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DOCTOR HELD FOR RAPE BID ON FAKE NEWS: AMITABH BACHCHAN AFRICAN-ORIGIN SIDDI TRIBAL ELATED GOVT MAKES E-INVOICING OF GST CORONA PATIENT IN UTTAR PRADESH DENIES REPORTS OF TESTING NEGATIVE ON BECOMING K'TAKA LAWMAKER COMPULSORY FROM OCTOBER 1 government doctor at Aligarh's Deen Dayal hospital was arrested on egastar Amitabh Bachchan on Thursday dismissed reports that he hantharam Budna Siddi, a 55-year-old African-origin Siddi tribal, is he government proposes to roll out compulsory e-invoicing of GST from AWednesday on charges of molesting and attempting to rape a 25- Mhas tested negative for coronavirus and called the piece of news "an Selated on being nominated as a Karnataka Legislative Council (MLC) TOctober 1, but has decided to raise the threshold to exempt smaller year-old woman, who was recuperating in the isolation ward after being incorrigible lie". The 77-year-old actor, who along with actor-son member by Governor Vajubhai Vala. Siddi is among 5 persons entities from this compliance, an official said on Thursday. Accordingly, e- tested positive for coronavirus. According to reports, Doctor Tufail Abhishek, was admitted to the isolation ward of Nanavati nominated on Wednesday to the upper house to fill vacancies caused invoicing will be mandatory only for businesses with turnover of Rs 500 Ahmad, 30, was booked and later arrested from a hotel where he had Hospital here on July 11, was quick to rubbish stories that after the term of the incumbents lapsed in the 75-member crore or more. Those, on the other side of the threshold, will be exempted quarantined himself after completing his started swirling on social media. "This news is incorrect, legislative council. The four others are former ministers A.H. from the compliance burden, for the time being. The threshold for duty in the isolation ward. The victim said irresponsible, fake and an incorrigible lie!" wrote Amitabh Vishwanath and C.P. Yogeeshwar, academician Talwar Sabanna mandatory e-invoicing -- a step to improve tax in her complaint that Tufail visited the on Twitter, tagging a video clip from a TV news channel. and BJP women's wing president Bharathi Shetty. "I am compliance — was earlier planned to be kept at women's ward on Tuesday night and The reports emerged as the Bollywood veteran and grateful to the state government for giving our community a Rs 100 crore. But, the changes are now being allegedly touched the private parts of the Abhishek, 44, neared the completion of their 14- voice in the legislature and an opportunity to make laws made on the recommendations of an empowered patient on the pretext of examining her. day quarantine period at the city hospital. for the benefit of all," said Siddi. panel of the GST Council. Rethink 3-capital decision, State records 7,998 cases, Pawan Kalyan advises Jagan PNS n VIJAYAWADA the community is the state “Naidu should have listened to 61 casualties in 24 hours Home Minister. The Jagan Modi on the capital where the Playing the roles of both the government has failed to pro- PM asked to build a capital like l With over 10,000 infections, E Godavari now Covid hotbed in AP good cop and the bad cop, Jana tect the weaker sections,” the Gandhinagar in 2,000 to 3,000 Sena chief Pawan Kalyan on actor-politician said. “The acres,” he said. PNS n VIJAYAWADA Thursday praised and criti- farmers of Amaravati have my “While I welcome the num- Human cised Chief Minister YS complete support,” he said. ber of tests being carried out by A staggering 7,998 fresh 10,038 Jaganmohan Reddy in the Pawan Kalyan also found the AP goverment, the pan- Need of hour to Covid-19 cases and 61 casu- ingenuity will same breath. fault with former demic should have been han- alties were added in a day in total casas in East Godavari The Jana Sena chief not chief minister N dled better. Unfortunately, the jointly bear Covid on Thursday, only advised Jagan to rethink Chandrababu facilities and infrastructure for burden: HP CM taking the death toll to 884, find solution on his decision to have three Naidu for Covid patients in AP is not according to the latest bul- 6,786 active cases capitals for the state, but also acquiring good,” the Jana Sena chief letin. to Covid: Guv come to the rescue of the 33,000 acres of said. Andhra Pradesh also farmers of Amaravati, even land. Pawan Kalyan said that he recorded the second highest 3,156 96 mid rising Coronavirus while praising the Chief was on Chaturmasa deek- 4 number of Covid-19 cases in Acases, Governor Minister for his handling of the sha where he eats only India, next only to recovered total Biswabhusan Harichandan Coronavirus pandemic. one meal a day and Maharashtra. cases deaths on Thursday said human Commenting on the alleged sleeps on the floor. He East Godavari is now the ingenuity and capability of atrocities against Dalits in AP, said that this deeksha Covid hotspot of the state as innovation and adaptation Pawan said that series of events will continue through the contagion has been would soon create a solution against a community were Karthika Masam and spreading at a rapid pace over Man tests positive, wife to the Covid-19 pandemic disheartening. “It’s quite dis- he was doing it for the past week in particular. mankind was now facing. tressing that these incidents are the wellbeing of The district has recorded the In a televised address to the taking at a time a leader from humanity. highest number of cases and denied entry into her home people of the state on comple- crossed the 10,000 mark PNS n EAST GODAVARI Bommuru quarantine centre tion of one year in office of (10,038), out of the total in . Governor, Harichandan 72,711 positive cases report- In yet another incident of Meanwhile, Y Rajeev, noted that the country was SpiceJet lifts ed till July 23 in the state. social boycott fearing the owner of the house, did not witnessing a spurt in Covid- HC notice to Centre, East Godavari also saw 14 Covid spread, residents allow Kalyani into the 19 cases in spite of the best 1,500 Indian Covid-19 deaths, the single of Alcot Gardens home claiming that efforts by the administra- largest number in a district in in she would spread tion. AP on 3-capital plea students from a day so far. locked the the virus. It was a worldwide phe- In the last 24 hours, 5,428 house of a Though she nomenon that even coun- PNS n WASHINGTON Kyrgyzstan UK welcomes efforts Covid-19 patients were dis- woman tested negative tries with advanced medical charged from hospitals after health work- for the virus, and public health facilities The Andhra Pradesh High PNS n NEW DELHI by India, China to they got cured, the bulletin er, and the house were finding it difficult to Court, which has been hearing de-escalate tension said. Auxiliary owner didn’t cope with. a batch of petitions opposing SpiceJet on Thursday said According to East Godavari Nursing allow her to The Governor said both the trifurcation of the state it will operate nine charter in Ladakh district Collector Muralidhar Midwifery stay in the rent- the state and the Central gov- capital, on Thursday admitted flights in association with Reddy the surge in the district (ANM) and pre- ed house. ernments were doing their yet another petition which bollywood actor Sonu was expected around August vented her from With this she went best to contain the spread of argued that the location of the Sood to repatriate over 25, but the cases surged ear- entering her own home after to her own house at Alcot the virus and providing treat- capital city of the state comes be piecemeal hearing and that 1,500 Indian students from 5 lier than surmised. He advised her husband tested positive Gardens. But the locals there ment facilities to those infect- under the purview of the all the matters have to be taken Kyrgyzstan during the next people not to panic, but for Covid-19. locked her house from out- ed by the virus. Centre. up together. two months. instead be aware and follow According to reports, side forcing the health work- "The only mantra through Admitting the petition, the The pagination of the court "SpiceJet operated the Covid-19 guidelines. Kalyani, working as ANM at er and her relative to spend which the battle against High Court sent notices to the bundle is not complete and that first charter flight from Officials said that increased near Kadiyapulanka (Sri the night outside of her Covid-19 can be won appears Central and State governments, they will be adjourning the mat- Bishkek (capital of testing has led to detection of Gurulanka) area in East house while it was raining. to be following the principle directing them to file a counter ter by one week for the registry Kyrgyzstan) to bring back more cases. The district is Godavari district and she has Though she dialled 100 of 4Ts - Tracing, Tracking, affidavit in this regard and to paginate and the matters to 135 students to their now conducting about 5,000 been staying in a rented (police) and others, no one Testing and Treating," he adjourned the case to August 6 be heard on August 6 for the hometown of Varanasi to 6,000 Covid-19 tests against house in Rajahmundry. came forward to rescue her. remarked. He advised people for further hearing. completion, the bench hearing today," the airline said in a the earlier 1,500 to 2,000 Kalyani’s husband tested A video of Kalyani urging to remain at home as far as It observed that when a sit- the petition said. press release. samples a day. The private positive for the Covid-19 the people to show human- possible and follow the guide- uation is developing, there can’t 3 3 hospitals have also started and he was referred to home ity went viral on social media lines issued by the health offering Covid-19 treatment. quarantine. However, he platforms. experts as prevention was 3 opted to convalesce at the 3 the best way to defeat the virus. Order issued for permanent Groom tests positive hours before marriage commission of women officers Monetisation PNS n EAST GODAVARI Coronavirus-induced lock- medical and health officials on down forced them to wait for Thursday stepped into the PNS n NEW DELHI by RBI has a While it’s said that marriages are at least three months. groom's home and confirmed cost: Rajan made in heaven, nowadays, it Finally, when they decided to his worst fears, that he has test- The Ministry of Defence has appears that the time they are brave the virus and get married ed positive. Brushing aside his issued an order for grant of solemnised is dependent on this weekend, the pandemic protes, they the groom to a Permanent Commission to Coronavirus. made its presence felt, once quarantine centre at women officers in the Army Playing havoc with his mar- again. On Tuesday evening, the Bommuluru. In a landmark judgement, the riage plans, a 28- year-old groom complained of fever The medical and health offi- apex court in February had direct- 8 youth tested positive for Covid- and headache and he under- cials are suspecting that the ed that all serving women officers 19 hours before his wedding at went the Covid-19 test the youth, along with his family recruited under the Short Service his hometown Kothapeta vil- next day. When the family members went to Commission (SSC) scheme will TODAY lage in East Godavari district of tie knot with his girlfriend members of the groom were Rajahmundry for shopping and have to be considered for Andhra Pradesh. from Villakaru village of East making all the arrangements for he might have contracted the Permanent Commission. ALMANAC The youth was supposed to Godavari district, but the the marriage, officials from the virus there. 3 Month & Paksham: Shravana & Shukla Paksha Panchangam Tithi : Chaturthi: 02:33 pm Ayodhya temple to get bigger, taller, more magnificent Nakshatram: Purva Phalguni: Krishna Das gains in 04:02 pm PNS n AYODHYA Time to Avoid: (Bad time to start The proposed Ram temple in Shankaracharya objects to any important work) reshuffle of portfolios Rahukalam: 10:46 am – 12:22 pm Ayodhya will now be bigger and taller in size. According to PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM allocated to Shankar Narayana. Yamagandam: 03:35 pm – 05:11 pm ‘Bhoomi Pujan Mahurat' Nikhil Sompura, an architect Sidiri Appalaraju was allocat- Varjyam: 10:43 pm – 12:12 am and son of C. Sompura, chief he Jyotishpeethadhee ated in the "Uttam Kaal" sec- The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet ed Animal Husbandry, Dairy Gulika: 07:33 am - 09:09 am architect of the temple, "The Tshwar and Dwarka tion of the Hindu calendar. underwent a minor reshuffle on Development and Fisheries Good Time: (to start any important work) earlier design was prepared in Shardapithadheeshwar, "The August 5 date falls in Thursday, after portfolios were department. The BC Welfare Amritakalam: 10:05 am – 11:35 am 1988. Over 30 years have Jagadguru the Dakshinayan allocated to newly sworn-in Department, which was earlier Abhijit Muhurtham: 11:56 am – 12:48 pm passed... the footfall is likely to Shankaracharya Bhadrapada month ministers Chelluboina Srinivasa handled by Shankar Narayana, increase. People are also very Swami of the Hindu calen- Venugopala Krishna and Dr was allocated to Chelluboyina VIJAYAWADA enthusiastic about visiting the Swaroopanand dar. August 5 is the Sidiri Appalaraju. Srinivasa Venugopala Krishna. temple. So, we thought its size Saraswati has second date of Dharmana Krishna Das, who Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose, WEATHER should be increased. As per the questioned the Krishna Paksha. In earlier was Roads and Buildings who was the Minister of Forecast: Cloudy revised design, the height of the on the earlier design will still be The construction will begin "muhurat" of the scriptures, the minister, was promoted as Revenue, and Mopidevi Temp: 28/25 temple has been increased from used. Only two new 'mandaps' after a grand ground-breaking August 5 for laying beginning of the con- Deputy Chief Minister and allo- Venkataramana, who was the Humidity: 92% 141-feet to 161-feet." have been added. ceremony on August 5 and for the foundation stone of struction of the home/tem- cated the Revenue, Registrations Minister of Fisheries, Animal Sunrise: 05.53 am Sompura said that two man- The original design that was this, invitations have also been the Ram temple. ple in the Bhadrapada month and Stamps portfolio. Husbandry and Marketing, had Sunset: 06.52 pm daps have also been added to prepared in 1988, mentioned its sent to the Prime Minister's The Shankaracharya said is prohibited," he said. The Roads and Buildings recently resigned from their Current Weather Conditions the design and all pillars and the height as 141 feet which has Office and other VIPs. generally good work is initi- department, which was earlier posts after being elected to the Updated July 23, 2020 5:00 PM stones that were carved based been raised to 161 foot tall. 3 3 handled by Krishna Das was RS. 3 VIJAYAWADA | FRIDAY | JULY 24, 2020 vijayawada 02

REGULAR PATIENT FLOW DIPS Amazon to AP tops with 8K fresh TV actor from set up 10 new Guntur ends Private hospitals to cash fulfillment Covid cases in S India life in Hyd PNS n CHENNAI PNS n HYDERABAD centres Tamil Nadu PNS n HYDERABAD Andhra Pradesh with near- breached the 6,000 Maddela Sabeera alias in on Covid-19 treatment ly 8,000 COVID-19 cases mark, Karnataka Rekha, a television actress, Amazon India on Thursday topped southern states in committed suicide at her PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM shot past 5,000 l Some hospitals, which a announced the expansion of daily numbers for the sec- residence in Vidyanagar in couple of months ago, had its fulfillment network in ond day on Thursday as cases and Kerala Hyderabad on Thursday. Most of the private hospitals, less than 10 beds for treating India, with 10 new Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and According to police, which were reluctant to spare Fulfillment Centres (FC) and Kerala also reported record saw 1,000 plus Sabeera, a native of Guntur Covid-19 patients, are infections for the beds for Covid treatment, are dedicating an entire building, expansion of seven existing single day tallies with the district, moved to now changing their plans with or several wings of their buildings. These new FCs aggregate of the four breach- second day as the Hyderabad pursuing her a sharp decline in the flow of facilities to such cases. will be set up in Hyderabad, ing the 20,000 mark. dream to act in movies. patients due to the pandemic. Delhi, , Bengaluru, Tamil Nadu breached the pandemic situation "She had acted in a couple Officials of the hospitals said in the southern Some hospitals, which a the change in stand was Patna, Lucknow, Kolkata, 6,000 mark, Karnataka shot of television serials but after couple of months ago, had prompted by a realisation that Chennai, Ludhiana and past 5,000 cases and region continued that there were no offers. less than 10 beds for treating they would now get only a few Ahmedabad. Kerala saw 1,000 to remain grim Then she returned to Covid-19 patients, are dedicat- patients with other ailments With this expansion, plus infections Guntur and got married. ing an entire building, or sev- Amazon.in will have more for the second However, differences arose eral wings of their facilities to l “Before Covid-19 struck, 60 than 60 FCs in 15 States, with day as the pan- between the couple after such cases. Officials of the per cent of the indoor patients a total storage capacity of over demic situation The high case- the birth of a girl child, due hospitals said the change in would have planned 32 million cubic feet. The in the southern loads in Kerala to which they got separated. stand was prompted by a real- admissions, coming through new FCs include the spe- region contin- and Tamil Nadu A couple of years later, she isation that they would now get ed to Covid treatment follow- hospitals for various strata of the outpatient department. The cialised network of FCs for ued to remain came months after got married to one only a few patients with other ing the government’s request.” society. rest were emergency large appliances and furniture grim. the former announced Chaitanya and shifted to ailments. Earlier in the week, District “There are some patients, admissions. Now, there are category and Receive Centres. The tiny Union on May 8 it had flat- Hyderabad and has been Earlier, the government has Collector V Vinay Chand vis- who do not mind spending barely any planned All new fulfillment centres Territory of tened the curve while the living at Vidyanagar," said asked private hospitals to ited Visakha Institute of money but insist on having a admissions,” Subramanyam, will be operational before Puducherry recorded 123 latter earlier seemed to be on the police. increase the number of beds. Medical Sciences (VIMS) and single-occupancy cabin with PRO of Care Hospital in Ram the festive season, enabling fresh cases, taking its tally to course for achieving a sim- Chaitanya was into real The hospitals were also asked reviewed the situation with television and privacy. For Nagar, said. customers to stay safe at 2,421. ilar feat before two clusters estate business and she to set up more satellite units for the health officials. Keeping the them, corporate hospitals can home and have what they The four states and the played spoilsport and start- resumed her career in the asymptomatic Covid patients, rising number of Coronavirus be roped in,” Dr Sudhakar need delivered at their UT registered a total of ed pushing TN's cases north television industry. She or those with mild symptoms. cases, he instructed officials informed. patients are coming to get doorstep 20,701 cases on Thursday. in quick pace. worked as an anchor in tele- Officials of a number of private concerned to make necessary The district administration admitted. So, hospitals are As per the press statement, vision. Gradually, offers several hospitals said they were arrangements to improve the is negotiating with a number of increasing the number of beds Akhil Saxena, VP, Customer began declining and her earlier reluctant to add beds for bed strength from 548 to 750 private hospitals and, if for Covid treatment to remain Fulfilment Operations, husband’s real estate busi- Covid treatment because they and facilitate oxygen beds. At required, will either take over viable, said Front Office man- APAC, MENA & LATAM, ness, too, ran into losses due were apprehensive that other the CSR block, Vinay Chand the hospitals, or a few wings to ager of Pradhama Hospital. Amazon India. Said, “The to which she reportedly patients would be scared away. instructed officials to keep accommodate more patients. If “A large number of patients increase in storage capacity is plunged into depression. “Before Covid-19 struck, 60 ready 300 beds for occupation. the government takes over the diagnosed with Covid are actu- in line with our long-term On Wednesday, she went per cent of the indoor patients The special officer for hospitals, the treatment is ally patients, who came for commitment to invest in to take a bath but did not would have planned admis- Covid-19 of north Coastal going to be free, as it comes other ailments. Such patients India and we are delighted to come out from the bath- sions, coming through the out- Andhra Dr PV Sudhakar, said: under the Arogyasri scheme. come back for their procedures help Indian customers get room even after a long time. patient department. The rest “As cases are increasing, we will As of now only one, or two pri- after recovering from Covid everything they need, while Her husband went looking were emergency admissions. keep more private hospitals on vate hospitals have been after two weeks or so. keeping our customers and for her. Finding the bath- Now, there are barely any standby. They should get ready approved by the government Moreover, a few non-Covid our workforce safe. With the room door closed, he called planned admissions,” to handle Covid-19 cases safe- for treatment in the district. patients are not turning up for expanded network of more her but there was no Subramanyam, PRO of Care ly.” Apart from free-of-cost “Earlier, hospitals were fear of contracting the virus,” than 60 fulfilment centres, we response. Immediately, he Hospital in Ram Nagar, said. treatment at designated Covid apprehensive about losing non- said Venkatesh, manager- look forward to creating alerted the police who “The hospital is trying to hospitals, health officials are Covid patients. But over the Critical Care Unit of Seven thousands of job opportuni- rushed to the spot and found increase 50 more beds dedicat- also planning to demarcate past few months, mostly Covid Hills Hospital. ties with competitive pay.” her dead in the bathroom.

