- year, following a contraction newly industrial- vaccines has contributed to jected to grow at 11 per cent of 6 per cent in 2020, before ized economies of this momentum, but the pan- in the current financial year moder- demic remains the biggest amid the "strong" vaccine ating es 46 members of ADB risk for the region as potential drive, said ADB on to 6.6 list on the basis of geo- delays in vaccine rollouts or Wednesday, while cautioning per graphic group. These significant new outbreaks that the recent surge in cent include new industrialized could undermine growth. COVID cases may put the next economies, countries in Increasing geopolitical ten- Sensex soars 790 pts, Nifty tops country's economic recovery year Central Asia, East Asia, sions, production bottlenecks, at "risk". (2022), it said. Hong Kong, South Asia, Southeast Asia financial turmoil from tight- "India's economy is expect- ADB said the economic China; and the Pacific. ening financial conditions, 14,850 as financial stocks shine ed to grow 11 per cent in fis- growth in developing The report said in China, and long-term scarring like cal year (FY) 2021, which Asia is set to rebound to strong exports and a gradual learning losses due to school PNS n MUMABAI lowed by IndusInd Bank, Bajaj auto stocks with enhanced ends on March 31, 2022, amid 7.3 per cent this year, recovery in household con- closures are among other risk Finserv, ICICI Bank, Kotak business prospects which is a strong vaccine drive," ADB supported by a sumption will boost eco- factors, said the report. Extending its gains for the Bank, SBI, Bajaj Auto and likely to be maintained, he said in its flagship Asian healthy global nomic activity this year. Growth is gaining momen- third straight session, equity HDFC Bank. added. Further, short covering Development Outlook (ADO) recovery and China's gross domestic tum across developing Asia, benchmark Sensex rallied 790 On the other hand, Nestle ahead of derivatives expiry 2021 released on Wednesday. an early the product (GDP) is forecast to but renewed COVID-19 out- points on Wednesday, led by India, HCL Tech, L&T, Dr also contributed recent rally, However, the Asian progress Republic of Korea; expand 8.1 per cent in 2021 breaks pose a threat to recov- gains in financial stocks amid Reddy's and TCS were among analysts said. Elsewhere in Development Bank (ADB) on Singapore; and Taipei, and 5.5 per cent in 2022. East ery, said ADB Chief a positive trend in global mar- the laggards. "Superior Q4 Asia, bourses in Shanghai, cautioned that the surge in China, developing Asia's Asia's GDP is expected to Economist Yasuyuki Sawada. kets. results and vaccine optimism Hong Kong and Tokyo ended COVID-19 cases may put the economic activity is expect- grow 7.4 per cent in 2021 and "Economies in the region The 30-share BSE index buoyed domestic markets to on a positive note, while Seoul country's economic recovery ed to grow 7.7 per cent this 5.1 per cent in 2022, it said. are on diverging paths. Their ended 789.70 points or 1.61 trade on a positive footing for was in the red. at risk. year and 5.6 per cent in 2022," The report said rising trajectories are shaped by the per cent higher at 49,733.84. the third consecutive day Bourses in Europe were For FY2022, India's GDP is COVID-19 vaccines. The pro- said the report. exports are boosting some extent of domestic outbreaks, Similarly, the broader NSE ahead of the US Federal trading with gains in mid-ses- expected to expand at 7 per jected resurgence follows a 0.2 The report projects that economies in Developing Asia the pace of their vaccine roll- Nifty surged 211.50 points or Reserve interest rate decision,” sion deals. cent, it added. per cent contraction last year. most economies in developing amid strengthening global outs, and how much they are 1.44 per cent to 14,864.55. said Vinod Nair, Head of Meanwhile, international oil Further, it said the gross "The region's growth is Asia will see healthy growth economic activity, including a benefiting from the global Bajaj Finance was the top Research at Geojit Financial benchmark Brent crude was domestic product (GDP) of forecast to moderate to 5.3 per this year and in 2022. rebound in manufacturing. recovery," Sawada said. gainer in the Sensex pack, Services. Strong buying inter- trading 0.23 per cent higher at soaring around 8 per cent, fol- est was seen in banking and USD 65.82 per barrel.

Resurgence of Corona to derail Gold plunges MONEY MATTERS by Rs 505, growth of smartphone segment silver declines Jio, Byju's in first-ever list of 100 most influential companies PNS n NEW DELHI by Rs 828 wo Indian firms, Reliance The second wave of the pan- PNS n NEW DELHI TIndustries' technology demic in India will derail the arm Jio Platforms and e- growth momentum of the Gold prices plunged by learning startup Byju's have RBI Committee on ARCs invites smartphone segment in the Rs 505 to Rs 46,518 per figured in the Time country, and the supply crunch 10 gram in the national Magazine's first-ever list of suggestions from stakeholders in key imported components capital on Wednesday 100 most influential may lead to rise in the average following a fall in the companies. On its website, PNS n MUMBAI financial sector ecosystem and selling price, according to global metal prices, Time said companies recommend suitable measures research firm Canalys. according to HDFC. shaping the future are at the heart of the first ever TIME100 Most The RBI Committee on Asset for enabling them to meet the Smartphone shipment in In the previous trade, Influential Companies. To assemble it, TIME solicited nominations Reconstruction Companies, growing requirements. India grew 11 per cent in the the precious metal had across sectors including healthcare, entertainment, transportation, which will review the existing The central bank had con- March 2021 quarter to 37.1 closed at Rs 47,023 per 10 technology and evaluated each one on key factors, including legal and regulatory frame- stituted the Committee under million units, from 33.5 mil- downs could hamper transport Kannan said looking further gram. In-tandem with relevance, impact, innovation, leadership, ambition and success. The work applicable to ARCs, on the chairmanship of lion units in the year-ago peri- of raw materials and devices into 2021, unfavourable weak gold prices, silver result is a diverse array of 100 institutions, from the tech startup Wednesday invited views and Sudarshan Sen, former od, as per Canalys data. due to limited inter-state trav- macroeconomic factors will also declined by Rs 828 to engineering a smarter way to recycle to the cryptocurrency firm suggestions from stakeholders. Executive Director, Reserve The research firm said el. lead to a rising smartphone Rs 67,312 per kg from Rs reimagining the future of money to the pharma titans creating the The suggestions could be Bank of India. smartphone shipments in "Hence, for smartphone average selling price (ASP). 