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WEATHER Farmers’ leaders to block Delhi-Noida border Max: 29.2OC Min: 16.4OC Covid shots in TS from Jan. 18? RH: 47% Rainfall: Nil Forecast: Partly cloudy. Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin likely to be administered in state PM sees conspiracy Mist or haze likely. BALU PULIPAKA | DC earlier this month. Max/Min temp. 30/17 ºC HYDERABAD, DEC 15. PREPARING FOR VACCINE Russian developed Telangana did a two-day brainstorm- Sputnik V vaccine that The wait for a vaccine for ing and training for officials on vac- city-based Dr Reddy’s Covid-19 in India may be cine administration. Laboratories is testing is behind farmers’ stir COVID-19 coming to an end. There expected to join the race are indications that two, if Two or more variants of the Covid-19 for approval once it goes SANJAY KAW | DC C UNT not more variants of vac- vaccines are likely to be approved through its phases. NEW DELHI, DEC. 15 cine candidates under sooner than later However, with the DGCI CASES DEATHS development and being seeking more safety and With no end in sight to the tested in the country, are vaccines in Telangana. India Limited, that could efficacy data from Phase deadlock between the agi- (+25,901) (+365) very likely to be approved Sources indicated that make its way for vaccina- two and three trials and tating farmers and the sooner than later. they are hopeful of vac- tions in the state and rest other data from SII, BBIL, Centre even after multiple Expectations are that the cines for Covid-19 being of the country. and Pfizer, the emergency rounds of talks, Prime 99,32,364 1,44,110 vaccine could be available available for administra- It may be recalled that use authorisation requests Minister Narendra Modi covid19india.org for administration some- tion by the middle of BBIL, along with Pune- have been put on hold. said on Tuesday that a STATE GOVERNMENT BULLETINS time by January 18. January. based Serum Institute of It is now expected that “big conspiracy” was While the Centre had It is likely that this could India (SII) collaborating the DGCI, after examining going on around Delhi to (+491) (+3) already asked states to get going in the state on with Oxford University- additional data being sub- confuse the protesters and make priority lists of peo- the first Monday after Astra Zeneca for its vac- mitted by the pharma com- that his government was Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a ceremony in TS: 2,78,215 1,499 ple to receive the vaccine, Sankranti, the harvest fes- cine candidate Covishield, panies, may give its always committed to farm- Kutch while inaugurating projects on Tuesday. — PTI the Telangana State gov- tival celebrated across the as well as Pfizer- approval that could well ers’ welfare and will keep (+500) (+5) ernment too has got crack- country with different BioNTech, had enable the government to addressing their concerns. ing on this subject with a names. approached the Drug announce a New Year gift Attacking the Oppos- AP: 8,76,336 7,064 two-day brainstorming And it could well be Controller General of to the country in the form ition and other activists and training for officials Covaxin, the vaccine India (DGCI) for emer- of either one, or two, or protesting against the new Winter Session CASES AROUND THE WORLD on transportation, storage developed by Hyderabad- gency use authorisation of may be three anti-Covid-19 agriculture-related laws, and administration of the based Bharat Biotech their vaccines in India vaccines. Mr Modi said: “They also 7,35,16,121 wanted these reforms but they couldn’t (pass them) of Parl scrapped DEATHS when they were in power. TRANSPORT MIN But now that we have DC CORRESPONDENT ing this period, particular- 16,34,749 Free for all in Karnataka Council managed to do it, they are NEW DELHI, DEC. 15 ly in Delhi. We are in the COUNTRIES, misleading the farmers.” middle of December and a AREAS WITH 218 AJAY KUMAR Speaking at the inaugu- The Winter Session of Covid vaccine is expected CASES ration of mega energy pro- Parliament that usually very soon,” Mr Joshi said. worldometers.info/ COVID POSITIVE jects in Kutch, Mr Modi begins in the last week of Attacking the govern- coronavirus said: “A conspiracy is November won’t take ment over the issue, the RAVINDRA SESHU | DC going on around Delhi to place this year due to the Congress said Tuesday the KHAMMAM, DEC. 15 confuse the farmers. They Covid-19 pandemic, and “decimation of parliamen- ASTROGUIDE are being scared that after the government will con- tary democracy is com- Sarvari; Dakshinayana Transport minister the new agricultural vene the Budget Session in plete” and asked why, if Tithi: Margasira Shuddha Vidiya till Puvvada Ajay Kumar reforms, the land of the January 2021, parliamen- election campaigning can 4.59 pm tweeted on Tuesday that farmers will be occupied tary affairs minister be done amid the pandem- Star: Purvashada till 8.08 pm he had tested positive for by others. Tell me, if a Prahlad Joshi said in a let- ic, the session could not be Varjyam: Shesha Varjyam till Covid-19 and requested dairy has a contract of col- ter to Congress’ Lok Sabha held. Senior party leader 8.05 am; 3.51 am to all those who came in lecting milk from you, do leader Adhir Ranjan and Rajya Sabha chief 5.24 am (Thursday) contact with him over they take away your cattle Chowdhury. whip Jairam Ramesh also Durmuhurtam: 11.49 am to the past few days to iso- too?” “The winter months are said Leader of the 12.33 pm late themselves and get At the Singhu border very crucial for managing Opposition in the Rajya Rahukalam: 12 noon to 1.30 pm tested. “There is no need between Delhi and the pandemic because of a Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad HIJRI CALENDAR to be angry. I am in isola- Haryana, the farmers’ recent spurt in cases dur- wasn’t consulted. Rabbi-ul Akhir 30, 1442 AH tion in my quarters in leaders said that the fight PRAYERS Hyderabad. I am request- over the new farm laws said: “The BJP is the real continue talks but won’t Fajar: 5.34 am ing the persons who met had reached a stage where ‘tukde tukde gang’ in the take back the laws. Zohar: 12.22 pm him for the last few days they are “determined to country. It has smashed Union minister Kailash to do for test”, he said. win it, no matter what”. national unity to pieces, Choudhary said the Cen- Asar: 4.09 pm They have also threatened shamelessly inciting tre will soon call the farm- Maghrib: 5.50 pm ■ Page 2: Minister went to completely block the Hindus against Muslims ers’ leaders for the next Isha: 7.05 pm to many programmes Delhi-Noida border cross- and now desperately set- round of talks to end the SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.39 AM ings on Wednesday. ting peace-loving Punjabi deadlock over the farm SUNSET TODAY 5.44 PM Meanwhile, continuing Hindus against their Sikh laws. The protests against MOONSET TODAY 7.30 PM his tirade against the brethren, especially farm- the new laws is likely to VICE-ADMIRAL intensify further as more MOONRISE TOMORROW 6.10 AM Centre for not repealing ers. They are pushing the new farm laws, patriotic Punjab into com- farmers are expected to DIES DUE TO Shiromani Akali Dal pres- munal flames.” join the agitation at ident Sukhbir Singh Badal While the farmers — Delhi’s borders. Over 2,000 COUNTER POINT said his former ally BJP who have been protesting women from the families CORONAVIRUS BJP and Congress leaders clash over the chairman post during the Karnataka was the real “tukde tukde for 20 days now — want of those protesting at the New Delhi, Dec. 15: Legislative Council in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Congress MLCs heckled and pushed gang” which was trying to the three new laws to be Singhu border are likely Vice Admiral Srikant deputy chairman of the Legislative Council, S.L. Dharme Gowda, from his seat. — DC push patriotic Punjab into scrapped, the government to join the demonstration died on Tuesday morn- communal flames. He has said it is willing to in the coming days. ing at the base hospital here due to Covid-19, offi- cials said. The vice admi- BORIS TO BE ral, the Navy’s senior- most submariner, was High Court may get first woman Chief Justice due to retire on CHIEF GUEST ON December 31. Srikant VUJJINI judge in the Delhi High the transfers of chief jus- was admitted at the hos- VAMSHIDHARA | DC Court, is likely to be tices. The Collegium’s rec- REPUBLIC DAY pital after he contracted HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 appointed as Chief Justice ommendations will then the virus, said a junior of the Telangana High be sent to President Ram London, Dec. 15: UK Navy officer who had The Supreme Court Court. Sikkim High Court Nath Kovind for his con- Prime Minister Boris worked under him. Collegium has decided to Chief Justice Arup Kumar sent. Chief Justice Johnson has accepted Subsequently, he tested transfer chief justices, Goswami is likely to be the Raghavendra Singh his Indian counterpart had negative on Sunday including those heading Chief Justice of the AP Chauhan has been serving Narendra Modi’s invita- morning, but developed the Telangana, Andhra High Court while Justice as CJ of Telangana High tion to be the chief guest breathing difficulties by Pradesh and Odisha High S. Muralidhar of the Court since June 23, 2019. at the Republic Day evening, the officer said. Courts, sources said. Punjab and Haryana High Justice Hima Kohli Justice Arup Kumar Goswami He has one more year of parade on January 26, IN BRIEF “He was shifted to ICU According to officials of Court will possibly take service before retirement. Downing Street said here and was subsequently the apex court, Justice over as the Chief Justice of Collegium, headed by Justice N.V. Ramana, is on Tuesday, marking his put on a ventilator,” the Hima Kohli, who is cur- the Odisha High Court. Chief Justice of India S.A. expected to meet on ■ Page 2: Justice Chauhan first major bilateral visit Covid tally rises officer mentioned. rently serving as senior The Supreme Court Bobde and including Thursday for finalising may go to Uttarakhand since taking office last — PTI year and the first since in IIT-Madras Britain’s exit from the Chennai: Seventy nine more European Union. “I am people have tested positive MYSTERY | SOLVED Jacket discovery shows strong nexus between slain gangster, police officials absolutely delighted to for coronavirus on the Indian be visiting India next Institute of Technology- year at the start of an Madras campus here, taking exciting year for Global the tally in the institution to Britain, and look for- 183, a senior health official ward to delivering the said on Tuesday. Out of the Nayeem’s bulletproof jacket stolen from cops quantum leap in our 978 samples lifted from the bilateral relationship,” IIT-M since December 1, a VIKRAM SHARMA | DC It now turns out that the ● smuggled and for whom. ended up with hardened criminals to lay said Johnson. — PTI total of 183 people have test- HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 bulletproof jacket found IT WAS no secret that Strangely, as Yoganand Nayeemuddin. Right from their hands on one besides ed positive till date and with slain gangster Nayeem was on the pay- was about to commence the disappearance of vests highlighting the strong results for 25 specimens About a decade ago, when Muhammed Nayeemuddin rolls of the AP police as investigation, the vests to its resurfacing, every nexus between the slain RAJA CHARI TO alone were yet to be about a 100 bulletproof — shot dead by the police he helped them elimi- mysteriously resurfaced at aspect of it is shrouded in gangster and police offi- received. jackets mysteriously “van- in August 2016 — was one nate many naxals and the stores. While the top mystery,” senior officials, cials. LEAD SPACEX ished” from the stores at among those that were he faced multiple brass once again ordered a who were aware of the In response to an RTI North India in the Andhra Pradesh police smuggled out from the AP threats to his life. departmental inquiry into goings-on back then, told query filed by the secre- headquarters (then united State police headquarters how it resurfaced, the this newspaper. tary of Forum for Good TEAM TO ISS AP) in Lakdikapul, the in the year 2010. spread like wildfire, the police had then claimed While it was no secret Governance M Washington, Dec. 15: grip of cold wave incident sent shockwaves Informed sources told then director-general of that the vests had been that Nayeem was on the Padmanabha Reddy, it was NASA and European New Delhi: Cold conditions across the police depart- Deccan Chronicle that it police K. Aravinda Rao moved to a private proper- payrolls of the AP police as revealed that Nayeem had Space Agency (ESA) intensified in parts of north ment. was in September 2010 that ordered an inquiry into the ty from the stores, the rea- he helped them eliminate three AK-47s, nine pistols, have selected three astro- India on Tuesday and dense As the matter reached the nearly 100 vests went miss- matter and entrusted the sons for which remain many naxals and their three revolvers, seven nauts, including Indian- fog engulfed many states as top brass, an inquiry was ing from the stores in the investigation to IPS officer unexplained. Later, two sympathisers, he faced country made guns, one American Raja Chari, as Delhi registered its lowest ordered. Just as the inves- DGP’s office. The issue was T. Yoganand, then posted policemen working in the multiple threats to his life. SBBL 12-bore gun, 616 live crew members for Spa- minimum temperature of the tigation into the matter brought to the notice of the as assistant IG. headquarters had been However, the discovery of rounds besides a bullet- ceX mission to the Inte- season so far while night was about to begin, the higher ups by an employee While the incident took transferred. a bulletproof jacket in proof jacket, 10 gelatin rnational Space Station, temperatures in Kashmir missing bulletproof vests at the stores. the AP police by storm, “The suspicion was that Nayeemuddin’s arsenal sticks, two hand grenades, which is expected to dipped below the freezing resurfaced at the stores — As the news of the vests some police officers are some policemen wanted to did come as a surprise for 30 electric and non electric launch in the autumn of point. as mysteriously as it had going missing from the said to have been aware as sell the vests in the open many police officials as it detonators among other 2021. — Agencies disappeared. state police headquarters to why the vests were market and one of them is rare for gangsters and material. ■ Report on Page 9 CITY DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 16 DECEMBER 2020 pg 2

SHORT TAKES This colony awaits GHMC’s attention TRIBAL STUDENT Dr Sujeeth treated 500 GETS SEAT IN NIT, SEEKS AID Covid-19 cases for free DC CORRESPONDENT All patients under his treatment recovered RAMPUR-B (ADILABAD), DEC. 15 SURESH KAVIRAYANI in shaping up the founda- Adivasi student Sidam | DC tion. Mahesh of Rampur village in HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 The foundation has an interior Sirikonda mandal has advisory board with Dr got admission into the Year 2020 has been the Vasanth, M.V. Bhaskar National Institute of worst, as Coronavirus Rao, former DGP of AP, Technology, Agartala. Though pandemic has taken colos- Justice V. Bhaskar Rao, he has managed to pay the sal human lives. Its treat- retired Justice of AP High admission fee, he still has to ment made thousands Court, P.V. Rao, retired pay his first semester and hos- make payments in lakhs. Income Tax Chief tel fees. But there have also been Commissioner, K.R. Mahesh, who completed his doctors like Dr Sujeeth Venugopal, former secre- Intermediate at Tribal Welfare Kumar, who decided to go tary in Prime Minister’s Residential College, Adilabad, out of the way and treat Office. got 5,843 rank in the JEE people for free during the “They are all my well- mains under ST category. pandemic time. He has wishers and have seen my Though his family has bor- treated nearly 500 Covid Dr Sujeeth Kumar. work. When I approached rowed money from relatives patients. Interestingly, his them, they readily agreed for gaining admission, treatment is over phone, ● to be on the board says Dr Mahesh will require total `6 prescribing medicines INTERESTINGLY, HIS Sujeeth. lakh by the time he completes and asking them to quar- treatment is over phone, Legendary singer S.P. his course in Production antine themselves. All his prescribing medicines and Balasubramanyam did a Engineering. patients became healthy asking them to quarantine special concert for the Recently, his mother Sidam and Dr Sujeeth came to be themselves. All his foundation. “One of the Laxmi Bai, who works as an known as the best Covid patients became healthy associates of Balu garu is agricultural labour, bought specialist in Hyderabad. and Dr Sujeeth came to be known to me and I treated him a cell phone for online “This pandemic has known as the best Covid him. He requested him to classes by taking a loan from a been unexpected. Initially, specialist in Hyderabad. do a concert. The singer is local farmer with an agree- Civic authorities have not cleared the inundation at Umamaheshwai Colony, Kompally, even after months causing a Covid patient called me. down-to-earth and the ment that she will pick cotton serious health hazards and inconvenience to the residents living in the area. The stench emanating from the stag- I told him I will not charge concert helped us buy two in the latter’s field till she nant water has also become unbearable. — S. SURENDER REDDY any fee but treat him with becomes healthy, that’s equipments for the foun- clears the loan amount medicines while he the best fee”, he says. dation,” he stated. through her wages. remains under home Some retired bureaucrats, Every day, Dr Sujeeth Apart from Mahesh, six quarantine. He fully IPS officers and former comes to the clinic in the other Adivasi students, includ- recovered and passed on IAS officers are Dr evening and gives free ing a girl, have got admission information to others,” Sujeeth’s patients. service. “My ultimate goal into the NIT institutions and the doctor recalls as to In the initial days, after is to build a hospital with central universities this year. how it all started. seeing his work, one of patients being charged a But all of them are struggling Who will be vaccinated Born and brought up in his patients decided to lesser amount like `5,000 to pay their fee. Nizamabad, Dr Sujeeth help the doctor in a bigger for anything like bypass Families of these students completed his schooling way and suggested start- or a prolapse surgery. I have appealed to the state gov- in that city, Intermediate ing of Sujeeth have this vision in my ernment to come to the rescue in Hyderabad and MBBS Foundation. “It happened mind.” of Adivasi students, so that first and how, mull docs from MRM College at two-and-a-half years ago. The doctor says he is they can successfully complete Gulbarga in Karnataka. A friend of a friend told now treating Covid their courses from the presti- Later, he specialised in me he wanted to help. The patients who are in the gious institutions and bring KANIZA GARARI | DC 1. Vaccine is the data analysis of phase laparoscopic surgeries in next day he came up with second wave. But it is not laurels to Telangana state. HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 voluntary and not III human trials of both Kerala, Coimbatore, Delhi a logo with letters SF and severe. If one adheres to a Mahesh’s father Sidam compulsory. Covaxin and Covisheild and Gurgaon. a name below saying healthy regimen, they can Prabhu said they had met The Covid-19 vaccine will be assessed.” He is a patient-friendly Sujeeth Foundation. I survive any virus attack. Bhavesh Mishra, project offi- preparatory inputs from 2. Those who do Experts state that the doctor and has never would not have thought of He also does free surgi- cer of ITDA, Utnoor, seeking the State and Central not want to be preparedness on the lines given importance to this on my own,” he says. cal consultations every financial help. But Prabhu health ministries have vaccinated cannot of pulse polio vaccine is money. “If the patient Many patients and their Thursday at a clinic run said the officer told them that created a buzz and also be pulled up for being wrongly interpreted recovers fully and friends helped the doctor by a religious trust. ITDA had no funds. confusion across the not taking it. that the programme will Both father and son are in healthcare industry. 3. Government is presently training its health start immediately. The pensive mood after meeting With emergency service officials and gearing up machinery to meet the preparedness is to assure the project officer. They are personnel like municipal requirements. that once the government C-SECTION, HEART now looking for a helping workers, police and 4. Emergency service personnel are also approves a vaccine, imple- hand from civil society, philan- healthcare officials among mentation would be TS reports 491 thropists and state govern- the first to be adminis- adopting a wait and watch policy. smooth, although there VALVE REPAIR ment. tered the vaccine, ques- 5. Human trial results will decide which will be a time gap between Philanthropists may contact tions are being raised vaccine is to be used. the two. According to DONE TOGETHER them on phone 8688638684 or about their emergency sources, it was found dur- new Covid cases deposit their contribution in use. ing human trials that pain DC CORRESPONDENT account number 62444417621, What about those who Dr Vijay Yewale from being trained about the and mild fever were the DC CORRESPONDENT ● GREATER HYDERABAD HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 SBI, Utnoor (IFC code No: have recovered after test- Indian Academy of scientific questions that reactions after the first HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 Municipal Corporation SBHY0020133). Pediatrics says “Those will crop up and need dose of the vaccine. ing positive? Should they limits have the largest Heart valve repair has ● wait or opt for the vac- who have recovered from answers while emergency Experts are firm that a Telangana has recorded been carried out along FAMILIES OF these stu- cine? What about an Covid-19 will be the last in ‘volunteers’ are seeking person who is vaccinated 491 new Coronavirus number of 102 cases. The with C-section in a 22- dents have appealed to the asymptomatic carrier? the vaccination list as safety, efficacy and about cannot roam around cases, apart from three corporation has been con- year-old patient at state government to come to What about informed con- they already have antibod- symptoms of side effects. freely? Once vaccinated deaths. With this, the sistently reporting the Medicover Hospitals in the rescue of Adivasi students, sent? Consent is a very ies. The first to be admin- A senior government the protocols of safety total number of active highest number of cases the city. so that they can successfully important part of vaccina- istered will be the most doctor on condition of have to be followed as it is cases is 7,272. Of these, since the beginning of the The patient had suf- complete their courses. tion trials and as the vac- vulnerable and immune anonymity, points out “It not known for how the 5,169 are in institutional pandemic. fered from heart failure, cine will be approved for compromised.” is a government pro- effectiveness would last. care. severe anaemia and low emergency use will con- The vaccine is not com- gramme, which we have to Hence masks, social dis- The total number of ● WITH MOVEMENT and blood pressure due to sent be taken? What must pulsory but the govern- support. Yet we are not tancing and hand washing cases in the state has activity among people unfavourable valve HMA LIFETIME a person do in terms of ment will spread aware- going to jump for the vac- will have to be strictly fol- reached 2,78,599 and total increasing, implementing anatomy. She was a high adverse side effects? What ness about the vaccine cination programme. It lowed even if a person is deaths 1,499. the use of face masks, risk case for labour dur- AWARD FOR if the person is vaccinated being a protective cover. will be a wait and watch vaccinated, caution Greater Hyderabad hand washing and social ing the birthing process. and still gets infected? Healthcare workers are policy. First and foremost experts. Municipal Corporation distancing has become a Following this, gynae- SHYAM MOHAN limits have the largest cology and cardiology number of 102 cases. The challenge. teams of Medicover DC CORRESPONDENT corporation has been con- distancing has become a opted for a rare simulta- HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 NO CHANGE IN sistently reporting the challenge. neous combined surgery highest number of cases Health officials state of repair and birthing Union minister of state for Registration of non-agri since the beginning of the that these lapses are seri- process. It is a rare deci- home affairs G. Kishan Reddy MEDICAL, DENTAL pandemic. ous and can lead to spread sion taken based on the has conferred the Hyderabad With movement and of Covid-19 again. clinical condition of the Management Association’s TUITION FEE activity among people People have been patient. Lifetime Achievement Award land to be categorised increasing, implementing advised to be cautious Both the child and on entrepreneur Anantula Hyderabad, Dec. 15: In the use of face masks, and follow safety mother have recovered Shyam Mohan, MD, Corporate DC CORRESPONDENT tion minister K.T. Rama required staff will be view of the Covid-19 pan- hand washing and social protocols. after the operation. Communication Systems HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 Rao, home minister appointed in the depart- demic, government has India, for the year 2019. Mahmood Ali and animal ment. agreed to preserve the At the 47th HMA Annual The state government has husbandry minister They said that they will current fee structure for Awards function held in the decided to categorise the Talasani Srinivas Yadav hold a workshop on UG medical and dental city, Shyam Mohan, who has non-agriculture land reg- on Tuesday met at the December 17 at the courses in all private Puvvada attended many events served as a past president of istrations as A, B, C and BRKR Bhavan. MCHRD Institute to non-minority medical HMA, was given the honour D groups based on the After the meeting, com- bring DGPA and SPA pro- and dental colleges for From Page 1 ers apart from people dur- intervals after he complet- for his contributions as a pio- demand of area and shift mittee chairman visions in the system the academic year 2020- ing the visit of Minister ed various government neering entrepreneur for over and adjust the staff to Prashanth Reddy and with all stakeholders. 