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OPPOSITION FUELLING PROTESTS MAN ARRESTED WITH SAND BOA, A GUHA, HUNDREDS DETAINED FOR TULSI GABBARD VOTES ‘PRESENT’ AGAINST CAA, SAYS KISHAN REDDY PROTECTED SPECIES WORTH RS 1CR ANTI-CAA PROTESTS IN K’TAKA ON TRUMP IMPEACHMENT, TROLLED nion minister G Kishan Reddy on Thursday accused opposition olice have seized one sand boa snake, worth Rs one crore, from a undreds of people, including noted historian Ramchandra Guha were emocratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard Uparties of fuelling protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act Pman near Vasai in the district, an official said on Thursday. The arrest Hdetained in Bengaluru and other cities in Karnataka on Thursday for Ddid not support the impeachment of US by inciting students, women and others in the name was made on Wednesday, the official said. "Acting on a tip-off, officials defying the prohibitory orders and staging protests against the President Donald Trump on Wednesday, defying of religion. He also asserted that the situation in the of the Vasai unit of the crime branch laid a trap at Valiv village on Citizenship Amendment Act, police said. "About 200 people, including party line. Tulsi Gabbard was the only member country is normal, except in a few places in Delhi and Mumbai- Ahmedabad Highway on Wednesday and caught Atik Shakil Guha, were taken into preventive custody at Town Hall in Bengaluru for of Congress who voted "present" on both the Lucknow where violent protests were witnessed. Qureshi (29) for possessing the sand boa assembling at the venue in the city centre articles of impeachment against Mr Trump - a "Some political parties are fuelling protests against snake, a protected species," Palghar police and staging anti-CAA protests, defying the move that was met with sharp criticism on Citizenship Amendment Act. They are inciting spokesperson Hemant Katkar said. "The prohibitive order under section 144 of the social media. All but two Democrats women, students and others in the name of accused wanted to sell the snake, which is Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC)," a police voted "yes" for impeachment, while all religion," he told reporters here. worth around Rs one crore”. official told reporters. Republicans voted against it.

MLA, 2 hurt in R&B guest Anti-CAA protesters Trump impeached by US house collapse NALGONDA: TRS MLA House for abuse of power from Alair constituency held in Hyd, rally foiled Gongidi Sunitha escaped with minor injuries and a sarpanch Republican-dominated Senate to save US President was grievously hurt when a Over 360 detained; cops ‘hijack' bus with UoH students PNS n WASHINGTON trial in the Senate - a proceed- his own appointees and other portion of the roof of the ing that will determine government witnesses testi- meeting hall in Alair R & B PNS n HYDERABAD The House of Representatives whether he is removed from fied were reckless and endan- guest house here collapsed voted late Wednesday to office less than one year before gered national security. India pitches on Thursday. Massive protests broke out impeach President Donald he stands for reelection. The Democratic-con- The MLA was holding a across Hyderabad on Thursday Trump on charges that he On Trump's 1,062nd trolled House passed two for H-1B visa review with sarpanches in the against the Citizenship abused his office and obstruct- day in office, Congress articles of impeachment aspirants guest house when suddenly Amendment Act (CAA) and ed Congress, with Democrats brought a momentous against Trump - abuse of during 2+2 the roof portion came crash- the National Register of declaring him a threat to reckoning to an power and obstruction of 8 ing down. It fell directly on the Citizens (NRC), in spite of the nation and branding an indeli- unorthodox pres- Congress - related to dialogue head of Lakshmi, sarpanch of fact that the police had denied ble mark on the most turbulent ident who has the president's Golanukonda village, causing permissions for rallies, made presidency of modern times. tested attempts to with- grievous injuries. The MLA preventive arrests, and even After 11 hours of fierce America's hold military aid to sustained minor injuries in the 'hijacked' a bus which stu- argument on the House floor institutions Ukraine and pres- incident. Indira, former direc- dents of University of between Democrats and with an array sure its govern- tor of the Market Committee, Hyderabad had hired to reach Republicans over Trump's con- of unre- ment to investigate also sustained injuries. the main venue of protests. duct with Ukraine, lawmakers strained former vice presi- Around 360 persons were voted almost entirely along actions, dent Joe Biden, a rounded up from various party lines to impeach him. including potential 2020 venues of the protests. Trump becomes the third pres- some that a Democratic oppo- ‘Convene spl Continued on Page 2 Police quelling anti-CAA protesters in the city on Thursday ident in U.S. history to face collection of nent. session to reject CAA, NRC' Citizenship law will be implemented, Hyd figures in top 2 for high salary for junior techies ‘Muslims of India SHABBIR TO CM KCR need not fear, so will be NRC: JP Nadda PNS n HYDERABAD Region at Rs 14.5 lakh for mid- CAA doesn't HYDERABAD: Former The average annual cost level roles; and Mumbai at Rs Leader of Opposition in the PNS n NEW DELHI refugees from Afghanistan, Professionals working at junior to company (CTC) in 33.95 lakh and Pune at Rs threaten their 5 Telangana State Legislative who under the amended act levels in Hyderabad IT sector Bengaluru stood at 5.27 32.68 lakh for senior roles citizenship’ Council Mohammed Ali Amid protests against the will become Indian citi- command second highest lakh for talent across respectively, the report noted. Shabbir on Thursday demand- amended citizenship law, zens, and also slammed salaries with an average pay The report suggested that ed that Chief Minister K BJP working president the opposition for packet of Rs 5 lakh per annum. junior level,16.45 lakh for professionals from IT industry Chandrashekhar Rao should J P Nadda asserted on protesting against Bengaluru has retained the mid-level, and at 35.45 command the highest average convene a special session of the Thursday that the the new legislation. tag as the highest paying city in lakh for senior level annual CTCs at junior level (Rs Legislative Assembly to pass a CAA will be imple- He said BJP's the country, according to 4.96 lakh) and senior level (Rs resolution rejecting the mented, and that the rivals are protesting Randstad Insights Salary 35.84 lakh). Digital marketers Citizenship Amendment Act National Register of for vote bank politics Trends Report 2019. company (CTC) in Bengaluru Hyderabad (at Rs 5 lakh) and emerged as the highest paid (CAA) and the proposal to Citizens will also be while ignoring the plight Bengaluru had topped the stood at Rs 5.27 lakh for talent Mumbai (Rs 4.59 lakh) took the functional role for senior pro- update the National Register of brought in. of minorities of three neigh- list in 2017 and 2018 Salary across junior level, Rs 16.45 second and third spot for junior fessionals, with an average Citizens (NRC). Nadda made these remarks bouring countries living in Trends report as well. lakh for mid-level, and at Rs level roles; Mumbai at Rs 15.07 annual CTC of Rs 35.65 lakh. Continued on Page 4 here after meeting Sikh India. The average annual cost to 35.45 lakh for senior level. lakh and the National Capital Continued on Page 4

Teachings, Old SSC marks memos thoughts of TS tableau set to join R-Day Parade Gandhi, from 1958 to be digitised PNS n HYDERABAD Ambedkar 5 PNS n HYDERABAD government website. Work in After five years of wait, must be this respect is going to com- Telangana's tableau will join propagated The Education Department mence from February. the upcoming Republic Day has decided to digitise the tab- Since marks memoranda Parade in New Delhi. ulation registers and records of lakhs of students have to be Telangana tableau debuted in since 1958 to help students get digitised, it would take at least 2015. Pictures snapped by cops during their decoy operation in the pub their old SSC marks memos 2-3 years for the whole work This year, the state has pro- without hassles. The measure to be accomplished, according posed a tableau showcasing the will save valuable time of stu- to officials. Annually, at least grand festival of Bathukamma dents and obviate the need to 5.5 lakh students take SSC and Medaram Jatara against Cops book 31 for go round various government public exam. As and when the the backdrop of the Thousand- A view of TS tableau selected for the upcoming Republic Day parade in New Delhi offices to secure old marks Education Department releas- Pillar temple in Warangal. The memorandum. es results, it uploads the short tableau will feature live folk Now, as a live component in Day 2020 parade! Theme is ‘indecent acts' in pub The Department of marks memo into relevant dances. the RD tableau this year, the rich and vibrant culture high- Government Examinations websites and sends the full The three-day Sammakka- tribal festival is expected to lighting Bathukamma and Decoy operation leads to has already embarked on an marks memo to the schools Sarakka Jatara would be con- draw national attention. Medaram festival against thou- exercise in this regard. It will concerned in August or ducted from February 5-7, MAUD Principal secretary sand pillars temple backdrop. ‘moral policing' outcry finalise the agencies required September of the academic 2020 at Medaram on a grand Aravind Kumar, sharing Live folk dance performances to digitise and upload the year. scale. The state has been plan- details, said: " Telangana State will accompany." PNS n HYDERABAD late on Wednesday night from Centre marks memos on the relevant Continued on Page 4 ning a pan-India campaign. tableau selected for Republic Continued on Page 4 Lisbon Restobar and Pub at makes As many as 31 persons, com- Begumpet here. standard prising 21 women and 10 They were booked on men, were apprehended by the charges of performing 'inde- format for 8 TODAY West Zone team of the cent acts'. ration cards ALMANAC S. Africa having a rethink on 3 capitals Commissioner's Task Force Continued on Page 4 Month & Paksham: L VENKAT RAM REDDY Going purely by deficit state’. It is depending on n HYDERABAD loans for its survival and even to Margashirsha & Krishna Paksha economics, AP is in no Panchangam meet expenses for day-to-day TS Lokayukta, KKR buys Cummins for Rs 15.50 cr, Is AP Chief Minister YS position to afford administration. Tithi : Navami: 07:16 pm Jaganmohan Reddy following three capital cities Going purely by economics, Upa most expensive foreign buy ever Nakshatram: Hasta 09:09 pm the ‘failed’ South Africa model AP is in no position to afford Time to Avoid: (Bad time to start of three capital cities? three capital cities. Lokayukta PNS n KOLKATA Delhi Capitals. KXIP went Going by the developments in as administrative and Cape Nelson Mandela, the first into the auction with the any important work) South Africa, where there is a big Town as the legislative capi- President of South Africa, tried appointed Australian pacer Pat Cummins biggest available purse of Rs Rahukalam: 10:51 am- 12:13 pm demand from political parties tal…we believe that the matter hard to scrap ‘three capitals’ became the most expensive 42.70 crore. Yamagandam: 02:58 pm – 04:20 pm and civil society organisations to requires the attention of model to reduce financial bur- PNS n HYDERABAD foreign buy ever in the Indian The 31-year-old Maxwell Varjyam: 04:43 am- 06:13 am scrap the ‘three capitals’ concept Parliament soon,” Zuma had dens but could not. Premier League (IPL) players' has been on his way back to in favour of the single capital city, said. South Africa is finding it dif- The state government auction when two-time cham- cricket after taking a sudden Gulika: 08:06 am - 09:29 am gives scope for argument that He argued that with capitals ficult to spend huge amounts on appointed the Lokayukta pions Kolkata Knight Riders break to deal with mental Good Time: (to start any important work) Jagan is indeed following the on two opposite ends of the providing houses, cars and and Upa Lokayukta on bid a whopping Rs 15.50 health issues earlier this Amritakalam: 03:30 pm - 05:01 pm ‘failed’ South Africa model in AP Zuma had made the state- country, members of the exec- offices to the elected represen- Thursday. crore for him as cricketers year. Abhijit Muhurtham: 11:51 am - 12:35 pm by proposing three capital cities. ment against the three capitals utive needed two houses and tatives and officials at both The committee con- from Down Under fetched Maxwell's compatriot South Africa President Jacob concept during his 2016 State of two cars in order to carry out Pretoria and Cape Town. cerned, headed by Chief the biggest deals here on Nathan Coulter-Nile also HYDERABAD Zuma himself had called for the Nation address. their duties, which was an Jagan's proposal has triggered Minister K Chandrasekhar Thursday. enjoyed a million dollar Parliament to “urgently investi- South Africa currently has unnecessary cost. questions over why he is adopt- Rao, finalised the names of It was also a hefty pay- payday at the auction as WEATHER gate” the practicality of having three main capital cities - Zuma said this needs to be ing the 'failed' South Africa Lokayukta and Upa day another Mumbai Indians shelled Forecast: Partly Cloudy two capitals in South Africa in Pretoria as the administrative considered on an urgent basis. model. Questions are also being Lokayukta at a meeting held Australian, Glenn out Rs 8 crore for the Temp: 28/16 2016. He relinquished office in capital, Cape Town as the legisla- “We've cut wasteful expendi- raised over why Jagan wants to here on Thursday at Pragati Maxwell, who pacer. Humidity: 74% 2018. tive capital while Bloemfontein ture but there is more to be done follow a country like South Bhavan. returned to Kings Australia's limited- Sunrise: 06.40 The present South Africa acts as the judicial capital of the on wastage,” the former Africa which is languishing in The committee selected XI Punjab with a overs captain Aaron Sunset: 05.46 President Cyril Ramaphosa is country. President had said. poverty instead of taking devel- Justice CV Ramulu as price tag of Rs Finch went for Rs Current Weather Conditions also talking about scrapping the “We would like to persuade AP’s financial condition is oped countries like US, Europe Lokayukta and V Niranjan 10.75 crore after 4.40 crore to Royal Updated December 19, 2019 5:00 PM three capitals concept on the Parliament to consider the main- worrisome after bifurcation of as role models for AP’s develop- Rao as Upa Lokayukta. an intense bid- Challengers Bangalore. ground of saving public money. tenance of two capitals - Pretoria the state and it is now a ‘revenue ment. Continued on Page 4 ding war with Full Report on 12 HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | DECEMBER 20, 2019 hyderabad 02 TRS MLC TAKES ON BJP Developing forests like never before: Indrakaran OVER CITIZENSHIP ACT nInaugurates Jungle Camp in Masjidgadda Reserve Forest n BJP trying to divert attention of people from real issues, says Karne PNS n HYDERABAD