68,140 per kg in the pre- vaccines of tomorrow (and today). given to the committee till As per the terms of refer- India is expected to plunge in brands and channels, building "A combination of the ongo- vious trade. In the inter- May 31, 2021. ence of the committee, the the second quarter due to the up optimum inventory could ing supply crunch on key national market, gold was On April 19, RBI had set up panel will review the existing second wave of COVID-19. prove to be a hurdle in the sec- imported components and a quoting lower at USD a committee to undertake a legal and regulatory frame- "As the geographical distri- ond half of the year," Canalys weaker Rupee will make it 1,769 per ounce and sil- Hyundai Motor Ind announces comprehensive review of the work applicable to ARCs and bution of cases varies widely, a Analyst Sanyam Chaurasia increasingly difficult for ven- ver was flat at USD 26.02 working of asset reconstruc- recommend measures to nationwide lockdown seems said. dors to maintain margins at per ounce. Rs 20-cr Covid relief package tion companies (ARCs) in the improve efficacy of ARCs. unlikely. But regional lock- Canalys Analyst Varun current price levels.” yundai Motor India on HWednesday announced a Rs 20-crore COVID-19 relief package Limited incentives IndiGrid NCD issue through its philanthropic arm for GMPF raises concern over delays in a series of initiatives to offer unlikely to drive infrastructural assistance to the most affected states of vehicle owners to oversubscribed ten times, Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana, court hearing of Goa mining case Telangana and Tamil go for scrappage Nadu.Through the fresh step in PNS n NEW DELHI PNS n MUMBAI to raise Rs 1,000 crore continuation to its ongoing COVID-19 relief programmes, PNS n NEW DELHI Hyundai Motor India Foundation (HMIF) will deploy resources Mining dependents in Goa Limited incentives and to set up oxygen generating plants in hospitals, to aid critical have raised concerns over the poor cost economics for Infrastructure investment trust patients and help hospitals become self-sufficient in oxygen, prolonged delays in the court trucks in the Vehicle IndiGrid's public issue of non- Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) said in a statement.Besides, hearing of the state's mining Scrappage Policy, coupled convertible debt securities has the foundation will also aid the installation of medicare case pending in the Supreme with lack of addressable been subscribed nearly 10 facilities and provide support staff to various hospitals and Court for over a year without volumes for other seg- fold within hours of opening cater to their operational cost for the next three months and a single hearing, GMPF on ments is unlikely to drive on Wednesday. further if needed, it added. Wednesday said. freight transporters to IndiGrid's NCDs issue base In a statement, the Goa replace their old vehicles size was of Rs 100 crore with Mining People's Front (GMPF) with new ones, a report a green shoe option of addi- Insurance Regulatory and said it has "appealed to the cen- said on Wednesday. tional Rs 900 crore. Development Authority Hero MotoCorp unveils prices tral government for praying Though the scrappage Through the issue of non- (IRDA) had allowed insurance the apex court for urgent con- volume of buses, PVs and convertible debt securities firms to invest in debt securi- sideration of the Goa mining two-wheelers is expected IndiGrid aims to raise up to Rs ties of infrastructure and real of latest Harley-Davidson range case and give a hearing date to be limited as well, the 1,000 crore. estate investment trusts. ero MotoCorp on Wednesday before the court closes for policy's impact on new According to latest data of There was interest from Hunveiled the prices of the lat- summer vacation from May 15 Highlighting that mining It claimed that over 60,000 commercial vehicle (CV) the subscription of the issue, insurance firms in this non- est Harley-Davidson range in the onwards". supports to the livelihood of people have lost their direct sales could be sizeable, bids were received for convertible debt securities country The bikes are tagged Else, GMPF added, the over three lakh persons in the employment with the quashing based on addressable vol- 96,50,352 (965.04 per cent) (NCD) issue as well. between Rs 10.11 lakh and Rs central government has to state, GMPF said that in this of leases of 88 mines in Goa by ume, ratings agency Crisil against the 10,00,000 NCDs of A meeting of the allotment 34.99 lakh in India (ex-show- consider a legislative cure to economic crisis due to the Supreme Court in 2018. Research said in its report. Rs 1,000 each on offer with a committee of the board of room). The 2021 Iron 883 is resolve Goa Mining stalemate. COVID-19, the central gov- The unemployment situation Under the proposed green shoe option of 90,00,000 directors of IndiGrid priced at Rs 10.11 lakh, Forty- This is needed to stop the ernment has to consider leg- has further worsened in the policy, a scrapped vehicle NCDs. Investment Managers Ltd, act- Eight at Rs 11.75 lakh, Softail further economic collapse of islative amendment rather than state with the second wave of will be offered a monetary The issue opened on ing in the capacity of Standard at Rs 15.25 lakh, Street Bob at Rs 15.99 lakh, Fat Bob at the state, the umbrella body of waiting for the Supreme Court the pandemic, which has shat- value close to 4-6 per cent Wednesday and is scheduled Investment Manager to India Rs 16.75 lakh, Pan America 1250 at Rs 16.9 lakh and Pan America mining dependents said in a to decide on the fate of over tered the tourism industry yet of the showroom value. to close on May 5. Grid Trust (IndiGrid) was 1250 Special at Rs 19.99 lakh. Similarly, Fat Boy is tagged at Rs 20.9 statement. three lakh mining dependents. again in the state, it added. Earlier this month, the