21. The orders were Transport minister for Information programs in Khammam five decades. Hyderabad complete the respirations chief secretary Somesh They said that they have issued on Monday to Puvvada Ajay Kumar Technology and Municipal Corporation, Management Association, a in a timely manner. Kumar talking to media ensured steps to provide uphold the current fee attended as many as 50 Municipal Administ- Raghunathapalem man- 56-year-old organisation with The Cabinet sub-com- reporters said that all the unique identification structure at private med- programmes in ration and Urban dal and other assembly presence in Telangana and AP, mittee on non-agricul- teething problems cur- numbers to each property ical and dental colleges. Khammam and Bhadradri Development K.T. Rama segments in Khammam provides a platform for profes- ture properties consist- rently facing during reg- as desired by Chief For the entire course, districts for the last one Rao. About 11 projects and Bhadradri- sionals, academia and man- ing roads and buildings istrations will sort out in Minister K. students would pay the and a half months. were inaugurated on Kothagudem districts. He agement students to stay minister Vemula next few days. Chandrashekar Rao not same tuition fee as they He met several December 7. shares the Covid-19 test abreast of contemporary man- Prashanth Reddy, IT and They said that within to give any scope for tam- did during the admission Telangana Rashtra Samiti Ajay Kumar goes for result with the media agement practices. municipal administra- three months all the pering. period. — INN (TRS) activists and lead- RTPCR test at regular persons. JUSTICE Projects planned to counter newly-elected BJP corporators CHAUHAN MAY ACTION | MODE Agro seva centres to GO TO U’KHAND From Page 1 GHMC to start SNDP immediately check middlemen Chief Justice Raghavendra DC CORRESPONDENT ● A 6-KM stretch of nala ● THE MD said that the Singh Chauhan of Telangana MADDY DEEKSHITH | DC stations out of total 17. HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 corporation has already High Court is expected to be HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 They have decided to add in Rampally will be transferred as Chief Justice of another 650 garbage sta- widened before dissolu- To curb monopoly by pri- held discussions with Uttarakhand or another High The current Greater tions with enhanced tion of the current GHMC vate traders in seeds and branded companies for Court. If Justice Hima Kohli Hyderabad Municipal capacity, apart from 150 council. TRS corporators, fertilizers, the state gov- supplying their products comes in as CJ of Telangana Corporation (GHMC) Swachh auto tippers. along with GHMC offi- ernment has decided to in bulk. High Court, she will be the council has decided to According to ruling cials, have convinced strengthen Agro seva cen- first woman Chief Justice. kick start new projects party sources, the GHMC about 300 families who tres by providing finan- they could supply seeds Justice Hima Kohli belongs to during its ongoing tenure council will meet in cial support to them for and fertilisers to farmers Delhi and practiced as an itself, as they might not January to introduce the have encroached upon supply of seeds and fertil- and thereby curtail inter- advocate in Delhi High Court. have any opportunity once civic body's budget. Prior nalas to rehabilitate them izers in order to reduce ference by private On May 29, 2006, she was the newly elected council to the council meeting, the in the 6,240 double bed- the burden on farmers. traders. He said that the appointed as Additional Judge takes over. standing committee will Against this backdrop, Nala widening works room houses constructed As on date, the govern- bankers were keen on of the Delhi High Court and To counter BJP corpora- keep meeting every TRS has decided to forth- will be taken up later in all in Rampally. ment has set up 800 such extending loans to man- took oath as permanent Judge tors in the newly elected Thursday to pass resolu- with embark on the SNDP other flood-affected areas centres. dal level agro centres. on August 29, 2007. She is the council, the current coun- tions pertaining to all project. A six-kilometre including Charminar and utilised to lift garbage The Telangana State The MD said that the senior-most Judge of the Delhi cil, with TRS corporators pending developmental stretch of nala in L. B. Nagar. from commercial areas in Agro Industries corporation has already High Court. in majority, has decided to works unanimously, since Rampally will be widened The corporation has the city by replacing the Development Corpo- held discussions with Justice Arup Kumar start the vital Strategic they have absolute majori- before dissolution of the already upgraded transfer age-old vehicles. ration Vice-Chairman branded companies like Goswami, who is likely to take Nala Development Plan ty. If opposition BJP mem- current GHMC council. stations located at Officials said GHMC, and Managing Director UPL, Critical Crop, over as the Chief Justice of (SNDP) immediately, bers halt the works, TRS TRS corporators, along Kaithalapur, Sanjeevaiah Hyderabad Road K. Ramulu told Deccan Indofil, National Seeds the Andhra Pradesh High which might otherwise be can blame the saffron with GHMC officials, have Park, Mallapur, Amberpet, Development Corporation Chronicle that they had Company, Cizent Seeds Court, was appointed as the halted by opposition BJP. party. Under the new coun- convinced about 300 fami- Katedan and Limited (HRDCL), and conducted a meeting with and Nuzvid Seeds for sup- Judge of the Gauhati High Since up-gradation of san- cil in future, unanimous lies who have encroached Patancheruvu. other nodal agencies have bankers urging them to plying their products in Court on January 24, 2011. He itation wing has already decisions will not be possi- upon nalas to rehabilitate Some others are still prepared a `250 crore proj- extend financial support bulk, which would be dis- took over as the Chief Justice begun, the corporation ble since many divisions them in the 6,240 double under up-gradation. ect and are awaiting the to the centres by provid- patched by them to farm- of the Sikkim High Court on has already upgraded have been lost by the rul- bedroom houses con- Garbage vehicles with state government's nod to ing a collateral-free loan ers through the Agro October 15, 2019. seven garbage transfer ing party. structed in Rampally. enhanced capacity will be execute it. of up to `15 lakhs so that centres. CITY DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 16 DECEMBER 2020 pg 3

SHORT TAKES GHIAL BAGS Budget schools: Worst hit since lockdown GREEN POWER In absence of any other sources of income, budget school teachers have opted to sell vegetables AWARD HARLEEN MINOCHA | DC keep functioning. ● TO DO their bit to help Out of 200 to 500 students `20 lakh just to pay HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 Financials of each of BACK TO SCHOOL - PART 2 teachers in need, some each in such schools, hard- salaries to teachers. He DC CORRESPONDENT these school correspon- ly even one per cent has said less than four per cent HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 As debate is on in both dents are such that they of these correspondents paid fees. Even if the of parents at his school government and educa- are unable to pay back have lent space in their schools reopen, the situa- have paid fees since last GMR-led Hyderabad Interna- tional circles as well as loans, or pay rent for school buildings for them tion is such that these year. The accumulated tional Airport Limited between parents and accommodations housing to stay. schools would be left with dues in fee are `22 lakh. (GHIAL) has won the CII- schools about reopening of the schools. Deccan no teachers due to lack of To do their bit to help Green Power Performance schools even as Covid pan- Chronicle spoke to five entire process to establish funds for paying salaries, teachers in need, some of Excellence Awards 2020 in the demic is still around, school correspondents of our institution. We pay as said A. Shrikanth Raju, these correspondents have Ground Mounted Solar Deccan Chronicle explores budget schools in Ame- much as elite private principal, Sumedha High lent space in their school category. the readiness of schools in erpet, Yousufguda and schools to get recognition, School in Yousufguda. buildings for them to stay. The award was virtually pre- different segments. In Part Malkajgiri, apart from vis- without being anywhere In absence of any other Pandu Rangaiah Gupta, sented during an event organ- 2 of this three-part series, iting their premises for a close to what they earn sources of income, budget a teacher for nine years, 85 ised by the Renewable Energy we look at budget schools. better understanding of each month. We are strug- school teachers have opted years of age, has been liv- (RE) Council of the Surprisingly, the worst ground reality. gling to even collect last to sell vegetables or open ing in the premises of Confederation of Indian hit amongst all categories These school buildings month’s basic tuition fee up small shops to eke out Wisdom High School due Industry (CII)–Godrej Green of schools are private are nothing less than ghost from our students. The their livelihood and sup- to lack of funds to even Business Centre (GBC) held budget schools in the state. quarters, with piles of expenditure during the port their families. pay rent since February. between December 1 and 4. The At least 2,000 such schools dust on tables and chairs, Damaged furniture stacked up in a budget school in lockdown has been more Sheikh Sayeed Ahmed, Among several of their award was in recognition of have got shut and another buildings in a dilapidated Hyderabad. than our revenue. If this general secretary, Telan- demands, budget schools the initiatives taken by GHIAL 4,000 of total 11,000 budget condition, for which corre- goes on, we will not be able gana Recognised Schools want the government to in generating solar energy in schools are on the verge of spondents are still paying charged as commercial Minimum electricity bill to survive beyond the end Management Association, categorise all private its 5 MW solar plant. closing down. The remain- rent of no less than `1 bills, even without any incurred by these private of the year,” said M. Hyderabad district, and schools on basis of rev- ing, though running, are lakh each month. commercial activity hav- schools is `4,000 per Augustine, principal, correspondent, New Lily enue and change their fighting with their backs Other bills that they are ing been undertaken in month. Wisdom High School in Model School, said he has commercial power bills to COPS SEIZE against the wall to merely supposed to pay are being the last 10 months. “We go through the same Sreeram Nagar. taken loans to the tune of domestic ones. TOBACCO ITEMS WORTH `18 LAKH Electricity official OGH doctor booked for LOOKING FOR DC CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 SOMETHING? The Special Operations Teams arrested for bribery of Malkajgiri Zone conducted harassing Nims medico raids at two places on Tuesday DC CORRESPONDENT We have it and seized `18 lakh worth HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 NAVEEN KUMAR | DC ● A FEW days ago, she said in the com- banned tobacco products from HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 plaint. for you three men. An official from the Dr Sidharth allegedly A few days ago, Dr In the first case, a godown at Jeedimetla electricity The Panjagutta police barged into her room Sidharth allegedly Indiranagar Colony in office was nabbed by the on Tuesday booked a late at night and barged into her room DECCAN Ramanthapur, which was ille- Anti Corruption Bureau criminal case against a confined her inside. late at night and con- gally supplying banned gutka (ACB) officials for resident doctor of Later during midnight, fined her inside. Later CHRONICLE and tobacco products, was demanding and accepting Osmania General during midnight, he cre- raided and the officials a bribe of `8,000 on Hospital for allegedly he created a ated a nuisance outside apprehended Velshetty Sai. Tuesday. stalking and harassing a nuisance outside the the hostel in a drunken Items worth approximately `12 According to the offi- female medico of Nims hostel in a drunken condition. Worried with lakh were seized from him and cials, artisan Tukaram, college. condition. this constant harass- the man was handed over to an official from the elec- According to the ment, and feeling Uppal police for further tricity office, was caught police, Dr Siddarth, a tive groom started threatened to continue investigation. red handed by ACB while resident medical profes- receiving inappropriate her duties, the victim In the second case, `6 lakh accepting a cash amount Tukaram sional at Osmania messages from approached the police. worth banned tobacco of `8,000 at Jeedimetla ● ACCORDING TO the General Hospital, had unknown numbers The Panjagutta police products were seized from a electricity office for doing added the victim, a sec- when my marriage was booked cases against the godown at Hanuman Nagar in an official favour. officials, artisan ond year medico of getting fixed. Though doctor under sections RTC Colony. Police nabbed Md “He had demanded the Tukaram, an official Nims, on Facebook two Sidharth initially 354 (D) (following a Mushtaq, 34, and Md Baba, 24, money to move the file of from the electricity years ago. denied his role in it, but woman and contacts, or who were caught with the con- the complainant for office, was caught red “I accepted the friend later agreed that he and attempting to contact traband on the premises. approval. The man then handed by ACB while request as he was a doc- his friends were behind such woman to The two accused were then lodged a complaint at the accepting a cash tor and we had many the harassment. Since foster personal interac- handed over to Malkajgiri ACB office and the mutual friends,” said then, he has been tion repeatedly despite a police for further investiga- officials laid a trap and amount of `8,000. the victim in her com- continuously stalking clear indication of dis- tion. caught the officer the officials. plaint. “Later when he and harassing me interest by the woman) ● IN THE second case, `6 lakh red-handed. A chemical He was arrested and proposed for marriage, I through calls and mes- and 506 (punishment for test was conducted on his will be produced before rejected politely and we sages. He even made his criminal intimidation) worth banned tobacco products hands to prove his role the Special Judge for ACB continued to be friends. sister call me and con- of the IPC and started were seized from a godown at in the bribe,” said cases. However, my prospec- vince me to marry him,” an investigation. Hanuman Nagar in RTC Colony. YOUTH KILLED, SPEEDING ONE INJURED IN Two tortured NRI VEHICLE KILLS BIKE MISHAP women back home ELDERLY WOMAN DC CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 ATHER MOIN | DC Nagar told DC that she DC CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 was sent to UAE by loc- HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 A 20-year-old was killed and al agent Parwez three his pillion rider sustained Thanks to the efforts of months back with a pr- A 61-year-old woman was injuries in an accident after the Indian Embassy in omise of a monthly sal- killed in a road mishap their bike crashed into a Dubai and a group of ary of `10,000 but she when a speeding goods parked lorry in Narsingi area NRIs, two women, who was given only 300 Dir- vehicle knocked her on Tuesday. were cheated by a local ham while one of the down while she was cros- According to the police, the recruitment agent and employers sent `8,040 sing the road near JNTU deceased was identified as handed over to Arab to her family for her on Monday evening. Ramesh, and the injured was families as domestic entire stay in Dubai. The deceased, identi- identified as Mahender, 18, help, returned to She said in Dubai fied as Subba Ratnamma, both working as daily wage Hyderabad. The other Zubeda, wife of Parwez was residing with her labourers at a construction women, who were also and two other women husband at his brother’s site. conned, will reach soon Salma and Nargis were place at KPHB area, said “On Tuesday morning, as as their visa validity handling the affairs of the police. they were heading out to has expired. placements of persons On Monday evening, purchase construction work Sufiya Begum and sent by Parwez. Ratnamma left her house products from a nearby Yasmeen Begum were Another man, called on foot to buy household shop, Ramesh crashed the bike sent back after authori- ‘Bhaiya’, manages the articles and was crossing into a parked tipper lorry. As ties and social workers syndicate. They used to the main road near they were not wearing rescued 12 Indian send her from one JNTU signal when she helmets, Ramesh sustained women who were house to another as a met with an accident. head injuries and died on the duped by recruitment housemaid. Son of her “While she was crossing spot while Mahender escaped agents in Ajman. employer punched her the road, a speeding Tata with bruises,” said the police, Neeraj Agrawal, Con- face near the eyes. Ace, bearing the number adding that the reason sul for Press, Inform- When she requested TS 08 UA 5152, which was for them to crash into a ation and Culture said the handlers to send heading towards Miy- parked vehicle is being initially Indian Miss- her back to Hyderabad, apur, dashed into her, ascertained. ion was informed abo- Nargis asked her to ful- causing her grave injuri- Ramesh’s body was shifted ut five women who fill the sexual desires of es on her head and limbs. for a post-mortem at Osmania were trapped after be- someone there or sell She was then rushed to a General Hospital and a case ing brought to work in her children, Sufiya private hospital by locals was booked by the Narsingi UAE. “On enquiry, we said. for treatment where the police. found actually 12 wo- Yasmeen Begum said duty doctors declared ● ACCORDING TO the police, men were cheated in she was not paid a sin- her brought dead,” said the name of remunera- gle rupee during her the police. the deceased was identified tive employment. We stay. She was being tor- Based on a complaint as Ramesh, and the injured have provided them tured not only by the from her son-in-law, C. was identified as Mahender, temporary accom- employers but also by Anjan Kumar, a software 18, both working as daily modation and they are handlers. She was ver- professional, a case was wage labourers at a being taken care of.” bally abused by Shafi booked against Md construction site. Sufiya Begum from the agent in Khalil, the driver of the Errakunta, Shaheen Hyderabad. Tata Ace.

2021 | DAMPENER Due to Covid, 33-yr unbroken streak goes for a toss Hyd National Book Fair suspended SANJAY SAMUEL PAUL | DC stalls with no leading pub- stalls are put up in the past nine months, which in HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 lisher wishing to miss out event that starts in the last itself is a great loss. Book on the rare opportunity to week of December and con- launches are good opportu- Book lovers from the city make a killing. tinues into the first three nities for people to interact are set to miss their eagerly Many small and emerging days of January, It is a al- with the author and pub- awaited date dashing all publishers state that sus- most like a festival for liter- lishers. They can discuss their hopes of a fine start to pension of the coming edi- ature freaks. Their spirits, new books and is also an 2021. tion will jolt small time like that of the publishers, occasion for promoting the The 33-year unbroken publishers, printers, trans- are dampened this year.” works. In the initial phase streak of the hugely popu- lators and writers. Kiran Tirupatard, Katha of lockdown, there were lar Hyderabad National Koya Chandra Mohan, Prapancham, Publishers. some orders but due to the Book Fair will be throttled Secretary, Hyderabad Book Tirupati, said “Covid-19 has fear of further spread of as the organisers have Fair, said “The Fair stands adversely impacted sales of the virus, they canceled the decided to do away with the cancelled due to the preva- books and hopes of bud- orders. Small time publish- ensuing event because of lence of Coronavirus. The ding publishers have been ers were forced to either Covid-19 fears. decision was taken keeping crushed. We were hoping to close down their business Considered as South in mind the safety of peo- recover during the or mortgage their jewellery India’s biggest book fair, ple. Lakhs of book lovers Hyderabad Book Fair. Alas, to pay rents and other the ten-day event is a treas- attend the fest each year. In even those hopes are expenses. I am sure the ure trove and one would be fact, even during demoneti- destroyed. “ future generations will talk spoilt for choice consider- zation, we had good sales.” He added, “There has about this as a dark age for ing that there would be 350 He said “More than 350 been no book launch in the Indian literature.” CITY DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 16 DECEMBER 2020 pg 4

SHORT TAKE POLICE WORKED UNESCO CHAIR `4.57L cr tax collected, FOR TRS IN GHMC AT UoH TAPS POLLS: CONGRESS DC CORRESPONDENT COMMUNITY much below target HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 RADIOS Telangana Congress party has accused police officers DC CORRESPONDENT Mumbai tax collection stands at close to `1.40L cr of working for ruling TRS HYDERABAD DEC. 15 in the recently concluded DC CORRESPONDENT 31, 2021. to -30.6 per cent. `10,240.7 crore while the Greater Hyderabad The UNESCO Chair on HYDERABAD DEC. 15 According to the latest Coming down south, IT was `16,970.6 crore. Municipal Corporation Community Media, University figures accessed by the Bengaluru IT region The target set for the (GHMC) elections. of Hyderabad (UoH), conduct- Even as businesses Deccan Chronicle (from fared well as the net col- Hyderabad region alone Party’s election commit- ed a series of online 11 Global across the country are April 1 to December 10), lections stood at `65,281.6 for 2020-21 is a whopping tee convenor Niranjan Dialogues on Community struggling to come out of the net collection from crore as against `64,631.1 `73,809 crore. complained to State Media in the post-pandemic massive losses due to India's financial capital crore recording a growth “Given the conditions Election Commission on world. Covid-19, the overall tax Mumbai stands at close of 1.0 per cent. The cor- since April this year, tax Tuesday against police Community radio (CR) advo- collections for the finan- to `1.40 lakh crore while porate tax collected was collections are good department for harassing cates, practitioners, cial year 2020-21 so far the figure during the `28,116.7 crore and the IT enough. We hope the col- Congress cadre with false researchers and academics stands at around `4.57 same period in the last was `36,609.1 crore. lections will increase cases. Speaking to media, from across the world partici- lakh crore as against financial year was over In fact, Karnataka was within the next couple of he pointed out that TRS pated in the discussion, live- `5.83 lakh crore during `1.76 lakh crore. The among the states which months as businesses leaders from Sircilla had streamed simultaneously on the same period last growth dipped to -20.7 had eased lock down a are getting back on come to campaign in Facebook and YouTube, with financial year. per cent. Of the total col- bit early when compared track,” sources said. Jubilee Hills and an estimated global audience The Central Board of lection, the corporate tax to other states. As for the Chennai IT Rahmathnagar divisions. of around 50,000 people. Direct Taxes (CBDT) had collected was `71,120.8 In the Hyderabad IT region, the net collection Congress party corporator The UoH conducted the dia- set a target of `13.19 lakh crore, the IT was region, which comprises was `29,080.9 crore as candidate Bhavani logue series between June and crore for the IT depart- `57,063.4 crore. both Telangana state and against `41,760.7 crores Shankar and his followers November with the participa- ment for the financial In the Delhi IT region, Andhra Pradesh, the net the previous year. The caught these TRS leaders tion of representatives of com- year 2020-21. But the col- the net collection stands collection was `27,561.3 growth rate took a hit at - while they were distribut- munity media from South and lections so far indicates at `60,436.2 crore while crore as against `32,967.6 30.4 per cent. The corpo- ing money and liquor. Southeast Asia, the Pacific that the taxmen may be the figures last financial crore. The growth rate rate tax collected was and Australia, South and Latin far from achieving the year was `87,142.8 crore. dipped to -16.4 per cent. `12,878.2 crores and the America, Africa, United desired target by March The growth went down The corporate tax was IT was `16,207.3 crores. IN LOVING MEMORY OF Kingdom and Continental OUR BROTHER Europe. Besides the Global REGION NET COLLECTION PREVIOUS YEAR GROWTH Dialogues, a five-day online master training classes on Lucknow `5,418.3 