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ASTROGUIDE Remembering Jyotiba Phule Sarvari; Uttarayana N’sagar saboteurs give Tithi: Phalguna Bahula Amavasya till 8.01 am Star: Revati till 11.30 am Varjyam: Nil Durmuhurtam: 12.42 pm to parties sleepless nights 1.31 pm; 3.10 pm to 4 pm Rahukalam: 7.30 am to 9 am HIJRI CALENDAR Politicians suspect disgruntled leaders may help Oppn Sha'ban 29,1442 AH L. VENKAT RAM local party leader known to PRAYERS REDDY | DC be the close aide of Jana Fajar: 5.01 am HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 Reddy in Nagarjunasagar Zohar: 12.27 pm is handiwork of “coverts”. Asar: 4.37 pm Political parties are deeply Congress leaders argue Maghrib: 6.37 pm worried about “saboteurs” that though all parties are Isha: 7.46 pm ahead of polling in the distributing cash and SUNSET TODAY 6.31 PM Nagarjunasagar Assembly liquor in the bypoll, a few byelection on April 17. coverts had leaked infor- SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.01 AM All parties are keeping a mation to ruling party lead- MOONRISE TODAY 6.14 AM close watch on movements ers, who ordered police MOONSET TODAY 6.49 PM of disgruntled leaders, sus- raids and seized stocks. Leaders of several parties joined to pay tribute to Mahatma Jyotirao Phule and pecting them of resorting to The Congress has now recalled his services to reform Indian society of its evils, including his peerless con- covert activities and sabo- demanded that police raid tribution to fight to eradicate untouchability and against caste oppression, on the taging their party’s residences of key leaders COUNTER POINT occasion of his 195th birth anniversary. TRS leader and health minister Etala prospects in the bypoll. belonging to all parties if Rajendar, senior Congress leader V. Hanumantha Rao, BJP’s OBC Morcha president Earlier, the respective they are really sincere in K. Laxman were among those who paid tribute and spoke on the occasion. — DC party leaderships had curbing distribution of made all efforts to convince cash and liquor. these disgruntled leaders TRS leadership is worried into withdrawing from that a few leaders from the race in favour of the party’s Reddy community in the official candidates by offer- constituency are angry Mamata provoked TMC ing them different posts. with the party for giving Still, there are fears that Congress leader K. Jana Reddy goes on a roadshow for the ticket to Yadava communi- they may resort to covert Nagarjunasagar bypoll accompanied by TPCC president ty. Thus, they are silently activities and help rival N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and other party leaders on Sunday. working for Jana Reddy on violence on CISF: Shah parties. “caste grounds”, besides While the ruling party bypoll, especially from the MLAs, MLCs and so on. keeping away from cam- DC CORRESPONDENT has engaged the services of ruling TRS and the BJP. The Congress is worried paigning for the party to KOLKATA, APRIL 11 the intelligence depart- Though there were no that several of such lead- register their dissent. Model code is BJP ment sleuths to keep a tab contenders in Congress ers, though continuing to In the BJP, too, there had Union home minister on such leaders, the other than K. Jana Reddy, remain in the party, have been many aspirants from Amit Shah on Sunday Opposition parties are rely- the Congress too is wary of been in touch with TRS the Reddy and BC commu- squarely held West ing on their close aides to saboteurs, as the ruling leaders and sabotaging nities. The party gave tick- Bengal Chief Minister code, alleges Didi track the saboteurs and party has lured several party's prospects by “leak- et to an ST candidate, lead- Mamata Banerjee’s rec- submit daily reports on prominent Congress lead- ing” the party’s strategy. ing to resentment among SHORT TAKES ent “provocative speech” RAJIB CHOWDHURI | DC forces at a polling booth their activities. ers from village to district Congress suspects that other communities. The responsible for the vio- KOLKATA, APRIL 11 at Shitalkuchi in Cooch There had been multiple level into its fold over the seizure of liquor worth party too is thus tracking lent mob attack on the Behar due to the 72-hour serious contenders for past three months in pres- nearly `40 lakh on Friday movements of its disgrun- PLA: India must Central paramilitary West Bengal Chief Mini- ban imposed by the EC on party tickets to contest the ence of ministers, TRS from the residence of a tled leaders. forces which, in turn, ster Mamata Banerjee on the visit of any political cherish +ve trend shot dead four villagers Sunday described the leader to the district. Beijing: With no forward at a polling booth in Election Commission’s The TMC chief also movement at the latest Shitalkuchi of Cooch Model Code of Conduct called the killings a round of Sino-India mili- Behar during the fourth (MCC) as the “BJP Code “mass murder” in a viru- tary talks on disengage- phase of the election a of Conduct … or BCC” lent attack on the EC and ment from the remaining day earlier. after she failed to visit the BJP after speaking to areas in eastern Ladakh, Asking the Trinamul the aggrieved family of the victims’ relatives. the Chinese military has Congress supremo to the four villagers who said that India should apologise for her instiga- were shot dead by the ■ Page 2: Didi vows relief cherish the “current posi- tion, he questioned her Central paramilitary for each family tive trend” of de-escala- silence on the killing of a tion and cooling down of first-time voter, Ananda tion over the firing, Mr you should get ready tensions in the border Burman of the Rajbanshi Shah said: “Didi has been since you will have to area. There was no community, after linking constantly claiming: resign on May 2.” progress at the latest him to the saffron party. Amit Shah must resign. round of military talks Rejecting Ms Banerjee’s Didi, I will resign when ■ Page 2: Forces acted in between the two coun- demand for his resigna- the people ask me to. But self-defence: Shah tries as the Chinese came to the talks with a “pre- meditated mindset”, people familiar with the negotiations said. Tika Utsav second big war IMD WEATHER WARNING NOW against Covid-19, says PM COVERS ALL TS New Delhi, April 11: He also spoke of “each Asserting that ‘tika one, save one”, saying CENTRE BANS DC CORRESPONDENT utsav’, a vaccination emphasis should on HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 drive between April 11 wearing mask so as to and 14, marks the begin- save oneself and others EXPORT OF It would be rainy days ning of the another major too. He asked families ahead for Telangana. The war on Covid-19, Prime and members of society REMDESIVIR state would experience Minister Narendra Modi to take lead in setting up thunderstorms coupled on Sunday made several micro containment zones New Delhi, April 11: In with gusty winds till April suggestions on curbing if anyone gets the dis- view of increased 15. the virus and urged them ease, saying it is an demand for remdesivir Under the influence of a to focus on personal and important way to fight due to a surge in Covid-19 trough travelling over the social hygiene. Covid in a densely popu- cases, the Centre on state which goes from In a blog, he urged them lated country like India. Sunday said the export of Madhya Pradesh to Cape to remember four things, “Our success will be the antiviral injection Comorin, there would be including “each one, vac- determined by our aware- and its Active Pharm- thunderstorms accompa- cinate one”— helping ness of the micro contain- aceutical Ingredients has nied by lightning and those getting vaccinated ment zone and by not been banned till the situ- gusty winds of 30-40kmph who are less educated leaving house when there ation improves. range at isolated places in and elderly and who can- is no need. Our success In addition, to ensure the state, a warning issued not go for the jab them- will also depend on easy access, all domestic by the weather office said selves, and “each one, whether we wear masks manufacturers of remde- on Sunday. treat one”— helping and follow other rules,” sivir were advised to dis- those who do not have the he said, adding that it play on their site details ■ Page 2: Hailstorms are means or do not know will also depend on get- of their stockists and dis- likely, says IMD about the facilities avail- ting those eligible for vac- tributors, the health min- able for vaccination. cine inoculated. — PTI istry said. — PTI

GLOOMY | SCENARIO State may see 3 times more deaths from March TS sees highest Covid tally BALU PULIPAKA I DC ure representing almost 87 HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 The number of Covid-19 deaths is per cent of deaths during rising rapidly in the second wave the 31 days of March. The state recorded its high- “There are more and more est-ever Covid-19 tally of DEATH 55 33 people going to the hospi- 3,187 cases on Saturday, January February tals late and neglecting the according to data released STALKS need to get proper medical by the state health depart- attention because they ment on Sunday. The previ- 67 58 believe that this disease no *Till April 10 ous high was 3,018 cases on March April* longer poses any danger August 26, 2020. The first and will go away,” a senior case was discovered in the to 1,759 the fatalities from second wave of Covid-19, government doctor said. It state on March 2 last year. the disease so far. The over- the number of deaths is is feared that even well The highest daily tally of all Covid-19 cases have increasing rapidly. before the second wave of the pandemic came even as reached 3,27,278, as on Compared to 67 deaths Covid-19 peaks, TS may see the number of people dying Saturday evening, the reported by the state gov- many more people losing from the disease is seeing department said. ernment as Covid-19 related their lives. an uptick with each month While the rapid increase in March, the first 10 days this year . Seven more peo- in the number of cases has of April have seen 58 people ■ Page 3: Over 500 cases in ple died of Covid-19, taking become a daily affair in this die of the disease. This fig- Hyderabad, GHMC areas CITY DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 12 APRIL 2021 pg 2 Police going hi-tech to arrest cyber criminals Nab frauds from hotspots in Jharkhand, Delhi, Bengaluru DURGA PRASAD ● STYLING 2021 as the bles from different police tems. Data created by the SUNKU I DC ‘Cyber Safety Year’, stations have already been user like browsing, creat- HYDERABAD APRIL 11 trained in cyber security. ing files and folders and Director General of Police “Where to search what in others is called artifacts.” The police, in the forefront M. Mahendar Reddy is a computer seized from an “Microsoft Windows pro- in using technology, are personally training accused? How to analyse a vides a wealth of informa- busy equipping themselves cyberwarriors. digital evidence — these tion that can help investi- with state-of-the-art tech- are some of the challenges gators understand the vari- nology in investigating Technology’. being faced by investiga- ous actions performed by crimes. Their expertise is When digital devices are tion officials,” said its users, resulting in the already helping them nab seized in any crime investi- Nagendar Rao. creation of a variety of cyber fraudsters from gation, police send them to In his research paper, artifacts. Storage and hotspots like Jharkhand, the forensic science lab and ‘Role of Microsoft memory provide vital Bengaluru and New Delhi. wait till its report is Windows Key Artifacts in information and hence Decoding the digital evi- arrived. This evidence Exploring Digital Evidence investigators should dence has always been a plays a crucial role in for Investigation Purp- understand how data is challenge before cops on cracking a case. oses’, Nagendar Rao dis- internally organised,” the ground and they gener- Styling 2021 as the ‘Cyber cussed the analysis of arti- explained Rao in his ally take the help of foren- Safety Year’, Director facts created due to user’s research paper. sic experts. However, the General of Police M. interaction with different According to the paper, Telangana Police are Mahendar Reddy is person- applications. digital forensics applica- equipping the personnel ally training cyberwar- “The process of creating tions are meant to explore with basic knowledge in riors. The state police aims a reference document as details of the applications digital analysis of evi- to train at least two or standard operating proce- installed on the system and dence. Recently, K. three constables from dure (SOP) to examine the information stored by the Nagendar Rao Koppula, every police station. They digital evidence is in the operating system of the inspector in charge of the will learn how to examine pipeline,” said Nagendar. user and application activi- cybercrime vertical of the mobile phone hard discs, Speaking to Deccan ty. The state of the operat- state police, published a how to break password Chronicle, Nagendar said, ing system can also be eval- research paper in the code, how to have a call “A majority of computers uated, which may result in ‘International Journal of data record (CDR) analysis have the Microsoft cops finding some impor- Computer Science and etc. Some 200 police consta- Windows operating sys- tant clues. DIDI VOWS RELIEF FOR EACH FAMILY OF VICTIMS

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She also assured them of government compensation for each family. At Siliguri in North Bengal, the CM alleged Sunday morning: “We were supposed to visit Shitalkuchi. I wanted to stand by the victims’ fami- lies. But you can see what is happening. They did not allow us anyway to meet the family members of those who were killed. Such a forcible decision is unprec- A boy and his pet sheep cool themselves in a pond at Osmania University campus edented. I respect the EC. due to high humidity in city on Sunday. — DEEPAK DESHPANDE But everything cannot be changed in the interest of a particular party. A system cannot be changed. It has to Hailstorms are likely: IMD be maintained. The institu- tion can continue forever. From page 1 Kamareddy, Sangareddy, storms in the state. Yes, they can do anything. Medak, Vikarabad, “Whenever there is But there must be some- As a part of the pre-mon- Narayanpet, Maha- thunderstorm activity, thing which is essential for soon activity, light to mod- bubnagar, Jogulamba- there would be squally democracy and a free and erate rain is likely over Gadwal and Wanaparthy, winds. These squally fair election.” the next four days in the it said. winds can disrupt the She claimed: “Since the districts of Hyderabad, Even hailstorms are power supply system. ban is for 72 hours, I wait Ranga Reddy, Medchal- likely, the IMD said. In That is why we are keep- because of the MCC. I will Malkajgiri, Adilabad, view of the squally winds ing track of the hi-tension visit the families on April Komaram Bheem- affecting the state, the wires and the transform- 14, though I think the MCC Asifabad, Mancherial, National Disaster ers,” said an official of the has become the BJP Code of Nirmal, Jagtial, Pedapalli, Management Agency Telangana State Southern Conduct now. It will do Karimnagar, Rajanna- (NDMA) has also said Power Distribution whatever they will ask it to Sirisilla, Nizamabad, there would be thunder- Company Limited. do. Why will campaigns not be allowed for 24 hours? Just because the BJP’s last date of campaign is April 13. I cannot be restricted in this way.” It was self-defence: Shah Wearing a black robe to protest against the killings From page 1 CAPF. I want to ask her: same booth, some goons of of the four at a rally in Ja- ‘Isn’t her speech responsi- the TMC killed our work- lpaiguri later, the TMC ch- Shah said: “In the fourth ble for the death of the er in the morning so that ief said: “On Saturday the phase of polls, a very sad four? Would the four have polling could not take BJP government, using its incident took place. Some dared to attack the place. Later, the attack on police, took the lives of four unidentified people Central forces had she not the CISF followed. But people by shooting them. attacked a polling booth made the speech?’ Mamatadi mourned the All the bullets hit the upper and tried to snatch the Provoking them, you loss of four lives only. She parts of the victims. There weapons of the Central made a cause for firing.” is not bothered by the has been no bigger mass m- armed police forces Mr Shah later claimed at death of Burman. This is urder and murder of de- (CAPF) personnel. When a BJP rally at Basirhat a clear example to what mocracy than this. I conde- the CAPF jawans opened South in North 24 level she brought down mn this. I condemn Union fire in self-defence and to Parganas: “Didi, you, sit- the politics of Bengal home minister Shah, the protect their weapons, ting in a wheelchair, left through her appeasement Government of India and four people were killed. anyway but it was because and vote bank politics those who carried it out.” What is more sad is the of you that the four even in death.” Banerjee said the state way the entire incident is youths died.” He said: “I He added: “We are equal- government’s compensa- being politicised.” He was feel Mamatadi still has ly saddened by the death tion for the victims’ fami- speaking to the media at time to offer her respect to of the four like that of lies will be announced by Shantipur in Nadia dis- the fifth slain youth, Burman. The death of chief secretary Alapan trict. talk about him and apolo- whosoever should be Bandyopadhyay. “Permis- He added: “I saw gise to the people for above politics. But she did sion has been sought (from Mamatadi’s statement. A her provocative speech.” not mourn the death of the EC). Now permission is few days ago, at the same Complaining about Ms Burman, or shed tears… required for everything, Shitalkuchi seat, Banerjee’s sympathy only This type of politics is even helping the family of Mamatadi gave a brazen with the four victims, who neither the culture someone killed!” she speech asking the people were Muslims, the home nor the tradition of quipped.k to gherao and attack the minister said: “At the Bengal.”

ROAD | SAFETY Experts say pillion rider at greater risk of injuries Helmets must for kid pillion riders NAVEEN KUMAR I DC ting caught should be there HYDERABAD APRIL 11 CASES BOOKED ON among them,” said a mem- MINOR DRIVERS ber of National Road With the traffic police Minors driving motorbikes is Safety Council, Dr. Kamal enforcing helmet rules for a common sight in India. Soi. “The rules are very both rider and pillion, chil- strict on paper, but the dren are left vulnerable to YEAR CYBERABAD HYDERABAD authorities should work accidents. On Monday, a more on the ground level,” teenage student who rode 2019 2,150 4,610 added Soi. pillion on his father’s 2020 665 1,412 Mohd Salim, a helmet scooter died in an accident. businessman from Abids, He was not wearing a hel- serious head injuries. not much in demand, but a said, “We do not see much met. While the traffic police few stores stock them. demand for helmets. We do Helmet dealers in the city here is forcing helmet rule Even if physical stores fail not keep one for display say there is no demand for on riders, they ignore pil- a parent, he could always and usually don’t keep the kid helmets and hence they lion riders, specially kids, count on online shopping stock at the store.” do not stock it. even as they are at a for kid’s helmet. The point There are a few who fol- Traffic cops say parents greater risk, says Vinod is: there is no room for low the rule, simply out of should ensure the kids are Kanumula, chief func- excuses,” argues a concern for safety. Debu safe in pillion seat and tionary of the Indian Kanumula. Sinha, resident of Abids, have something to hold on Federation of Road Safety. “The life of the pillion said, “I make sure my chil- to in case of sudden “Helmets are mandatory in rider is as vulnerable as dren wear the helmet breaks. Road safety experts all the states but the safety the rider. In my experience, whenever they are riding note the pillion rider is at of children is neglected.” there is no fear in the pub- pillion. Helmets save lives, greater risk of suffering “Helmets for children are lic mind. The fear of get- it's as simple as that.” CITY DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 12 APRIL 2021 pg 3