PNS n HYDERABAD Hyderabad. "It seems," Apart from physical fitness, Prabhakar said. He reiterated Metro Neo rail urban forest parks ensure Taking a serious note of state that the TRS is secular people spaces to relax and unwind for BJP president Dr K Laxman's, are treated as one. "Every one on cards in urban population, said criticism of TRS's stand on is equal in Telangana, we don't Minister for Forest, Citizenship Amendment Act differentiate people based on Environment, Endowments (CAA), the party MLC Karne the community. All festivities Warangal and Law A Indrakaran Reddy. Prabhakar on Thursday said are celebrated with equal zest. PNS n WARANGAL Inaugurating the Jungle that the Chief Minister K Reacting to the allegations of Camp in Masjidgadda Reserve Chandrasekhar Rao adhered to the BJP on the issue of cleans- It seems like that economical, Forest between Pedda humanism when deciding ing of Musi river and safe, reliable rubber-tyre rail Golconda and Thukkuguda what was good for people. BJP Hussainsagar, Prabhakar said project is on the cards for villages close to the Outer state president wanted to know that the government which Warangal. The state govern- Ring Road here on Thursday, if the TRS was for granting cit- has taken up so many issues ment has authorised the the Minister said Chief izenship to Pakistan Premier that were not promised in the Maharashtra Metro Rail Minister K Chandrashekhar Imran Khan. manifesto , and will complete Corporation Ltd (Maha- Rao was paying attention to Reserve Forest has been devel- Addressing a press confer- the cleaning of these two water Metro) to prepare a detailed conserve and develop forest Spread over oped with the theme of an ence at the TRS Party bodies. "work on Gandhi gnat project report for the project areas like never before. adventure camp, and it ensures Legislature office, Prabhakar to Gourelli has been taken up which is known as 'Metro In tune with the Chief 180.03 hectares, good quality space for families condemned Dr Laxman's com- Why did Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a and the river banks near High Neo'. Minister's ideas, apart from the Jungle to spend. Education Minister ment as unwarranted and mis- surprise visit to Lahore to attend a function at Nawaz Court and Nagole areas have On Wednesday, the initiating steps to conserve Camp has been Sabitha Indra Reddy said the leading. "Why did Prime been developed," he added. Hyderabad Metropolitan forests, efforts have been taken new facility in the form of Minister Narendra Modi make Sharif 's home, if BJP is so averse to Pakistan Party legislator Korukanti Development Authority to develop reserved forest developed with Jungle Camp comes as a boon a surprise visit to Lahore to — KARNE PRABHAKAR, TRS MLC Chander wanted BJP to help (HMDA) and Maharashtra areas, which were lying with no a budget of for Hyderabadis. "The urban attend a function at Nawaz the state by achieving nation- Metro Rail Corporation Ltd use, for those living in urban forest parks are being devel- Sharif 's home, if BJP is so al project status for (Maha-Metro) officials vis- areas. "Apart from protecting Rs 4.34 crore oped to prevent Hyderabad averse to Pakistan," he wanted their religion. "All those live in he said accusing BJP of bask- Kaleshwaram project rather ited Warangal and inspected environment, the move is to and has an turning into a concrete jungle to know. He reasoned out that this country are ours. We can't ing in communal fire. "In con- than playing communal poli- the proposed railway line ensure better living conditions like other cities," she said. the BJP is trying to avert the divide on religion. If someone trast the KCR government in tics. Gangadhar Goud , TRS region. The inspection-cum- for the denizens in cities," he Adventure Zone Spread over 180.03 hectares, attention of the people of the is illegal then we will help the Telangana has concentrated MLC wondered why the survey was initiated as per the said. the Masjidgadda Jungle Camp nation from real issues. Centre to send them back," he only on development in the NIzamabad MP Arvind directions of the Urban The government has decid- has been developed with a Answering a question on said. past five years. We worked on Dharmapur failed to secure Development and IT ed to develop 94 urban parks, of the State, he said. So far, 31 budget of Rs 4.34 crore and has TRS party's stand on "In a every parliament ses- Kaleshwaram and on the ways Turmeric board within five Minister KT Rama Rao and each with a theme of its own. of these parks including 17 in an Adventure Zone and Jungle Rohingyas staying in sion the BJP comes up with a to utilize Krishna water," he days of winning the elections. the team discussed about the Of these, 60 parks were in the HMDA limits and 14 in other Camp. Apart from walking, Hyderabad, he said that so far new issue that has nothing to said. "What happened to the bonds project and DPR related limits of the Hyderabad cities, have been readied and running and cycling tracks, it someone is legally staying in do with the slowing economy, He wanted to know if the that he have signed assuring issues with the local public Metropolitan Development made available for the people. has camping facilities, adven- the country the party will not spiraling prices and rampant BJP is unhappy that there is no the board for Nizamabad farm- representatives and higher Authority (HMDA), and the The Jungle Camp (urban ture sports and special facili- differentiate them based on unemployment in the country," communal violence in ers," he questioned. officials. rest in other other urban areas forest park) in Masjidgadda ties for the children. MEDARAM JATARA Anti-CAA protesters ACB books Improve pass percentage: Harish Addl SP PNS n SIDDIPET I will write letters to held in Hyd, rally foiled PNS n NIZAMABAD Finance Minister T Harish parents of all the Continued from Page 1 queues to prove their citizenship. Rao has inaugurated mid-day intermediate students The officials of ACB booked This will affect people, especial- meal programme at in the district explaining them a case of Disproportionate Communist Party of India ly poor, irrespective of their reli- Government Junior College the importance of sending Assets to the lawful sources of (CPI) leaders K. Narayana, gion," said another protestor. in Bejjanki Mandal headquar- their wards to college every Income against Govindu Speed up Aziz Pasha, and Chada Venkat There was heavy police ter here on Thursday. Speaking Narsunha Reddy, Addl. Reddy, Legislative Council deployment at Charminar. The on the occasion, the Minister day Superintendent of Police, (Law member Narsi Reddy, monument was out of bound said that they will also launch T HARISH and Order), Siddipet. Searches road works, Communist Party of India- for the visitors. A group of evening snacks facility to help Finance Minister were conducted on Marxist leader N. Narasimha burka-clad women, who had the college management to Wednesday and Thursday at officials told Reddy, Telangana Jana Samithi gathered at Charminar, were conduct special classes for stu- has instructed the College his office and residential PNS n NIZAMABAD (TJS) president M. taken into custody by the police. dents ahead of the board exam- Principal and Staff to conduct premises and other premises Kodandaram, Jamat-e-Islami Students of Hussaini Alam inations. special classes during the of family members along with Tribal Welfare Minister Telangana and Odisha unit Government College for Girls Coming to know 49 students evening hours to improve the suspected benamis at Siddipet, Satyavathi Rathod on chief Hamid Mohammed were also detained by the have skipped College on performance of students and Hyderabad, Mahabubunagar, Thursday asked the National Khan were among the leaders police for staging the protest. Wednesday and 29 on also pass percentage. He has Zaheerabad, Shadnagar, Highway officials to speed up arrested by the police when Security was tightened in Thursday, the Minister has cial juncture will cost the youth and parents to improve atten- also educated the students on Ayyavaripalle and other places. the road works as the Tribal they were heading towards the the communally sensitive Old enquired about the reasons their future. dance in colleges. The Minister the need of staying away from Officials seized gold orna- festival, Medaram is fast venue of the rally. City to prevent any untoward behind the absence of a large "I will write letters to parents has directed the education electronic gadgets and social ments weighing 1.5 kg, Rs approaching. The Minister "This is unjust. Is there a incident. number of students even at the of all the intermediate students officials to make regular field networking sites until March. 5.33 lakh cash, Villa at reviewed the road works with democracy or a police raj," said An all-party protest rally time of examinations. After in the district explaining them visits to examine the function- Zilla Parishad Chairperson, Golkonda, 14 house plots at the National Highway offi- Aziz Pasha, protesting the arrest. against CAA and NRC was knowing that the students were about the importance of send- ing of the colleges until the Roja Sharma, MLA, Shankarpally, Gollapally (RR cials in Mahabubabad district He said the issue related to the supposed to be taken out on helping the parents in agricul- ing their wards to college every examinations are completed. Manakonduru, Rasamayi Dist), Zaheerabad, 20 acres of headquarters on Thursday. Constitution and the Left par- Thursday from Charminar ture activities when their par- day, Rao has said. He has also Coming to know about the Balakishan, MLC, Naradasu agriculural land in Siddipet The Minister, along with ties would not keep quiet. Khan (the Assembly Constituency of ents need the help of an addi- suggested the Regional poor performance of the stu- Lakshman, Sarpanch, D and Mahabubnagar districts, the officials visited the condemned the arrests. "It is BJP MLA Thakur Raja Singh tional hand, Rao has observed Inspection Officer and dents in Economics, Civics Manjula Srikanth and others two cars, all worth Rs 5.02 Kambalapalli-Narsampet police 'zulum' (oppression). We Lodh) to the Exhibition that skipping classes at this cru- Principals to involve sarpanchs and Commerce, the Minister were present. crore. road area. The Minister were here to hold a peaceful Grounds in Nampally. As the advised the officials to speed rally," he told reporters. police had denied permis- up the process of laying of Police personnel were seen sion, the organizers shifted the WELFARE OFFICERS OVERSEEING ANGANWADIS roads so that Jathara-bound preventing burka-clad women focal point of their protests to vehicular traffic moves with- from heading towards the the Exhibition Grounds. Much ‘Health profiling' on fast track out any hassle. venue. They were rounded before the protests began The Minister advised to up and carried away in a wait- there; the police detained over PV KONDAL RAO Pathologist Dr Kadiyam the officials to increase the ing police vehicle. 300 people who had gathered n WARANGAL Kavya, General Surgeon Dr workers and machinery in Police erected barricades in and around the Exhibition Vijay Kumar and others vis- order to speed up the process. on the roads to stop the pro- Ground for demonstrations. The 'Telangana Health Profile ited the welfare school and She felt that certain roads lack testors. Traffic was thrown A massive force was Project', a comprehensive undertook health check up of the standards and quality out of gear near Moazzam Jahi deployed across Nampally. health evaluation programme about 150 students. and they were substandard Market, a busy intersection Avinash Mohanty, IPS, said, for people in the State, has Speaking on the occasion, than the R&B road network. connecting key markets. "No permission has been given picked up pace in the district. Dr Kadiyam Kavya, She opined that if same "We were gathering here to for any kind of demonstration Doctors in the Primary Pathologist, said that the ‘Strictly follow Food standards are maintained the protest against CAA, which is for or against the Citizenship Health Centres and process would help them ini- people would face problems. unconstitutional. This legisla- Amendment Act in the south Community Health Centres tiate a health profiling at the The quality control wing of tion will weaken the country zone area." are conducting health check- On Thursday, a team of preliminary level. "Certain pre- the road network was direct- and damage its 'Ganga Jamuni Police detained Hamid ups on a regular basis and doctors of the CHC liminary tests like blood group- Security Act guidelines' ed to take necessary measures tehzeeb'," said a protester, as he Mohammad Khan, Telangana during the last one month, Wardhannapet have conduct- ing and haemoglobin verifica- to supervise the road laying was being taken away by the unit president of Ameer e apart from carrying out tests, ed a health check up drive in tion would help students get PNS n HYDERABAD among the officials at process. Officials of the police. "Narendra Modi made Halqa Jamaat-e-Islami Hind they have offered medical the BC Welfare residential proper guidance and this block/mandal /district level National highway authori- people stand in queues with (JIH) while he was protesting advices to the needy students school near Firangigadda of would be undertaken at the State Food Commission chair- and also to set up vigilance ties were present at the review demonetisation. Now he wants against the Citizenship in the residential schools and Wardhannapet. The team of residential school network in man K Thirmal Reddy has committees and internal griev- meeting. people to once again stand in Amendment Act. Gurukuls. doctors, comprising - the coming days," she added. called upon the District Welfare ance redressal system, social Officers (DWOs) to scrupu- audit and food security mea- lously follow the guidelines and sures and also to invite NGOs HYDERABAD instructions issued under and other social organisations National Food Security Act, in this mission. BULLION RATES Even if you opt out, FB knows your location! 2013 and instructed them to He was speaking at a review GOLD serve the food to the beneficia- meeting held with the the ries in Anganwadi centres. District Welfare Officers at ` 38,160 (10 gm) n The social media giant admits tracking users even with location settings turned off ` He requested them to con- Swarnajayanthi complex, 20 duct convergence meetings Ameerpet. SILVER PNS n WASHINGTON their activities and connections ` 44,400(1kg) Even if someone on our services". For example, ` 200 Facebook has admitted to US if someone responds to an event senators that its tracks the does not enable on Facebook for a local music location of its users even when location festival, uploads a location- CHICKEN they have turned off the loca- services, FB tagged post, or gets tagged by a RATES `/KG tion settings. In a letter friend in a check-in at a restau- addressed to Senators may still rant, these actions would give Dressed/With Skin `162 Christopher A Coons and Josh understand info Facebook information about Without Skin `185 Hawley and now viral on twit- about their that person's likely location. Broiler at Farm `112 ter, Facebook's Deputy Chief "Similarly, a person might Privacy Officer Rob Sherman location, the share where they live by setting detailed the social networking company said a location in marketplace or EGG giant tracks a user's location in a letter adding their address to their `/ even when the user has turned profile. An important function RATES 100 off the tracking services from of these internal APIs is to HYDERABAD 425 their account. process people's location-relat- VIJAYAWADA 452 "@Facebook admits it. Turn No control over your person- Missouri. The Senators asked enable Location services, ed information at a level of off 'location services' and they'll al information. That's Big Tech. FB to "respect" users' decisions Facebook may still understand granularity that is consistent VISAKHAPATNAM 470 STILL track your location to And that's why Congress needs to keep their locations private. information about their location with the choices that have RETAIL PRICE `4.25 make money (by sending you to take action," tweeted Josh In the letter, Facebook said: based on the information that made,' said the social network- (IN HYDERABAD) ads). There is no opting out. Hawley, US Senator from "Even if someone does not they and others provide through ing giant.