cr `6,845.3 cr -20.8 per cent social media broadcasting for community radios in Jaipur ` 8,091.7 cr `9,172.9 cr -11.8 per cent Bangladesh was also conduct- ed on Tuesday. The capacity building workshop, led by Bhubaneshwar `4,930.1cr `6,259.6 cr -21.2 per cent Prof. Vasuki Belavadi, a facul- ty fellow at the Chair, aimed at building capacities of commu- Pune `24,505.6 cr `33,161.5 cr -26.1 per cent nity radio stations in using social media to increase com- munity engagement and sup- Ahmedabad `20,113.9 cr `29,111.6 cr -30.9 per cent V.J. BOBBY MADISON Inserted by: 1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY plement their daily broad- Brother: ROOP VICTOR MADISON “His greatness is beyond understanding, Sisters: PADMAJA, what you have done will be praised from casts. Patna `5,578.4 cr `6,554.5 cr -14.9 per cent generation to the next.” Psalm 145:3, 4 The workshop trained com- VANDANA AND PRISCILLA munity radio stations on using mobile and online tools and Kolkata `16,950.5 cr `23,660.4 cr -28.4 per cent implementing effective tech- niques for creating engaging social media content. It also focused on the best practices of other CR stations and ethical practices on using social media. NCRB adopting new tech: Kishan Late G.T. SURYAKANTHA RAO DOB: 18-11-1946 DOD: 16-12-2019 “As part of its outreach man- Your life was a blessing, your memory a date, the Chair conducted the NAVEEN KUMAR | DC law enforcement opera- treasure, you are loved beyond words online dialogues involving HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 tion. This has led to the and missed beyond measure. representatives from across genesis of the project of Memorial Service at 11.30 am on 16-12-2020 at CSI Wesley Church, the world and deliberated on Union minister of state CCTNS,” he added. Clock Tower. the ground-work that is being for home affairs G. “This about ?2000-crore Inserted by: Mary Dayasheela (Wife), done by community radios in Kishan Reddy said the mission-mode project Richard and Jyothsna (Gunukula), Beulah and Prashanth (Ravula), those countries and also to integrated database con- has revolutionised inves- Prathiba and Rajesh (Nagpal) and understand how they are cop- cepts such as Crime and tigation and policing Grand Children ing with the current situa- Criminal Tracking with its massive reach Kindly treat this as a personal invitation tion,” said Chair holder Prof. Network and Systems and connectivity. It has (S/2021/D00948) Vinod Pavarala. (CCTNS)/Interoperable managed to connect the The Chair plans to tran- Criminal Justice System police stations and other scribe all the dialogues and offices, even in the most 3rd DEATH ANNIVERSARY 3rd DEATH ANNIVERSARY (ICJS) have become The memory of the righteous is blessed. The memory of the righteous is blessed. publish the text as an impor- indispensable to realise far-flung areas,” he Prov. 10:7 Prov. 10:7 tant resource for the sector the dream of New India. pointed out. with the support of UNESCO. Reddy was addressing The CCTNS that linked the inaugural session of all police stations in the the second two-day con- country was started in 26.5 PER CENT ference on ‘Good 2009. Out of the total Practices in Crime and 16,098 police stations in WOMEN IN TS Criminal Tracking compendium. It will between the law enforce- the country, the CCTNS Network & Systems prove to be a treasure of ment and judicial sys- software was being used USE INTERNET (CCTNS)/ Interoperable ideas for the law enforce- tems. in over 95 percent of Criminal Justice System ment officers and ensure “The operational effi- them, connectivity was New Delhi, Dec. 15: Over 60 (ICJS)' through video- that states can learn ciency of the criminal available at 97 percent per cent women in 12 states conferencing on from each other. The justice system, without police stations and 93 and union territories have Tuesday. policing concept was doubt, ICJS is a force percent were entering Mrs. DOROTHY GEORGE CHINNAPPA never used the internet, the “Under the Prime extensively used in multiplier in this data 100 percentFIRs through W/o Late George Chinnappa Mrs. ESTHER PAKIADAS latest National Family Health Minister Narendra ancient India and it's not driven world. It is a real- the CCTNS. 31-07-1924 - 16-12-2017 W/o Late Darling Pakiadas Inserted by: Children, Grand Children, 09-01-1934 - 16-12-2017 Survey has revealed. Modi’s leadership, the new to us. A Harappan ity that crime does not “I hope that NCRB will and Great Grand Children Inserted by: Children, Grand Children The survey covered 22 states government has used co- seal showing the figure follow jurisdictional keep on doing its good Ph: 9848057610 and Great Grand Children and UTs in the country. operative federalism as a of a man holding a stick boundaries. Hence, our work and help Police The states and UTs where guiding mantra. States portrayed as 'Dandadhar' response to crime should Organizations in less than 40 per cent women work together, learn is perhaps the first picto- also not be restricted by States/UTs and at the SHRADHANJALI 1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY have used the internet are together, and propel each rial representation of a boundaries. Immediate Centre in effective imple- Andhra Pradesh (21 per cent), other forward. In this ‘Policeman’,” he said. recording of crime and mentation of these Assam (28.2 per cent), Bihar regard, I would like to Reddy said the ICJS the access of the infor- important e-governance (20.6 per cent), Gujarat (30.8 commend NCRB for put- takes data sharing to a mation to all stakehold- projects of Government per cent), Karnataka (35 per ting together best prac- higher level and ensures ers is undoubtedly a key of India,” Mr Reddy con- cent), Maharashtra (38 per tices in the form of a a single source of truth aspect of any effective cluded. cent), Meghalaya (34.7 per cent), Telangana (26.5 per cent), Tripura (22.9 per cent), West Bengal (25.5 per cent), ARMY MAN, CAR Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (36.7 per cent) New corporator in a row DRIVER DROWN OUR BELOVED Sri BALIRAM SARODE and Andaman & Nicobar (Retd. Rly. Engineer) Islands (34.8 per cent), the sur- DC CORRESPONDENT alleged offenders. their building. Dr. M. VERENDER KUMAR General Physician and Diabetologist DOB: 10-08-1939 DOD: 15-12-2019 vey revealed. In comparison, HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 Meanwhile, a complaint Meanwhile, N. IN GODAVARI DOD: 6th Dec. 2020 WE MISS U A LOT DADA more percentage of men have was also filed against Ramaraju, 33, also You will always remain in our hearts forever. 1st Death Anniversary will be held MANDA SURYA PRAKASH, on 16th Dec. 2020 at H.No. 10-48/1, used the internet. Tension prevailed in the building president approached the police Hyderabad, Dec. 15: MANDA VISHNU MOHAN P.V.N. Colony, Mirjalguda, Malkajgiri, Hyd. About 50 per cent men have Srinivasa Heights of alleging harassment and stated that since the An army jawan and a L. CHIMAN LAL & CO., Gowliguda, Hyd Inserted by: WIFE & SARODE FAMILY MEMBERS used the internet in seven Chilkanagar area when and caste-shaming. past few days, some of friend of his who went (B/2021/D00093) states — AP (48.8 per cent), residents were allegedly According to R. the flat owners, includ- for a swim in the (S/2021/D00938) Assam (42.3 per cent), Bihar manhandled by TRS cor- Ramakrishna Gupta, ing Ramakrishna, Godavari River IN LOVING MEMORY IN LOVING MEMORY (43.6 per cent), Meghalaya (42.1 porator Bannala Geeta’s the committee presi- Harinath and Chowdary, drowned, while three of 4th DEATH ANNIVERSARY per cent), Tripura (45.7 per husband and as many as dent, on Sunday night were insulting him in his friends managed to I am the resurrection & the life - cent), West Bengal (46.7 per 30 men who trespassed around 11 pm, one the name of his caste swim ashore near the Jesus said - John 11:25 cent), Andaman & Nicobar into the building late Ramaraju and his father and on Sunday night Kothapalli Mandal vil- Islands (46.5 per cent), accord- Sunday night. who are residing in the about 6.30 pm, they dis- lage of Errayipet, police ing to the data. According to The building commit- same apartment along connected the power said. One of the bodies the survey, AP (68.6 per cent), tee president lodged a with Bannala Praveen supply to his flat. “He was fished out on Bihar (57.8 per cent) and complaint with the Kumar, the husband of also claimed that he was Tuesday while the inci- Dr. J. SAKUNTALA SHARMA Telangana (66.6 per cent) Uppal police who Chilkanagar corporator threatened and that his dent took place on DOB: 15-07-1940 DOD: 16-12-2017 accounted for the lowest litera- booked cases of crimi- Bannala Geeta, along family were abused in Monday. There's a quest “It has been three years since you left us and attained eternal bliss leaving behind cy rates among women. — PTI nal trespass among with about 30 members, the name of their caste,” to find the other body. fond and everlasting happy memories of our other charges against trespassed into the said added the police. Police said the dead journey with you. We continue to feel your presence around us every moment and were named as cherish your love and affection in our hearts. Gundamedi Raj Kumar With fond memories: Husband - J.V. SHARMA (25), an Indian Army Son: VINOD, Daughter: VYJAYANTI T. VIJAYA PAUL NEW | FINDINGS Associate Prof. of UoH leads team of researchers jawan, and Bandi Daughter-in-law: STEPHANIE, DOB: 13.09.1952 - DOD: 16.12.2016 Son-in-law: RAMESH We remember you each moment Prashanth (24), a car Grand Children: Rohan, Mitali & Aneesh and Associates in Reiki, with utmost love in our hearts. driver. — INN Eckankar and Art of Living Wife, Sons & Family Members. 26th DEATH ANNIVERSARY 11th DEATH ANNIVERSARY 15th ANNIVERSARY Chemical in soaps affects genes The memory of the righteous is a He who believes in me has everlasting life. blessing. Proverbs 10:7 HARLEEN MINOCHA | DC Kingdom. The study unwanted microorganisms. said, “Our team of John 6:47 HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 revealed that triclosan in It is now being used even in researchers investigated minute amounts not only kitchenware and clothes. the effects of triclosan on In its latest study, a team led affects genes and enzymes Triclosan may be tolerated the nervous system in by Dr Anamika Bhargava, in human body, but can also by humans but its use in developing zebra fish associate professor at damage neurons. products of daily use poses embryos. Zebra fish is an Department of It said triclosan, even at a big risk to humans in the animal equivalent of Biotechnology, IIT amounts 500 times lower long term, the IIT-H report humans. Hyderabad, has determined than the permissible limit, said. “Its results can well be the neurotoxic nature of can cause potent neurotox- Recently, the Food and extrapolated to humans. triclosan, an antimicrobial ic effects. Drug Administration Overall, triclosan can affect chemical used in soaps and Triclosan is frequently (FDA) reviewed evidence the motor function of an Late Sri SOLETI YESHWANT RAO Rev. G.S. CHRISTOPHER dental care products. added to consumer prod- against triclosan and organism.” You are the guiding light of our lives. DOB: 10.1.1950 DOD: 16.12.2005 The team’s research find- ucts available in India and imposed a partial ban on its The study suggests exer- Always in our heart, every time in our Missed and fondly remembered by: use. However, India lacks cise of caution in use of tri- thoughts. ings have figured in worldwide, such as soap, Mr. M.A. MAJID Inserted by: Wife, Daughters, Chemosphere, a leading toothpaste and deodorants, any such regulation so far. closan-based products or DOD: 16-12-2009 Smt. Suvarnalatha Yeshwant Rao & Son, Daughter-in-Law, high-impact scientific jour- to increase their shelf life Talking about the study, even an altogether ban on it WE MISS YOU FAMILY MEMBERS Grand Children & Dear Ones Inserted by: FAMILY MEMBERS nal published in the United and check growth of Dr Anamika Bhargava in India. (S/2021/D00950) (S/2021/D00956) CITY/AP DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 16 DECEMBER 2020 pg 5 SHORT BRIEF AP CJ likely to be NETA’S NATTER LORRY MOWS Why KCR prefers Delhi visits DOWN FIVE urprising as it may sound, Sometime ago, he went to Delhi STelangana state CM K. Chan- to avail treatment for his eye. ON NH 40 shifted to Sikkim drashekar Rao is inadvertently His critics, however, dismiss denting Hyderabad’s image as the the health reasons cited by the DC CORRESPONDENT healthcare capital of the country. CM camp and are busy spreading KURNOOL, DEC. 15 Judiciary, executive were on a collision path At a time when people from across rumours that the objective of the the globe are landing in the state trip is to restore cordial ties with In a tragic incident, five peo- N. VAMSI SRINIVAS | DC ● THE TRANSFER of Congress flag colours on capital for treatment in top-grade the top leadership of the BJP after ple, including four children, VIJAYAWADA, DEC. 15 Justice Maheshwari came village secretariat build- hospitals and the same is high- picking up a bitter fight with it for were killed and eleven others ings and scrapping of lighted by the city’s brand ambas- GHMC polls. Some even say his sustained injuries when a Andhra Pradesh Chief a month after CM Y.S. state order making sador and minister K.T. Rama Rao, trips are related to the affairs of mini lorry mowed them down Justice J.K. Maheshwari Jagan Mohan Reddy com- English medium manda- his father went to the departments he handled as a on National Highway-40 at is likely to be shifted to plained to the Centre tory in government New Delhi for minister in the UPA-1 Cabinet. Yerraguntla village near Sikkim High Court. against the former and a schools. dental treatment. More officers Sirivelu in Nandyal division. The new Chief Justice few other judges besides The High Court had Around 20 to 30 persons were will be appointed by the writing a letter to Sup- also set aside the appoint- for AP Bhavan going to attend a candle serv- President in a few days. reme Court Chief Justice ment of new State ice at a church at 5 am on According to sources, S.A. Bobde and releasing Election Commissioner in here is another list — spe- Tuesday. Sikkim High Court Chief the same to media. place of N. Ramesh Tcial officers for AP Bhavan Police said the deceased were Justice Arup Kumar Kumar and reinstated in New Delhi — that is getting U. Jhansi, 15, Dasari Goswami was actively ● THE HIGH COURT had the latter. The govern- longer by the day. Anil Kumar Sushmita, 14, Saigalla Vamsi, considered for the AP also set aside the ment took exception to the Singhal, who finished his stint 12, Dasari Harsha Vardhan, 8 High Court while Madhya appointment of new State Chief Justice making with the TTD and joined the and Thota Suvarna, 42. Pradesh High Court act- Election Commissioner in certain comments on health department, has been The injured were rushed to ing Chief Justice Sanjay shifting of capital and made special commissioner at the government hospitals in Yadav’s name also place of N. Ramesh stalling the process AP Bhavan. Already in exis- Nandyal and Kurnool. While cropped up. Kumar and reinstated the besides ordering CBI tence are principal resident three people died on the spot, The transfer of Justice latter. probe in a case involving commissioner Abhay Tripathi, two others succumbed in the Maheshwari came a Dr Sudhakar, who created resident commissioner Bhava- hospital, said Sirivella sub month after Chief leadership at the a ruckus in na Saxena, special commission- Inspector Chandrababu. A Minister Y.S. Jagan Centre informed the Chief Visakhapatnam in an ine- er N.V. Ramana Reddy and spe- case of death due to negli- Mohan Reddy complained Minister of the develop- briated condition after he AP has overcrowded finance dept cial commissioner Gopala Kri- gence has been registered. to the Centre against the ments following which he was suspended from he jumbo-sized AP finance department has yet another addition in the form shna Dwivedi, who also holds Allagadda DSP Rajendra said former and a few other rushed to New Delhi to service. Tof senior bureaucrat N. Gulzar. It already has three IAS officers — princi- post of principal secretary of that an Eicher vehicle was judges besides writing a meet Union home minis- The tussle reached a pal secretary S.S. Rawat, secretaries K. Sunitha and Satyanarayana and direc- panchayat raj. The rationale coming from Hyderabad to letter to Supreme Court ter Amit Shah. flashpoint with Justice tor Karthikeya Mishra — besides a host of advisers, including Subash Garg, offered by the government for Mydukuru. The vehicle’s Chief Justice S.A. Bobde The judiciary and execu- Maheshwari suspending who turned a bitter critic of the Modi administration after he took voluntary Singhal and Dwivedi’s postings headlights were not working and releasing the same to tive in the state were on a probe into Amaravati land retirement from IAS. It is known that AP is one of the states caught in an acute is that they would be pursuing and the driver was in a sleepy media. collision path in the last scam and issuing gag economic situation wherein a majority of funds goes for the Chief Minister’s state matters in the national condition, he said. The vehicle Sources said the one year. It all started order on media to not welfare initiatives leaving no money for any other purposes. It is becoming capital but in reality, the tag is rammed through the people Supreme Court Collegium with a few judgments report case details involv- increasingly difficult to arrange funds even for welfare schemes forcing the to facilitate their trips to Delhi who were waiting on the left which met on Monday given by the Chief Justice ing former Advocate- finance managers to borrow left, right and centre. But before Gulzar breaks his to spend some time with their side of the road. decided to transfer the and other judges includ- General Dammalapati head on finding resources and their judicious spending, he may have to first family and retain official incumbent and the top ing the removal of YSR Srinivas. find office space in the overcrowded department building. accommodation there. GOVT URGES JUDGE TO RECUSE FROM ‘MISSION BUILD AP’ Jagan releases DC CORRESPONDENT VIJAYAWADA, DEC. 15 free insurance The state government on Tuesday urged High Court Judge Justice Rakesh Kumar to recuse himself from hearing a for farmers batch of petitions filed chal- lenging its move to sell govern- DC CORRESPONDENT mium, while the farm- ment assets under ‘Mission VIJAYAWADA, DEC. 15 ers had paid about `290 Build AP’ stating that it may crore. He further stated not get justice. Chief Minister Y.S. that while only about The state government filed an Jagan Mohan Reddy on 20 lakh farmers were affidavit in the High Court Tuesday launched enrolled for insurance expressing concern that if ‘YSR Free Crop cover during the Justice Kumar continues in the Insurance’ scheme and Telugu Desam regime, division bench hearing the directly credited an now about 49.80 lakh petitions on Mission AP Build overall amount of farmers have been programme, there was a `1,252 crore into the brought under insur- chance that the Judge might bank accounts of 9.48 ance cover, where the behave in a partial manner lakh farmers, who had State government is resulting in deprivation of lost their crop in 2019. paying `971 crore justice. Speaking on the occa- towards premium dur- Referring to the adverse sion, he said that the ing 2019-20. remarks made by the Judge, government has taken He elaborated “In the state government said that up the responsibility of 2016-17, only 17.79 lakh the Judge was coming up with supporting farmers farmers had insurance a predetermined decision even during their hard cover. In 2017-18, 18.22 before completion of the hear- times and therefore lakh farmers and in ing in the case and added that had introduced a free 2018-19, around 24.83 it was the responsibility of the crop insurance lakh farmers were bro- court to decide whether the scheme, without levy- ught under it. During state government was having ing any burden of pre- our tenure, about 49.80 the authority to sell away its mium on farmers. lakh farmers were bro- assets which were not in use Reddy said, “Earlier ught under insurance and also encroached through for availing insurance cover, under which auction. scheme, farmers had to 45.96 lakh hectares of The government further said pay his share, while land was covered with that once the High Court could both State and Central insurance. Following take up hearing in the case and governments would the Nivar Cyclone, crop pronounce its verdict on it, pay an even share of loss enumeration was those who were having objecti- premium amount. done and the details on to such verdict could ap- However, neither the will be displayed at proach a constitutional forum. State nor the Centre Rythu Bharosa Ken- Referring to the Justice used to pursue the dras (RBKs) along with Kumar’s remarks about break- insurance claims village secretariats and down of Constitution in the resulting in the farm- compensation would state, the state government ers either receiving the be paid by December stated that such remarks were maturity amount after 31.” unwarranted and opined that a long time or end up The Chief Minister the Judge crossed the losing the insurance. said that the govern- ‘Lakshman Rekha”. In order to resolve this, ment has been working The state government in its the government has to safeguard the inter- affidavit mentioned that sever- taken up the issue to ests of the farmers and al institutions working within benefit farmers and thus established 10641 the ambit of the Constitution, process the claims in a RBKs integrating with were to maintain self-control fast-track mode, village secretariats to and cautioned that if they besides paying the benefit the farmers. intended to tread into the juris- entire premium on Taking transparency diction of others, it could lead behalf of farmers. in governance to the to a constitutional crisis. The Chief Minister next level, the state AP Mission Build pro- stated that between government brought e- gramme director Praveen 2016 and 2019, the pre- cropping, where all Kumar filed the affidavit on vious government had details of the crops will behalf of the state government spent an average of be uploaded to the e- in the High Court. `393 crore per annum crop database, includ- towards insurance pre- ing the crop loss data. AP CM seeks Central notice for HC relocation DC CORRESPONDENT further wanted reimburse- tive capital, Amaravati the VIJAYAWADA, DEC. 15 ment of land acquisition legislative capital and Ku- costs and rehabilitation rnool the judicial capital.” Andhra Pradesh Chief works as per the 2013 Land The CM thus wanted the Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Acquisition Act for centre to start the process of Reddy on Tuesday met Polavaram project. He stat- relocating the High Court to Union home minister Amit ed that the centre is yet to Kurnool and issue of notifi- Shah and will be meeting reimburse `1,779 crore cation for the same. CM Prime Minister Narendra spent by the AP govern- Jagan also sought adequate Modi and other ministers ment in construction of flood relief for families on Wednesday Polavaram. affected by the Cyclone The AP CM is in Delhi to Jagan Mohan Reddy stat- Nivar. pursue various matters per- ed that bills from December Explaining the manner in taining to the state with dif- 2018 are pending and any which poor people are being ferent Union ministers and delay in construction of the assisted through various the Prime Minister. project will further schemes during the most The Chief Minister increase the project cost. He critical period of Covid-19, broached the Polavaram sought appropriate assis- CM Jagan underlined that issue and submitted a mem- tance in completing the state government is orandum to Amit Shah. He Polavaram expeditiously. ready in all respects for dis- requested for approval of CM Jagan said, “We have tributing Corona vaccine in `55,656 crore for Polavaram planned to decentralise the order of priority as soon as project as per Second capital as part of integrated it became available. The Revised Cost Estimate and development of AP state. state is ready for setting up sought directions to central We have enacted legislation and maintaining the most water and finance min- in August making crucial cold chains in sup- istries in this regard. He Visakhapatnam the execu- ply of the vaccine. EDIT DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 16 DECEMBER 2020 pg 6