held on April 22, 2021. lakh, Heritage Classic at Rs 21.49 lakh, Electra Glide Standard at Rs 24.99 lakh, Road King at Rs 26.99 lakh, Street Glide Special at Rs 31.99 lakh and Road Glide Special at Rs 34.99 lakh. “We are excited to open the bookings for the 2021 range of Harley-Davidson motor- cycles in India. The line-up is now strengthened with the introduction Rupee extends Second COVID wave poses downside of the Pan America Adventure Tourer," Hero MotoCorp Head - Premium Segment Business Unit Ravi Avalur said in a statement. gains for 3rd day risks to India's economic growth: S&P MSN Labs launches generic PNS n MUMBAI currency. PNS n NEW DELHI which ended March 31, 2021. This is the third straight ses- S&P said the country Favipiravir tablets for Covid The rupee rose by 30 paise to sion of gain for the rupee, dur- S&P Global Ratings on already faces a permanent loss close at 74.36 (provisional) ing which it appreciated by 65 Wednesday said the second of output versus its pre-pan- MSN Laboratories on against the US dollar on paise. wave of COVID infections demic path, suggesting a long- Wednesday said it has Wednesday, extending its "Indian Rupee appreciated poses downside risks to India's term production deficit equiv- launched the generic version gains for a third day on the on the back rise in risk appetite GDP and heightens the possi- alent to about 10 per cent of of antiviral drug Favipiravir in back of strong rally in domes- in domestic markets. bility of business disruptions. GDP, it added. "India's escalat- 800 mg strength for treating tic equities. However, sharp gains were The second wave brings in ing second wave of COVID-19 mild and moderate COVID-19 At the interbank forex prevented on strong dollar uncertainty and a drawn-out infections is serious. In addi- patients.The company's drug market, the local unit opened and continued FII outflows," COVID outbreak will impede tion to the substantial loss of to be sold under the brand at 74.49 against the greenback said Saif Mukadam, Research India's recovery, it said. life and significant humanitar- name 'Favilow 800 mg' is and witnessed an intra-day Analyst, Sharekhan by BNP "This may prompt us to ian concerns, S&P Global priced at Rs 144 per tablet high of 74.29 and a low of Paribas. revise our base-case assump- Ratings believes the outbreak and will be available across pharmacies, MSN Laboratories said in a 74.50. Further, concerns over ris- tion of 11 per cent growth over rating agency Fitch had pro- risk to India's growth forecast, poses downside risks to GDP statement."In the light of increasing COVID-19 cases in India, afford- It finally ended at 74.36 ing COVID-19 cases in India fiscal 2021-2022, particularly if jected India's economic growth but a double digit GDP growth and heightens the possibility of able treatment options are the need of the hour to flatten the curve. against the American curren- and lockdown restriction in the government is forced to in current fiscal at 12.8 per is likely in 2021 given the low business disruptions," it said. We are sure that our product Favilow 800 would help support the cy, registering a rise of 30 paise some states weighed on reimpose broad containment cent, while Moody's Investors level of activity last year. India reported a record nation's efforts in overcoming the COVID crisis," MSN Group over its previous closing. On investor sentiment and capped measures," S&P said in a state- Service had earlier this month As per official estimates, 3,60,960 new infections on Chairman and Managing Director MSN Reddy said.The company had Tuesday, the rupee had settled the gains for the local unit, ment. said that the second wave of Indian economy contracted 8 Wednesday, bringing its total to launched the drug in the strengths of 200 mg and 400 mg in August at 74.66 against the American Mukadam said. Last week another global COVID infections presents a per cent in the 2020-21 fiscal, over 1.79 crore. 2020, the statement said. Follow us on @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/ dailypioneer

Thursday April 29, 2021

HEROES INSIDE THE SIMPLEST OF US RACHEL DAMMALA looking for — food, essential selves, we had several people 9704283062, kits, oxygen cylinders, beds, coming forward and extend- 9492306808. consultation, remdesevir ing both monetary help and Another such sim- youngsters from he second wave of injections, vaccines, data help in the form of various ple hero doing his but Secunderabad, Madhapur, Covid has hit regarding all of these, verified resources. We had families, humbly is Sai Charan. and Boduppal have expressed India hard. The contacts of people offering politicians, and others help The pharmaceutical their wish to join the cause. lack of resources, these — you name it, you us,” shares Mahendar Reddy. employee has put aside his There have been times I was- T medicines, doc- have them all online! He adds that a total of 120- work for more than a week n’t able to always be of help, tors, oxygen cylin- One such organisation 150 calls are received by now so he could help people Twitter but I hope that won’t happen, ders, hospital beds, and more helping people amid this cri- them every day. “Our essen- in whatever he can – and have been receiving calls and that everyone who have only revealed the coun- sis is Young Journos. It start- tials kit consists of three resources, or direct them to nonstop since then,” informs comes asking for help try’s crippled health system. ed with two journalists in the kinds of fruit — Apples, those who could help them. Charan who sleep for just an receives it,” adds Charan who But what the pandemic has city who have been helping pomegranates, and oranges, “Ten days ago when a family hour or two per day. can be reached out on also revealed is the simple families of journalists who’re three kinds of dry fruits — in my neighbourhood tested “Earlier, we had more 9392826327. heroes in ourselves that we fighting the deadly virus. The cashew nuts, almonds and about distributing and then says they’re looking to positive for Covid and didn’t requests for food and essen- Others like the page never knew we had in us. We group then grew and today raisins, masks, sanitisers, and set off to work on their jobs, expand to other districts of have access to basic needs, I tials. Then requests about FreeKitchen on Instagram see several people helping has over 20 journalists in the medicines. All these cost up cover