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RIME 12 cabbies ORNER booked for Annapurna canteens C 90 properties stand in way cancelling rides Man gets 7 PNS n HYDERABAD to sport new look soon years’ jail for of 20 slip roads, KTR told Days into their new initiative, PNS n HYDERABAD sexual assault Cyberabad Traffic Police have special court in Hyderabad, PNS n HYDERABAD penalised 12 cab drivers for The Greater Hyderabad Awhich deals with POCSO cancelling rides without Municipal Corporation is cases, sentenced a man to Municipal Administration informing the customers. working out to revamp the seven years of rigorous Minister KT Rama Rao Officials have received over look of Annapurna canteens, imprisonment for sexually reviewed the progress of laying 30 calls from the customers. where in meals are provided assaulting his three-and-a- slip roads and strengthening of Most numbers of calls were for Rs 5. The new canteens will half-year old stepdaughter. existing road network in against service aggregators follow container model which Passing the judgement on Hyderabad to ease traffic flow. Ola and Uber. "Out of the 30 will be in 20X12 feet design. In Wednesday, the court also Addressing the review meeting, calls, we have imposed e- every zone, 10 model has decided to go about with slapped the accused, the Minister said that GHMC challan of Rs 500 against 12 Annapurna canteens are being revamping the design. GHMC Hanumanth Dushhata a fine of was planning to build as many drivers, while forwarding the built. "We are going with con- officials claim that centres Rs 1,000. Ritu Chamkal, a slip roads as possible to ease rest to Rachakonda and tainer model for which design will be away from footpath native of Chhattisgarh married traffic flow and end congestion Hyderabad jurisdiction. The has also been approved. It with sufficient space and it will Hanumanth, following death of of major roads in the city. other two Traffic costs anywhere between Rs 10- resemble 'canteen' facility. her husband. According to a Officials informed him that Commissionerates are likely 12lakh. These will be similar Lokesh said, "In one complaint lodged by Ritu, the 55 roads have already been to make public a WhatsApp to the Darshini type hotels in month's time everything will accused used to thrash her identified where slip roads number for citizens to raise Bengaluru wherein they pro- be finalised. At the zonal level, and her children from first would be laid part of the first their complaints," said an vide high-rise table to eat, tenders will be called for short- marriage mercilessly. He also phase, and efforts are underway along the roads. "Already, official. hand washing facility and ly. We will do it immediately. sexually molested her three- to implement these plans. City is booming; traffic on city roads is increasing by orders have been made to build According to the cops, the drinking water facility," said Based on response, we will and-a-half-year old daughter. GHMC officials are fine-tuning the day and GHMC needs to make plans to ensure footpaths along populated e-challan will automatically GHMC Commissioner expand it for others. If space Whenever she objected, he the land acquisition process, citizens reach their destination easily roads for at least 10 kilometers surface against car owner Lokesh Kumar. constraint is there, we will try used to beat her and her planning and design of these 55 in each zone," KTR said. The registered with the Road There are about 150 to relocate it".It may be men- children.On March 14, Ritu slip roads. A Road — KT RAMA RAO, Municipal Administration Minister officials told him that GHMC Transport Authority. Annapurna canteens in the tioned that the GHMC has filed a complaint against the Development Plan has already has identified several areas for According to the Motor city. Currently most of the partnered with Akshaya Patra accused at Nampally station. been prepared for 40 roads. The construction of bus bays, and Vehicle Act, the refusal to ply Annapurna canteens are on Foundation, run by Hare Since March this year, the acquisition of just 90 properties needs to make plans to ensure Maintenance Programme. In KTR instructed the officials to a contract carriage on hire by footpaths. Moreover after the Krishna Movement, to prepare victim and family are under for 20 roads will enable the first citizens reach their destination addition, efforts are being made complete these at the earliest. a driver is an offence. meal timings, the sanitation of food and serve to around 400 the shelter of Lotus Safe phase of the construction of slip easily. As part of this, infra- to reduce traffic congestion at GHMC officials were also Therefore, the public can the area takes a toll. people at each Annapurna Home, Bowenpally. The court roads, KTR was told. structure development is intersections through devel- asked to prepare a report on now file a complaint to traf- Additionally, plates and water stall between 12 noon and 1 sentenced Hanumanth to Responding to this, the min- already being undertaken on a opment." He said that the gov- the possibilities of undertaking fic police with details such as packets at the centres are cre- pm. The vegetarian meal seven years Rigorous ister said, "City is booming; large-scale through initiatives ernment is also working on the road construction under the the vehicle number, date and ating lot of waste for dispos- includes rice, sambar, curry, Imprisonment (RI) and also traffic on city roads is increas- such as the SRDP and construction of large footpaths High Tension Wires (power time, location, a screenshot of al. In order to find a solution pickle, a disposable plate and imposed a fine of Rs 1000. ing by the day and GHMC Comprehensive Road so that pedestrians can walk corridors) in Hyderabad. rejection. to these problems, GHMC a 250 ml water pouch. Six Ayyappa devotees injured ix Ayyappa devotees and Man held for stealing jewellery CBI books city-based bussinessmen the driver of the van they S n n were travelling in suffered PNS HYDERABAD at his grandmother's house PNS HYDERABAD and is into manufacturing of years, which was extended fur- diversion of coal by SCML for serious injuries after the and left to Kakinada. Kumar Yarn, Denim and garments. It ther. Under the policy, the coal a purpose other than for which vehicle overturned on the The Malkajgiri Police on then stole gold chains weigh- The officials of Central Bureau also operates denim plant in supplied at the notified rate has it was being supplied. WCL Outer Ring Road at Thursday arrested a person for ing 50.4 grams and 19.6 grams, of Investigation (CBI) have Ramtek in Nagpur. SCML to be utilised for the energy constituted an inter-depart- Shamshabad on Thursday committing theft in his grand- mortgaged them and used the filed an FIR against city-based entered into a fuel supply requirement of the plant and mental committee in 2016 morning. According to the mother's house. The arrested money for his needs. He also Suryalakshmi Cotton Mills agreement in 2008 April not be diverted for any other April for verification of docu- police, the accident occurred was identified as Eegalpati stole two of his grandmother's Limited chairman L N under linkage policy purpose. ments to find out end-user of when the van, returning from Praveen Kumar (30), a resident rings weighing 5.4 grams, one Agarwal and MD with Nagpur-based In 2014 August, WECL and coal." The committee found Sabarimala to Sangareddy of Moula Ali and a business- pagadala and a gold chain Paritosh K Agarwal Western Coalfields SCML entered into another that the installed plant is district, went out of control man by profession. weighing 19.6 grams," in coal diversion Limited (WCL), a Fuel Supply Agreement for the underutilised and there was and hit the road median at According to the police, Kumar's grandmother's house Rakshitha K Murthy, Deputy fraud. The officials government of India supply of 1,13,000 tonnes of coal excess consumption of coal of Kotwalguda. The driver, Kumar, a native of Kakinada in at SP Nagar in Moula-Ali. Commissioner of Police, have conducted enterprise. per annum for its captive power 21,598 tonnes in 2014-15, whose condition is critical, is Andhra Pradesh, had come to "Kumar noticed that when- Malkajgiri Division, searches at the com- As per the agree- plant. The supply of coal com- 50,321 tonnes in 2015-16 and suspected to have dozed off Hyderabad four months ago to ever his aunt goes out of town, Rachakonda. On Thursday, pany in Secunderabad ment, WCL has to sup- menced in September 2014. 58,194 tonnes in 2016-17. The while driving leading to the take care of his grandmother, she keeps her gold ornaments officials arrested Kumar and and Nagpur on Thursday. ply 4,968 tonnes of coal In the FIR against committee also observed that mishap. The injured were who is suffering from cancer. and other valuables at his recovered the ornaments from The headquarters of under 'Annual Contract Suryalakshmi Cotton Mills the huge quantity of 1.23 lakh rushed to a nearby hospital. A distant aunt of Kumar also grandmother's house. On one him. He confessed to the crime Suryalakshmi Cotton Mills Quantity' to meet energy CBI Nagpur branch head, SD tonnes of coal was supplied in stays in the same locality, a such day, on 2 November, his upon interrogation, the police Limited (SCML) is located at requirement of SCML's plant at Mishra alleged, "WCL received excess to the accused SCML couple of houses away from aunt kept her gold ornaments said. SD Road in Secunderabad Ramtek for a period of five specific information about the since 2014. HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | DECEMBER 20, 2019 hyderabad 04

DISHA CASE Kin of accused want Rs 50L payout PNS n HYDERABAD Requesting that the agency should Samatha case The family members of the probe the case under the supervision of a four accused of sensational Disha case have filed petitions Commission appointed by the Supreme Court, accused plead before the Supreme Court the relatives also urged to register a murder not guilty seeking monitored probe by case against the police personnel who were ‘Neglected’ by country's premier investigation involved in the encounter ll the three accused in the agency CBI or by a Special ASamatha case refused to party, Ponnala Investigation Team (SIT). admit raping and killing of the They also demanded Rs 50 woman in the fast track court feels hurt lakh compensation for each informed the court that the in Adilabad on Thursday. The family from the government. Supreme Court had directed three persons, identified as K VENKATESHWARLU Several petitions have been him to approach the High Sheik Babu, Sheik Shabuddin n HYDERABAD filed against the encounter in Court for such relief. After and Sheik Makhdoom are the Supreme Court. hearing the submissions of the accused in the rape and Former PCC president Requesting that the agency petitioner, the bench directed murder of Samatha, which Ponnala Lakshmaiah has should probe the case under him to file an affidavit in this took place a few days before Officials take selfie after planting sapling as part of ‘Green Challenge’ at Shamshabad on Thursday expressed displeasure for not the supervision of a regard and adjourned the case the Disha case, in Komaram- including his name along with Commission appointed by the to Friday. Jollu Naveen, Jollu Bheem Asifabad district. former PCC president V Supreme Court, the relatives Siva, Chinthakuntla Sources said that the accused Hanumantha Rao in the list of also urged to register a murder Chennakesavalu and told the court that they were Bureaucrats plant saplings invitees to meet Governor case against the police per- Mohammed Arif were accused not guilty of the crime and that Tamilisai recently, even after sonnel who were involved in of raping and killing a veteri- the police had foisted false inviting them. Ponnala, one of the encounter. nary assistant surgeon and cases against them. A Fast the senior leaders in the party, In their petition, they alleged later burning her body at a cul- Track court in Adilabad is as part of Green Challenge in the TPCC extended core that their family members tioner against Disha encounter vert in Chatanpally village in dealing with the case and an committee meeting held on were killed by the police in a on Thursday raised the issue of Shadnagar on November 27. advocate Raheem filed a PNS n HYDERABAD forest and environment planted saplings and nomi- Thursday, started his speech by 'fake encounter'. They urged preserving dead bodies before The police arrested the four discharge petition stating that Rajeshwar Tiwari participated nated Rangareddy ZP chair- saying, "I am introducing the court to take action against the Telangana High Court. and later took them into their there is no direct evidence in As part of the Green in the Green Challenge. person Anita Reddy, myself. This is Ponnala the police officials who were He urged the court to han- custody for further investiga- the case. Accepting Rahim's Challenge, senior bureaucrats Accepting the Green Maheswaram MPTC Lakshmaiah... former PCC responsible for the encounter dover the dead bodies to the tion. The quartet was killed in plea to argue for the accused, have planted saplings at the Challenge thrown by Chief Raghuma Reddy and president". His remarks have of their family members. family members of the an exchange of fire at the court adjourned the case inaugural function of the for- Secretary Dr SK Joshi, Harshaguda sarpanch Pandu shocked the leaders, who were Meanwhile, one of the peti- deceased for cremation. He Chatanpally on December 6. for Friday. est adventure camp held near Rajeshwar Tiwari planted three Naik. present during the meeting. outer ring road at Shamshabad saplings and nominated CMO Accepting two green chal- Meanwhile, VH abstained on Thursday. Principal Chief principal secretary Narsinga lenges thrown in by Dr SK from the meeting. It may be Conservator of Forests R Rao, special chief secretary Joshi, Viplav Kumar (TUFIDC recalled that both VH and Judges Sobha, Principal Secretary Ajay Mishra and principal sec- chairman), PCCF Sobha plant- Ponnala left the Raj Bhavan Minister lays foundation (Energy Department) Ajay retary finance Ramakrishna ed six saplings and nominated after seeing the list in which appointed to Misra and Principal Secretary Rao. In turn, Ajay Mishra six others. their names were not men- tioned. After coming out from special courts Raj Bhavan, VH alleged that for Christian Bhavan his own party leaders insulted PNS n HYDERABAD Hyd figures in BC leaders by not including PNS n HYDERABAD launched several welfare pro- handed over papers, allocating their names even after inviting grammes for them and Rs 1.16 4.21 acres for a burial ground, The Chief Justice of top 2 for high them to the Raj Bhavan to Minister Koppula Eshwar on lakh was gifted for their mar- to Telangana State Christian Telangana High Court on meet Governor to submit Thursday laid the foundation riages. Christmas celebrations, Minorities Finance Thursday appointed 11 jus- memorandum on a host of stone of Christian Bhavan, too, were organised by the gov- Corporation MD Kanthi tices to try rape cases in spe- salary for... issues. However, the party which is to be built at a cost of ernment every year, he said. Wesley. He said the land was in cial courts. Continued from Page 1 leaders included 21 names Rs 10 crore, near Kokapet in The Chief Minister will attend Rangareddy, Medchal and Following the Disha inci- except VH and Ponnala. Rangareddy. Accompanied by this year's feast, organised by Vikarabad districts. Sabitha dent, the special court judges The renewed demand for Education Minister P Sabitha the State government, at LB Indra Reddy appreciated the were appointed to speed up professionals with digital Indra Reddy, Eshwar said Stadium on Friday, Eshwar concern of the Chief Minister the trial in such cases. skills — cloud, product man- Christian minorities, who lived said. He said it was the Chief towards the welfare of agement, analytics, AI and TS Lokayukta... in insecurity before K Minister who granted Rs 10 Christians in the State. Local automation — could be the Continued from Page 1 Chandrashekhar Rao become crore for Christian Bhavan. MLA Prakash Goud, MLC Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas yadav at a review meeting in the major factors for the sector's Chief Minister, are now living in "No other State government did Rajeshwar, MLA Stephenson TS tableau set city on Thursday strong showing this year, the The committee members peace and contentment. so much for any minority com- and advisor AK Khan were pre- report said. included Legislative Council The State government munity," he said. The minister sent. to join R-day... The report also highlight- chairman Gutta Sukhender ed the 'Hot Jobs for 2019' that Reddy, Legislative Assembly Continued from Page 1 Use social media to showcased roles that are in Speaker Pocharam Srinivas strong demand across indus- Reddy, Opposition leaders in It may be mentioned here tries, where talent in 6-10 Assembly and Council respec- that in 2015, when the state got boost Vijaya Dairy years experience bracket are tively Pasha Quadri and a chance to display its rich tra- paid relatively higher remu- Jaffrey. The recommendations ditions nationally, 'Bonalu', neration as compared to other made by the committee were the state's main festival, was sales: Talasani professionals in the same accepted by Governor displayed, along with salary range. Compliance spe- Tamilisai Soundararajan. The Potharaju and Golconda in the PNS n HYDERABAD places, near temples, along cialists top the chart with an State government also background. The Principal highways to promote sales. A average annual CTC at Rs appointed G Chandraiah as Secretary also congratulated Animal Husbandry Minister mobile application should be 31.09 lakh, followed by chairman of the State Human Dr. Gaurav Uppal who is Talasani Srinivas Yadav on designed to take care of door Python specialists with a CTC Rights Commission, with N Resident Commissioner, Thursday asked the concerned delivery of Vijaya Dairy prod- of Rs 20.24 lakh, Hadoop spe- Ananda Rao and Mohamed Telangana. Dr.Gaurav said," officials to give wider public- ucts and hold negotiations cialists at Rs 19.01 lakh and Irfan Moinuddin as mem- The final presentation for the ity to Vijaya Dairy projects and with managements of markets, Specialist Doctors with a CTC bers. Since AIMIM floor selection of Tableau in use social media platforms to supermarkets and malls in of Rs18.01 lakh. With leader in Assembly, Republic Day Parade -2020 boost sales. major towns and cities to demand for GST compliance Akbaruddin Owaisi was not was done very well on Taking part in the Vijaya ensure sale of Vijaya Dairy specialists, accountants, man- available, Pasha Quadri, the Thursday by Resident Dairy board meeting, he asked products. agement consultants and party's deputy leader, attend- Koppula Eshwar, Minister for Minorities Welfare and Sabitha Indra Reddy, Minister for Education, laying the foundation Commissioner, Telangana and the dairy officials to shoot He asked the dairy board lawyers on the rise, profes- ed the meeting. stone for Christian Bhavan at Kokapet on Thursday State I&PR dept officials.” video advertisements of the members to prepare plans to sional services sector ranked dairy products and screen increase production in tune as the second highest paying them in multiplexes, railway with the increased sales. Vijaya sector for junior and senior stations and bus stations to Dairy Chairman Bhumareddy, levels. The Randstad Insights give more publicity to the Managing Director Srinivasa Salary Trends Report 2019 ‘Convene spl session Gang arrested for printing fake RCs products. Rao, Animal Husbandry analysed 1,00,000 jobs across He asked the officials to pre- Department director Lakshma 15 industry verticals and PNS n HYDERABAD pare plans to set up more Reddy and others took part in functions, spread across eight to reject CAA, NRC' attractive outlets at tourist the meeting. major cities. The officials of the Continued from Page 1 said that CAA was unconsti- Commissioner's Task Force, tutional and it would be South Zone along with Addressing a meeting con- proved as such in the Supreme Chandrayangutta Police on vened by the Telangana State & Court as well. He accused the Thursday nabbed six persons Cops book 31 for ‘indecent acts' in pub Andhra Pradesh Joint Action BJP government of creating a for creating fake vehicle regis- Continued from Page 1 was dragged and thrashed by official. The Panjagutta Committee on CAA & NRC communal divide in the name tration certificates and seized her women colleagues for not Inspector of Police Srikanth here, Shabbir Ali urged the of granting citizenship to six PVC card with microchip, Following their detention, 'performing sex acts with a Goud said: "Task Force sleuths organizations forming part of minority groups from three computers, primacy printer the Panjagutta police booked customer'. handed over all 31 to us. We JAC to bring pressure on the neighbouring countries. The and cell phones. a case under section 294 of IPC West Zone Task Force booked FIR and will be taking Chief Minister to officially saffron party had tried to kill The arrested were identified which prescribes three months' Inspector of Police Gattu Mallu action as per the law by serv- announce that Telangana would the very spirit of the as Mohammed Afroze Khan imprisonment for any obscene said that though there was no ing notices. As it is a bailable not implement both CAA and Constitution by linking citi- (31), Abdul Rehman Khan acts performed at a public instance of nude dancing now, offence, we will take action NRC. The former minister zenship with religion, (56), Mohammed Yousuf (39), place. Those booked from the women dancing in the pub accordingly. There is no pros- pointed out that Chief Ministers he said. Abdul Basith (29), Khan joined as RTA agent at (M- wallet) and hatched a plan pub, however, denounced their were resorting to obscenity. titution in the pub. The alle- of states ruled by Congress Shabbir said CAA was Mohammed Abdul Javeed (29) Nagole RTA office after his to create duplicate Registration detention as a reflection of "Our task force team went gation is they are improperly and Left-parties, including West inspired by the ideology of and Mohammed Ansar Ali studies. Due to financial crisis, certificate for any RTA to earn 'moral policing'. into the pub in decoy opera- dressed and dancing inde- Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Khan (43). Mohammed he stopped the agent work easy money. Police said that the Refuting allegations of tion as customers. We took pic- cently." Banerjee, had made similar who wrote a book 'Hindutva' in Mumtaz Khan (35), Imran and joined his father's welding gang prepared fake registration moral policing, cops pointed tures of improperly dressed Police said that they had announcements. 