Kidnapped TDP to adopt rape TS to focus on isolation centres in districts son of PNS n HYDERABAD efforts to quickly detect coron- avirus and prevent deaths. Most beggar survivor, Dalit minor girl Health Minister Eatala Rajender people don’t even know that has directed the authorities to they were infected by the virus. l Party will adopt and give education for the victim: Naidu focus on equipping isolation “I will be available to you 24 rescued centres in all districts. hours a day, let's all work with PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM PNS n VIJAYAWADA the innocent girl. He immedi- During a video conference the same spirit,†he observed. ately announced the Rs 2 lakh with superintendents of hospi- Eatala asked the authorities of Ganesh, the two-year-old The Telugu Desam Party cash assistance. As the girl has tals and staff of the Telangana every government hospital to son of a beggar, who was (TDP) has announced Rs 2 studied up to Class X, the TDP Vaidya Vidhana Parishad, ensure that generator facility is allegedly kidnapped on lakh financial assistance for the chief announced that their Eatala asked officials to recruit available, along with stocks of July 21, was traced from Dalit minor girl, who fell vic- party would take care of her or engage requisite personnel, diesel to run the machines. He Phool Bagh Colony of tim to kidnap and gang-rape in future education. There was a including sanitation staff, gave these instructions in the Vizianagaram on Rajahmundry. strong need to instill confi- patient care providers, lab tech- wake of sudden shutdown of Thursday. The police TDP National President and dence in the girl. nicians, and nursing staff for the power supply in Gandhi arrested the three persons former Chief Minister N Naidu asked the party lead- isolation centers. Hospital at about 5:35 pm, in this connection. The Chandrababu Naidu has ers to agitate against such Referring to the standards of tions like Remdisivir or be put nursing staff would be hired which was restored at 5:56 pm. accused have been identi- promised to adopt the 16- atrocities and assure the vic- care, the Minister said, “We are on ventilator. Timely use of anti- shortly. Oxygen cylinders would According to superintendent Dr fied as Patan Salman Khan, year-old girl and give her good tims that the TDP would stand in talks with researchers around inflammatory drugs can save be sent to all hospitals from Raja Rao, “Our generators Sk Subhani and Bandaru education on behalf of the to the party chief. The commit- like a rock of support to them the world to provide advanced lives.” Hyderabad, he said. started functioning by 5:42 Roshan Raja. All three are party. The TDP fact-finding tee called on the girl's family in their hour of need. Society treatment information from The Minister said that Diet Reasoning that many people pm(within 7 minutes of power friends and residents of committee consisting of for- and expressed its solidarity. has a responsibility to mould time to time. Experts say that Contractors would be paid were dying more "due to fear of shutdown). There’s no issue Phool Bagh Colony. mer ministers and MLAs has Naidu was moved when the the hapless girl into a dutiful even if the vaccine comes, it arrears shortly. Necessary san- corona" than from the compli- & no problem occurred in the According to police, the returned after a visit to the leaders narrated to him about citizen, who would carry on would not be of much use; 99% itation staff, patient care cations caused by the virus , the Emergency & ICU areas and aunt of Roshan Raja, who town and submitted its report the deteriorated condition of her fight against such injustice. of people do not need medica- providers, lab technicians and Minister called for redoubled other patient care areas. is childless wanted to adopt a child. On July 21, all the three had come to Visakhapatnam in an auto- rickshaw and they noticed Admission criteria for NITs & CFTIs relaxed Covid-19 suspect jumps off Ganesh living with his par- ents, who are beggars, on PNS n HYDERABAD candidates will now only need the roadside. to obtain a passing certificate in They waited till all the After IIT, Central Seat Allocation Class XII examination irrespec- hospital building in Hyderabad three slept, and seizing Board (CSAB) also relaxed tive of the marks obtained," he the opportunity late in the norms for admissions into further stated. As per the norms, PNS n HYDERABAD it. He suffered critical injuries night, they kidnapped National Institute of Technology a candidate had to secure a min- after he landed on the trees Ganesh and took him to (NITs) and Centrally Funded imum of 75% marks in Class XII A 75-year-old man, suspected to below. The hospital staff imme- Vizianagaram. Based on a Technical Institutions (CFTIs) Board exams, or rank among be infected with Coronavirus, diately took him inside and put complaint filed by Srinu, on Thursday. the top 20 percentile in their committed suicide by jumping him under emergency treat- father of Ganesh, police NITs will admit undergradu- qualifying examinations, to get off hospital building at Srinagar ment. Nagendra later suc- launched a search opera- ate students based on their per- the admission, along with the Colony here on Thursday. The cumbed to the injuries. The tion. Based on CCTV formance in Joint Entrance performance in JEE-Mains. deceased was identified as R Banjara Hills police registered a footage, the police identi- Exam-Mains (JEE-Mains) and Earlier, Indian Institutes of Nagender, a retired employee of case and took up investigation. fied the registration num- will discount the Class XII Technology (IITs) also Air India. He was residing in Preliminary investigation ber of the auto-rickshaw Board examination marks in announced that they will admit Ameerpet, along with his wife revealed that Nagender was and traced the accused. selection process, the Human the students based on their per- and two sons. also suffering from lung ailment Resource Development Allocation Board (CSAB) has nical institutions," Union HRD formance in JEE-Advanced. The According to police, and he was scared of contract- Ministry has announced. decided to relax the eligibility Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal marks in Class XII Board exam- Nagender had shown symp- Colony on Thursday. After a ing the virus. Afraid that he was VIJAYAWADA "Due to prevailing circum- criterion for admissions to NITs Nishank tweeted. inations will not be necessary for toms of the virus and had gone while, he went to the terrace of affected, he took the extreme BULLION RATES stances, the Central Seat and other centrally funded tech- "JEE Main 2020 qualified admission into IITs this year. to Nikhil Hospital at Srinagar the building and jumped from step, said the police. GOLD ` 52,200 (10 gm) ` 830 ISRAELI DOCTORS DEVELOP ‘ANTI-DIABETES DRUG' SILVER ` 62,000 (1kg) IANS n NEW YORK also normalizes the glucose needed for certain pathways in ` 3,050 “It’s an anti-diabetes drug,” he told The tolerance test,” which measures diabetes-related processes in A new drug being developed in Jerusalem Post during an interview on Thursday the body’s response to sugar, the body. Chevion found that Israel could be the answer to afternoon.“With Zygosid-50, we are proposing the “and suppressed systemic Zygosid-50 is effective in fight- CHICKEN treating the main cause of Type inflammation, which is a com- ing topical inflammation on the use of the new drug and are developing it into an RATES `/KG 2 Diabetes, insulin resistance. ponent of diabetes.” skin and that even under con- According to Concenter oral pill, as a monotherapy drug, to treat diabetics Chevion added that on a tinuous use there were no neg- Dressed/With Skin `177 BioPharma co-founder and and prevent in pre-diabetic patients,” Chevion said molecular level, “Zygosid- ative side effects. Without Skin `201 CSO Prof. Mottie (Mordechai) 50...forces an intra-cellular Asked about BioPharma, Broiler at Farm `122 Chevion, “the unique property” exchange to take place,” where Chevion said that it was set up of the drug, called Zygosid-50 parameters to the normal range. Administration has approved it removes what’s called “free in 2019 as a subsidiary to “is that it cancels out insulin “If you take care of the clinical trials, after supplemen- iron” in cells and replaces it with Silkim Pharma, which is a EGG resistance. insulin resistance, you take tary TOX studies, based on evi- zinc. holding company for the intel- “It’s an anti-diabetes drug,” he care of the symptoms,” he said. dence from earlier testing in “It captures the ‘free’ iron in lectual properties of the inven- 100 RATES `/ told The Jerusalem Post during He stressed that they have animal models for Type 2 the cell and it releases the same tors patents. HYDERABAD 340 an interview on Thursday after- not found any adverse side Diabetes. amount of zinc into the cell - it In December, Chevion won VIJAYAWADA 376 noon.“With Zygosid-50, we are effects during their testing. “It was proven as ‘safe’,” feeds them with zinc,” he said, first place at the 17th Annual proposing the use of the new “What we found about Chevion told the Post. “We adding that zinc deficiency has World Congress on Insulin VISAKHAPATNAM 400 drug and are developing it into vent in pre-diabetic patients,” it “almost completely reduces Zygosid-50 allows us to go into found that it restores the nor- often been found in those suf- Resistance, Diabetes and RETAIL PRICE `4.00 an oral pill, as a monotherapy Chevion said. Asked about how insulin resistance and normal- clinical trials,” he said, explain- mal insulin sensitivity, it fering from diabetes. Cardiovascular Diseases for his (IN VIJAYAWADA) drug, to treat diabetics and pre- Zygosid-50 works, he said that izes all diabetes-associated ing that the US Food and Drug restores blood glucose levels, it He made it clear that zinc is work on Zygosid-50.

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SpiceJet lifts Cold storage units to be 1,500 Indian TDP complains to students from NHRC on Dalit ‘tonsure’ Kyrgyzstan PNS n AMARAVATI n In a letter to the NHRC Continued from Page 1 set up in each mandal Chairman, Ramaiah TDP leader Varla Ramaiah on urged for stringent action PNS n AMARAVATI n YSRCP govt to spend Rs Scheduled international pas- Thursday complained to the against the perpetrators 4,000 crore for agri infra, senger flights continue to National Human Rights of atrocities on Dalits. He In a bid to strengthening agri- marketing remain suspended in India Committee (NHRC) against culture infrastructure, Chief since March 23 due to the coro- the YSRCP leaders and police accused the Jaganmohan Minister YS Jaganmohan n All RBKs as warehouses navirus pandemic. for beating up and tonsuring Reddy government of Reddy on Thursday directed would be equipped with "SpiceJet...will operate nine a Dalit youth in East Godavari running an anti-Dalit the officials to establish cold grading and sorting charter flights to evacuate over district. He wanted the NHRC 'Jungle Raj' in the State storage units in each mandal machinery with a budget 1,500 Indian students strand- to take cognizance of ever since it came to and also to build advanced ed in Kyrgyzstan for over two unchecked atrocities being warehouses in each Rythu of Rs 350 crore. Other months. This special repatria- committed against Dalits in power in June, 2019 Bharosa Kendra (RBK). necessary instruments tion mission...has been under- the State. n like weighing balances, There is overall He also wanted proposals to taken by SpiceJet in association In a letter to the NHRC Vara Prasad. Krishnamurthy deterioration in the law strengthen the agricultural calipers and lab wears with film actor Sonu Sood," the Chairman, Ramaiah urged for rashly opened his car door that marketing sector with an infu- are to be procured with press release noted. The low- stringent action against the injured Vara Prasad. and order situation and sion of Rs 4,000 crore. During Rs 92.2 crore. cost carrier has operated over perpetrators of atrocities on Krishnamurthy had also there has been a spate a review meeting with Minister 400 charter flights to repatriate Dalits. He accused the scolded Vara Prasad in the of attacks also against for o Agriculture K Kannababu n The CM wanted a around 65,000 Indians from Jaganmohan Reddy govern- name of his caste. Backward Classes (BCs), and marketing officials, he software be developed countries like Oman, Qatar, Sri ment of running an anti-Dalit Ramaiah said that the women and other directed them to set up cold that will connect the Lanka, Lebanon and Saudi 'Jungle Raj' in the State ever YSRCP leader gathered around vulnerable sections of storage units at the mandal- are to be procured with Rs 92.2 chase ensuring minimum sup- cultivation details to Arabia. Till now, more than since it came to power in 40 of his henchmen and society, Ramaiah pointed level for the convenience of crore. port price was paid to their RBKs, which will be 1.24 million people have been June, 2019. There is overall attacked Vara Prasad and his out farmers to sell their produce. He wanted a software be crops, he said. directed to the central infected and around 29,600 deterioration in the law and friends, Sandeep, Anil and He said all the RBKs as developed that will connect the Discussing the sale of crops, he server. Soon after people have died due to coro- order situation and there has Akhil. Then, Krishnamurthy warehouses would be equipped cultivation details to RBKs, asked officials to ensure that 30% receiving the information, navirus in India. Scheduled been a spate of attacks also lodged a complaint with Act. Even when Vara Prasad’s with grading and sorting which will be directed to the of the sales take place through domestic passenger flights against Backward Classes Sitanagaram police station mother visited the police sta- machinery with a budget of Rs central server. Soon after local markets and Janatha officials shall intervene resumed in India on May 25 (BCs), women and other vul- against Vara Prasad, Sandeep, tion, she was scolded and ill 350 crore. Other necessary receiving the information, Bazaars and also asked the mar- and take up the crop after a gap of two months due nerable sections of society, he Anil and Akhil on July 19. treated and sent away. On instruments like weighing bal- marketing officials shall inter- keting department to intervene purchase ensuring to the coronavirus-triggered pointed out. Accordingly, police registered July 21, all the four were ances, calipers and lab wears vene and take up the crop pur- with the remaining 70%. minimum support price lockdown. Recalling the latest attack on an FIR under Cr. No. 256/2020 released and were undergoing Dalit youth, Ramaiah told the under IPC 324, 354, 341, 427, treatment at their respective NHRC Chairman that the rul- 506 r/w Section 34. homes, while the Deputy ing YSRCP leaders were Krishnamurthy even exerted Superintendent of Police involved in illegal quarrying pressure on police to open a (DSP) advised Vara Prasad not India’s growth rate may dip to Chalk out plan on KG and transportation of sand in rowdy sheet against all the four. to go to hospital as there are an indiscriminate fashion. In Ramaiah deplored that on a lot of COVID cases. this backdrop, on July 18, this July 20, the Sitanagaram police Ramaiah said seeing the 6% to 9%: Subramanian Swamy edu at Anganwadis: year, a truck illegally trans- arrested Vara Prasad, Sandeep, visible injuries on Vara porting sand hit one Vijay Anil and Akhil. At the police Prasad’s body, former MLA PNS n HYDERABAD n Noting that country has a n Lauding the efforts of under Sitanagaram police sta- station, all the four were bru- Pendurthy Venkatesh and for- huge labour potential, he Indian troops in CM’s fiat to officials tion limits in East Godavari tally beaten up with lathi mer MP Harsha Kumar Country’s growth rate may said it should be used defending their district. Then, Indugumilli sticks, belts and boots. More admitted him to a hospital. In plunge to six to nine per cent PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM n Vara Prasad stopped the truck humiliatingly, Dalit youth Vara this regard, the NHRC should during the current financial properly like the Japanese motherland, he said The Chief Minister while helping Vijay to get up. Prasad’s head was tonsured as intervene and initiate stern year due to COVID-19 pan- did to grow. Asked whether the neighbouring Setting up of a proper kinder- reviewed the progress of At this juncture, local YSRCP a part of ill-treating them. action against the culprits as a demic and may bounce back India can win a war, if it country was defeated garten education system and activities under ‘Nadu- MLA's follower Kavala Tonsuring the head of a Dalit section of police are in con- next fiscal if correct policies comes, against China, Swamy twice in the past. providing good nutrition to Nedu’ (Then and Now) Krishnamurthy came to the forcefully is a punishable nivance with the YSRCP lead- were worked out, BJP leader and said if India can fight for one However people are the children at Anganwadi scheme in Anganwadi location and got furious at crime under SC/ST (PoA) ers, he alleged. Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian month, then it can defeat the not aware as our centres were discussed in a centres and ‘YSR Swamy said on Thursday. neighbouring country. "If country did not review meeting chaired by Sampoorna Poshana’ "Economy has collapsed in India has the stamina to fight publicise it in order Chief Minister Jaganmohan (YSR Complete Nutrition) the last four to five years. What for one month you defeat avoid provoking the Reddy at his residence cum programme. He directed State records 7,998 cases, HC notices has happened is that the China," he said communist regime camp office at Tadepalli on the authorities to COVID-19 pandemic has Thursday. to govt ... sharpened the decline. Now The Chief Minister provide post-delivery you will find between six to nine the past pointing out the incip- defeat the neighbouring coun- reviewed the progress of activ- financial assistance of Rs 61 casualties in 24 hours Continued from Page 1 per cent negative growth by the ient economic slowdown. "I try. "If India has the stamina to ities under ‘Nadu-Nedu’ (Then 5,000 to women under Continued from Page 1 end of this financial year," have written a letter to the PM fight for one month you defeat and Now) scheme in ‘Aarogya Aasara’ (Health One of the counsel argued Swamy said. about four days ago explaining China," he said. Anganwadi centres and ‘YSR Support) Till date, 37,555 patients had Groom tests that there is a writ petition filed He took part in a virtual what the situation will look like Lauding the efforts of Indian Sampoorna Poshana’ (YSR recovered and been discharged for construction of permanent meeting organised by Indo- by the end of this year. I wrote troops in defending their Complete Nutrition) pro- from hospitals while the state positive... High Court in Amaravati and American Chamber of a letter in 2015 that the growth motherland, he said the neigh- gramme. He directed the sions and special books should now had 34,272 active cases, it Continued from Page 1 that may be taken up. The Commerce, Telangana State rate will start declining... Every bouring country was defeated authorities to provide post- be made available to them, he added. Guntur district recorded bench refused, observing that and Andhra Pradesh branches. year we have been declining," he twice in the past. However delivery financial assistance of said. The Chief Minister also 1,184 and Anantapur 1,016 new The unfortunate turn of if the state succeeds in the liti- How will it turn around? The added. people are not aware as our Rs 5,000 to women under stressed on the need to ensure cases in the last 24 hours, accord- events meant that the wedding gation, then the location of the capacity for production is there. The BJP leader opined that country did not publicise it in ‘Aarogya Aasara’ (Health same quality of food across all ing to the bulletin. was postponed, again, and High Court could be shifted The very question is you should only Rs 1.5 lakh crore of the Rs order avoid provoking the Support). Anganwadi centres. Guntur and Kurnool districts several of the family members and therefore there can’t be any be able to make it profitable to 20 lakh crore stimulus package Communist regime. “Think about how to Some Anganwadi centres reported seven Covid-19 deaths of the groom have been asked adjudication of the said writ produce and we should ensure announced by the Centre for the "Our people performed implement the pre-primary are being run from rented each, Krishna and Srikakulam six to observe home quarantine. petition at this juncture. that the workmen were required revival of the declining econo- extremely well although 20 education and plan within premises. The government is each, Visakhapatnam and The officials said over 30 to 40 The Advocate General, in the factories, in the fields. my due to prolonged lock- unfortunate soldiers lost their 7–10 days. The education of working on the construction Vizianagaram five each during people have attended the mar- appearing for the state, inter- “They are all empowered to down, does not directly create lives," he maintained. He children at this age should be of new buildings and the cre- this period. riage preparations in the vened at this juncture and go back to their work. Once that demand which is necessary at claimed that encouraging com- linked to Class I,” the CM said, ation of infrastructure in exist- The state claimed to have groom's house and they would informed the court that the happens I would say that in this juncture. panies such as Walmart into adding that the textbooks have ing buildings. The Chief conducted a record 58,052 sam- undergo Covid-19 tests. counter-affidavit filed in the 2021-22 (next fiscal) we will rise Noting that country has a the country may affect millions already been changed as part Minister has clarified that the ple tests in 24 hours, including matter discloses that people to seven per cent growth rate if huge labour potential, he said of domestic retailers. of the curriculum reforms, food served under YSR's holis- 25,618 rapid antigen tests, result- holding positions of power to you follow the right policy. Not it should be used properly He suggested that India, as hence, education authorities tic nutrition should be of good ing in 7,998 positives. 4.87 per cent. locate the capital at Amaravati, the same policies of the last five like the Japanese did to grow. part of bilateral trade, should should hold a meeting and quality. The quality of food in Overall, 14,93,879 tests were The recovery rate, however, hinted at a minimal expendi- years," he said. Asked whether India can win exert pressure on the US to decide on the curriculum. Anganwadi should be the completed in the state so far at the showed an improvement to 51.65 ture of Rs 1.5 lakh-crore. The Swamy said he wrote letters a war, if it comes, against agree to import Indian agri- To impart learning skills to same everywhere, for which rate of 27,975 per million popu- per cent after 11,922 patients were bench remarked that they are to Prime Minister Narendra China, Swamy said if India can cultural produce into that children in Anganwadi cen- standard operation procedure lation even as the infection pos- discharged from hospitals in the not adjudicating the matter and Modi on several occasions in fight for one month, then it can country. tres, all necessary tools, televi- should be followed. itivity rate climbed further up to last two days. that there will be no apprehen- sion regarding the same. The A-G further argued that in the meantime the Governor may No auction for grant assent to the Bills which Order issued for permanent... Ayodhya temple to get bigger, would become law, to which Balapur Ganesh the court observed that those Continued from Page 1 mechanical situations could also be taken laddu this year "Their selection board will It was decided that the SSC taller, more magnificent care of, during the course of PNS n HYDERABAD Army Spokesperson Col be scheduled as soon as all women officers will be consid- hearing of the writ petitions. Aman Anand said the govern- affected SSC women officers ered for grant of permanent Continued from Page 1 stone. The Coronavirus has cast its ment order paved the way for exercise their option and com- commission based on the The rituals will begin on Shankaracharya shadow on the Balapur empowering of women officers plete requisite documenta- availability of vacancies and The construction of August 3 with a 'Gauri Ganesh festival celebrations, to shoulder "larger roles" in the tion," the Army spokesperson subject to willingness, suitabil- temple will take around Ganesh' Puja , and will be Krishna Das the second biggest in Army. said. ity, performance, medical fit- 3.5 years, Sompura said. followed by 'Ramracha' objects to... Hyderabad after the "The order specifies grant of Under SSC, women offi- ness and competitive merit of "As soon as the ground on August 4 in which the Continued from Page 1 gains in Khairatabad Ganesh festival permanent commission to cers are initially taken for a the aspirants breaking ceremony or the 'Ram Naam' will be recit- celebrations. Short Service Commissioned period of five years, which is The three services have 'bhumi pujan' is done, the ed without a break. He said that according to Vishnu For the first time in over 25 (SSC) women officers in all 10 extendable up to 14 years. allowed permanent recruit- construction work will The entire ceremony Dharma Shastra, the launch in the reshuffle of years, the Balapur Ganesh streams of the Indian Army," Permanent commissioning will ment of women in select begin. The team of Larsen will be telecast live so that Bhadrapada month is the cause of Utsav Committee in he said. allow them to serve till the age streams including medical, & Toubro, along with all devotees can watch it destruction. The 'Daivagna Ballabh portfolios Hyderabad will not auction Col Anand said the 10 of retirement education, legal, signals, logis- machinery and materials, from their homes. Granth' states that the home, made in Continued from Page 1 the 21-kg laddu prasad this streams where permanent The Army recruits women tics and engineering have reached the spot and Sources said that only Bhadrapada, brings poverty. Vastu Pradeep year. commission of women officers officers under SSC for streams The women officers recruit- the work on foundation about 50 persons will be also says the same. Shankracharya said that During the transition, the The committee at its meet- are being made available like air defence, engineering, ed through the SSC in the IAF will start right away. It will allowed at the event. The according to Vastu Rajaballabh, the begin- portfolios were managed by ing held here on Thursday, include army air defence, sig- signals and services and they have the option of seeking per- take 3 to 3.5 years for the restriction on the number ning of Bhadrapada gives zero fruit. He said Chief Minister YS decided to make the celebra- nals, engineers, army aviation, can serve up to a maximum of manent commission in all completion of the work," of persons has been that it is also not right to consider it as aus- Jaganmohan Reddy. tions this time a low-key electronics and mechanical 14 years streams except the flying Sompura said. imposed due to the pan- picious due to "Abhijit Muhurta". "Abhijit Ramachandrapuram MLA affair this year because of the engineers, army service corps Last year, the defence min- branch Three-day long Vedic demic. Shri Ram is prohibited on Wednesday in the mar- Venugopala Krishna and pandemic. and intelligence corps istry had taken an in-principle The Navy has allowed per- rituals will be held ahead Janmabhoomi Teertha riage of Muhurta Chintamani. Till the Palasa MLA Appalaraju were Further, the committee At present, the Army offers decision to allow permanent manent commission of women of the grand ground -- Kshetra sources said that Cancer is in the Sun, the foundation stone sworn in as ministers on decided to limit the height of permanent commission to commissioning of women in in a host of departments such breaking ceremony, which massive CCTV screens can be done only in the month of Shravan Wednesday. Bose and the Ganesh idol this year to women officers in two branch- streams like signals, engineer- as logistics, naval designing, air will revolve around the will be put up across and not in Bhadrapada," said Mopidevi Venkataramana mere six feet as against 21- es — judge advocate general ing, army aviation, army air traffic control, engineering installation of a 40 kg sil- Ayodhya so the devotees Shankracharya. also took oath as Rajya Sabha feet last year. (JAG) and education defence and electronics and and legal. ver brick as the foundation can watch the programme. Members the same day. Smokers quit in highest numbers during Covid Top Maoist leader RK escapes NAVEEN KUMAR breaks with colleagues. WHO said, "The available evi- looking to quit during lockdown. n HYDERABAD "I have been trying to quit dence suggests that smoking is For the first week, the questions after exchange of fire in Agency smoking for quite some time now. associated with increased severi- were mostly around dealing with Those facing withdrawal symp- It was always one of those stop and ty of disease and death in hospi- withdrawal symptoms and sourc- PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM conduct meetings with the er three to four days,’’ the ASP toms post lockdown announce- start affairs. What the lockdown talised Covid-19 patients." ing nicotine patches. Eight weeks Adivasis of the area in connec- said. ment have now completely quit did to me is to bring things into "It is not the normal 9-to-5 job down the line, a couple of them Top leaders of the banned tion with the Martyr’s Week Meanwhile, tension pre- smoking. Though many were perspective, a moment of quiet in the creative industry; you tell him they have not relapsed. CPI (Maoists) escaped during that will be observed by the vailed in Munchingput and planning to quit, they were unable reflection in the middle of a pan- always have to be ideating. After "The reason you quit is very an exchange of fire that took extremists group from July Peda Bayulu area following the to due to easy access. However, demic, on how much I prioritise crazy meetings and brainstorm- important. If it is just because cig- place in Visakhapatnam 28. encounter. Youths were seen in staying at home has compelled my health. I had never spent so ing, you could leave all of it aside arettes are not available at this Agency on Wednesday. “There was blood at the grip of fear arrests and ques- them to control the urge and quit much time at home. It gave me for a little while, to have a smoke," point of time, or there is a com- Additional SP (operations) encounter site and at least tioning by the Special Armed smoking altogether. enough time to think: if not now, said Nithin Raj, a copywriter pulsion to be at home, it is never based at Narsipatnam Satish three to four members might Forces. Barricades have been In many families, people would then when?" says Rajesh Sahoo, a likely than non-smokers to devel- from an advertisement agency. going to last. But if they were said Central Committee leader have sustained injuries. As put up at important points and not smoke at home out of a sense techie from Cognizant. Moreover, op the three 'classic' symptoms of Psychiatrist Dr Venkatesh meaning to quit before this, and RK, Aruna and Chalapathi, they were in good numbers, the armed police are making a of respect for their elders or data from the Zoe Covid Coronavirus infection - fever, Babu, who consults for Fortis see the lockdown as an opportu- along with 30 members Maoists might have taken random check. Heavy rains, because of the absence of social Symptom Tracker app suggested persistent cough and shortness of Hospital, has been speaking with nity, then giving up will be easi- Dalam, were present in the them, along with them. We will on the other hand, disrupted cues of parties and post-lunch tea smokers were 14 per cent more breath. An official release from people online who have been er," he says. forests of Peda Bayulu to know the casualties in anoth- police combing operation. VIJAYAWADA | FRIDAY | JULY 24, 2020 nation 04 Sri Lankan port workers protest Industry backs Karnataka SHORT READS govt's ‘jobs-for-locals’ push against proposed deal with India n PNS BENGALURU "Karnataka has n COLOMBO The workers, who Industry has backed Karnataka the best of government's "jobs-for-locals" education Wearing black arm bands, the launched the push saying the state has talent workers of the strategic ‘Black Week' with required skills and the institutions and Cong to launch agitation Colombo Port have restarted protest on Wednes- business has a responsibility to also skill their protest against a proposed be a good citizen in every place development ITIs. against ‘dismal' law and deal with India to develop a day, alleged that they go to. order in UP: Lallu deep-sea container terminal of government had According to the new indus- Local youth BALLIA (UP): The Congress the country's largest and reneged on the trial policy approved on needs encourage- busiest port. Thursday by the government, ment in their own will launch an agitation across The workers ended their pledge to make the "all new industrial projects their own State. This can be Uttar Pradesh over the "dismal" protest on July 3 following a ECT operational as shall create maximum possible achieved over a period of State. This can law and order situation and issues facing the common meeting with Prime Minister a Sri Lankan direct employment opportuni- time," Kamath said. be achieved over Mahinda Rajapaksa, a day after ties with a minimum employ- The government, he said, people, the party's state unit a period of time," president Ajay Kumar Lallu said they had threatened to go on venture ment of 70 per cent to has to focus on imparting skill Kamath said Thursday. The Congress is an indefinite strike if the gov- Kannadigas on an overall basis post education so that they can chalking out a strategy for the ernment allowed a foreign Although the MOC was pledge to make the ECT oper- tors and issued a warning to and 100 per cent in case of get into industry after complet- agitation, he said, alleging that country to develop the Eastern completed last year, a formal ational as a Sri Lankan venture. the government. "We will give Group D employees." ing the training. cheaper contract labour from Yogi Adityanath-led BJP Container Terminal (ECT). agreement for the terminal's "The government must say this government more time, if Welcoming the government "Here, public-private part- outside for Group D jobs government has proved to be a The previous Sirisena gov- development is yet to be signed who is pressuring them on this. they don't want to do the right decision to give preference to nership with industry will be should stop," Pai, a former failure on the law and order ernment signed a "memoran- and the trade unions are press- If it is India, then we will say thing, we will take to the local youth, Chairman of desirable." Chief Financial Officer of IT front. Talking to reporters here, dum of cooperation" (MOC) ing the government to aban- that port's future will be in dan- streets," Gunawansa said. FICCI, Karnataka State Terming it as a "good poli- major Infosys Ltd, said. Lallu alleged that loot, murder, with India and Japan for a tri- don the MOC and develop the ger," Shamal Sumanaratne, a Prasanna Kalutharage, Council, K Ullas Kamath said cy," information technology "However, for highly skilled dacoity and rape have become partite effort to develop the terminal as a 100 per cent Sri trade union leader told another trade union leader, the State has abundant talent industry veteran T V jobs, there should be no such the new identity of Uttar ECT which is located just next Lankan venture. reporters. said the port workers would with required skill sets. Mohandas Pai said in every restriction as it will impede Pradesh. Targeting the chief to the USD 500 million The workers, who launched The port workers have roped ensure 50 million rupees to the "Karnataka has the best of State industries should create efficiency with the caveat that minister, the Congress leader Chinese-run Colombo the 'Black Week' protest on in influential Buddhist monk Treasury every month through education institutions and also maximum employment for jobs are given on a fair and said his claims regarding International Container Wednesday, alleged that gov- Elle Gunawansa to join them. ECT's operation as a 100 per skill development ITIs. Local locals. equal opportunity basis for strengthening embankments Terminal (CICT). ernment had reneged on the The monk blessed the protes- cent Sri Lankan venture. youth needs encouragement in "This practice of getting locals." and flood relief measures have turned out to be lies. Lallu said he visited Turtipaar and Mujhena villages of Ballia on Need of hour to jointly bear Maha: Leaders pay tributes to Pvt schools stop online classes Thursday and found that no flood relief works have been Covid burden: HP CM Tilak on his birth anniversary after govt's ‘no fee' order undertaken there. PNS n SHIMLA PNS n AHMEDABAD Protests in UP hospital PNS n MUMBAI over power outage, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur Private schools in Gujarat have on Thursday hit out at the Leaders cutting across party suspended online classes for an unhyegenic conditions opposition Congress for criticis- lines, including Maharashtra indefinite period from MUZAFFARNAGAR: Patients at ing the Himachal Pradesh gov- Chief Minister Uddhav Thursday, after a state govern- a COVID hospital in Jhinjhana ernment over the recent hike in Thackeray and his deputy Ajit ment order said they should not town of Shamli district staged a bus fares and for allowing Pawar, paid tributes to freedom collect fees from students until protest when a senior official tourists to the hill state during fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak on the schools reopen. was inspecting the facility over the COVID-19 pandemic. his birth anniversary on In a notification issued last complaints of power outage Thakur said it is the need of Thursday. week, the Gujarat government there will not be any online and unhyegenic living the hour to jointly bear the bur- remain quarantined for a week Tilak was born on July 23, directed self-financed schools in classes for their wards from conditions. A video had den of handling COVID-19 and tested again, Additional CS 1856 at Chikhali village in the state not to collect tuition Thursday. Self-financed School surfaced on social media in and several other states, includ- (Health) R D Dhiman said. Ratnagiri district. He died in fees from students as long as Management Association's which patients at the facility ing Punjab, have also hiked the The opposition Congress, August 1920 in Mumbai. they remain shut in the wake of spokesperson Dipak Rajyaguru were seen raising the bus fare. The chief minister was Centre of Indian Trade Unions "Tributes to Lokmanya Bal because of his sacrifice and State PWD Minister and the COVID-19 pandemic. on Thursday said almost all the complaints, following which addressing BJP workers of the (CITU) and the RSS-affiliated Gangadhar Tilak who had dedication. Tributes to his Congress leader Ashok Chavan It also asked these schools self-financed schools in the Subdivisional Magistrate Mani Doon assembly segment in the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi bugled 'swarajya (self-rule) is thoughts and memories," the hailed Tilak for firmly raising not to hike fees for the acade- state refrained from imparting Arora was conducting an Shimla parliamentary con- Parishad (ABVP) had on my birth right and I shall have chief minister wrote. the demand for self-rule mic year 2020-21. online education. inspection on Wednesday. As stituency online from his official Tuesday demanded an immedi- it'," the Chief Minister's Office Taking to Twitter, state through his speeches and writ- Unhappy with the move, a "If the government believes soon as the official reached the residence here. ate rollback of the 25 per cent (CMO) tweeted. Deputy Chief Minister Ajit ings. union of representing nearly online education is not real edu- centre, the patients started He is in self-quarantine since hike in bus fares in HP. The state Thackeray praised Tilak for Pawar said, "Tributes to Water Resources Minister 15,000 self-financed schools in cation, then there is no mean- protesting which caused a Wednesday afternoon after a government decided to increase taking on the British regime Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar and state NCP chief Jayant Patil Gujarat decided to put on hold ing of imparting such unreal ruckus. District Magistrate deputy secretary in his office the bus fare by 25 per cent. It also with his intelligence and Tilak who had roared 'swara- also tweeted saying, "Humble online classes, an alternative education to our students. Jasjit Kaur said an explanation tested positive for coronavirus. decided to hike minimum bus intense journalism, and noted jya is my birth right and I shall tributes to Lokmanya Bal arrangement started earlier this Online education will remain had been sought from the Though Thakur, his wife Dr fare for the first three kilometres that the freedom fighter was have it'. Let's resolve to convert Gangadhar Tilak who was month for students. suspended until the govern- Health department over the Sadhana Thakur and their two from Rs 5 to Rs 7 in view of the jailed for it many a times. the 'swarajya' he talked about described as the 'Father of Indian Majority of these schools ment withdraws that notifica- issues raised and warned of daughters tested negative around fund crunch due to the Covid- "We can see the dream of a into 'surajya' (good rule), as we Unrest', was a great freedom informed the parents through tion," Rajyaguru said in a state- strict action against those 9 pm on Wednesday, they will 19 pandemic. prosperous and strong nation pay respects to him." fighter, litterateur, journalist." SMS on Wednesday night that ment. found responsible.

