Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 ANALYSIS 7 MONEY 8 SPORTS 11 Published From HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW FIX GAPS IN ANTI-HUMAN SENSEX IN INDIA WIN THRILLER BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH TRAFFICKING LANDSCAPE DOWNWARD SPIRAL BY 8 RUNS BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 126 VIJAYAWADA, FRIDAY MARCH 19, 2021; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable SEERAT HONING HER SKILLS AS SINGER { Page 12 } www.dailypioneer.com TOLL BOOTHS TO BE REMOVED WITHIN A ANGELINA JOLIE HAS ‘PROOF’ OF RUSSIA SAYS JOE BIDEN MUST 400 UK, BRAZIL, SA VIRUS VARIANT YEAR, MONEY LINKED TO GPS IMAGING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST BRAD PITT APOLOGIZE FOR PUTIN 'KILLER' CLAIM CASES IN INDIA, 158 IN 2 WEEKS ndia will do away with toll booths and implement complete GPS- ctress Angelina Jolie has accused estranged husband S President Joe Biden must apologize and take back "boorish" our hundred coronavirus patients in India have so far have been based toll collection within one year, Road Transport and Brad Pitt of domestic violence, report international allegations that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is a killer, a top found to be affected with three mutant variants first detected in IHighways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. He said 93 Anews outlets. Ms Jolie, 45, has filed documents in URussian official said, a day after Moscow recalled its ambassador Fthe United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil, the government per cent of the vehicles pay toll using FASTag, but the remaining 7 court which say that she will offer "proof and authority" to in protest. Biden's remark is a "watershed" in relations and said today amid a worrying surge in several parts of the country. Of per cent have still not taken it despite paying a support her claim; the documents also "unacceptable in any circumstances," Konstantin these, 158 cases were reported in the last two double toll. "I want to assure the House that indicate that the couple's children have Kosachyov, deputy speaker of Russia's upper weeks. On March 4, there were 242 such within one year all physical toll booths in the agreed to provide testimony on the 57- house of parliament, wrote on Facebook cases across the country, the centre said. country will be removed. It means that toll year-old actor's alleged violence, report Thursday. Moscow's initial reaction -- recalling The three variants are believed to be collection will happen via GPS. The money Us Weekly and ETOnline. Angelina Jolie its US ambassador -- "won't be the last, more contagious or easier to catch. will be collected based on GPS imaging (on and Brad Pitt met while filming Mr And unless there is an explanation and an apology These three mutated variants also have vehicles)," Gadkari said in the Lok Sabha Mrs Smith in 2004. They dated for from the American side." The Foreign the potential to re-infect people who during Question Hour.The minister said he several years before marrying in 2014; Ministry announced it was summoning have been previously infected with has instructed police inquiry for those two years later, they separated and have Ambassador Anatoly Antonov for SARS-CoV-2, MoS for Health Ashwini vehicles which do not pay toll using FASTags. been engaged in a bitter legal battle since. consultations in a statement late Wednesday. Choubey told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Jagan's social engineering stamped all over urban local bodies’ top posts PNS n VIJAYAWADA wards, the YSRCP managed to get its candidate elected as chairperson. YSRCP makes YSRCP supremo YS Jaganmohan Despite TDP bagging a majority of Reddy's time-tested 'social engi- the wards, the YSRCP candidate women as mayors, neering' formula was stamped all could become the chairperson of over the final list of Mayors, Deputy Mydukur municipality as one chairpersons India in forefront of Mayors, Chairpersons and Vice- Independent and one Jana Sena Naidu moves global efforts: Prez Chairpersons of the municipal ward member abstained from vot- Visakhapatnam: The YSRCP corporations and municipalities ing. made history on Thursday even HC seeking that was disclosed by the party on Former TDP MLA JC Prabhakar as it stayed true to its women Thursday. Reddy was elected as chairperson empowerment agenda by picking quashing of FIR While the list brought an end to of Tadipatri municipality of women as Mayors of some 5 the agonising wait of many aspi- Anantapur district. Surprisingly municipal corporations and chair- against him rants, some who had assumed that JC Prabhakar Reddy, who has been persons of some municipalities in their bagging the coveted post was at the loggerheads with Chief Andhra Pradesh. Buoyed by its PNS n VIJAYAWADA a cinch, the fact was that 'social Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy, thumping victory in the civic engineering' meant