16 DECEMBER 2020 Biden affirmation is a win for US democracy Subhani he Electoral College’s formal affirmation of Joe Biden’s victory was only a ritual. If it assumes the contours of a milestone in US election history, the blame should go to the outgoing President Donald Trump’s Tattempts to subvert the democratic process. “It is the rule of law, the Constitution and the will of the people” that prevails, as the victor, Mr Biden, put it in a gracious speech in which he said realistically, “Now it is time to turn the page.” The proof of the durability of the US political system, which is an important template for democracies, represents a significant moment for all of the free world. In the six weeks since November 3 in which Mr Trump and his sup- porters tried every bizarre trick in their subversive playbook to overturn a clear popular verdict in which Mr Biden not only got 306 of 538 Electoral College votes but also trounced Mr Trump — one of five Presidents to win the White House without a popular mandate — by over seven million votes. The members of the Electoral College were only upholding the brief given to them in a democratic process but what the The proof of the Supreme Court did in throwing out every chal- lenge to the election is truly heroic. As many as 86 durability of the US judges, many of them either nominees of Mr LETTERS political system, Trump or the Republican Party, displayed scorn which is an or contempt for lawsuits that were part of legal Language row led to a NO NUMAISH important template manoeuvres backed by as many as 17 attorneys- It will be a disappointing for democracies, general of states and 126 members of Congress. The court made legal history in its unanimity year in Hyderabad (Sorry represents a after having seen through the subterfuge of trying folks! No numaish this significant moment to throw out 20 million legitimately cast ballots. year, DC, Dec. 15). When for all of the free This is a grand lesson in how the integrity of a jus- new nation 49 yrs ago world tice system can be preserved only by the honesty the government has of judges who resist the temptation to reflect any lead you is really the speech at Dacca allowed shopping malls, gratitude they may feel towards those who nomi- enemy of Pakistan… Every University’s convocation parks and cinema halls to nated them, or their own ideological leanings. Their firm rulings helped sus- Mussalman should come March 24, 1948 had a kinet- tain the reputation of a great institution. Abhijit under the banner of the ic effect. “There can be only open, then why not this? The catastrophic Trump presidency may not have fulfilled the worst scenar- Muslim League, which is one state language… and In lockdown, lower middle ios of a crazed authoritarian let loose in the White House but the visible dam- Bhattacharyya the true custodian of that language in my opin- class people are suffering age it has caused to a precious democratic process like free and fair elections Pakistan”. It was a warn- ion can only be Urdu”. will take a long time to mend. What Mr Trump did in repeatedly questioning ing-cum-threat to the Dhaka was instantly due to extreme financial the legitimacy of the presidential polls, considered the fairest in many qua- Bengali language of “unit- rocked by student agita- stress. This exhibition pro- drennials, is to corrode social trust in a vibrant democracy. In exploiting polit- ed” Pakistan. Jinnah mis- tions: the pent-up feelings vided work to people in ical divisions, Mr Trump had split a nation with his web of lies whose reach he world knows since birth. read the mood on the and suppressed grievances became phenomenal in the age of social media that can be so easily that Bangladesh Just ask any 74-year-old ground – and the fact that of Bengalis didn’t take long the surrounding areas. I manipulated. is South Asia’s (or older) Bangladeshi Bengali-speaking people to crystallise and burst. urge the Exhibition The strength of institutions was sorely tested in four years but so many of youngest nation (born in 1946 or earlier) across the world usually People fell back on the facts Society to review its deci- them came through with flying colours. Mr Trump’s animus against migrants state, but few peo- about his or her life jour- define themselves by their to disprove Jinnah’s views sion. as reflected in his stopping the DACA programme was stayed by the courts, so pleT — and particularly ney. One is likely to hear language, despite the sig- as absurd and unaccept- too his manipulation of visas and green cards. The media exposed his cruel those born well after the the agonising experience nificant role that religion able to Bengali-speaking Ehsan Raza separation of children from their parents. His own administration pooh- cataclysmic events sur- he/she underwent, chang- may play in their lives. East Pakistanis, who were Hyderabad poohed his disinformation campaign on the coronavirus which, ironically, did rounding its birth, who are ing his/her nationality. Thus, while already nur- a majority of the popula- not spare him either. The top court ridiculed his skewed election petitions and, now in their 20s, 30s and Ceasing to be Indian in turing a genuine feeling of tion. finally, the people rejected his presidency. His legacy, apart from damage to 40s — are fully aware of the August 1947. Being a deprivation, discrimina- Jinnah had ignored the COVID APATHY public trust in government, is bits and pieces of a Mexican Wall. A divided torturous processes over a Pakistani for 24 years, tion and humiliation, it fact that Urdu was the I wonder why people in Hyderabad nation must pick up the pieces now. long period of time that led being treated as an inferior didn’t take long for East mother tongue of only four are not worried about the risk of to the creation of arguably and a second-class citizen, Bengalis to fall back upon per cent of Pakistanis, second Covid wave (Less tests will one of the few linguistic discriminated against, till their linguistic pride. while 55 per cent consid- see fewer cases, make state lazy: nation states through December 1971, and then Rabindranath Tagore and ered Bengali their mother Experts, DC, Dec. 15). A majority of ‘Reckless’ Kamal Haasan blood, sweat, toil and tears? attaining his/her present Nazrul Islam were always tongue. Only the Muslims them are not wearing masks or not The experience of living identity as a free, indepen- dearer to the Bengali head of northern and northwest- following social distancing. n the electoral marketplace, do good intentions alone sell? This is a mind through the tumultuous 24 dent Bengali-speaking and heart than the divisive, ern India, from where most Unfortunately, our government boggling question that crops up when actor Kamal Haasan, launching years (1947-1971), between Bangladeshi. hate-filled politics of vio- of the Muslim League’s also is not serious. It is not taking Ihis campaign for the Tamil Nadu state Assembly elections of 2021, reels when India attained free- The worst humiliation lence and murder of the leadership came from, any measures to educate citizens out a list of public inconveniences that governments hardly bother to dom from British rule and for the Bengali-speaking rest of South Asia. Little would benefit from Urdu as or enforcing laws to prevent a sec- address. He also raises serious questions. Like, what’s the need for a new the December day 49 years citizens of what became wonder Rabindranath the state language, along ond wave. We cannot have another Parliament building? ago when Dhaka (then East Pakistan was the Tagore’s eternal rhythmic with some Punjabis and lockdown. It will mean no jobs, But he also seems to get carried away by the crowds that turn up for his Dacca) became “the free insensitive linguistic poli- words and sonorous lyrics Pashtuns working for the money and only misery. Industries meetings. ‘Gangs come together for money but it’s a revolution when people capital of a free country” — cy forcibly imposed by an were wholeheartedly state. The choice of Urdu as will close forever. congregate for an ideal,’ he exulted on Twitter presuming that the throngs in Indira Gandhi’s ringing insolent, dictatorial gover- embraced and adopted as state language also meant a K.S. Chakradhar Reddy at Madurai and Usilampatti were there to join him in his mission to elimi- phrase in the Lok Sabha — nor-general, Mohammed Bangladesh’s national total absence of Bengali- Hyderabad nate corruption. Of course, it is not just from Central rulers that he demands are hard to fathom for Ali Jinnah, the country’s anthem in 1971. It sponta- speaking Pakistanis from answers but also from those holding the reins in the state. Aptly underlining those who didn’t personal- founding father, who con- neously took to the 1905 state affairs. the hypocrisy of a ruling party top honcho’s suggestion for alternating power ly experience those temptuously treated them composed lines of arguably What happened later, in EMERGENCY CASE between a man and a woman in a single term, he pointed out that the party momentous times. East as inferior creatures in the greatest philosopher 1971, is of course part of the When so many cases are pending does not have even a single woman as a district secretary. He even pledges to Bengal, of course, had contrast to the full-fledged poet to have blossomed in folklore of the proud new in the apex court for years, there is make ministers out of at least 20 women when the mantle falls on him. Things known the agony and citizens of West Pakistan. the nineteenth and twenti- nation. History will surely no justification to take up a 45- that sound really nice. Haasan even boasts of growing up on the lap of M.G. humiliation of separation Jinnah’s toxic temper, eth centuries east of Suez. judge Prime Minister year-old incident (SC to study if Ramachandran, the former chief minister popularly known as MGR who even before 1947 when mixed with arrogance, “Amar shonar Bangla, Indira Gandhi as an out- Emergency, in ’75 is unconstitution- remained invincible in politics during his time. But does that privilege make undivided Bengal was par- sowed the seeds of irre- ami tomay bhalobashi; standing leader of geopolit- al, DC, Dec. 15). In future, courts him the inheritor of MGR’s political legacy or do people see in him a modern titioned into two halves, versible Bengali national- Chirodin tomar akash, ical vision who, ably sup- may be asked to look into demon- MGR? Whatever people see in him, when Mr Haasan cocks a snook at popular but nothing quite prepared ism in the world’s most fer- tomar batash, amar prane ported by the Indian armed etisation, Godhra, etc. It is better to sentiments, he diminishes his prospects. it for the experience of tile soil, and ploughing bajay bashi” (My golden forces under General (later concentrate on current issues. By promising to hand over TASMAC shops to private retailers or plump- those 24 years as the east- their mind with confronta- Bengal, I love you. Forever Field-Marshal) Sam Kshirasagara Balaji Rao ing for the commonly contentious NEET or openly supporting the vice-chan- ern enclave of the nation tional ideas. Bengalis sul- thy skies, thy air set my Manekshaw, managed the Hyderabad cellor of Anna University, who is seen as most parties in the state as an called Pakistan — and lenly, but silently, bore this heart in tune as if it were a shatter the myth of invinci- intruder imposed on them, one cannot garner votes in Tamil Nadu, even if being treated as a vassal up to a point. Till Jinnah flute). bility around Jinnah’s cre- as MGR himself. province. left Dhaka, on his sole (and Jinnah was to face some ation — and ensured the YEARS AGO IN The beauty and reality of last) visit to East Pakistan, of his worst moments in surrender of Pakistan’s 50 history is that it is usually which helped to create a Dhaka before he returned entire military in the east- DECCAN CHRONICLE written, rewritten or “distinct Bengali nation to Karachi, which was then ern sector to the Indian unwritten by the victors, or within an indistinct and Pakistan’s capital. His Army at Dhaka’s Ramna KAUSHIK MITTER K. SUDHAKAR deliberately distorted for intolerant Pakistani state”. Maidan on December 16, Editor Printer & Publisher the sake of the polity. When On March 21, 1948, 1971. What, however, Signals flashed DECCAN CHRONICLE offices are located at: British India was split into Jinnah met a delegation of What, however, remains an abiding mys- to earth two with the independence the Scheduled Castes; and remains an abiding tery is how Richard Nixon MOSCOW, Dec. 15. Hyderabad: 36, Sarojini Devi Road, Secunderabad - 500 003, Ph: 040-27803930-4; Fax : 040-27805256 of two nations in 1947, it on March 22 received mystery is how and Henry Kissinger in The Soviet Union’s unmanned Vijayawada: No.C-3 & 4 Patamata, Industrial Estate, Auto Nagar, Vijayawada (A.P.), Ph: 0866- also created a geopolitical another delegation of Washington and Mao Venus-7 space vehicle reached 2555284/2555287; Telefax: 0866-2555234 impossibility: two wings of upper-caste Hindu mem- Richard Nixon and Zedong and Zhou Enlai in Venus today after a flight of 120 Visakhapatnam: Survey No.1/3A Beach Road, Near Kailasagiri Ropeway, Sector-9 MVP Colony, the new nation of Pakistan bers of the East Bengal Henry Kissinger in Beijing so misread the days, the Soviet news agency Visakhapatnam - 530 017 (A.P), Ph: 0891-2552333/2552334; Fax: 0891-2755285 separated by the mother Legislative Assembly. Washington and Mao signs on the ground and Tass reported. The spacecraft Rajahmundry: Vemagiri, Dhawaleswaram Rd, Rajahmundry, Ph: 0883-2417618/2417208; Telefax: 0883- tried their best — unsuc- 2417208 state with a 1,000-mile However, what happened Zedong and Zhou started sending messages back Anantapur: Thapovan colony, Bangalore By-Pass Road, Anantapur - 515004, Ph: 08554-276903; Fax: crater. It was an unbridge- on March 21 at a public Enlai in Beijing so cessfully — to abort the for 35 minutes from the planet’s 08554-276904 able disconnect making a gathering, addressed by birth of an independent atmosphere, it added. Nothing Karimnagar: Survey No.1341, Vavilalapally Colony, Jagityala Road, Karimnagar - 505 001, Ph: 0878- mockery of a unified Jinnah, was a bombshell. misread the signs on Bangladesh. about any landing on the blazing 2228908; Telefax: 0878-2220433 Pakistan, ostensibly found- “Let me make it clear to the ground and tried hot surface of the planet was Nellore: Survey No.527/2, Burranpur Village, Venkatachalam (M), Chemmudugunta Panchayat, Nellore, ed on a common religious you that the state language The writer is an said. When the spacecraft Ph: 0861-2348581/82; Telefax: 0861-2348580 their best – unsuc- identity. Its two wings of Pakistan is going to be cessfully – to abort alumnus of the entered the atmosphere of Chennai: SP-3 Developed Plot, Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai - 600 032, Ph: 044-22254747/ 48/50/51; were a political reality, but Urdu and no other lan- National Defence Venus, the descent craft was sep- Advt Fax: 22254765/22254766/42305325 the birth of an inde- Coimbatore: 77, Vivekananda Road, Ramnagar, Coimbatore - 641 009, Ph : 0422 2231255 remained a geographical guage,” he declared. College. The views arated, and parachute opened. Gram: CHRONICLE Postal registration no: No. H/SD-348/2006-08 and cultural disconnect “Anyone who tries to mis- pendent Bangladesh expressed are personal.

t’s time we started to talk about financial journal put it earlier this sources of the virus earlier this the CPC knew how lethal and infec- Africa, to central Europe, to Brexit reparations. The Chinese need week: “China driving global recov- year, the CPC responded by threat- tious the virus was but allowed it to Britain there is one obvious way to pay the world’s citizens for ery”. ening sanctions against Australia. go out and spread across the globe out: Chinese investment. So long as Iwhat it did to us all this year. I suppose you could put it that This week Chinese government anyway. China is the country “driving glob- In Britain, the economy is due to way. Personally, I feel (and perhaps accounts posted doctored photos of Is it a conspiracy theory to believe al recovery”, the temptation will be contract by more than 11 per cent this is just the spirit of Christmas an Australian soldier “murdering” this could have been deliberate? I there. Long ago the CPC bought up Douglas this year. In the best-case scenario, arriving early) a certain amount of an Afghan child. Funnily enough, wouldn’t have said so, and nor do our universities very cheaply the UK will not go back to pre- vengeance when I read such sto- the Communists don’t seem to play many people in the intelligence indeed. Not to mention a nuclear Murray Covid economic output until the ries. A vengeance which is always by the same rules as everyone else. world. In 2020 China achieved one power station and more. Currently fourth quarter of next year. in too short a supply at this time of What is clear is that the CPC will of the greatest coups in financial they are able to act like a property Anyone tempted to say that this is the year. But speaking personally, I do anything in order to ensure we history. The effects of the Trump developer who has destroyed the only because of the actions of the resent the prospect of China walk- do not linger on the WMD it administration’s trade wars area all around your house and British government should look ing away from 2020 spinning head- released this year. It wants the rest against China were beginning to be now offers to buy your undesirable almost anywhere else. In America, lines about the positive economic of the world not to know and has felt, and by accident or design the property at a dirt-cheap price. With the country’s GDP has suffered its message its economic boom sends done everything it can to keep us CPC found itself in the lucky posi- certain strings attached. Even if worst ever fall-off while govern- to the rest of the world. ignorant or distracted. It has disap- tion of their main competitor’s one country resists the temptation ment debt has soared to over $27 First, it is worth getting the his- peared the experts and scientists economy (like the rest of the world) to use Chinese investment to get The world has trillion. In Australia, the state of torical record right. We still do not who might have informed us of having to shut down completely. As out of this problem, it is unlikely Queensland alone is expected to know whether the Wuhan lab was what happened, and the chances of a bonus, President Donald Trump, that everyone will show the same rack up debt of more than $130 bil- the source of the virus or whether getting to the bottom of these facts who appeared to be the only person restraint. to make China lion in the next couple of years. the bat-eating story is true. Both while the CPC remains in power in the world willing to take on the So I have a different suggestion. Everywhere, the world’s are plausible. And both leave the are remote. What we do know is CPC, was taken out in the election Countries of the world, unite. The economies are experiencing an question of whether the that the Chinese knew about the which followed. Now, as the CPC destroyed the world’s unprecedented slump in GDP and a Communist Party of China allowed virus and the dangers of it while American public survey a political economies in 2020. And we would pay for what rocketing of government borrow- the virus to come out deliberately keeping the rest of the world in the and financial mess of gigantic pro- like reparations. I am open to sug- ing. or accidentally. dark. They allowed people to con- portions, China is happily sailing gestions on how we do this — sanc- Happily, there is one major econo- If this sounds vague, then it is by tinue to leave China and fly abroad into 2021 with increased growth. tions, gunboats — nothing should it did in 2020 my where this is not the case. CPC design. Because the CPC spent long after the authorities locked The kick is that China now finds be off the table. China gave us 2020. Guess which one it is? China is much of 2019-20 ensuring that we do down flights within their own itself in a buyer’s market. The rest We need to make them pay for it. expected to see growth of 1.8 per not, and cannot, know. When country. Perhaps the CPC did just of the globe is going to have to find cent this year. The only country Australia called for an independent let off a global pandemic for the a way out of this financial slump By arrangement with where that is the case. As as one international inquiry into the third time in a decade. Or perhaps and possible depression. From the Spectator NATION DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 16 DECEMBER 2020 pg 7

SHORT TAKES HC restrains nurses from continuing strike High drama UK FOREIGN SECY HOLDS TALKS ensues during WITH JAISHANKAR SRIDHAR KUMARASWAMI | DC K’taka Council NEW DELHI, DEC. 15 Bengaluru, Dec. 15: The However, the ruling British Foreign Secretary Karnataka Legislative party members had been Dominic Raab held discus- Council witnessed high insisting that it be taken sions with his Indian counter- drama on Tuesday with up. The BJP with the sup- part External Affairs Minister BJP-JD(S) and Congress port of JD(S) had planned S. Jaishankar on five broad members hurling abuses to remove Shetty as the themes — connecting people, and pushing each other chairman through the no- trade, defence and security, cli- and the deputy chairman confidence motion. The mate and health including the being pulled down from ugly scenes began to cooperation on the Covid-19 the Chairman’s seat, over unfold as deputy chair- vaccines while both nations a row pertaining to the man Dharme Gowda “agreed on key elements of a no-confidence motion. (JDS) occupied the 10 year India-UK roadmap”. Amid the pandemonium Chairman’s seat, even Raab mentioned Britain’s and chaos which many before the Chairman “Indo-Pacific tilt” while Jaish- senior members termed arrived, and the quorum ankar said, “It is a matter of as a “black mark” and bell was still ringing. satisfaction that there is a “unprecedented” in the This angered the growing recognition and acce- Council’s over a century Congress MLCs who ptance of the idea of an Indo- old history, it was rushed to the chair Pacific. We welcome greater adjourned sine die within demanding that Dharme interest and attention which minutes after it met for Gowda vacate the seat as the UK is devoting to the Indo- the day. The ball now he would have allowed the Pacific.” Both countries also seems to be in the motion against Shetty. focused on taking ties to a new Governor Vajubhai Vala’s Following this, BJP and level. Observers look at Brit- court with both BJP and JD(S) members too rush- ain’s focus on the Indo-Pacific Members of AIIMS Nurses Union raise slogans in New Delhi on Tuesday during their indefinite strike over their long-pending demands, including JD(S) jointly petitioning ed towards the Chair in region as significant, given the those concerning the Sixth Central Pay Commission and against contractual appointments. The Delhi High Court on Tuesday restrained the nurs- him and seeking his his defence. This resulted growing differences between es union from continuing with their indefinite strike. Justice Navin Chawla passed the order on a plea moved by AIIMS against the strike by the intervention to enable in heated exchange, and Britain and China on the Hong nurses who went on the agitation from December 14. — PTI taking up of the no- confi- pushing and pulling bet- Kong issue. Apart from this, dence motion. ween members from both the situation in Afghanistan After it was adjourned sides. Even as this was was also discussed between sine die on December 10, happening, a few Congr- the two foreign ministers. In a ADHIKARI TO the House was convened ess members including veiled reference to Pakistan for a day on Tuesday by Naseer Ahmed were seen without naming it, EAM the government which trying to forcefully open Jaishankar said both minis- Mamata dares Centre DEFECT TO BJP had even petitioned the the door through which ters felt the challenges posed Governor accusing the the Chairman enters the by terrorism and radicalism THIS WEEK Chairman K. house, accusing the rul- are a “shared concern”. Pratapachandra Shetty of ing side of shutting it Raab spoke about the need to DC CORRESPONDENT “abruptly” adjourning with an intention not to “deepen the economic rela- to impose Prez’s rule KOLKATA, DEC. 15 the session, without tak- allow Chairman Shetty tionship” and said Britain is ing up the no-confidence inside. Congress mem- “committed to build a stronger Giving a call on his motion against him. The bers accused the govern- defence and security partner- Alleges Centre interfering in her govt by summoning officials birthday for the restora- motion moved by BJP ment of trying to start the ship with our Indian friends” tion of democracy in members did not find proceedings with the help including on shared issues RAJIB CHOWDHURI | DC West Bengal, rebel Trin- mention in the Council’s of the deputy chairman, like combating terrorism and KOLKATA, DEC. 15 amul Congress MLA of agenda for Tuesday, as even before the Chairman maritime security including Nandigram Shubhendu Shetty had rejected it cit- could arrive, with an the menace of piracy. West Bengal Chief BJP urges ECI to impose Adhikari is all set to ing procedural lapses and intention to take up the Minister and Trinamul defect to the BJP later pointing out that no spe- motion against Shetty, Congress supremo this week as the Centre cific charges were made which had been rejected ACTRESS CHITRA’S Mamata Banerjee on has decided to provide against him. by him. — PTI Tuesday dared the MCC, deploy Central forces it’s Z-plus category secu- HUSBAND HELD FOR Narendra Modi govern- rity cover by the central ment to impose DC CORRESPONDENT rating law and order situa- In the letter to the EC, reserve police force ABETTING SUICIDE President’s Rule in the NEW DELHI, DEC. 15 tion, political bias of the the party cited the attack jawans including com- poll-bound state after state government employ- on the convoy of Nadda mandos and a bullet Chennai, Dec. 15: The hus- accusing the Centre of Days after BJP president ees and discrepancies in and other senior leaders, proof car to him due to a Counting of votes band of television actress interfering in her govern- J.P. Nadda and other sen- the draft voters list, the including Kailash Vijayv- threat on his life. Chitra has been arrested and ment by summoning its ior leaders’ convoy in party said unless the elec- argiya, Mukul Roy and The former state min- remanded to judicial custody bureaucrats over her West Bengal came under tion body deploys central others while they were ister will fly to New De- for ‘abetting’ her suicide, party workers’ alleged vio- attack allegedly by ruling forces and imposes MCC travelling in Diamond Ha- lhi on December 17 and in Kerala today police said on Tuesday. lent attack on BJP presi- TMC cadre, the BJP on early, campaigning in the rbour to attend a party is likely to meet Union Investigation by a police dent J.P. Nadda’s convoy Tuesday urged the Elec- state will be “very diffi- event and claimed that the home minister Amit DC CORRESPONDENT swearing in of the newly team revealed that 32-year-old in South 24 Parganas. tion Commission for early cult, resulting in wide- attack was “carried out in Shah before changing THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, elected office bearers of Hemnath ‘abetted’ her suicide Banerjee also claimed deployment of central for- spread violence.” full glare of a big contin- his colour from green to DEC. 15 local