Dr Dangs will be Over 10K litres of Ditch in Uttarakhand village due to Chhattisgarh urges Centre to hike fund illicit liquor seized in central lab for UP in 3 days torrential rains; over 50 families evacuated Covaxin dtrials allocation for police scheme LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh PNS n NEW DELHI Excise department has lodged PNS n PITHORAGARH PNS n RAIPUR The main objective of the 401 cases and seized 10,169 A Delhi-based private labora- scheme is to identify and fulfil litres of illicit liquor in the last Fifty-three families of Dhapa vil- tory has claimed that it has The Chhattisgarh government the necessary shortcomings in three days during a special drive lage, around 30 km north of been selected as the central lab has urged Union Home the police administration and its conducted in the state, a senior Munsiyari town in this district of for human clinical trials of Minister Amit Shah to increase operation, he said. official said on Thursday. Uttarakhand, were evacuated to Covaxin, India's indigenous the Centre's share under the Out of the 28 districts in the Twenty-three people were safety after a huge ditch started COVID-19 vaccine candidate. police modernisation scheme state, 14 are Naxal- affected, of arrested and sent to jail for their to develop in the middle of the "We are extremely privileged to for the state for effective anti- which eight are the worst-hit. alleged involvement in illegal village, following torrential rains announce that Dr. Dangs Lab, Naxal operations and for The state government has taken liquor sale while 10 vehicles over the past few days. New Delhi has been provided enhancing resources ofA the several measures for tackling the seized in this connection, Excise "The families have been shift- the opportunity to serve the department, an official said on the fact that Chhattisgarh has menace and increased the Commissioner P Guruprasad ed as a precautionary measure to Pattharkot and Tanga villages of said all families of Dhapa village nation by being selected as the Thursday. been fighting against the Left strength of the force as well as said in a statement issued here. nearby safe locations like angan- the district, the administration is should be shifted out perma- central lab for the Human Chhattisgarh Home Minister Wing Extremism (LWE) for the police stations, he said. "A special enforcement drive is wadi centres, primary schools leaving nothing to chance. nently and relocated. Clinical trials of Covaxin; Tamradhwaj Sahu made this last several years, the public rela- Presently, around 45 being conducted against the and government buildings, Scared villagers began to leave "The village is witnessing con- India's indigenous COVID-19 demand in a letter to Shah writ- tions department official said. Battalions of the Central manufacture, smuggling and where they are being taken care the village even before the district tinuous landslides from the hills vaccine being developed and ten on Wednesday. "In 2013-14, the allocation Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) sale of illegal liquor by the of by the district supply officer administration swung into since July 16. We have request- manufactured by Bharat In the letter, Sahu expressed approved for the state under the are deployed in the state. When Excise department. During the and revenue officials," action, fearing imminent land- ed the state government to shift Biotech in collaboration with concern over the gradual reduc- scheme was approximately Rs the state came into existence, last three days, a total of 401 Pithoragarh District Magistrate slides and gradual widening of the village to a safer place perma- the Indian Council of Medical tion in the funds allocated to the 56 crore, which came down there were only 22,520 police cases have been registered V K Jogdande said. the ditch. nently," Member of Pithoragarh Research (ICMR) - National state under the modernisation over the years and in 2019-20, personnel, whose number has across all over the state in With heavy fatalities caused by Meanwhile, a zila panchayat Zila Panchayat Jagat Singh Institute of Virology (NIV)," it of state police forces (MPF) it was not even Rs 20 crore," the now increased to 75,678, Sahur which 10,169 litres illegal liquor a cloudburst recently in Gaila representative from the area Martolia said. said in a statement. scheme by the Centre despite minister said in the letter. said. has been recovered," he said.

Trump points at race protests, China launches first Mars mission SJTA plans to preserve n bar-goers for PNS BEIJING The Long March 5 China successfully launched its rocket will Lord Jagannath's chariots surge in cases first Mars probe on Thursday, transport the n WASHINGTON aiming to complete orbiting, PNS n BHUBANESWAR landing and roving in a single robotic probe to President Donald Trump is mission, taking an ambitious the Earth-Mars Contrary to the usual practice casting wide blame for a step towards planetary explo- transfer trajectory of dismantling the three gigan- nationwide surge in coron- ration of the solar system. tic chariots after the annual Rath avirus cases, pointing to racial A Long March-5 rocket, before the Yatra, the Shree Jagannath justice protests, travelers from China's largest and most spacecraft begins Temple Administration (SJTA) Mexico and young bar-goers. powerful launch vehicle, car- its self-propelled is contemplating to preserve Holding his second briefing rying the spacecraft with a them this year. on the virus in as many days mass of about five tonnes, flight toward The chariots were used by after a three-month hiatus, soared into the sky from the Mars' gravity field Lord Balabdara, Devi Trump sought on Wednesday Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Subhadra and Lord Jagannath to explain the rise in confirmed Site on the coast of southern for the annual 9-day sojourn cases across the nation's South, China's island province of sending a rover to roam the the probe will travel for about weighs over 200 kilogrammes to Shree Gundicha Temple Southwest and West. Hainan, the official Xinhua landing site. It will conduct sci- seven months before it reach- and will work for about three from the Sri Mandir, the the wooden structures safe from wheels, while Lord Balabhadra's Trump says cases among news agency reported. entific investigations into the es Mars, which at the farthest months on the planet, the 12th-century main shrine. insects," he said. 'Taladhwaja' is 44-feet high with young Americans first started About 36 minutes after the planet's soil, geological struc- point of its orbit is about 400 designers said. A discussion in this regard Every year the chariots are 14 wheels. Their sister Devi to rise “shortly after demonstra- launch, the spacecraft, includ- ture, environment, atmosphere million kilometres from Earth China aims to catch up with was held with servitors and car- dismantled after the Rath Yatra Subhadra's chariot tions.” He says the protests fol- ing an orbiter and a rover, was and water, media reports said. and 55 million kilometres at India, the US, Russia and the penters who constructed the festival and the wood is used in 'Darpadalana' is 43-feet high lowing the death of George sent into the Earth-Mars trans- It should arrive in orbit the nearest point. European Union to reach the three wooden chariots within a the temple kitchen. But this year, and has 12 wheels. Floyd “presumably triggered a fer orbit, embarking on an around the red planet in It said the probe consists of red planet. record time during the pandem- the SJTA is planning to conserve The SJTA had earlier decid- broader relaxation of mitigation almost seven-month journey February. three parts - the orbiter, the lan- "The triple-task expedition ic, said the Chief Administrator the three chariots at the muse- ed to document this years Rath efforts nationwide.” He also says to the red planet, according to The Long March 5 rocket der and the rover -and they will of Tianwen-1 marks another of SJTA Krishan Kumar. um being constructed at Yatra in view of its massive a “substantial increase in trav- the China National Space will transport the robotic probe separate in Mars orbit. The milestone in China's aerospace Sources said that the SJTA is Jagannath Ballav, the Lords gar- arrangements made amidst the el” around Memorial Day and Administration (CNSA). to the Earth-Mars transfer tra- orbiter will remain in the orbit for science and technology devel- contemplating to preseve the den. The SJTA chief administra- pandemic and COVID-19 summer vacations was also a The Chinese Mars probe jectory before the spacecraft scientific operations and to relay opment, as well as a fresh dar- chariots as this year's Rath Yatra tor said a directive has already scare. For the first time in liv- driver of new cases. named Tianwen 1 or Quest for begins its self-propelled flight signals while the lander-rover ing adventure in the country's took place amidst the COVID- been issued to shift the chariots ing memory, the Rath Yatra of Further, he says, “Young Heavenly Truth 1, will fulfil toward Mars' gravity field. combination makes an long march of outer space 19 pandemic and in the absence to the premises of Jagannath Lord Jagannath and the return people closely congregating at three scientific objectives: According to China autonomous descent and landing. exploration following its lunar of devotees. "We have set up a Ballav. journey was held in the pilgrim bars and probably other places, orbiting the red planet for Aerospace Science and The rover has six wheels and program and the endeavour to technical committee to guide Lord Jagannaths chariot town under curfew and in the maybe beaches,” likely also led comprehensive observation, Technology Corp, a State- four solar panels and carries six build a space station," the the administration on how to called 'Nandighosh', is the tallest absence of devotees as per the to new cases. landing on Martian soil and owned space conglomerate, scientific instruments. It state-run media commented. preserve the chariots and keep one of 45-feet high with 16 Supreme Court guidelines. VIJAYAWADA | FRIDAY | JULY 24, 2020 nation 05