stories and press meets, Telangana too, soon, once tried my best to help them. oxygen cylinders, remdesevir, and others have been up and lakhs on Twitter, Instagram, city working every day to to 1200-1500 per kit. We had and then return to finish things come under control Post that, I realised that there beds began coming. Now, I about ensuring nobody goes Facebook, and elsewhere. help people from their frater- some people wanting to other duties. With an average here. One can reach out to were many who lacked such look up numbers on the hungry. They’re putting out Hyderabad, in specific, has nity. “Initially, we pooled in donate rice, hopefully, we’ll age group of 22-35, the team them by essential help, and decided to internet, talk to them, find important information on been extremely active on var- money from our pockets and be able to add rice, oil, and has been doing a commend- dialing do whatever I can that’s in out if they’re true, and put up their pages, directing people ious social networking sites then when we realised that spices to the kit soon,” he able job, having helped more my control. I helped many only verified numbers, data- to useful resources for food, to ensure help — of any kind the numbers were going up adds. than 100+ families until the others with groceries, medi- base. It’s all real-time infor- injections, oxygen cylinders, — reaches people of all strata with each passing day and we The team of journalists’ time of writing this article. cines, directions to the right mation checked and verified and beds. The community during these days of chaos. need more funds. But before work starts early in the The group that is currently database, and contacts. I then by me. More and more peo- has indeed grown closer than Whatever kind of help you’re we could ask for them our- morning, where they go active only in Hyderabad, put up my number on ple have offered to help, ever. FASHION IN THE TRUE SENSE

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Hyderabad Thursday April 29, 2021 what’s brewing? Akshay Kumar, Twinkle Khanna Scheana Shay reveals HELLP syndrome donate 100 oxygen concentrators diagnosis after daughter’s birth cheana Shay just 26. Davies, 30, who has two gave birth, and “My doctor said I was children from a prior rela- kshay Kumar and she’s already lucky, and we caught this tionship. Twinkle Khanna S opening up about just in time to treat as it’s Despite the health issues, are doing their bit the details of her very unusual to be caught Shay and Davies were in A to fight against labor, including a so late, in postpartum,” she good spirits heading into Covid-19. serious medical condition. explained. the delivery room. As India is bat- “Almost 24 hours after The reality star, who “Scheana is so excited to tling the second wave of the being induced, my blood shares her newborn with meet her baby girl,” the novel coronavirus pandemic, pressure was extremely ele- boyfriend Brock Davies, source told a news agency Akshay Kumar and Twinkle vated,” Shay, 35, explained recalled being “on a mag- on Sunday, April 25, after Khanna are trying to do their recently via Instagram. nesium drip that made me they arrived at the hospi- part to fight the crisis. The She was first diagnosed extremely lethargic and flu- tal. “Brock is by her couple has donated 100 oxy- with preeclampsia, a preg- like, shivering uncontrol- side and can’t wait gen concentrators. Twinkle nancy complication where lably to the point where I to meet their took to Instagram to urge high blood pressure can felt like I was seizing.” daughter.” everyone to do whatever they affect the liver and kidneys. Symptoms of postpar- It isn’t clear can to help fight Covid-19. However, the issue pro- tum preeclampsia include how long Shay She also wrote that she was gressed and she explained high blood pressure, severe will be on in a 'bit of a hole' for some it “turned into HELLP syn- headaches, changes in maternity time as her family was facing drome,” which is a severe vision, upper abdominal leave. health issues. Akshay Kumar form of preeclampsia, pain and decreased urina- The recently recovered from according to Mayo Clinic. tion. Vanderpump Covid-19 after getting treat- HELLP stands for The causes of Rules cast is ment at a Mumbai hospital. hemolysis (destruction of preeclampsia and HELLP expected to Taking to Instagram red blood cells), elevated syndrome are unknown, start filming Twinkle shared how she and liver enzymes and low but those dealing with dia- season 9 of Akshay have donated 100 a total of 220. Thank you for moment and at least say it Thanks a lot @akshaykumar platelet count. HELLP syn- betes, obesity, high blood the Bravo oxygen concentrators and the leads. Let's all do our bit took the worst but it brought for committing Rs 1 crore to drome can be a life-threat- pressure and having multi- reality series asked others to do their bit. (sic).” out the best in all of us. #GGF for food, meds and ening complication for ples (twins, triplets etc.) are in early May, Her post read, “Wonderful She captioned the post, “I #ILookForSilverLinings (sic).” oxygen for the needy! God both mom and baby, and it at greater risk. Us confirmed. news-Dr Drashnika Patel & think for the last few weeks Recently, Gautam Gambhir bless (sic).” typically requires the “I am still being moni- Shay won’t be Dr Govind Bankani of with members of my own revealed that Akshay Kumar Twinkle Khanna and immediate delivery of the tored closely for elevated the only new London Elite Health through family ill I have been in a bit has donated Rs 1 crore to his Akshay Kumar tied the knot infant. liver enzymes and low mom on Pump Daivik Foundation are donat- of a hole. But I couldn’t stay foundation for coronavirus on January 17, 2001. Shay, however, was actu- blood platelets and not sure Rules. Lala ing 120 oxygen concentrators there for long. I implore all of relief. Their son Aarav was born ally diagnosed after she how much longer we will Kent welcomed and as @akshaykumar and I you in your own way to do He wrote on Twitter, in 2002 and they welcomed gave birth to daughter be here,” Shay revealed. her daughter, have managed to get our whatever you can so we can “Every help in this gloom their daughter Nitara in Summer Moon Honey Summer is the first child Ocean, in hands on 100 as well, we have look back at this bleak comes as a ray of hope. 2012. Davies on Monday, April for Shay and the third for March.