1917 and published it in 1923. and Mohammed Ismail are business. He soon gained certificates for as many as 100 out that in June 2019, a women in the Lisbon Restobar already filed a charge-sheet in Although the TRS had been However, the idea was reject- absconding, the police said. knowledge about the loop- to 150 vehicles of which, so far, Tollywood junior artiste, hired and pub. Later, we raided it and connection with the attack on supporting the BJP govern- ed by Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit According to police, Afroze holes in the online RTA site 8 vehicles were identified. by the same pub as a dancer, arrested 31 people," said the the dancer. ment at the Centre since 2014, Nehru, Moulana Azad and it had voted against CAA in other Congress leaders and Parliament. Therefore, the Dr. BR. Ambedkar provided us Chief Minister should imme- a secular Constitution. The diately convene a special ses- BJP was now trying to change ‘Bharat Bachao-TS Bachao’ from Dec 20 VH asks KCR to clarify sion and announce rejection the Constitution, clause by of CAA and NRC.Shabbir Ali clause, Shabbir said. PNS n HYDERABAD Calling upon party leaders and cadre stand on Citizenship Act TPCC chief N Uttam Kumar to participate actively in the protests, PNS n HYDERABAD second citizens in the country Reddy on Thursday said that if the Centre transforms the Old SSC marks memos the people across India are Uttam said that the party will take out Congress senior leader V nation as Hindu nation. very much concerned over a rally on December 28 'Save India- Save Hanumantha Rao demanded Stating that West Bengal Chief CAA and Telangana Congress Chief Minister K Minister Mamata would launch protest pro- Constitution' after hoisting the Tricolour Chandrasekhar Banerjee has made it from 1958 to be digitised grammes in all municipalities at Gandhi Bhavan Rao to clear clear that she will Continued from Page 1 because the old marks mem- against the Act from whether his not implement the oranda have not been digi- December 20 to 27 under government CAA in her state, Since March 2014, all SSC tised. Moreover, old records the slogan of 'Bharat Bachao- Amarinder Singh, Pinaray Earlier, the TPCC's extend- will imple- VH asked the marks memoranda are being are getting damaged. Telangana Bachao'. Vijayan and others had done. ed core committee meeting ment Telangana Chief uploaded on the website. Therefore, the authorities Calling upon Congress He said that the Congress will was held in the Gandhi Citizenship Minister to clear The authorities also suc- have decided to digitise the party leaders and cadre to expose the failures in the first Bhavan. Telangana Congress Amendment his stand on ceeded in making available tabulation registers and participate actively in the on universities students. He year of the TRS government's affairs in charge RC Khuntia, Act (CAA) in implementation of marks memos dating back to records since 1958, scan- protests, Uttam said that the alleged that the BJP brought second term. He alleged that CLP leader Mallu Bhatti the state or not. CAA in the state. 2004. If anyone applies to ning all key registers district- party will take out a rally on CAA only to hide its failures TRS government failed to Vikramarka, A Revanth Speaking to the He said that the TRS the Education Department wise and year-wise. Upon December 28 'Save India- on all fronts. release unemployment Reddy, Ponnam Prabhakar, J media on Thursday at MPs opposed the Bill in Lok to secure old marks memos, completion of the project; if Save Constitution' after hoist- Uttam also demanded allowance, Rythu Bandhu Kusuma Kumar, Ponnala Gandhi Bhavan, VH said that Sabha and in the same man- i.e. those prior to 2004, the the hall-ticket number of ing the Tricolour at Gandhi Chief Minister K incentives and in implement- Laxmaiah, Shabbir Ali, the Muslims are afraid of ner KCR has to prove his sin- officials are finding it diffi- the student is entered, in a Bhavan marking Congress Chandrasekhar Rao make his ing loan waiver scheme. "TRS Srinivasa Krishnan, G Chinna Centre doubting that whether cerity by making his stand cult to access them and it is jiffy all details would appear foundation day. The TPCC stand on CAA clear and said government hiked bus fares Reddy, Konda Vishweshwar it transforms India as 'Hindu very clear. Then there would a time-consuming exercise on the computer screen. chief said that the Congress that Chief Ministers of other burdening the people," Uttam Reddy and Marri Shashidhar country'. The Muslims are in not be any concerns among condemned the lathi-charge states like Mamata Banerji, said. Reddy attended the meeting. thoughts that they will become the Muslims, he opined. HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | DECEMBER 20, 2019 nation 05 SHORT READS ‘Teachings, thoughts of Gandhi, Pak violates LoC Siddaramiah flays Karna ceasefire in Poonch, Indian Army responds Ambedkar must be propagated’ JAMMU: Firing was on across govt's decision to clamp down PNS n NEW DELHI themselves or their family the Line of Control (LoC) in members, he said. Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch PNS n BENGALURU However, defying prohibito- Social Justice and People should take their life on Thursday after Pakistani ry orders hundreds have gath- Empowerment Minister and struggles they underwent troops violated the ceasefire Hitting out at Chief Minister B ered at Town Hall here to Thawar Chand Gehlot on as an example for public ser- and the Indian Army retaliated, S Yediyurappa for his govern- protest againstthe Citizenship Thursday advocated the need vice for a cause, he added. the army said. Pakistan opened ment's decision to clamp down Amendment Act (CAA). for "intensively propagating" Gehlot's remarks have come unprovoked fire with small on protests against Citizenship Extending his full support to the teachings, thoughts and in the backdrop of protests arms and mortars in Mankote Amendment Act, former Chief those peacefully protesting sacrifices of Mahatma Gandhi over the Citizenship sector of Poonch and Indian Minister Siddaramaiah on against the "anti-constitution- and B R Ambedkar among the Amendment Act continuing in troops were "retaliating Thursday asked him not to be al" CAA, Siddaramaiah said, it people. parts of the country on befittingly" an army statement "undemocratic". is this act of protesting that has Participating in a lecture Thawar Chand Gehlot Thursday. said. In a series of tweets, the strengthened the democracy here on the topic-- 'From Scores of protesters includ- senior Congress leader told the and political accountability. Mahatma to Modi: The Idea of He said their way ing Jamia students, policemen Chief Minister that he was "Mr. Yediyurappa @BSYBJP, India', under the auspices of his and locals were injured in the Govt scared on being used as a pawn to fulfill B S Yediyurappa Chief Minister Siddaramaiah What will you do when your ministry, Gehlot said both of holding non- violence and arson that took historians': Mamata the agenda of RSS, and called own MLAs protest against you Gandhi and Ambedkar were violent protests place during the protest on on Guha's detention on him to strengthen the forces Authorities have clamped section 144 after cabinet expansion, if at all "highly learned mahapurush". during the freedom Sunday in the national capital. that fight against fascism. of the CrPC in various parts of the state the expansion is happening? He said their way of holding struggle against Gehlot also highlighted his KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief "Mr Yediyurappa @BSYBJP, Will you impose Sec 144 even non-violent protests during ministry's achievements, which Minister Mamata Banerjee on If you remember correctly, including Bengaluru and Mangaluru with then? Sec 144 is not a solution the freedom struggle against the Britishers under the Modi dispensation, Thursday condemned the think about the number of immediate effect on Wednesday against rightful protesters," he the Britishers without causing without causing had created seven Guinness detention of leading historian protests you led against our evening that will be in force till the further questioned the Chief disturbances to the general disturbances to records for the welfare of the Ramachandra Guha during an govt. Minister. public should be taken note of. disabled people. anti-CAA protest in Bengaluru Though your later convic- midnight of December 21 Earlier in the day, alleging Both the "tall leaders", who the general public Director of Indian Institute and extended her solidarity to tion proved that you lacked the Congress was behind the worshipped India, faced should be taken of Advanced Study, Shimla, M all those picked up during the commitment, we are sure of are falling to their trap. They're section 144 of the CrPC in var- protest, Yediyurappa said it is harassment, insults, baton note of R Paranjape claimed Nehru's agitation. "This government is our commitment towards our coming for you!! Be aware, Be ious parts of the state includ- because of people like U T charges of cops, bullets and model of socialism and com- scared of students. This Constitution. Don't be unde- watchful!! Strengthen the ing Bengaluru and Mangaluru Khader (Congress MLA) such even underwent jail term but munism had failed in India as government is scared of one of mocratic!!" Siddaramaiah said. forces that fight against fas- with immediate effect on things are happening, and if there were no reports of single return to India they did not many public sector undertak- India's most accomplished "Mr. @BSYBJP Yediyurappa, cism!!" he said in another Wednesday evening that will they continue in the same way, stone thrown or public prop- take up their profession or took ings, started in his time, were historians for speaking to the You are being used as a pawn tweet. be in force till the midnight of they will have to face the con- erties damaged during their employment elsewhere. suffering losses for about Rs 1.5 media on #CAB #NRC and to fulfill the agenda of RSS. You Authorities have clamped December 21. sequences. agitations, he said. Instead they sacrificed them- lakh crores with Air India holding a poster of GandhiJi," In fact both of them studied selves for the country's liber- alone accounting for Rs 50,000 Banerjee said in a post on her law abroad and after their ation without bothering about crore. Twitter handle. "I condemn the detentionA of Ram Guha. We BIHAR BANDH CAA PROTESTS extend our full solidarity to all those detained," she said. Hundreds of agitators, Large-scale disruption of traffic, Muslims of India need not including Guha, were detained in Bengaluru, Kalaburagi and Shivamogga in Karnataka for vandalism and arson reported fear: Ajmer Dargah head protesting against the PNS n PATNA PNS n JAIPUR Citizenship Amendment Act on Thursday. Bihar witnessed large-scale HC issues notice The Citizenship disruption of traffic, vandalism (Amendment) Act is not and arson on Thursday on against Muslims of the coun- Don't stifle account of a state-wide shut- to Centre, try and they need not fear as democratic voices: down called by Left parties in Delhi govt it does not pose any danger to protest against amended their citizenship, the spiritual Aparna Sen Kamal Haasan Citizenship Act and the pro- PNS n NEW DELHI head of Ajmer Dargah Zainul CHENNAI: Actor-turned- posed country-wide imple- Abedin Ali Khan said on politician and founder of the mentation of National Register The Delhi High Court Thursday. ‘Country MNM party Kamal Haasan on of Citizens. Thursday issued notice to the He said the government Thursday urged the Chennai Several small parties like Centre, the Delhi government should constitute a high- protesting Police Commissioner not to controversial former MP coalition Congress, RLSP and Bhojpuri numbers on the and the police on a PIL seek- power committee considering stifle democratic voices at the Pappu Yadavs Jan Adhikar HAM had on Wednesday Mahatma Gandhi Setu across ing setting up of a fact finding the sentiments of muslim anti-Citizenship Amendment Party (JAP) and former pledged support to both the the Ganges that connects the committee to look into vio- community and submit a fac- loudly against Act (CAA) protests to be held Bollywood set designer shutdowns though not much capital city to north Bihar lence at Jamia Millia Islamia tual report after hearing their here. In a tweet the Makkal Mukesh Sahnis Vikassheel active participation was seen while many others demon- University here during protests grievances so that the fear and CAA, NRC’ Needhi Maiam (MNM) leader PNS n KOLKATA said: "My request is, to the Insaan Party (VIP) the latter from these parties. strated on the streets bare- against the Citizen myths shrouding to the new Indian who is sitting on the a constituent of the opposition In the state capital, the JAP chested notwithstanding the (Amendment) Act (CAA). law are cleared. Commissioner of Police Grand Alliance in the state a fledgling outfit remained in chilly weather. A bench of Chief Justice D "The Citizenship Eminent film maker-actor Chennai's chair. Please do not took active part in the dawn- the spotlight as it took the lead Yadav, who was recently N Patel however declined (Amendment) Act is not Aparna Sen on Thursday stifle Democratic voices to be to-dusk protests. in vandalizing buses and cars, served with a notice by the interim protection to students against Muslims living in the said the country is protesting raised at Valluvar Kottam today The Grand Alliances largest burning tyres on the roads to Patna district administration from coercive action including country. Any muslim living in appealed to the Centre to vehemently against the new (Thursday)." People from constituent RJD extended obstruct movement of vehicles under Section 107 of the arrest. Lawyers chanted the country need not fear as issue a guideline to police to citizenship law CAA and the different walks of life like "moral support" to the bandh and squatting on railway tracks Criminal Procedure Code "shame shame" after the high there is no danger to their cit- not use force on students and National Register of students, youth, women though its cadre stayed away to prevent trains from running which he had equated with a court declined students inter- izenship. But, there is a need not act in a way as if the pupils Citizens(NRC), and the voic- organisations, Muslim from enforcing the same, say- on time. "house arrest", marched on im protection. to clarify the fear and myth of the university are criminals. es of protest cannot be muz- organisations and others are ing they have called a shut- The JAP activists also came the streets accompanied by The court's decision came spread among Muslims in the He also appealed the stu- zled by clamping prohibito- expected to participate in the down against the amended up with several camera- supporters all of them wear- while hearing six petitions country," the Dargah Deewan dents of the university to not ry orders. protest. "We expect about 300- Citizenship Act and proposed friendly forms of protest. ing handcuffs and shackles seeking medical treatment said. take law in their hands as they Taking part in a huge 400 people to participate in the nationwide NRC on Saturday, Some of them males around their legs accusing the and compensation for injured Referring to the Delhi police are the future of the country protest march in Kolkata, protest. People belonging to December 21. donned saris and gyrated lusti- government of trying to students in the protests against crackdown on students of and their parents and family Sen condemned the deten- various organisations, social Other constituents of the ly to the tunes of ribald smother dissent. CAA over the past few days. Jamia Millia Islamia, Abedin have high hopes from them. tion of famed historian activists, Sri Lankan refugees Ramchandra Guha in and others are expected to Bengaluru. participate in the protest," "We have to show them Mohammed Ghouse, State that people across the coun- Secretary, Welfare Party of Stalin, Haasan criticise police action against Guha, Yadav try are opposed to it. The India said. country is loudly protest- PNS n CHENNAI against Guha and Yadav. "I ing," she said during a apolit- M.K.Stalin (@mkstalin) applaud with glee at the stupid- ical march from Ramlila Anti-CAA protests: 19 Opposition DMK and MNM I condemn the high-handedness of the Govt authorities ity of the government for stok- Maidan to the Kolkata IndiGo flights cancelled, on Thursday criticised the ing the fire of Satyagraha by Muncipal Corporation head- police action against historian & police officials who have arrested @Ram_Guha & arresting the thinking and ques- quarters here. 16 others delayed Ramchandra Guha and Swaraj @_YogendraYadav tioning minds of India like AIterating that secularism NEW DELHI: Nineteen IndiGo Abhiyaan chief Yogendra Yadav @Ram_Guha & has held India together like a flights were cancelled and 16 during the anti-CAA protests, @_YogendraYadav," he said in glue, she said: "So long secu- others were delayed as crew with Kamal Haasan expressing stoking the fire of Satyagaraha Delhi, saying it "goes against the tweet. "Yet I am concerned larism is under threat and members were stuck in traffic "concern" over their safety. by arresting" Guha and Yadav. free speech." "When the space for their safety. India stands attack, our movement will jam at NH-8 due to anti-CAA Yadav and Guha were "I condemn the high-hand- for dissent shrinks, dictatorship with you," he added. continue." protests on Thursday, a Delhi detained by the police in Delhi edness of the Government replaces democracy. Yadav was among those pro- Questioning why the airport official said. Three ad Bengaluru, respectively. authorities & police officials #CAAProtest," the Tamil Nadu testers who were detained by authorities should impose airlines -- Vistara, Air India and While DMK President M K who have arrested Leader of Opposition added. the Delhi Police near Red Fort prohibitory orders, she said "I IndiGo -- announced that their Stalin slammed the "high-hand- @Ram_Guha & Makkal Needhi Maiam chief when they tried to take out a condemn the detention of passengers, who are stuck in edness" of police over their @_YogendraYadav," Stalin Haasan, who has been vocifer- march in defiance of the pro- Guha, Yogendra Yadav. You traffic due to anti-CAA protests arrest, Haasan said he was wrote on Twitter. ous in his opposition to the hibitory orders imposed to cannot muzzle protest by at various parts of Delhi, will be applauding with "glee the stu- Further, he opposed the sus- Citizenship (Amendment) Act, protest the amended clamping (prohibitory adjusted in subsequent flights. pidity of the government for pension of internet in parts of also slammed the police action Citizenship Act. orders) under section 144". "Till now, 16 flights have been delayed due to traffic jam at NH-8. IndiGo has cancelled 19 flights as the crew members were stuck in traffic jam and UP Assembly adjourned sine die amid because of other issues," the official said.