SHORT READS Green card waitlist for Northeast has potential to become an Indian more than India's growth engine: PM Modi 195 yrs: US Senator PNS n WASHINGTON nationals received 9,008 cate- PNS n NEW DELHI gory 1 (EB1), 2,908 category 2 The backlog for an Indian (EB2), and 5,083 category 3 MP: Journalist dies The northeast has the potential NE's prosperity always national to get permanent res- (EB3) Green Cards. EB1-3 are after being shot over to become India's growth idency or Green Card is more different categories of employ- engine, Prime Minister than 195 years, a top ment-based Green Cards. old rivalry Narendra Modi said on priority of Modi govt: Shah Republican senator has said, Lee, the senator from Utah, NIWARI: A 35-year-old Thursday, noting that peace is urging his Senate colleagues to was speaking on the legislation journalist working for a now being established in the nion Home Minister come out with a legislative moved by Senator Dick Durbin Gwalior-based daily died after a entire region. Amit Shah on Thursday resolution to address this prob- that seeks to protect immigrant group of persons allegedly shot He made these remarks at Ucongratulated Prime lem. A Green Card, known workers and their children him and attacked him with the foundation stone laying Minister Narendra Modi for the officially as a Permanent who are stuck in the green card sticks over an old rivalry in ceremony of the Manipur Manipur water supply project Resident Card, is a document backlog. Madhya Pradesh's Niwari water supply project via video and said the development and issued to immigrants to the US "Green cards are critical in district, police said on link. prosperity of the Northeast has as evidence that the bearer has the lives of so many who are Thursday. The incident took While blockades have always been the priority of his been granted the privilege of here on temporary work visas. place near Putri Khera village in become a part of history in government. residing permanently. The backlog puts families at Sendri police station limits on Manipur, the era of decades of The prime minister noted that the Shah said the project, whose Senator Mike Lee said on risk of losing their immigration Wednesday evening. The violence in Assam has ceased. government is making constant efforts foundation stone was laid by Wednesday that the current status as they wait year after victim, Sunil Tiwari, and his In Tripura and Mizoram to improve connectivity in the north- Prime Minister Narendra Modi Green Card policy did nothing weary year to finally make it brother were heading towards too, youth have abandoned on Thursday, will provide safe for the child of an immigrant through this green card back- the village on a motorcycle the path of violence and the east region, be its highways, laying of drinking water to more than 2.8 whose dead parent's Green log," Mr Durbin said. when seven persons, including Bru-Reang refugees are now rail tracks or upgradation of airports lakh households and also gen- Card application was ultimate- "Our bipartisan agreement three identified as Awdhesh moving towards a better life, he erate huge employment oppor- Northeast. The foundation ly denied because his or her job would add critical protections Tiwari, Narendra Tiwari and Anil said in his address. tunities in Manipur. stone of the project was laid by was no longer available. that were not in the original bill Tiwari, intercepted the duo, The prime minister noted ters are being developed for being set up for health, educa- "Development and prosper- Modi via video link. "Someone from India enter- for immigrant workers and sub-divisional officer of police that the government is making value addition and marketing tion, skill development and ity of North Eastern region has An externally funded project, ing the backlog today would their immediate family mem- Balram Singh Parihar said. The constant efforts to improve in local products. In these startups. always been the top priority of the Manipur water supply pro- have to wait 195 years to receive bers who are stuck in the back- accused allegedly attacked the connectivity in the northeast clusters, all the facilities will be With the formation of sports Modi govt. In his continued ject was designed to provide an EB-3 green card. Even if we log. They would be able to victim with sticks and shot him, region, be its highways, laying given to agro startups and university and world class sta- efforts, PM @narendramodi ji freshwater household tap con- give their children this limbo switch jobs and travel without he said. The journalist's brother of rail tracks or upgradation of other industries. dia, Manipur is becoming a today laid the foundation stone nections (FHTCs) to remaining status, none of them will have losing immigration status. And somehow managed to escape airports. He said the northeast has the major hub for the country's of Manipur Water Supply pro- households in Greater Imphal a prayer of becoming a US cit- children of immigrant workers from the spot to reach the The foundation stone laying potential to replace India's sports talent, he observed. ject worth ?3,054 crores. I con- planning area, and for 1,731 izen," Mr Lee said on the would be protected from aging village to get help, while the programme, the prime minis- bamboo import with local pro- Speaking on the water sup- gratulate PM for this unprece- rural habitations covering Senator floor. out so they will not face depor- attackers fled leaving the victim ter said, is an example of the duction. ply project, the prime minister dented project," Shah tweeted. 2,80,756 households in all 16 In fiscal year 2019, Indian tation," he said. grievously injured, he said. fact that even during the crisis There is a huge demand for said it is a big day for lakhs of He said the project is yet districts of Manipur. triggered by the novel coron- incense sticks in the country, people of Manipur, including another manifestation of the The project outlay is Rs avirus, the country has not but for this, India imports Imphal, as it will reduce the prime minister's resolve towards 3054.58 crore, with a loan com- Upset about actor's stopped working. bamboo worth crores of water problems faced by them. 'Har Ghar Jal' (water in every ponent funded by the New death, minor girl kills Till the time a vaccine is rupees, he lamented. He said women will especial- home) and a prosperous Development Bank. developed, we have to vigor- A lot of work, Modi point- ly benefit as they won't have to self in C'garh ously fight against coronavirus ed out, is being done to change travel for kilometers to fetch DURG: Upset about the death of and the development works this situation. clean water. The project has An externally funded pro- 1,731 rural habitations cover- actor Sushant Singh Rajput, a should also be carried for- He said a huge investment is been designed keeping in mind ject, the Manipur water supply ing 2,80,756 households in all 13-year-old girl allegedly ward with full force, he said. being made under the National needs of the next 20-22 years project was designed to provide 16 districts of Manipur. committed suicide in Referring to the "aatma nirb- Bamboo Mission. This will and lakhs of people will get freshwater household tap con- The project outlay is Rs Chhattisgarh's Durg district, har Bharat abhiyan" (self- benefit the youth of the north- access to clean drinking water, nections (FHTCs) to remain- 3054.58 crore, with a loan police said on Thursday. The reliant India campaign), the east, and the startups here. while thousands will get ing households in Greater component funded by the New Class 7 student was found prime minister said now clus- Many institutes are now employment, he said. Imphal planning area, and for Development Bank. hanging from the ceiling of her home in sector-7 of Bhilai town on Wednesday evening, said Trinath Tirpathi, station house Pak Army officer of Bhilai Nagar police DRDO establishes Covid-19 UK welcomes efforts by India, China station. "A suicide note was recovered from the scene, in shells foward which the girl has stated that testing facility in Leh to de-escalate tension in Ladakh she was taking the extreme step areas along as she was upset about the PNS n NEW DELHI PNS n NEW DELHI death of actor Sushant Singh LoC in Poonch Rajput," he said. According to The DRDO has established a PNS n JAMMU The UK on Thursday welcomed the girl's father, his daughter COVID-19 testing facility at efforts by India and China to de- was a fan of the actor and kept the Defence Institute of High The Pakistan Army on escalate tension along the Line of watching his videos and films, Altitude Research (DIHAR) in Thursday opened fire and Actual Control (LAC) in eastern the official said. The victim Leh to augment the existing shelled forward areas along Ladakh. always looked for news related capacity for identification of the LoC in Jammu and British High Commissioner to the Chhichhore actor, who coronavirus cases in the union Kashmir's Poonch district, Sir Philip Barton also expressed was found hanging in his territory of Ladakh, according officials said. concern over Chinese action in Mumbai home on June 14, the to an official statement. The Indian Army effective- Hong Kong as well as cases of SHO said quoting the girl's The testing facility, which ly retaliated. "At about 1100 human rights abuses against father. Incidentally, the girl was was inaugurated by Ladakh hours, Pak Army initiated Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. watching the movie Chhichhore Lieutenant Governor R K unprovoked ceasefire viola- The UK, he said, is aware of on Wednesday evening, when Mathur on Wednesday, is tion by firing with small the challenges presented by her father stepped out to fetch capable of screening 50 sam- arms & shelling with mortars "some Chinese actions" and has sentatives made on boundary LAC are "concerning". the rest of the family from her ples per day, said the statement future bio-threats and carrying infected 1,206 people and along the LoC in Qasba sec- been working with its close question on July 5 to disengage The British envoy also talked grandparents' place at Railway by the Defence Ministry. out R&D (research and devel- killed two people, as per data tor of Poonch district", a allies like the US to deal with and de-escalate is welcome," the about the "tragic loss of lives" of Colony in Durg, he said. On its "The facility can also be opment) activities pertinent to on the Union health min- defence spokesman said. This them. "I would like to say that the newly-appointed envoy said dur- Indian soldiers along the LAC return, the family found that the utilised for training manpow- agro-animals diseases," the istry's website. There are 186 is the third day that Pakistani progress we have seen in man- ing an online media briefing. and hoped that both sides would girl hanging from the ceiling, er for COVID-19 testing and ministry noted. active COVID-19 cases in forces have violated the cease- aging the tensions and the com- He said the Chinese actions in be able to achieve de-escalation the official said. will be of great help to address In Ladakh, the virus has Ladakh as of now, it stated. fire along the LoC. mitment the two special repre- Hong Kong as well as along the of tensions through talks. Sense of despair Siddaramaiah demands probe into 84 TN Raj Bhavan staff among Congress workers, says irregularities in Covid management test positive for Covid-19 PNS n BENGALURU the existing cost. At least Rs PNS n CHENNAI security and fire service staffers, Kuldeep Bishnoi 2,000 crore has been pocketed were found positive for coron- PNS n NEW DELHI Alleging large-scale corruption by the ministers and officials," Eighty-four security and fire ser- avirus, a Raj Bhavan release said. in COVID management in Siddaramaiah. who is the leader vices personnel deployed "All these persons were Haryana Congress leader Karnataka to the tune of at least of opposition in the state assem- in Raj Bhavan have test- further investigated Kuldeep Bishnoi on Thursday Rs 2,000 crore, former chief bly, told reporters. He demand- ed positive for and now have been said there is a sense of despair minister Siddaramaiah on ed a judicial inquiry by a sitting COVID-19 but none quarantined by the among party workers over Thursday demanded a judicial judge of the high court. of them came into health department. SC allows Raj HC to the treatment meted out to inquiry by a sitting High Court Releasing some documents to contact with Governor All these persons young leaders like judge. the media to substantiate his Banwarilal Purohit or were working on the Jyotiraditya Scindia and The government, however, allegations, the former chief senior officials, the gov- outer side of Raj Bhavan pass orders on plea of Sachin Pilot, and also urged dismissed the charges saying no minister claimed that the health ernment said here on Thursday. like the main gate and not in the leadership to promote irregularities have taken place. Minister B Sriramulu says only department spent Rs 700 crore As few men posted at Raj the main building," the release mass leaders in every state in "The total money spent on Rs 324 crore has been "some of the amount has been Bhavan showed symptoms, test- said, adding none of them Pilot, 18 MLAs the war against the BJP. COVID management is Rs spent.Equipment and materials spent and some is in the ing was done for 147 personnel came into contact with gover- DIRECTIONS SUBJECT TO ITS VERDICT Taking on the old guard, he 4,167 crore whereas state Health were purchased double or triple pipeline." and 84 of them, comprising nor Purohit or senior officials. asked the Congress leader- PNS n NEW DELHI Voice of dissent in democra- ship to give other responsibil- cy cannot be shut down , the ities to those who have been The Supreme Court Thursday bench observed. occupying high positions for allowed the Rajasthan High We are trying to find out 35 years and have never con- COVID-19 Conducting exams in varsities in MCQs Court to pronounce order on whether this process (disquali- tested elections. plea of 19 dissident Congress fication) was permissible or Bishnoi, who is son of for- MLAs, including sacked deputy not," it said, while questioning mer Haryana chief minister format not feasible alternative, say academicians CM Sachin Pilot, against the Joshi on the reasons for initiat- Bhajan Lal, triggered specu- Assembly Speaker's notice for ing disqualification proceed- lation when he posted a pic- PNS n NEW DELHI can take exams in such a for- initiating disqualification pro- ings against the 19 dissident ture of himself with Scindia The UGC officials, mat". ceedings against them, but said Congress MLAs. and Pilot on Twitter. Conducting exams in universi- however, maintained "Plus problems are multiply- that it would be subject to the Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, "Many congratulations ties in Multiple Choice that over 6,000 ing-- coronavirus cases are on outcome of the petition before appearing for Joshi, listed the @JM_Scindia. A well Questions (MCQs) format in the rise and students in Assam the top court. reasons for starting the dis- deserved one," he said along view of COVID-19 pandemic is universities in the and Bihar are also facing issues Rajasthan Assembly Speaker qualification proceedings, saying with the picture, on a day not a feasible alternative as it country have due to floods. Internet connec- CP Joshi however failed to get that these MLAs did not attend when Scindia took oath as cannot test students' analytical already conducted tivity is already an issue and the any interim relief on his plea party meetings and conspired to Rajya Sabha member of the skills and students pursuing flood situation has complicated alleging that the high court destabilise their own govern- BJP. He also congratulated for- subjects like literature will be at exams for final year the connectivity situation, so cannot interdict the disqualifi- ment. mer Congress leader Priyanka a disadvantage, academicians students or are even if the MCQ format exams cation proceedings undertaken The bench said: This is not a Chaturvedi, who also took have pointed out. planning to conduct happen they will happen in an by him under 10th schedule of simple matter and these MLAs oath as a Shiv Sena member The concerns by academi- them online format which will not be the Constitution. are elected representatives." of Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. cians come against the backdrop feasible for students," he said. A bench of Justices Arun Responding to a query of the "Sincere congratulations of the Delhi High Court asking Saikat Ghosh, an English Mishra, B R Gavai and Krsihna bench, Sibal said, These MLAs @priyankac19 on your hard- the University Grants ning to conduct them. tions against the plan, citing the implementing it. Coronavirus professor at the Shri Guru Tegh Murari said Joshi's plea raises had gone to Haryana, stayed at earned success. Best wishes for Commission (UGC) to clarify if Earlier this month, the UGC COVID-19 situation. time cannot be used for exper- Bahadur Khalsa College and important questions and a hotel and gave TV bites that a bright future." final year examinations of the in its revised guidelines direct- Rajesh Jha, a political science imentation." Academic Council member, requires prolonged hearing. they want floor test." He said the universities be conducted based ed the higher education institu- professor and executive council Pankaj Garg, a professor at said, "The way the subjects and We are not restraining the issue as to whether the disqual- on MCQs, open choices, assign- tions that final year examina- member of DU, said, "Our stu- Rajdhani College, said, "The the syllabus have been designed, High Court from passing the ification process is permissible ments and presentations, instead tions be conducted in dents are not prepared for a new format of exams decide how stu- we teach those subjects even at order but it will be subject to the or not cannot be taken note of of long form exams. September 2020, instead of July format of exams. They have dents are taught. For MCQs and the undergraduate level in a fair outcome of the petition (of by the court at this stage. Our The UGC officials, however, 2020, as per its guidelines been taught to analyse things even for open book exams, the amount of detail and we encour- Speaker) before the Supreme grievance is purely constitu- maintained that over 6,000 uni- announced in April. and will be caught unprepared students have to be taught in a age students to show analytical Court, the bench said, while fix- tional and there cannot be any versities in the country have Punjab, Maharashtra, Odisha, for any new format. All of a sud- certain way but in Delhi skills. Analytical skills cannot be ing the plea for hearing on July order till decision is taken by the already conducted exams for Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and den you cannot impose a sys- University, students have not tested through the MCQ format, 27. speaker." final year students or are plan- Delhi have announced reserva- tem. You need to test it before been taught in a way that they which favours information" VIJAYAWADA | FRIDAY | JULY 24, 2020 op nion 06 www.dailypioneer.com facebook.com/dailypioneer | @TheDailyPioneer | instagram.com/dailypioneer/ PAPER WITH PASSION This round to Pilot SC says disqualification can’t be based on dissent, asks why Speaker approached court when he should be neutral Farewell, my Queen ajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot may have been a tad too offensive in seeking the court’s Rintervention to deter his one-time deputy Sachin The Boeing 747 is being withdrawn from passenger service. It changed aircraft Pilot from challenging the disqualification notice sent to him and his loyalist MLAs under the anti-defec- design, made flying affordable and pushed airports to improve their facilities tion law. But the Supreme Court firmly underlined what democracy is, the kind Gehlot has been claiming to defend, and what constitutional processes are. “Assume a leader has lost the faith of persons. While remaining in the party, they cannot be disqualified. Then this will become a tool and no one can raise their voice. The voice of dissent in a democracy can- not be suppressed like this,” said Justice AK Mishra as the top court refused to stop a High Court verdict on a petition by 19 rebel Congress MLAs, challenging their dis- KUSHAN MITRA qualification notices. Clearly, the court laid down the thin line between the democratic he British Airways’ right to dissent, that is healthy for building participatory dialogue and one which deserves announcement that it is a listen, and an ego-driven revolt. And it went with Pilot’s defence that the notices were going to retire its fleet of an attempt to curb “freedom of speech.” For the last few days, the Pilot camp has been Boeing 747s from commer- challenging the showcause saying the House was not in session and they hadn’t done cial passenger services hit Tmany aviation fans pretty hard. I have or said anything to indicate they were parting ways with the Congress. Both Gehlot probably flown more passenger miles and Pilot camps have been seeking refuge in the interpretation of clause 2(1)(a) of the in the British Airways’ 747 aircraft than on any other airline. In the past few 10th Schedule of the Constitution. Going by the several Supreme Court judgments in months, two other iconic operators of the matter, it could be said that any anti-party activity was tantamount to voluntarily the Boeing 747, Australian airline giving up the membership of the party. Gehlot has been building evidence of Pilot’s Qantas and Dutch airline KLM, also breakaway moves since, like parading MLAs claiming bribery offers and releasing alleged announced that they flew their last jumbo flights. In the last couple of years tapes of senior BJP leaders coaxing rebels, to justify this argument. But Team Pilot argues — thanks to the emergence of more that the clause cannot be overstretched to disallow the right to express one’s opinion. point-to-point flying, higher frequen- Rajasthan Speaker CP Joshi, who served the notices last week, had argued that the cy and the sheer efficiency of modern twin-jet aircraft like the Boeing 787 and rebels cannot petition the High Court before he took action. And that as a constitution- Airbus A350 — more and more 747s al authority, he had the right to do so even when the House was not in session as the are being retired across the world. rebels had skipped two meetings of the legislature party. In fact, anticipating an adverse Air India withdrew the jumbo flight’s operations a couple of years ago verdict, Joshi moved the Supreme Court even before the High Court could declare its but has been using it for some Haj and ruling on the Pilot camp’s plea. The Supreme Court even took note of this impatience Ummah-related duties. Most other to latch on to power. The court asked, “It is the matter of just one day. Why can’t you American, Asian and European oper- ators have retired the plane from ser- craft was there to allow the nose tle in common with the earliest see what happens to these air- 747, none of this would have hap- wait?” And reminding the Speaker of his constitutional role, the judges asked why he, vice. However, there are exceptions like to be lifted up for the cargo to be model —100 and 200 variants — lines, even Indian ones, in the pened. The 747 made large- as a neutral person, should approach the court at all in a pre-emptive manner or appear Air China, Lufthansa and Korean Air, loaded. Cargo operations with just one look, and you know that aftermath of the Chinese conta- scale international commercial partisan? The Supreme Court can anyway hear appeals against High Court rulings but which operate the newer 747-8 variant, the 747 are likely to continue for it is 747. I think (I do not believe gion, international air travel, too, travel viable; it democratised and a couple of other airlines such as many, many years because there that I am alone here) this is the has changed. In no small part, travel in a way that was previous- why did the Speaker assume that the latter would be favourable to the rebels? This Thai Airways that operates the older is no direct replacement for it. In single most important reason that thanks to the emergence of more ly unimaginable. It is because of presumptive tactic might just impact all the other moves of Gehlot. So far, in a bid to 747-400. In fact, my last 747 flight was fact, most international air cargo the 747 is seared into our mem- point-to-point flying and ultra- the Boeing 747 that there was a save his Government, he has been aggressively taking on the BJP for another version unexpectedly on the Thai Airways from operators still follow a “hub and ories; it looked unique when it long-haul flights. huge wave of migration of engi- New Delhi to Bangkok and back last spoke” model for cargo travelling was first flown and it still does A decade ago, a non-stop neers and doctors out of India in of “Operation Lotus” and poaching a discontented and maladjusted Pilot. He even wrote year in October. between major airports. with the hump at the front and flight to and fro from India to the the 1970s and 1980s. to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging the BJP’s attempts to dislodge his Government, The global aviation industry is in The last convoy carrying its sharply swept wings. US was just about possible with The 747 made flying afford- naming Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and making Modi himself complic- a meltdown after the Wuhan virus laid fuselage and wing sections of the There was an aesthetic beau- a load of penalties. Today’s able; it made global airports waste to the global economy. Global avi- A380 has reached the final ty in the 747, which the A380 Boeing 777 and 787s and Airbus’ improve their facilities, jetbridges it in the goings-on in his party. But his adventurism on the rule of law has betrayed the ation was a primary vector in the spread assembly line in Toulouse and the simply does not have. The latter A350 can make the crossing that connect planes to the termi- maturity and astuteness with which he acted before the BJP could move in, herding of the virus and many nations sealed aircraft will be completed in a is functional but not pretty. Truth with a full load in just 16 hours. nal became a standard feature at legislators, furnishing numbers to the Governor and gathering evidence against Pilot. their land borders. Others like India couple of months. Even then, the be told, I rarely got to fly in 747s Imagine travelling from New airports as did massive automat- Getting the Speaker to defend the disqualification notices has clearly backfired and exposed banned all flight operations though lim- single largest operator of the of late, the move to withdraw it Delhi to San Francisco in the ed baggage handling. Airports ited repatriation flights are still being A380 aircraft, the Dubai-based from service across the world 1970s and 1980s when the 747 built bigger runways and larger his anxieties. Gehlot claims he has 106 MLAs on his side, still a narrow lead in a 200- carried out. Emirates Airline, is retiring its having begun in the early 2010s. had just begun service. An Air infrastructure to cater to the member Assembly. If the High Court disqualifies Pilot and his 18 MLAs, the majority Many airlines have read the writ- oldest twin-deck behemoths. But Of course, those two flights to India or Pan American 747 masses that a single jumbo jet mark of 101 will come down and Gehlot will be safely home. If not, the rebel MLAs ing on the wall and they understand that it is ironic that the Boeing 747, Thailand were a pleasant sur- would have taken you to New brought in. The 747 changed air- even if a solution, such as a vaccine to which undertook its maiden prise, a couple of British Airways York’s JFK after stopping at least craft design; the high-bypass can vote against his Government and narrow the margins. this accursed pestilence is found, traf- flight in 1969, would have signif- flights across the “pond” stuck in two-three times. You would have turbofan engines developed for As Gehlot continues to prepare a back-up plan and publicly deride Pilot, it would fic will not recover for months, may be icantly outlived the Airbus A380, a middle seat less enjoyable. But to change planes at JFK and then it transformed aviation. It led to have been better if he had accommodated him as shrewdly and continued his chief even years. The Boeing 747 is too large a plane built with typical I did experience that ultimate joy make the cross-country hop the development of the trijets an aircraft for reduced traffic. This European arrogance to one-up of an aviation fan. I have flown across the US, may be with Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L- ministership. Now, it looks like he is the one impatient instead of Pilot. The younger means higher operating costs. As for the US. The A380 is undoubted- on the upper deck of a 747, which another stop or two. Travel time 1011 Tristar by rival companies. Congressman and once an acolyte of the Gandhi scions cannot look back either as he Airbus A380, airlines are quickly retir- ly an amazing engineering and is one of the single most fun with stop-overs may have been It is the development of the has waded deep into the contest. He is drawing political sustenance from the grass- ing these aircraft, too. Air France, the technological achievement unlike things one can do. around two days. high bypass turbofan, which lit- airline of the nation where the A380 is the Boeing plane, but is an The last time I did that was Before the pandemic started, erally sips fuel compared to older roots where he has worked for the last six years or so. The Gujjars of three States — put together, just retired all of its unmitigated commercial disaster. on a British Airways evening ser- both Air India and United engines, that led to the creation Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh — has amassed behind him just like they did Airbus A380 fleet, the youngest being The Airbus A380 line will vice from Chicago O’Hare to Airlines had non-stop services of all modern planes such as the for his father Rajesh Pilot. This means a sizeable votebank that could make Pilot attrac- a decade-old. Airlines will tell you that close soon as the last nine planes London Heathrow. As far as my between the two cities, 15 hours Boeing 777, which has the largest it is cheaper to fly two Boeing 787 are prepared for delivery. In the memory goes, I think I just slept from take-off to touchdown. engine in commercial service. tive to the BJP. The fact that he changed his plea in the High Court and made the Centre Dreamliners than a single 747 or 15 years since the factory opened throughout that flight. I never Sure, that might seem like a lot The 747 was the “Queen” and the a party to it is some indication that he will gravitate to the other polarity. That’s the sad Airbus A380. its doors, a mere 251 entered knew it was going to be the last of time without any “fresh air” but world of aviation comprised its part, the assumption that Congress’ breakaways, most of them talented with fresh ideas, While cargo variants of the 747 are commercial service. Boeing is time. Even as global air travel there was no need to walk bleary- subjects. Even though fewer and still flying in great numbers, both expected to close its 747 lines in boomed during the past decade, eyed with screaming children fewer 747s remain in the skies will do better in the BJP than in the party that they had volunteered for. The example of those built at the Boeing factory outside 2022, with 16 aircraft (all cargo a lot of that was due to the rise across a strange airport, dealing ferrying passengers, the legacy of Himanta Biswa Sarma in the Northeast shows that the BJP is consolidating with ex- Seattle, Washington, and those planes variants) remaining to be deliv- of low-cost airlines, hopping and with security and waiting for the Boeing 747 is one that will Congress talent. Old Congresswallahs may say the young are pesky and impatient but converted from passenger operations to ered. Around 1,558 planes have skipping around the world with hours through weather delays continue for a long time to freight, have halted operations.After all, already been delivered since their gigantic fleets of Airbus and the risk of lost baggage, come. the crossovers have meant that the Congress has lost Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand, the 747 was initially conceived as a cargo 1970. And while the current A320 and Boeing 737 aircraft. thanks to the multiple connec- (The writer is Managing Arunachal, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. Is Gehlot’s ego turf worth it? plane and the iconic “hump” on the air- options such as the 747-8 have lit- While it will be interesting to tions. But without the Boeing Editor, The Pioneer) The Rafale arrives S O U N D BITE PM Modi is 100 per cent There’s the knowing smile. Not The Trump administration If you take racism and dis- India’s long tradition of French fighter jets continues. The focussed on building his because I know things for has maintained close contact crimination in the world, one game-changer aircraft will boost our capabilities image. India’s captured institu- sure...but mostly because I am and tremendous cooperation of the most important things tions are busy doing this task. at peace with the idea of not with India on the is to teach your children his- n 1953, newly independent and democratic India One man’s image is not a sub- knowing...what’s important will latest Chinese border tory as it should be and not placed a large order for fighter jets. The contract stitute for a national vision. reveal itself at the right time... aggression. the sanitised version of it. didn’t go to the British. Instead, India ordered 70 I Congress leader Actor US Ambassador to India Former Sri Lanka captain Dassault Ouragan aircraft from France and a strange —Rahul Gandhi —Sushmita Sen —Ken Juster —Kumar Sangakkara love affair developed between Indian fighter jocks and French jets. Over 140 Ouragans served the Indian Air Force (IAF) before they were replaced by Dassault L E T T E R S T O TH E EDITOR Mystere IV aircraft of which India operated over 100. The latter distinguished itself admirably in the 1965 Some succour Instead of getting a facelift, Oxford vaccine promising but let’s be real the large open spaces may get war with our unfriendly western neighbour. While India obliterated. Many beautiful build- did not operate the legendary Dassault Mirage III and Sir — This refers to the editor- his refers to the editorial, “A glimmer of hope” (July ings in the Lutyens’ zone add Mirage 5, which acquitted themselves with distinc- ial, “A glimmer of hope” (July 22). With 15 million cases and six lakh deaths glob- grace and charm to the city. One 22). The news that early stage Tally, biomedical companies are under tremendous finds it difficult to understand as tion over the skies of the Sinai peninsula during the two Arab-Israeli conflicts, we did clinical trials of the Oxford pressure to deliver a safe and effective vaccine for to why such a restructuring is order a small number of the Mirage 2000 aircraft. It quickly became a frontline fighter University COVID-19 vaccine Coronavirus. While the outbreak is peaking by the day, required at places which are for us and played a critical role during the Kargil war. It even delivered the weaponry have proved that it is safe and a silver lining on the horizon is also flashing. A new vac- brimming with charm and beau- induces an immune response cine development technology — RNA vaccine, also ty. The Government should that destroyed a terrorist hideout in Balakot early last year. And now, India will start gives the world hope at a time known as mRNA — is emerging as the front-runner to instead focus its energy on rede- receiving the next generation of French fighting prowess, the Rafale. when we are facing one of the alleviate mankind’s COVID-19-inflicted miseries. The veloping and beautifying the old The Rafale is a dramatic step up for the IAF. With its supreme weaponry and elec- deadliest pandemics in history. three leading vaccines by Oxford — AstraZeneca, Pfizer- city of Delhi and also perking up Though more tests have to BioNTech and Moderna — are mRNA based and are the economy. tronic warfare capabilities, it is far superior to anything that either of the troublesome be done before it is made avail- also in the final phase of trials. The technology, capa- Devendra Khurana twosome on India’s eastern and western border have. It is an expensive plane and an able for the public, there is hope ble of faster rollout at affordable prices, is versatile and ical trials is unable to justify the hypothesis the biomed- Bhopal initial planned order for 126 aircraft has been peeled back to 36. It is but certain that for mankind even as the pan- promising. It is known to produce safe and long-last- ical community has set out to prove. The durability of demic has already claimed more ing immune response in addition to better management the immune response system as also the longevity of Adapt to changes a follow-up order will be placed soon. However, India would do well to remember the than six lakh lives and infected of a class of white blood cells called T-cells. White cells, the regenerated T-cells together are concern areas. The acquisition problems it has faced in the past. With the Mirage 2000 and the Boeing C- millions of people around the as we all know, help the body get rid of infected cells. universal safety of vaccines across age groups remains 17 Globemaster, a heavy lift logistics aircraft, India dithered with making its follow-up globe. Many other nations, That two dozen of the 150 vaccinations are mRNA dri- worrisome as representation of the vulnerable groups Sir — The pandemic has led to including India, are also on the ven is not surprising. All the three front-running vac- in the clinical trials is said to be limited. While the need several changes. But the judicial orders. Both aircraft had seen their production lines close and India was left twiddling path of developing a vaccine. cines score high on “dual immune response” compris- for a safe and effective vaccine is given, expediency can- system has found it difficult to its thumbs. We cannot afford to vacillate like this with acquisitions again as the previ- There is something to rejoice as ing antibodies and T-cells. not override quality. Being optimist is good but being adapt to changing times. In ous UPA administration hesitated for years over military hardware acquisition. As a result, the Serum Institute of India, one Though some euphoria is justified, yet we must one with caution is better. fact, the pandemic has only it left gaping holes in India’s security apparatus, which are only being patched up today. of the premium immunobiolog- understand that vaccine development is a lengthy and SK Prabhakar made matters worse for our ical drugs manufacturers of the painful process. Even the vast amount of data from clin- Gurugram courts. Piled up cases, outdated The Rafale is a great new addition to the IAF and will give India an edge both in weapons country, has entered into a man- laws, lengthy legal proceedings delivery and air-to-air combat. But they cannot come fast enough. However, India must ufacturing partnership with goes well, the vaccine will be Futile exercise restructure the Lutyens’ zone. and the lack of legal reforms are not give in to knee-jerk reactions. Instead, we must plan out a thorough acquisition AstraZeneca once the vaccine ready by December. Let us hope Parts of this area have main- some of the things that demand trial is successful. this vaccine and others, that are tained a distinctive architectur- immediate attention. strategy with more domestic manufacturing, which will not only help the local econo- The human trials will be also being tested, put an end to Sir — This refers to the article, al heritage and urban character. Rati Jain my but also develop India’s military-industrial potential. The events of the past few months done in August and a con- the mental and physical misery “Leave Lutyens alone” (July 21) The razing of buildings from the Via email have taught us that we cannot trust the Chinese, particularly its President. We have to firmed analysis will be possible of the people. by Yashovardhan Azad. The Rashtrapati Bhawan to India by October/November, accord- M Pradyu writer is right to raise alarm over Gate will rob the Lutyens area of Send your feedback to: be prepared for the worst. The Rafales will help. ing to the firm. If everything Kannur the Government’s plan to its beauty. [email protected] VIJAYAWADA | FRIDAY | JULY 24, 2020