release Petta. Jagame Thandhiram out According to the makers, Dhanush plays a ‘nomadic BTS announce return in May with new single Butter gangster’ by the name of Suruli in the film. Suruli will orean pop band BTS countdown to the news earlier cube of butter with BTS’ logo as on Netflix on June 18 face a dilemma when he has announced a come- last evening. Not much to the it slowly melted into the shape to choose between good and back in May with a surprise of all, over 800,000 fans of a heart. The bright yellow evil. new digital single. tuned in to the surprise video. It video also featured sounds of a The release of Jagame K The group surprised lasted an hour and followed the busy kitchen and a timer count- Thandhiram is being awaited fans with a livestream journey of a small animated ing down to the announcement. with bated breath by not only Once the clock ran out, the fans of Dhanush, but by the livestream briefly dis- director Karthik Subbaraj played the word ‘Butter’ himself, who has called the and what we think was the movie his ‘dream film.’ track’s release date, May “Jagame Thandhiram is my 21, 2021. dream film that was made As per a press release with the ambition of telling a from BTS’ label Big Hit gripping story about a global- Music, Butter will explore ly prevalent issue through a dance pop. locally rooted character in a Earlier this year, the K most interesting and enter- pop band BTS taining way. Audiences will announced a brand new hanush-starrer wrote, “Suruli oda aatatha yet again see Dhanush bring compilation album BTS, Jagame paaka naanga ready! Neenga his immense talent and the Best, set for a June Thandhiram will be ready ah? entertainment to the table release, and dropped its D released on Netflix #JagameThandhiram coming across 190 countries on lead single Film Out on on June 18, the on 18th June (sic).” Netflix. Produced by YNOT April 1. streaming giant Jagame Thandhiram is Studios and Reliance The group was also announced on Tuesday directed by Karthik Subbaraj. Entertainment, Jagame in news recently for evening. Sharing a new The filmmaker has previous- Thandhiram will be available being named the poster of the movie in which ly worked with Dhanush’s worldwide on Netflix on June ambassadors for lux- a smiling Dhanush is seen father-in-law and superstar 18th,” the director said in a ury label Louis sporting shades, Netflix Rajinikanth in the 2019 statement. Vuitton. FUN

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ctor Allu Arjun on Wednesday took to social media to announce that he tested positive for coronavirus. The actor wrote, “I have isolated myself at home and have been fol- lowing all the protocols. I request all my fans and well- A wishers to not worry about me as I am doing fine.” Actor Allu Arjun is the latest person from the Tollywood film industry to come in contact with the coron- avirus. Allu Arjun’s next release is Pushpa which is slated for an August 13 release. Recently, Pushpa's first look was launched. The introduction offers a peek into the world of Pushpa, a relentless man who will stop at nothing to beat the odds. The character revela- Allu Arjun tion shows Allu Arjun’s makeover for the film, visuals of forests in Andhra Pradesh, and comes with the music of Devi Sri Prasad. contracts Based on true events, Pushpa revolves around the red sanders heist in the hills of Andhra Pradesh. With this film, the audience will COVID see Allu Arjun and Rashmika Mandanna, sharing screen space for the first time. The film is directed by Sukumar, with sound by Oscar-winner Resul Pookutty. A lot of people have been wishing the Stylish Star a speedy recovery. However, his Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo co- star Pooja Hegde has a fun response to Bunny’s tweet. Replying to Allu Arjun’s post, Pooja Hegde wrote, “Buntu seems to be giving Amulya company! Take care @alluarjun. Sending you some healing light and energy you’ll be healthy in RAJINIKANTH IN no time!” (Buntu and Amulya are character names of Allu Arjun and Pooja Hegde in Trivikram’s Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo.) A few days ago, Pooja TOWN FOR SHOOT Hegde also tested posi- tive for Coronavirus. uper Star Rajinikanth currently going on in Hyderabad Rajinikanth and Nayanthara will She is also under iso- is one of the very few and now, it has been said that the be picturised in this schedule lation but is active on heroes in India who is movie’s shooting has moved to which will go on for the next cou- social media. Pooja is S continuing shooting IKEA showroom near Gachibowli ple of days. in plans to hold a live for his upcoming film, in the city. The shooting is pro- Sun Pictures is the production session on Instagram, despite the Covid heat. gressing at a brisk pace. house that is funding the movie. to interact with fans. The star’s upcoming movie Actress Nanyanthara is playing Annaatthe is supposed to be Pooja also recently Annaatthe is being directed by the female lead and the actress released for Diwali but with the took part in a Yoga Siruthai Siva of Vedalam and has landed in Hyderabad and delay in production, the release session online and Viswasam fame. joined the shooting. The combi- date looks like it'll most likely shared the same The shooting for the film is nation sequences between pushed to a later date. with her fans. Anil Ravipudi beats Coronavirus n some good news, star about the situ- director Anil Ravipudi ation. I has tested negative for request each I the novel coronavirus. and every On Wednesday, he took one of you to Twitter to share the to get vacci- news with his fans and followers nated and and said that he feels much better protect your- now. self from this On April 13, Anil Ravipudi had virus.” tested positive for Covid 19 and he Anil Ravipudi is cur- isolated himself and followed all rently directing a multi-starrer F3 prescribed instructions. After with Venkatesh and Varun Tej in almost two weeks, the director has lead roles. The film is a sequel to tested negative for the virus. the director’s blockbuster movie F2. Sharing the statement, he wrote, “I was detected with Covid 19 virus on the 13th of April 2021. I person- ally called up all the people who were in contact with me before that and made sure they isolated them- selves and took precautions. I isolat- ed myself since then and followed Prabhas-Nag Ashwin all prescribed instructions. Today I tested negative and am feeling much better. I just wanted