Violent protests hit oppn uproar; supplementary budget passed Lucknow; police use PNS n LUCKNOW tear-gas shells Parliamentary Affairs minister Suresh Uttar Pradesh Legislative LUCKNOW: Violent protests Khanna was heard saying that Assembly was abruptly Opposition was bereft of issues and broke out in Lucknow against adjourned sine die on the new citizenship law on Thursday amid uproar by was not interested in any debate. Thursday afternoon when a opposition members and mob pelted stones and torched protests in the well of the ing, Speaker Hriday Narain against the amended vehicles parked outside a police Pushed back from Red Fort, House over various issues. Dixit completed with minutes Citizenship Act. Leader of post. DGP O.P Singh said police had to fire tear-gas shells to As soon as the House met the business on the agenda that Opposition Ahmed Hasan said for the day, Leader of the included the passage by voice he has been served notice by a control the situation in people continue protest Madeyganj area. About 20 Opposition Ram Govind vote of the second supplemen- sub-inspector level officer on PNS n NEW DELHI people have been taken into After being pushed back, Chaudhary stood up, alleging tary demands tabled on Wednesday, warning him custody, he added. Tension was they converged near Sunehri that people were being denied Tuesday, vote on account and against taking part in the palpable in some other areas, People from various parts of Masjid, where slogans of 'Hum their Constitutional right of certain bills. protest and alleged that especially the Muslim- the city converged near Honge Kamyaab', 'Inquilab holding protests and 'dhar- The Speaker then took the Opposition leaders and work- dominated Old City areas, and Sunehri Masjid in Old Delhi, Zindabad' filled the air. nas'. Referring to Samajwadi sense of the House and with a ers were being pressured. police officials were having a after being pushed back by Slogans of 'CAA Se Azaadi Party protest against the majority of the members sup- SP leaders barged into the tough time maintaining law and police from the historic Red and NRC Se Azaadi' were amended citizenship law on Parliamentary Affairs min- the house has been most irre- porting the resolution, well of the House leading to the order. Senior officers were Fort, to protest against the also raised by the crowd, Thursday, Chaudhary said this ister Suresh Khanna was heard sponsible. They are trying to adjourned the proceedings sine adjournemnt of the proceed- camping in the areas disturbed Citizenship Amendment Act which included locals from is the first time that any gov- saying that Opposition was set the state on fire. Since die. The state Assembly was ings first for 15 minutes and by protests. Meanwhile, (CAA) on Thursday. Old Delhi and East Delhi and ernment is thwarting a protest bereft of issues and was not opposition members are not otherwise likely to be then till 12 noon. Congress sources said, UPCC Owing to the prohibitory students. in such a manner and cited interested in any debate. interested in the peaceful con- adjourned sine die on Friday. When the House reassem- president Ajay Kumar Lallu was orders imposed in the nation- Protesters were carrying the state's DGP OP Singh state- Khanna also pulled up the duct of the proceedings, it will In the Legislative Council, bled, SP pressed for a reply detained when he was leading a al capital, the Delhi Police national flag. On a day, the ment where he said all protests Opposition, saying they have be better to have the House the Question Hour was dis- from the Leader of the House protest against the law his party detained protesters who national capital recorded the will be crushed. done nothing for the people adjourned sine die," Khanna rupted following protests by on the "high handedness of the says is discriminatory in the reached the Red Fort to protest coldest day of the season, pro- Soon after, SP and Congress and that is why they have been said. Samajwadi Party members government", failing which busy Parivartan Chowk, near against the CAA and placed testers, wrapped in their win- members barged into the well rejected by the electorate. The opposition members over prohibitory order notices they once again were up on the District Magistrate's office. barricades to stop others from ter clothes, carried on their of the house raising slogans "They need to resign and sit kept protesting all along. served to their leaders in view their feet, leading to the reaching there. demonstration. and creating a din. at home as their behaviour in Amid continued sloganeer- of the proposed programme adjournment till 1.30 pm. HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | DECEMBER 20, 2019 op nion 06 www.dailypioneer.com facebook.com/dailypioneer | @TheDailyPioneer | instagram.com/dailypioneer/ PAPER WITH PASSION Civil disobedience It is the subtext of the NRC and a civil society movement that are forcing regional parties and CMs to up the ante An unstable Nepal n unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so,” said AMahatma Gandhi. But as the pan- Kathmandu may have a Government completing its full term in 2023 but Oli’s physical Indian clampdowns on protesters over the seg- regatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and incapacity to be the Prime Minister will be the inflection point in Nepalese politics the binary National Register of Citizens (NRC) acquire a martial fury, and an activist-schol- ar holding his picture is dragged away, the father of the nation would seem to have been reduced to an anachronism. Except that his spirit is not as there is a collective outpouring of anxieties nationwide about partitioning the identity of India where co-existence is not just a word but lived in daily life. Perhaps, this version of civil disobedience is for the first time breathing life into a counter-current against ASHOK K MEHTA the BJP’s monolithism and demonisation of imagined ills. So federal parties and hree events witnessed by me Chief Ministers, fired by students and civil society taking to the streets, are chal- recently have come to dominate lenging the implementation of the deeply disturbing NRC. And although the Centre the political landscape in Nepal: may push it down our gullets under the Constitutional cover of it being in the A new power-sharing deal between ailing Prime Minister Union List, the Opposition-ruled State Governments have committed themselves KPT Oli and co-chairman of the Nepal to morally question that process. No matter what the official line is about verify- Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal ing who is an Indian and who is an intruder, the NRC, in effect, means proving Dahal, also known as Prachanda; flare-up of the Kalapani territorial dispute between our citizenship all over again no matter what our religion is. It involves a com- India and Nepal; and the holding of elec- plex documentation process, sorting and review, should we fail to meet bench- tions to 52 vacant posts in Kathmandu, the marks. It is built on a deep distrust of all existing criteria of citizenship with the first political test after the NCP swept the three-tier polls in 2017-18. The most sen- BJP Government insisting that they, Aadhaar included, have been manipulated sational development, however, was the by vested interests for votebank politics. Does the NRC list then mean that all obituary pasted over the much-touted our past attempts at census have been flawed and discriminatory? Leave aside gentleman’s agreement between Oli and the costly logistical exercise in stressed times, the rush for “acceptable” papers Dahal. According to the latter, both had agreed to share prime ministership for two- has already generated a parallel, dark economy, one which breeds a new soci- and-half years each. On an official visit to etal matrix of privileges and money power. One where you could be pre-judged New Delhi in 2018, Dahal had publicly and dangerously profiled, too. Even with the narrowest margin of error — we affirmed the deal. Oli had then sought an explanation from Dahal. cannot have zero error in a country as vast and diverse as India — it has been Suddenly last month, Nepal woke up estimated that millions could be left out just because of procedural oversight. to President Bidhya Devi Bhandari broker- And a bonafide citizen could lose life as he knew it. In that sense, it is a re-purifi- ing a new deal (which is no deal). According to it, Oli, while continuing to be cation exercise and a fig leaf for flushing out not just illegal immigrants but scar- the Prime Minister till termination of the ing the citizenry, be it majority or minority, in general. If we do not make the cut present House, would elevate Dahal as the in this blatantly exclusionary document, either because of a lack of papers, some executive chairman of the party. The intended separation of office and power, from our grandparents’ times or some perceived inconsistency, a vast majority however, could not be achieved. Oli told own map, showing Limpiya silver bullet of a two-third voteshare either way. Both par- and re-joining NC will take the of Indians could be Stateless and without rights. Rather the intent is to demol- Kantipur Television twice in an interview: Dhura as the source of Kali majority, with which, the ties are introspecting even as House tally to 116 (NC 63 and ish the social plurality of India and impose majoritarian consent by creating a “Not only am I the other executive chair- river. At the heart of the dispute Madhesis hope, he will alter the they are internally divided. Maoists 53). With obliging man but also senior to Dahal… we both is the origin of Kali river along Constitution and meet their This is the first election the hands from RJP (17) and SPN new support base of genuflecting cheer-leaders. And as some citizens could will chair party meetings but I am the the western boundary of Nepal. residual demands. India, too, NCP has fought as a merged (16), the coalition will reach 150 become Stateless, the overnight denial of pre-existing rights of the inlander and senior chair and he is the other chair.” Nepal claims it originates in has been pressing for the same entity (UML and Maoist party); lawmakers, crossing the halfway the immediate and no-paper admission for outsiders, be they Hindu, Sikh or The power struggle has been resolved Limpiya Dhura while India for quite some time now. whereas in 2017-18 it contest- mark of 138. Oli fears Prachanda to Oli’s advantage with the former civil war says it is at Kalapani, where it Prachanda is more amenable ed elections separately. can dislodge him but he has said Buddhist, under CAA present a dichotomy that’s not convincing anybody. time hero Prachanda conceding the battle, maintains a military post. Every towards settling Madhesi griev- Unfortunately, the two new no power on earth can prevent As Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal rightly said, 70 per cent of Indians, not the campaign. Oli has positioned the few years, the Kalapani dispute ances. The only real Madhesi parties, Bibeksheel Party and the NCP from completing its most of them poor, have no documents to prove their citizenship. An entire gen- Damocles’ sword over Dahal for war-time is revived but this time party left is the Rastriya Janata Sajha Party, made an impres- full-term. Only Prachanda can excesses, which is to be investigated by the Kathmandu won’t let it go. It is Party (RJP), which in coalition sive showing but could not win change that. Oli’s physical inca- eration has been mostly home-born and has no birth documents. Besides, there Truth and Reconciliation Commission time to get real about the dis- with SPN and NCP, rules the any seat. pacity to be the Prime Minister is still no clear-cut detention policy for the numbers who would be rendered Stateless (TRC). Dahal’s confidant, Speaker KB pute, especially at a time when only Madhesi Number 2 Kathmandu may, therefore, will be the inflection point in after such an exercise. Considering the Government’s own commitment to Mahara, has landed in jail over an alleged India’s popularity has been province. The tamed CK Raut have a Government completing Nepalese politics. Bangladesh that illegal immigrants won’t be deported there and Dhaka itself chal- case of rape. Grapevine suggests he was plummeting. is leading the fledgling Janmat its full term on March 18, 2023. Meanwhile, Kathmandu framed. Mahara has served as the Deputy Oli carried out the much- Party, which espouses Ek Oli’s health, a cause of concern, was momentarily rocked by lenging India on proof, the only answer would be relocation of these people to Prime Minister three times and has been awaited Cabinet reshuffle, Madhes Hamro Desh. The RJP is the only contingency when former King Gyanendra’s geographical backyards. Perhaps they could get a conditional work permit with- a Minister in every coalition Government, which turned out to be a storm has 16 lawmakers in leadership change can occur, impromptu jiving; twirling his out voting rights. That nobody wants to talk about. While most Congress-ruled which Maoists had joined/formed. in a teacup. Though new Kathmandu and at one time, it which can happen any time jacket at the famous pub, Lord Prachanda is now an emperor without Ministers were inducted, three was supporting the soon. The successor Prime of Drinks, where he danced the State Governments are opposing NRC as a “tool to force people to leave the coun- clothes whom Oli is able to bully as the senior and three junior Government till it fell out as it Minister will surely emerge night away with his family, try,” it is Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh who matches the fire power of junior but is an unyielding partner. Ministers were dropped. The kept dragging its feet on the from the NCP. The lawmaker applauded by an enamoured his Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee in stalling NRC in States. But it is Biju Kalapani catapulted into the headlines evergreen Madhesi leader, second Constitutional amend- numbers are stacked in favour of house. This single earthly act of the moment India published its new map Upendra Yadav of the ment. the Oli faction (121) against his is unlikely to restore divine Janata Dal leader and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, known for cush- on November 2, following the Jammu and Samajwadi Party Nepal (SPN, The recent by-elections to Prachanda Maoists (53) in a monarchy. India’s Kalapani ioning the BJP at the Centre for political expediency, who surprised observers Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, that which has changed names fill 52 vacant posts for different House of 275 members. The woes could grow given the by refusing to support the NRC. Clearly, he couldn’t ignore protesters of differ- showed Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) more frequently than change in offices did not move the nee- NCP’s general convention has mushrooming price of onions as a part of the newly created Union seasons), whose portfolio was dle significantly in any one not been held, nor have the two imported from here. Prices ent faiths who marched from a mosque to his residence. One doesn’t know how Territory of Jammu & Kashmir while changed from health to law and party’s favour except that the parties amalgamated at the recorded a 318 per cent far an amorphous people’s movement can sustain itself in the face of brute sub- Gilgit-Baltistan and Aksai Chin figured in justice while he was in New only federal seat contested was grassroot level. As has hap- increase in three months. Lord jugation but perhaps we as a people need to make a conscience call, honest the Union Territory of Ladakh. It also Delhi attending a conference, bagged by NCP in Pokhara. It pened before — though this Pashupatinath’s forecast for showed Kalapani and Susta, both unsettled made some noises but quietly also took 50 per cent of the time it’s less likely — Prachanda 2020 is a less stable Nepal. dissent over dishonest compliance, action over silence. disputes, as part of India, prompting accepted the alteration. lower level posts but Nepali can jump ship if he is not (The writer, a retired Major Kathmandu to ask, “Why were they shown With 17 seats in the House, Congress (NC) defeating NCP offered the top job or at least the General, was Commander IPKF in India when they are disputed areas?” On Yadav’s party has many talent- in three of its strongholds in power-sharing deal is not South, Sri Lanka and founder December 13, Minister for Land ed leaders, including former Dharan, Chitwan and revived for the remaining three member of the Defence Planning What a mush! Management and Cooperatives Padma Prime Minister Baburam Bhaktapur was a feather in its years in case of leadership Staff, currently the Integrated Whether Musharraf’s conviction is followed up or Kumari Aryal said Nepal would release its Bhattarai. This provides Oli the cap. There is no big swing in change. Crossing the rubicon Defence Staff.) not, the judiciary has dented the powerful military he recent development in neighbouring S O U N D BITE Pakistan, where a special court handed We ought to remember I feel social media has become We honour Indian democra- The protests haven’t remained Tthe death sentence to former President that democracy will be a very negative space and cy as they have a robust restricted to minorities. I rec- and Army General Pervez Musharraf, is the loser when and if that’s really sad. Nobody debate inside the country on ollect that in 1977, a similar unprecedented in the sense that it is the first we cease to hear wants to see negativity and at the issues like citizenship protest had later gathered voices other than the end of the day I feel one