SHORT TAKES MAN KILLS WIFE, Next 2 weeks pose big challenge: Doc MOTHER-IN-LAW, SURRENDERS Urges govt to stop propagating ‘you’re good with or without having Covid unless you’re dead’ BALU PULIPAKA I DC DC CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 STATE TO CLOSE HYDERABAD APRIL 11 The government’s attitude, VACCINATION A man killed his wife and both of the Centre and the mother-in-law while they were state, that Covid-19 is just sleeping, and surrendered to another disease and not as CENTRES DUE the IDA Bolarum police on dangerous as one feared, Sunday. Police said the acc- and their dismissive atti- TO SHORTAGE used, Nune Narasimha, used tude towards deaths from to suspect his wife Swaroopa, the disease urgently needs DC CORRESPONDENT 32, and physically abuse her. to change, senior doctors HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 A few days back, Swaroopa have said. The message returned to the house of her that is being propagated, The state government, mother Teki Yellamma, 50, which for all practical pur- now left with Covid-19 vac- after a quarrel with her hus- poses means ‘you are good cines enough to last may band. On Sunday, at about 4.30 even if you have/had be two days at best, is fac- am, Narasimha went to the Covid as long as you are ing the prospect of closing house when they were sleep- not dead’, is wrong and the some of its vaccination ing and stabbed them. government must recast centres in the next few “Subsequently, he went to the its messaging to people days, even as the ‘Tika IDA Bolarum police station and impress upon them the Utsav’ — the vaccination and surrendered himself,” a urgency to protect them- festival ordered by Prime police statement said. Foll- selves by laying out plainly Minister Narendra Modi owing this, the police booked a how the disease is playing began on Sunday. case of murder and started out among the people, they The state was waiting to investigations. Narasimha is said. hear from the Centre on its in judicial custody. “It looks like we are Saturday’s request for sup- already losing control. The ply of 30 lakh doses of the next two weeks will pose a vaccine. BOY TOUCHES huge challenge. We either It may be recalled that gain control over Covid-19 Chief Secretary Somesh TRANSFORMER, now, or we will be at the Kumar wrote to the Centre mercy of God,” a top doc- on Saturday seeking SUFFERS BURNS tor in the city told Deccan urgent additional vaccine Chronicle. Every death supply with the state plan- DC CORRESPONDENT from Covid-19 has devas- ning to ramp up vaccina- HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 tated some family or the tions to 2 lakh doses a day. other and hiding behind On Saturday, according An eight-year-old boy suffered numbers such as the to Somesh Kumar, the burns when he accidentally “death rate is just 1 per state had 5.66 lakh doses of came in contact with a trans- cent, or .56 per cent,” is not vaccines — Covishield and former on Friday under the right, the doctor said. Covaxin — left with it. The Malkajgiri police station lim- “We are just about a year Traffic police personnel counsel youths on the importance of wearing the mask and following Covid-19 protocols among a surge in Coronavirus state is vaccinating at the its. On learning of the inci- into the pandemic and we cases, in Hyderabad on Sunday. The overall cases have crossed the 3.25 lakh mark, with the state recording its highest-ever 3,187 cases on rate of 1.5 lakh people dent, IT minister K.T. Rama know very little about how Saturday. — S. SURENDER REDDY every day, leading to fears Rao on Sunday assured that he the disease is playing out. that the stocks will run out would take care of the child’s Anywhere between 20 and in three to four days. medical treatment. 30 per cent of patients who The state, according to The boy’s mother Janaki have recovered are report- MISCONCEPTIONS officials, has more doses of appealed to the government ing health problems that Covishield than Covaxin, and public to help. Janaki in a they never experienced AMONG YOUTHS Cops book 6,500 in state in a which has left the officials video message explained that before, including breath- worried. As a conse- she was a single mother and ing problems or onset of quence, they have stopped her husband died two years diabetes. In some cases, ABOUT VIRUS dispensing first doses of ago. “On Friday afternoon there are neurological Covaxin, of which there is while I was taking care of my issues,” a senior doctor, DC CORRESPONDENT week for not wearing mask a shortage, and saving the second child at home, Nishant seeking anonymity, said. HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 available stocks of this went out to play and acciden- “What we have learnt is NAVEEN KUMAR I DC vaccine for those lining up tally touched the transformer that it is a disease that The government’s current HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 to take their second dose of and suffered burns,” she said impacts multiple organs. stand on Covid-19 vaccina- State fixes `1K penalty for this particular vaccine. in a video clip. And we have no idea what tion eligibility is resulting The police has booked According to the health With the clip being widely it is doing if someone gets in a misunderstanding 6,478 persons in the state department, on Saturday, shared, Rama Rao on his offi- infected the second time. among youth that they for not wearing the mask, the state administered a cial social media handle said, But what we know is it is have nothing to worry or the first guard against total of 1,62,385 doses of “Will take care of Nishanth,” like the ‘dengue syn- fear about the disease, the Covid-19, between April 5 not wearing mask in public vaccine, of which 1,53,295 and directed his team to con- drome’. If someone catch- Indian Medical Assoc- and 11. This information were to people getting tact the family and assist es dengue the second time, iation has said, came from the state police DC CORRESPONDENT would attract a penalty of spread of Covid-19 virus, their first shot, with 9,090 them. Mynampally the body’s defences go hay- IMA national president IT Cell. Stricter enforce- HYDERABAD APRIL 11 `1,000. The government wearing of face mask is people receiving their sec- Hanumanth Rao, TRS wire and the defence the Dr J.A. Jayalal said that ment of the mask rule has has directed the district made mandatory in all ond dose. So far, the state Malkajgiri MLA, visited body mounts can be some- with the government focu- been in effect for a week in To prevent the spread of collectors and commis- public places, work spaces has administered 20,61,395 Nishant in hospital and spoke thing like the cytokine sing on 45 years and plus view of the rising Covid-19 Covid-19, the Telangana sioners and superintend- and means of transport. first and second doses. to the family and directed the storm we have seen among age group to be the vac- cases. state government on ents of police to strictly Any deviation would attr- hospital to treat the child well. Covid-19 patients which cine recipients in the cou- The three police commis- Sunday issued orders fix- implement the related act prosecution under sec- The Malkajgiri police have does more harm than good. ntry, the youth and those sionerates in the city have ing the penalty of `1,000 instructions. tion 51 to 60 of the Disaster booked a case and started Such being the case, it is under 45, were increasing booked 3,214 cases of vio- for violation of face mask The GO issued by Chief Management Act, 2005 and investigation. for the government to cre- under the misapprehen- lations. These included regulations. Not wearing Secretary Somesh Kumar section 188 of IPC as well ate awareness about the sion that they are not vul- 2,030 in Hyderabad, 670 in the mask in public places said: “To prevent the as other applicable laws.” consequences of Covid-19 nerable to Covid-19. Rachakonda and 514 in MAN BEATEN FOR and not dismiss the dis- Indicating that nothing Cyberabad, the data ease as something simple,” could be farther from the revealed. ● IN NALGONDA district, tions,” he said. reformative campaign by QUESTIONING the doctor said. truth, Dr Jayalal told While this is so, there 39 people were booked for In Nalgonda district, 39 not allowing more than Asked what could be Deccan Chronicle that the has been much debate not wearing the mask, people were booked for not five persons with a candi- SPITTING AT GATE done to control the current second wave of Covid-19 is about the large crowds including those involved in wearing the mask, includ- date,” said Dasoju Shr- rapid spread of Covid-19, seeing more and more gathering at election cam- campaigning for the ing those involved in cam- avan, chief spokesperson DC CORRESPONDENT Dr M. Srinivas, Dean of youths, aged 18 years and paign rallies, and how peo- bypolls. Meanwhile, Wan- paigning for the bypolls. from the Congress. HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 ESI Medical College, told more, succumbing to the ple who do not wear masks Meanwhile, Wanaparthy “Section 144 does not Deccan Chronicle that disease. “Fatalities in the there get away lightly. aparthy zilla parishad zilla parishad chairman R. allow a gathering of more The state had 5.66 lakh A 64-year-old man was alleged- “people have to be con- youth group were less Speaking about the use chairman R. Lok Nath Lok Nath Reddy paid a than five people in the doses of vaccines — ly assaulted by three men scious not just for them- than one per cent of all of masks during election Reddy paid a `1,000 as `1,000 as fine for not wear- public. Public meetings Covishield and Covaxin — left whom he questioned for spit- selves, but for those deaths during the first campaigns, BJP fine for not wearing the ing the mask at a function should be banned and the with it. The state is vaccinat- ting at the gate of an Urban around them. Everyone wave,” he said spokesperson Krishna mask at a function. in which agriculture min- EC should be careful while ing at the rate of 1.5 lakh Healthcare Centre (UHC) at must feel responsible for He said that the All India Sagar Rao said the party ister S. Niranjan Reddy drafting campaigning people every day, leading to Malakpet on Sunday morning. reducing transmission. We Institute of Medical Scie- would want everyone to do not use the mask at public was present. rules. Now we have social Police said the victim, a will not likely see another nces in New Delhi just a this. “During the election events. This should not be “This was a good enough media platforms that are fears that the stocks will run GHMC staffer, had visited the pandemic like this in our couple of days ago had po- campaigns, the candidates the case. I strongly believe time for the Election accessible and most people out in three to four days. hospital for getting the Covid- lifetimes and it is for inted out that of the 140 cr- would want the voters to self-regulation is above Commission to introduce have smartphones. There — SOMESH KUMAR 19 vaccine when the assault everyone to pitch in as we itical cases of Covid-19 in see his face and hence any punitive measure and restrictions and it should is no need for mass cam- Chief Secretary took place. try to put an end to it. the 18-to-40 age group, 36 most of the contestants do I welcome the regula- have recommended a paigning,” he said. According to a complaint “The state needs to speak had lost their lives. “This received from one R. Devender, effectively and explain to is more than 30 per cent of 26, he and his father R. the people what Covid-19 the cases and is wor- Sudharshan had gone to the does to individuals and to risome,” Dr Jaylal said. UHC at Shalivahananagar to their health. It is not just Overall, during the cur- get the vaccine and were wait- enough to reduce the pan- rent resurgence of Covid- Over 500 cases in Hyd, GHMC areas ing outside the place when demic into a series of ev- 19 that India is witness- three men — a man aged about ents,” he suggested, giving ing, 20 to 35 per cent of all From page 1 cases in the GHMC limits ● THE DEPARTMENT said 70 and his two sons — spat at the example of the ‘Tika Covid-19 victims are chil- on Saturday, compared to it conducted 1,15,311 tests SCARY SCENE the place where they were Utsav’, promoted by Prime dren and youth. “This is “If this current rate con- 487 on Friday. With 333 on Saturday, results were NINE DISTRICTS REPORTED CASES IN standing. Minister Narendra Modi. something we are seeing tinues, we may well see new cases, Medchal- pending for 3,753 tests. “Upon asking them how they “When cast as an ‘Utsav’ or across the country,” he three times the deaths Malkajgiri district was in THREE-FIGURES ON SATURDAY can spit during such a pan- festival, the seriousness of said. compared to last month,” second spot, while 271 ple in isolation increased demic, they got hostile and the vaccination exercise is It may be recalled that the doctor said. cases were reported in to 13,366. On Friday, these GHMC (Hyderabad) : 551 Nirmal : 154 allegedly assaulted the victim lost. It is being promoted there have been repeated Meanwhile, Hyderabad Ranga Reddy, and 251 from figures stood at 17,791, and Medchal-Malkajgiri : 333 Jagtial : 134 and abused them using filthy as some kind of a festivity calls from Telangana, city and the rest of the Nizamabad districts. 11,495 respectively. language, leaving them with which is not the case. Delhi and some other GHMC areas have shot The number of active The department said it Ranga Reddy : 271 Kamareddy : 113 bleeding injuries," said the Where is the need for a states to open up vaccina- past the 500 mark in daily Covid-19 cases rose past conducted 1,15,311 tests in Karimnagar : 104 Malakpet police, who booked a ‘celebration’ or a ‘festival’ tion for all age groups but Covid-19 cases with the the 20,000 mark on the state on Saturday, but Nizamabad : 251 case and started an investiga- when it comes to control- the Centre has so far not health department in its Saturday to stand at 20,184 of these, results were Sangareddy : 104 tion. ling Covid-19?” he asked. agreed to these requests. bulletin, reporting 551 while the number of peo- pending for 3,753 tests.

COVID | CARE Senior doctor appeals for live bed availability information for patients to check Shortage of beds a big worry in hospitals DC CORRESPONDENT every one of these beds, ● ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE to the bulletin, of the 1,711 tor or a CPAP machine HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 though classified as over the past few days such beds in the govern- available along with an ICU ‘Ventilator/CPAP’ is actu- ment sector, only 328 were bed. This will prevent des- There appears to be no con- ally equipped with either a from attendants of Covid- occupied leaving 1,383 perate running around by nection between the num- ventilator or a CPAP 19 patients running around ready to receive patients. In Covid-19 patients and their ber of ICU beds in demand (Continuous Positive the city trying to find an the private sector, of the families,” the doctor said. for Covid-19 patients need- Airway Pressure) machine. ‘ICU bed’ points to the fact 3,331 such beds, the bulletin “Of course, then there is ing intensive care, and the While using a ventilator that beds equipped with says 1,493 are occupied always the issue of private number of such beds actu- involves what doctors such machines are few and leaving 1,838 available for hospitals saying there are ally available in hospitals, called ‘intubation’, insert- hard to come by. patients who might need no such beds available and whether government or ing a tube into the throat to either ventilation, or then relenting to say there privately run. help the patient breathe in assisted breathing with a may be one available but The problem, according the hope of helping in Anecdotal evidence over bulletins issued by the CPAP machine. can be given to a patient to doctors is that while the recovery, or at best, extend the past few days from state government, it is A senior doctor involved only on making an upfront ‘number’ of ICU beds the life by a few days at best attendants of Covid-19 claimed that there are 1,711 in Covid-19 care, said it is a hefty payment and the reported faithfully every- or a few hours at worst, a patients running around ICU beds fact that patients are once like. This is the govern- day by the state health CPAP machine does not the city trying to find an (Ventilator/CPAP) in gov- again getting the run ment’s responsibility to department in its Covid-19 involve intubation but a ‘ICU bed’ points to the fact ernment hospitals across around for ICU beds. “What ensure people have access bulletin — particularly for tight-fitting mask over the that beds equipped with the state, the number of is needed is a live bed avail- to live ICU bed data that patients requiring ventila- face that forcibly pushes such machines are few and such beds is put at 3,331 in ability information, some- have the necessary equip- tion or assisted breathing air into a patient’s lungs hard to come by. private hospitals which are thing people can check and ment to revive a — may be correct, the rub thereby helping in keeping On paper, however, at treating Covid-19 patients. go to a particular hospital failing patient,” the doctor lies in the fact that not the patient alive. least in the daily Covid-19 As on Saturday, according that actually has a ventila- said. CITY DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 12 APRIL 2021 pg 4

Khammam: An man drowned his morning walk along the MAN DROWNS in the Nagarjunasagar Left canal with his children. The IN Canal at Medepalli in Modi- kids entered the water but were BRIEF AFTER SAVING gonda mandal of Khammam washed away by the flow of district after saving his chil- water. Suresh jumped into the HIS CHILDREN dren on Sunday. Police said K. water and saved them but KCR CLAIMS OF Suresh Kumar, 45, had gone for drowned in the process. GRAFT-FREE RULE A FARCE: CONG DC CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD, APRIL 11

The alleged involvement of Srinivas Reddy, son-in-law of former minister late Naini Narasimha Reddy, in IMS scam regarding purchase of unnecessary medicines at exorbitant prices for ESI hos- pitals, proves that the claim of Chief Minister K. Minister of state for home G. Kishan Reddy talks to the voters of Nagarjunasagar on Sunday. —DC Chandrashekar Rao that his government is corruption-free government is a farce, said TPCC spokesperson G. Niranjan Srinivas Reddy and Dump TRS, urges BJP Narasimha Reddy’s personal assistant had been raided by the Enforcement Directorate Kishan asks voters to remind govt of 2BHK homes, jobs on Saturday. “The IMS scam, minister DC CORRESPONDENT Chief Minister K. ● KISHAN REDDY ter Arjun Ram Malla Reddy's threats asking HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 Chandrashekar Rao asked people of N’sagar Meghaval alleged that for commissions, the involve- failed to honour his to question the Chief TRS was looting ment of TRS legislators in the Union minister of state promises for the area, Minister about double Telangana and Karnataka drugs case and the for home G. Kishan Reddy said. Chandrasekhar Rao case booked against an associ- Reddy slammed the rul- Kishan Reddy asked bedroom houses, and his family were ate of a TRS corporator for an ing TRS and Opposition the voters to give a employment notifica- “fully into corruption.” illegitimate affair with a Congress for their fail- chance to the BJP can- tion, women empower- He stated that woman and extracting Rs 10 ure to develop didate Dr P. Ravi ment groups loan Nagarjunasagar con- lakh from her for a double bed- Nagarjunasagar con- Kumar, who was a prac- issues and three acres stituency was ridden room house shows the level of stituency. ticing doctor and who promised for Dalits, and with bumpy roads and corruption in the TRS govern- The minister on can forcefully raise peo- the tribal land issues. water problems despair ment", he alleged. Sunday participated in ple’s issues in the the Sagar project. He several road shows at Assembly. He said said that KCR Kit was Anumula, Mannepally, Congress has been Minister about double actually a Union gov- HIKE AGE LIMIT Thripuraram and Halia reduced to a non-entity bedroom houses, ernment scheme, which in the constituency. and the TRS was cor- employment notifica- Rao hijacked and gave FOR JOBS BY 10 He said that although rupt from top to bottom tion, women empower- it a new name. elected seven times and they should not fall ment groups loan BJP state president from the seat, Congress prey to the money and issues and three acres Bandi Sanjay Kumar YEARS: DASOJU candidate K. Jana muscle power of TRS. promised for Dalits, and and former MP DC CORRESPONDENT Reddy had done pre- He urged the people of the tribal land issues. Vijayashanti are likely HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 cious little for Nagarjunasagar to In another road show to address road shows Nagarjunasagar. Even question the Chief at Halia, Union minis- on Monday. AICC spokesperson Dr Sravan Dasoju on Sunday demanded that Chief Minister K. OBITUARY Chandrashekar Rao increase the age limit by 10 years to Uttam: Jana’s win is enable unemployed persons to apply for all job recruitment notifications. The age limit should be 44 years, as was done in the past, he said. the need of the state He explained the TS Public Service Commission had DC CORRESPONDENT ● BHONGIR MP bedroom houses for reduced the candidates’ upper HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 Venkat Reddy alleged the poor, and a 12 per age limit to 34 years, thereby that Chief Minister K. cent reservations for eliminating lakhs of unem- The Congress intensi- Chandrashekar Rao the Muslims and ployed persons who have fied its campaign in Scheduled Tribes PULI VENKATESHULU actively participated in the Nagarjunasagar was habituated to (ST). DOB: 03.10.1933 DOD: 11.04.2021 Place: 6-2-333, 4th lane, New Bhioguda, Telangana movement since Assembly constituen- betrayal of the peo- "Only one solution ple. He said TRS lead- Near Mother Dairy, Secunderabad. 2009. cy by fielding a host of to solving all the prob- Funeral: Bansilalpet The Congress leader made prominent leaders for ers are behind the lems in Funeral Timing’s: 12 Noon the demand that he wrote to an intensive cam- sand mafia as also Nagarjunasagar is of Inserted by: Family Members the Chief Minister. In the let- paign in the past two electing Jana Reddy several acts of cor- (CA 3573) ter, Dr Dasoju asked the CM to days. ruption. as the MLA again," consider the rising unemploy- TPCC chief N. Revanth Reddy said. 3rd DAY CEREMONY OBITUARY 1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY ment as a social emergency Uttam Kumar Reddy, by-election,” Uttam He appealed to the and constitute a special task working president A. said. people to raise the slo- force to address the issue on Revanth Reddy and He said that the peo- gan, “Let’s question priority. Bhongir MP ple of Telangana, par- KCR on his unfulfilled Dr Dasoju requested the CM Komatireddy Venkat ticularly voters in the promises, defeat the to organise an all-party meet- Reddy were among poll-bound con- TRS candidate and ing to discuss the unemploy- the party leaders who stituency, should have ensure development ment issue and find a way out. are campaigning for a close look and see of the constituency He said a majority of unem- candidate K. Jana how the TRS govern- and the state.” Sri. L. EASHWAR LAL YADAV ployed youth were in deep dis- Reddy. The leaders ment was indulging Bhongir MP Venkat S/o Late Sri. Lakhan Lal Yadav tress, unable to face their fam- recalled the role in misrule with an Reddy alleged that DOD: 10-04-2021 ily and friends, unable to get played by Jana Reddy ugly display of arro- Chief Minister K. Ceremony will be held today at 12:00 noon at Flat no G-4, Prakhyat Residency, Mr. S. JAIRAM PILLAY married and settle in life. in the formation of gance of power and Chandrashekar Rao Dayanand Nagar, Malkajgiri. Late Sri. D. Saanthmoorthy Mudaliar You will always be remembered S/o Late Sri T.S. Pillay He pointed out that the gov- Telangana state and money. He urged the was habituated to Passed away on 11th April 2021 Rtd. Stn.Master, SC Rly. ernment of Telangana had sharply attacked the tribes of betrayal of the people. with deep affection DOB: 17-08-1932 DOD: 12-04-2020 Inserted by: E. Laxmi Rani (Wife) Date of Birth : 5th of May 1946 Your Ethics, Values, Memories will relaxed the upper age ceiling TRS. Nagarjunasagar to He said TRS leaders E. Eashan Krishna Yadav (Son) “Your memories remain in our Remain always in our Thoughts. by 10 years between 2015 and They said Jana defeat the TRS candi- are behind the sand E. Siddarth Lal Yadav (Son) hearts forever.” Inserted by: Brothers, Sisters, 2017 with which the candi- Reddy had been date. mafia as also several & Family Members. Inserted by : Sons & Daughters-in-law Ph. No: 9848004934. VASANTHA PILLAY : 9989652978 Daughter & Son-in-law, Grand Children. Revanth Reddy said, acts of corruption in dates' eligibility has gone up to offered the post of (CA: 3572) 44 years. Chief Minister in "Had the ‘Bangaru infrastructure proj- (S/2122/D00033) While that had helped, the undivided Andhra Telangana’ dream ects, and “they are 4th DEATH ANNIVERSARY lack of big-ticket recruitments Pradesh but he had been attained, Sunil even behind the drug in the last seven years had left not only rejected the Naik and Ravi would mafia as is recently unemployed persons frustrat- offer but persuaded not have died by sui- exposed via the real ed. the Congress-led UPA cide. estate deals.” The AICC spokesperson reit- government to imme- “Why did Ravi die He said the TRS erated that providing employ- diately grant state- by suicide? Isn’t it due leaders are playing ment was not only the agenda hood. to KCR? Isn’t the CM with the lives of the of the Telangana statehood Uttam Kumar Reddy driving the unem- youth in Telangana movement, but also the consti- said Jana Reddy’s win ployed youths to sui- through their support tutional responsibility of the is a historic need for cide by not issuing a to the the drug mafia. Chief Minister. the state to keep the notification for filling The MP said during “We must seriously recollect “wayward” acts of the the 1.91 lakh govern- the campaign that Smt. NUNE LAXMAMMA D.O.D: 12-04-2017 and remember the ferocious TRS leadership in ment jobs?" Jana Reddy in his 40 Your Love and kindness will sacrifices made by our youth check. A vote for Jana He said the govern- years of political Never be forgetten. ment has failed to ful- career remained You will remain in our and emphatically respond to Reddy, a seven-time Hearts forever. We love you and them and their problems. It is legislator, would also fill all the poll promis- “stainless” and Miss you in our life. high time that we keep all our be an acknowledge- es the TRS made indulged in no act of Inserted by: Son: N.B. SRIKUMAR & politics aside and let us collec- ment of the contribu- including making a corruption. Family Members. Ph: 8329809587. tively figure out a way and a tions he made to the Dalit the CM, distri- “The TRS leaders way forward to protect our constituency and the bution of three acres have no right to paint (S/2122/D00034) youth … our own youth who state. “The Congress of land to the Dalit the tall leader as cor- 3rd ANNIVERSARY struggled and sacrificed their in the state would community, providing rupt. TRS leaders Always loved, lives for Telangana,” Dr regain its past glory employment to the indulging in corrupt Never forgotten Dasoju said. soon with the victory unemployed youth, practices will soon be Forever missed of Jana Reddy in this distribution of double jailed,” he said.