bodies will take and hence he was arrested on her party had “no inten- ces and imposition of Mo- A BJP delegation met gent of police, including saffron officially. On place on December 21. Monday night, they said. tion” to target Nadda, del Code of Conduct for the EC officials and sub- RAF, who simply rema- December 19 when Shah All is set for counting of The results of local body An enquiry was also held by while warning the BJP the coming crucial Asse- mitted a letter in this ined silent spectators. Th- will arrive in the state votes in local body polls polls are crucial as the the Revenue Divisonal Officer. that she would “retaliate mbly polls in the state. regard and said they were is was under the supervi- on a two-day visit, Adhi- in Kerala on Wednesday people’s verdict would An argument ensued between heavily” if she was “hit”. Union home minister assured that their com- sion of local AITC MLAs, kari is expected to be which in many ways give a hint about what is Chitra and Hemnath and it Speaking at a TMC rally in Amit Shah is also sched- plaint will be looked into who openly gave instruc- with him. On Tuesday would chart the future in store for the main- was followed by her suicide in Jalpaiguri, North Bengal, uled to visit the state later and that free and fair elec- tions from platforms BJP national general course of politics in the stream parties — ruling the early hours of December 9, she said: “They think they this week. Citing deterio- tions take place. erected on the road.” secretary Kailash Vijay- state in the run up to CPM, opposition police said in an official can bring the Central vargiya called up the Assembly elections in Congress and BJP. The release. forces here and transfer TMC MLA and spoke to 2021. leaders of the three fronts Hemnath was produced the state government’s ar’s bust there? The entire you hit me, I will retaliate “After getting Bimal Guru- him for four minutes. State election commis- are keeping their fingers before a court here, which officers to scare them. The country cannot speak up so heavily that you will ng (GJM top gun) on its si- Asked of any political sioner V. Bhaskaran said crossed on the outcome of remanded him to judicial cus- state police is under the (due to) fear. There is a bid not be able to tackle my de six years ago, they pro- discussion with Adhika- counting of votes will the polls in view of the tody. state government. Still, to scare us too. What else retaliation even after mised a ‘Gorkhaland’. Wh- ri, Vijayvargiya said, “T- take place in 244 centers high voter turnout wit- While police had days ago they were summoned. can they do here? bringing crores of goons.” enever an election is the- here was no political complying strictly with nessed in all the three said Hemnath was her ‘fiance,’ None of us had any inten- President’s Rule? Let them On BJP MP re, they talk about it. How talk between us. I only Covid-19 safety guide- phases. they clarified that ‘they regis- tion to hit him (Nadda). impose it if they can. Let’s Subramanian Swamy’s many Gorkhaland(s) have greeted him on his birth- lines. The postal ballots While Chief Minister tered their marriage’ two When a VIP travels, he has see. It will be great (sic)! call for a change in the happened so far? They w- day and conveyed my will be counted right in Pinarayi Vijayan claimed months ago and the duo had his own convoy according At least my workload will national anthem, the TMC on in the 2014 polls and an- best wishes to him for the beginning followed by that the ruling LDF was plans for a traditional wedding to protocol.” reduce to a great extent. I chief alleged: “Their other later with the same his good health and pros- EVMs. poised for a historic win, ceremony in January 2021. She wondered: “But why will then address rallies object is to change Jana promise each time. I did perity.” He said the results of all opposition leader and The 29-year-old actress, well did 50 cars trail his con- everywhere and take away Gana Mana penned by not win because I did not Attacking the TMC, local bodies are expected Congress veteran Ramesh known among television audi- voy? Why did 50 goons your (BJP) votes also.” Rabindranath Tagore. We talk about it. But it does Adhikari told a rally to be declared by noon. Chennithala said the ence in Tamil Nadu was found trail those cars? Why did a Tearing into the BJP ov- also know very well how not matter to me. I thank “The mass movement of The people would be able massive turnout of voters dead in a suburban hotel room convict, out of jail, be er its frequent threats of to revert a change later.” my brothers and sisters of Nandigram belonged to to obtain information on indicated a clear mandate and it was confirmed later that among them? Why were violence, she added: “I am To get back the Gorkha Darjeeling for realising neither any individual counting through against gold smuggling she died by suicide. those who vandalised very good and a 100 per ce- vote bank from the BJP in the BJP’s drama and nail- nor any party. It was a “Trends” website. involving a senior official Ishwar Chandra Vidyasag- nt peaceful person. (But) if North Bengal, she said: ing its lies.” people’s movement.” Bhaskaran said the of the CM’s office. VARAVARA RAO FIT TO GO BACK TO JAIL: NIA TO HC Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination delayed Hindutva Mumbai, Dec. 15: Poet- activist Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgar Parishad- Maoists links case, is fit enough to be sent back to supremacy by two generations, says Vinay Sitapati Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai from a private hospital in Law School, Bengaluru. Savarkar, which is now a racy because it was not nation of Mahatma Mumbai where he is currently SRIRAM KARRI | DC He combines this with EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW century old, is at its heart based on religion at all. It Gandhi. Gandhi was admitted, the National HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 racy writing and a nearly PART - 1 democratic in the sense of was not about Hindu reli- India’s greatest Hindu Investigation Agency (NIA) salacious storytelling, being founded on the gion for him. The extreme- leader. Even though the told the Bombay High Court t took the Hindutva ide- sometimes bordering on acceptance of universal ly logical Savarkar argued, RSS as an institution did on Tuesday. ology nearly a century sharing off-the-record gos- adult franchise and ‘one in a radical breakaway not play any role in Rao, however, will continue Ito create the election- sips and anecdotes to person, one vote’. As the from conventional politi- Gandhi’s murder, the taint to stay in Nanavati Hospital at winning argument person- match his former journal- British rule in India was cal thought, that Indian has proved very costly to least till Monday, the next date ified by Narendra Modi, istic career. making way for elections nationhood was built on them. of hearing on his bail plea on argues political scientist The book though is nei- in the early 20th century, race, not culture or reli- the medical grounds and the and author Vinay Sitapati ther a tale of a historical Savarkar and other Hindu gion. This is a deeply mod- Are you saying a plea filed by his wife Hemlatha in this exclusive interview plot to create Modi nor a nationalists welcomed ern idea. Savarkar was Hindu rashtra is alleging breach of Rao’s fun- with Deccan Chronicle. century-old history of the elections, because their never a liberal; he was a Qpolitically, intel- damental rights due to “con- Analysing historical Sangh Parivar. Though Hindu community was a majoritarian. But unlike lectually, and even arith- tinued incarceration without insights, debating counter- both are ingredients on social majority in India... Jinnah, he was always a metically, inevitable in adequate healthcare”. factuals, refuting possible this structured canvas, it Equal voting suited them democrat. future? The submission was made by misinterpretations, young is focussed on something because they were a He was even broadly in The mistake in this line Additional Solicitor General political scientist and pro- more ambitious – telling Title: Jugalbandi: The majority. agreement on most issues of thinking is to somehow (ASG) Anil Singh, who fessor with chubby cheeks the story of two fascinat- BJP Before Modi On the other hand, the with the Congress, except think that a Hindu rashtra appeared for the NIA, before a and curly hair, round spec- Vinay Sitapati ing men, whose relation- Author: Vinay Sitapati Muslim leadership, repre- for his pet grouse that lies ahead of us. It is actu- bench of Justices S.S. Shinde tacles and an impish ship shaped Hindutva, the Category: Non-fiction sented then by the land- Gandhi was appeasing the ally already here. The and M.S. Karnik. smile, is bustling with Narasimha Rao, Half BJP and India. narrative, Indian politics lords in the United Muslim League. India we live in is in many During the day’s hearing, energy as he discusses his Lion, this book too has his Publisher: Penguin Province, were sensing a Both Savarkar and ways already the Hindu senior counsels Indira Jaising work, which promises to trademark traits, all boxes Excerpts and part 1 of a Viking loss of power and privi- Jinnah were, however, rashtra Savarkar or and Anand Grover urged the become a watermark in checked. It consolidates three-part story. Pages: Hardback / 424 lege. They realised that similar in the sense that Golwalkar dreamt of. This high court to grant bail to Rao. understanding Hindutva. his image as a new super- Price: `799 elections would doom both advocated and mod- is because a Hindu rashtra Grover said the 81-year-old It is a biography of a rela- star in India’s non-fiction Before discussing them to a perpetual elled their politics based is not a Hindu ‘state’. It is a poet was suffering from inher- tionship, chronicling and genre combining recent the jugalbandi ‘minority’. So, their entire on the sole interest of Hindu national communi- ent medical issues since the analysing the entangled and contemporary history Qbetween Atal influence and a higher politics was against one- their own community. ty or Hindu ‘vote-bank’ time of his arrest in 2018. lives of BJP’s founding and politics – diligent and Bihari Vajpayee and impact than Gandhi, person-one-vote. By the that is able to control the He said authorities at Taloja duo, the jugalbandi of excruciating research, L.K. Advani, I wish to Nehru and Ambedkar? time Jinnah joins the Why did the proj- state through one-person- prison in Navi Mumbai, where Atal Bihari Vajpayee and intrepid in making a set of have you throw light on In 2047, would we end up Muslim League, he is firm- ect of creating one-vote. The Hindu rash- Rao was lodged as an undertri- Lal Krishna Advani. speculative counterfactu- another jugalbandi being closer, after a cen- ly anti-democratic, in the QNarendra Modi tra is not a theocracy or a al, did not have the expertise There is no definitive als, combining a vast nar- before them, between two tury after Independence, sense he is anti one-per- take nearly a century to dictatorship, but a unified or medical infrastructure to book on Hinduism, but rative argument befitting atheists — M.A. Jinnah to Jinnah and son-one-vote. And he also fructify? Why not earli- Hindu society flexing its treat him. Grover further said hopefully this is the defini- his academic vocation and and Veer Damodar Savarkar’s ideas of opportunistically uses er? majority muscle within a it would be most suitable for tive work on Hindutva, he inclination. Sitapati teach- Savarkar. In a way, have nationhood? Islamic metaphors of a The RSS had lost two democratic structure. Rao’s health if he was granted says teasingly. It might es at Ashoka University, they perhaps influenced I must strongly push caliphate when pushing generations of a chance at bail and permitted to go back well be. A worthy succes- has a PhD from Princeton the political outcome back on this suggestion; for Pakistan. power because they were Tomorrow: Part 2 to his home in Hyderabad. Rao sor to his bestselling University and other and future of the Indian there was no jugalbandi Savarkar’s Hindu rash- operating under the shad- Ambedkar was opposed would not flee if granted bail, debut, a biography on for- degrees from Harvard sub-continent more suc- between them. The Hindu tra, unlike Jinnah’s ow of suspicion for being to both Islamic and Hindu Grover added. mer prime minister P.V. University and National cessfully, with greater nationalist project of Pakistan, was not a theoc- responsible for the assassi- bigotry NATION DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 16 DECEMBER 2020 pg 8

SHORT TAKES Fun amidst chaos COURT GRANTS CENTRE SEEKS SC suggests break BAIL TO ACTOR’S DRAFT OF C’GARH for health workers RELATIVE AGRI SCHEME SHAHAB ANSARI | DC New Delhi, Dec. 15: The At the outset, the bench MUMBAI, DEC. 15 RABINDRA NATH Supreme Court asked the while referring to the affi- CHOUDHURY | DC Centre on Tuesday to con- davit filed by the Centre A special Narcotic BHOPAL, DEC. 15 sider granting a break to said that it does not state Drugs and Psychotropic doctors engaged in Covid-19 which hospitals have fire Substance (NDPS) Act Amid intensifying protests by duty for the last seven-eight No Objection Certificate(s) court on Tuesday grant- farmers on the three central months. (NOCs) and it is citing 2016 ed bail to Agisilaos farm laws, the Union govern- The top court said that information. Demetriades, brother of ment has sought a draft of continuous work might be Mehta said that the pic- Bollywood actor Arjun Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay affecting mental health of ture is not as rosy as it Rampal’s live-in partner Yojana, the flagship pro- doctors. seems from data (referred Gabriella, in a drugs gramme of Bhupesh Baghel A bench of Justices Ashok in the affidavit) but the related case. government aimed at ensur- Bhushan, R.S. Reddy and Gujarat government has The Narcotics Control ing minimum income avail- M.R. Shah, which is hearing taken all necessary steps on Bureau had arrested ability to the farmers in a suo motu case on proper fire safety measures. Demetriades in October Chhattisgarh through direct treatment of Covid-19 pati- Justice Shah said No, they when the agency in a bank transfer. ents and dignified handling have not and added that the raid had found 0.8 grams This was revealed by of dead bodies in hospitals, affidavit does not show of a sticky brown sub- Chhattisgarh agriculture min- asked Solicitor General which Covid hospitals have stance from a resort in ister Ravindra Choubey in Tushar Mehta to consider the necessary safeguards. Lonavala where he was Raipur on Tuesday. the suggestions of giving The bench pointed out celebrating his birthday. The minister was highlight- the doctors some break. that 16 notices were sent to Even though the court ing the schemes launched and “For the last seven-eight a hospital at Rajkot itself had granted him bail in work done in the past two months doctors have not but nothing was done about this case but he years in the state at a press been given any break and it and many hospitals have remained behind bars conference ahead of comple- are continuously working. no fire NOCs in Gujarat. because the probe tion of two years of the You take instruction and It said that out of 260 pri- agency had arrested him Congress-led government in think over giving them vate hospitals in Gujarat, 61 in another drugs related Chhattisgarh on December 17. some break. It must be very hospitals do not have fire case. Demetriades later “Amid protests by farmers painful and might be affect- NOCs Mehta further said moved the bail applica- over Centre’s three new farm Farmers play volleyball at Ghazipur border in New Delhi on Tuesday during their protest against Centres agri- ing their mental health,” that now in all these private tion through advocate laws, the Union government laws. Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday launched a campaign to the bench told Mehta. hospitals, responsible per- Kushal Mor. has sought a draft of the Nyay make farmers aware that the laws passed by Centre would pave way for their prosperity. — PTI The solicitor general sons have been appointed as Mor argued before the scheme from Chhattisgarh assured the bench that the nodal officers. court that no person government. It is up to the government would consider Dealing with the `90 crore could be vexed twice for Centre to decide if it would the suggestion of the bench fine collected by the Gujarat the same cause and that like to implement the to grant some break to government from persons there was no new evi- scheme”, Choubey said. health workers engaged in for not wearing masks, the dence to support the The Nyay scheme, launched Covid-19 duty. bench said despite the fine, allegations against him. in Chhattisgarh in May this India still susceptible The top court also the state has not been able He had further argued year, has benefitted farmers expressed shock that the to enforce Covid appropri- that the only new piece during Covid-19 crisis, he said. Gujarat government has ate behaviour guidelines. of evidence were state- Under the scheme, the state levied around `90 crore fine Mehta said that `500 is not a ments of co-accused, wh- government has disbursed for not wearing face masks, deterrent fine to which the ich, in view of a recent `4,500 crore to farmers in to Coronavirus: Govt but has not been able to bench said that what about SC ruling related to three installments as input enforce the guidelines on implementation of mask statements made before support in the previous Kharif Covid-19 appropriate behav- wearing protocol & social NCB officers, were not season and the last install- Situation can escalate unexpectedly, Minister cautions public iour. distancing measures. — PTI admissible, Mor said. ment of `1,250 crore would be released to them in March, New Delhi, Dec. 15: 2021, the minister said. Covid-19 cases and deaths The scheme has benefitted are declining in India PRANAB’S SON, nearly 20 lakh farmers in which is very reassuring, India’s recovery rate Chhattisgarh. the Centre said on He said another welfare Tuesday but cautioned DAUGHTER SPAR scheme for the farmers against any laxity saying launched by the Bhupesh an overwhelming propor- crosses 95 per cent OVER HIS MEMOIR Baghel government has also tion of the country’s pop- not only benefited the farmers ulation is still “very very DC CORRESPONDENT “With a high number of 74.24 per cent are concen- DC CORRESPONDENT but has also given a boost to susceptible” to the virus NEW DELHI, DEC. 15 patients recovering every trated in 10 states and NEW DELHI, DEC. 15 the rural economy in and the situation may day and the sustained fall UTs. Maharashtra has Chhattisgarh. escalate unexpectedly. Country’s recovery rate in the mortality rate, the reported the maximum The imminent publica- While there is a contin- crosses 95 per cent, which country’s steady trend of number of single-day tion of the final volume uous increasing trend in is among the highest in decline in active cases recoveries at 4,610, fol- of late President Pranab I-T FINDS `700 CR Covid-19 cases and deaths the world for countries continues,” said the lowed by 4,481 in Kerala Mukherjee’s memoirs globally, particularly in with high caseloads. The Union health ministry. and 2,980 in West Bengal. has led to a massive con- TAX EVASION BY America and Europe and daily new cases recorded There are 3,39,820 active The ministry said that troversy with his chil- the situation in the world on Tuesday — 22,065 — cases of Covid-19 as on 73.52 per cent of the new dren publicly fighting CHETTINAD GROUP is becoming worrisome, were also the lowest in Tuesday. The slide in the infections are from 10 with each other over its in contrast the scene in over five months. Active active cases is supple- states and UTs. release. First, son Abhijit New Delhi, Dec. 15: The India is satisfying as the Covid-19 caseload has mented by an exponen- Maharashtra has report- Mukherjee tweeted that Income Tax Department has cases and deaths are fallen below 3.4 lakh, a tial rise in the recoveries. ed the highest daily new he wanted to vet the detected tax evasion of more declining, Dr V.K. Paul, mere 3.43 per cent of the “The gap between cases at 2,949, followed by memoirs and asked the than `700 crore after it recent- member (health) at NITI total infections. active cases and recov- Kerala with 2,707 new publishers to stop publi- ly raided multiple locations of Aayog, told a press con- Union health ministry ered cases is continuous- cases. A total 354 case cation of the book till he Chennai-based Chettinad ference here. pointed out that the num- ly increasing and stands fatalities have been repo- gave his written consent. Group, the CBDT and official “Mortality is declining ber of recoveries have at 90,82,816. The national rted in a span of 24 hours. Then daughter Sharmist- sources said on Tuesday. and it is well below 400 crossed 94 lakhs recovery rate has further Ten states and UTs acco- ha Mukherjee told off “The highlight of the search per day. Cases have come (94,22,636), pushing the escalated to 95.12 per unt for 79.66 per cent of her brother for seeking includes seizure of unaccount- down to almost 22,000. national recovery rate to cent,” the ministry these. Maharashtra and “cheap publicity” and ed cash of `23 crore from vari- This is the kind of num- over 95 per cent, which is added. Delhi reported maximum asked him not to create ous locations,” the CBDT said ber we all experienced in one of the highest in the A total 34,477 patients casualties with 60 new “unnecessary hurdles” in in a statement. July. So that is very reas- world for countries with have recovered in a span deaths each, followed by the release of their “As of now, the department suring. As a nation, we the high caseload. of 24 hours, of whom West Bengal at 43. father’s book. Excerpts of has succeeded in detecting seem to be now doing the book are already out evasion of income of over `700 very well. We are saving and have created quite a crore,” it said. The statement lives. But remember, this “So we should be happy some states like rate has come down to flutter in political circles. claimed that tax sleuths also cannot be taken for grant- about that but cautiously Uttarakhand, Nagaland 6.37 while the average Insiders claim Pranab detected documents related to ed. An overwhelming pro- happy,” he said. and Himachal Pradesh daily positivity rate dur- Mukherjee was critical of possession of “foreign assets portion of our population Noting Delhi has made and stated all efforts to ing last week was 3.00 per the Congress’ leadership to the extent of `110 crore in is still very very suscepti- progress, he said, “We control the spread are cent. which had led to the the form of fixed deposits, ble to the virus. And the congratulate the govern- being made in collabora- Speaking about the debacle in the 2014 Lok which were not disclosed in situation can escalate ment of Delhi as also all tion with these govern- preparation for the Sabha elections. This yet the return (income tax return) unexpectedly,” Paul said the other governments ments. Covid-19 vaccination to be released book is the and will attract action under while cautioning against who have done so well in Union health secretary drive, Bhushan said late president’s final me- the Black Money Act”. any laxity. contributing towards Rajesh Bhushan said that guidelines for estimation moir and is being clai- The taxman had raided 60 He further said the reas- such a significant control more than 15.55 crore of electrical and non- med to be a tell-all book. premises of the Tamil Nadu- suring thing is that peo- (in cases) in recent tests have been conduct- electrical cold chain based group in Chennai, ple are saying the R0 has times.” ed so far for detection of equipment and their Trichy (Tiruchirappalli), vari- come below one which Paul, however, Coronavirus infection in strengthening have been ous locations in Andhra means the pandemic is expressed concern over the country, and the issued to states. Pradesh, Karnataka and shrinking. the Covid-19 situation in cumulative positivity — PTI Mumbai on December 9. While the CBDT said its action and further detections were made against a “leading business group operating from Chennai, based on intelligence Court acquits all 36 TJ foreigners input about tax evasion”, the official sources identified it as DC CORRESPONDENT Chief metropolitan to life) of the Indian Sections 270 (malignant the about 100-years-old NEW DELHI, DEC. 15 magistrate Arun Kumar Penal Code (IPC) and act likely to spread infec- Chettinad Group. Garg acquitted the for- Section 3 (disobeying reg- tion of disease dangerous The group is involved in A Delhi court, on eigners from 14 countries ulation) of the Epidemic to life) and 271 (disobedi- business activities like cement Tuesday, acquitted 36 for- of all charges. Act, 1897. ence to quarantine rule) manufacturing, logistics, con- eigners, who were The court had, on The charges were also of the IPC. struction, among others, the charge-sheeted for August 24, framed framed under Section 51 The court had also dis- CBDT said. attending the Tablighi charges against the (obstruction) of the charged eight foreign “Inflation of expenditure to Jamaat congregation foreigners under Disaster Management nationals from six coun- take out cash and also to here by allegedly being Sections 188 (disobedi- Act, 2005. tries of all charges under reduce profits, receipts not negligent and disobeying ence to order duly prom- However, they were dis- which they were charge- accounted fully, bogus claim the government guide- ulgated by public ser- charged for the offences sheeted in the absence of of depreciation amounting lines issued in wake of vant) and 269 (negligent under Section 14 (1)(b) any record or any credi- to `435 crore were also the Covid-19 pandemic in act likely to spread infec- (violation of visa norms) ble material against identified. the country. tion of disease dangerous of Foreigners Act and them.