www.dailypioneer.com analysis 07 FIRSTCOLUMN India can exit POINTCOUNTERPOINT ATTEMPTS ARE BEING MADE TO DESTABILISE ELECTED IT IS CLEAR FROM THE LETTER OF THE CM TO THE PM fiscal tight spot GOVERNMENTS. I DON'T KNOW TO WHAT EXTENT YOU THAT HE HAS LOST THE CONFIDENCE OF HIS MLAS AND ARE AWARE OF ALL THIS OR YOU ARE BEING MISLED. HIS GOVERNMENT IS IN MINORITY. For this to happen, GDP growth and the —RAJASTHAN CHIEF MINISTER —RAJASTHAN BJP CHIEF economy have to be treated and run like a ASHOK GEHLOT SATISH POONIA corporate house, hungry and lean FDI through front door KUMARDEEP BANERJEE rime Minister Narendra Modi and top Cabinet Ministers have The Govt must allow 100 per cent FDI in retail as this will level the playing field for all, spent the last fortnight talking to numerous stakeholders and eliminate discretion of bureaucrats whose writ is all-pervasive and help small traders Ppotential investors across the globe and at various fora, try- ing to convince them that India has lifted the shutters and is ready for business. Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and MSMEs, has talked about potential opportunities for investors on the Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi- Meerut highway corridors, the linked and now commercially-available waterways and has gone on record to promise daily, weekly and monthly returns from invest- ments in India’s infrastructure. Similarly, Minister of Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad has announced an ambitious production-linked incentive scheme for large-scale electronics manufacturing firms, with potential finan- GUPTA cial incentives and sharp focus on high-value, globally-produced UTTAM components of mobile phones and air conditioners. Modi himself, at multiple fora and one-on-one conversations n April 22, the California-based US internet with top CEOs, has made a strong pitch for refuelling India with giant, Facebook, announced its decision to upgraded, long-term investments for a brighter future for enterpris- Obuy 9.99 per cent stake in Jio Platforms Limited (JPL) paying more than `43,450 crore. JPL es and the global world order. Much of this effort has been made is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Reliance Industries to keep the money coming in for Finance Minister Nirmala Limited (RIL) and has in its fold a wide spectrum Sitharaman, who has been trying to find alternate sources of rev- of businesses such as wireless broadband, home enue during one of the biggest economic slowdowns India has seen broadband, enterprise broadband, narrowband, in recent memory and to ensure that the State fulfils its commit- internet-of-things businesses, a bouquet of digital ment of providing basic amenities like food and medical care to a applications, e-commerce and so on. large section of the population. These efforts are the need of the This was followed by a flurry of investments with hour for India, which is faced with the dual challenges of a raging big names such as General Atlantic, Silver Lake, pandemic and military/economic ambush from an aggressive neigh- Qualcomm, Intel, Vista, Google and so on, bring- ` bour, China. And there is still a large track left to be covered to become ing in cumulative investment of over 1,00,000 crore, taking the total to `1,50,000 crore. In lieu of this cap- a larger than $5 trillion economy in a very short period. ital, they get aggregate shareholding of 30 per cent So, what can be done? To begin with, GDP growth and the or `5,000 crore for every one per cent, thus valuing economy have to be treated and run like a corporate house, hun- the company at a whopping `5,00,000 crore. gry and lean. Some may argue that it could lead to overlooking the Even as foreign investors see value in every seg- LOOKING AT WHAT welfare of a vast majority of the population. In a democracy, this ment of the business on this platform, at the centre IS HAPPENING ON could lead to uncomfortable questions in Parliament at a time when stage is e-commerce, which is being powered by GROUND ZERO, IT elections in some States are around the corner. While I won’t com- JioMart commerce platform — a unit of JPL. In fact, IS ABUNDANTLY ment on the latter part of the argument regarding the politics behind Facebook has come in primarily with an eye on tap- CLEAR THAT stalling growth projects, the fact remains that there are many enter- ping opportunities in this area and signed a com- THE MODI prises and cooperatives around the world where sustainable devel- prehensive agreement with JPL to exploit synergies between the two conglomerates. GOVERNMENT HAS opment of employees has gone hand in hand with healthy busi- The duo intend to offer technology-enabled NO OBJECTION TO ness growth. wherewithal to enable consumers access neighbour- PERMITTING FDI IN 17, an unprecedented 100 per cent FDI in ny can’t have ownership of the seller.” JioMart owner Reliance/Facebook will To take an example, the Government has access to a vast hood stores and have products delivered at their ONLINE RETAIL food retail was allowed, subject to the for- Further, “a seller/firm on the platform can’t keep its supplies to the vendor within the amount of cash. It can very well enter into minority shareholding doorsteps. About 30 million of these stores will be AND EVEN IN eign retailer selling items which are source more than 25 per cent of its inven- 25 per cent threshold. Or they may carve or profit-sharing arrangements with private fund managers and sov- empowered to digitally transact with every customer OFFLINE RETAIL sourced only from Indian farmers and tory from a firm connected with the lat- out a separate entity entirely for food retail ereign wealth creators, who can be tasked with bringing in high- in their neighbourhood (over 400 million-strong (ALBEIT WITHOUT processed locally. Besides, 25 per cent of ter.” The marketplace owner can get where 100 per cent FDI is allowed. This value returns in a relatively short span of time. Of course, the chal- Indian database of WhatsApp — a 100 per cent sub- ANY RIDERS) AS investment should be in agri-infrastruc- around both. First, by having less than 50 way, the two would be able to demonstrate lenge would be to put the perfect agreement papers in place, as sidiary of Facebook — will come in handy). AMPLY ture like irrigation, farm machinery/imple- per cent shareholding in the seller firm and that they are not violating the rule book. too tight controls on managerial capacity could lead to efficient fund JioMoney — RIL’s payment platform — will be inte- DEMONSTRATED ments and so on. In the online format, as argue, he has no control (albeit majority) But this is not the way to go. managers losing interest. On the other hand, too less control and grated into the JioMart venture to facilitate hassle- per guidelines issued in early 2016, (Press over the latter and second through the Looking at what is happening on free seamless payment for transactions. The model BY THE Note 3) 100 per cent FDI is allowed under wholesale arm continuing supplies to the ground zero, it is abundantly clear that the the Government could be pulled up for corruption and collusion operated by Reliance under JioMart is a combina- TREATMENT the so-called marketplace model. The seller but within the 25 per cent thresh- Modi Government has no objection to with wrong parties. tion of online and offline retail. Apart from Reliance METED OUT TO marketplace is a platform where vendors old. permitting FDI in online retail and even Second, the Government can again, by strategic choice, pick Retail Limited (RRL), which has thousands of retail AMAZON/FLIPKART sell their products to consumers even as The clarification has not deterred their in offline retail (albeit without any riders) up a bunch of real estate and infrastructure projects stalled across stores spread all over India and gets hooked on to EARLIER AND NOW its owner merely acts as a facilitator. The hold over Indian retail; they are dominant as amply demonstrated by the treatment the country due to lack of funds or slowing demand (even before the Jio platform, it will be serving tens of millions TO FACEBOOK marketplace owner provides services sellers themselves, giving little space to mil- meted out to Amazon/Flipkart earlier and the COVID-19 crisis began). The Government’s track record of tak- of neighbourhood stores in a variety of ways viz. han- RIDING PIGGYBACK such as booking orders, raising invoices, lions of small vendors for whose benefit now to Facebook riding piggyback on RIL. ing up construction has been much below market standards but dling, procurement, storage, payment, delivery ON RIL. WHY arranging delivery, accepting payments, this unique policy dispensation of the mar- If that be so, then why allow it to happen it can make a fresh start by bringing world-class builders and infra- and so on. Since all of this will be powered by a dig- SHOULD IT BE handling rejections, warehousing and so ketplace was designed. Disingenuous in a vague and convoluted manner? Why structure specialists on board. A leading example of bringing effi- ital eco-system, the model is a hybrid of online and ALLOWED TO on. But, s/he can’t hold inventory and bureaucrats allowed them to do so by should the policy not be clear-cut and ciency by smart partnering and teamwork is Delhi Metro, where offline. undertake direct selling. crafting policy architecture to suit them. transparent? Why should FDI not be Two things are abundantly clear: Reliance HAPPEN IN A The permission for 100 per cent FDI The small vendors, through their allowed through the front door? both the Central and State Governments have an equal ownership Industries is deeply entrenched in Indian retail — VAGUE AND in the marketplace is subject to two main umbrella organisations such as All India The Government should shun the but the money to build the 489-kilometre suburban railway network already through RRL and now increasing its foot- CONVOLUTED riders, that is “the entity cannot permit Online Vendors Association (AIOVA), marketplace model. It should allow 100 has come from Japan. The corporation thus formed runs with 10 print exponentially through the Jio Platform. It is MANNER? WHY more than 25 per cent of total sales on its Retailers Association of India (RAI), per cent FDI in retail in both online and nominees from the State and Central Government and eight (includ- getting a massive injection of Foreign Direct SHOULD THE platform from one vendor or its group Delhi Vyapar Mahasangh (DVM) and so offline without any riders (the special cat- ing the Managing Director) full-time Directors. What it ensures is Investment (FDI), with Facebook alone having POLICY NOT BE companies. Further, it can’t directly or indi- on, have petitioned judicial authorities at egories such as 100 per cent FDI in food equal say for most stakeholders and also brings the necessary pumped `43,450 crore into JioMart. But this is out CLEAR-CUT AND rectly influence the sale price.” Sans any various levels seeking action against retail should go). This will level the play- momentum behind the wheels to tunnel through the toughest and of sync with the extant policy in regard to FDI in TRANSPARENT? specification as to “who the vendor is”, a Amazon/Flipkart for violation of FDI ing field for all, online vs offline, food retail most congested lanes of Delhi. retail. For the purpose of FDI, unlike the interna- firm linked to the marketplace (either its norms and indulging in unfair practices vs non-food, marketplace vs inventory and In a similar approach, Smart City, a pet project of the Government tional practice where retail is treated as a single subsidiary or a Joint Venture with an but have not got any relief. The sole rea- so on and eliminate discretion of bureau- that is in tune with Digital India, can be broken into smaller self- homogenous sector without any distinction, the Indian company) is eligible. son is that the courts go by the fine print crats whose writ is all-pervasive when it Indian Government has divided retail into several Thus, contrary to the real intent of the which suits these giants. comes to grant of approvals. sustaining, futuristic enterprises with an independent Board of classes. In India, we have Single-Brand Retail policy, which disallowed the market- Unlike the marketplaces of foreign e- It will help small traders by leading to Directors, equal nominees from the Union and State Government- (SBR) and Multi-Brand Retail (MBR) and there are place owner from direct selling to individ- commerce majors, JioMart commerce all-round development of infrastructure concerned and a full time professional CEO (with a competitive salary sub-categories within each. Here, we deal with MBR ual consumers, the fine print permitted platform floated by RIL holds the poten- and offering a wide range of choice for to begin with). This team of approximately 20 people will have the or retail — as it is known in common parlance. them to do so — albeit by its subsidiary tial of giving a boost to the small vendors, sourcing products. They can and will co- task of converting an available chunk of land and its civic ameni- Within MBR, there is the “physical” format or or JV. This is precisely what e-commerce but even this may not gel with the extant exist with big players — both foreign and ties into a global, high-tech piece of excellence, while empowered offline, which takes two forms: The euphoric majors such as Amazon and policy framework. Even as the main Indian. It will be pro-consumer in the to raise funds for itself. mom-and-pop stores, also nicknamed neighbour- Flipkart/Walmart have been doing even thrust of the policy is on “complete pro- long-run with many players catering to Modi has often been praised for his respect for the bureau- hood stores, and organised retail. Then, we have the though they came in as marketplace oper- hibition of FDI in direct selling to indi- their needs at competitive/affordable cracy and bringing in the right talent for implementing projects on online format, which has two sub-categories, the ators. They are operating as direct sellers, vidual consumers”, JioMart, which is price. Sans these policy changes, under a mission mode. If he and his talented team put their mind to con- marketplace model and the inventory-based model. controlling inventory, giving discounts and deeply entrenched in direct sales, has business as usual scenario, the consumers In the physical format, as per a policy approved so on. received investment from Facebook — a will pay a heavy price in the medium to verting Smart City projects into globally-marketed profitable ven- by the then UPA dispensation in 2012, as much as A clarification to Press Note 3 issued foreign company. long-term as Indian retail will be cartelised tures in a relatively short span of time, it could be a game chang- 51 per cent FDI is allowed but with a plethora of rid- on December 26, 2018 has not material- Like Amazon et al, Reliance/Facebook by a few players viz. Amazon, Walmart er. It could help the country to come out of the current economic ers such as 30 per cent local sourcing, minimum ly altered the position on ground zero. It may get around by citing that foreign and Facebook/RIL. crisis and turn it into one of the biggest opportunities for the nation. investment of $100 million and prior approval of the says “the owner of the marketplace or its shareholding in the seller firm is less than (The writer is a New Delhi-based pol- (The writer is a policy analyst) State where the retail shop is to be set up. In 2016- subsidiary or its JV with Indian compa- 50 per cent or a wholesaler linked to icy analyst) A flood of urban woes during the rains Traffic snarls, waterlogging and the loss of lives show that a manageable issue has been allowed to deteriorate FOREIGN EYE might be, every passing year they examples for the developed world to paved areas in the urban landscape. We often marvel at infrastructure bring in their wake the ever-growing learn from. Another concerning This has not only resulted in exacer- planning of ancient India, especially problem of urban flooding. aspect is that urban flooding increas- bating the heat island effect and the drainage system of the Mohenjo- This has been experienced for es the chances of contagious diseases causing a sharp spike in ambient tem- Daro and Harappa cultures that date decades in India but sufficient atten- like typhoid, cholera, leptospirosis, peratures but preventing rainwater back to 2400 BC. Sadly we are unable tion has not been given to specific hepatitis and even COVID-19 spread- absorption into the ground and to replicate the excellence and success efforts to deal with it. In the past, any ing far more easily. For instance, recharging of the water table. This, too, of the bygone era in today’s time. WE ARE NOTHING strategy on flood disaster management floodwaters in Assam spread discard- increases the rainwater run-off, Urban flooding is avoidable and in largely focussed on riverine floods ed medical waste and used PPE from putting undue pressure on the order to ensure safety of lives and WITHOUT HISTORY affecting large extents of rural areas. hospitals and COVID-19 care centres, drainage network. property, it is essential for the KOTA SRIRAJ Urban flooding is significantly differ- raising fears of infection among peo- The efforts to prevent urban Government to rapidly develop strate- In an age of tweets and ent from rural flooding as urbanisa- ple in inundated areas. flooding will be incomplete unless the gies that draw from the best of the electronic messaging, mid the pall of gloom cast by tion leads to developed catchments One of the major reasons for ground water absorption rate of rain- world’s benchmarking practices in handwritten letters are as COVID-19 and the oppressive and in the event of heavy/high inten- flooding and the resultant traffic urban waterlogging are the archaic water as compared to the run-off rate urban rainwater management. We fashionable as wooden Aheat, India was earnestly look- sity rainfall, there is higher run-off, snarls, when people start losing lives, sewer systems in our cities that are is balanced. Another issue pertaining need city-wise protocols that cater to spinning wheels. ing forward to the arrival of the mon- which increases the flood peaks from it is time for the citizens and the heavily choked with silt and garbage. to urban flooding is the role played by the typicality of the demographics and soon. The Indian Meteorological 1.8 to eight times and flood volumes authorities to consider the problem Indian metros not only need regular illegal construction and how it is geography and automatically kick in Incidentally, MK Gandhi’s Department (IMD) had forecast sur- up to six times. Consequently, flood- seriously and deal with it effectively. cleaning of sewers and storm water impacting the storm water drainage when the area receives a certain collected writings and letters plus rainfall in various parts of the ing occurs very quickly due to faster Though large cities like Mumbai, drains, particularly before the onset of system across India’s major cities. As quantum of rainfall. span 98 volumes. Such country and sure enough, metropo- flow times, sometimes in a matter of Delhi and Chennai go through urban the rainy season, they also require an urban sprawls increase rapidly, unau- Traffic snarls, waterlogging and letters provide historians lises such as Mumbai and Delhi have minutes. flooding annually, the recurrence of advanced system that is based on the thorised construction and unplanned the loss of lives due to urban flood- with a flashlight into the received a healthy share of showers. The recent death of a mini-truck the problem suggests that no lessons latest technology and satellite data that digging by civic agencies are becom- ing are a painful indication that a Mumbai, for instance, received 26 driver after his vehicle got submerged are learnt and no infrastructure is built can calculate the quantities of water ing two major issues that are further manageable issue has been allowed to times in which they were per cent more rainfall as compared to under the Minto Bridge after a spell or improved to prevent it. Just a few run-off every monsoon and accord- impacting our already overburdened deteriorate and get out of hand. It is written. Bereft of them, last year, while Delhi received 70 mm of rain in Central Delhi underlines the hours of hard rain in metropolitan ingly estimate the load factor on the drainage systems adversely. Flooding time authorities around the country historians look at their of rain on July 19 alone, which is the growing threat of urban flooding. cities can present a very embarrassing sewerage and storm water system. will continue to trouble urban citizens wake up. shoelaces for inspiration. highest in the last five years. But no While most of the time urban India spectacle as daily life is thrown out of Another reason for flooding of unless these impediments are (The writer is an environmental (Dawn editorial) matter how heartening the rains patiently endures huge volumes of gear and the cities become unwitting cities is excessive concretisation and addressed and removed. journalist) VIJAYAWADA | FRIDAY | JULY 24, 2020 money 08