KHAMMAM | POLLS Minister plans to compelete election process 10 corporators to miss ticket ● ABOUT 50 persons Shri NARI .P. RUPANI In Remembrance RAVINDRA SESHU I DC from various parties money requirement for wards 17 and 18. TRS KHAMMAM, APRIL 11 vote-fetching. leaders Punukula Deepak & Varsha Rupani joined TRS in the pres- Aman Rupani Reliable sources in the Neeraja and Golla Venkat Kanchan & Suresh Asnani Ten to 15 TRS corporators ence of the minister. Puvvada camp said, “The participated in the meet- may not get the party Later, he formally minister is angry with ing. “The KMC elections (S/2021/D00029) ticket for the upcoming launched the black-top- some of the corporators will be important for us 71st BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE elections to the ping of the road works who fleeced him during and the TRS flag should Khammam Municipal from the 11th to the 48th the last assembly elec- be unfurled in each and Corporation. ward. works. Engineers tions. They took money every division. TRS lead- Transport minister were asked to compelete from him for election ers should do only one Puvvada Ajay Kumar is campaign and did not thing, just highlight the citing various reasons the work in a week. spend it.” These corpora- KCR government including land-grab alle- Nageswara Rao, are also tors too might not get the schemes to the voters,” gations against them or likely to be kept out of the party ticket. the minister stated at the allocation of their divi- electoral race. The minister plans meeting. sions to the reserved cate- TRS corporators like things in a way as to com- About 50 persons from gories, or local disinterest Jaswanth, J Bhaskar, C.N. plete the KMC election various parties joined for grant of another term Rao, Swetha and P.N. Raju process by April 30, by TRS in the presence of to some corporators as might not get re-nomina- getting the election notifi- the minister. Later, he for- was reflected in a recent tion. Deputy mayor B. cation issued immediate- mally launched the black- opinion survey. Murali and TRS corpora- ly after the topping of the road works Four corporators close tor K. Krishna are not Nagarjunasagar election. from the 11th to the 48th MOOLA LAXMAIAH to former MP Ponguleti keen on having another Ajay Kumar organised ward. Engineers were Advocate We miss you Dad asked to complete the Srinivasa Reddy and for- term for various reasons Athmeeya Samavesam Happy Birthday to you Dad mer minister Tummala like the sharp rise in with key TRS leaders in works within a week. (S/2122/D00036) CITY/AP DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 12 APRIL 2021 pg 5

IN BRIEF Thanksgiving tour TTD stops issue of Centre silent on tokens at Tirupati Nellore: In view of the increasing Covid cases, the vax supply: KTR TTD has decided to stop the issue of slotted Sarva Darshanam (SSD) tokens in Minister says lockdown not a good idea Tirupati from April 12. The Shridi Samsthan has already L. VENKAT RAM REDDY I Will certainly consider closed for darshan in DC doing it in other towns too Maharashtra. HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 post-Covid.” As Tirupati is also witness- On reopening of schools ing an increase in cases TRS working president and colleges, he stated, everyday, the TTD has and IT minister K.T. Rama “Let’s hope the pandemic decided to temporarily dis- Rao said that, to his slows down.” pense with the issuance of knowledge, the state gov- Talking about Uppal ele- SSD tokens in the Bhu Devi ernment had not received vated corridor, he said it Complex and Vishnu any communication from was a six-km long skyway Nivasam in Tirupati. the Centre on its request and should be completed for supply of more Covid TRS will win it with the in 10-12 months. 10 held for theft vaccines. blessings of the people Referring to the status of Referring to the short- of Nagarjunasagar. The con- Hyderabad Pharma City, of Nandi idol age of the vaccine in the test is between a leader who he said that land acquisi- state, Rao said, “There is a represents the past (Jana tion was almost complete. Nellore: The Chittoor police shortage all over India Reddy) and a young man “We should start allot- apprehended 10 persons from what I hear.” On ment of lands to investors reportedly involved in steal- whether he has taken the who symbolises future hope, soon.” ing of a Nandi idol from the vaccine, he replied, “Not Nomula Bhagat On the completion of the Malleswara Swamy temple in yet.” — K.T. RAMA RAO Hyderabad Metro Rail Jagamarla village at During a 90-minute IT Minister phase-1 from MGBS Palamaner Mandal in #AskKTR session on (Mahatma Gandhi Bus Chittoor district. “One them Sunday, Rama Rao Station) to Falaknuma died in a road accident three Chief Justice of India-designate Justice N.V. Ramana of the Supreme Court visits the hill shrine of Lord answered a volley of ques- byelection. and the second phase, he days ago,” police said on Venkateswara on Sunday morning along with his family members to offer prayers after his appointment. He was tions from Twitteratti and When some asked about said the works have been Sunday. Police said the accorded full temple honours. Justice Ramana will be taking charge of office on April 24. — DC shared his thoughts on the possibility of postpon- affected because of the accused confessed to have national politics, political, ing SSC and Inter exams pandemic and “we will try taken away the idol from the entertainment and also this year, he said, “You to bring it back on track.” ancient temple premises on spoke about the future have to ask education He said the long-delayed March 26. The accused had plans for the development minister Sabitha Indra Balanagar flyover will be broken the idol to see if it of the state. Reddy.” completed before the end contained treasure. Replying to a query on On the possibility of a of May. the upcoming Nagarjuna- complete lockdown in On the second phase of MPs will quit if YSRC does sagar byelection, he Telangana, he said, “I T-Hub at Rayadurgam he said,“TRS will win it with don’t think it’s a good said that it would be inau- 3 WOMEN COPS the blessings of the people idea.” gurated in a couple of of Nagarjunasagar. The When asked about the months. PENALISED IN contest is between a likely winners in West On the implementation not win Tirupati bypoll: Min leader who represents the Bengal and Kerala, Rama of Niti Aayog recommen- past (Jana Reddy) and a Rao said, “at the end of dations, he said “I don't KHAMMAM young man who symbolis- the day, democracy should think there's much we can DC CORRESPONDENT Party calls it referendum, dares TD to respond to challenge es future hope, Nomula win.” do as it's just an advisory KHAMMAM, APRIL 11 Bhagat.” On holding town hall body. Hope prudence will DC CORRESPONDENT He said government job meetings, he said, “We prevail and states are sup- Shaik Nafeez, a woman con- NELLORE, APRIL 11 recruitment notifications had done it in Hyderabad ported on merit and not stable of the Armed Reserved will be released after the a couple of years back. political considerations.” Wing, was penalised `3,335 on With just six days left for various charges including rid- the byelection to the ing a two-wheeler without hel- Tirupati Lok Sabha seat, met, dangerous driving, cell- political parties have EAST GODAVARI phone driving and triple rid- started challenging each School shut, owner ing. other on one issue or The fine was imposed after another to keep up the poll RUNS OUT OF Khammam police commis- tempo. The latest is pan- sioner Vishnu Warrior chayat raj minister VACCINE STOCK turns food vendor noticed the cop violating traf- Peddireddy Ramachandra fic rules at 2.30 pm on April 9 Reddy’s offer to opposition DC CORRESPONDENT PULI SHARATH KUMAR | started a to run a tiffin at Anand Vihar on CCTV cam- Telugu Desam to treat the KAKINADA, APRIL 11 DC centre in Huzurabad, era footage. byelection as a referen- KARIMNAGAR, APRIL 11 naming it ‘Nirudyogi’ Nafeez and two other women dum. Stocks of Covid-19 vac- with a tagline of his edu- constables, who were on duty “Our 21 members of cine were exhausted on A tiffin centre, ‘Nirudyogi cational qualifications — at the Y.S. Sharmila public Parliament will put in Sunday, on the very first @ M. Sc., B. Ed., B. Li. Sc’ MSc, BEd, BLiSc. meeting on Friday in their papers if the YSRC day of ‘Tika Mahostav’ being run from a push- The one-time school Khammam, were riding on the loses the Tirupati bypoll. in East Godavari dis- cart at the Huzurabad owner says pandemic has two-wheeler (TSO4 FD 0822) at Are your MPs ready to trict. mandal headquarters of shattered lives of private that time along with Nafeez. resign if we win the elec- Many people who Karimnagar district has teachers and lecturers. The commissioner has also tion,” the minister asked thronged the vaccina- been attracting attention He feels the government’s ordered disciplinary action the Telugu Desam tion centre went home of people and has also announcement of `2,000 against the three constables. Reacting to opposition Former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu addresses a gathering at Rapur in disappointed as there gone viral on social and 25 kg of rice per He said that they had behaved leader Nara Chandrababu Nellore district on Sunday while campaigning for the party candidate Panabaka was no stock. Officials media. month is too little. in an irresponsible manner. Naidu’s remark on the Lakshmi for the Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency byelection. — DC comforted them saying It is being run by “How can even a small The break-up for the penalty YSR Congress failing to that some quantity of Maddela Sampath, a family with two children was `1,200 for triple riding, get Special Category the vaccine may arrive native of Huzurabad survive with such a little `1,000 each for cellphone driv- Status for Andhra on Monday. mandal. Sampath was amount? The government ing and dangerous driving, Pradesh from the Centre, District medical officer earlier correspondent of must help all private `100 for not wearing helmet Ramachandra Reddy BJP-JS promises to free K.V.S. Gowreeswara Rao a private school – Lily teachers revive them- and `35 as user charges. asked whether that TD said that on Sunday Flowers – in Shankara- selves economically. Or it MPs had succeeded when 3,5000 doses of vaccine patnam mandal which must provide employ- their party was in power were given in two wards provided employment ment opportunities along 119 BC STUDY in the state. TTD from govt control each at Kakinada and opportunities to educated with job security,” Speaking to mediaper- Rajamahendravaram. rural youth. The school Sampath said. CENTRES sons in Tirupati on DC CORRESPONDENT The manifesto was from developing all According to sources, functioned well till the Mathematics teacher Sunday, the minister said NELLORE, APRIL 11 released by BJP state pres- national highways con- in the first phase, as Coronavirus pandemic Prakash feels the tiffin Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan ident Somu Veerraju necting the holy city, as many as 40,510 medical struck last year. Since centre depicts the pitiable BY JUNE 2 Mohan Reddy has put off The joint election mani- along with Jana Sena’s well as Tirupati railway and health care workers then, he has run into state of private educa- DC CORRESPONDENT his election campaign in festo of BJP-Jana Sena political affairs committee station and international have been vaccinated debts of around `15 lakh. tion. The teacher pointed KARIMNAGAR, APRIL 11 Tirupati in view of a alliance for Tirupati Lok chairman Nadendla airport. He said they out of 50,453. The second Sampath says unable to out that those who once sharp increase in number Sabha by-poll focuses on Manohar. Rajya Sabha would give priority to pro- dose has been given to pay rent. With no sign taught children to live The state government is striv- of Coronavirus positive skill development, health, members G.V.L. tect traditional arts, such 21,732 medical and that the school will with self respect are now ing to ensure that students cases in Chittoor district. education, infrastructure, Narasimha Rao, T.G. as Kalamkari and handi- healthcare workers. In reopen in the near future, doing menial jobs as farm from Backward Class (BC) He expressed confidence agriculture and fisheries Venkatesh, BJP nominee crafts that are widespread the second phase, 40,447 he had decided to end his labour, whereas some will become highly qualified that the YSR Congress will sector, and employment to for Tirupati Lok Sabha in the constituency. As employees of police, rev- life along with his family. have even ended their persons, said minister Gan- win the byelection on the youth. seat K. Ratna Prabha and part of this initiative, enue, panchayat raj and But his friends stood by lives by committing sui- gula Kamalakar on Sunday. basis of welfare pro- The manifesto gives pri- general secretary training will be offered to municipalities have him. With their help, he cide. After paying floral tribute to grammes introduced by ority to develop Tirupati Vishnuvardhan Reddy upgrade inherent skills of been given vaccines. Of the portrait of Mahatma Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan as Hindu Dharma were among those present. artisans. In addition, trau- them, 18,734 were given Jyothibha Phule on his death Mohan Reddy for the Kshethra, paying special Speaking to media on ma care centres will be the second dose. anniversary in Hyderabad, downtrodden sections in attention to culture and finer points of the mani- established in Tirupati Dr Rao said that nearly Kamalakar announced that the state. arts. In addition, it propos- festo, BJP leaders under- Lok Sabha constituency. 30,730 employees from the state government is to “Benefits of these pro- es to appoint a lined the need to develop The manifesto spoke revenue, panchayat, establish 119 BC study centres grammes have even ‘Dharmacharya Mandali’ Tirupati as spiritual capi- about BJP-Jana Sena police, municipal and across every constituency. reached doorsteps of ben- to protect the sanctity of tal of the world, where plans to improve market sanitation workers They will be formally inaugu- eficiaries in the state,” TTD assets. The scope of there will be no scope for yards, storage points, would be given vaccine. rated on June 2, the Telangana Ramachandra Reddy this mandali can be proliferation of other reli- including cold storages, In the third phase for Formation Day. pointed out. He under- widened to cover religious gions. They further said providing irrigation facili- those above 60 years age, Top-grade coaching will be lined that thousands of institutions across the BJP is committed to devel- ties and financial assis- 2,11,935 have been given provided to BC students crores have been ear- state, the manifesto says. oping Tirupati as a smart tance at low interest rates vaccines; 1,14,296 who through these study centres marked for completion of Importantly, it proposes city by mobilising suffi- to farmers, in addition to are above 60 years of age and help them to crack vari- irrigation projects in to free the devasthanams’ cient funds. from Kisan credit cards. and 97,639 persons in the ous state and national level Rayalaseema on a war board from clutches of the Narasimha Rao under- Development of Pulicat age group of 45-59. competitive examinations. footing. The minister has government. The board lined that the Centre has Lake in Sullurpeta seg- In the second dose for Focus will also be on improv- been leading the charge will instead function already established IIT, ment and fishing har- these groups, only 8,879 The push cart being operated by pandemic-hit former ing spoken English and per- against the Telugu Desam under the supervision of IISER, and Indian bours in Nellore region people were given the school correspondent Maddela Sampath sonality development. in the campaign. empowered seers. Culinary Institute, apart has also been included. vaccine. Kamalakar said that during the pandemic, students cannot attend classes. Study centres will be established in either DIRTY | DRAINS City’s 951-km of drains contain 40% silt; blocked nalas cause flooding during rains junior and degree colleges or in polytechnic colleges of respective constituencies, with modern technology and advanced computer labs. Trash-filled plastic bags choking up city drains Since the formation of the state, BC study centres have DC CORRESPONDENT adding to the plastic degradable products like ing plastic waste, includ- been established in Siddipet HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 waste. sanitary napkins, which ing face masks, which and Gadwal. As many as 15,214 GHMC officials have would turn into a hard have been blocking the students have undergone Biodegradable waste taken up desilting works substance and choke the free flow of water. When it coaching in the two study cen- wrapped in plastic bags at 356 locations over an free flow of water during rains heavily, the water is tres and around 1,302 students has been the prime cause overall 951-kilometre rainy days and inundate pushed back into residen- got jobs in various depart- for nalas and stormwater stretch. The corporation low-lying areas. tial areas. Apart from ments. Very soon one more drains across the city get- so far has found 30 per A senior GHMC official spreading foul smell in the study centre will come up in ting choked. This came to cent of plastic waste, said that the corporation locality, the choked nalas Sircilla, he said. light when Greater including masks and sani- has taken up desilting of turn into mosquito-breed- The minister after inaugu- Hyderabad Municipal tizer bottles. It has exca- nalas in two layers. The ing centres, he added. rating an exclusive digital stu- Corporation (GHMC) was vated one tonne of waste first layer hardly had any “Despite the ban on plas- dio said that all lessons that desilting the drains. this year and the material silt with more than 30 per tics, several establish- have been taught in the study The corporation, after composition has been cent comprising plastic ments have been selling centres will be uploaded on conducting a comprehen- ascertained. waste and 20 per cent com- material below 50 microns YouTube for live streaming. sive study, found that more It was found that more Plastic waste that was removed from storm water prising paper plates, water which was clearly evident To fulfill the dreams of than 60 per cent of than 30 per cent of materi- drains by GHMC staff, who were cleaning them in prepa- hyacinth and clothes. during desilting. This situ- Mahatma Phule, the youth of biodegradable waste is al nala comprised plastics, ration for the monsoon. — DC “The second layer has ation will end only if man- present generation must wrapped in plastic bags. plastic covers, paper seen 60 per cent of silt. ufacturing units are utilise the opportunity provid- To add to the woes, since plates, water hyacinth, of water (sewage and hensive study, citizens liv- waste like vegetable waste This has been the situa- closed,” he said, adding, ed by BC study circles and the outbreak of Covid-19 and clothes. There was 40 stormwater). ing alongside open nalas and animal waste. Apart tion in the major nalas “The situation cannot be land with plum jobs. pandemic, masks and per cent silt (earthen When the corporation have been dumping 60 per from this, the citizens have spanning 951 km,” he said. improved as people lack sanitiser bottles are material) and 30 per cent again conducted a compre- cent of biodegradable been wrapping non-bio- The official said the float- civic sense." EDIT DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 12 APRIL 2021 pg 6