and religious freedom. momentum and led to the time a civilian court has acted against the pow- our own. should spread happiness. change of Government. erful military. A military that has cost India US Secretary severely beyond the “bleeding cuts” of mili- Former President Actor of State NCP chief —Pranab Mukherjee —Malaika Arora —Mike Pompeo —Sharad Pawar tancy to the Kargil war. Musharraf is the first military dictator who has been convicted for “high treason.” Offences against him inter alia relate to gross violation of Article 6 of the L E T T E R S T O TH E EDITOR Constitution of Pakistan. Events date back to 2007, when he had suspended the False proposition was excessive and not acceptable. country’s Constitution and imposed Emergency. Ever since he was indicted for Celebrate unity in diversity Do standard operating proce- this crime in 2014, he has been in hiding mode, shuttling between his Dubai dures call them to march into uni- Sir — The Bharatiya Janata Party he United Nations (UN) marks December 20 as versity premises without seeking and London homes. Predictably enough, the Pakistan Army has come out strong- (BJP) has had a very profitable International Human Solidarity Day, which is held permission? Or do they allow ly in his defence, arguing that he can “never be a traitor” and that “he served outing since 2014, opening up Tannually to celebrate unity in diversity. Uniting peo- them to force the students to walk the country faithfully for over 40 years and fought wars for it.” fronts against the Congress and ple of different countries is the mantra of this day. It out and engage in a lathicharge? Pakistan, as per its convenience. also stresses the importance of solidarity in tackling It was the high-handedness of the Whether Musharraf will be brought back or not is an intriguing question but In the aftermath of the issues such as poverty and inequality that plague police that backfired. It alienated what is sure is that this is not the end of the road for him. He has the support Citizenship Amendment Act nations across the world. This day must, thus, serve not just the students of the Jamia of the powerful Army, the Government and some other political parties, too, who (CAA), it has taken a new line by as a reminder to national Governments about their Millia Islamia university but those have questioned the judiciary’s selective approach in singling him out while not saying that both the Congress and commitments to the many international treaties. Only in universities across the country. Pakistan are talking the same lan- when a nation’s economy is in the pink of health can Students have to be treated as stu- bringing other dictators to justice. Besides, Musharraf can also opt to take the guage. However, the latter is yet it compete with other countries. Similarly, ethics and dents, and their institutes as legal course and challenge the court’s ruling. This may as well lead to a lengthy to utter a word. The BJP needs to solidarity are linked to each other. New and emerging spaces where they have the right judicial process where the courts, the Government and the Army can keep jostling open more fronts rather than infectious diseases, too, are a challenge to place glob- to express freely. merge them. This, especially al solidarity above national sovereignty. The world Shami to decide the fate of the ailing ex-General. With Pakistan already being a victim when it has to juggle multiple needs a collective defence system that demands inter- Via email of a falling economy amid international pressures to come down hard on ter- scripts to divert people’s attention national cooperation and collaboration in the name of ity. To quote US President Donald Trump, “We must rorism, the judiciary used it as a pretext to push back the Army. Perhaps, this from one adverse economic index global solidarity. speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements Marathi stalwart to the other. On the other hand, social solidarity is viewed as honestly but always pursue solidarity.” When solidar- assertion could also be because the Pakistani Army has in the last 10 years allowed R Narayanan an important barometer to judge equality and rights. ity grows to the extent that one perceives others' caus- civilian Governments to retain power while staying in the wings. It has not always Navi Mumbai One cannot forget that the evil of racism was fought es and duties as his/her own, international peace can- Sir — Noted actor Shreeram been an easy relationship as legitimately elected governments were not only a with solidarity. When nations fight each other, instead not be too far away. Without solidarity, the stated objec- Lagoo will be remembered for his threat to the military’s power and influence but also in conflict over key deci- Worsening situation of going the whole hog on socio-economic-cultural tives tend to become redundant. roles in Marathi plays such as maladies, the solidarity value is open to negotiation. Ganapathi Bhat Natsamrat and Himalaya Chi sions, particularly with regard to India. The stage is now set for a showdown Differences of opinion cannot, however, harm solidar- Akola Sawali and movies like Pinjra, between the military and the judiciary because at no cost can the Army be seen Sir — This refers to the editori- which made him popular. He was as weak in a country where all other institutions are already defunct. That the al, “Jackboots vs Ahimsa” not only a spontaneous actor but (December 17). The passage of Bangladesh, Afghanistan and have an adverse impact on our Respect varsities a talented director, too. We have wheels are already moving in that direction can be seen by the fact that the the Citizenship Amendment Act Pakistan. economy. The country is already lost a versatile personality. Government is studying the verdict. Though all legal recourse has not been exhaust- (CAA) is but an ill-thought out Given the troubling state of grappling with limited resources Jubel D’Cruz ed as yet, the fact remains that for the present chief and the Army itself, death decision of the Government and the Indian economy and high lev- that are insufficient to cater to the Sir — This refers to the editorial, Mumbai is bound to increase the country’s els of unemployment, more peo- needs of its large population. “Jackboots vs Ahimsa” (December sentence to an ex-Army chief raises an existential question. And it should not population as doors will be ple are likely to join the queue for Devendra Khurana 17). 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www.dailypioneer.com analysis 07 FIRSTCOLUMN Adapt to climate POINTCOUNTERPOINT THE BJD MPS HAVE MADE IT CLEAR THAT WE DO NOT NRC CAN ONLY BE DECIDED BY THE CENTRE. JUST change now SUPPORT THE NRC. CAA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BECAUSE PEOPLE OPPOSE THE CAA, NAVEEN INDIAN CITIZENS, IT ONLY DEALS WITH FOREIGNERS. SHOULD NOT ADOPT DOUBLE STANDARDS. Emerging markets could learn from China’s —ODISHA CHIEF MINISTER —BJP LEADER AND LEADER OF OPPOSITION initiatives to revive their farm sectors despite the challenges posed by environmental degradation NAVEEN PATNAIK PRADIPTA KUMAR NAIK The new normal SOURAJIT AIYER Did policymakers learn any lessons from the 2008 global crisis? Are they better equipped s climate change hurting Chinese agriculture? Apparently it is. China’s Ministry of Science and Technology’s report on climate change esti- to rescue the ailing economy? These are some of the points to ponder as 2020 draws near Imated that the country’s average temperature rose by approximate- ly 0.9-1.5 °C from 1909 to 2011, higher than the global average. A 2016 paper, titled Climate change, food, water and population health in China, by researchers at Queensland University had estimated that the aver- age temperature across China rose by 0.5-0.8 °C during the 20th cen- tury and the frequency/intensity of extreme heat in east China went up in the new millennium. It is clear that climate change is fast leading to droughts in north and north-east China and floods in south-east China. All this impacts agriculture, as shifts in temperatures and precipitation change the climate patterns, water availability and soil quality, which in turn, affect crop yield, availability of arable land, price of clean water, incidences of plant diseases apart from testing the vulnerability of the BINDU DALMIA farm communities. This is an observation consistent across most emerg- ing markets, where manufacturing and services preceded as modern t the turn of the decade, it is but natural to economic growth-drivers. Climate shocks are only adding to their woes. assess whether global and Indian median liv- ing standards and per capita income erod- Focus on food security, rural development and tax incentives: A ed, improved or stagnated over 10 years? And, more China has responded to these challenges. Its No.1 Central Document importantly, what are the future economic trends, (on policy) has highlighted agriculture for some years. The country has and are policymakers better equipped after the focussed on agro-technology innovations and research and develop- lessons learnt from the 2008 global crisis to rescue ment (R&D), market-oriented reforms for farm goods, increasing agri- the economy from the brink of recession? cultural incomes, balancing the urban-rural development, and so on, The fallout risks of post-deglobalisation are with the ultimate aim being food security and rural development. This what economists call the “islandisation of includes intensifying the support mechanisms for agriculture, creating economies.” This has placed the biggest stress on an incentive structure to earn a positive PSE (producer support esti- emerging markets and on multinational corpora- mate) instead of pushing a MSP (minimum support price) structure, tions that are part of the global value chain, lead- ing to lowering of global growth forecasts to below pushing rural land reforms, accelerating the rural financial industry, improv- three per cent. Mitigating risks and recalibrating to ing rural governance and enabling the direct payment of subsidies to new power-shifts poses the biggest challenges for farmers in a single scheme as per land-holding, not as per crops, to experienced central bankers, policymakers and cor- promote efficiencies and rural economics. It is also experimenting with porates, depending on whether they factor in the reduction in fertiliser use, climate change adaptation, biotechnolo- deglobalisation as a prolonged phenomenon or a TO WORK gy and so on. Tax incentives in China’s agri-business were launched transitory shock. However, last week’s break- TOWARDS A to level the playing field for domestic and foreign enterprises. This exempts through of the 18-month trade impasse between US $5 TRILLION companies from paying tax on profits earned via the planting of grains, and China brings year-end cheer globally, “boost- ECONOMY IS AN vegetables, fruits, medical herbs, and so on, afforestation, new vari- ing prospects for global GDP for 2020 by 0.6 per ARDUOUS eties of farm products, livestock and agriculture services like irrigation, cent. Conversely, a breakdown in talks could drag global output down by 0.1 per cent.” Coming to the TASK FOR ators. India’s greatest advantage is access lennials who are opting to lease out liv- $5 trillion economy cannot make up the preliminary processing of agro-products, agro-technologies and ser- Indian context, periods of economic growth and POLICYMAKERS, to data of 1.2 billion people, four times ing and office space or automobiles, in numbers if our share in world exports lan- vicing agro-machineries. It is also offering VAT exemptions for invest- contraction have always been in sync with the glob- WHICH NEEDS A the size of the US. Leveraging the poten- preference to physically owning an asset. guishes at 1.7 per cent. ments in crop production, forestry, animal husbandry and aquaculture. al rise and falls. Except that in 2017, growth decel- QUANTUM LEAP tial of Digital India can take us towards Due to underemployment and stag- A recent article highlighted that Bringing sustainability into agriculture: Since China, like most erated due to legacy issues of the previous regime IN PLANNING. a $5 trillion economy much faster. nating wages, the working classes find it there has been a year-on-year exodus of nations, is facing constraints in terms of land and water owing to the and the shock effects of structural reforms, viewed FOR A The cleansing and formalisation of hard to service EMIs, despite an insatiable capital and calibre out of the country due impact of climate change, its policies include collective forest rights, as “short-term negative, but long term-positive.” COMPREHENSIVE the economy that started with demoneti- demand for affordable housing. to a fear psychosis. The Government constructing water conservation infrastructure, promoting sustainabil- What are the big policy and economic trends REVIVAL sation are a work in progress. Much needs Consequently, the housing sector which needs to contain the drain through con- ity in agriculture and setting up a rural social security system. It is now at the turn of the decade? Where are the potential PACKAGE, THE to be done to improve corporate and is one of the prime propellers of growth fidence-building messaging; by reducing importing cotton (from Africa), soya (from Latin America) and timber opportunities to look for within the crisis? And what GOVERNMENT banking governance standards to clean up and has a backlog of 1,600 stalled projects, areas of frictions for investments; ensur- (from Russia) which are typically water-hungry and soil depleting crops. are the confidence-building measures the balance sheets of PSBs, NBFCs and cor- could take longer to revive despite the ing that the State will be less litigious; Government can offer to bring the economic growth NEEDS TO porates. As regards banking, there is a infusion of a `25,000 crore fund from the bureaucracy will be less discretionary; tax- Reducing the domestic production in these would reduce the environ- rate back to a healthy eight per cent pre-crisis level? OUTSOURCE need for mandatory evaluation of credit Government, with the SBI and LIC pool- ation policies will be more predictable mental impact on China’s natural resources. Further, crop switching is Let’s have a look at the answer to these ques- THE BEST ratings of banks, improved governance ing in. Only once real estate activity picks instead of retrogressive and that the emerging as a focus of agriculture research in China. tions. We have an interactive Finance Minister who ‘BRAIN-TRUST and credit-risk monitoring systems, and up, will it impact the wages of agricultur- biggest employment generators like auto- Scientific research suggests climate change-induced soil quality has set a new trend by coming up with four mini- POOL’ for the RBI to play a more proactive and al labourers, as 50 per cent of rural income mobile, airline and telecom sectors are res- issues and water scarcity in southern China could impact the produc- budgets after her maiden Union Budget. With such COMPRISING vigilant role. The RBI is constrained for comes from realty. cued from the brink of collapse. tivity of grains like rice and wheat vis-à-vis the northern parts. One way real-time interventions, while future budget-mak- ECONOMISTS, lack of access to the inner workings of The workforce will have to adapt to India has a long way to go in gain- to mitigate this would be through crop-switching, complementing it with ing will be an annual event, timely interventions will ACADEMIA AND banks other than a review of balance gig-employment modules, with more ing investor confidence and has among irrigation to reduce the dependence on rain-fed land. Of course, these be a round-the-year phenomenon to expeditious- BUSINESSMEN, sheets. enhanced capabilities and specialised the lowest global rankings when it comes policies must be customised as per local-area conditions. China’s 13th ly redress sectoral concerns. AS ALSO TO Lowering of interest rates and corpo- skills. This is because fewer jobs are being to the enforceability of contracts. The Five-Year Plan included targets like a 23 per cent, 15 per cent and 18 Empirical evidence points to two “new normals” rate taxes has not yet led to the revival of created by the organised sector, while 56 biggest uncertainties arise from a frequent that will perpetuate into the next decade: That sov- EVOLVE A Capex or consumer demand, attributed per cent of new employment is being gen- change of regimes, as new governments per cent reduction in water consumption, energy consumption and CO2 ereign and corporate indebtedness in proportion CONSENSUS to the economic phenomenon of “hystere- erated through the platform-enabled ser- renege on contracts signed by the previ- emissions by 2020, thus providing visible milestones to aspire for. The to the GDP has kept rising unabated since the post- BETWEEN THE sis.” Put simply, this happens when vices. A global survey shows that there are ous one, like the revocation of the bullet World Bank-funded study, China’s National Technology Needs Lehman crisis years, so the rise of leverage will keep SWADESHI AND economies take longer to reflate, despite 180 platform companies currently valued train project in Maharashtra. Assessment for Climate Change Adaptation, includes breeding of stress- growing globally and in India. Even central bankers OX-BRED booster shots at revival. at $4.5 trillion, which are the new This poses a risk to lenders, as also tolerant varieties, precision agriculture technology and water-saving tech- from the European Central Bank to the IMF have ECONOMISTS We need to adapt to the new business absorbers of the workforce. to