FINAL | WISH Rajaram Singh once told a journalist that he wished to see accused hanged Main witness of Behmai massacre dies Kanpur (UP), Dec. 15: village, less than 100 km ● TWENTY MEN were August 2012, three decades reported missing from Rajaram Singh, the main from Kanpur. gunned down on February after the massacre. court records, and a probe witness of the 1981 Behmai Seventeen of the dead 14, 1981 allegedly by Out of the 23 accused, 16, was ordered. massacre by Phoolan Devi’s were Thakurs, the domi- including Phoolan Devi, are The court has to give its gang, has died at his native nant caste in the village. dacoit Phoolan Devi and already dead. Charges were verdict on the role of the village, his last wish to see Rajaram Singh’s younger her gang seeking revenge then framed against the four surviving accused — the accused hanged unful- brothers Banwari Singh for her rape by upper caste four surviving accused, and Posha (75), Shyambabu (70), filled. and Himmat Singh, cousin men in Behmai village, the court issued non-bail- Bhikha (65), and The 85-year-old, who was Naresh Singh and nephews less than 100 km from able warrants against the Vishwanath (54). suffering from a prolonged Dev Singh, Hukum Singh Kanpur. three absconders among While Posha is still in jail, illness, died at his native and Dashrath Singh were them — Maan Singh, the rest are out on bail. In village in Kanpur Dehat among those allegedly witness it as I am suffering Ramkesh and Vishwanath the years following the mas- district on Sunday. killed by the Phoolan Devi from chronic liver ailment. alias Ashok. sacre, Phoolan Devi went on Twenty men were gunned gang. I will get peace only when A special court (dacoity) to surrender and later down on February 14, 1981 Singh once told a journal- the killers are punished in had initially fixed a date in become an MP. She was allegedly by dacoit Phoolan ist that he wished to see the my lifetime,” he was quoted January 2020 for pronounc- gunned down outside her Devi and her gang seeking accused hanged for their as saying. ing the verdict. But it was official residence in New revenge for her rape by crime. “But God only knows A Kanpur court framed adjourned several times as Delhi on July 25, 2001. upper caste men in Behmai whether I will be able to charges in the case in the original case diary was — PTI WORLD DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 16 DECEMBER 2020 pg 9

SHORT TAKES FIRE AT RUSSIAN Time to turn the page, says Raja Chari to RETIREMENT lead SpaceX HOME KILLS 11 Biden after EC confirms win Moscow, Dec. 15: A fire in a retirement home in Russia’s mission to ISS southern Urals killed 11 peo- Joe lashes out at Trump saying he refused to respect the will of people ple while three more were hos- Washington, Dec. 15: test pilot. He has accumu- pitalised with injuries, local Washington, Dec. 15: US The National Aeronautics lated more than 2,500 officials said on Tuesday. President-elect Joe Biden and Space Administration hours of flight time in his The fire broke out in the has told election-weary (NASA) and European career. Chari was selected early hours in a wooden, one- Americans that it is time Space Agency (ESA) have earlier this month as a story building of a private to “turn the page”, after selected three astronauts member of the Artemis retirement home in a village the Electoral College to serve as crew members Team and is now eligible in the Bashkiria region. affirmed his triumph over for Nasa’s SpaceX Crew-3 for assignment to a future A total of 16 people were in President Donald Trump, mission to the lunar mission. the building. It wasn't immedi- who has refused to con- International Space Marshburn is a ately clear what caused the cede and filed a litany of Station, which is expected Statesville, North fire. Emergency officials said legal challenges to over- to launch in the fall of Carolina, native who seven men and four women turn the poll results. 2021. became an astronaut in were killed in the incident. The 538-member According to the Nasa, 2004. Prior to serving in According to Russian media Electoral College on the trio will consist astro- the astronaut corps, the reports, they were bed-ridden Monday pushed Biden nauts Raja Chari, an medical doctor served as residents of the retirement past the 270-vote threshold Indian-American US Air flight surgeon at NASA's home. A criminal probe into to win the bitterly-contest- Force colonel, and Tom Johnson Space Center in the incident has been ed race for the White Marshburn, who will Houston and later became launched and the head of the House. It was one of the serve as commander and medical operations lead facility has been detained. crucial steps required for pilot, respectively, and for the International the 78-year-old Democrat ESA astronaut Matthias Space Station. to take office on January Maurer, who will serve as “The Crew-3 mission ‘TWITTER KILLER’ 20 as the 46th US a mission specialist. A will be his third visit to President. fourth crew member will the space station and his SENTENCED TO Under the US system, be added at a later date, second long-duration mis- voters actually cast their following a review by sion. Marshburn previ- DEATH IN JAPAN ballots for electors, who in NASA and its internation- ously served as a crew turn, formally vote for al partners. member of STS-127 in Tokyo, Dec. 15: A Japanese candidates weeks after the This will be the first 2009 and Expedition 34/35, court on Tuesday sentenced a presidential election. spaceflight for Chari, who which concluded in 2013,” man to death for killing and Biden won the November 3 became a NASA astronaut the NASA said. dismembering nine people, election with 306 electoral in 2017. He was born in Maurer comes from most of whom had posted sui- college votes to incumbent Milwaukee, but considers Sankt Wendel, in the Ger- cidal thoughts on social media, Republican President Cedar Falls, Iowa, his man state of Saarland. in a case that shocked the coun- Trump’s 232. hometown. He is a colonel Like Chari, Maurer will try. The Electoral College in the US Air Force and be making his first trip to The Tachikawa branch of the votes will now be sent to joins the mission with space with the Crew-3 Tokyo District Court found Congress to be counted Former President Bill Clinton and other members of New York state’s Electoral College help Electoral member extensive experience as a mission. — Agencies Takahiro Shiraishi, known as formally next month. George K. Gresham who fell while voting for President and Vice President in the Assembly Chamber at the state the “Twitter killer,” guilty of Though some House Capitol in Albany, New York. — AFP killing, dismembering and Republicans have indicat- storing the bodies of the vic- ed they will object to the Vaccinate Joe, Harris, tims in his apartment in Zama, results in key states, they near Tokyo. can do little more than Shiraishi, 30, pleaded guilty delay the process during a GOP leader McConnell wishes Biden Trump, Pence: Fauci and said he would not appeal joint session of Congress Washington, Dec. 15: result,” he said. “But our less” accomplishments silently by as Trump his death sentence. Police on January 6. Senate Majority Leader system of government has during four years in office. wages a potentially damag- Washington, Dec. 15: the presidency in Janu- arrested Shiraishi in 2017 after In a speech from his Mitch McConnell congrat- the processes to determine He said Trump and Vice ing campaign to overturn Top US infectious disease ary.” Fauci says that while finding the bodies of eight hometown of Wilmington, ulated Democrat Joe Biden who will be sworn in on President Mike Pence the election. expert Anthony Fauci President Donald Trump females and one male in cold- Delaware after the as president-elect on January 20. The Electoral “deserve our thanks.” Number of senators said says President-elect Joe probably still has antibod- storage cases in his apartment. announcement of his vic- Tuesday, saying the Elec- College has spoken.” For the first time, a the time has come to move Biden and Vice President- ies to the virus that will Investigators said Shiraishi tory in the election, Biden toral College “has spoken.” McConnell called Biden groundswell of leading on. “At some point you elect Kamala Harris sho- protect him for at least approached the victims via said the US democracy The Republican leader’s someone “who has devoted Republicans have said that have to face the music,” uld be vaccinated for several months, he should Twitter, offering to assist them had been “pushed, tested statement, delivered in a himself to public service Democrat Joe Biden is the said Sen. John Thune of Covid-19 as soon as possi- get the vaccine as well to with their suicidal wishes. He and threatened” and speech on the Senate floor, for many years.” He also winner of the presidential South Dakota, the second- ble. be “doubly sure.” killed the women, including “proved to be resilient, ends weeks of silence over congratulated Vice election, essentially aban- ranking GOP leader. “Once Speaking to ABC’s Trump was hospitalised teenagers, after raping them, true and strong”. President Donald Trump’s President-elect Kamala doning President Donald the Electoral College set- “Good Morning America” with Covid-19 in early and also killed a boyfriend of He criticised President defeat. It came a day after Harris, saying “all Trump’s assault on the tles the issue today, it’s on Tuesday, Fauci said, October. Fauci says Vice one of the women to silence Trump’s attempts to over- electors met and officially Americans can take pride outcome as the Electoral time for everybody to move “For security reasons, I President Mike Pence him, investigators said. turn the result and said affirmed Biden’s election that our nation has a College certified the vote. on.” Sen. Roy Blunt of really feel strongly that should get vaccinated, the “will of the people pre- win. “I want to congratu- female vice president-elect With states affirming the Missouri, the chairman of we should get them vacci- too. He says, “You still vailed”. “The rule of law, late President-elect Joe for the very first time.” results, the Republicans the inaugural committee, nated as soon as we possi- want to protect people OFFICIALS: BOMBS, our Constitution and the Biden,” McConnell said. McConnell prefaced his faced a pivotal choice — to said the panel will now bly can.” He adds he’d like who are very important will of the people pre- “Many of us had hoped remarks with sweeping declare Biden the presi- “deal with Vice President to see Biden “fully pr- to our country right now.” SHOOTING ATTACK vailed” over Trump’s the presidential election praise for what he charac- dent-elect, as the tally Biden as the president- otected as he enters into — AP efforts to undo the results would yield a different terised as Trump’s “end- showed, or keep standing elect.” — AP KILLS 4 IN KABUL of the election, the former US vice president said. LONDON ON HIGHEST ALERT AFTER Kabul, Dec. 15: A bombing “The flame of democracy ● RUSSIAN PRESIDENT and a shooting attack in Kabul was lit in this nation a Vladimir Putin on Tuesday killed at least three people, long time ago. And we now congratulated Joe Biden US attorney general Barr resigns NEW COVID-19 VARIANT IDENTIFIED including a deputy provincial know nothing, not even a on winning the US presi- Geneva, Dec. 15: The was responsible for governor, while a deputy pandemic or an abuse of dential election after Washington, Dec. 15: US just before Christmas to matters important to the World Health Organis- roughly 1,000 cases. provincial council chief was power, can extinguish that Attorney General William spend the holidays with administration, and ation is aware of reports “We are aware of this killed in western Afghanistan flame,” Biden said. weeks of holding out. The Barr, who of late had pub- his family...,” Trump depart on December 23.” that a new variant of genetic variant I think on Tuesday, officials said. “In this battle for the Kremlin had said earlier licly differed with announced on twitter “I am greatly honored Covid-19 has been identi- reported in about 1,000 The attacks are the latest in soul of America, democra- that the Russian president President Donald Trump Monday night. that you called on me to fied in the United individuals in England, relentless violence in cy prevailed. We the peo- would hold off on congrat- on allegations of voter “Deputy Attorney serve your administration Kingdom, although there and the authorities in the Afghanistan even as the ple voted. Faith in our ulating Biden until the fraud in the November 3 General Jeff Rosen, an and the American people is no evidence to suggest UK under Matt Hancock's Taliban and Afghan govern- institutions held. The winner was officially con- presidential elections, has outstanding person, will once again as Attorney that the mutation will leadership are obviously ment negotiators hold talks in integrity of our elections firmed. resigned. become Acting Attorney General. I am proud to impact the effectiveness looking at the signifi- Qatar, trying to hammer out a remains intact. And so, Trump has appointed his General. Highly respected have played a role in the of vaccines against the cance of this,” Ryan said peace deal that could put an now it is time to turn the number. More votes than deputy Jeff Rosen as the Richard Donoghue will be many successes and unpr- disease, WHO Health at a WHO virtual press end to decades of war. Acco- page. To unite. To heal,” any ticket has received in Acting Attorney General. taking over the duties of ecedented achievements Emergencies Programme briefing. rding to Tariq Arian, an Afg- he said. the history of America. It “Just had a very nice Deputy Attorney General. you have delivered for the executive director Mike According to the WHO han interior ministry spoke- Biden said the election represented a winning meeting with Attorney Thank you to all!” Trump American people. Ryan said on Monday. official, there was no evi- sman, a sticky bomb attached outcome should be cele- margin of more than 7 General Bill Barr at the said as he tweeted the two- Your record is all the more UK health secretary dence to suggest that the to the armored vehicle belong- brated, not attacked, that million votes over the White House. Our rela- page resignation letter of historic because you Matt Hancock earlier in new variant of the disease ing to Kabul’s deputy provin- more than 81 million votes number of votes cast for tionship has been a very Barr. Barr, in his letter, accomplished it in the face the day announced that a would transmit more easily cial governor killed two people, were cast for him and Vice President Trump and Vice good one, he has done an said, “As discussed, I will of relentless implacable new variant of Covid-19 or undermine vaccines ag- and wounded two others. President-elect Kamala President Mike Pence, he outstanding job! As per spend the next week wrap- resistance,” he added. had been identified in the ainst Covid-19 that are be- The deputy provincial gover- Harris. This too is a record said. — PTI letter, Bill will be leaving ping up a few remaining — PTI south of England, and ing rolled out. — Agencies nor and the apparent target of the attack, Mahbobullah Mohibi, was killed alongside his secretary while two of his bodyguards were wounded, Arian said. PDM leaders booked as US federal agency homing in on NIGERIA: BOKO HARAM CLAIMS they ask PM Khan to quit social media firms’ data collection Lahore, Dec. 15: Pakis- held its final anti-govern- Nawaz (PML-N) vice pres- Washington, Dec. 15: ness model: harvesting tigations of market domi- they measure and promote MASS ABDUCTION tan Democratic Move- ment rally in Lahore on ident Maryam Nawaz, for- Federal regulators are ord- data from platform users nance by Big Tech compa- user engagement and how ment’s top leaders, includ- Sunday despite a ban on mer prime minister ering Facebook, Twitter, and making it available to nies concerns over data their practices affect chil- Lagos (Nigeria), Dec. 15: ing PML-N vice president the gathering of more Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Amazon, TikTok’s parent advertisers so they can power and privacy. dren and teens. “Never Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist Maryam Nawaz, were than 300 people owing to former National Asse- and five other social media pinpoint specific consu- The FTC wants to know before has there been an rebels have claimed responsi- booked on Tuesday for an increase in Covid-19 mbly speaker Sardar Ayaz companies to provide mers to target. The agency how social media and industry capable of sur- bility for the abduction of hun- causing irreparable dam- cases across the country. Sadiq, former railways detailed information on plans to use the informa- video streaming services veilling and monetising so dreds of students in an attack age to a national asset The PDM has been hold- minister Saad Rafique how they collect and use tion, due in 45 days, for a collect, use and track con- much of our personal on a boys school in northern after its Minar-e-Pakistan ing massive rallies since and 125 others under dif- consumers’ personal data comprehensive study. sumers’ personal and lives,” three of the five Katsina State, a Nigerian rally here, as the 11-party its inception in ferent sections of the Pa- and how their practices The other five companies demographic information, FTC commissioners said. online newspaper says. opposition alliance set September to seek Khan’s kistan Penal Code for br- affect children and teens. are Reddit, Snap, Discord, how they decide which ads They said the planned More than 330 students are January 31 deadline for ouster and press the pow- eaking the locks of Minar- The Federal Trade Com- WhatsApp, which is owned and other content are study “will lift the hood on missing from the Government Prime Minister Imran erful military to stop e-Pakistan gates, damag- mission’s action anno- by Facebook, and Google’s shown to consumers, whe- the social media and video Science Secondary School in Khan to step down or face interfering in politics. ing the official property unced on Monday goes to YouTube. Regulators and ther they apply algorithms streaming firms to care- Kankara after gunmen with long march on Islamabad. Lahore police booked and violating the Covid-19 the heart of the tech lawmakers are increasing- or data analytics to per- fully study their engines.” assault rifles attacked their The opposition alliance Pakistan Muslim League- guidelines. — PTI industry’s lucrative busi- ly weaving into their inves- sonal information, how teens. — AP school on Friday night. The Daily Nigerian said it received an audio message from Boko Haram leader Abubakar LEGAL | ORDER $100mn case was filed on September 19, 2019, challenging the Indian Parliament’s decision on J&K Shekau saying that his group abducted the schoolboys because Western education is against the tenets of Islam. “What happened in Katsina US Court terminates lawsuit against Modi, Shah was done to promote Islam and discourage un-Islamic prac- Washington, Dec. 15: A abrogated the special priv- dated October 6 and rec- tion last year changing the able to serve the summons tices as Western education is US court has dismissed a ileges of the state and ommended that the case status of the state of to Modi, Shah and Dhillon not the type of education per- $100-million lawsuit filed carved out two union terri- be dismissed. Jammu and Kashmir, at the Indian Consulate in mitted by Allah and his Holy against Prime Minister tories and sought a com- The case was terminated modifying provisions that Houston on February 18, Prophet,” the paper quoted Narendra Modi and Union pensation of $100 million by Judge Andrew S Hanen have been an obstacle to 2020. Shekau as saying. Home Minister Amit Shah from Modi, Shah and Lt. of the US District Court in economic development A conference was set by There has been no independ- after the litigants - a sepa- Gen. Kanwal Jeet Singh Texas on October 22. Apart and promoted a sense of the court for August 2. A ent verification of the audio ratist Kashmir Khalistan Dhillon. from the Kashmir separatism. Prime second conference was message but Shekau has in the outfit and two associates - Dhillon is currently serv- Khalistan Referendum Minister Modi, accompa- scheduled on October 6. past released video and audio failed to appear before it at ing as the Director-Gen- Front, the other two com- nied by US President Judge Stacy said that rep- messages on Boko Haram's two scheduled hearings. eral Defence Intelligence plainants have not been Donald Trump, had resentatives of the behalf. Nigerian presidential The suit was filed on Agency and Deputy Chief identified, other than the addressed a crowd of over Kashmir Khalistan spokesman Garba Shehu said September 19, 2019, days of Integrated Defence acronyms ‘TFK’ and 50,000 Indian-Americans Referendum Front failed in a statement on Monday that before Modi’s historic Staff under the Chief of Narendra Modi Amit Shah ‘SMS’. at the “Howdy, Modi!” to appear for the confer- “the kidnappers had made con- “Howdy, Modi!” event in Defence Staff. The suing party was rep- event in Houston on ence as such he recom- tact and discussions were Houston, Texas. It chal- “Other than that done nothing to prosecute Conferences, US District resented by separatist September 22, 2019. mended that the lawsuit be already on, pertaining to the lenged the Indian attempted service,” this case”, and have now Court Southern District of lawyer Gurpatwant Singh As per court records, dismissed. Two weeks safety and return” of the chil- Parliament’s decision on Kashmir Khalistan failed to appear at two Texas Judge Frances H. Pannun. The Indian Kashmir Khalistan later, Judge Hanen termi- dren to their homes. Jammu and Kashmir that Referendum Front “have duly set Scheduling Stacy said in his order Parliament passed legisla- Referendum Front was nated the case. — PTI WORLD DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY| 16 DECEMBER 2020 pg 10