12 APRIL 2021 Disquieting signals in forces firing on voters Subhani he death of four persons in firing by the personnel of Central Industrial Security Force in a booth in Sitalkuchi Assembly con- stituency in West Bengal, and the death of a fifth person in vio- Tlence in another booth in the same constituency, give out far too many disquieting signals. A clear picture of the two events is yet to emerge but a preliminary assessment leaves one in no doubt that the central armed police forces that were entrusted with the task of facilitating free and fair elections failed to meet the challenge. The claim of the security forces that they fired at the people in self- defence prima facie defies logic. There have been no reports of widespread violence or of security personnel suffering injuries. It is natural that minor issues could crop up during elections but there will mechanisms to deal with them. It looks like there was no effort to take the local political leadership into confidence and calm the mob which the security forces allege gheraoed them. They forgot the fact that they were called in to help the polling process, and not to quell a local mutiny. It is deeply disturbing that the protectors, who have been trained to do The claim of the a professional job, became responsible for the security forces death of those they are to protect. A thorough investigation must be conducted to unearth the LETTERS that they fired at facts that led to the loss of so many lives in an the people in otherwise eventless and protracted election Despite Modi’s push, BJP TIKA UTSAV self-defence prima process. I am against naming the facie defies logic. Politicians joined issue no sooner had the news of the mishap reached them. West Bengal vaccination programme as There have been chief minister Mamata Banerjee has been inim- an utsav (Tika Utsav). An no reports of ical to the central forces from the very begin- utsav is an occasion to widespread ning, and the latest incidents will fuel her yet to reach tipping point celebrate. However, Covid violence or of charge against them. Her series of statements security personnel against the central forces would have made the especially in West to the BJP. has caused so many local population suspicious of their intentions. Bengal. It boils down to The Trinamul deaths and is still raging. suffering injuries. It is an irony that Ms Banerjee had betted on the being confident of Congress, with over 43 presence of the same central forces to ensure a getting at least 60 per per cent votes in 2019, There is gloom all around fair election in the state 10 years ago. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who Shikha Mukerjee cent of the total 70 obviously enjoys the in several homes where was campaigning in West Bengal at the time when the unfortunate inci- per cent Hindu votes support of a substantial family members have died dents happened, lost no time in blaming the chief minister for the vio- in the state, given that section of Hindu voters. or someone is being treat- lence. This is unfortunate. The Prime Minister should have counselled the overwhelming It is only if significant peace and calm instead of targeting his political opponent. The very fact majority of 27 per cent numbers of these voters ed due to Covid. Why are that it was the forces under the Union government that shot the people Muslim voters are shift away from Ms many states complaining down should have tempered the Prime Minister’s response but it did not unlikely to choose the Banerjee that the BJP about vaccine shortage work that way. n eight-phase Mr Modi, in multiple lotus symbol on EVM can muster the numbers The Election Commission has a lot to learn from the Cooch Behar inci- Assembly el- locations to drum up the machines. Its leaders it needs to oust India’s when India is exporting it? dents. It practically takes over local governance once the election process ection, even support and swing unde- are quite candid that the only woman chief India's needs must be met is set in motion. We do not know what instructions it had passed on to the for West Ben- cided voters to the saf- party has no expecta- minister. first. security forces when it despatched them to the states; clearly they used the gal where vi- fron side. tions of attracting While the BJP cam- Baru Rajendra Prasad force not to the optimum but to the maximum. It is also evident that there Aolence is intrinsic to the The need for a satura- Muslim votes; state paign has focused is no local command and control system to address issues even though the process and every gov- tion campaign by Mr party chief Dilip Ghosh almost exclusively on Hyderabad West Bengal elections are conducted in eight phases with only two or three ernment has been ac- Modi is one way of as well as Amit Shah are the evils of the Mamata districts going to the polls at a time. The EC must ensure that it uses its cused of rigging the out- acknowledging that on record about this. Banerjee government, STINKY STREETS powers to act in an efficient and non-partisan manner; grand statements come, seemed excessive Mamata Banerjee is a Is it realistic that the focusing on polarising alone are not enough. when the Election Com- far stronger opponent BJP will get 60 per cent the vote on religious The Padmaraonagar road behind mission announced the than the BJP anticipat- of the 70 per cent Hindu identity lines by putting the Gandhi Hospital is in a pathet- dates. On second ed. It also means that the votes in West Bengal? It Muslim appeasement at ic state (Stinky streets, DC, April thoughts, it is just what Trinamul Congress is would appear, as yet, dif- the cost of the Hindu 11). It needs to be urgently the BJP needed to build not on its deathbed as a ficult. Bengalis are split majority at the top addressed by the GHMC. Due to the A modernising royalist up a wave in its favour, party and organisation, between conservatives, of the list, it has absence of garbage bins, the litter however hard that despite 30-odd recent who uphold religious ignored the quieter is strewn across the road. The onsidering the circumstances the world finds itself in now, only 30 may be. defections, including the and social orthodoxy, revival of the Left, led by GHMC must remove the dump members of the British royal family will attend the service for After four phases and BJP’s star acquisition and Bengalis who reject the CPI(M), and the immediately and collect the CPrince Philip on Saturday. If not for Covid-protocol restrictions, half 135 constituencies that Suvendu Adhikari, who it and embrace socially Samyukta Morcha as a garbage from the residents of of Britain would have liked to turn up at the royal consort’s funeral when have already made their seems to progres- new political combina- Padmaraonagar, door-to-door and he will be wheeled in a Land Rover hearse. So beloved a royal was he for choices, Prime Minister have sive val- tion that was created for put up a signboard against litter- his nation that an outpouring of grief over his passing, when just short of Narendra Modi, home dropped WEST BENGAL ues. Till this election. The ing and impose a penalty of `500. In a century, is understandable. His ceremonial presence was a feature of minister Amit Shah and out of this el- Samyukta Morcha is a smart and metropolitan city like over 22,000 public events besides any number of occasions on which he BJP president J.P. sight af- ection is contesting in all 294 ours, it is the responsibility of the willingly walked two steps behind his wife, the long reigning monarch Nadda are still hard at ter the ELECTIONS 2021 over, seats; the Left is contest- GHMC to collect garbage. Queen Elizabeth II. He symbolised selfless public service while also mak- it, because another four Nandigram voting. there is no knowing how ing in 177 seats, the Zubair Khan ing 5,496 speeches and undertaking 637 solo trips abroad. phases and 159 con- A list of what makes the Bengali voter will Congress in 91 and the Hyderabad To paraphrase his enormous contribution to a largely dysfunctional fam- stituencies have yet to the TMC and Ms react to state-sponsored Indian Secular Front in ily that was beset with more than a fair share of scandals, induced mostly decide. The BJP’s top Banerjee a far tougher religious orthodoxy that 26 seats. The Left is UNFORTUNATE DEATHS by extramarital love and marriage trouble, Prince Philip modernised the brass is doing some challenge for the chal- is divisive in its intent fighting for its very sur- British royal family while shepherding it into the modern age. And then, heavy lifting with Mr lenger, meaning BJP, is and destabilising of the vival, and in this elec- Whenever elections are held in in the face of the latest public outrage over charges of racism made by one Modi in the lead to get perhaps necessary to uneasy equilibrium tion it is working to West Bengal in recent times, peo- of their own — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan in an interview with that wave going. The assess why the party is between the Hindu and achieve a revival. Its ple have lost lives in violence (4 Oprah Winfrey in the United States — the Prince Philip was busy trying to process seems as fraught deploying Mr Modi in Muslim communities. pitch as the alternative Trinamul men killed in CISF firing help keep together the anachronism that is royalty. A royal consort who and dependent on a force key constituencies to It is instructive to note is politically necessary during clash, DC, April 11). In the knelt and swore to be his wife Queen Elizabeth’s “liege man of life and of nature, meaning the drum up the momentum that in 2019, the BJP’s but unrealistic. Any last panchayat election also many limb” at her coronation in 1952, was more than true to his word in holding wave, as were the tense it needs to get to the surge to 40.64 per cent of increase in the Left and people were killed. The economic steadfast to his own marriage for a good 73 years. days before the mega point where it can votes was a switch that Congress voteshare will condition of rural people in West The time of his passing lends itself easily to hagiographical references. container ship blocking unseat the incumbent. hitherto Left voters take off votes that the Bengal is awful but many are The unsentimental would, however, also see him as the gadfly that he was the Suez Canal, Ever In other words, the BJP made, sending its vote- BJP has been counting involved in politics at the cost of who often shocked the world as the prince of gaffes with his often slander- Given, finally budged. has not as yet reached share plummeting to on to reach the tipping their lives. ous, extempore remarks. To Indians Prince Philip seemed racist for the The difference is the the tipping point. 6.34 per cent in 2019 from point. This can be offset Dr Shankar Chatterjee extent to which he could be dismissive of them — “Some Indian must have wave was not the only Quite apart from usual 19.75 per cent in 2016. if the Trinamul Cong- Hyderabad put it there” was his snooty reference to a shoddily patched-up electrical push that the container comparisons, Ms Congress votes declined ress loses its voters and connection. Just as Britain needed in war time a Winston Churchill, with needed; there were Banerjee’s popularity by over 50 per cent in loses the elections. all his faults, its royalty sorely needed Prince Philip to deal with peace dredgers and tugs vis-a-vis Mr Modi’s pop- 2019 to 5.6 per cent; the Whichever party time turbulence. pulling at the hulk to get ularity, anti-incumben- Trinamul Congress suf- makes it across the fin- 50 YEARS AGO IN it to move. cy at the state level, the fered a marginal erosion ishing line needs to The staggered polling attraction of the BJP as of votes in 2019 com- occupy the middle dates give the BJP the a new untested party in pared to 2016, even ground in West Bengal DECCAN CHRONICLE time it needs to cam- West Bengal, what will though it lost in 12 seats in social and religious matter most is which identity terms. KAUSHIK MITTER K. SUDHAKAR paign for its conquest of Editor Printer & Publisher West Bengal. 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S there any country in the free ment to prosecute its own minister or assault, in sum, plain goondagiri. high court (November 1916), by Quaid- imprisoned. By Sept 19, 2019, 36 politi- world that compels its politicians official in authority sitting as judge in Judicial magistrates make such an i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. He cians were confined. in the Opposition to sign a bond its own case. order. But Section 107 empowers exec- won in the high court and did an On November 5, 2020, the People’s Ifor “good behaviour” before a The code enables banning of books. utive magistrates to order execution of unusual thing for him after judgment Democratic Party president, magistrate with sureties and a named There is Chapter VIII. It provides for a bond if he “receives information that was pronounced. He turned around Mehbooba Mufti, said that 19 party amount, and guarantees of good “Security for Keeping the Peace and any person is likely to commit a and shook hands with his close friend, leaders were asked to sign an affidavit behaviour — threatening them with Good Behaviour”. Even in olden times breach of the peace or disturb the pub- Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The full text of after being detained and released later A.G. Noorani prison if they don’t comply? the language clearly pertained to per- lic tranquillity or do any wrongful act” his entire proceedings verbatim are for taking out a protest rally. “India is Developing countries have turned sons of ill repute or “history sheeters” that may be disruptive. The suspect is reproduced in this writer’s book, the world’s largest democracy only on the imitation of repressive laws of as they are called; in short, goondas. made to sign a bond for good behav- Jinnah and Tilak. paper now,” she said. their colonial masters into something The chapter extends from Section 106 iour. This, the courts have held, is a In 2019, the Government of India A PDP spokesman said the affidavit of an art. Inevitably, on their indepen- to Section 124. judicial proceeding. The section invoked these archaic, repressive pro- was “unacceptable in a democracy”. dence, the old laws continued to be in Consider the scheme as a whole and applies to persons distributing materi- visions of a colonial law and put an He said the 19 leaders “refused to sign force; subject to new fundamental you will find it has no application to al which is likely to disturb the peace entire people in bondage by forcing surety bonds which asked them to Vestige of colonial rights. Our new rulers grabbed the old political opponents. The British because it is seditious or communal. their leaders to sign bonds. Not con- refrain from taking part in unlawful, laws and began (mis)using them abused it for political ends sparingly. Section 109 applies to suspects who go tent with the massive presence of its anti-national activities”. against their new “masters” — the Restraint does not come easily to New into hiding. Section 110 applies to army and paramilitary in Kashmir The surety bond stated: “That we are repression, J&K people who voted them to power. The Delhi. habitual offenders. The entire scheme since 1989, in 2019, New Delhi made a permanent residents of the J&K U.T. judiciary was not very assertive. The only change after Independence of the chapter reveals that its object is bonanza of bondage. It knew that the That a case under section 107/151 Preventive detention laws are a good was the separation of the executive not to control the politicians. people would revolt if it scrapped stands against us…. That we will not instance. But the last instance is the from the judiciary. The magistracy However, a complaint was filed in Article 370 of the Constitution and indulge… in any unlawful, anti- surety bonds blow Criminal Procedure Code. Several was divided into executive magis- Pune against Bal Gangadhar Tilak what little was left of Kashmir’s auton- national activities...” codes were enacted. The Code of 1898 trates and judicial magistrates. Proper under Section 108 of the Criminal omy. Knowing full well that the people There is no law in the statute books was in force till independence and understanding is vital. To begin with, Procedure Code for disseminating would protest, New Delhi got the lead- which defines what is “anti-national”. against democracy beyond. India amended it in 1973 but Section 106 provides for “security for “seditious matter”. Tilak was defend- ers to sign bonds under Section 108 of This is sheer barbarism. ensured that the repressive elements keeping the peace” on conviction of an ed throughout from the magistrate’s the Criminal Procedure Code as if endured — the sanction of the govern- offence like criminal intimidation and court in Poona (August 1916) to the they were criminals. The leaders were By arrangement with Dawn NATION DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 12 APRIL 2021 pg 7