to thank every- one who wished me after knowing film to launch on Diwali he second wave of upcoming untitled project of Prabhas Coronavirus is wreaking with Nag Ashwin will be launched on havoc in every part of the the occasion of this Diwali with a for- country and with new lock- mal pooja ceremony and the regular T downs and restrictions in shoot will commence soon after. Raja The Great place, a number of shoots In the meantime, Prabhas is likely have been indefinitely postponed. One to resume the shoot of the upcoming of the films to be affected by the pan- much-hyped film Adipurush under demic is Nag Ashwin’s global film the direction of Om Raut which has which is a science fiction drama star- Kriti Sanon as the leading lady. ring young Rebel Star Prabhas, Prabhas has few films in his kitty at sequel on the cards? Deepika Padukone, and Amitabh the moment. Apart from Nag Ashwin’s Bachchan. film, Baahuabli star is sharing the ass Maharaja Ravi Nag Ashwin’s big-budget entertain- screen space with Pooja Hegde in the Teja and director er was supposed to hit the floors this upcoming romantic drama, Radhe Anil Ravipudi June but the shoot of the film now Shyam. He is also part of the action M have collaborated stands postponed. Now according to drama Salaar which is helmed by KGF on the project the latest buzz in the film industry, the fame Prashanth Neel. Raja The Great. This movie breathed new life into Ravi Teja’s career at a time when the actor was struggling with flops, back to back. Ravi Teja is now com- mitted to multiple projects. Fans have been waiting for the two to come together again. After the super hit of Krack, the actor has complet- ed the shooting of Khiladi. He has projects lined up with directors like Trinadha Rao Nakkina and Sharat Mandava. The latest speculation is that Ravi Teja is going to team up with director Anil Ravipudi again. It is said that the project is said to be the sequel of Raja The Great. The movie will materialise after both the star hero and the director have completed their committed projects. More details and an offi- cial confirmation about the same are awaited. HYDERABAD | THURSDAY | APRIL 29, 2021 CAPTAIN’S CALL 12

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Kiwis may travel to boundarymeter UK for WTC final Clinical CSK regain top spot 4s 622 with Indian players 6s 274 PTI n The Chennai Super Kings hunt down SRH's 171 with 9 balls to spare AUCKLAND PLAYER RUNS ew Zealand cricketers in the ongoing PTI n NEW DELHI 1. Shikhar Dhawan (DC) 265 NIPL might travel with the Indian SCOREBOARD 2. KL Rahul (PBKS) 240 Players for the World Test Championships SK openers Ruturaj Gaikwad and SUNRISERS HYDERABAD (171-3) 3. Glenn Maxwell (RCB) 223 final in June as they can’t come back home Faf du Plessis have put CSK on the David Warner c Jadeja b Ngidi 57 and then depart for England due to strict brink of victory. Chasing a total of C Jonny Bairstow c D Chahar b S Curran 7 PLAYER WKTS quarantine protocols, the country’s play- 172, the duo have put a 129-run open- 1. Harshal Patel (RCB) 17 ers’ union chief has indicated. ing stand. Both players have got fifties Manish Pandey c du Plessis b Ngidi 61 The likes of captain Kane Williamson, and set the platform for an easy win for Kane Williamson not out 26 2. Avesh Khan (DC) 12 Trent Boult, Kyle Jamieson and Mitchell CSK. SRH bowlers have struggled to Kedar Jadhav not out 12 3. Rahul Chahar (MI) 9 Santner are among 10 New Zealand play- contain the runs or get wickets before Extras (b 0, lb 2, w 6, nb 0, p 0) 8 ers in the different franchises of the IPL. Rashid Khaan took three wickets in Total (3 wkts, 20 Overs) 171 MOST SIXES Did not bat: New Zealand has named a 20-mem- quick succession. He dismissed Gaikwad Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan, Jagadeesha 1. Jonny Bairstow (SRH) 14 ber team for the two-match Test series in for 75 while du Plessi departed for 56. Suchith, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth England starting on June 2 and the squad SRH were never able to get the accel- Lungi Ngidi was the best bowler for Kaul 2. KL Rahul (PBKS) 11 will be trimmed to 15 for the WTC final erate despite a 105 run partnership CSK, returning figures of 2 for 35 from Fall of Wickets: 22-1 (Jonny Bairstow, 3.2), 128-2 3. Glenn Maxwell (RCB) 10 against India, starting on June 18 at between David Warner and Manish 4 overs while Sam Curran (1/30) got the (David Warner, 17.1), 134-3 (Manish Pandey, 17.5) Southampton. Pandey. Quick-fire cameos by Kane other wicket. Bowling “...They can’t very well come home, do Williamson and Kedar Jadhav in the final Warner, who passed 10,000 T20 runs Deepak Chahar 3-0-21-0 SUMMER SLAM the two weeks isolation and then go to overs took SRH to 171. during the course of his innings, Sam Curran 4-0-30-1 England, so they’re going to have to be unrisers Hyderabad rode on contrasting appeared frustrated at times at the Shardul Thakur 4-0-44-0 MOTION PICTURE there (India) until the round-robin finish- half-centuries from Manish Pandey and inability to force the pace on a track Moeen Ali 2-0-16-0 es, or the final series,” NZ Cricket Players skipper David Warner along with a where ball wasn’t always coming onto the Lungi Ngidi 4-0-35-2 Association chief executive Heath Mills cameo from Kane Williamson to post bat. His 50th IPL half-century had Ravindra Jadeja 3-0-23-0 said when asked about the possibility. 171 for 3 in 20 overs against CSK here three fours and two sixes but it was not “Then we’ve got other players who are on Wednesday. his usual aggressive, bustling knock. He coming home - logistically there’s not a lot Warner (57 off 55 balls) and Pandey could not get going and his powerful hits in the side after being dropped follow- of flights. It’s not easy to sort out the logis- (61 off 46 balls) added 106 runs for the went straight to the fielders. ing a few patchy knocks, the Karnataka tics. We’re working closely with NZ second wicket at the Kotla but it was Ngidi ended Warner’s misery by right-hander showed intent from the Cricket and they’re in touch with the Williamson’s 26 not out off 10 balls and having caught (by Jadeja) attempting a beginning. He hit Moeen Ali for a huge BCCI and the ICC,” Mills was quoted as Kedar Jadhav’s 12 off 4 balls which big shot off a widish delivery. six early in his innings but could not get saying by stuff.co.nz. ensured a competitive total for SRH. Kane Williamson in action against CSK @IPL Pandey, in