that the Chief heaped praises on the latter. body elections, YSRCP ignored As expected, TDP supremo N Minister had limited room to Government Advisor (Public some prominent male leaders Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday manoeuvre, thus leaving quite a few Affairs) Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy and instead opted for women filed a petition in the AP High hopefuls disappointed. said that a record number of BCs Mayors and chairpersons. Court seeking to quash the FIR Candidates from the weaker were given the top job in Andhra The party had earlier reserved registered against him by the sections, women and minorities Of the 86 posts of Mayors and the two crucial cities- Vizag and Pradesh, thereby signalling that 50 percent seats for women to CID in the alleged Amaravati were given priority in heading the Chairpersons, 40 were given to Vijayawada. YSRCP government gives them contest as corporators. assigned lands scam. local bodies accounting for a whop- BCs, 12 to minorities and women Interestingly, in Mydukur more priority than any other state Vizag and Vizianagaram got It may be mentioned here that ping 78 percent of the total seats, were given 52 seats on the whole. municipality in Kadapa district, one across the country. their first woman mayors after in its notice, the CID had said that much more than the normal quota Notably, women from BC back- of the two municipalities where the they got Greater City status and if Naidu failed to attend and norms. ground were given the top posts in TDP bagged a majority of the 2 Municipal Corporation recogni- comply with the terms, he would tion respectively. Vijayawada also be liable for arrest under Section saw a woman mayor. 41 A (3) and (4) of CRPC. YSRCP corporator, Vempadapu Along with Naidu, another co Deprived of Mayor Vijayalakshmi (Ward 11) was accused in the case, former min- Low turnout, Golagani Hari Venkata Kumari crowned as the first Mayor of ister P Narayana too filed the elections attributed post, Vamsi Krishna Vizianagaram Municipal quash petition in the High Court. Corporation (VMC). She was Naidu's legal counsel filed the to Covid vaccine quits as YSRCP city elected unopposed. petition on his behalf appealing to wastage is Vizag's second woman Mayor She is also the first woman the High Court to quash the FIR president mayor of the city as the by the CID against him, accusing PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM Vizianagaram Municipality was him of resorting to criminal con- PNS n VIJAYAWADA upgraded as VMC a few years ago spiracy in cheating Dalits while 2 YSR Congress Party corporator only. acquiring their lands for Vamsi Krishna Srinivas on Golagani Hari Venkata Kumari, The deputy mayor post went to Amaravati capital. Thursday quit as YSRCP city from Ward 11 (Zone II) on YSRCP corporator M Counsels argued that the FIR president after being denied the Thursday was elected the Mayor Nagalakshmi. against Naidu had no locus stan- opportunity to serve as Mayor of of Visakhapatnam, only the sec- Similarly, Bangaru Sarojini of di, as the CID cannot question the the Vizag. ond woman to bag the coveted YSRCP was elected as the first Government Order. The petition The denial of the post was a post. Rajana Ramani was elected chairperson of Nellimarla Nagar is expected to come up for hear- double-whammy for the YSRCP the first woman Mayor of Vizag Panchayat in Vizianagaram dis- ing on Friday. leader who had been earlier when it was a Municipal trict. overlooked as the party candi- Corporation, and Venkata 2 2 date for the Vizag (East) Kumari happens to be the first Assembly constituency. woman Mayor of Greater Adding salt to his wounds, Visakhapatnam. Vamsi Krishna Srinivas was She, however, may be the first told to propose the name of Mayor of the State's Executive Alla deposes before CID Venkata Kumari as the Mayor in Capital if the plans of the YSRCP the first council meet of the government face no more hur- PNS n VIJAYAWADA March 22 and Naidu on March 23. GVMC. dles. The MLA, after emerging from Matters appeared hunky-dory Jiyyani Sridhar (Ward 52) was YSRCP Mangalagiri MLA Alla the CID regional office, told PM: Efforts to for the local strongman - his elected the Deputy Mayor. Vegetable vendor elected chairman Ramakrishna Reddy on Thursday reporters that he had submitted all name figured prominently in It may be recalled that Prof deposed before the CID sleuths as the evidence he had to the inves- remove hurdles in media reports as the person Rajana Ramani was the first woman Visakhapatnam: A vegetable Leaders don't create followers, part of the ongoing investigation tigators. He added he had farmers' journey from with the brightest chance of Mayor of Vizag. Incidentally, vendor’s wildest dreams came they create more leaders. into the alleged Amaravati also submitted the orig- ‘seed to market' becoming the next Mayor of Visakhapatnam got a new Mayor true on Thursday when he was assigned lands scam.