SHORT TAKES Despite shortage, CONG. CANDIDATE IN TN POLL DIES Maha vaccinates OF COVID-19 DC CORRESPONDENT with agency inputs one crore people CHENNAI, APRIL 11 BHAGWAN PARAB | DC The Congress party’s MUMBAI, APRIL 11 Srivilliputhur constituency MAHA TO SET UP candidate in the April 6 Tamil Despite facing acute Nadu Assembly polls, P.S.W. shortage of vaccines, CONTROL ROOMS Madhava Rao died on Sunday Maharashtra has added due to Covid-19 complications, yet another feather to its FOR REMDESIVIR his family said. cap by becoming the first Rao was 63-years-old and is state in the country to Mumbai, April 11: The survived by his only daughter. administer more than one Maharashtra govern- He died at a private hospital in crore doses of Covid-19 ment has decided to set Madurai this morning where vaccines. up district-level control he was admitted on March 20 “We have crossed one rooms to ensure smooth for treatment, Rao’s son-in-law crore doses today. Till supply of Remdesivir K. Rajiv said. today noon, we have injections and prevent TN’s CEO clarified that the administered 1,00,38,421 hoarding and black-mar- counting will go on for the seat doses, highest in the keting of the drug, offi- and that a re-poll would be country so far,” Dr cials said on Sunday. ordered only if the deceased Pradeep Vyas, the princi- Remdesivir is consid- candidate wins the poll. That pal secretary of ered a key medicine in clears the air on any doubts Maharashtra’s health the fight against Covid- over what is to be done with a department, said on 19, especially in adult seat when a candidate dies Sunday. patients with severe com- before the votes are counted as According to data from plications. in Madhava Rao’s case. the Union ministry of The state is facing mul- Congress party secretary health and family wel- tiple issues pertaining to and Tamil Nadu incharge fare, Maharashtra has the the drug, like demand- Sanjay Dutt tweeted saying he highest share in vaccina- supply gap, its hoarding was deeply pained to learn tions done so far in India. and black-marketing by about the demise of Rao due to A deserted view outside Bandra east railway station during weekend lockdown imposed by the state government in the wake of rising India had administered stockists and pharmacy Covid-19 complications. “Our Coronavirus cases, at Bandra in Mumbai on Sunday. — PTI more than 10 crore vac- shops, unaffordable heartfelt condolences to his cine doses till Sunday, of prices and irrational pre- family. We stand with them in which eight states scription by some doc- this hour of grief & pray may accounted for 60 per cent tors. his soul rest in peace,” Dutt of the total doses. Of Maharashtra’s health said. them, Maharashtra was services commissioner leading with more than Ramaswami N., in a letter Uddhav to take final decision one crore doses, account- dated April 9, has written 900 JAB CENTRES ing for nearly 10 per cent to all district collectors in of total doses. It was fol- the state to set up control SHUT IN ODISHA lowed by Rajasthan and rooms to streamline the Gujarat. supply of the key anti- DUE TO SHORTAGE on lockdown on Wednesday The Maharashtra gov- viral drug. — PTI ernment has been at log- Bhubaneswar, April 11: On gerheads with the Centre Sunday when ‘Tika Utsav’, a Details of lockdown are expected to be finalised within next 24 hours over the supply of insuffi- be sent back. special inoculation drive cient supply of Covid-19 Maharashtra health against Coronavirus was SONU SHRIVASTAVA | DC vaccines. Maharashtra, minister Rajesh Tope has launched across the country, MUMBAI, APRIL 11 TN CM CALLS FOR the worst Coronavirus- accused the Centre of dis- at least 900 session sites in affected in the country, is criminating against the Odisha remained shut owing Maha Vikas Aghadi India hits another record facing acute shortage of state in the vaccine’s sup- to shortage of Covid-19 vac- (MVA) government is like- MEETING TO REIN Covid-19 vaccines, due to ply. He has alleged that cines, triggering a blame game ly to impose a stricter which the vaccination many states, which are between the ruling BJD and lockdown from April 14 for IN RAGING COVID drive has come to a halt at smaller than Maharas- the BJP. two weeks as most of the daily surge in Covid cases several places in the state. htra in terms of popula- Director of family welfare members of the task force R. MOHAN | DC Many vaccination centres tion and the number of Bijay Panigrahi said, while opined are in favour of it. SANJAY KAW | DC has, meanwhile, written which cumulatively have CHENNAI, APRIL 11 across the state have shut patients, have received vaccination is underway in However, Maharashtra NEW DELHI, APRIL 11 to Maharashtra, Punjab 70.82 per cent of the total down and people had to more doses of vaccine. only 579 out of over 1,400 cen- Chief Minister Uddhav and Chhattisgarh over cases. Maharashtra alone Chief Minister Edappadi tres in the state, the inocula- Thackeray is yet to take a Hitting another record reports by the Central has 48.57 per cent of the Palaniswami has called tion programme may have to final call. daily high of 1,57,028 new health teams on Covid-19 country’s total active case- for a high-power meeting be stopped in many places on The Chief Minister held Coronavirus infections, testing and containment load. on the rampaging Monday, if fresh vaccine stock a meeting with the task India’s Covid-19 tally of operations, hospital infra- Maharashtra has report- Coronavirus crisis in the does not arrive. force and senior bureau- cases on Sunday climbed structure and vaccina- ed the highest daily new state. The meeting, to be While state labour minister crats of the state adminis- to 1,35,12,493, while the tions to contain the virus’ cases, at 63,294. It is fol- held at the Secretariat at Sushant Singh accused the tration on Sunday to seek active cases breached the spread. Union health sec- lowed by Chhattisgarh, noon on Monday, may con- Centre of not performing their views on form of 11-lakh mark for the first retary Rajesh Bhushan, in with 14,098, while Uttar sider such curbs as night ‘Rajdharma’ and discriminat- lockdown and took stock time since the pandemic the letter, asked the Pradesh has reported curfews in order to bring ing against Odisha in the dis- of the present Covid situa- broke out last year. The states/UTs to take suitable 15,276 new cases. Sixteen down the spiralling new tribution of the vaccines, BJP tion in district-wise. country has been clocking corrective measures. The states — Maharashtra, Covid-19 cases and case- MLA Mukesh Mahaling said, According to a senior in over one lakh cases for letter said: “The Union Chhattisgarh, Uttar load. Eastern India, including the official, the meeting lasted five days. The death toll health ministry has been Pradesh, Karnataka, For instance, the num- coastal state, is on the priority for about two hours. Most also rose to 1,70,066, with actively engaging with Delhi, Tamil Nadu, ber of persons testing pos- list of the central government. of the task force members 761 new fatalities in the states in coordinating and Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, itive in the state on have suggested imposing last 24 hours, the highest collaborating on prepared- Haryana, Rajasthan, Sunday was 6,618 taking stricter lockdown for two since October 18, 2020. ness and the response to Punjab and Kerala — are the number of active LOCKDOWN NOT weeks. The details of the With 10,774 fresh infec- Covid-19.” displaying an upward tra- cases in Tamil Nadu close lockdown are expected to tions, New Delhi also Bhushan said the Centre jectory in daily new cases. to 42,000. There were 22 A beneficiary receives a dose of Covid-19 vaccine in A SOLUTION TO be finalised within next 24 broke all records in the has also taken note of In Himachal Pradesh, fatalities on Sunday. The Jaipur on Sunday. — PTI hours. number of Covid-19 cases issues related to the avail- the government made it count and caseload is also COVID: CHOUHAN An official statement in a 24-hour span. Delhi ability of vaccines and mandatory for all people increasing in the city with issued by the chief minis- Chief Minister Arvind required action to aug- coming from seven states as many as 2,124 new Bhopal, April 11: There is no ter office (CMO), Chief Kejriwal requested the ment supplies will be that have seen a spike in cases being from Chennai India needs vaccine, lockdown in Madhya Pradesh Minister Uddhav Centre to remove all age taken based on the avail- Coronavirus cases to show besides rising numbers in nor will it be imposed statew- Thackeray said that dur- restrictions on Covid-19 able stock. He said a brief a Covid-19 negative test surrounding districts. ide, Chief Minister Shivraj ing the stricter curbs, they vaccinations, even as his summary of the key per- report on entering the Besides the Chief AAP leader to Modi Singh Chouhan on Sunday sa- would establish an Oxygen government flagged the formance indicators relat- state. Minister and health min- id, adding that “corona curf- generation plant, make vaccine shortage and said ed to testing, hospital Chief minister Jai Ram ister a number of minis- DC CORRESPONDENT of Bengal or Bangladesh? ew” has been enforced in some arrangements of beds, that stocks for just seven infrastructure and vacci- Thakur said people com- ters will be in attendance NEW DELHI, APRIL 11 Gujarat or Guyana? parts with people’s support. other medical facilities to 10 days were left now. nation, as reported by the ing from Punjab, Delhi, at the meeting. A number Odisha or Oman? Uttar Talking to reporters here, and Remdesivir injection. Kejriwal said the surge teams, was shared for suit- Maharashtra, Gujarat, of top ranking bureau- Terming vaccine univer- Pradesh or the United Chouhan said lockdown is not Thackeray also said that in Covid-19 cases this time able corrective actions by Karnataka, Rajasthan and crats, including the health salisation and vaccine Kingdom? Kerala or a solution to the Covid-19 cri- SOPs (standard operating was “worse” than what the state or district admin- Uttar Pradesh need to secretary, the corporation nationalism need of the Kenya,” Chadha asked. sis and economic activities procedures) would be pre- Delhi saw during the third istrations. He said 30 carry a negative RT-PCR commissioner and hour, AAP leader Raghav He urged the govern- should continue to allow peo- pared after holding a dis- peak. This is the fourth Central teams have been report not earlier than 72 the DGP will also be Chadha wrote to Prime ment to prioritise vacci- ple to sustain their livelihood. cussion with the senior wave in Delhi which is deployed for the most- hours while visiting attending. The meeting Minister Narendra Modi, nating the entire 135 “There is no lockdown in officials. “much more dangerous”, affected districts in Himachal Pradesh from may consider drastic pro- saying there must be a crore in India before Madhya Pradesh. Nor will it The task force also sug- he added. Maharashtra. April 16. posals to bring down the strict India-first rule as “earning trivial interna- be imposed state-wide. The gested in the meeting that A day after announcing While the cumulative The Uttar Pradesh gov- numbers as the second citizens’ needs must be tional laurels.” (district) crisis management 95 per cent patients can be several new restrictions to number of Covid-19 vac- ernment has ordered the Coronavirus wave is given priority over “I urge the government groups in some places, after treated at home. Only seri- check the spread of the cine doses administered closure of all schools till threatening to pose more exports to other coun- of India to adopt ‘vaccine talking to people, to break the ous patients need hospital- deadly virus, the Chief in the country has crossed April 30 and directed the challenges to the health tries. nationalism’ and priori- chain of the virus, imposed isation. Minister also said a full 10 crores, things are get- imposition of a night cur- care system that seemed In a letter, the AAP MLA tise vaccinating the self-restrictions like remain- Dr. Pradeep Vyas, princi- lockdown was not the ting bad from worse in few in all districts that to contain the first wave said the Centre has cho- entire 135 crore in India ing indoors,” Chouhan said. pal secretary of public solution to tackle the pan- Maharashtra, Chh- report 100 new infections with decisive steps of test- sen to export over 64 mil- before earning trivial The “corona curfew” has health department demic. attisgarh, Karnataka, in a day or have 500 active ing, tracking, treating and lion doses to 84 countries international laurels. Do been imposed in some places, informed in the meeting The Union government Uttar Pradesh and Kerala, cases. containment. while Indian citizens are not let vaccination cen- not the lockdown, the Chief that four lakh new Steps were taken last desperately looking for a tres shut while doses are Minister said, adding that patients have been tested week to try and rein in the vaccination centre that is being flown out of the there are a number of relax- positive from April 4 to health minister Rajesh The Chief Minister mig- jump in Covid cases, spreading infections with still open. country. ations for many activities. April 10. 1,982 deaths have Tope said that the lock- ht hold a cabinet meeting breaching the 60,000 mark the beaches shut, reli- “I wish to ask the gov- “It is further alarming “This is a ‘corona curfew’ to been reported and the down is necessary because on Wednesday and an app- on Sunday. The state gious gatherings prohibit- ernment of India as to to read reports that the stop crowded activities. The mortality rate is at 0.5 per- of the current situation. ropriate decision pertain- reported 63,294 cases, tak- ed and a prohibitory order what its priority is — the government of India will economic activities should cent. Few of the task force ing to lockdown would be ing the total tally to to stop people gathering people of Delhi or of be exporting nearly 45 continue so that people can Speaking with the members have opposed declared after the meeting. 34,07,245. With 349 more and regulating Dominican Republic? The million doses to Pakistan earn their livelihood. reporters on Sunday, that lockdown stating that Maharashtra reported deaths, the death toll has Koyambedu and other people of Maharashtra or in the coming days,” he Maharashtra public it would not be a solution. the highest single day risen to 57,987. markets. of Mauritius? The people said. New device to control FEAR | RETURNS Few workers left for their natives as they feared availability of transport airborne spread of virus Industrialists fear another exodus of workers Kochi, April 11: An incubator first of its kind in the country Coimbatore, April 11: ● COIMBATORE AND industries as the workers under Kerala Startup Mission for RGCB to give such an attes- With the second wave of Tirupur reported working on a weekly pay- (KSUM) has developed a pio- tation,” the statement said. Covid-19 sweeping across increased infection cases ment basis had taken their neering electronic device that The gadget can reduce 99 per various parts of Tamil and a correct picture of wages Saturday last, the could contain airborne cent of the Coronavirus in just Nadu, some of the indus- sources said. Coronavirus. 15 minutes, according to the trialists in the state are workers returning would Coimbatore and Tirupur The new device of Allabout test held with support from the apprehensive of guest emerge only after another reported increased infec- Innovations Pvt Ltd — ‘Wolf ICMR (Indian Council of workers leaving for their week, they said. tion cases and a correct Airmask — performs real-time Medical Research). hometowns considering picture of workers return- sterilisation rupturing the Allabout Innovations the health conditions. per cent increase in the ing would emerge only SARS-CoV-2, a press statement founder Shyam Krishnan The industries recovered raw materials has affected after another week, they from the KSUM said here on Kurup said the appliance when from the jolt of the first the industries, sources said. Sunday. switched on would provide 360- wave of Coronavirus from different industrial No worker left the city The device has proven its degree protection and 24x7 when over one lakh associations said. till Saturday from nearby efficiency at tests conducted by shield by sterilising the air. guest workers from both A few workers reported- Tirupur, a major hub of Rajiv Gandhi Centre for This will also prevent in- Coimbatore and Tirupur ly left for their natives knitwear garments where Biotechnology (RGCB), an house transmission of viruses industries rushed back to early last week as they 80 per cent of over three autonomous institute of the inside any space. The negative their home towns in feared the availability of lakh workers hailed from Department of Biotechnology. ions also have proven to Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and transport like trains to the North, said sources in RGCB, Trivandrum, is an enhance health and vitality, he Odisha by special trains. reach their towns. the Tirupur Exporters ICMR-recognised testing lab. said. Even as the business However, there was no Association. Guest workers from Maharashtra arrived at Patna railway station to go to their native “The Wolf Airmask is the — PTI started picking up, the 30 major exodus from the — PTI place, amid rise in Covid-19 cases across the country in Patna on Sunday. — PTI NATION DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 12 APRIL 2021 pg 8

SHORT TAKES BANGLADESH, A AFTER AIUDF, BJP WITHDRAWS ROLE MODEL BPF SHIFTS ITS SENGAR’S WIFE’S IN FIGHTING CANDIDATES CANDIDATURE POVERTY: ENVOY TO SINGAPORE Lucknow, April 11: The BJP SRIDHAR MANOJ ANAND | DC on Sunday withdrew the can- KUMARASWAMI | DC GUWAHATI, APRIL 11 didature of former MLA and NEW DELHI, APRIL 11 Unnao rape convict Kuldeep After the All-India Singh Sengar’s wife from the Bangladesh High Com- United Democratic Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls. missioner Muhammad Front (AIUDF) shifted The BJP had made Sangeeta Imran has said that his prospective winning Sengar a candidate for the dis- country has become a candidates to Jaipur in trict panchayat member from role model in the world Rajasthan, fearing Ward No. 22 of Fatehpur in fighting poverty. poaching by the ruling Chaurasi, according to a list He was speaking at a BJP, the Bodoland released by it earlier. cultural event recently People’s Front (BPF), a “The candidature of organised by the Indian constituent party of the Sangeeta Sengar, the wife of Council of Cultural Congress-led grand former BJP MLA Kuldeep Relations (ICCR) and the alliance, has also shifted Singh Sengar, who is a convict Bangladesh High 10 of its 11 candidates in in the 2018 Unnao rape case, Commission in the the recently held has been cancelled,” state BJP Capital to celebrate Assembly polls in chief Swatantra Dev Singh “Mujib Barsho” and 50 Assam to a foreign loca- said. years of establishment tion. They are under- Singh said the Unnao party of diplomatic relations stood to be in Singapore. president has now been asked between India and It is significant that to submit three fresh names Bangladesh. two days ago the 10- for finalising a candidate. “Mujib Barsho” refers party Opposition grand He, however, exuded confi- to the centenary birth alliance had flown out 20 dence that the BJP will emerge anniversary celebra- candidates — 18 from victorious in the four-phase tions of Sheikh Mujibur the AIUDF and two from panchayat elections, begin- Rehman-popularly the Congress — to ning April 15. Unnao will go to known as Bangabandhu- Rajasthan. the polls on April 26. who successfully led the As India continues to record high Covid-19 cases, Union home minister Amit Shah holds a roadshow where a huge crowd gathered violating The only BPF candi- Kuldeep Sengar was awarded Bangladesh freedom Coronavirus norms imposed by the Centre to control the spread of the virus, ahead of the 5th phase of West Bengal Assembly polls in Santipur of date left in Assam is for- life sentence by a Delhi court struggle in 1971. Nadia district on Sunday. — PTI mer minister Pramila on December 20, 2019 for rap- The Bangladesh High Rani Brahma, who her- ing a 17-year-old girl in Unnao. Commissioner also self confirmed this After his conviction, spoke about the close development. “Yes, they Sengar’s membership as an ties and connectivity have left on Saturday but MLA was cancelled. Sangeeta projects between his I have no idea which had earlier held the post of the country and India. He country exactly they are district panchayat chairper- also spoke about the WB BJP chief warns of more visiting. I could not con- son. Earlier, BJP spokesperson large number of tourists tact them,” Brahma told Harishchandra Shrivastava from his country visit- reporters. had said names of all candi- ing India every year as Pointing out how one dates were recommended by ties between the two BPF candidate was lured the district unit and were for- neighbours gets even Cooch Behar-style killings to retire from the contest warded to the party headquar- stronger, in what is seen a few days before polli- ters through the regional unit. as a “Shonali Adhyaya ng, a BPF party source (golden chapter)” in Says those who think CAPF carry guns only for show have felt the heat said that their party chi- bilateral ties. This ef decided to send them NIA ARRESTS comes even as Prime RAJIB CHOWDHURI | DC forces will be posted at the to Singapore on a pleas- Minister Narendra Modi KOLKATA, APRIL 11 booths. No one will be able ure trip. Sources said 16 RIYAZ KAZI, CLOSE visited Bangladesh just Gurung: Cooch Behar killings to show red eyes. Otherw- members of the Council last month. The cultural A day after four people ise, we will be there. If Legislative Assembly AIDE OF WAZE event comprised a dance were shot dead by the anyone crosses the limit, (MCLA) of the Bodoland performance by the Central paramilitary you have seen what happe- Territorial Council also SHAHAB ANSARI | DC troupe from the forces during a violent turning point in Bengal polls ned in Shitalkuchi. Shital- accompanied them. MUMBAI, APRIL 11 renowned Srishti mob attack on a polling kuchi will be repeated in Brahma, however, clar- Cultural Centre in booth at Shitalkuchi in Darjeeling, April 11: pitch for a “permanent Singh, S.S. Ahluwalia and places. So be careful.” ified that the MCLAs The National Investigation Bangladesh. Cooch Behar during the Asserting that Saturday’s political solution” and the incumbent Raju Bista rep- His warning came on the had plans to go on a for- Agency on Sunday arrested fourth phase of the firing by the CISF in overall development of resenting the seat respec- day Shah said at eign holiday after the Assistant Police Inspector Assembly election in West Cooch Behar, which Darjeeling and its adjoin- tively over the past 12 Shantipur in Nadia: “I month-long hectic elec- Riyaz Kazi, a close aide of Bengal, state BJP chief claimed four lives, will be ing areas sounds “very years. appeal to the people to tion campaign. She also arrested API Sachin Waze, in TIBETANS CAST Dilip Ghosh called them a “turning point” in encouraging”. Condemning the Cooch maintain peace and cast feared that the possibili- connection with Mukesh dushtu chhele (bad boys). Bengal polls, Bimal Lashing out at the BJP Behar incident, Gurung their votes for their ty of horse-trading Ambani bomb scare case and Blatantly defying Gurung, the chief of one for “deceiving the Gorkha said, “Killing of innocent favourite candidates in the could not be ruled out. Mansukh Hiren murder case. VOTES TO ELECT appeals by Union home of the two GJM factions, jaati for 12 years with fake people — be it by the state remaining phases of the Asserting that the rul- Police has alleged Kazi is co- minister Amit Shah and claimed that the BJP is promises”, Gurung, police or the central forces polls. I also urge leaders of ing BJP-led alliance was conspirator in Ambani case. A NEXT SIKYONG West Bengal governor set to face the wrath of who deserted the NDA — is not acceptable. What all political parties for a not going to get a major- holiday court remanded Kazi Jagdeep Dhankhar to voters in the next four and joined hands with happened on the polling peaceful conduct of the ity in the Assembly to NIA custody till April 16. Dharamshala, April everyone to maintain phases of elections, espe- the TMC in October last day is nothing short of polls according to the EC polls, she said that given According to sources, the 11: Tibetans living in 26 peace in the remaining cially in the northern part year, said he will teach genocide; the Bharatiya guidelines.” the past record of some probe agency suspects that countries including phases, the Midnapore of the state. the saffron camp a “lesson Janata Party (BJP) would Dhankhar tweeted: “All BJP leaders, the Kazi destroyed important evi- India on Sunday voted BJP MP also threatened Gurung reaffirmed that for life”, with Mamata feel the heat in North must unitedly condemn Opposition can’t be com- dence like fake number plates for the final phase of the the public of a “repeti- “statehood is a dream nur- Banerjee by his side. Bengal. The party would and abjure violence that placent and be a silent and digital video recorder general election for the tion” of Shitalkuchi-style tured by every Gorkha” The BJP had won the be wiped out from the has no place in democracy. spectator. (DVR) of the society where Dharamshala-based par- killings in the event of an living in the hills, while Darjeeling seat thrice region.” Pained and anguished at “We have to be cau- Sachin Waze resides. liament-in-exile to elect “excess”. also noting that the TMC’s since 2009 — with Jaswant — PTI violence in Cooch Behar tious. We are trying to Kazi was seen in several the next Sikyong (presi- On Sunday he told a leading to the loss of lives. protect our candidates garages where he got fake dent), an official said. party rally at Baranagar People in authority must from the BJP’s anti-dem- number plates made and later Forty-five members of in north Kolkata: “Where were dushtu chhele. They only for show have felt the their hands, he will get a show statesmanship & ocratic activities,” Cong- confiscated the DVRs from all the Central Tibetan Ad- did so many dushtu chhele will not exist in Bengal heat of the bullets.” befitting reply. On April ensure respect for consti- ress MLA and Leader of the garages and destroyed ministration (CTA), also come from? Those who anymore. It has just beg- Ghosh said: “This will be 17, cast your votes stand- tutional institutions & the Opposition Debab- them. called as Tibetan-parlia- were hit by the bullets at un. Those who think the repeated across Bengal. If ing in a queue early in the CAPF engaged in public rata Saikia told Meanwhile, the CBI on ment-in-exile, will also Shitalkuchi on Saturday Central forces carry guns someone takes the law in morning. The Central duty.” reporters. Sunday questioned two per- be elected by the voters, sonal staffers of former Wangdu Tsering, the Maharashtra home minister chief election commis- Anil Deshmukh in connection sioner of the Tibetan el- with the allegations of corrup- ection commission said. 4 terrorists killed in encounters tion levelled against him by There are around 1.3 former Mumbai police com- lakh Tibetans living in Srinagar, April 11: Four records, Bhat was active missioner Param Bir Singh. exile in India and across militants from Lashkar-e- since 2017 and Ganie had Those questioned by the CBI the globe. The Tibetan Toiba (LeT) and al-Badr Militants gun down joined the militant ranks are Deshmukh’s personal government-in-exile will outfits, including those in the year 2018. assistant Kundan Shinde and elect its head on May 14. involved in the killing of Terrorists responsible personal secretary Sanjeev In the last phase of the an off-duty Territorial for the killing of Army ja- Palande. polls to the post of the Army soldier in Anantnag civilian in Budgam wan have been neutralised president of the CTA on Friday, were gunned within two days in Bijbeh- only two candidates — down on Sunday in two Srinagar, April 11: afternoon, a police official ara encounter, Inspector PAWAR ADMITTED Pempa Tsering and encounters with security Militants on Sunday shot said. General of Police (IGP), Aukatsang Kelsang forces in Jammu and dead a civilian in the He said Khan was Kashmir, Vijay Kumar FOR GALL Dorjee — are in the fray, Kashmir, police said. Budgam district of rushed to a hospital, said. Arms and ammuni- Wangdu Tsering said. With this, the death toll Jammu and Kashmir, where he succumbed to tion, including two AK BLADDER SURGERY However, Pempa Tser- in the encounters that police said. the injuries. series rifles, were recov- ing, the former chairm- began on Saturday in The ultras fired on Nasir The area has been cor- ered from the site. The The helicopter in which UAE-based businessperson SONU SHRIVASTAVA | DC an of Tibetan parliame- Anantnag and Shopian Khan near his residence doned off and a manhunt IGP said one of the slain M.A. Yusuff Ali and his wife were travelling made an MUMBAI, APRIL 11 nt, is the front runner. has climbed to five as one in Buchipora in the has been launched to nab militants in the Shopian emergency landing on a marshy land at Panangad in During the first phase militant was killed in the Magam area of the cen- the attackers, the official encounter was newly Ernakulam of Kochi on Sunday. — PTI The NCP president Sharad of elections, there were initial exchange of fire. tral Kashmir district this said. — PTI recruited into the militant Pawar on Sunday has been eight candidates contest- Towseef Ahmad Bhat ranks and security forces admitted to Breach Candy ing for the post of and Aamir Hussain Ganie, made sincere efforts to Hospital in Mumbai for a sur- Sikyong. Pempa Tsering both from Bijbehara and off-duty Territorial Army the night, he added. persuade him to surren- gery of his gallbladder. He secured the maximum linked to the LeT, were soldier Mohammad Sale- In the wee hours, the der, but the other mili- NRI biz man safe would be undergoing surgery votes (24,488) followed by killed at village Semthan em Akhoon near his home operation was resumed tants did not allow him. on Monday morning for his Dorjee (14,544). Sikyong in the Bijbehara area of in Goriwan Bijbehara on and both the militants “Parents also made gallbladder ailment. is the head of the Kash- south Kashmir’s Anant- Friday. They were also were eliminated, the offi- appeals, but other terror- In a tweet, NCP chief ag or Cabinet, part of nag district after they ref- wanted in the case of an cial said. ists didn’t let him surren- after copter crash spokesperson and the executive branch of used to surrender and attack on a CRPF party in The ultras were also der,” Kumar said. Maharashtra cabinet minister the CTA, and the post fired indiscriminately on which a CRPF jawan was involved in threatening He identified the slain Kochi, April 11: A heli- the sudden deterioration Nawab Malik said, “Pawar has was created by the Tibe- a search party, the police killed, an official said. and intimidating the civil- militants as Aasif Ahmad copter carrying promi- of weather conditions been admitted in Breach tan parliament in 2011 to said. The security forces res- ian population of the area Ganai and Faisal Gulzar nent NRI businessman and heavy rains, the expe- Candy Hospital and as provide democratic gov- Both of them were want- cued all the civilians and enticing young boys Ganai — both residents of M.A. Yusuff Ali, his wife rienced pilots decided to informed earlier, a surgery ernance to exiled Tib- ed in many terror crimes trapped in the area and to join terror ranks, he Chitragam Kalan. and four others crash- make precautionary land- will be performed tomorrow to etan community. — PTI including the killing of an halted the operation for said. According to police — PTI landed at a marshy land ing at a safe place to pre- address his Gall Bladder ail- near here on Sunday vent any risk to the life of ment.” morning, police said. the passengers or public Last month, the veteran All passengers includ- at large,” the statement politician had undergone an RISKY | MOVE Mega dam spanning Brahmaputra River to dwarf Three Gorges ing Yusuff Ali, who is said. emergency endoscopy for the Chairman of internation- “All passengers and removal of a stone from his al retail group Lulu crew underwent neces- bile duct in the same hospital Group, his wife and two sary medical checkup and after he complained about other passengers along are safe,” it said. abdominal pain. After con- Activists fear China’s super dam plan with two pilots on board An eyewitness said a ducting all the diagnosis, the the chopper owned by the major accident was avert- main reason was revealed Beijing, April 11: China Medog County is expected two other projects far Enthusiastic about “the and displaced 1.4 million company have been ed as the pilots managed behind his abdominal pain is planning a mega dam in to dwarf the record-break- upstream, while six others world’s richest region in inhabitants upstream. admitted to a private hos- to make safe landing in a was stone, which was devel- Tibet able to produce ing Three Gorges Dam on are in the pipeline or terms of hydroelectric “Building a dam the size pital here. “All of them marshy land near the NH oped in Gallbladder. The stone triple the electricity gen- the Yangtze River in cen- under construction. resources”, Yan explained of the super-dam is likely are safe. They are cur- Bypass at Panangad. was removed through erated by the Three tral China, and is billed as The “super-dam” howev- that the dam would draw a really bad idea for many rently under observa- Besides the busy high- endoscopy. Post this, he was Gorges — the world’s larg- able to produce 300 billion er is in a league of its own. its power from the huge reasons,” said Brian Eyler, tion,” a top official of the way in the neighbour- discharged from the hospital est power station —stok- kilowatts of electricity Last October, the Tibet drop of the river at this energy, water and sustain- Lakeshore hospital where hood, the small plot of earlier in this month. ing fears among environ- each year. local government signed a particular section. ability programme direc- they are treated said. land with compound The doctors had then mentalists and in neigh- It is mentioned in “strategic cooperation ag- Beijing may justify the tor at the Stimson Center, The incident occurred walls is surrounded by informed that the NCP chief bouring India. The struc- China’s strategic 14th reement” with PowerCh- massive project as an envi- a US think tank. at Panangad area at electric lines and build- would undergo a surgery after ture will span the Brahma- Five-Year Plan, unveiled ina, a public construction ronmentally-friendly alt- Besides being known for around 9 am on Sunday, ings. The incident occu- 15 days keeping in mind his putra River before the wat- in March at an annual rub- company specialising in ernative to fossil fuels, but seismic activity, the area according to a statement rred as the helicopter was other health parameters. erway leaves the Himalay- ber-stamp congress of the hydroelectric projects. it risks provoking strong also contains a unique bio- issued by Lulu Group slated to land on the The doctors took the decision as and flows into India, st- country’s top lawmakers. A month later the head of opposition from environ- diversity. The dam would International. ground of the Fisheries on surgery so that abdominal raddling the world’s lon- But the plan was short PowerChina, Yan Zhiyong, mentalists in the same block the migration of fish “Yusuff Ali, currently College, Panangad. pain does not occur frequently. gest and deepest canyon at on details, a timeframe or partially unveiled the proj- way as the Three Gorges as well as sediment flow in Kerala, was on a short The distance between It was also decided then an altitude of more than budget. The river, known ect to the Communist You- Dam, built between 1994 that enriches the soil duri- trip from his home in the ground and marshy he would be re-admitted for 1,500 metres (4,900 feet). as the Yarlung Tsangpo in th League, the youth wing and 2012. The Three ng seasonal floods downst- Kochi to visit a relative at land is about 200 metres, the same. The project in Tibet’s Tibetan, is also home to of China’s ruling party. Gorges created a reservoir ream, said Eyler. — AFP nearby hospital. Due to they said. — PTI WORLD DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | pg 9 MONDAY | 12 APRIL 2021 ECUADOR, PERU HEAD TO POLLS Lima, April 11: strict public health Key to GOP success is Ecuador and Peru were measures prompted by choosing new presi- the Coronavirus pan- dents Sunday under demic. — AP more Trumpism: Don Former President casts populist policies