contrast, was faster. Back the big hits on a consistent basis.ss Not all the 10 players in the IPL are in the New Zealand squad bound for England. Scott Kuggeleijn, Jimmy Neesham, Adam Milne, Finn Allen, Chartered flight for Oz players after IPL under consideration: ACA chief Lockie Ferguson and Tim Seifert are not in the team. PTI n AHMEDABAD Australian Cricketers’ available to us,” Greenberg less approach to get them and Colbeck said no decision Mills said New Zealand Cricket has Association (ACA) chief Todd said on 2GB radio as quoted home safely that’s something has been taken on this matter been in close contact with the players, chartered flight to bring Greenberg said Cricket by Sydney Morning Herald. between us and CA and our as yet. their respective IPL teams, the BCCI, ICC Aback Australian cricketers Australia will talk to the IPL “We can also work with all players that we’ll work on.” “There aren’t any deci- and also with the England and Wales after the IPL in India is under franchise owners on this the owners of the Premier The BCCI has already sions that have been made yet Cricket Board. consideration, the country’s arrangement but conceded League franchises who are assured the IPL’s foreign with respect to (approval for Punjab Kings batsman Mandeep Singh and his son Rajveer He said the NZ players in the IPL are players union said on that it will not be a simple effectively contracting the recruits that their safe return a charter flight for) the crick- Singh pose for photo with cricket bat @PunjabKingsIPL certainly anxious after the ban on flights Wednesday even as sports thing. players. There’s certainly a home will be its responsibili- eters,” Colbeck told ABC radio. from India in the wake of the unprece- minister Richard Colbeck “That’s one of the conver- conversation to be had about ty once the tournament ends “One of the reasons for the WOMEN'S T20 CHALLENGE UNLIKELY dented surge in Covid-19 cases, but no one made it clear that such a sations we’re having with that,” he added. on May 30. pause was to give our hotel The three-team Women's T20 challenge, which is held has indicated any desire to return home. move has not yet been cleared Cricket Australia at the “They're not simple things Any such chartered flight quarantine a little bit of space during the IPL, is unlikely to go ahead this year given The flight ban, which began on April 11, by the Government Down moment about whether or to organise, as you’d imagine. would require the approval of because of the load we’ve seen the current restrictions imposed by countries on air ends Wednesday midnight. Under. not that’s something that’s If we can try to find a seam- the Australian Government out of India,” he said. travel with India due to the massive spike in Covid-19 cases here. “Getting Indian players quarantined is not an issue even now but no foreign player is keen to travel in the current climate. We can find a window later when things get better,” a top BCCI source said. MI look to overcome KKR's floundering batting CLARITY OF MIND, PLANS HELPED JD RR pacer Jaydev Unadkat said clarity of mind has helped him to make a good start to this IPL season and face strong Delhi test he wants to build on the momentum going forward. “I feel I've had a good start. I've had clarity of mind and middle-order woes PTI n AHMEDABAD clarity of plans this season, something that has worked VENUE: NARENDRA MODI STADIUM, AHMEDABAD PTI n NEW DELHI for me so far,” Unadkat said. “It is only a couple of VENUE: ARUN JAITLEY STADIUM, DELHI olkata Knight Riders’ floundering bat- HEAD TO HEAD games for me and is still early days, something I'm looking to build on as we move forward.” efending champions Kting will be put to test once again as Matches 26 DMumbai Indians will HEAD TO HEAD they look to build a winning momentum look to sort out their mid- against a star-studded Delhi Capitals here Delhi Capitals 11 ‘DO WHATEVER TO STAY SAFE’ dle-order woes and bring Matches 22 on Thursday. Kolkata Knight Riders 14 Jamaican sprint star Yohan Blake has sent his love to their campaign back on Mumbai Indians 11 KKR’s batting woes emanate right from India as the country battles a lethal second wave of the track when they take on an the top with the highly talented Shubman LAST YEAR’S MATCHES Covid-19 pandemic, “begging” the people to do all that Rajasthan Royals 11 they can to stay safe. “Just want to take this time to inconsistent Rajasthan Gill continuing his poor run — 89 runs Delhi Capitals defeated Kolkata Royals here on Thursday. from six outings. send my love to India. I am begging everyone please do MI are coming into the LAST YEAR’S MATCHES While their bowling, especially the Knight Riders by 18 runs in what you can to stay safe. I know it may be difficult but Sharjah imagine if we work together,” Blake tweeted. match after suffering back- Mumbai Indians defeated ‘master-apprentice’ spin duo of Sunil to-back losses and need to Narine and Varun Chakravarthy, have done Kolkata Knight Riders beat start the Delhi leg afresh. Rajasthan Royals by 57 runs in an excellent job in restricting the opposi- Delhi Capitals by 59 runs in POINTS TABLE The Sanju Samson-led Abu Dhabi tions, KKR’s top-order batting has hurt Abu Dhabi P W L NRR PTS Rajasthan have lost thrice in them the most. Faisel Features the tournament so far and Rajasthan Royals beat Mumbai Chasing an easy 124 against Punjab 1 CSK 6 5 1 +1.475 10 will seek to build on the six- Indians by 8 wickets in Abu Kings in their last match, KKR’s top-order points table. Thursday’s clash will see a mini battle 2 RCB 6 5 1 +0.089 10 wicket win over Kolkata Dhabi cut a sorry figure to be at 17 for 3 inside First-up, Morgan will have to fix the between the Caribbean duo of Russell and Knight Riders in the previ- Faisel Features three overs before skipper Eoin Morgan led Gill conundrum. With scores of 15, 33, 21, Shimron Hetmyer who will be anxious to 3 DC 6 4 2 +0.269 8 ous match. from the front to snap their four-match los- 0, 11 and 9, the opener has failed to do well after the Capitals suffered an ago- Mumbai skipper Rohit ing streak. impress. It would not be a bad ploy to drop nising one-run defeat against Royal 4 MI 5 2 3 -0.032 4 Sharma (201 runs) has got starts but and Andrew Tye. Against a DC batting line-up boasting Gill down the order and bring back Challengers Bangalore on Tuesday. 