SHORT TAKES CHINESE FISHING Macron to add VESSEL DETAINED IN PALAU climate clause Koror, Palau, Dec.15: An ille- gal Chinese fishing vessel and to Constitution its 28 crew have been detained in Palau, authorities said, cre- Paris, Dec. 15: French council in response to ating a delicate diplomatic sit- President Emmanuel demands for greater uation for the tiny Pacific Macron said on Monday “direct democracy” in the nation, which is allied with he plans to call a referen- wave of the “yellow vest” Beijing’s rival Taiwan. dum on changing the con- anti-government protests The boat was intercepted by stitution to include a com- that rocked the country in a patrol boat at Helen Reef, in mitment to fight against 2018 and 2019. Palau’s territorial waters, and climate change and for The unexpectedly fierce escorted to the main island of the protection of the envi- rebellion was sparked by Koror, the Division of Marine ronment. a planned fuel tax hike Law and Enforcement (DMLE) Speaking to members of aimed at funding the cli- said. a Citizen’s Convention on mate-change fight, which “They did have sea cucumber Climate, Macron said that critics said unfairly tar- on there... it’s estimated about the referendum would geted people who have no 500 pounds (225 kilograms),” propose adding a clause choice but to rely on their DMLE director Victor to the first article of the cars. The last referendum Remengesau told reporters on constitution which lays in France was in 2005 Monday. out the foundational prin- when voters were asked He said the Chinese fisher- ciples of the republic. to back the creation of a men and 19 crew from the “Constitutionally it (the European constitution. patrol boat that caught them referendum proposal) They rejected the pro- were undergoing 14 days quar- must first go to the posal in a humiliating antine in Palau, which is one National Assembly and defeat for then-president of the few places in the world then the Senate and be Jacques Chirac. that remains free of Covid-19. voted in identical terms,” Although the referen- Remengesau, the brother of Macron said. The dum proposal should easi- Palau President Tommy Citizen’s Convention is ly clear the lower-house Remengesau, said it had not composed of 150 random- National Assembly, where yet been decided whether to ly picked members of the Macron’s Republic on the charge the fishermen, who are public who were tasked Move party commands a believed to be from southern Tourists walk amongst beach foam in the wake of cyclonic conditions at Currumbin Beach on Tuesday after wild weather lashed Australia’s by Macron’s centrist gov- majority, it may face China’s Hainan province. Northern New South Wales and South East Queensland with heavy rain, strong winds and king tides. — AFP ernment with proposing opposition or delay in the “That’s one of the things that ways in which France Senate. we’re discussing,” he said. could cut its emissions. Presidential elections “We’ve been told we don’t They made a series of are scheduled for the first want them to be here any practical proposals from half of 2022. longer than they have to be.” reducing speed limits to Macron, a 42-year-old Palau, long regarded as a pio- improving home insula- centrist, has sought to neer in marine conservation, Heavy rains force officials to tion, but changing the sustain momentum inter- has banned foreign commer- constitution to include nationally to cut carbon cial fishing vessels from its the climate commitment emissions as laid out in waters. and making destroying the landmark 2015 Paris nature a crime — so- climate accord, which order evacuation in Australia called “ecocide” — topped was hit by the US with- SCIENTISTS their list of ideas in June. drawal under President WARN OF OIL Storm also whipped up thick sea foams, a rare event, along the beaches Macron formed the Donald Trump. — AFP SPILL IN RED SEA Sydney, Dec. 15: Aust- ● QUIET SEASIDE sub- ralia’s northeast coast was urbs were battered by the New York, Dec. 15: Scientists smashed by heavy rains, storm with high seas have called for action to wild winds and huge seas China’s coal ban destroying some of the remove the oil from an aban- for the fifth straight day doned taker in the Red Sea that on Tuesday, forcing wide- most famous beaches holds approximately one mil- spread evacuations. along the coast, including lion barrels of oil — four times As water levels contin- the main beach at popular will breach WTO the amount contained in the ued to rise due to the he- tourist spot Byron Bay in Exxon Valdez tanker which avy overnight rains shut- northern NSW. had a disastrous environmen- ting low-lying roads, New tal oil spill in 1989. South Wales (NSW) state or early Wednesday but rules, warns Oz According to the analysis, emergency services direct- warned isolated thunder- published in the journal ed hundreds of residents storms may still generate Canberra (Australia), Frontiers in Marine Science, of several regional towns localised heavy falls trig- Dec. 15: Australia’s POLAND TAPS COAL the tanker named Safer is a to move to safer places. gering flash floods. prime minister said on floating storage and offloading The cyclonic conditions, Australia is passing Tuesday that China unit (FSO) abandoned for generated by an intense through a summer expect- would be in breach of REGION FOR FIRST years in the Red Sea. “The low-pressure system off ed to be dominated by the World Trade Organi- time is now to prevent a poten- the Queensland coast, La Nina phenomenon, typ- sation rules as well as a ELECTRIC CAR PLANT tial devastation to the region’s have swallowed beaches ically associated with bilateral free trade agree- waters and the livelihoods and and submerged large greater rainfall and more General view of massive beach erosion in the wake of cyclonic conditions at Byron ment if it banned Warsaw, Dec. 15: Pola- health of millions of people swathes of the heavily tropical cyclones - a sharp Bay Main Beach on Tuesday. — AFP Australian coal. nd’s first state-backed ele- living in half a dozen coun- populated regions contrast to the massive Prime Minister Scott ctric car plant is expected tries along the Red Sea’s between NSW and bushfires that razed the Morrison was responding to begin production by coast,” said co-author Karine Queensland state borders. country last summer. to a report in the Chinese 2024 in a region of the EU Kleinhaus, Associate Quiet seaside suburbs “We’ve been warned by Australia’s Byron Bay beach state-owned Global Times country that now relies Professor of the School of were battered by the storm the weather experts that newspaper that the heavily on coal mining Marine and Atmospheric with high seas destroying La Nina will have an Chinese National for jobs, the ElectroMo- Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony some of the most famous impact over summer in Development and Reform bility Poland (EMP) car- Brook University in the US. beaches along the coast, the eastern coast of Austr- shrinks as sand disappears Commission had given maker said on Thursday. “If a spill from the Safer is including the main beach alia so we need to expect power plants approval to Lagging behind its allowed to occur, the oil would at popular tourist spot the unexpected,” NSW Byron, Bay, Dec. 15: sand-shifting phenomenon moves from one beach to import coal without smaller EU neighbours spread via ocean currents to Byron Bay in northern Premier Gladys Berejik- Australia’s Byron Bay usu- known as “headland another around a rocky restrictions except for the Czech Republic and devastate a global ocean NSW. lian told Australian Broa- ally conjures images of bypassing”. Recent wild headland or cape, largely Australian coal. Slovakia in making elec- resource, as the coral reefs of The storm also whipped dcasting Corp television. bathers lounging on storms have then eroded it due to energy from waves, Morrison said he was tric vehicles, Poland pre- the northern Red Sea and Gulf up thick sea foams, a rare “I’m hoping what we’ve sunkissed shores, or further. before eventually shifting treating the report as sented its own SUV and of Aqaba are projected to be event, along the beaches in seen in the last few days blissed-out longboarders For more than six back. “media speculation” hatchback prototypes among the last reef ecosys- Gold Coast that lured fam- won’t be repeated fre- cruising along cyan-blue months, residents have In recent days major because the Chinese gov- earlier this year under tems in the world to survive ilies and children to play quently over summer, but waves — but coastal ero- watched helplessly as the storms brought strong ernment had yet to clarify the Izera brand name. the coming decades,” in the bubbles, footage on it could. Our weather sion and lashing storms beach has slowly disap- winds and large waves, its position. “If that were Meeting with local offi- Kleinhaus said. social media showed. experts tell us they are have reduced its seashore peared because of what which have combined with the case, then that would cials there, EMP’s presi- She said the coral reefs of the Australia’s Bureau of expecting conditions to a debris-strewn slither. scientists say is the natu- high tides to worsen the obviously be in breach of dent Piotr Zaremba said northern Red Sea are unique Meteorology said the worse than what we’ve The tourist hotspot’s ral process of headland sand losses — leaving the WTO rules,” Morrison the plant would be built since they survive in much heavy rains are expected seen in quite a number of main beach has been sand bypassing. beach reduced to a fraction told reporters. “It would in Jaworzno, a mining warmer waters than today's to weaken by late Tuesday years.” — Reuters reduced to a thin strip by a This occurs when sand of its former self. — AFP be obviously in breach of town in the southern ocean temperatures, which are our on free trade agree- Silesian coal basin. becoming too high for most ment and so we would With production to coral to tolerate. hope that’s certainly not begin in three years, with WORLD NATURE the case.” ‘ a full target of 2,00,000 Coal and iron ore are vehicles per year, the INDIAN PLEADS Smugglers thrash Rohingya on boat Australia’s most lucrative plant is expected to emp- CONGRESS SET exports. But Australian loy some 3,000 people wh- GUILTY OF $36.1M Cox’s Bazar, Dec. 15: among them. interview at a Bangladesh a mutiny. exports appear to have ile an additional 12,000 FOR SEPT. 2021 Smugglers mercilessly An argument starts and refugee camp conducted The footage was shot sev- suffered due to deteriorat- jobs will be created by GAS OIL HEIST beat rake-thin refugees one of the traffickers, as part of a months-long eral days before the gro- ing bilateral relations suppliers and subcon- Paris, Dec. 15: A twice- crowded onto a fishing holding a thick rope in one AFP investigation into the up’s Malaysia-bound boat since Australia called for tractors. — AFP Singapore, Dec. 15: A 40- delayed summit aimed boat, in a video obtained hand, pushes a Rohingya people-smuggling net- returned to Bangladesh in an independent inquiry year-old Indian man on at forging an interna- by AFP that shows rarely man back and kicks him. work. mid-April, he said. It had into the coronavirus pan- Tuesday pleaded guilty to his tional plan to reverse seen images from the He then uses what “They randomly beat us departed in February. demic. Birmingham told involvement in misappropria- catastrophic species loss frontlines of the Rohingya appears to be a whip with just because we were ask- Earlier beatings, which Trade Minister Simon Australian Broadcasting tion of SGD 49 million ($36.1 will take place in Septe- trafficking network. his other hand to repeated- ing for more rice and were not captured on Birmingham said Corp. referring to the million) worth of gas oil at a mber 2021, its organisers Filmed on a mobile ly lash a group of shirtless water.”Osman’s neigh- video, saw some Rohingya Australia was close to reported coal import ban. multinational refinery in said on Tuesday. phone by a smuggler who men who scramble to bour, Enamul Hasan, 19, die at the hands of the finalizing a complaint to “They, if true, would Singapore. Sadagopan Prem- The International later fled the vessel, the avoid the beating. who was also on the ship, smugglers, Hasan told the World Trade indicate discriminatory nath committed the crime in Union for the Conser- video shows dozens of asy- “They started beating us said he grabbed the phone AFP at the refugee camp. Organisation over trade practices being 2017-18 while working at the vation of Nature annual lum seekers, including because we complained after one of the traffickers “They beat us merciless- Chinese tariffs imposed deployed by Chinese Royal-Dutch Shell Eastern congress was not held as children, sitting in the about the food,” Moha- left it behind when fleeing ly — hitting our heads, on barley. “We see these authorities and we would Petroleum located on Pulau planned in June this hull and on the deck as mmad Osman, a 16-year- onto another vessel during tearing at our ears, break- reports and obviously are urge them to rule that out Bukom island. Premnath will year and was postponed smugglers stand old passenger, said in an what amounted to ing hands.” — AFP deeply troubled by them,” swiftly,” he added. — AP return to court for mitigation indefinitely in Septe- and sentencing in February. mber as the second wave The case also involves sever- of Covid-19 mounted. al other employees at the refin- “The IUCN Congress SCIENTIFIC | MILESTONE Hayabusa2 spacecraft brought back from a distant asteroid this month ery. He pleaded guilty to four will be a key milestone charges of abetting criminal for nature conservation breach of trust as a servant, and the development of while another five charges will a new global framework be considered in his sentence, for biodiversity,” it said according to a report by the in a statement. The sum- Japan finds ample soil, gas from asteroid Channel News Asia. Premnath mit will now be held is the first Shell employee September 3-11, 2021, in Tokyo, Dec. 15: Officials container on Monday. are now in our hands.” tists hope will provide involved in the heist to admit Marseille, France. from Japan’s space agency By Tuesday, scientists Tsuda called the success- insight into the origins of to the charges. He began work- The IUCN congress is said on Tuesday they have found more of the soil and ful return of asteroid soil the solar system and life ing with the company around one of the biggest biodi- found more than the antic- gas samples in a compart- and gas samples “a major on Earth. Hirotaka 2012 as a fieldman. versity summits on the ipated amount of soil and ment that stored those scientific milestone.” Sawada, a JAXA scientist, The heist occurred at the global calendar, with gases inside a small cap- from the first of The pan-shaped capsule, was the first to look inside manufacturing site on Shell conservationists urging sule the country’s Hayabusa’s two touch- 40 centimeters (15 inches) the capsule’s sample- Pulau Bukom, the company’s nations to use the oppor- Hayabusa2 spacecraft downs on the asteroid last in diameter, was dropped catcher. largest wholly-owned refinery tunity to commit to pre- brought back from a dis- year. “We have confirmed by Hayabusa2 from space Sawada said he was “al- in the world in terms of crude serving vast wild spaces tant asteroid this month, a a good amount of sand to a predetermined spot in most speechless” with sur- oil distillation capacity and its in order to halt species mission they praised as a apparently collected from a sparsely populated prise and joy when he fo- largest petrochemical produc- decline. milestone for planetary the asteroid Ryugu, along Australian desert on Dec. und that the samples in- tion and export centre in the Campaigners are seek- research. with gases,” JAXA 6 at the end of its six-year side included were just the Asia Pacific. The conspiracy to ing a binding interna- The Japan Aerospace Hayabusa2 project manag- round trip to Ryugu, more expected dust size but also misappropriate gas oil began tional agreement gov- Exploration Agency said er Yuichi Tsuda said in a than 300 million kilome- size of grain and pebbles. in 2007 with co-accused Juandi erning the preservation its staff initially spotted video message during an ters (190 million miles) Soil samples in photos Pungot and Abdul Latif of nature, similar to some black particles sit- online news conference. from Earth. shown in Tuesday’s pres- Ibrahim, both Shell employ- what the Paris accord ting on the bottom of the “The samples from out- The capsule arrived in entation looked like dark This photo provided by the Japan Aerospace Explora- ees, and grew to involve more mandates for climate capsule’s sample-catcher side of our planet, which Japan last Tuesday for coffee grounds or black tion Agency (JAXA), shows soil samples, seen inside a people over 11 years. action. — AFP when they pulled out the we have long dreamed of, research that will scien- sesame seeds. — AP container of the re-entry capsule on Tuesday. — AP HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 16 DECEMBER 2020 pg 11

Delinquencies spike post-moratorium BPCL MAY BUY Personal loan-book OMAN OIL quick Loan disbursals STAKE IN BINA growth flat this year REFINERY BITES SANGEETHA G and near nil economic CHENNAI, DEC. 15 activity through most of New Delhi, Dec. 15: by MFIs up in Q2 the five-month period in Privatisation-bound The pandemic has halted FY21. Originations in Bharat Petroleum Corp- INDICATORS % the growth of the person- metros have witnessed a oration Ltd (BPCL) has Sensex 46,263.17 0.02 SANGEETHA G al loan-book and the 42 per cent de-growth said its board will on Nifty 50 13,567.85 0.07 CHENNAI, DEC. 15 delinquencies are grow- compared to the same Thursday consider buy- ing. After growing 26 per period in the previous ing out Oman Oil S&P 500* 3,673.03 0.70 Though micro-loan dis- cent in FY20 and 40 per year, as against 27 per Company in the Bina Dollar (`) 73.64 -0.09 bursals have witnessed a cent in the previous two cent in tier III and refinery project in Pound Sterling (`) 98.08 0.57 five-fold growth in the years, personal loan- beyond cities. Madhya Pradesh. September quarter over book remained flat The average ticket size The BPCL board will Euro (`) 89.53 -0.13 the previous quarter, between April and has been reducing con- also consider merging Gold (10gm)* (`) 48,847▼514 1.05 delinquencies have spiked August this year. tinuously over the last Bharat Gas Resources after the moratorium on However, delinquencies two years. In March 2020, Ltd(BGRL) with itself, Brent crude ($/bbl)* 50.69 0.40 loan repayments ended on have risen in the five- it had shrunk by 18 per the company said in a IN 10-Yr bond yield 5.941 -0.005 August 31. month period. cent to 2,22,000. However, filing to the stock US 10-Yr T-bill yield* 0.906 0.015 Micro-loan disbursals As of August 2020, the the average ticket size exchanges on Tuesday. have, after a steep fall in personal loan-book stood increased by 5 per cent to BPCL holds 63.68 per * As of 8:30 PM IST the June quarter, made at Rs 5,07,684 crore, hav- Rs 230,000 by August over cent stake in Bharat considerable recovery in ing grown by only 0.57 March. Oman Refineries Ltd the September quarter. In per cent over Rs 5,04,792 around 60 per cent, much The amount of delin- (BORL), which operates the September quarter crore in March 2020 due faster compared to previ- quencies for 31-180 days a 7.8 million tonne oil Exports dip 8.7%, loan disbursals by micro- to Covid-19 disruptions. ous years. However, past due and 91-180 days refinery in Bina. lenders went up to Rs In the year-ended March Covid-19 has impacted past due have increased The company board 31,261 crore against Rs 2020, the loan-book had the originations in the by 44 basis points and 26 will on December 17 imports 13% 6,186 crore in the June grown by 26.4 per cent, five months of this fiscal bps, respectively. Loan "consider a proposal for quarter-a steep five-times 36,940 in the previous two quency coming down. but was lower than the 40 year, with a minor de- delinquencies for 91-180 according 'in-principle' in November increase in a quarter. quarters. According to Manoj per cent rate of growth in growth of 1.5 per cent in dpd have increased by 2X approval" for "acquisi- However, on the flip side, However, delinquencies Nambiar, chairperson of the previous two years, the active loans. in the last two years from tion of 36.62 per cent of Exports contracted for the sec- the disbursals have not have soared post-morato- MFIN India, the livelihood as per data from CRIF The personal loan-book 0.91 per cent in March equity shares in BORL ond consecutive month in even recovered to half of rium. Portfolio at Risk of all the borrowers has High Mark, a Mumbai- in metro cities felt a 2018 to 2.59 per cent from OQ S.A.O.C. (for- November after recording posi- the March quarter levels. (PAR) for 30 days-or the not come back to normal. based credit bureau. greater impact of the March 2020. It further merly known as Oman tive growth for a month in In the March quarter, the outstanding balance of Some are making part As of March 2020 active pandemic, owing to moved up to 2.64 per cent Oil Company S.A.O.C.)," September, as the second wave lenders had disbursed Rs loans in arrears---has payments and some full loans had grown by stricter lockdown rules in August. it said. This would of the pandemic hit consumer 71,090 crore. In fact, in the shown a sharp increase payments. "Collection effi- amount to the acquisi- demand in some of the largest lockdown-hit June quar- once the moratorium ciencies are improving tion of 88.8 crore equity markets. Exports fell 8.7 per ter, disbursals had fallen ended. PAR-30 stood month-on-month. Earlier, shares from OQ. cent while imports contracted 91 per cent. around 1.5 per cent till the we had thought that effi- The board would also 13.3 per cent, resulting in a The number of loans dis- June quarter but has ciencies would return to consider a proposal to trade deficit of $9.9 billion. bursed had fallen from 192 sharply moved up to 4.39 pre-Covid levels by NPS, Atal Pension assets grow 35% approach the Madhya Exports of petroleum products lakh in the March quarter per cent in the September December. But, it would Pradesh government for were down 59.7 per cent while to 21 lakh in the June quarter, as per the data probably take one or two RAVI RANJAN PRASAD Pension Fund Regulatory crore by end-November acquiring 2.69 crore pharma were up 11.1 per cent. quarter but has recovered from MFIN India, a micro- months more," he said. MUMBAI, DEC.15 and Development 2020 from over 3.20 crore warrants held by it in to 88 lakh in the financiers association. The total loan outstand- Authority . in November 2019, show- BORL. September quarter. A Banks have seen the ing of all the micro Asset under management As on November 30, ing a year-on-year The meeting would four-fold quarterly growth highest increase in delin- lenders recovered to Rs (AUM) of the National 2020, total pension assets increase of 21.35 per cent. also consider "merger of in the number of loan quencies; from a sub-1 per 2,31,778 crore--closer to the Pension System and Atal under management stood Growing awareness Bharat Gas Resour-ces DakPay app for accounts in the September cent level in the June March quarter gross loan Pension Yojana grew over at Rs 5,32,378 crore show- about the tax saving ben- Ltd (a wholly owned quarter has only helped a quarter, PAR-30 went up to portfolio (GLP) of Rs 35 per cent year-on-year ing a year-on-year growth efits of the NPS led to subsidiary) with BPCL," India Post, 45 per cent recovery to the 5.97 per cent. NBFC-MFIs 2,31,788 crore--after com- at the end of November to of 35.76 per cent from Rs maximum subscriber the filing said. BGRL March quarter levels. saw it moving up from 1 ing down to Rs 2,27,727 more than Rs 5.32 lakh 3,92,467 crore in growth in all citizen sec- won licence to retail However, the average per cent to 4.17 per cent crore in the June quarter. crore. November 2019. tor by 33.38 per cent CNG to automobiles and payments bank loan size has made a and small finance banks However, the September The total number of The number of sub- and assets under manage- PNG to households and smarter recovery. It has witnessed a rise from near quarter saw 14.89 per cent subscribers grew 21.35 scribers in various ment for this category industries in 13 returned to Rs 35,652 in 1 per cent levels to 2.75 per growth in GLP against the per cent year-on-year to schemes under the of subscribers also Geographical Areas. the September quarter cent. However, NBFCs saw same quarter in the previ- over 3.88 lakh crore, said National Pension System grew by maximum 51.11 — PTI from Rs 29,480 and Rs the PAR-30 days' delin- ous year. a release issued by (NPS) rose to over 3.88 per cent. High inflows threaten RBI’s tight grip on rupee Automotive industry lost

Customers of the Department SUBHADIP SIRCAR & liquidity management Traders point to how the year, on course for the ing 12 months, according `2,300 cr per day during of Post (India Post) and the ANIRBAN NAG while juggling FX inflows, RBI has bought $58 billion most on an annual basis to estimates from India Post Payments Bank DEC. 15 secondary bond market of dollars in the first nine since 2013. Foreign Deutsche Bank AG. (IPPB) can now operate their purchases to keep long- months of the year as investors have also com- "Given the multiple chal- lockdown: House panel banking service through an app A relentless torrent of term borrowing costs low signs of its intervention. pleted about $30 billion of lenges from excess liquidi- DakPay, which was unveiled by funds rushing into India's and ensuring money-mar- Governor Shaktikanta acquisitions in cash, ty due to capital flows and New Delhi, Dec. 15: In ed and the an estimated communications and IT minister markets may tip the cen- ket rates are aligned to the Das has only commented according to data compiled inflation, the RBI may be the wake of the Covid-19 job loss in the auto sector Ravi Shankar Prasad. DakPay tral bank's delicate balanc- policy rate," said Kanika very broadly on the matter, by Bloomberg. forced to reduce the inter- pandemic and the subse- at 3.45 lakh," the panel will facilitate services such as ing act in 2021. Pasricha, an economist at writing in the most recent Declines in the dollar, vention and allow appreci- quent lockdowns, the auto- said in its report. sending money, scanning QR For most of this year, the Standard Chartered Plc in policy statement that the which is forecast to keep ation," said Arvind Chari, motive industry suffered a Hiring of manpower has code and making payment for Reserve Bank of India has Mumbai. Steps must be central bank acts to damp falling in 2021, are fuelling head of fixed income and loss of Rs 2,300 crore per been stopped in the auto services and merchants digitally. capped currency gains as taken to realign money- forex volatility and keep fund flows into emerging alternatives at Quantum day and the estimated job industry sector. Besides It will also provide interoperable global investors poured market rates with policy the rupee in sync with markets globally. Advisors. loss in the sector was that, 286 auto dealers have banking services. around $50 billion into rates, she said. underlying domestic fun- In India, capital inflows The median of estimates about 3.45 lakh, according been closed. Further, pro- stocks and stakes in com- While most currencies in damentals. may reach $82 billion by compiled by Bloomberg is to a parliamentary panel duction cuts in the auto- panies. This has boosted Asia have benefited from a Inflows into India's equi- the end of the fiscal year, for the rupee to appreciate report submitted to Rajya mobile sector have a per- rupee liquidity in a bank- weaker dollar, the rupee is ty markets have grown to then continue at much the to 72 per dollar by the end Sabha chairman M. colating negative impact ing system that's already down 3 per cent this year. more than $19 billion this same pace for the follow- of 2021. Analysts at Gold- Venkaiah Naidu on on the component indus- flush with cash from the man Sachs forecast the Tuesday. try adver-sely affecting the MSN gets USFDA RBI's stimulus measures. currency as strong as 70 by The parliamentary micro, small and medium There's growing consen- March 2022. It ended trad- standing committee on enterprises (MSMEs) nod for asenapine sus among traders and FPIs invest nearly `42K crore this month ing at 73.63 on Tuesday. commerce, chaired by engaged in the automobile fund managers that the To be sure, some includ- Telan-gana Rashtra spare parts manufactur- mounting pressures--par- RAVI RANJAN PRASAD inflows in November, and excessive liquidity is ing B. Prasanna, ICICI Samithi (TRS) MP Keshav ing, the report said. sublingual tablets ticularly the liquidity glut MUMBAI, DEC.15 according to national driving foreign portfolio Bank's head of global mar- Rao, has suggested a slew "As informed by the MSN Group said its marketing distorting money markets- depository NSDL’s data. investors to load up on kets, sales, trading and of measures for attracting automobile industry asso- partner, Breckenridge Pharma- -may spur the central bank It’s another fortnight of So far in the calendar emerging markets equi- research, argue that when investment in the automo- ciations, the production ceutical, has received final to consider a