Palm Beach (US), April 11: Staking his claim to the Republican Party, former President Business faces Donald Trump is cast- ing his populist policies and attack-dog politics as the key to future GOP a tricky path success. In a closed-door speech Washington, April 11: embrace of conspiracy Saturday night to don- For more than a half- theories and rejection of ors at his Mar-a-Lago century, the voice mainstream climate sci- resort, Trump also rein- emerging from the U.S. ence, as well as its dis- forced his commitment Chamber of missal of the 2020 elec- to the party, according to Commerce's monolithic, tion outcome. The most prepared remarks obta- Beaux Arts-styled build- recent flashpoint was in ined by The Associated ing near the White Georgia, where a new Press. His appearance House was predictable: Republican-backed law came as Republican offi- It was the embodiment restricting voting rights cials are trying to play of American business drew harsh criticism down an internal feud and, more specifically, a from Delta Air Lines over Trump's role in the shared set of interests and Coca Cola, whose party, his commitment with the Republican headquarters are in the to GOP fundraising and Party. state, and resulted in his plans for 2024. The party's bond with Major League Baseball While Trump's advis- corporate America, pulling the 2021 All-Star ers report he will em- however, is fraying. Game from Atlanta. phasise party unity, he Fissures have burst Republicans were furi- rarely sticks to script. open over the GOP's ous. — AP “The key to this tri- umphant future will be to build on the gains our that truly fights for all the Republican Party amazing movement has Americans.” hopes to move past Tr- made over the past four It was the final address ump's divisive leader- years,” Trump told hun- of the Republican Nati- ship, the location of the dreds of leading Republ- onal Committee's week- event suggests that the ican donors, according end donor summit in GOP, at least for now, is to the prepared rema- Palm Beach. Most of the not ready to replace rks. “Under our leader- RNC's invitation-only Trump as its undisputed ship, we welcomed milli- gathering was held at a leader and chief fundr- ons upon millions of luxury hotel a few miles aiser. Despite Saturday's new voters into the Re- away; attendees were intended message, Tru- publican coalition. We bused to Trump's club mp's commitment to the transformed the Repub- for his remarks. While a GOP is far from certain. lican Party into a party significant faction of — AP RESCUERS FIND 4 DEAD, SAVE 19 FROM VESSEL IN ATLANTIC Madrid, April 11: Spa- nish authorities said Sunday that they had recovered the bodies of four migrants from a boat along with 19 sur- vivors who had taken the treacherous route from West Africa to the Canary Islands. Spain's maritime res- cue service said that its crews had responded to an alarm call by a fish- ing boat that had located the migrants in a flimsy craft unfit for the high seas. Rescue helicopters airlifted groups of the migrants to Tenerife, including six people who were in poor health and suffering from dehydra- tion. The Atlantic cross- ing from the Western coast of Africa to Spain's Canary Islands has become a major route for migrants and asy- lum-seekers fleeing con- flict, violence and eco- nomic plight exacerbat- ed by the coronavirus pandemic. More than 2,400 people have reached the Canaries in the first three months of this year. — AP HIT-AND-RUN CRASH IN FLORIDA KILLS NY FED JUDGE Boca Raton, April 11: A Florida woman who claimed she is Harry Potter fatally struck a federal judge visiting from New York and seri- ously injured a 6-year- old boy after swerving her car onto a sidewalk, officials said. Nastasia Snape, 23, is charged with vehicular homicide and other fel- onies for Friday's crash that killed District Jud- ge Sandra Feuerstein, 75, who served in the Eastern District of New York since 2003. The boy, Anthony Ovchinnikov, was taken to the hospit- al, but his condition Su- nday could not be deter- mined. According to court records, witnesses told Boca Raton police the Snape was driving erratically, going around stopped traffic, on a busy road when she drove onto the sidewalk and struck Feuerstein. Snape then drove back onto the roadway, strik- ing the boy in a cross- walk. Police say Snape then fled into neighbour- ing Delray Beach, where she crashed. A Delray police officer said Snape appeared to be having convulsions. — AP WORLD DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 12 APRIL 2021 pg 10