5 KKR 6 2 4 -0.305 4 hasn’t played a big knock and the RR are yet to have a settled open- tournament’s leading run getter Shikhar Narine to open with Rahul Tripathi. KKR batting will be put to test against Mumbaikar would be itching to get ing combination. They tried Manan Dhawan (265 runs), Prithvi Shaw, Steve The top-order reshuffle may be the the likes of Ishant, Kagiso Rabada and 6 PBKS 6 2 4 -0.608 4 one as would be his opening partner Vohra (42 runs) and Yashasvi Jaiswal Smith and the dangerous Rishabh Pant, way forward as the likes of Morgan, young gun Avesh Khan, while the spin duo 7 RR 5 2 3 -0.681 4 Quinton De Kock (47 runs). (22 runs) at the top but both failed KKR can’t afford any more slip-up if they Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik looked of Amit Mishra and Axar Patel will also But Mumbai’s middle-order, to convert their starts. want to continue their ascent in the IPL to have found their mojo in the middle. look to make an impact. 8 SRH 6 1 5 -0.264 2 which boasts of hard-hitting batsmen Englishman Jos Buttler would like Suryakumar Yadav (154 runs), need to score big to compliment his Ishan Kishan (73 runs), Hardik skipper Sanju Samson, who is the Pandya (36 runs), Krunal Pandya (29 team’s leading run-scorer (187) shortpasses I’ve total control in team & runs) and Kieron Pollard (65 runs), despite being inconsistent. hasn’t fired in unison so far. And the likes Shivam Dube, ZOYSA BANNED FOR 6 YRS The middle-order can pummel David Miller and Riyan Parag, would DUBAI: Former SL seamer and coach Nuwan selection matters: Babar any good attack into submission on have to support the top-order by Zoysa was banned from all cricket for six years any given day and Rohit would hope chipping in with much-needed con- after being found guilty of trying to fix matches PTI n KARACHI press conferences and in the for their batting to click on Thursday tributions. and failing to disclose corrupt approaches. media that I don’t have when the action shifts to the Feroz All-rounder Chris Morris (9 akistan’s skipper Babar authority and don’t take Shah Kotla ground. wickets and 48 runs) has blown hot RIZWAN ENTERS TOP-10 PAzam on Wednesday independent decisions,” In the bowling department, and cold and will again be under DUBAI: Pakistan's Mohammed Rizwan made dismissed criticism that Babar said. pace duo of Trent Boult (6 pressure to deliver his high an entry into top-10 of T20I rankings. The 28- he was a powerless cap- “I want to make it wickets) and Jasprit Bumrah price tag. year-old wicketkeeper-batsman's gain five tain, who took clear once and for all (4 wickets) have been excep- Left-arm pacer Chetan slots to reach 10th position. dictation from that I have total tional, particularly at the Sakariya (7 wickets) has been head coach, control and say death. a revelation, while the experi- DJOKOVIC WITHDRAWS Misbah-ul-Haq. in team selec- Leg-spinner Rahul Chahar enced duo of Jaydev MADRID: Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the Benzema comes to Real rescue The top ODI tion and other (9 wickets) and Krunal (3 Unadkat (4 wickets) Madrid Open, the tournament organisers batsman frequent- matters. I han- wickets) have also been and Mustafizur announced on Wednesday. AFP n MADRID Eden Hazard was given 24 ly faces accusations dle everything impressive and will Rahman (4 wickets) minutes off the bench against his of being a captain on the field and I again need to play their have been decent. The GIGGS DENIES CHARGES arim Benzema came to Real former club but he was unable to without authority and decide the playing parts to perfection. three left-arm pacers MANCHESTER: Wales manager Ryan Giggs KMadrid’s rescue again on add a late twist. recently former skipper eleven with the Pollard is used as along with Morris, appeared in court on Wednesday and denied Tuesday, his acrobatic volley earn- Benzema’s goal was his 71st in Shoaib Malik in tweets management the fifth or the sixth however, need to be con- assaulting two women, including a former ing them a 1-1 draw against an the Champions League, making inferred that Babar was giving their input. I bowler even as sistent. girlfriend who is he accused of coercively impressive Chelsea side in the first him the joint-fourth top scorer in not taking independent know what my respon- Hardik plays solely Leg-spinner Rahul controlling with violence. leg of the Champions League the competition’s history with decisions. sibilities are as captain,”

as a batsman. Tewatia has got just one T semi-final. Raul, behind only Cristiano Some other former he said. Mumbai, however, wicket from five games, MARSCH TO COACH LEIPZIG Christian Pulisic grabbed Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Robert captains and players Babar also made it might play Adam while Shreyas Gopal, R BERLIN: Salzburg's American coach Jesse Chelsea a deserved away goal in Lewandowski. have also advised Babar clear he had no issues Milne in place of another leggie, has gone O Marsch has agreed terms to succeed Julian a soaking wet contest at “We should have won the first to be more authorita- with the head coach and Jayant Yadav. wicket-less in the two P Nagelsmann at RB Leipzig, German media Valdebebas but they might regret half,” said Chelsea coach Thomas tive as captain. whether Pakistan need- Rajasthan, on the games he has played. S reported on Wednesday. not pulling away, with the strug- Tuchel. “We should have scored Babar said in a vir- ed a white ball coach was other hand, have a lot Tewatia’s role gling Timo Werner again missing at least one more.” tual press conference the domain of PCB. of issues to ponder would be crucial if R DECISION DELAY ON LOCAL FANS a golden chance. “The result is fair,” said that the debate over “The team manage- over, particularly in the Royals aim to con- E TOKYO: 2020 Tokyo Olympics organisers on It means Madrid will be sat- Zinedine Zidane. “Our first half whether he was a cap- ment is fully supporting the absence of key tain the MI batting line- Wednesday said they won't decide how many isfied too, after recovering from wasn’t the best, their pressure tain with authority every player, so I am foreign players - Jofra up, keeping in mind Amit H spectators — if any — can attend the Games a chastening opening half an caused us difficulties but we should end now. happy,” he said. Archer, Ben Stokes, Mishra’s performance T until June, as coronavirus surges raise fresh hour before Benzema’s brilliance adapted and in the second half we “I don’t understand

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