range of foreign portfolio year 2020 FPIs invest- ties, specially Indian you look at the rupee rela- tive sector, including over- stoppage at the automo- approval for its ANDA for ase- changes, from relaxing its investors (FPIs) pumping ment in equities stands equities in a big way, tive to a basket of its trad- hauling of prevalent land tive OEM and component napine sublingual tablets, in 2.5 grip on Asia's worst-per- money in the Indian at Rs 1,50,144 crore, of pushing them to a record ing partners, the currency and labour laws. supplier due to the Covid- mg and 10 mg strengths, a forming currency to cur- equity market, encour- which close to Rs 1 lakh high. We are also wit- is overvalued and the RBI "The committee was 19 pandemic and subse- generic for Saphris, with the tailing bond purchases. aged by favourable crore has come after the nessing a strong recov- will have little tolerance informed by the auto quent lockdowns led to a US FDA. Additionally, the 5mg A modest gain in the macro economic data, US Presidential elec- ery in demand in the for it to strengthen sharply. industry associations that loss of approximately Rs strength received tentative rupee over the past month sharp fall in fresh daily tions. economy, which is lead- With excess cash in the all the major original 2,300 crore per day to the approval. This product, for could mean that policy Covid cases and weaker On Tuesday, too, FPIs ing to strength in the banking system estimated equipment manufacturers automotive sector," it said. schizophrenia and bipolar dis- makers are already dollar. Till December 15, were net investors in rupee as the year draws at Rs 7 lakh crore ($95 bn), (OEM) have cut down The standing committee order, was developed with dialling intervention down in the first half of the Indian equities by Rs to a close," Sugandha key overnight rates have their production by 18-20 further said the actual Breckenridge Pharmaceutical a touch, or that inflows are month, Rs 41,898 crore 2,484.09 crore, as per the Sachdeva, VP-metals, plunged below the reverse per cent due to low magnitude of the impact for the US market. starting to get the better of have been invested in provisional exchange energy & currency repo rate that marks the demand and decline in depends on the duration of them. equities by the FPIs after data. research at Religare lower bound of the central sales of vehicles. As a lockdown period, the "We believe that the RBI over Rs 60,000 crore net "Value erosion in dollar Broking, said. bank's policy corridor. result, the employment intensity and extent of is facing a tough task of —Bloomberg scenario in the automo- spread of the Covid-19 out- bile sector has been affect- break. —PTI EeVe India rolls out Atreo, Ahava Flexible wedding jewellery SAVING | MOTHER EARTH Rice cultivation uses 30-40% of the world’s freshwater e-scooters EeVe India, the Odisha-based purchase plan from Tanishq Drip irrigation to make rice eco-friendly electric two-wheeler startup, introduced two new electric Mumbai, Dec. 15: In a pared to spot purchase, ARI RABINOVITCH the production without switch to aerobic from scooters called Ahava and move to assist consumers Rivaah Aashirwaad gives JERUSALEM, DEC. 15 increasing water use or anaerobic, which means Atreo priced at Rs 55,900 and in buying jewellery for customers the flexibility lowering quality,” said methane emission “goes Rs 64,900 at Delhi showroom, weddings and related to plan their purchase in An Israeli company has Michele Conte, whose to zero,” said CEO Gaby respectively. With this, the occasions, Titan's jew- terms of the quantum, developed a drip irriga- family has managed La Miodownik. brand now sells six models in ellery arm Tanishq has duration and benefits. tion system for growing Fagiana for decades and Conte said the schedule India. The Ahava electric scoot- introduced a new pur- Tanishq introduced rice to replace the flooded who has adopted the for treating the rice still er is claimed to have a range of chase plan—Rivaah Rivaah—its dedicated paddies that have sup- Netafim system on some needs some fine tuning 60-70km while the Atreo Aashirwaad. Through wedding jewellery sub- plied the world with rice of his land. but that it has become a claims 90-100km. The two this plan, consumers brand—in 2017, for generations but cause For three years the drip selling point for environ- electric scooters have a run- can plan their wed- Business catering to the a surprising level of dam- irrigation has yielded mentally concerned cus- ning cost of 15 paise per km. ding jewellery pur- diverse and varied age to the environment. rice on par and at times tomers. chase in a structured NOTE jewellery needs Rice is the staple food gation decades ago to by-side, grow a high qual- even better quality than The initial investment and systematic man- across communi- for more than half the grow produce like pota- ity rice for risotto. One is the flooded paddies, he in pipes, pumps and fil- Printed & Published by ner and yield great dis- ties and regions. global population, but its toes and melons across flooded, covered entirely said. It also allows them ters could be expensive K. Sudhakar on behalf of Deccan counts on the making Ajoy Chawla, chief exec- cultivation uses 30-40 per Israel’s challenging arid by up to 15 cm of water to to rotate crops through- for farmers whose profit Chronicle Holdings Limited, Printed at charges towards the end utive officer, jewellery cent of the world’s fresh- landscape, has just fin- maintain temperatures out the year. margins are, for the most Deccan Chronicle Press at Deccan of the plan. division, Titan Company water and is responsible ished a pilot scheme and keep away weeds. Netafim said it had to part, already thin. Chronicle Holdings Ltd. #563/9/D&9/E, As the name signifies, Ltd, said: "With Rivaah for 10 per cent of man- using its technology on The other is criss- learn from scratch how to But the shift away from Behind Andhra Bank Pet Basheerbagh, achieve the same yield as flooding is expected to Kompally, Ranga Reddy Dist. Aashirwaad is the bless- Aashirwaad, we aim to made emissions of green- 1,000 hectares (2,470 crossed with perforated Editor: T.Venkatram Reddy, RNI Reg ing in gold that is gifted to offer the best opportunity house gas methane, acres) of rice fields in pipes delivering to the flooding and it took a gain traction and compa- No.APENG/2008/24282. © All rights the bride on her wedding. to brides and their fami- according to the UN- locations from Europe to roots precise amounts of decade to create a new nies like India’s Jain reserved. Reproduction in whole or in Towards this, customers lies to build their wedding backed Sustainable Rice southern Asia. water amounting to less protocol for watering, fer- Irrigation are developing part without written permission of The can enrol for a monthly trousseau with the finest Platform. At one such location, at than half the quantity tilizing and planting rice drip irrigation packages Editor, Financial Chronicle ® is purchase plan. Tanishq designs, assur- Netafim, a company La Fagiana farm in north- used on the flooded field. with drip irrigation. for rice as well. prohibited. Apart from offering bet- ance of purity and at com- that pioneered drip irri- east Italy, two fields, side- “We want to increase The growing conditions — Reuters ter value for money com- petitive prices." GAMES pg 12 DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | WEDNESDAY | 16 DECEMBER 2020

SHORT TAKES Yuvraj named in Virat second best Punjab probables in Test rankings New Delhi: World Cup winning former India all-rounder Yuvraj BATTLE READY Dubai, Dec. 15: India cap- ● Kohli is the Singh is set to come out of tain Virat Kohli on retirement and play domestic Tuesday jumped one place leading Indian cricket again after being named Australia have plans in place for Kohli & Co. to second in the ICC Test batsman in the chart in Punjab’s 30-strong list of ranking for batsmen, with 886 rating probables for next month’s Adelaide, Dec. 15: which also features points behind Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tourna- Australia coach Justin Chesteshwar Pujara and Australia’s Steve ment. Yuvraj had announced his Langer on Tuesday Ajinkya Rahane at the sev- retirement last June but he asserted that his team enth and 10th positions Smith (911 points). decided to resume playing for will “have plans in place” respectively. Chesteshwar Pujara his home state after being for Indian talisman Virat Kohli is the leading is seventh on the approached by Punjab Cricket Kohli as cricket’s heavy- Indian batsman in the list with 766 points, Association secretary. weights renew one of the chart with 886 rating The 39-year-old left-handed sport’s greatest rivalries points behind Australia’s followed by Ben batsman, who has played 304 with the opening day- Steve Smith (911 points). Stokes (760), Joe ODIs, 40 Tests and 58 T20Is for night Test here from New Zealand skipper Root (738) and India India, has been training at the Thursday. Kane Williamson dropped Test vice-captain PCA stadium in Mohali and also The four-match series a rung to the third spot. He posted a video of his prepara- opener at Adelaide Oval is followed by young Ajinkya Rahane (726) tions on social media. will be the only time India Australian batting sensa- to complete the captain Kohli will play tion Marnus Labuschagne, RAINA ALL SET FOR UP top-10 list. Test cricket Down Under Pakistan’s Babar Azam Former India batsman Suresh this summer as he will and injured David Warner. Raina is all set to represent his return home after the Pujara is seventh in the rating points behind West home state of Uttar Pradesh. game to attend the birth chart with 766 points, fol- Indies’ Jason Holder, Raina announced his retirement of his first child. lowed by Ben Stokes (760), Ashwin is at sixth with 281 from international cricket in Langer, however, is Joe Root (738) and India points. August this year, but will con- determined to stop Kohli Test vice-captain Rahane In the ICC Test rankings tinue to play domestic cricket from setting the tone for (726) to complete the top-10 for teams, India are cur- for his native state and in the the series. list. rently placed third after Indian Premier League. “He is a great player and Pace spearhead Jasprit New Zealand jumped to the an equally great leader. I Bumrah (779) and veteran second spot following their SREESANTH IN KERALA LIST have got so much respect off-spinner Ravichandran recent 2-0 series win over Former India fast bowler S. for him but we are going Ashwin (756) are the two the West Indies. Sreesanth on Tuesday moved to be really well planned Indians to find a place in India have 114 rating closer to a return to competi- for him because we know the ICC Test rankings for points, two points behind tive cricket after being named how important he is for bowlers at eighth and 10th New Zealand and table-top- in a 26-strong probables list. spots respectively. pers Australia, who both The 37-year-old was banned by The list is being headed have 116 points but the the BCCI over his alleged by Australia’s Pat Aussies are ahead on deci- involvement in spot-fixing in Cummins (904), followed by mal points. the IPL. — Agencies England’s Stuart Broad England are placed and New Zealand’s Neil fourth ahead of Sri Lanka, Wagner. South Africa, Pakistan, Hyderabad ride Two other Indians — West Indies, Bangladesh Ravindra Jadeja and and Zimbabwe. on Santana brace Ashwin — also feature in But India have a chance the top-10 list for ICC Test to move up the ranking lad- Vasco: Aridane Santana struck rankings for all-rounders, der as they take on twice in less than a minute to which is being topped by Australia in the four-match script Hyderabad FC’s thrilling India captain Virat Kohli at a training session Stokes. Test series, starting 3-2 win over SC East Bengal in in Adelaide on Tuesday, ahead of the first While Jadeja is placed Thursday in Adelaide. an Indian Super League match Test against Australia. — AFP third in the chart with 397 — PTI here on Tuesday. Santana’s twin burst came in the 56th minute after SC East India as a leader and as a Bengal scored their first ever batsman. So, we will have ISL goal through Jacques our plans in place. Maghoma in the 26th minute. “The next trick is to exe- There was no looking back for cute them, hopefully, Hyderabad after that as they keep him out of the game struck a third goal in the 68th with his runs. At the end Gavaskar bats for Pant, Gill minute with Liston Colaco mak- of the day, that’s where he ing a terrific run to set it up for is going to have the New Delhi, Dec. 15: The ferred Pant over a more- Halicharan Narzary to find the biggest impact. We’ve legendary Sunil accomplished keeper in back of the net. seen a lot of him now, and Gavaskar feels the Indian RAHANE KEEPS CARDS Saha, as Australian But there was more drama in he has seen a lot of us team management pitches are not so store as Maghoma too complet- too,” Langer said during a should prefer an aggres- demanding when it ed a brace from Anthony virtual media interaction. sive Rishabh Pant over a CLOSE TO HIS CHEST comes to keeping wick- Pilkington’s freekick to reduce Langer also made it technically sound ets. the margin in the 81st minute. clear that his team will Wriddhiman Saha for the Adelaide, Dec. 15: 50 minutes of the twi- Both Gavaskar and East Bengal thus suffered their focus more on the skill wicket-keeper’s role in India vice-captain light session, will be the Border batted for fourth defeat from five matches part and look for ways to the four-match Test Ajinkya Rahane on biggest challenge for Shubman Gill over to remain at the bottom of the get Kohli out instead of series against Australia, Tuesday conceded that any batsman. “I think, Prithvi Shaw to open table with one point. needlessly engaging with starting Thursday. pacer Ishant Sharma’s we do really have a along side Mayank Members of the Valluvar Nagar Football Club pose with Hyderabad FC, on the other him. “What we talk about Gavaskar, the fastest to absence is a “big miss” strong attack but yes we Agarwal in the series. the trophy after defeating CFA in the final. hand, remained unbeaten from is how to get Virat out. He reach 10,000 Test runs, but side-stepped queries will definitely miss “...India is a little bit five matches (nine points) to be is such a great player, we said that with a blistering on his team’s possible Ishant, being the senior shaky at the top of the placed at fifth place in the 11- don’t talk about whether 73-ball 103-run knock in first XI combination for fast bowler,” he said. order. They don’t know team standings. — PTI we taunt him or not. the second warm-up the opening Day/Night Ishant is recovering who they are going to go That’s rubbish... We play game under his belt, Pant Test against Australia from a rib injury sus- with. Mayank Agarwal is VN Nagar grab on the skill, not on emo- will give India more flexi- starting on Thursday. tained during the IPL. of course a certainty. But Grealish banned tions,” he said. bility in the first Test, the Rahane, who is expect- Rahane, however, is who’s the other opener — Australia may have only day-night game, to ed to lead in the last confident that despite Shubman Gill or Prithvi from driving played more day-night be played in Adelaide. three Tests after regular Ishant’s absence, the Shaw?” said Gavaskar. football trophy Tests compared to India’s “It is going to be a tough skipper Virat Kohli goes pace attack comprising “So with uncertainty at London: Aston Villa captain one but according to one for the tour selection on paternity leave, also Jasprit Bumrah and the top, they would like to DC CORRESPONDENT Yogesh, Aaron and Venu, Jack Grealish was given a nine- Langer, his team would committee because spoke about how pink Mohammed Shami will strengthen their batting HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 much to the delight of month driving ban on Tuesday have no advantage head- Rishabh played in all the ball’s increased pace off step it up for the and so Pant will play. I am coaches Emmanuel and after crashing his Range Rover ing into the opening pink 4 Test matches four years the pitch during the 40- Australians. — PTI hoping he (Rishabh) Valluvar Nagar Football Shiva Kumar. during the coronavirus lock- ball match. “The best ago. He also got a hun- plays at 6 because then Club defeated Champions Earlier in the semifinals, down in March. players and best teams dred and seemed he got stumps. choice of the manage- that will allow you to pick Football Academy (CFA, VN Nagar defeated Grealish was sentenced at adapt regardless of the under the skin of the “...When you just came ment I think,” Gavaskar 5 bowlers to try and get 20 Yousufguda) to win the Hyderabad Clusters 1-0 Birmingham Magistrates’ Court big game or the colour of Australian players with off a hundred few days said. Australian wickets.” Inaugural Cup hosted by with Justin scoring the after previously pleading guilty the ball,” he said. — PTI his chirping behind the earlier, he would be the Gavaskar said he pre- — PTI Hyderabad Football lone goal. to two charges. Association and coordinat- In the group stages, VN The 25-year-old’s vehicle hit ed by Sports Village, at the Nagar beat Abbas Union 1- two parked vehicles in Dickens Eagles Arena in Tarnaka, 0 via Yogesh’s strike before Heath, Solihull, West Midlands. Hyderabad. blasting past Bewin FC 3-0 As well as the driving ban, Samuel scored the all- as Akash, Yogesh and Venu England midfielder Grealish was Pranitha, Snehit are TT champions important goal for the win- got on to the scoresheet. also fined £82,499 ($110,271). ners in the championship Justin and Akash were A judge was told that a witness DC CORRESPONDENT (GSM) 7-11, 11-5, 11-9, 16-14. match. He got able support adjudged Best Defenders, said Grealish smelled of “intoxi- HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 ■ R. Niveditha (MLR) bt Varuni from teammates Pavan, Likith grabbed the prize cating liquor” and was slurring Jaiswal (GSM) 8-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-8; Samson, Mahaveer, Issac, for the Best Goalkeeper. his words immediately after the G. Pranitha and SFR bt Hanifa Khatoon (VPG) 12-10, 11- 2, 11-7; bt Vinichita Yadav (MLR) crash on March 29. Snehit won the girls and 11-7, 11-13, 13-14, 11-8; bt V. Saasya Grealish was involved in the boys championships (AWA) 11-8, 7-11, 12-10, 11-9. incident less than 24 hours respectively in the Youth ■ V Saasya (AWA) bt Vinichitra after issuing a Twitter video category of the 7th (MLR) 12-10, 6-11, 11-7, 10-12, 11-7; Vrashank, Kartavya message urging people to stay Telangana State District & bt Hanifa Khatoon (VPG) 11-9, at home to save lives and pro- State Table Tennis 11-4, 11-4. ■ tect the NHS. — AFP Championship held at Vinichitra (MLR) bt Hanifa Anandnagar Welfare and Khatoon (VPG) 8-11, 11-3, 11-6, 12-10. emerge chess kings sports Association in Khairatabad, Hyderabad. Youth Boys Superleague DC CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD, DEC. 15 Live on TV Both Pranitha and ■ SFR Snehit (MLR) bt B. Vatsin Snehit came up with dom- 11-8, 11-8, 11-2; bt Mohammed Ali CRICKET inating performances to 11-9, 9-11, 11-6, 11-2; bt B. Vrishin Vrashank Chouhan and Big Bash League: Perth Scorchers beat all their opponents 11-8, 11-5, 11-6; bt Saroj Siril Kartavya Anadkat bagged vs Melbourne Stars from 1.45 pm and keep their slates clean (AWA) 11-4, 11-7, 11-8; bt Sainath the top honours at the on Sony Six, HD in the Superleague to cap- Reddy (MLR) 11-9, 11-8, 11-8; bt 175th Brilliant Trophy ture the trophies. Kesavan Kannan (MLR) 11-4, 11- chess tournament that was Lanka Premier League: Final from Pranitha, who is doing 6, 11-7; bt B. Varun Shanker conducted online due to Vrashank Kartavya 7.30 pm on Sony Six, HD (MLR) 11-6, 11-3, 12-10. her B Tech final year from ■ the Covid-19 pandemic. Mohammed Ali (LBS) bt B. THE STANDINGS FOOTBALL Keshav Memorial College, Vrishin 11-5, 11-8, 12-10; bt Vrashank of Vidya ■ was all guns blazing. She Bhavan Public School in Open category: 1. Kartavya Indian Super League: Mohun Bagan Sainath Reddy (MLR) 11-7, 11-4, Anadkat, 2. Ayush Jain, 3. Shreyas vs FC Goa from 7.20 pm on Star first defeated Varuni 12-10; bt B. Varun Shanker Udaipur, Rajasthan, won Seshadri Nalluri, 4. Mathiyazhagan, Sports 2, 3 Jaiswal of GSM 4-11, 18-16, G. Pranitha (above) won the Youth Girls Superleague. (MLR) 11-6, 4-11, 15-13, 11-8; bt B. the Juniors category by 5. Shaik Sumer Arsh, 6. VSN 11-9, 11-8; then blocked SFR Snehit (right) poses with his trophy and certificate Vatsin 11-2, 11-6, 11-6; bt Saroj scoring 11.5 points out of Murthy, 7. Ritobroto Sen, 8. D. English Premier League: Arsenal vs Bhavitha (GSM) 11-9, 9-11, at the TSTTA championship at AWA in Hyderabad. Siril (AWA) 11-6, 11-3, 11-7; bt 12 rounds. Nihal Swarna Lakshmana Rao, 9. V. U. Diwakar, Southampton from 11.30 pm on Star 11-2, 8-11, 11-7; rallied past Kesavan Kannan (MLR) 11-1, 11-9, secured the second place 10. Pavan Karthikeya Varma. 11-8; bt Hanifa Khatoon (VPG) 4-11, 11-5. ■ U-15 boys: 1. Pradyumn Avadhani, Sports Select 1; Leicester vs Everton Ragha Nivedita (MLR) 4- slammed Saroj Siril THE RESULTS with 10.5 points while Neev from 11.30 pm on Star Sports Select 11-6, 11-7, 11-9; bt V. Laasya ■ B. Varun Shanker (MLR) bt 2. Indraneel Reddy. Girls: 1. 11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-9; laid low (AWA) 11-4, 11-7, 11-8; Dange was third aggregat- 2; Leeds United vs Newcastle from Youth Girls Superleague (AWA) 11-7, 11-6, 8-11, 11-7. Saroj Siril (AWA) 11-5, 11-7, 13-11; Swaralakshmi S. Nair, 2. Naannya. V. Laasya (AWA) 11-5, 11-8, stumped Sainath Reddy ■ Varuni Jaiswal (GSM) bt V. bt Kesavan Kannan (MLR) 11-9, ing 9.5 points. ■ U-13 boys: 1. Neev Dange, 2. 11.30 pm; Fulham vs Brighton from ■ 1.30 am (Thursday) on Star Sports 8-11, 11-9; vanquished (MLR) 11-9, 11-8, 11-8; G. Pranitha (HVS) bt Varuni Laasya (AWA) 7-11, 11-4, 11-4, 11- 11-4, 7-11, 12-10; bt B.Vrishin 11-3, In the Open category, Hemanth. Girls: 1. Hyma Kumari, 2. Jaiswal (GSM) 4-11, 18-16, 11-9, Shybi Binoj. 3; Liverpool vs Tottenham Hotspur Vinichitra Yadav (MLR) 4- crushed Kesavan Kannan 8, 3-1; bt V. Saasya (AWA) 9-11, 9-11, 11-7, 11-7; bt Sainath Reddy Kartavya of Ahmedabad, ■ 11-8; bt Bhavitha (GSM) 11-9, 9- 11-5, 11-6, 11-9; bt Hanifa (MLR) 11-5, 11-9, 11-5; bt B. U-11 boys: 1. Nihal Swarna, 2. Y. V. from 1.30 am (Thursday) on Star 11, 11-7, 11-5, 11-7; hemmed (MLR) 11-4, 11-6, 11-7; and Gujarat, won the event by Avinash Reddy. Girls: 1. Harshitha Sports Select 1; West Ham vs 11, 11-2, 8-11, 11-7; bt Ragha Khatoon (VPG) 11-4, 7-11, 11-6, Vatsin 11-8, 11-3, 11-8. in Hanifa Khatoon (VPG) was victorious against B. Nivedita (MLR) 4-11, 11-6, 11-8, ■ scoring 10.5 points leaving Agarwal, 2. Shriya Mahesh. Crystal Palace from 1.30 am 13-11; bt N. Bhavitha (GSM) 11-5, Sainath Reddy (MLR) bt ■ 11-6, 11-8, 11-6 and silenced Varun Shanker (MLR) 11- 11-9; bt V. Laasya (AWA) 11-5, 11- Ayush Jain (10 points) in U-9 boys: 1. Shreyan Bag, 2. (Thursday) on Star Sports Select 2 11-4, 11-6; bt Vinichitra Yadav Kesavan Kannan (MLR) 11-8, 11-7, Vihaan Sai Krishna. Girls: 1. L. V. Saasya (AWA) 11-8, 11-7, 6, 11-3, 12-10 for the title. 8, 8-11, 11-9; bt Vinichitra Yadav (MLR) 11-4, 9-11, 11-8, 14-16, 11-6. 11-9; bt B.Vrishin 5-11, 14-12, 11-9, second place. Shreyas (MLR) 4-11, 11-7, 11-5, 11-7; bt ■ Laasya, 2. Tummapudi Lasya. Italian League: Juventus vs 8-11, 11-6 to emerge cham- Varuni Jaiswal (GSM), V. V. Laasya (AWA) bt Hanifa 11-8; bt B. Vatsin 11-4, 9-11, 11-9, Sheshadri finished third ■ U-7 boys: Hanifa Khatoon (VPG) 11-6, 11-8, 1. Balanandan Atalanta from 11 pm on Sony Ten 2; pion. Laasya (AWA) and N. Khatoon (VPG) 11-3, 11-3, 11-9; V 7-11, 11-6; bt Saroj Siril (AWA) 9- with 9.5 points to his cred- Ayyappan, 2. Havish Kovidh. Girls: Genoa vs AC Milan from 1.15 am Snehit, a final year stu- Bhavitha (GSM) finished 11-6; bt V. Saasya (AWA) 11-8, 11- Laasya (AWA) bt N. Bhavitha 11, 13-11, 11-7, 4-11, 11-7. it. 1. Aaditri Abhishek, 2. M. Pranavi. (Thursday) on Sony Ten 1; Inter dent of St Joseph’s Degree second, third and fourth 7, 8-11, 11-6. (GSM) 8-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-7; bt V. ■ Saroj Siril (AWA) bt B. Vatsin Milan vs Napoli from 1.15 am 11-5, 8-11, 11-9, 11-8; bt Kesavan and PG College, Koti, was among girls while Other results Saasya (AWA) 11-6, 11-8, 11-9; bt Regd. No. H/SD/509/2018-20 (Thursday) on Sony Ten 2 equally good on the table. Mohammed Ali (LBS), B. Vinichitra Yadav (MLR) 12-10, 11- Kannan (MLR) 12-10, 11-4, 11-7; ■ G. Pranitha (HVS) bt Varuni 3, 11-6; bt R. Niveditha (MLR) 7- bt B.Vrishin 11-4, 11-5, 11-4. Printed and Published by K. Sudhakar on behalf of Deccan WWE He first beat B. Vatsin 11- Varun Shanker (MLR) Jaiswal (GSM) 6-11, 18-16, 11-9, 11, 11-4, 11-9, 11-7. ■ Kesavan Kannan (MLR) bt B. Chronicle Holdings Limited. Printed at Deccan Chronicle Press 8, 11-8, 11-2; made light and Sainath Reddy (MLR) ■ Vatsin 6-11, 7-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-8; bt situated at Plot No. 9 Alwal Village, Vallabh Nagar Taluk, Medchal NXT: Bouts from 6.30 am 11-8; bt V. Saasya (AWA) 11-7, 11- N. Bhavitha (GSM) bt work of Mohd Ali 11-9, 9- took the second, third and B.Vrishin 11-9, 11-9, 11-9. Malkajgiri Dist. Telangana and Published at 36, S.D. Road, (Thursday) on Sony Ten 1, HD 3, 7-11, 11-5; bt Vinichitra Yadav Vinichitra Yadav (MLR) 11-8, 11- 11, 11-6, 11-2; walloped B. fourth spots in the boys (MLR) 11-9, 11-9, 5-11, 11-4; bt R. 8, 11-7; bt R. Niveditha (MLR) 5- ■ B. Vatsin bt B. Vrishin 11-7, 11- Secunderabad-3. RNI Registration No. 3081/1957. Vrishin 11-8, 11-5, 11-6; section. Niveditha (MLR) 6-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-9; bt N. Bhavitha 9, 9-11, 11-5. Editor: Kaushik Mitter