IN BRIEF Underground Flood traps 21 Blackout hits Natanz atomic Chinese miners newsletters aid Beijing, April 11: Rescuers on Sunday were trying to reach 21 site, Iran calls it ‘N-terrorism’ coal miners who were trapped by an underground flood in Myanmar youth China's northwest, a state news Raises regional tensions as world powers, Tehran negotiate tattered N-deal agency reported. Yangon, April 11: Mya- across neighbourhoods in The mine in Hutubi County Dubai, April 11: Iran on nmar youth are fighting Yangon and Mandalay in the Xinjiang region flooded Sunday described a black- the junta's internet shut- and other areas. at about 6:10 pm on Saturday, out at its underground Na- Israel: Will see Iran down and information su- Lynn Thant is conscious the Xinhua News Agency said. tanz atomic facility an act ppression with an explo- of the risks involved. It said eight people were res- of “nuclear terrorism,” sive underground printed Police and soldiers have cued. China's coal mines are raising regional tensions newsletter they are secre- arrested more than 3,000 among the world's deadliest, as world powers and Te- deal saves interests tly distributing across people since the coup, regularly suffering explosions hran continue to negotiate communities. according to local moni- and gas leaks despite repeated over its tattered nuclear Tel Aviv, April 11: Israel with Israel “to advance For 56 days straight toring group Assistance safety crackdowns. deal. Ali Akbar Salehi, the will work with Washingt- shared security interest there have been internet Association for Political head of the Atomic En- on to ensure any “new ag- and priorities”. outages in coup-hit Myan- Prisoners. Two hundred ergy Organisation of Iran, reement” on Iran's nucle- Stressing America's mar, according to moni- high profile celebrities, Nasa delays Mars stopped short of directly ar programme will safegu- “iron-clad” bond with Isr- toring group NetBlocks. including actors, singers blaming anyone for the ard regional security, Def- ael, Austin said the US The country has been in and social media influen- copter flight incident. Details remained ence Minister Benny Gan- will “continue close cons- turmoil since democrati- cers are on an arrest war- Washington, April 11: Nasa few about what happened tz told his US counterpart ultations to ensure Israel's cally-elected leader Aung rant list and could face has delayed by at least several early Sunday morning at Lloyd Austin on Sunday. qualitative military edge San Suu Kyi was ousted three years' jail if convict- days the first flight of its mini- the facility, which initially The Natanz atomic facility in Iran. The comments came as and to strengthen Israel's in a February 1 coup, trig- ed of spreading dissent helicopter on Mars after a pos- was described as a blacko- Austin made the first security”. Austin's visit gering a mass uprising against the military. sible tech issue emerged while ut caused by the electrical of this terrorist moveme- programme, earlier said it high-level US trip to Israel came just days after the that has resulted in a bru- “If we write revolution- testing its rotors, the US space grid feeding the site. nt, the Islamic Republic of was aware of media repo- since talks resumed on US said it had offered tal security crackdown ary literature and distrib- agency said Saturday. Many Israeli media out- Iran will continue to seri- rts about the incident at reviving the 2015 Iran “very serious” ideas on re- and more than 700 civil- ute it like this, we could Ingenuity's trip, which is to lets offered the same asse- ously improve nuclear te- Natanz and had spoken nuclear accord, which the viving the hobbled nucle- ian deaths. end up in prison for many be the first-ever powered, con- ssment that a cyberattack chnology on the one hand with Iranian officials abo- Jewish state fiercely ar agreement reached bet- Thirty-year-old Lynn years,” he said, his face trolled flight on another plan- darkened Natanz and dam- and to lift oppressive sanc- ut it. The agency did not opposed. ween Tehran and world Thant, not his real name, concealed by one of the et, was set for Sunday but is aged a facility that is home tions on the other hand,” elaborate. Sunday's devel- Gantz said “we will work powers, which was aband- started the underground Guy Fawkes masks popu- now on hold until at least April to sensitive centrifuges. Salehi said, according opments also complicate closely with our Ameri- oned by former president newsletter and gave it the larised by the dystopian 14. A high-speed test of the While the reports offered state TV. efforts by the US, Israel's can allies to ensure that Donald Trump in 2018. edgy name Molotov to movie “V for Vendetta”. four-pound (1.8 kilogram) heli- no sourcing for the evalua- He added: “While cond- main security partner, to any new agreement with Israel under hawkish Pri- appeal to young people. “Even if one of us is copter's rotors on Friday end- tion, Israeli media mainta- emning this desperate re-enter the atomic accord Iran will secure the vital me Minister Benjamin “This is our response to arrested, there are young ed earlier than expected due to ins a close relationship move, the Islamic Repub- aimed at limiting Tehran's interests of the world and Netanyahu has been a fie- those who slow down the people who will carry on an alert of a potential issue. with the country's milita- lic of Iran emphasizes the programme so it can't pur- the United States, prevent rce critic of the Iran nuc- flow of information — producing the Molotov ry and intelligence agenci- need for a confrontation sue a nuclear weapon. a dangerous arms race in lear deal, dating back to and that's a threat to us,” newsletter. Even if one of es. If Israel caused the bl- by the international bod- Power at Natanz was cut our region and protect the when it was being negoti- he said. us is killed, someone else No power, water ackout, it further heighte- ies and the (International across the facility, which State of Israel”. ated during Barack Oba- Thousands of readers will come up when some- ns tensions between the Atomic Energy Agency) is comprised of above- Austin, the highest-level ma's administration. Net- across the country are one falls. This Molotov in Saint Vincent two nations, already enga- against this nuclear ter- ground workshops and envoy from President Joe anyahu applauded when downloading the PDF ver- newsletter will continue St. John's, Antigua and ged in a shadow conflict rorism.” The IAEA, the underground enrichment Biden's administration Trump withdrew from the sion of the publication to exist until the revolu- Barbuda, April 11: Massive across the wider Middle United Nations' body that halls. yet to visit ally Israel, said deal and imposed sanc- and printing out and dis- tion is successful.” power outages struck the Cari- East. “To thwart the goals monitors Tehran's atomic — AP Washington would work tions on Tehran. — AFP tributing physical copies — AFP bbean island of Saint Vincent before dawn on Sunday, as offi- cials recorded more explosive activity at a long-dormant vol- CHINESE SHIPS cano that launched into a seri- es of eruptions. Jordan king, IN SCS: U.S., After remaining quiet for nearly 42 years, La Soufriere rumbled back into life Friday, PHILIPPINES blanketing the island in ash prince put up and permeating the air with SHOW CONCERN the stench of sulphur. The eruptions prompted Aboard a US Military thousands to flee for safety, united front Aircraft, April 11: with around 16,000 people liv- Defence Secretary Lloyd ing in areas under evacuation Amman, April 11: Jord- were arrested. Austin on Saturday dis- orders. an's King Abdullah appea- But Abdullah said Wed- cussed with his Philipp- red in public Sunday alo- nesday that Hamzah, who ine counterpart China's ngside his half-brother has signed a letter pledg- recent positioning of Clark, Saddam Prince Hamzah, state TV ing his loyalty to the king “militia vessels” near showed, their first joint following mediation by an the Philippines in the lawyer, dies appearance since a palace uncle, was safe in his South China Sea. Washington, April 11: Rams- crisis involving the prin- palace under his “care”. Austin spoke by phone ey Clark, who promoted civil ce rocked the kingdom. In an address read out in with Philippine Secret- rights as America's top law en- The images showed a his name on state televi- ary of National Defence forcement official in the 1960s group of Hashemite roy- sion, the king added that Delfin Lorenzana while but later helped defend Sadd- als at a mausoleum where “sedition has been nipped Austin was flying from am Hussein and Slobodan Mil- their ancestors are bur- in the bud”. Washington to Israel to osevic in court, has died at 93. ied, on the 100th anniver- Jordanian political ana- begin an international The often controversial liberal sary of the founding of lyst Labib Kamhawi said trip. Pentagon press sec- figure and former attorney ge- the desert kingdom. the appearance of the retary John Kirby said neral died April 9 at his home The palace Twitter king and Prince Hamzah Austin and Lorenzana in New York City, a niece, account published a pic- together “sends a clear discussed the situation Sharon Welch, told US media. ture of the group at a message that the crisis in the South China Sea No cause of death was given. cemetery with the cap- file within the royal fami- and the recent massing His political arc was extraor- tion “HM King Abdullah ly has been closed”. Demonstrators take part in a march organised by the anti-restriction movement ‘Men In Black’ in Copenhagen on of Chinese vessels at dinary. While serving under II, HRH Crown Prince Al “It shows the Royal fam- Saturday against mass testing and restrictive measures during the Covid-19 pandemic. — AFP Whitsun Reef, which has president Lyndon Johnson, Hussein... (and) Hamzah ily is united.” But, he drawn criticism from Clark's Justice Department bin Al Hussein... visit added, the fact that Prin- Manila. China has said prosecuted popular author and tomb of HM the late King ce Hamzah stood behind its vessels are there for pediatrician Benjamin Spock Abdullah I”. the king and his uncle fishing. Austin proposed for helping Vietnam War prot- All were dressed in civil- prince Hassan and Crown to Lorenzana measures esters evade the draft. But he ian clothes, apart from Prince Hussein... and not China vax found less effective to deepen defence coop- also filed the first school Hussein, the heir to the beside the king means he eration, including by desegregation and voting throne, who wore milita- is now a normal prince, Beijing, April 11: In a “enhancing situational rights suits in the US North. ry dress. Jordan was ma- not on the level of a king rare admission of the UP TO 80% IN awareness of threats in Within years of leaving gov- rking 100 years of nation- or his crown prince”. weakness of Chinese Cor- the South China Sea,” ernment in 1969, he had al survival Sunday as a Hamzah had been appoi- onavirus vaccines, the co- Cops fine 100 at Kirby said. become a stunningly direct resource-poor country in nted crown prince and untry's top disease control SICILY REFUSE Kirby said earlier this critic of US foreign policy, a war-ravaged neighbour- heir to the throne in 1999 official says their effecti- week that the aircraft which he called “genocidal,” hood, but the palace crisis in line with his father's veness is low and the gov- AZ VACCINE carrier USS Theodore and of military spending, and the coronavirus pan- wishes, but Abdullah stri- ernment is considering Paris restaurant Roosevelt and its strike which he termed “certifiably demic have overshad- pped him of the title in mixing them to get a boo- Rome, April 11: Up to 80 group, as well as the insane.” owed celebrations. 2004 and named his own st. Chinese vaccines “don't Paris, April 10: Paris an end to a gathering of percent of people offered amphibious ship USS The government had eldest son Hussein in have very high protection police said Saturday they over 110 people,” the the AstraZeneca Covid-19 Makin Island, are oper- accused Hamzah — a for- Hamzah's place. rates,” said the director of had fined over 100 diners French capital's police vaccine In Sicily refuse it ating in the South China mer crown prince who Hamzah in a video mes- the China Centers for Dis- at an underground restau- posted on Twitter. out of fears over its safety, Sea. The US has no mili- was sidelined as heir to sage published by the ease Control, Gao Fu, at a rant flouting Coronavirus “Guests fined for failing according to the southern tary forces based perma- GERMAN POLL: the throne in favour of BBC on April 3 claimed conference Saturday in restrictions and arrested to respect applicable Italian region's president nently in the Philippines Abdullah's son Hussein in he had been placed under the southwestern city of its organiser, after a week health measures. Nello Musumeci. but sometimes rotates 2 GOVs THROW 2004 — of involvement in house arrest and accused Chengdu. of allegations that minis- Organiser and manager Public confidence in the forces to the country a conspiracy to “destabil- Jordan's rulers of corrup- Beijing has distributed ters attended similar rule- arrested,” they added. Anglo-Swedish jab has under the US-Philippi- HAT INTO RING ise the kingdom's securi- tion and ineptitude. hundreds of millions of breaking events. The prosecutor's office been badly shaken by nes Visiting Forces Agr- Berlin, April 11: Two Germ- ty”. At least 16 people — AFP doses abroad while trying Officers were “called out said the two were released reports linking it to rare, eement. The recent gath- an state governors on Sunday to promote doubt about for an excessive noise co- Saturday as the investiga- but potentially fatal, blood ering of Chinese vessels declared their willingness to the effectiveness of the mplaint about a restaura- tion continues. clots, and by conflicting near the Philippines is become the centre-right candi- Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine nt” late Friday and “put — AFP recommendations on its among moves the US has date for the country's Sep 26 made using the previously use. “In Sicily, there is an criticised as efforts by national election. Yemen’s Marib experimental messenger 80-percent refusal rate of Beijing to intimidate German Chancellor Angela RNA, or mRNA, process. about Gao's comment or in our country have also the AstraZeneca vaccine. smaller nations. — AP Merkel isn't seeking a fifth “It's now under formal possible changes in offi- entered the clinical trial Every 100 people, 80 say term after 16 years in power. consideration whether we cial plans. But another stage,” said the official, no. It is natural” for peo- ● AUSTIN PROPOSED Her centre-right Union bloc fighting: 70 dead should use different vacci- CDC official said develop- Wang Huaqing. ple to be particularly con- to Lorenzana measures has yet to choose its candidate nes from different techni- ers are working on mRNA- He gave no timeline for cerned, “but we have a to deepen defence co- between two state governors, Dubai, April 11: Fierce of Kassara and Al-Mash- cal lines for the immunisa- based vaccines. possible use. Experts say duty to believe scientists operation, including by Armin Laschet and Markus fighting for Yemen's strat- jah, northwest of the city, tion process,” Gao said. Gao did not respond to a mixing vaccines, or seque- when they say it is more “enhancing situational Soeder. “Markus Soeder and I egic Marib city has killed and Jabal Murad in the Officials at a news confe- phone call requesting fur- ntial immunization, might dangerous not to get vac- had a long talk,” Laschet told 70 pro-government and south. “They have made rence Sunday didn't respo- ther comment. “The boost effectiveness. cinated than to get vacci- awareness of threats in reporters after a meeting of Houthi rebel fighters over progress on the Kassara nd directly to questions mRNA vaccines developed — AP nated,” he said. — AFP the SCS,” Kirby said. the leaders of the parliamenta- the past 24 hours, with and Al-Mashjah fronts, ry party factions of the Union battles raging on three but they have been thw- bloc. “We both have declared fronts, loyalist military arted on the Jabal Murad our willingness to run for the officials said Sunday. front,” he said. ROYAL | SNUB Prince Charles pays tribute to ‘Papa’, says family misses him candidacy for the chancellery.” The Houthis have been The other official said Armin Laschet, who is the trying to seize Marib, the that warplanes from the governor of Germany's most capital of an oil-rich reg- Saudi-led military coali- populous state North Rhine- ion and the government's tion, which entered the Westphalia, won the leadersh- last significant pocket of Yemen conflict to support No Meghan at funeral for Prince Philip ip of Merkel's Christian Dem- territory in the north, the government in 2015, ocratic Union, or CDU, in Jan. since February. launched airstrikes that London, April 11: The fu- “My dear Papa was a eight days of national mo- ed he would but his Ame- ctions, Downing Street He hopes to succeed Merkel as Two officials from pro- “destroyed 12 Houthi mil- neral of Queen Elizabeth very special person who I urning. Royal officials rican wife, Meghan, who said. “The Prime Minister chancellor as does Soeder, who government forces said itary vehicles, including II's husband, Prince Phil- think above all else would said his funeral, which is pregnant with their sec- has throughout wanted to is Bavaria's governor and the that the rebels were mou- four tanks and a cannon.” ip, will take place next have been amazed by the will be televised, will take ond child, had been advi- act in accordance with head of the CDU's Bavaria- nting a concerted push However, the Saudi fire- week, Buckingham Palace reaction and the touching place at 1400 GMT on sed against travelling what is best for the Royal only sister party CSU. that had left 26 loyalist power does not seem to said on Saturday, announ- things that have been said Saturday, April 17 in St from the United States on household, and so to allow The centre-right Union bloc, soldiers dead as well as 44 have halted the rebel cing a stripped-back cere- about him, and from that George's Chapel, Windsor medical grounds. for as many family mem- which is made up by the two from Houthi ranks. The offensive. mony due to Coronavirus point of view we are, my Castle, west of London. The couple, who quit bers as possible will not be parties but dominated by the rebels rarely disclose the- The Iran-backed Houth- restrictions, and a return family, deeply grateful for It will be preceded by a frontline royal duties last attending the funeral on CDU, hasn't yet decided on its ir losses. is in late 2014 overran the for exiled royal Prince Ha- all that,” he added. national minute's silence. year, have launched a ser- Saturday,” a spokesperson candidate for the parliamenta- The new toll adds to 53 capital Sanaa, 120 kilome- rry but not his wife, Meg- “It will sustain us in this Government guidelines ies of broadsides against said. Gun salutes earlier ry election. However, a decisi- killed on both sides in the tres (75 miles) to the west han. The announcement particular loss and at this restrict mourners to just the royals, including acc- echoed around the United on is expected in the coming previous 24 hours, accord- of Marib, along with came as the couple's eldest particularly sad time.” 30 people and close attenti- using them of racism, and Kingdom on Saturday as days. “There's a big expectati- ing to loyalist military much of northern Yemen. son, heir to the throne The Duke of Edinburgh — on has been paid to the of failing to treat Megh- the armed forces paid on to come to a solution togeth- officials. The loss of Marib would Prince Charles, 72, paid a the 94-year-old queen's hu- pared-down guest list for an's mental health. solemn tribute to the duke. er, rather sooner than later, One of the officials said be a heavy blow for the heartfelt tribute to his sband of 73 years — died the funeral, particularly British Prime Minister The coordinated 41-rou- regarding the question of the Sunday that the rebels Yemeni government, cur- “dear Papa”, and said he peacefully on Friday just whether the duke's grand- Boris Johnson will also nd volleys to the former candidacy for chancellery,” “are launching simultan- rently based in the south- and the royal family mi- two months short of his son Harry would attend. not be attending the funer- Royal Navy commander Soeder said. eous attacks” in the areas ern city of Aden. — AFP ssed him “enormously”. 100th birthday, triggering Palace officials confirm- al because of Covid restri- were fired. — AFP HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 12 APRIL 2021 pg 11 Packaging units face input shortage Term life IBC: Recovery rate plunges quick Global producers policies could after settlement of big cases become FALAKNAAZ SYED which were settled via liq- are weaker of the cases MUMBAI, APRIL 11 uidation in Q3FY21, the with legacy bad debt and BITES realisable value was only so the recovery rate for costlier Absence of high value Rs 20.3 crore, or around 21 lenders have fallen ignore BIS mark companies led to a poor per cent, of the total steeply." INDICATORS % MADHUSUDAN SAHOO recovery rate for lenders admitted claim amount of Suspension of fresh NEW DELHI, APRIL 11 from cases under the Rs 97.3 crore. bankruptcy proceedings Sensex 49591.32 -0.31 SANGEETHA G Insolvency and According to Sanjay due to the pandemic Nifty 50 14834.90 -0.26 CHENNAI, APRIL 11 NOT BIG ENOUGH MARKET Life insurers, including Bankruptcy Code (IBC) Agarwal, senior director defaults also led to a a S&P 500* 4,128.80 0.77 ◗ Steel ministry has made BIS certification man- Life Insurance during the December of Care Ratings, "The ear- slowdown in the number The government's insis- datory for imports of tinplate and tin-free steel Corporation, could quarter of this fiscal. The lier quarters of the previ- of cases getting admitted Dollar (`) 74.75 0.27 tence on BIS certification increase the premium recovery rate for Q3FY21 ous year saw resolution at for Corporate Insolvency ◗ Pound Sterling (`) 102.40 0.11 on certain imported tin Restrictions have also been imposed on vari- on term life insurance dipped to a low of 12.6 per a very high value for large Resolution Processes and steel products has led ous steel products like easy open ends policies by up to 10 per cent, a steep fall from a steel accounts such as (CIRPs). Euro (`) 88.89 -0.41 to a shortage in metal pack- ◗ cent this fiscal. They high of 64.1 per cent Essar Steel, Bhushan For instance, the num- Gold (10gm)* (`) 46,257▲97 0.20 aging materials. But foreign suppliers have stopped shipping are confident that a reported in the March Steel, JP Infratech. ber of cases admitted The Steel and Steel tin plates to India, leading to shortage higher premium would 2020 quarter. Similarly, there was a high slowed down in nine- Brent crude ($/bbl)* 63.18 -0.03 Products Quality Control not affect the demand In the past, the recovery value cement account month FY21 (283 cases) IN 10-Yr bond yield 6.017 0.00 Order, issued on July 17, coated with a thin layer of Since the order came into for this product for var- rate in India used to be (Binani Cement) getting compared with 1,517 cases US 10-Yr T-bill yield* 1.673 0.041 2020 by the Ministry of tin that have specialised effect, foreign suppliers ious reasons. about 26 per cent. Post- resolved last year. The admitted in 9MFY20. The Steel, has made BIS certifi- use in consumer products have stopped shipping tin "We expect up to 10 IBC implementation, the recovery rate was high for December-end quarter * As of Friday/Saturday cation mandatory for like cans, hairclips, pens. plates to India and this has per cent hike in term overall recovery rate till these steel and cement witnessed a drop of imports of tinplate and tin- "It is virtually impossible led to a shortage in the life insurance in the date has improved to 39.8 companies. This year, around 83 per cent com- free steel. Further, restric- to force the international domestic market. near future. Even in the per cent. some of the companies pared with the previous tions have been imposed on suppliers to go for BIS cer- "There is a huge demand- increased premium Of the total claims that have been admitted year. China approves the import of various steel tifications as the procedure supply gap for tinplate and regime, women, who products like easy open of BIS registration is high- tin-free steel in India to the comprise half of the third Sinopharm ends and peel off ends used ly cumbersome. Further, extent of 2.5 lakh tonnes country's population, by the metal packaging for the international sup- per annum which is met will continue to get it at industry, which has 10 per pliers of tin plates, India is through imports. More- cheaper rates, thanks to BUSINESS BRIEFS INFOSYS PLANS SHARE BUYBACK vaccine for trial cent share of the $50 bil- a small market and hence over, tin-free steel is pro- their better longevity New Delhi, April 11: Infosys said its China has approved the third lion packaging industry. they are not quite keen to duced only by one mill, Tin rate than their male board will consider a buyback proposal Covid-19 vaccine from The restrictions have get into lengthy bureau- Plate Company, and that counterparts. Besides, CAIRN TO FOREGO $500 MN at its meeting on April 14. "The board of Sinopharm Group Company to affected a large number of cratic and cost-intensive too once a quarter," said the home loan borrow- the company will consider a proposal for start clinical trials, the company micro, small and medium BIS certification proce- Sanjay Bhatia, president, ers, who often prefer buyback of fully paid-up equity shares of said. The green light to begin enterprises involved in dures," says the Metal MCMA. the cost-effective term IF INDIA PAYS PRINCIPAL the company at its meeting to be held on testing comes after two inacti- making products using tin- Container Manufacturers' The shortage has also led life in place of home New Delhi, April April 14, 2021.” The company’s board is vated vaccines from Sinopharm plate steel-sheets of steel Association (MCMA). to rise in prices. insurance, will also 11: UK's Cairn slated to meet on April 13 and 14, to were approved and widely used continue to buy the Energy Plc has approve and take on record the audited both at home and in developing product," said an offi- offered to forego consolidated financial results for the countries. The latest one is a cial of a public sector $500 million and quarter and year ended March 31, 2021. recombinant vaccine that insurer. invest that amount In August 2019, Infosys had bought back includes parts of the coron- A significant rise in in any energy proj- 11.05 crore of its shares. — PTI avirus’s spike protein to stimu- SBI makes `300 cr from zero balance a/cs demand for term insur- ect identified by the late immune response. ance has been observed government if New New Delhi, April 11: four by the BSBDA account National Bank, which has of late, regardless of Delhi agrees to honour an international Several banks, including holders cannot be consid- 3.9 crore BSBD accounts, the cost. arbitration award and returns the value FRANKLIN 2ND TRANCHE SOON Printed & Published by State Bank of India (SBI), ered as "reasonable." collected Rs 9.9 crore dur- "The increase in of loss it incurred from being taxed ret- K. 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The state then distributing the next tranche of Rs 2,962 part without written permission of The Editor, Financial Chronicle ® is the SBI's decision to levy a period 2015-20. (even via digital means) Kumar, an economist expropriated and liquidated Cairn's crore to unitholders,” a Franklin prohibited. charge of Rs 17.70 for every The second-largest public beyond four a month.- and actuary. remaining shares. — PTI Templeton spokesperson said. — PTI debit transaction beyond sector lender Punjab — PTI GAMES Azhar bats on sticky HCA wicket ‘Stunning’ Hideki SHORT TAKES DC CORRESPONDENT have no ill feelings against any- HYDERABAD, APRIL 11 body and don’t want to step on takes 4-stroke lead anyone’s toes. I want everybody to India pip Argentina Former Indian captain work in tandem,” he added. Augusta (United States), Leishman and Americans Mohammad Azharuddin has dis- Azhar was visibly upset by the April 11: Hideki Xander Schauffele and in Pro League tie covered that cricket administra- uproar at the meet. “I will write to Matsuyama unleashed an Will Zalatoris shared sec- Buenos Aires: The Indian men’s tion is a different ball game. He’s the BCCI, which has been embar- incredible back-nine shot- ond on 209. hockey team snatched a dramat- batting on regardless, and playing rassed by the unruly behaviour of making display to seize a Rose, the 2013 US Open ic penalty shoot-out win over some powerful strokes too. On members of its affiliate and four-stroke lead after champion and a two-time Olympic champions Argentina Sunday, the Hyderabad Cricket might consider taking action. It is Saturday’s third round of Masters runner-up who after Harmanpreet Singh kept Association president was up bringing disrepute to the parent the Masters, putting the led by one when the day the side afloat in regulation time against his own team at the body, which provides us the funds Japanese star on the began, needed a long par with his two goals in the action- Annual General Meeting, which to run cricketing affairs. Last brink of a historic tri- putt at 18 to salvage a sec- packed first game of their FIH saw many a drive, pull and punch. time too some of the members umph at Augusta ond consecutive level par Pro League tie here. Chairing the meet, Azhar took a levelled charges against Justice National. 72. The draw guaranteed a point for firm guard and stuck to his stance Verma, which tantamount to Matsuyama, trying to “I didn’t play well each team, but it was the tourists as he went through with the Contempt of Court if I may cau- become the first Japanese enough today, simple as who walked away with the bonus appointment of Justice (Retd) tion,” he said. man to win a major title, that,” Rose said. point, thanks largely to some Deepak Verma as HCA’s His opponents too threatened to fired a seven-under par 65, Matsuyama adapted as brilliant goalkeeping by P.R. Ombudsman and Ethics Officer write to the Board. “The police his career-low 18-hole lightning-fast Augusta Sreejesh. As per the event’s as mandated by the Constitution were set upon us. We were asked Masters total and the first National was softened by rules, the team winning the and one which the Telangana to leave the premises saying the bogey-free round of the rain, taking full advan- shoot-out also walks away with High Court had upheld in its meeting was deemed closed,” week, to stand on 11-under tage by going six-under in the bonus point. — PTI order recently. John Manoj said. 205 after 54 holes. a seven-hole stretch of the On March 28, the HCA’s AGM Others alleged Azhar left the “It will be a new experi- back nine. was stalled and deferred by two Hyderabad Cricket Association president Mohammad Azharuddin ges- fight midway through and felt he ence for me being a leader After a 78-minute storm Wrestlers return weeks as there was no unanimity tures as he speaks to the press after HCA’s Annual General Meeting at should’ve gone for the ballot if he going into the final round delay, swirling winds van- over the appointment of Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday. commanded majority. “As many of a major,” Matsuyama ished and the wet course Ombdusman and Ethics Officer. It as 125 of the 160 members who said. “I guess I’ll relax as was receptive. However, empty-handed was decided to put the matter to addressed the press. The rival appoint would be by raise of attended the AGM have signed on best I can and do my best slowed greens became Almaty, Kazakhstan: National vote at the next meet. “The past camp (vice-president John Manoj, hands or ballot. The Association the appointments we have made,” tomorrow.” tricky to read — except by champion Sandeep Singh Mann conventions of HCA and practice secretary R. Vijayanand, joint sec- cannot run on anybody’s whims Surender claimed, showing a England’s Justin Rose, Matsuyama. (74kg) failed to qualify for the followed in other State associa- retary Naresh Sharma, treasurer and fancies. There are rules and bunch of printouts. Australian Marc — AFP Olympic Games at the Asian tions, the Apex Council considers Surender Agarwal and councillor regulations that we will have to Nevertheless, Azhar decided to Qualifiers here on Sunday, keep- names, obtains consent of the P. Anuradha and their support- follow,” he said even as claims of bat on. “We have to make other ing veteran Sushil Kumar’s Tokyo honourable judges as required by ers) stayed back and continued democracy and accusations of appointments like the CEO and hopes alive in the weight catego- the rules and recommends the with the meeting, making differ- dictatorship flew about. CFO now,” he said and also prom- SNAP SHOTS ry. Also missing out on qualifica- names for appointment by the ent appointments — Senior Azhar also sought to alleviate ised “20 per cent of the fund tion was Satywart Kadiyan General Body. In this case, the Tournament Committee, Cricket apprehensions of multiple club which the HCA receives from the (97kg) and Sumit Malik (125kg) Apex Council has made just one Advisory Committee, Junior owners, who fear their voting BCCI (which approximately Hishanth ton in Gajwel big win in the three-day competition that recommendation - Justice Deepak Selection Committee (Men), powers would be sliced since a amounts to Rs 14 crore) to the dis- concluded here on Sunday. Verma,” Azhar said on Sunday Cricket Talent Committee, complaint in that regard is trict associations affiliated to the ishanth Prem Charan hogged All those who missed out have and pointed to the High Court Grounds Committee, CEO and already pending. “They need not HCA.” HSunday’s limelight in the one last chance to make the cut judgement which outlines the CFO among others. worry. He (Justice Verma) is a for- Even as he appears to be playing Telangana Cricket Association U-16 for the Tokyo Games at the sequence of events with dates of They also readied appointment mer justice of the highest court in a lone hand in the Apex Council, Inter Districts State Championship World Olympic Qualifiers, sched- obtaining consent. orders for Justice (Retd) Nisar the country and will go by the Azhar assured: “I will do my best. (Group-II). uled to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria He then put the matter to vote by Ahmed Kukru (Ombudsman) and rules. It is good for the game of I am here for the betterment of Hishanth of Gajwel (Siddipet from May 6-9. show of hands and announced the Justice (Retd) T. Meena Kumari, cricket,” he said. cricket and will make sure that Rural) clobbered a phenomenal 131 Sonam Malik and Anshu Malik former Supreme Court judge’s (Ethics Officer). “Some people are spreading nothing will go wrong in the which was followed by an impres- were the only ones to qualify for appointment. As the opposition “They can do whatever they rumours that I want to take away Association. People can cast any sive spell of 3 for 29 to lift his side to the Games in Almaty. — PTI camp demanded voting by secret want, it’s not valid after the presi- the clubs. I have no such inten- amount of aspersions on me but I a massive 99-run victory against ballot that led to fracas, Azhar dent has closed it,” Azhar told tion. As an international player, I am hell bent on clearing this, Nizamabad while Nirmal gun down declared the AGM closed, walked reporters. already have voting rights and because nobody has fought this in Siddipet for three wicket win. Hishanth Prem out of the hall along with the club “As a president it was my call to can fight the elections, in HCA or so many years, over which all the Brief scores: Gajwel (Siddipet Two Indian fencers secretaries supporting him, and decide whether the vote to the BCCI. I don’t need a club. I dirt has accumulated.” Rural) 238/3 in 20 overs (Hishanth Prem Charan 131, P. Lohith Reddy 29) bt Nizamabad 139 in 19.3 overs (R. test +ve in Cairo Vishal 38, Hishanth Prem Charan 3/29); Siddipet New Delhi: Two Indian fencers 133/7 in 20 overs (Akhil 23, Sandeep L 2/17) lost to participating in the World Junior Nirmal 134/7 in 17.2 overs (R. Sripadhav 41, Shiva and Cadet Championships in BLUES CLIMB TO 4TH SPOT Real edge past Barca in Clasico Charan 2/16). Cairo have tested positive for Covid-19, leading to them being London, April 11: Chelsea boosted their bid to finish Madrid, April 11: Real final appearance in this and Real Madrid hitting quarantined there. in the Premier League’s top four as Kai Havertz and Madrid climbed to the top fixture. Victory means their stride, this game Ranga Reddy & Indur in semis at hockey Fencing Association of India Christian Pulisic starred in a 4-1 win at Crystal Palace of La Liga on Saturday Real Madrid go level on looked set to define, if not (FAI) president Rajiv Mehta said on Saturday. after Karim Benzema’s points with Atletico, with the title, then who would anga Reddy and Indur Hockey Club marched into that the infected fencers were Thomas Tuchel’s side blew Palace away with a swag- flicked finish helped them the top three now separat- become favourites to be Rthe semifinals of the Dhyan Chand Cup 5-a-side doing fine and being looked gering first half display inspired by Germany forward claim a thrilling 2-1 victo- ed by a single point. crowned champions in Hockey Tournament being organised by Gymkhana after by the team doctor. Havertz. ry over Barcelona in a Atletico, without the May. The result was a riv- Hockey Club at the Gymkhana Ground in “Yes, two fencers have tested Chelsea are up to fourth place and sit two points clear wild Clasico at injured Luis Suarez, face eting contest at a rain- Secunderabad. positive and they are undergoing of fifth placed Liverpool. Valdebebas. Real Betis on Sunday. soaked Alfredo di Stefano Ranga Reddy edged past Gymkhana-2 with a 5-0 quarantine in Cairo,” Mehta said. West Ham, also two points behind the Blues, would Benzema’s superb piece of But Real Madrid now stadium — certainly one of scoreline as E. Jyothi Reddy and Aparna scored a “Both the fencers are doing fine reclaim fourth if they beat Leicester on Sunday. skill and a deflected Toni own the better head-to- the most exciting Clasicos brace each while Malkvika scored one goal. and they are being looked after Havertz has endured a difficult time since his close- Kroos free-kick put head against both of their in years — that saw both In another match, Indur Hockey Club mauled by the doctor there,” he added. season move from Bayer Leverkusen, but he gave a rare Madrid in charge and rivals while Barcelona and teams squander numerous Medchal 6-1 in which Nivetha scored the most six India had fielded 24 fencers in all glimpse of his quality with the opening goal in south while Oscar Mingueza Atletico still have to play chances, several efforts goals for her side. Meanwhile, Gymkhana-1 toppled the three disciplines — sabre, foil London. The 21-year-old turned provider to set up pulled one back for Barca, each other at Camp Nou in come back off the wood- Royal Club ‘A’ 9-1 as Bhavani contributed with six and epee — in the tournament Pulisic for the second goal before Kurt Zouma put they fell to defeat in what the run-in. With Atletico work and Casemiro sent goals and Kusuma with three. which ends on Sunday. — PTI Chelsea three up after 30 minutes. — AFP could be Lionel Messi’s stumbling and both Barca off in extra time. — AFP SUMMER IPL 14 SLAM ● CHENNAI SUPER KINGS ● DELHI CAPITALS ● KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS ● MUMBAI INDIANS ● PUNJAB KINGS ● RAJASTHAN ROYALS ● ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE ● SUNRISERS HYDERABAD DECCAN CHRONICLE, HYDERABAD, MONDAY, 12 APRIL 2021 pg 12