CAPSULE ‘Identified 20 sectors where India Flipkart Group to launch of Wholesale, acquires Walmart India biz can become global supplier’ PNS n BENGALURU PNS n NEW DELHI 100,000 or 500,000 yoga teach- The Flipkart Group on ers who would find an oppor- Thursday announced the The government has so far tunity across the globe," Goyal launch of Flipkart Wholesale, Kia Motors identified 20 sectors where noted. a new digital marketplace, and India can meet domestic He said one has to take a the acquisition of 100 per cent expects Sonet to demand as well as become a person in yoga room for four interest in Wal-Mart India pump new energy global supplier, Commerce sessions only and for the fifth Private Limited, which oper- and Industry Minister Piyush session, the person will come ates the Best Price cash-and- NEW DELHI: Kia Motors India Goyal said on Thursday. "running and then for the rest carry business. on Thursday said its He said industry body Ficci of his life, he would want to be Kiranas and MSMEs are upcoming model Sonet, to be launched during the festive and other associations are a yoga participant, that is the central to India's retail ecosys- season this year, will inject working with the government power of yoga". tem and Flipkart Wholesale new dynamism in the compact in this regard. Cure is not only about med- will focus on meeting their SUV segment in the country. "We have identified first 12 icine or about visiting hospital needs by providing small busi- The company, which is going sectors and now 8 more, so we or a doctor for treatment, the nesses a wide selection at sig- to unveil the sub-four meter have 20 sectors in which Ficci ture, leather, auto parts and tex- the minister said yoga holds huge possibilities of yoga as a nificant value, the company manufacturers and sellers have the grocery and fashion cate- SUV globally on August 7, has and other associations are very tiles, among others. huge potential for industry preventive medication are said in a statement. partnered with Flipkart gories. released the first official much part of our engagement, He also highlighted that and young entrepreneurs as the known to many but have not "Whether in grocery, gener- Wholesale to ensure the avail- It will be headed by Adarsh rendering of the new where we have identified sec- despite having skilled carpen- world is excited about it. been captured as an opportu- al merchandise or fashion, ability of an exhaustive range Menon, a veteran at Flipkart. production-ready Sonet. The tors where India can not only ters and artisans, India contin- "But did India really grab the nity. these businesses will have one- of products and merchandise Sameer Aggarwal, Chief model, which is slated for meet own domestic needs but ues to import furniture. opportunity that the Prime "I do not know whether all stop access to an extensive for kiranas and MSMEs, the Executive Officer at Walmart launch during the upcoming also become globally compet- "Can we not prepare India to Minister (Narendra Modi) of us have failed the nation and selection of products with statement said. India, will remain with the festive season, aims to set itive and become global leader become the factory of the opened up for India. Did we set the people of India, where attractive schemes and incen- Kalyan Krishnamurthy, company to ensure a smooth new design benchmarks and supplying to the world," he said world for furniture, can we not up 100,000 yoga centres all despite the Prime Minister tives, supplemented with data- Chief Executive Officer, transition, after which time he inject a new dynamism in the in a Ficci webinar. build to scale at competitive over the world, did any entre- with his vision of opening up driven recommendations for Flipkart Group, said, "The will move to another role with- compact SUV segment, Kia These sectors include food prices so that the world looks preneur amongst you or star- door, opening up opportuni- stock selection, delivered acquisition of Walmart India in Walmart. With the acquisi- Motors India said in a processing, organic farming, at India, to source from India," tups thought in terms of the ties, for all of us, (we) have not through a fast and reliable adds a strong talent pool with tion of the Walmart India busi- statement. "With the new Kia agro chemicals, electronics, he added. possibilities that yoga offers by seized the moment," the min- network to drive greater effi- deep expertise in the wholesale ness, its employees will join the Sonet, we had the ambition to industrial machinery, furni- Further talking about yoga, planning to train maybe ister asked. ciencies and better margins," it business that will strengthen Flipkart Group and the home give this compact SUV a said. our position to address the office teams will integrate over strong and muscular character Best Price currently sup- needs of kiranas and MSMEs the next year. The Best Price found only in much larger ports more than 1.5 million uniquely." brand will continue to serve its vehicles,” he said. Pandemic to California in members, including kiranas Flipkart Wholesale will members via its omnichannel and other MSMEs. launch its operations in August network of 28 stores and e- cost Aus USD new deal with Top Indian brands, local 2020 and will pilot services for commerce operations. 131 bn this yr mask maker PNS n CANBERRA PNS n SACRAMENTO (US) Amazon joins hands Bharti AXA Australia's response to the California will spend an addi- gets Rs 800 cr coronavirus pandemic tional USD 315 million on Airbus workers tipped the government's protective masks through a with Acko to offer auto crop insurance on strike against budget 85.8 billion Sensex surges 269 pts contract with a Chinese man- Australian dollars (USD 61 PNS n MUMBAI Axis Bank, HUL, Infosys, TCS ufacturer. PNS n MUMBAI Spain layoffs billion) into the red in the and L&T finished in the red. Governor Gavin Newsom insurance in India MADRID: Airbus workers in last fiscal year and will cre- Equity benchmark Sensex According to Narendra announced the deal with Private non-life insurer the European aircraft ate 184 billion dollars (USD jumped 269 points on Solanki, Head- Equity Research BYD on Wednesday as he PNS n NEW DELHI Bharti AXA General manufacturer's eight plants in 131 billion) more debt in the Thursday, led by gains in index (Fundamental), Anand Rathi touted California's efforts to Insurance on Thursday said Spain are striking Thursday current year which would be heavyweight Reliance Shares, Indian markets started procure masks for health Amazon Pay on Thursday it has received Rs 800 crore against the consortium's the nation's biggest deficit Industries, ICICI Bank and off on a positive note but with care and other essential work- said it has tied up with Acko worth crop insurance man- decision to cut 1,600 jobs since World War II, treasury Kotak Bank amid hopes of underlying caution as its Asian ers. General Insurance Ltd to offer date from Maharashtra and over the next few months. figures showed on Thursday. fresh government stimulus to peers traded mixed as investors Newsom signed a USD 1 two- and four-wheeler insur- Karnataka governments to Battered by the coronavirus Treasurer Josh support the economy. remained concerned over US- billion contract with BYD in ance policies in India. Customers can insure farmers in both the pandemic, Airbus announced Frydenberg revealed The 30-share BSE Sensex China tensions. "During the April and the first masks Amazon Pay, which is the states under the Pradhan last month that it must Australia's crumbling eco- ended 268.95 points, or 0.71 noon session markets strength- began arriving last month payments unit of Amazon buy auto Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana eliminate 15,000 jobs, or more nomic outlook based on per cent, higher at 38,140.47. ened as domestic sentiments after delays. India, will help customers insurance from (PMFBY). than 10% of its global increased government Similarly, the NSE Nifty were boosted after news of Newsom said California purchase insurance effortless- Amazon Pay page, The company has secured workforce, to safeguard its spending to stimulate to advanced 82.85 points, or 0.74 India working on offering pro- will soon launch a competi- ly, and Amazon Prime mem- authorisation for three years future and warned of more economy and declining tax per cent, to close at 11,215.45. duction-linked incentives for tive bidding process to try to bers will get extra benefits Amazon app or from both the state govern- thin years ahead. The cuts are revenue. Shares of Reliance Industries up to five sectors to boost get more masks at lower including additional discounts, mobile website ments to implement the mostly in Europe and affect The conservative govern- climbed around 3 per cent to domestic manufacturing," he prices. a statement said. and they can get a PMFBY in six districts of 900 employees in Spain. ment had forecast in hit a record closing high of Rs said. Some support also came But he also acknowledged Customers can buy auto Maharashtra and three dis- They're in addition to 700 December a 5 billion dollars 2,060.65. with the Chief Economic the masks aren't always get- insurance from Amazon Pay quote for their car tricts of Karnataka, a release layoffs out of 2,600 global job (USD 3.6 billion) surplus in SBI, ICICI Bank, Tech Adviser's statement that the ting to workers that need page, Amazon app or mobile or bike insurance said. cuts in the consortium's the fiscal year that ended Mahindra, ITC and Kotak government may announce them and pledged a more website and they can get a “Apart from implementing defense division. Workers June 30, 2020: the first sur- Bank were among the other more fiscal measures to boost aggressive state quote for their car or bike's an option for instant cash set- crop insurance for farmers in chanted “Zero layoffs!” as they plus in 12 years. winners. On the other hand, demand, Solanki added. response. insurance by providing basic tlements for low value claims, both the states, we will also marched from the Airbus plant details, it said. making it beneficial for cus- capitalise on innovative tech- in Getafe, to the local townhall, In this quick paperless tomers. nologies and digital capabil- demanding more political insurance plan, customers Additionally, customers can ities for sharing relevant involvement to revive the can get hassle-free claims select from a list of add-ons information about the industry and investments that Monetisation by RBI has a cost: Rajan with zero paperwork, one- like zero-depreciation and PMFBY and ensure speedy will guarantee long-term hour pick-up, and three-day engine protection and they and hassle-free claim assess- employment. PNS n MUMBAI "The RBI has been expand- gish. assured claim servicing and will be able to pay for the ments in the respective dis- ing its balance sheet and it has Banks are parking the one-year repair warranty in insurance using Amazon Pay tricts,” the company's CEO Former RBI Governor been buying government debt. money with the RBI in the select cities. balance, UPI, or cards, the and MD Sanjeev Srinivasan Raghuram Rajan on Thursday But effectively, in that process, reverse repo window, earning Policyholers will also have statement said. said. said the central bank has been what it is doing is borrowing very less. expanding its balance sheet from the banks at the reverse It can be noted that mon- and buying government debt repo rate and lending on to the etisation of the fiscal deficit is on the back of excess liquidi- government," Rajan said one of the suggestions put ty amid the economic slow- speaking at a conference forth by a slew of economists Power demand to decline 8 pc in FY21, India's LPU student down but cautioned that this organised by Singaporean and analysts as a prescription comes at a cost and cannot be Raghuram Rajan lender DBS Bank. to tackle the current environ- bags Rs 1.3 cr PhD a lasting solution. It can be noted that at pre- ment. discoms' revenue to fall 13.1 pc scholarship He said central banks in the "modern monetary theory" sent there is excess liquidity in Rajan said there are limits to many emerging markets are who support this, making it the system as people get more monetisation and the process PNS n MUMBAI to Rs 0.95 per unit from Rs NEW DELHI: Punjab-based resorting to such strategies clear that there are no free risk averse and save more and can go long only for a limited 0.50 per unit in FY2020, Lovely Professional University and disagreed with votaries of lunches. the demand for credit is slug- period of time. Power demand is expected to translating to an under- (LPU) said its post graduate decline by around 8 per cent in recovery of Rs 1.12 lakh agriculture student Sumant current fiscal due to the steep crore. According to Emkay, Bindal has bagged a fully-paid fall in demand from commer- discoms' overdue has reached scholarship of Rs 1.3 crore to Radico Khaitan Q1 net falls cial and industrial segments on Rs 1.17 lakh crore, which is pursue PhD in plant sciences Rupee settles flat at the back of COVID-19 pan- close to the peak level wit- at Australian National 19.52 pc to Rs 44.07 crore demic-induced nationwide nessed pre-UDAY. University. "This is perhaps the lockdown, Emkay Global "Discoms' financial stress biggest scholarship ever 74.75 against US dollar PNS n NEW DELHI operations declined 33.70 per Financial Services said in a impacted economic activity, has been aggravated in this bagged by an agriculture cent to Rs 1,774.65 crore dur- report. leading to 17 per cent fall in period due to the fall in student from India. The PhD PNS n MUMBAI Liquor firm Radico Khaitan ing the quarter under review According to the agency, Q1FY21 power demand, it power demand from the programme would commence Ltd on Thursday reported a as against Rs 2,677.07 crore in the fall in demand is likely to said. commercial and industrial in September 2020 at ANU," The rupee pared its initial 19.52 per cent decrease in the corresponding quarter last result in a 13.1 per cent year- "Our analysis reveals that segments and waiver of fixed Jalandhar-based LPU said in a gains and settled on a flat note standalone net profit at Rs year, Radico Khaitan said in a on-year (YoY) decline in rev- power demand will decline 8 charges by many discoms to statement. Bindal, a post at 74.75 against the US dollar 44.07 crore for the first quar- BSE filing. enue of discoms (distribu- per cent year on year in FY21 the industrial segment. graduate in agri-genetics and on Thursday as escalating ten- ter ended June 30, 2020, due The company said "because tion companies) to Rs 6.8 on a steep fall in commerical "The overdue level is like- plant breeding would be doing sions between the US and to disruptions caused by of lockdown, the volume for lakh crore in FY2021. and industrial (C&I) ly to remain high in FY21 due research on "Identification of China weighed on investor COVID-19. the quarter ended June 30, The nationwide lockdown demand," the agency said. to the expected rise in under- signalling pathways activated sentiment. The company had posted a 2020, was impacted partially, to contain the spread of the Further, the gap between recovery and slow progress in by resistant genes against At the interbank forex mar- dollar. net profit of Rs 54.76 crore in as there were no sales during deadly coronavirus during average cost of supply and the Aatmanirbhar scheme Fusarium wilt in tomato," the ket, the domestic unit opened Forex traders said the uptick the April-June quarter a year the period April 1, 2020, till the first three months of the average revenue realised in toward loan disbursement," it private university said. His research would focus on how on a strong note at 74.65, but in the rupee during the day ago. Its total revenue from May 04, 2020. fiscal has significantly FY21 is expected to increase said. to make tomatoes completely erased the gains and finally was supported by weak green- resistant to Fusarium wilt, a closed at 74.75, unchanged back, foreign fund inflows plant fungus that infects from its previous closing. and positive domestic equities, tomatoes worldwide, and has During the session, the but rising tensions between the reportedly caused up to 45 per domestic unit witnessed an US and China weighed on Essential item demand surges with Unlock 1.0 cent yield loss to tomato crop intra-day high of 74.52 and a investor sentiment and PNS n in India in the past, it added. low of 74.87 against the US restricted the gains. MUMBAI There has Less than 2 per cent of sell- to continuing its services in the ers were not sure how the new Unlock 1.0 without hindrances Demand for essential com- been an normal will look like for them, in the supply chain and ship- modities surged after Unlock increase of 65 it added. ping, he noted. 1.0 as their shipment volume per cent in "The lockdown created a "It's interesting to see an PNB Housing Fin Q1 net profit falls 10 was nearly three times higher major disruption in the supply increased demand for hyper- after the relaxations as com- active chain, and the demand-to- local services amid this pan- pared to the lockdown period, shippers in the supply ratio was not balanced demic. We hope the situation pc to Rs 257 cr on lower disbursement according to a report by e-com- D2C segment, with the demand increasing improves and the world returns PNS n NEW DELHI The company's net interest in more than 24 quarters. merce logistics aggregator exponentially. Our report was to normalcy soon," he added. income also slipped 22 per cent However, with all our branch- Shiprocket. according to a based on the patterns and Further, Mumbai, Delhi and PNB Housing Finance on to Rs 487.8 crore during April- es now operational, we are wit- The shipment volume of report trends observed," Shiprocket Bengaluru clocked the highest Thursday reported 10 per cent June, as against Rs 625.5 crore nessing an increasing trend in essential products was nearly co-founder and Chief number of pick-ups and deliv- decline in consolidated net in year-ago period, it said in a disbursement on a month on three times higher after the in the direct-to-consumer down India in the D2C sector Executive Officer Saahil Goel eries which underlines pent-up profit to Rs 257.2 crore in the regulatory filing. month basis. relaxation in lockdown from (D2C) segment, it added. for a period between May 18 said. demand in these cities during first quarter ended June 30, Total income during the "The company has rolled out Unlock 1.0 and over 40 per During the lockdown, there and June 30, with a sample size He added that Unlock 1.0 the lockdown, report added. mainly due to lower disburse- quarter also fell to Rs 1,872.33 its business plan for the FY 20- cent of the overall shipment were supply disruptions, and of over 26,000 sellers across has paved the way for a new Also, sellers in these cities ment amid COVID-19 pan- crore from Rs 2,232.58 crore. 21 and will continue to focus volume came from essential delivery services faced huge the country. phase of logistics operations in were able to overcome chal- demic. The housing financier, "During the quarter, the on the lower risk weighted categories as compared to the challenges and were unable to The report further said 60 India. lenges more quickly in becom- promoted by Punjab National COVID-19 pandemic had a retail assets, resulting in high- lockdown period, said the meet the demand or orders, it per cent of sellers felt that the The government has eased ing operational, it added. Bank, had reported net profit significant impact on the dis- er percentage of retail book in report. said. blend of both offline and online restrictions on several aspects While Delhi leads the pick- of Rs 284.5 crore in June quar- bursements resulting in the the total AUM," Neeraj Vyas, There has been an increase The report is an analysis of will continue to be preferred of logistics and e-commerce up activities, Mumbai was the ter of 2019-20. lowest quarterly disbursements said. of 65 per cent in active shippers shipment trends in post-lock- demand channel. and Shiprocket looks forward top city in terms of delivery. Follow us on @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/ dailypioneer