Off the field Live on TV Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals from 7.30 pm on RANA-WAY VICTORY Star Sports 1, HD1 Nitish slams 56-ball 80 as Knights gallop to their 100th IPL win DC CORRESPONDENT CHENNAI, APRIL 11 SCORECARD Riding on Nitish Rana’s brilliant 80, Kolkata Kolkata Knight Riders: Knight Riders galloped to Nitish Rana c Shankar b their 100th IPL win here at Mohammad Nabi 80, the M.A. Chidambaram Shubman Gill b Rashid Stadium on Sunday. Khan 15, Rahul Tripathi Kolkata got the better of c Saha b Natarajan 53, Andre Russell c Pandey David Warner’s daughter sports Sunrisers by 10 runs. Chasing 188, Sunrisers b Rashid Khan 5, Eoin Sunrisers jersey to cheer on her Morgan c Abdul Samad father. — Twitter had a disastrous start as they lost both their open- b Mohammad Nabi 2, ers, David Warner and Dinesh Karthik (not Dhoni fined `12L Wridhiman Saha, early. out) 22, Shakib Al When they were wobbling Hasan c Abdul Samad b for slow over rate at 10 for two, Manish Kumar 3. Extras (W-7) Pandey and an in-form 7. Total (for six wickets in 20 overs) 187. hennai Super Kings skip- Jonny Bairstow put on a vital stand. FoW: 1-53, 2-146, 3-157, Cper Mahendra Singh 4-160, 5-160, 6-187. Dhoni has been fined `12 lakh While the Englishman Punjab Kings’ Chris Gayle is brimming with energy during Bairstow counter- Bowling: Bhuvneshwar a training session in Mumbai. — Twitter for maintaining a slow over Kumar 4-0-45-1, rate during his side’s defeat attacked, Manish provid- ed the solidity from the Sandeep Sharma 3-0- against Delhi Capitals. “As it 35-0, T Natarajan 4-0- was his team’s first offence of other end. KKR pacer Pat Cummins 37-1, Mohammad Nabi the season under the IPL's 4-0-32-2, Rashid Khan Code of Conduct relating to snapped the partnership A battle of big 4-0-24-2, Vijay Shankar minimum over-rate offences, at 92 by dismissing Bairstow (55 off 40). 1-0-14-0. Mr Dhoni was fined `12 lakh,” Sunrisers Hyderabad: a statement from IPL added. Kolkata had the upper- hand when Sunrisers Wriddhiman Saha b Shakib Al Hasan 7, hitters on cards needed 69 off last five overs. But Manish’s stay David Warner c Karthik Mumbai, April 11: CSK still waiting for in the middle gave b Prasidh Krishna 3, Another battle of big-hit- HEAD to HEAD Hyderabad a glimmer of Manish Pandey (not ters is on the cards when Behrendorff arrival hope. The equation was out) 61, Jonny Bairstow KL Rahul’s Punjab Kings reduced from 44 off 18 to c Rana b Cummins 55, take on the Sanju Samson- Matches 21 osing Josh Hazlewood was 38 off 12. Then came a Mohammad Nabi c led Rajasthan Royals, two La big blow as it left the fearless teenager Abdul Morgan b Prasidh line-ups dotted with expan- RR 12 PK 9 team bereft of overseas pace Samad who clubbed Krishna 14, Vijay sive stroke-makers and in bowling options with Jason KKR’s premier pacer Pat Shankar c Morgan b pursuit of a winning start Russell 11, Abdul Samad FOR THE RECORD Behrendorff and South Cummins for two sixes in to their IPL campaigns ● Africa’s Lungi Ngidi also not the penultimate over to (not out) 19. Extras (B-1, here on Monday. Rajasthan KL Rahul who has scored 1,922 runs at an average of 54.91 in 42 available for the next game, make it 22 off 6. However, LB-1, W-5) 7. Total (for will be banking heavily on five wickets in 20 innings needs 78 more to become said Chennai Super Kings Andrew Russell’s brilliant their swashbuckling all- only the second batsman after head coach Stephen Fleming. final over ensured Kolkata overs) 177. rounder Ben Stokes. Stokes FoW: Shaun Marsh (2,477 runs) to score Australia pacer Hazlewood had the last laugh. Manish 1-10, 2-10, 3-102, will be keen to get some 2,000+ runs for Punjab. had withdrawn at the last remained unbeaten on 61. 4-131, 5-150. runs under his belt and so moment to keep himself fit Earlier, openers Bowling: Harbhajan will be the likes of Singh 1-0-8-0, Prasidh LAST YEAR’S MATCHES for upcoming international Shubman Gill and Rana Englishman Jos Buttler ● assignments. Behrendorff got KKR off to a decent Krishna 4-0-35-2, and newly-appointed skip- Rajasthan beat Punjab by four wickets at Sharjah was named his replacement start, putting on 53 runs. Shakib Al Hasan 4-0- per Samson, who is a mine- ● last Friday and is yet to T. Natarajan and Sandeep 34-1, Pat Cummins 4-0- field of talent. Rajasthan beat Punjab by seven arrive, while Ngidi is serving Sharma found it difficult 30-1, Andre Russell 3-0- The Royals could opt to wickets at Abu Dhabi 32-1, Varun his quarantine after return- to Rana-Gill at bay as the open with the highly-rated STATS: S. PERVEZ QAISER ing midway from South duo made 50 runs in pow- Chakravarthy 4-0-36-0. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Africa’s ODI series against erplay. Buttler. While Samson, Pakistan. “It’s (bowling) an Afghan leg-spinner MoM: Nitish Rana who would be itching to Archer missing due to area that we are probably Rashid Khan who was prove a point, and Stokes injury, the pace attack will short on,” said Fleming. introduced in the seventh KKR opener Nitish Rana en route to his half-century against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Rana, who was adjudged would then form strong have to be led by over gave Sunrisers’ the an IPL match in Chennai on Sunday. — IPL the man of the match, middle-order. Rajasthan’s newest recruit much-needed break- said: “I thought the ball If the four fire on all — South African all-round- through by removing Gill. Barring Rashid, it as Eoin Morgan and As KKR slumped to 160 was in my slot (first ball, cylinders, they can pum- er Chris Morris, who will Rashid’s wrong'un Sunrisers bowlers looked Andre Russel fell for sin- for five from a commend- off Bhuvneshwar) and mel any attack into sub- be eager to justify his huge crashed into Gill’s off- below par. gle digit scores. It was able position of 146 for luckily I got a four. My mission and Punjab would price tag of `16.25 crore. stump. Rana raced to his Rahul Tripathi scored another Afghan spinner one, their hopes of touch- game-plan is always that if be no exception on the RR will have to get their 12th IPL fifty in 37 balls, his fifty in 28 balls and Mohammad Nabi who ing the 200-run mark suf- the ball is in my slot I’ll Wankhede track, which is combination right as only reaching the landmark by added 93 off 50 balls with removed Rana and fered a big blow. If not for try to hit it. I was backing usually batting-friendly. four foreigners can make pulling a short ball off Rana to set up a perfect Morgan off consecutive Dinesh Karthik’s unbeat- myself and looking to hit Royals also have an sever- the playing XI. Vijay Shankar for a six platform for his team’s big balls before Rashid dis- en 22 off 9 balls, KKR balls. I’ve been playing al other options at their So, it will be interesting over deep backward hitters. However, they missed the dangerous wouldn’t have made a spin since childhood, so in disposal, including all- to see whether Royals opt square-leg boundary. couldn’t make full use of Russell. competitive total. a way, it’s in my blood.” rounders Shivam Dube, for left-arm pacer Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Mustafizur Rahman or go Tewatia, Riyan Parag and in with either Jaydev Liam Livingstone. Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi or Gopal, Tewatia and Chetan Sakariya. DHONI WANTS Parag, all bowl leg-spin, so Unadkat, with his experi- MSD is my go-to man, says Pant it would be interesting to ence, might get the nod. HIS BOWLERS TO see whether the Royals opt On the other hand, Mumbai, April 11: Delhi Capitals’ to go in with two leg-spin- Punjab boast of some hard- new skipper Rishabh Pant said ners. hitters like Rahul (670 runs walking out with Mahendra Singh PULL UP SOCKS Tewatia and Dube have in 2020 season), Mayank Dhoni for the toss in their IPL Mumbai, April 11: CSK the ability to whack the Agarwal (424 runs) and opener here was a special moment captain Mahendra Singh ball outside the park and Chris Gayle. Rahul and for him as the Chennai Super Dhoni said his bowlers look to be certainties in the Agarwal formed a lethal Suresh Raina spends his day off Kings talisman has been his “go-to will have to pull up their playing XI. opening combination in cooking in the team hotel. man.” socks after a “poor” out- With star pacer Jofra 2020. — PTI Chasing 189 for victory, DC ing. “We could have romped to a seven-wicket victory bowled slightly better, Yellow is a matter with eight balls to spare after and if batters are hitting Shikhar Dhawan (85) and Prithvi you over the fields, that’s MISSING JOFRA IS A BIG of pride for Raina Shaw (72) struck blistering half- fair enough. centuries. “Actually, it was special “The execution of the BLOW, SAYS SANGAKKARA uresh Raina is back with a for me captaining in IPL and walk- bowlers was poor and Sbang in IPL but rued the ing out for toss with MS. I have there were boundary Mumbai, April 11: Star pacer Jofra Archer’s absence fact that CSK failed to score learnt from him and he’s my go-to balls that they bowled, because of injury is a “big blow” to Rajasthan Royals an additional 20 runs against man,” Pant said. but the bowlers will have but their new Director of Cricket Kumar Sangakkara Delhi Capitals in their open- The likes of Chris Woakes and learned and they will is confident that the team’s young Indian fast bowlers ing game which led to a seven Avesh Khan ensured DC did not apply that in the future will rise to the challenge in this year’s IPL. wicket defeat. CSK put on miss their first-choice pace duo of games,” Dhoni said. Archer, who played with a hand injury during the board a competitive 188 with Kagiso Rabada and Andre Nortje “A lot depended on dew, India series, is currently recuperating from a surgery Delhi Capitals skipper Rishabh Pant is the centre of attraction as players Raina scoring a brisk 54 but who are serving their quarantine. and that factor played on and the duration of his availability during the later last-year's finalists Delhi “It was good, once you win the walk back to the pavilion. — IPL our mind from the start part is still not clear. Capitals overhauled the target match everything is good. In the and I thought we had to do with the we didn’t think about the run-rate.” and that’s why we wanted “Sanju and I will both agree that it’s a big blow for us. without any fuss. middle phase, I was under pres- options we have. Pant also lauded the opening duo to get as many runs as Jofra is a very vital part of our make-up and not to “It feels amazing to be back sure, but good job from Avesh and “We thought whatever we have we of Dhawan and Shaw. “Prithvi and possible. The batters did a have him is unfortunately the reality of it. We have to with MS Dhoni and the the bowlers. have to work around this and put Shikhar did a good job for us in the good job to reach 188, work around it and plan contingencies,” Sangakkara Chennai Super Kings. It is “We were thinking as to what we the best playing XI. We just wanted powerplay. They kept it simple and because it was tricky,” said ahead of the clash against Punjab Kings. — PTI always good to contribute to a will do without Nortje and Rabada to finish the match before one over, looked for boundaries.” — PTI Dhoni said. — PTI side that has done so much for the players, who have done so much for every person. “It is always good to be back and wear this yellow colour. It’s a pride that I have cher- Small changes in technique worked wonders for Shaw ished all my life,” Raina said. “It could have been better if we would have scored 15-20 Mumbai, April 11: A in a release on Sunday. I made some small changes in my batting before of cricket and he has got runs more but I think we minor change in technique The change that he the IPL. I just wanted to minimize all the mistakes I the experience which he bowled better in the middle coupled with focus on cut- referred to was positioning was making, and I worked hard can share with us and he overs, in the next few days we ting down on silly mis- of his back-lift. Earlier, his does especially with the will have a few good practice takes has been Prithvi bat would come down at an — PRITHVI SHAW youngsters. I am really sessions where can we learn Shaw’s recipe for success angle from the gully Delhi Capitals opener enjoying working with what to do better,” he added. after a poor run of form region, causing problems him.” Rain had missed the last edi- that found him out of with the incoming deliver- Asked about skipper tion of the IPL held in the national team during the ies but after working with Trophy. Then I just played without a good start,” he Rishabh Pant, who UAE. England series. Amre, the back-lift is more my natural game with a said. replaced an injured The 21-year-old on straightened reducing the few changes in the Vijay “It was a great win for us; Shreyas Iyer ahead of this Saturday blasted his way gap between bat and pad. Hazare Trophy,” he said. however, I should’ve stayed season, Shaw said: “We to a 38-ball 72-run innings Last year, Shaw was Shaw shared a 138-run in the middle until the end. really miss Shreyas Iyer, Regd. No. HQ/SD/509/2021-23 as Delhi Capitals chased dropped from DC’s playing opening stand with So, if I have to rate my and he led the team very Printed and Published by down a winning target of XI after a string of low Shikhar Dhawan (85) innings out of 10, I will well. K. Sudhakar on behalf of Deccan 189 against CSK with more scores in UAE and also before being dismissed by give an 8 to myself.” “However, Rishabh Pant Chronicle Holdings Limited. Printed at than an over to spare. omitted from India’s Test Dwayne Bravo in the 14th Talking about DC head is very smart. He is fear- Deccan Chronicle Press situated at Prithvi Shaw Plot No. 9 Alwal Village, Vallabh Nagar “I made some small squad after scoring 0 and 4 over. coach Ricky Ponting, Shaw less and enjoys the game. Taluk, Medchal Malkajgiri Dist. changes in my batting in the first Test in “Very happy with the said: “With Ricky, I gener- He’s very entertaining on Telangana and Published at 36, S.D. before the IPL. I just want- Adelaide. runs in 8 matches in the Conditioning Coach way I batted ... the opening ally speak to him about the field and is very cool Road, Secunderabad-3. ed to minimize all the mis- After working on his Vijay Hazare Trophy. Rajinikanth Sivagnanam stand which we got was tactics and strategies as a and calm as a captain. He’s RNI Registration No. 3081/1957. batsman. doing a fantastic job for Editor: Kaushik Mitter takes I was making, and I technique, Shaw returned “I practised for two sir and Pravin Amre sir very crucial for us. worked hard,” said Shaw to amass a whopping 827 weeks with Strength & before the Vijay Hazare Chasing 190 odd is not easy “He has played so much the team.” — PTI