Friday July 24, 2020 ‘NO NEPOTISM IN TOLLYWOOD, IT'S DEMAND & SUPPLY’

A friend, brother, lthough we think of becoming a hero. try is doing well, the other have hundreds wanted to two failed as actors. There villain, comedian of character make me a hero but it did- is no nepotism here. Its A artistes in the n’t work out. I didn’t take sheer talent. You will grow — actor , my failure as a hero seri- in the industry only if you there are only a ously. I’m happy as a char- have talent. It is only Brahmaji has few who gained the same acter artist and I’m lead- demand and supply in the love and support that the ing a comfortable life. If industry and not nepo- Entry for heroes coming with a played it all in audience would give to you ask me, with present tism. I will not agree if background might be easy but protagonists. One such competition among you say nepotism exists in his 25-year-long artiste is Brahmaji. With heroes, the life of a char- the industry,” the actor sustaining here is difficult. For example, hundreds of films to his acter artist is way better opines. only one son among three sons coming credit, the actor is one of than that of a hero Things are a lot better with a background in the industry is doing career in Telugu the most loved character because every Friday is a today, believes Brahmaji, artistes in the TFI. war. If a hero does one when it comes to making well, the other two failed as actors. There cinema and has Speaking about his film in six months, we as a comfortable space for is no nepotism here. Its sheer talent. You entry to films, Brahmaji, character artistes can do yourself in the industry. will grow in the industry only if you become one of who made his debut in the about five to six films. We “It is a lot easier for peo- industry in 1995 said, “I have more interaction ple to come to limelight have talent. It is only demand and the most sought- came to Hyderabad after I with the audience.” now, there are many supply in the industry and joined a film institute here. Brahmaji who brings means to showcase your not nepotism. after character Until then I was studying with him over 25 years of talent. Back then, we had in Eluru. My father who experience in the film to run from pillar to post artistes now. The happens to be a tahsildar industry feels nepotism for opportunities. Today, had many transfers, so my doesn’t exist in the field of people are making it big 55-year-old actor entire childhood had us art. “Many outsiders are by posting short films on traveling from one place to doing well in the industry, youtube, videos on the family as he was in the speaks to another.” see for instance Naveen TikTok, etc.,” he tells us. marine for four months. Brahmaji played several Polishetty, , Vijay The actor’s son too He then decided to get K RAMYA characters, including neg- Deverakonda and many made his debut with O into films. He underwent ative shades, but isn’t con- more. These people are Pitta Kada. His son training in acting. As trail sidered a typical hero. extremely talented, hence worked for the Indian and error, we first shot a SREE about Krishna Vamsi, a dear they are surviving the Navy before his debut in small portion of the film friend of Brahmaji, tough competition here. Telugu cinema. The Who’s and showed it to others nepotism, the launched him as a hero in Entry for heroes coming who of Tollywood attend- which later developed into his film but with a background might ed the pre-release event of a full-fledged film after reason for not the film tanked at the box be easy but sustaining O Pitta Kada because of watching my son’s acting office. When asked why here is difficult. For exam- the friendly relationship skills. I told my son to go succeeding as a he couldn’t succeed as a ple, only one son among the actor maintains. “My back to his job if he does- hero he said, “Only a few three sons coming with a son felt he wasn’t able to n’t sustain here,” the actor hero, and more... are lucky. I didn’t even background in the indus- spend enough time with concludes. Are you interested in a ‘RISHTA'? The new Netflix show Indian Matchmaking has everyone hooked to it, making it one of the top 3 shows being watched by Indians on Netflix. All about an Indian matchmaker catering to the colourist, sexist and casteist demands of potential brides and grooms, and their parents, the show has fueled debates online and off it, on the ugly side of arranged marriages in India. The Pioneer's SHIKHA DUGGAL talks to women from the city across all ages and walks of life, to gauge what they think of the show and what one can learn and unlearn from it

o watch a show like Indian the web show takes you back to about equality and that’s from us, but if it doesn’t work out, them to remove certain pictures Matchmaking in 2020 can the olden times where Sima Tapa- admirable,” shares Prishita Motay. it leads to stress or disappoint- that don’t go well by their person- drive you nuts! The new ria consults a famous face reader The web series also acknowl- ment as seen with Nadia’s charac- alities, because, let’s face it, this web series released on Net- for her failed compatibility issues. edges loneliness and that makes ter — she wonders if the opposite new age has no end to compar- T flix last week and is receiv- ‘Hi, I am Sima Taparia from the audiences not stop watching of loneliness is marriage, lacks isons. Fun fact — no matter how ing mixed reviews. Indian Mumbai. The girl should be flexi- it. This show is a hot mess, a fan- self-confidence and is anticipates progressive we become, a good matchmaking showcases our cou- ble, know how to compromise tasy that’s catering to the white too much. Healthwise too, it’s looking man/woman will always ntry’s obsession with criteria like and adjust’ — this phrase caught audiences with its exotic appeal of beneficial for a woman to get be our first ordeal. We need a cor- height, caste, colour, etc. infused the attention of a post-graduate desi weddings. Some watchers married before her thirties in dial shift to this approach. I per- with Sima Aunty’s (the famous student of Mass Communication were mortified, embarrassed, sar- terms of her future pregnancies sonally liked the matchmaker as real-life matchmaker from from St. Josephs Degree College, donic, confused, and some could but she must be able to pursue she’s quite passionate about her Mumbai) matchmaking tactics. who made her curious to know relate to it. “Half an hour into her dreams even after getting work. The problem arises when While some on the internet say why Sima Taparia is trending. “I Indian Matchmaking and I fast- married,” she opines. people don’t have an open mind. that the ‘show is simply holding a happened to watch the trailer of forwarded it. It’s a cesspool of There are many issues about Episode four takes the character mirror to the ugly society we are Indian Matchmaking and found it matching kundlis. It’s all rooted in what women have to be like, for Pradyuman to a life coach who a part of’, many others argue that uncanny-cum-fun and decided to caste. I can just see it as a brand- them to be considered as wife asks him to introspect himself the show, instead, just whitewash- binge-watch it. In the very first ing stunt for Sima Taparia! material. Marriage is great but it which helped him become a lot es the preconceived notions of an episode, the show managed to Personally, our families didn’t may not fix one’s insecurities, love less fickle-minded and fussy. But arranged marriage with mod- establish a patriarchal and stereo- take such a path to get us hitched. is hard work, and must flow from why a life coach, you ask? It’s ernised ideas. typical nature, wherein a match- It doesn’t seem like it’s about find- Half an hour into Indian As a life coach now, I have both ways, believe several young because the kids of this generation The families of the characters maker is in pursuit of rich, succe- ing love but more about keeping Matchmaking and I fast- helped many young girls find women in the city. Everyone seem to be too picky and con- in the show and Sima Taparia ssful, and good-looking matches supremacy pure. The criteria forwarded it. It’s a cesspool a suitable groom, built their deserves to have the best for fused, they have multiple desires. believe in the most atrocious from abroad. Even to this day, in every parent put forward leads themselves when considering It’s like they are on a shopping ideas of marriages, being prob- India, arranged marriages ask for you to body shaming — it’s just of matching kundlis. It’s all projector image or stalked marriage, regardless of gender. spree! This takes us to another lematic at parts. The desire to adjustments, especially from us uncool! This road to getting mar- rooted in caste. Personally, their social media With similar expectations comes area- when an individual rejects have a wife who performs all women. Mrs Sima is following the ried needs to be fixed instead of our families didn’t take accounts and suggested Pradhyuman who has been reject- his/her potential partner, it tends duties, works, and manages same age-old tradition in the being prosecuted as a Netflix spe- ing women by just looking at their to demean their morale and confi- household seems one-sided. She show. The grooms are being emo- cial,” argues Pradeepthi such a path to get us them to remove certain photos, to which Sima Aunty sug- dence, which we need to be care- needs to be accommodating, fun, tionally manipulated by their Vissamsetti, a Teluguite and city hitched. The criteria pictures that don’t go gests he meet a life coach. A life ful about,” explains Priya Rajiv, a and outgoing, all at the same mothers. Pressure is being built editor for the famous blog on par- every parent put well by their coach from our own city says, trained life coach. This graduate time! Yet in one of the characters, up after a certain age, with an enting called Momspresso. “Arranged marriages are a very from the University of Oxford also Aparna’s case, her determined urgent need to get married. Pradeepthi also frowns at the forward leads you to personalities, because, intrinsic part of our culture and loved the way Nadia Jagessar was nature, and confidence isn’t Problems of sexism, ageism, marriage timelines discussed on body shaming — it’s just let’s face it, this new age has also the iota of the web series. I open to change, passionately looks admired but considered to be casteism, and colourism continue the show, but says it makes sense uncool! This road to getting no end to comparisons. I found my match through a matri- for love the love of her, and is a negative. Hypocrisy much? to persist. All in all, the show is to some extent. She feels the pres- monial advertisement too, in why woman of laughter. Astrology in matchmaking is full of sarcasm with a little bit of sure becomes stronger in our married needs to be fixed personally liked the my biodata read: attractive and So if you’ve binge-watched another hype in the show. The cringe and I suggest our Indian twenties to thirties and we keep instead of being prosecuted matchmaker as she’s quite vivacious. As a life coach now, I Smriti Mundhra’s Indian world perhaps can’t depend on parents grow out of such norms hearing that it’s time to settle as a Netflix special. passionate about her work. have helped many young girls find Matchmaking, are you ready to kundlis or the important decisions as Ankita Bansal’s father from the down! “I second this ideology a suitable groom, built their pro- evolve for the better, break stereo- by the elite on marriage cannot be show rightly does. He believes in because I understand our loved PRADEEPTHI VISSAMSETTI PRIYA RAJIV, jector image or stalked their social types and dismiss plans for the A TRAINED LIFE COACH based on a nakshatra anymore but her daughter’s fierce theories ones have certain expectations CITY EDITOR, MOMSPRESSO media accounts and suggested ideal bride/groom? 10

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ctor Orlando Bloom Mighty, which included him has had an ace of crawling “thru all the man holes, spades inside a heart under the roads, (searching) A inked under the name every back yard and creek bed”. of his late dog Mighty, “I feel so grateful to have on his chest. learned from my little Mighty A week after his dog went man that love is eternal and the missing, Bloom shared on true meaning of devotion,” Bloom Instagram on Wednesday that his wrote. dog is dead, reports etonline.com. “I feel sure he was looking Paying a tribute to the pet he down on me whistling in every BREAKING THE had welcomed into the family in back yard and knowing that I was 2017, he wrote, “Mighty’s on the doing all I possibly could to other side now. After seven days of respect our bond. He was more searching from sunrise to sunset than a companion. It was a soul and into the wee hours, today, the connection for sure.” STIGMA AROUND 7th day — the number of comple- “I’m sorry. I love you,” he con- tion — we found his collar.” tinued. “Thank you. RIP my “I have wept more this week MIGHTY HEART”. than I thought possible, which Bloom concluded his post by has been very cathartic and heal- thanking his community for its ing.” support, which allowed him to Bloom wrote that he “left no “see the best of people even in the PERIODS stone unturned” in the search for worst of times”. ll women are famil- pads features in the TVC. ing with the depiction of iar with TVCs and She reiterates, “I have said blood. To show the unad- HIMESH RESHAMMIYA: commercials for san- this earlier and I will say it dressed problem of Heavy A itary napkins which again. I do not see the issue Flow, without showing depict menstrual in showing actual blood. blood itself, is so absurd a TODAY'S SINGERS SHOULD flow with ‘blue liq- Blood in a fight sequence in concept, but it didn’t even uid’ as a way of discreetly a film is fine but not for occur to us. All our commu- depicting blood. periods? Why can’t we just nications are deeply inspired Decades later there’s final- show what heavy flow is from our research, showing COMPOSE THEIR OWN SONGS ly a brand which shows really like? Why can’t we the first true and honest rep- blood in TV communica- show blood? I am glad that resentation of periods for omposer Himesh “My songs have never been in WhatsApp and ask the singer to tions as it should be — red. RIO has taken up this chal- consumers. Awareness is Reshammiya feels that the conventional zone. They have dub the song themselves. So, the The aim is to bring forth an lenge and they are standing needed, and conversations singers should try and always been different and that is process doesn’t see the kind of important and often neglec- by it with conviction. Gett- can only begin after compose their own why I feel it’s almost impossible coming together of talent, syner- ted topic of “Heavy Flow” ing a go-ahead on this adv- acknowledging reality.” C songs because only for someone else to perform gies and improvisations that used during periods; a problem ertisement is very reassur- He further added, “We then they will know them,” he said. to be a part of the previous which affects almost 25 per ing. If this ad can start even took special care to ensure the soul of their He feels the understanding of process,” he explained. cent women in India and a single conversation, then our communication own the nuances of a composer’s ver- Himesh recalled, “Back in the requires them to change that is a win for all the unhe- remained as authentic as compo- sion is very rare. day, Alka Yagnik ji and I dubbed their pads every 2 hours. ard voices. If we can remove possible. The entire creative sition. “For example, Arijit (Singh) has Tere naam for eight hours and that RIO Heavy Flow Pads by even an iota of stigma arou- was scripted by a woman, the right kind of pick up sense, but made the song such a hit. Amidst Nobel Hygiene changes the nd periods via this ad and based on real narratives not everyone has that. I feel the new normal, I feel digital is the face of Indian Advertising by encourage people to accept from women, directed and today’s singers should try and most direct medium between the launching their TVC with a it as a normal and natural shot by a woman, and is compose their own songs because singer and their audience and pan-India campaign. The phenomenon then it will be being marketed by women. only then they will know the soul that’s where they should reach first phase of the launch in a big win for us all. Period.” Additionally, 1000s of wo- of their own composition and out to them. Compose 100 February was paused after Commenting on the men have already applauded that’ll shine through and connect songs, 500 songs you might fail 99 several complaints were filed launch, Kartik Johari, Vice- our product and messaging; with listeners,” he said. times but you will get that one hit with ASCI on the usage of President, Nobel Hygiene, we are proud to have The style of working was differ- song once you’ve hit the right blood shown in the com- said, “We are extremely brought this innovation for ent a few year ago, he pointed out. chord.” mercial. However, after proud to take this first step Indian ladies who receive no “Earlier, singers and composers “I love Michael Jackson, he is a deliberations with ASCI and on behalf of all the women respite from Heavy Flow. We used to get 8 to 10 hours to jam legend but he never sang for Tom an independent review, RIO in India. There can be no are sure that other players in and rehearse with the musicians. Cruise, he has his own identity. Pads have been allowed to talk of education, awareness the market are excited by They used to interact before This is what I want for all singers, air the advertisement with or equality when the biologi- this new paradigm, and we starting any project, but nowa- this is the time where we all need minor modifications in the cal truth of half the popula- call upon everyone to take days singers don’t get that much to hold hands and succeed togeth- second phase of the launch. tion is censored. Our resolve advantage of this exciting time. It is a sad reality that er,” he shared while shooting for Actress Radhika Apte, to continue this conversa- shift to educate and recon- composers today often just an episode of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l brand ambassador for RIO tion has been renewed, start- nect with their consumers!” send a tune to the singers over Champs.

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Doc dies, Covid +ve, turned BB season 14 tagline first-ever British-Indian Trump touts 5-Word Most away by three hospitals likely to be ‘Lockdown’ census to be held in UK Memory Test government doctor in Karnataka who was turned away by three he upcoming season of the reality show Bigg Boss will he India League, a UK-based diaspora group which dates back onald Trump has divulged details of a cognitive test he "aced" - Read Aprivate hospitals because he could not produce a coronavirus Treportedly have a lockdown theme, stated a report in Tto 1916, on Thursday announced the launch of a first-ever D- including a five-word memory challenge he said proved he

NEWS test result died today in Bengaluru. Dr Manjunath, who was a Pinkvilla. According to the publication, the makers of the reality British Indian Census to collate data around Britain's estimated had the "mental stamina" to lead the US. "Person. Woman. Man frontline COVID-19 doctor, was allegedly turned away by hospitals show have also decided to use the tagline - Bigg Boss 14 1.5 million Indian-origin population. The census will be Camera. TV," the US president recited as he revealed details of the when he was extremely ill and struggling to breathe. Hoga Rocking - for the fourteenth season. Last year, the conducted online in collaboration with the University of Oxford much-discussed test to Fox TV on Wednesday. "The last Dr Manjunath worked in the state Health and Family Welfare makers of the show finalized Bigg Boss 13 Tedha as the and will culminate in a British Indian Report later this year, questions are much more difficult," he said in an interview on department and was based in Ramanagara district, around 50 km tagline. A source close to the development told Pinkvilla: "Like reflective of the true make-up of Britain's Indian diaspora and "Tucker Carlson from Bengaluru. D Randeep, a Special Officer with the Bengaluru last year, it was Bigg Boss 13 Tedha, the 14th season will be their concerns in 2020. "The British Indian community has Tonight", in which he municipal called changed greatly repeatedly body BBMP, Rocking. The over the years and questioned the told NDTV that tagline this survey will mental capacity of the hospitals considered is, provide our his Democratic rival that had 'Bigg Boss 14 community with Joe Biden. "Like a refused to Hoga much needed data memory question. admit Dr Rocking'." The that will help us to It's like, you'll go: Manjunath exclusive understand the Person. Woman. would be Pinkvilla key issues of Man. Camera. TV," reported to the report is the concern and the president said. health latest addition importantly on "So they say, 'Could department. In to several how best to you repeat that?' So I June-end, Dr Manjunath went to Rajashekhar Hospital in JP Nagar, media reports address them," said CB Patel, a veteran media personality and said, 'Yeah. It's: BGS Global Hospital in Kengeri and Sagar hospital in about Bigg Boss 14 that have been doing the rounds on the Chairman of India League. "The India League has been working Person. Woman. Kumaraswamy Layout. All three demanded to see his COVID-19 Internet. While some reports have stated that Salman Khan will for decades to champion Indians in the UK," he said. Man. Camera. TV.'" "Then, ten minutes, 15, 20 minutes later they test result but those were still not in at the time, according to his shoot the reality show from his Panvel farmhouse, where he The survey, available online from the Indian League website, say, 'Remember that first question... Give us that again." "And you family. His brother-in-law Nagendra is also a doctor with BBMP has been living since before the nationwide lockdown was intends to explore the diversity of heritage, identity, beliefs and go: 'Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.'" "And they say 'that's and in charge of allotting hospital beds, yet he was completely imposed, others have shared lists of probable contestants of behaviour of the Indian community based in the UK, whilst amazing. How did you do that?'" "I do it because I have, like, a helpless when it came to his own relative. the show. identifying key issues of concern to British Indians. good memory," Trump continued. "Because I'm cognitively there."

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Dreams turn into reality as Jurgen’s Liverpool lift Premier League trophy at the Kop iverpool manager Jurgen Klopp AFP n LIVERPOOL Werner and Hakim Ziyech, while Lbelieves his side will need to they are reportedly closing in on a keep improving to hold off the iverpool manager Jurgen Klopp deal for the 90-million euro ($103 chasing pack next season after lift- said having the opportunity to million, £81 million) rated Kai ing the Premier League trophy. Llift the Premier League trophy Havertz of Bayer Leverkusen. Chelsea have already strength- at Anfield meant the world to him But it is at the other end ened ahead of next season with the despite having to do so in an empty Lampard clearly has to find solu- signings of a long-term Liverpool stadium with fans shut tions as they completed an entire target Timo Werner and Hakim out due to coronavirus. league season with just one clean Ziyech. The Reds sealed a sheet away from home and have Klopp also expects first top-flight title for now conceded 54 times in the Manchester City and Manchester 30 years last month, Premier League this season. United to bolster their squads. But but had to wait until Liverpool were 3-0 up inside 43 the German believes there is still after a thrilling 5-3 minutes as sweet strikes from Naby improvement for his players to win over Chelsea in Keita, Trent Alexander-Arnold and make despite becoming English, their final home game of the season Georginio Wijnaldum gave Chelsea European and world champions to lift the Premier League trophy for a mountain to climb. over the past 14 months. the first time. They nearly did so even after “We should not stop, we have he added. “I’m usually not a per- “You make the best of what you Roberto Firmino scored his first internal challenges to improve,” son who needs pictures but I will can,” Klopp told Sky Sports. “Today league goal at Anfield all season said Klopp. “We have the chance have a picture with all four trophies our families are allowed to be there restored Liverpool’s three-goal to make another step, but we have because it doesn’t happen often, so which is incredible. It means the cushion to cancel out Olivier to because the others will not sleep. we should.” world to me. Everything would be Giroud’s strike just before half-time Chelsea is such a talented team, we Jordan Henderson had the better with fans but for months we for the visitors. had to bring everything on the honour of becoming the first knew that would be impossible. A Christian Pulisic was surpris- pitch tonight. Man Utd, Man City Liverpool player to lift the Premier few months ago I thought it was ingly left on the bench by Lampard (will contend), there are no guar- League trophy and the Reds’ cap- impossible that we play football. from the start and he changed the antees for anything, but we will tain believes the manner of victo- “I couldn’t be happier to be came after he was introduced try.” ry over a Chelsea side, who need- honest, it would be perfect if the sta- Liverpool players celebrate with the Premier League trophy after they beat Chelsea 5-3 in the final home game of the 2019-2020 season AP alongside Tammy Abraham and Liverpool also beat Chelsea to ed a result to confirm their place dium would be full but we cannot Callum Hudson-Odoi. lift the Uefa Super Cup at the start in the Champions League next sea- change it. What we tried to do is constant crackling of fireworks lit by lifted. Sunday to secure a place in the The American skipped past of the season to go with the son, bodes well for what can be make it clear to the people that we fans outside the ground. “You have to prepare for a party,” Champions League. four challenges before squaring Premier League, Champions achieved next season. really do it for them. It’s an absolute- On the field, Klopp’s men he added. “When I don’t know, ‘IN OUR HANDS’ for Abraham and then fired pow- League and Club World Cup and “It’s been a journey and to fin- ly great moment.” ensured a memorable night was when this virus is gone then we will “It’s huge, we know the situa- erfully into the roof of the net with Klopp admitted he will take time ish it off like this is really special,” Despite pleas for fans to stay accompanied by a positive result after have a party all together.” tion,” said Lampard. “It’s in our the Liverpool defence all over the for a special momento after an said Henderson. “After this, next away on the night Liverpool finally just two wins in five previous games The result had far bigger conse- hands to get a result against a very place. incredible run of success. season is going to be a big chal- got their hands on the trophy, sup- since they clinched the title. And the quences for Chelsea as they slip to good Wolves team.” But Chelsea were undone again “We are champions of lenge for us. But I thought tonight porters crowded around the stadium German again promised the fans a fourth and leaves Frank Lampard’s Chelsea have already bolstered at the other end as a blistering England, Europe and the world. we showed the mentality to come even prior to kick-off, while the sec- proper party with a parade planned men still needing a point at home to their attacking options for next sea- break from inside their own box We won four trophies, really big and perform again and get the ond half was accompanied by the through the city once restrictions are Wolves at Stamford Bridge on son with the signings of Timo saw Liverpool surge forward and ones, so I couldn’t be more proud,” result we did.” Lampard tells Liverpool West Brom promoted as Man Utd just a point away from CL Brentford blow chance AFP n MANCHESTER They are one point ahead Manchester: West Bromwich not to get ‘too arrogant’ of Leicester going into their last Albion won promotion back to Liverpool: Chelsea manager from Kovacic,” Lampard told le Gunnar Solskjaer urged game of the season at the King the Premier League after a two- Frank Lampard has said Sky Sports. “There were a lot of Ohis Manchester United Power Stadium. year absence, joining Leeds Premier League champions things that were ongoing and stars to seize a “fantastic Solskjaer’s team were well United in the top flight next sea- Liverpool should not become on the bench ... I’ve got no opportunity” to qualify for below their best against West son after a 2-2 home draw with too arrogant after being left problem with Jurgen Klopp, he’s the Champions League after Ham, but they are now unbeat- Queens Park Rangers in a dra- unimpressed with the behav- managed this team and it’s fan- Mason Greenwood rescued a en in 13 league matches and matic finale to the iour of their bench during tastic. 1-1 draw against West Ham on will complete an impressive Championship season on Wednesday’s 5-3 defeat. “Some of the bench, it’s a Wednesday. surge into the Champions Wednesday. Brentford will go into the play- Lampard was involved in fine line between when you are Solskjaer’s side fell behind League if they emerge The point for Slaven Bilic’s offs along with Fulham and an exchange with Liverpool’s winning — and they’ve won to Michail Antonio’s penalty in unscathed at Leicester. side was enough to ensure sec- Cardiff City but in a huge swing bench after a free kick was the league, fair play to the first half at Old Trafford. They can also qualify for ond place in England’s second in fortunes, Nottingham Forest awarded against Chelsea’s Liverpool Football Club — but But teenage forward Europe’s elite club competition tier after Brentford blew their missed out on goal difference Mateo Kovacic. Trent also don’t get too arrogant Greenwood struck after the if they win the Europa League chance by losing 2-1 at home to with Swansea City grabbing the Alexander-Arnold found the with it. interval to lift United into placed Chelsea on goal differ- top four if they draw or win in in August. lowly Barnsley. last slot in astonishing fashion. net from the free kick to make “That was my thing, but third place in the Premier ence after the Blues lost 5-3 their decisive showdown with West Ham’s point ensured A win for Brentford would At the bottom, Hull City it 2-0. (it’s) done. In match play you get League. later at champions Liverpool. fifth-placed Leicester on they are mathematically cer- have sent them into the top divi- and Charlton were relegated “For me it wasn’t a foul emotional and that was it.” AP They are ahead of fourth- United will finish in the Sunday. tain to avoid relegation. sion for the first time since 1947. along with Wigan Athletic. SINGLES B'DESH TO RESCHEDULE SL TEST TOUR Amir cleared to NZC leave decision to join IPL on players New Delhi: Bangladesh is planning to tour Sri Lanka in October for their rescheduled three-Test series, following PTI n NEW DELHI McClenaghan and Trent onus will be on the six indi- Hyderabad, spoke about the postponement of this year's T20 World Cup. According join side in Eng Boult (Mumbai Indians), viduals to do due diligence. wanting to know more about to a report in ESPNcricinfo, BCB are currently in talks with ew Zealand Cricket Kane Williamson (Sunrisers “Well, yes, the issuing the safety protocols that will its Sri Lankan counterparts (SLC) and if everything falls PTI n KARACHI N(NZC) will issue No Hyderabad) and Mitchell of NOCs is considered on be employed considering that into place “Bangladesh men's pending three-Test series Objection Certificates Santner (Chennai Super a case-by-case basis and the event is likely to be shift- against hosts Sri Lanka could be rescheduled to October.” akistan left-arm pacer Mohammad Amir on (NOCs) to all its six interna- Kings). it’s rare that they are ever ed to the UAE, which has a PThursday was cleared to join the national side tionals set to compete in the “Regarding the IPL, refused. However, the lesser Covid-19 case load than CARLSEN BEAT ANAND IN LEGENDS OF CHESS in England after his second test also returned neg- IPL but said the “due dili- NZC will be issuing NOCs due diligence is some- India. Chennai: India's Viswanathan Anand suffered his second ative for coronavirus. gence” on health safety proto- to the relevant players and thing for the respective Boock also confirmed consecutive loss, going down to world No 1 Magnus “The PCB will now be making arrangements cols will have to be done by it’s up to them to decide,” players to shoulder — that New Zealand A team’s Carlsen in the second round of the $150,000 chess24 to send Amir and masseur, Mohammad Imran the players themselves. NZC spokesperson Richard although we are happy to tour of India has been can- Legends of Chess online tournament. The former world to England as soon as possible so that they can The six New Zealand Boock said. pass on as much info as we celled. “My information is champion had kept the Norwegian ace in check in three join the training camp in Derbyshire,” the players who are set to play in While the NZC will be can to assist in these mat- that the A tour of India will Japanese swimmer Ikee Rikako games of the best-of-four contest before slipping 1.5-2.5 Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said in a release. the IPL are Jimmy Neesham updating its players about ters,” Boock added. not be happening. It was deci- holding the lantern containing Olympic by in the final game late on Wednesday. Amir, 28, left many people disappointed (Kings XI Punjab), Lockie the health safety protocols Recently, New Zealand sion taken by mutual agree- including the national team’s head coach and chief Ferguson (Kolkata Knight and latest Covid-19 relat- skipper Williamson, who ment between both the flame poses during a photo session at EMERY TO COACH VILLARREAL FOR 3 SEASONS selector, Misbah-ul-Haq when he announced his Riders), Mitchell ed developments, the plays for Sunrisers boards,” Boock said. the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo AP Villarreal: sudden retirement from Test cricket last year. Spanish club Villarreal on Thursday Former players are of the opinion that if Amir announced Unai Emery as manager for the next three is available and fit, then he should also be con- Indian mixed relay team’s Asiad Silver upgraded to Gold seasons. Emery was sacked as Arsenal's coach in sidered for the Test series against England. Akhtar blames BCCI for November 2019 after 18 months at helm. Emery, who has Amir in a recent interview had said that he PTI n NEW DELHI in the women’s 400m hurdles coached Almeria, Valencia and Sevilla in the Spanish top- had made a mistake playing all three formats after T20 WC postponement event has been upgraded to flight before, will be presented as Villarreal manager at the his comeback after a five-year ban for spot-fix- he Indian 4x400m mixed Bronze medal after the AIU their home ground on Monday. ing. “I should have first played one or two for- Lahore: Former Pakistan taken place. Trelay team’s Silver medal in annulled the results of Adekoya, mats and checked to see how my body is doing speedster Shoaib Akhtar has “Asia Cup could have the 2018 Asian Games has who originally won the race. HALEP SIGNS UP FOR PRAGUE EVENT and whether I could take the strain. slammed the BCCI, alleging definitely happened, it would been upgraded to Gold follow- The Indian quartet of Prague: World No 2 Simona Halep on Wednesday said I erred in playing immediately that the Indian cricket board have been a great chance for ing the disqualification of orig- Mohammed Anas, MR that she will play the WTA Prague clay court tournament in in all three formats and it led to played a role in the ICC India and Pakistan to play inal winners Bahrain on Poovamma, Hima Das and August, adding further doubt to her participation in the US injury and fitness problems. “At least postponing the T20 World against each other. There are account of a doping ban hand- Adekoya was handed a four- Arokia Rajiv had clocked Open. “Hi everyone. I can't wait to take part in the now I am confident that I can now Cup later this year to make many reasons behind this. I ed to one of its runners. year ban by the Athletics 3:15:71 behind Bahrain tournament in the magnificent city of Prague. See you in carry on playing for another room for the Indian Premier don’t want to get into that,” Bahrain, which had topped the Integrity Unit (AIU) for failing (3:11:89). Raghavan had August,” the reigning Wimbledon champ said in a video four to six years if I take care League. Akhtar also felt that Akhtar said while speaking to 4x400 mixed relay final, was a dope test. Besides this, Anu clocked 56.92 to finish fourth in message. The Prague tourney runs from August 10-16. of myself,” he had said. the Asia Cup could have Geo Cricket on YouTube. disqualified after Kemi Raghavan’s fourth-place finish the final race in Jakarta. 12

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Regaining strength MAKERS OF ASALEM in nature's lap n abode for pos- “Regaining strength”, selfie to which her fans itive vibes and the 49-year-old actress replied with much love. JARIGINDI? more, Manisha captioned a bunch of Many even asked her CONFIDENT A Koirala’s photos from a walking where she clicked the Instagram posts trail through a forest. picture and some oth- are something Remembering author ers, gave her their her followers look for- Robert Frost’s words warmth and hug in this ward to and share too. while sharing the pho- time of the pandemic. The yesteryear actress tos and videos from her Manisha Koirala, who bravely fought can- latest adventure she who was diagnosed cer years ago shares her quoted, “The woods are with ovarian cancer in OF GOOD RESPONSE struggles, victories, and lovely, dark and deep. 2012, which she fought more, with her family But I have promises to a tough battle with and of followers on keep, and miles to go conquered. Koirala was oming soon is a suspense film has come out better than what Instagram. before I sleep.” last seen in Netflix film thriller love story based we’ve expected,” said Johnson. Wednesday’s post Manisha Koirala Maska, ahead of which on real events that took “This film is based on real inci- was one of those that shared her no make-up, she also featured in place in Telangana called dents that took place in has the actress sharing no-filter pictures that films such as C Asalem Jarigindi? Telangana. Shot with an 8K pictures from her life showed her grey Prassthanam, Sanju, Producer King Johnson is resolution camera, the film’s with some philosophi- strands of hair and and in a segment in confident that the film will do well, famous background score by cal bits to offer. bindi in her close-up Netflix’s Lust Stories. thanks to how the recently released S. Chinna gave life to the songs from the film has received. film, and Sethu’s special The songs sung by famous singers effects are what will make like Vijay Yesudas, Vijay Prakash, the audience feel the situ- Yazin Nizar, Malvikan, Ranky, ation,” Johnson tells us. Bhargavi Pillai, and composed by He also said that actor Yelendra Mahaveer have received Sriram who plays the rave reviews from OTT platforms protagonist in the film like Amazon Music, Spotify, had brought more hype Geosavone and Apple Music. to the story which had The film has received its clearance scope for good perfor- from the Censor board and will mance and is confident soon be released, but will it hit the that the film would be silver screen or settle for an OTT well received by the platform is the big question. “We are audience after seeing his discussing the matter internally. The talent.

Sai Dharam Tej and ‘Return of the weights' ctor Sai Dharam Tej is back to working out. On Instagram, the actor shared a picture of his home gym, with dumbbells and A other exercise equipment all around. On the image, he wrote, “Return of the weights.” The actor had earlier shared a picture of himself running. “Run Your Own Race. It’s YOU Vs YOU. Be a BEAST,” he wrote on the photo-sharing Tamannaah's website. Sai made his acting debut with Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham. He was then seen in films like Rey, Subramanyam for Sale, Supreme, Thikka, Winner, Tej, I Love You ‘pawfect' and Prati Roju Pandage, among many others. He will next be seen in Solo Brathuke So Lavanya ‘a happy Better directed by Subbu. It also stars Nabha PUPPY Natesh. The film’s release got postponed due girl' on returning to to the coronavirus pandemic. hometown Dehradun LOVE Samantha shares ith domestic flight operations resuming, ctress Tamannaah Bhatia southern actress Lavanya Tripathi travelled is an ardent animal lover back to her hometown Dehradun to meet her parents. Aand says there is no love W The actress shared a video on Intagram sto- like puppy love. Tamannaah self-care secrets ries where she can be seen at the airport, took to Instagram, where she dressed in PPE suit and wearing protec- outhern star Samantha tive eye gear and mask. posted a motley of pictures of Akkineni has doled “Ok can’t breathe,” she wrote on herself along with stray out tips on self-care. the image. puppies. She captioned the S With a black-and- She then shared a picture col- white picture of lage of things that made her day image, which currently has herself she posted “happier”, on her “Day 2” of 349K likes on the photo- on Instagram, Samantha homecoming. sharing website: “There's no wrote, “We wake up early. Lavanya shared pictures of Meditate. Positive thoughts. the greenery surrounding love like puppy love Take that apple cider vinegar. an empty road and the #DogsAreTheBest Cleanse both body and mountain ranges. #furryfriends #doglover mind. Pamper self with long “Finally coming to skin care routine. Exercise. Doon and meeting my #pawfect.” Hydrate. More positive family made me a Meanwhile, Tamannaah is thoughts and game face on yo.” happy girl,” she The image currently has 1 wrote. excited about the Telugu million likes. Samantha recent- Lavanya rose to remake of the Kannada ly shared that she and her pet fame with roles in superhit Love Mocktail. puppy Hash currently have a case films like Andala of Covid-19 blues. Rakshashi Director Nagashekar has On an Instagram picture of Hash Doosukeltha, roped in the actress along sleeping by the staircase, she wrote, Bramman, Bhale “We are having a case of the #covid- Bhale Magadivoy, with Satya Dev as blues. How are you guys doing ? I just want to Srirastu Subhamastu, protagonists of the untitled remind you to remind yourself that you're awe- Yuddham Sharanam remake. The makers are some and you’re doing just great and it will all and Antariksham be okay #stayhome #staysafe.” 9000 KMPH. hoping that the film will go on Samantha is known for her perfor- The actress will floors in mid-September and mances in films such as Ye Maaya next be seen in the will be shot in Visakhapatnam Chesave, Neethaane En Ponvasantham, Telugu film, A1 , Mersal and Rangasthalam. She Express, co-starring and Hyderabad. impressed all with her role in Super Sundeep Kishan. The film, The original film was released Deluxe last year. which is reportedly a remake of She will next be seen in the 2019 Tamil film Natpe in January, 2020. Directed by Kaathuvaakula Rendu Thunai, is directed by Dennis Krishna, Love Mocktail Kaadhal, starring Vijay Jeevan Kanukolanu. follows the story of Aadi and Sethupathi. The film also stars Nayanthara. It is his quest for love. directed by Vignesh Shivan.