allied activities of contractors, affect- nologies as priority areas, which would also be useful from the per- encouraged fiscal expansion, by governments WITH MINIMAL model of the “sharing economy or on- Behavioural psychology of con- ing jobs, suspension of infrastructure pro- spective of sustainability and climate. The Chinese policy on this front spending more in the hope of reaping economic div- CONTRADICTIONS demand economy.” This has led to the sumers in times of “secular stagnation” is jects, and adding to cost overruns. Once should benefit through its increasing cooperation with Israel. idends, regardless of incurring high debt-to-GDP “creation of secondary economics”, to manifesting on predictable lines, where the CAG has approved procedures for A case for soft diplomacy: In the end, China has maintained a ratios. American corporate debt alone accounts for quote the Chairman of World Economic “persistent demand shortfalls are not procurement and pricing is fair, it should self-sufficiency policy when it comes to grains, intending to produce 70 per cent of this year’s total corporate defaults, Forum, Klaus Schwab, which is difficult being overcome even if the cost of bor- be made an irreversible and contractual while China’s defaults are expected to hit a record to quantify. Because, “Alibaba, the biggest rowing lowers to near-zero interest rates.” obligation by the State to honour the same. at least 95 per cent of its demand domestically. The immediate impact high according to S&P Global Ratings. retailer doesn’t own a single store nor has Till sentiments and disposable incomes To work towards a $5 trillion econ- of climate change on China’s fertile south and east regions may inevitably The other “new normal” is that forecasts for any inventory build-up; Uber, the largest improve, the major propeller of growth omy is an arduous task for policymakers, impact domestic farm production to some extent. However, the long- national growth rates will see downward revisions, transportation provider does not own a will rest on increased Government stim- which needs a quantum leap in planning. term outcomes of the policies and initiatives that China is working on falling by at least a percentage annually from pre- single vehicle and Facebook, the world’s ulus through MNREGA and increasing For a comprehensive revival package, the should be positive. Most importantly, its experiences with these initia- vious years for another few quarters. most popular media owner creates no spending on infrastructure. Government needs to outsource the best tives could offer guidance for other developing countries, thus provid- Today, there is a more digital form of globali- content.” India cannot continue with its poli- “brain-trust pool,” comprising economists, ing China a ready agenda to pursue soft diplomacy. Other emerging sation trending, opening the doors for local agro, Consumer behaviour and altered cy of “creeping protectionism” with academia and businessmen, as also to markets, who otherwise concentrated on manufacturing or services as small and mid-sized enterprises to uplink with the consumption patterns are being redefined enhancing import tariffs but instead evolve a consensus between the swadeshi their modern economic growth-drivers, could also learn from China’s virtual E-commerce marketplace. The digital econ- by millennials who account for 51 per cent needs to shore up its global competitive- and Ox-bred economists with minimal initiatives to revive their farm sectors. omy and e-commerce will be the new game-chang- of the population, and are opting for the ness, lack of which is making it reluctant contradictions. (The writer is an author, columnist, (The writer is a consultant on sustainability, climate and busi- ers. We need to scale up on our digital potential to sharing economy projected to grow glob- to participate in Free Trade Agreements create equivalents of Google, Facebook and ally by $275 billion over the next five years. with other trading blocs like the European Chairperson for the National Committee ness issues with a South Asian sustainability communications firm.) Amazon. These platforms are the future wealth cre- There is a generational shift amongst mil- Union. A comprehensive plan towards a of Financial Inclusion at Niti Aayog.) Pakistani Army will not let this fly FOREIGN EYE Whatever be the court order, whosoever the judge and however grave the culpability, mens rea and offence of General Pervez Musharraf, he cannot be hanged to death. Not in Pakistan to state, and am sure you all agree with The Army chief proceeded: “Put your thereof. They don’t even know that law Minister, needlessly uncovered a false being an imaginary scenario building me, that anyone trying to mess with boys on the job and make a list of all and history are written and created by and fabricated conspiracy case against enterprise. The situation follows the our brave and patriotic army in any judges across the country who are anti- victors.” Major-General Zaheer-ul-Islam Abbasi same pattern even today, the apparent form — its men, officers and General, Army and anti-ISI. Make full dossiers “We Pakistanis, being born victo- in September 1994 and convicted him supremacy and superiority of civilian serving or retired — will be dealt with and give them to me within six weeks, rious, created our law through the thereby maligning the best and the Imran Khan as head of Government sternly and in a befitting manner in covering all aspects of their personal power of the sword. Our predecessor most dedicated uniformed people of notwithstanding. The Army of TRUMP MUST GO proportion to his/her misadventure.” lives and professional deeds, mis- Babar had only 12,000 soldiers and yet the State.” Pakistan is used to a certain power and “Indeed, today we will have to deeds and links. These fellows think he destroyed the mighty enemy “It’s a matter of shame that even a position and there’s little to suggest that AT ALL COSTS clearly understand that the so-called they know everything, but actually, Ibrahim Lodi, which was ten times Punjabi civilian Prime Minister Nawaz the strategic wand of the State would Congressional Republicans BHATTACHARYYA court verdict of a death sentence for they know nothing. Else, they would- superior, on April 21, 1526, in the field Sharif took the Army head-on in be wielded by anyone other than the have embraced and copied ABHIJIT General Sahib amounts to giving a n’t dare challenge and humiliate the of Panipat. That’s our heritage. Hence 1999 when General Musharraf’s plane incumbent Army chief. Hence, what- death sentence to me.” Army. By now they should have that’s our honour, strength, power, rep- was on a return journey from Sri Lanka ever be the court order, whosoever the Donald Trump’s cruelty and et’s try and get into the psyche of “If allowed to do what it is trying known that in Pakistan, the Army is utation.” and he wasn’t allowed under direct judge, and however grave the culpabil- defended and even adopted the serving Army chief of to do, this sham judiciary of our great the State and the State is the Army.” “Under no circumstances, there- orders of Sharif to land in Pakistan. Not ity, mens rea and offence of Musharraf, his corruption. Trump and LPakistan, nine Corps country, founded by Quaid-i-Azam “Pakistan was born after sacrifices fore, will we allow this band of igno- only that, the Prime Minister by he cannot be hanged to death. Not in his enablers have Commanders and the Director Jinnah, will see worse days in future. were made by millions of our broth- rant and irresponsible civilians, in the appointing Lieutenant-General Pakistan. Any civilian, trying to push abandoned conservatism General (DG) of Inter-Services This court, despite having no right to ers. Their selflessness can never be garb of all-knowing legal tool, to curb Ziauddin as new Army Chief instant- further, will face fatality. If at all, only Intelligence (ISI), supposedly hud- do what it has done, has given a warn- allowed to be seen to be brushed aside and crush the fighters of our land. The ly, tried to irreparably divide us. the Army can punish an Army official. and longstanding dled in an “emergency meeting” fol- ing to each one of us present here. by some anti-national, small-time judiciary must be re-educated about Fortunately, however, when Sahib was One needs to carefully go through the Republican principles and lowing the special court’s verdict giv- Today it is the former ailing chief. judges in our midst. They will have to the achievements of our Army. Thus, still in the air, in search of a landing Pakistan Army Act, 1952. If Musharraf replaced it with Trumpism, ing a death sentence to former Army Tomorrow it will be the serving chief, be uprooted. It’s because we are a when the first civilian Prime Minister space, Lieutenant-Generals Mahmud is hanged, it would amount to a death an empty faith led by a chief and President, General Pervez followed by more men and officers nation of a martial race, which has Liaquat Ali on March 9, 1951, alleged Ahmed and Aziz Khan launched a knell for/of the Pakistani Army. Musharraf. down the line. God only knows where never lost a war. We have been victo- conspiracy by Major-General Akbar coup to remove Sharif from power to This is worse humiliation than the bogus prophet. Trump and “Gentlemen, we meet today, at a these judges are from and whose rious everywhere, in every skirmish, Khan and others to overthrow the steer a clear path for Pervez Sahib to surrender of the entire East Pakistani his followers daily mock our critical time of our nation’s history, to games they are playing? Where are they battle and war, from the dawn of Government, he was assassinated on suspend Nawaz, and rightly suspend Army to victorious Indian Field belief in America as take stock of the situation. As you are getting evil ideas and how are they human civilisation; and there is no way October 16, 1952.” the Constitution, to take over as chief Marshal Manekshaw’s men on Friday, something more meaningful aware, a lower court has inflicted one making property disproportionate to that things are going to be any differ- “That our civilians leaders have executive of Pakistan.” December 16, 1971, in Dhaka’s than lines on a map. Hence, of the most unjust, bad, illegal and mala their legal source of income?” ent in future.” always been corrupt and anti-Army, That’s the only reality of the Ramana Maidan. fide verdicts against my predecessor “Is the DG ISI here?” “Yes sir, here “These fake judges talk of ‘law’ came to fore again when Benazir Army-civilian tradition of Pakistan in (The writer is an alumnus of the Trump must go. General Pervez Musharraf. I am pained I am”, replied the DG ISI Faiz Hameed. without an iota of idea on evolution Bhutto, in her second term as Prime the words of the Army chief despite it National Defence College) (Courtesy: The NYT) HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | DECEMBER 20, 2019 money 08

CAPSULE Tata Motors ONE NATION, ONE RATION CARD India pitches for H-1B visa unveils Nexon EV with over aspirants during 2+2 dialogue 300 km range PNS n NEW DELHI PNS n WASHINGTON Auto major Tata Motors on Communication External Affairs Minister S Thursday unveiled its first Jaishankar has pitched strong- electric SUV Nexon EV that services in affected ly for the issuance of H-1B visa will be commercially areas of Delhi to Indians, underling their sig- launched within weeks. nificant contributions to the The SUV, built on its most restored: Airtel US society, economy and poli- popular SUV Nexon, is the Centre makes NEW DELHI: Telecom operator ty and deepening of bilateral first electric vehicle (EV) Airtel's mobile internet ties. powered by Ziptron tech- services that were suspended The H1B visa is a non- nology and offers "a range not standard format in parts of Delhi have been immigrant visa that allows US less than 300 km per charge" restored, a company source companies to employ foreign and can accelerate to 100 said on Thursday. When workers in speciality occupa- kmph in just 9.9 seconds. for ration cards contacted, an Airtel tions that require theoretical or Bookings for the car will spokesperson declined to technical expertise. The tech- start from Friday, the com- PNS n NEW DELHI comment. There is no official nology companies depend on pany said, without revealing The state word from other telecom it to hire tens of thousands of the price or delivery date. The Centre has designed a governments operators on whether their employees each year from On pricing, the company standard format for ration services have been restored. countries like India and China. said it will be around 20 per cards as it moves ahead with have been The Airtel source said that the According to a study pub- cent more than the AMT ver- 'one nation, one ration card' advised to use services in specific locations, lished on November by the sion of Nexon and thus will initiative and has asked state this new format that were disrupted earlier in National Foundation for come between Rs 15-17 lakh governments to follow the the day, are back. Amid anti- American Policy think-tank, Union Minister for Defence, Rajnath Singh addressing at joint press conference after conclusion of India-US 2+2 dialogue, in and will be 'launched within pattern while issuing fresh whenever the Citizenship Amendment Act the Trump administration's Washington on December 18, 2019. Union Minister for External Affairs, Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the US Secretary of weeks'. ration cards. states decides protests in the city, services restrictive immigration policies State, Michael Pompeo and the US Secretary of Defense, Dr Mark Esper are also seen The SUV comes with as Currently, the central gov- were suspended in parts of have led to massive increase in many as 35 connected fea- ernment's ambitious initiative to issue new Delhi, including walled city the rejection of petitions for H- awareness among each other's tures, including tow away is being implemented on a ration cards areas of north and central 1B visas with the highest denial "People to people ties have been one stakeholders who are con- and intrusion alerts. pilot basis in a cluster of six districts, Mandi House, rate among major Indian IT nected at multiple levels. The new EV comes in states. It wants to implement Seelampur, Jaffarbad, companies. of the defining elements of our "We've arrived at a common three variants and offers an this facility across the country ration card has been prepared Mustafabad, Jamia Nagar, The study gave credence to friendship," Jaishankar told reporters intent to facilitate regular eight-year warranty or from June 1, 2020. for issue of ration card under Shaheen Bagh and Bawana, charges that Indian companies at a joint news conference exchanges between our parlia- 1,60,000 km on the battery Under the initiative, eligible the NFSA," a senior Food following a directive from are being unduly targeted by mentarians and also to provide and the motor, which is the beneficiaries would be able to Ministry official told PTI. Delhi Police earlier in the day. the administration of President short-term internship oppor- highest in the industry. avail their entitled foodgrains A standard format for Donald Trump. Defence Minister Rajnath movement of persons in a fair tunities for aspiring entrepre- The Nexon is the first EV under the National Food ration card has been pre- India has taken up the prob- Singh, US Secretary of State and non-discriminatory man- neurs to through dedicated coming on the Ziptron Security Act (NFSA) from any pared after taking into lems faced by Indian profes- Mike Pompeo and Defence ner has contributed signifi- programmes," he said at the technology. This is a high Fair Price Shop in the country account the format used by sionals and IT companies with Secretary Mark Esper. cantly to the deepening of conference held after the con- performance, connected using the same ration card. different states and after con- the Trump administration. "We take great pride in the (bilateral) ties," he said. clusion of the 2+2 ministerial. vehicle that is suited to "In order to achieve the sultation with other stake- "People to people ties have achievements of Indians and Jaishankar said he look for- Last month, Jaishankar had address the aspirations of aim of national portability, it holders, the official said. been one of the defining ele- Indian-Americans in the ward to work with the US to told Parliament that India is customers and break all is necessary that ration cards The state governments have ments of our friendship," United States and their contri- nurture and sustain these ties trying to convince the US that barriers for EV adoption, issued by different states and been advised to use this new Renault to hike Jaishankar told reporters at a bution to American society, and the two countries have tapping into the Indian talent Tata Motors CEO and MD union territories conform to a format whenever the states joint news conference here on economy and polity. Trade agreed to take steps to promote is in mutual benefit of the two Guenter Butschek said standard format. Accordingly, decides to issue new ration prices of vehicles Wednesday in the present of and services, including the better understanding and countries. while unveiling the EV. a format for standardised cards, the official added. in January NEW DELHI: French auto major Renault on Thursday said it will hike prices of its China exempts more US goods ‘Tourism industry must target $ 50 bn revenues by ’22 vehicles from January to offset rising input and material costs. PNS n NEW DELHI The company said it would undertake "a substantial price from tariffs after trade deal NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh increase" across its range of Kant on Thursday said the vehicles with effect from AFP n NEW BEIJING China announced tourism industry in India January 2020. "The price should target USD 50 billion increase is on the account of China announced Thursday a earlier this month revenues by 2022, as the sector rising input and material list of US chemicals that will be that it will offer a has immense multiplier impact costs," Renault India said in a exempted from import tariffs, tariff waiver to in the economy and is one of statement. The extent of price just under a week after Beijing the biggest drivers of growth increase may vary for different "some" imports of and Washington agreed a trade major products US and employment. models, it added. The agreement that a dialled down Speaking at the '15th CII company currently sells a soybean and pork range of vehicles from entry tensions between the two. Annual Tourism Summit 2019', level small car Kwid to SUV The world's biggest Kant said the tourism sector economies have exchanged The exemptions will come been signed. can be one of the biggest dri- Captur, priced between Rs 2.3 CEO, NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant addressing the CII 15th Annual Tourism Summit, in New Delhi on Thursday lakh and Rs 12.99 lakh (ex- blows for more than a year, on into force from December 26 In September, China said it vers of India's economic growth Friday announced a mini-agree- until December 25 next year, would exempt 16 categories of as higher visitor numbers spur Similarly, the tax on rooms showroom Delhi). Companies India's total earning from tourism was about USD including Maruti Suzuki, ment to reduce some levies in according to a statement from US products from tariffs employment opportunities. with tariff above Rs 7,500 has Mercedes and Toyota have a bruising trade war that has the Customs Tariff Commission including seafood items and "It has immense multiplier 28.6 billion in 2018. We should target that by 2022 been slashed to 18 per cent already said they would hike dragged on global growth. of the State Council. anti-cancer drugs. impact in the economy. Its we will go to up to USD 50 billion from the existing 28 per cent. Beijing released a list Last week's "phase one" deal China announced earlier impact on the direct and indirect There will be no GST on prices from January to offset — AMITABH KANT, NITI Aayog CEO rising input costs. Thursday of products that will saw US President Donald this month that it will offer a job creation is informidable. It is rooms with tariffs below Rs no longer be subject to the tar- Trump cancel a planned new tariff waiver to "some" imports one sector which can greatly cre- 1,000 per night. iffs, including certain types of wave of tariffs on Chinese of major products US soybean ate jobs and that is what India cent share of the total global 50 billion by 2022," he said. He also said that tourism is industrial glue and adhesives, products, and China in turn and pork. needs, growth with jobs. earnings. On the policy front, Kant essentially a private sector industrial polymers and types saying it would suspend addi- Beijing has increased tariffs "India's total earning from In terms of tourist arrivals said that the government has activity and every single of paraffin, which can be found tional measures on US goods. on US pork three times since tourism was about USD 28.6 (number of people), it is only supported the tourism sector segment of the sector from in cosmetics and food. However, nothing has yet the trade war started. billion in 2018. We should 1.2 per cent which is very and has reduced GST rates for the tourist point of arrival to target that by 2022 we will go marginal for a huge country room tariffs. point of departure, tourist to up to USD 50 billion,' Kant like India. The GST (goods and services operators, travel agent, said. "Therefore we need to take tax) rate on hotel rooms with tourist guides, cab opera- Yamaha India Moreover, in terms of rev- it up to 3.5 per cent from 1.2 tariffs of up to Rs 7,500 per tors, resorts to hotels, every- Lupin launches We complied with enue from international per cent so that we reach the night has been cut to 12 per cent thing is operated by the pri- eyes to sell tourists, India has only 1.97 per tourism revenue target of USD from the existing 18 per cent. vate sector. generic Doxercalciferol govt directive: Sunil 6.50 lakh units injection in US PNS n CHENNAI NEW DELHI: Drug firm Lupin PNS n NEW DELHI L&T Tech Services opens design centre in US on Thursday said it has launched Two-wheeler manufacturer its generic Doxercalciferol Amid suspension of services Yamaha Motor India was eye- PNS n BENGALURU neering solutions for global the sixth design centre of injection used for treatment of in parts of Delhi earlier in the ing to sell 6.50 lakh units in aerospace and defense tech- LTTS, a listed subsidiary of hyperparath-yroidism in the US day, Bharti Airtel Chairman the domestic market in 2020, L&T Technology Services nology players, the pure-play Larsen & Toubro Limited, in market. The company has Sunil Mittal said the company a top official said here on Limited (LTTS) announced engineering services the United States. launched Doxercalciferol had complied with a govern- Thursday. The company has on Thursday it has company said in a The company's offerings to injection, 4 mcg/2 mL (2 ment directive in this regard. sold 6.24 lakh units in 2019, opened a design engi- statement. the aerospace sector encom- mcg/mL) multi-dose vials, after "There is a government ing walled city areas of north Yamaha Motor India Sales Pvt neering centre in "The facility pass a wide spectrum includ- having received an approval from order and we are just follow- and central districts, Mandi Ltd, Senior Vice-President, Rockford, Illinois will have a team ing aero engine, aero structure Maruti Suzuki the United States Food and Drug ing it," Mittal told reporters House, Seelampur, Jafrabad, Strategy and Planning Group, (USA) to cater to the of over 100 & systems, avionics, air traffic Administration (USFDA) earlier, after a pre-Budget meeting Mustafabad, Jamia Nagar, Ravinder Singh said. new age digital engineers with management and new-age dis- launches new Lupin said in a statement. The with industrialists here. Shaheen Bagh and Bawana, The company on the occa- requirements of the expertise in digi- ruptive digital transformation product is a generic version of Amid the ongoing anti- following a directive from Delhi sion unveiled its popular aerospace and defence tal engineering, solutions which cater to all variant of Alto Sanofi Genzyme's Hectorol Citizenship Amendment Act Police earlier in the day. scooters Fascino 120FI and markets. systems engineering phases of the Aircraft injection, 4 mcg/2 mL (2 protests in the city, mobile Sources told PTI that Airtel RayZR 125FI and Street Rally This centre of excellence and avionics design," it Lifecycle- design, manufac- PNS n NEW DELHI mcg/mL) multi-dose vials, it internet services were sus- and Reliance Jio services have 125FI marking the company's will specialise in development said. turing and aftermarket ser- added. pended in parts of Delhi, includ- resumed in the effected parts now. entry into the 125cc segment. of high-performance engi- The 130-seater facility is vices, it said. ]Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Thursday announced the launch of a new variant of its entry-level small car Alto, priced at Rs 3.80 lakh (ex- Life insurers bat for 100% foreign investment via automatic route showroom Delhi). The new variant comes PNS n NEW DELHI December 2 invited views from ing the government's GST col- with aero edge design, dual- all the companies to increase India has received nearly Rs lection and other taxes by tone interiors, high-fuel effi- Life insurers have sought 100 FDI limit in the sector and increasing the ability of com- ciency, and latest safety fea- per cent foreign direct invest- asked for their feedback by 30,000 crore worth of FDI in the panies to write more busi- tures. ment (FDI) limit for the sector December 10. private sector insurance firms ness," it said. "Maruti Suzuki India Ltd through automatic route, which The subject matter was fur- The increase in stake from today announced the launch can help the sector attract cap- ther discussed in the Life since 2015, when the government 26 per cent to 49 per cent in of the new Alto VXI+ which ital of Rs 40,000-60,000 crore. Insurance Council meeting on increased FDI limit from 26 per 2015 led to an increase in total offers SmartPlay Studio a India has received nearly Rs December 13. premium income of the Indian 17.8 cm touchscreen info- 30,000 crore worth of FDI in "The government will exam- cent to 49 per cent life insurance sector from tainment system, enabled the private sector insurance ine suggestions of further around Rs 3 lakh crore in 2014 with Apple CarPlay and firms since 2015, when the gov- opening of FDI in aviation, another Rs 40,000- 60,000 crore the private life insurance sec- to around Rs 4.5 lakh crore in Android Auto," the coun- ernment increased FDI limit media (animation, visual, gam- of inflows are attainable, based tor increase its market share 2018. try's largest car maker said in from 26 per cent to 49 per cent. ing and comic) and insurance on current valuations. and help in bringing more The total premium income a filing to the BSE. In a detailed presentation to sectors in consultations with all "Increase in FDI will help the technical expertise on risk- growth for the private sector The variant comes with the Insurance Regulatory and the stakeholders," the Irdai country better technical know- based capital which developed during 2014-15 and 2015-16 BS-VI compliant engine and Development Authority of said. how, better insurance penetra- markets have already imple- was 14 per cent each, while in delivers a high fuel efficien- India (Irdai), life insurance The life insurers said the tion, and better training of mented. 2017 and 2018, it was 17 per cy of 22.05 km/l, it added. companies pitched for 100 per government should allow both companies an option to decide conditions for foreign investors stakeholders, etc. It will also More capital injection will cent and 19 per cent, respec- Alto VXI+ will be available cent FDI limit in the sector. the options FDI and FII (for- on which route they would like for moving from 49 per cent to help in higher settlement help in expanding the business tively. with enhanced safety fea- Investment under the auto- eign institutional investors) in to take (FDI or FII or a com- 100 per cent, such as restriction claims, better persistency and that will further help in gener- "A further increase in FDI to tures like dual front airbags, matic route does not require opening the insurance sector to bination of the two), to increase on voting rights and India early claim reduction," Irdai ating more employment, there- 100 per cent is likely to grow reverse parking sensors, prior approval from the gov- 100 per cent via the automat- the limit to 100 per cent, the ownership, among others. said. by addressing the employment the Indian life insurance sector speed alert system and seat ernment. ic route. insurers said in the letter, If the limit is increased from Among others, the increase issues. at much faster pace," the insur- belt reminder for both driver The insurance regulator on This will give insurance adding there should be no 51 per cent to 100 per cent, in foreign stake will also help "It will also help in increas- ers said. and co-driver, it said. 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Animal rights activist Md THE MAN WHO EATS, SLEEPS, Zabi Khan who recently THE MAN WHO EATS, SLEEPS, started a first-of-its-kind animal sanctuary in Hyderabad to rescue and BREATHESBREATHES ANIMALANIMAL RIGHTSRIGHTS rehabilitate animals, shares the need to change the rescued animals, but microchip, no one can home. Later, they have to stress levels. He added that We have seen many animals being also rehabilitate them and sell the animal again and take a picture of their many studies proved that abused and abandoned in the city. policy to make the lives of conduct various activities ensures that pet shop activity and answer a sim- spending time with dogs to help people understand owners also sell only ple question — How they helps people to reduce We are conducting many activities animals better, finds the importance of coexis- registered animals. If any feel it is important to their stress levels. to rescue such animals but the tence.” animal goes missing, we respect all forms of living Zabi adds, “In USA jail count is increasing regularly. V SATEESH REDDY When asked about the can find it using the — as an assignment. We officials encourage inmates activities they are going to microchip. We are working also give them Q and A to take care of a pet to We started this animal sanctuary conduct, Zabi shares, on this with IIIT and multiple choice types bring about a change in to find a permanent solution for ecent studies Speaking to The Pioneer, “We have various missions Hyderabad.” of sessions to help them their behaviour. They have the issue. With this sanctuary, we show that peo- Zabi Khan says, “We have like animal rescue, rehabil- Zabi informed that more about animals and shown great results and we ple who are seen many animals being itation, rights and explain- along with rescuing their laws. We are also are also planning to do the not only give shelter to R abusive towards abused and abandoned in ing the essence of coexis- animals it is also important planning to tie up with same in jails in Telangana. rescued animals, but animals are five the city. We are conducting tence. We are working to be friendly towards Agha Khan and Glendale We also do same process in also rehabilitate them times likely to many activities to rescue on a pilot project to main- them. He informs, “We academies to run this pilot old age homes and special- be abusive towards human such animals but the count tain a database of animals are planning to give project.” ly-abled kids.” and conduct various beings too. As many as 97 is increasing regularly. along with the owner’s classroom sessions for Zabi said that they are Zabi informed that after activities to help per cent of the rapists and We started this animal name and mobile number, students on empathy and also starting therapy ses- witnessing their efforts, the people understand murderers confirmed that sanctuary to find a perma- by placing a microchip in coexistence. After the sions for people with Telangana government has they first started abusing nent solution for the every registered animal to sessions, we give them depression and anxiety and allotted us land in the importance of animals. Shockingly, issue. With this sanctuary, identify them when they pedigree and ask them to help spend some time with Nampally for a permanent coexistence homes where women are we not only give shelter to are abandoned. With the feed animals near their animals to reduce their animal sanctuary. being abused also sees pets being abused. Every where in the world, people who are abusive towards ani- mals are getting away, said animal rescuer and founder of an NGO, ‘A place to bark’ Md Zabi Khan, who started Telangana’s biggest Animal Sanctuary recently located at Miyakhangadda. Former MP K Kavita inaugurated the sanctuary recently. The sanctuary will act as a rehabilitation centre for rescued and abused animals and also work on awareness programmes about animal care and it’s existence. Zabi started working for animal rights when he was 13 years old and started his NGO when he was 18. He has since rescued over 500 animals and helped over 3,800 of them find homes.

Remembering Kishore da: Venky, Singing 100 songs in 6 hours Ram groove to Salman's dance track al, said that it was fortunate Kishore Kumar, a famous singer of that women were part of the alman Khan’s actor landed in Hyderabad Venkatesh and Ram Charan. Ram Charan, Salman Makkhanchand Pandey group in such an event as it Dabangg 3 has on Wednesday after finish- It was no less than a treat Khan and others took to while south star Sudeep will yesteryears, belted out chart topping brought both relief and vari- been the talk of ing his promotional tour in for the audience present instagram to share their be seen as the antagonist in ety from the male singers. the town since the Chennai and Bengaluru. there as they got to see delightful experience with the film. It also marks the hits for decades. His songs still strike Kishore Kumar had stormed S announcement. Salman, who was accom- Salman, Ram and Venkatesh their fans by sharing the pic- debut of Mahesh Manjrekar’s the film industry and earned The Kick star panied by his co-stars groove to the film’s dance tures of the evening. daughter Saiee Manjrekar. a chord with people of all generations, laurels all through his four along with his co-stars visit- Sonakshi Sinha, Sudeep, track Munna Badnam. The The Dabangg sequel This film will revolve decade long singing career ed the city to promote his Saiee Manjrekar and the bhai fans were all mes- helmed by Prabhudeva will around the life of Chulbul be it in it's original format or one of between 1948-1987. film. This is the first time director of the film, Prabhu merised to see the jugalbandi see Sonakshi Sinha and Pandey before meeting Rajjo “The fact that we were that Salman has promoting Deva, were joined by special between him and the south Arbaaz Khan reprising their (Sonakshi) and before beco- the innumerable remixes. The singer encouraged to sing hit songs his film in the south. The guests — Daggubati superstars. roles as Rajjo and ming a fearless cop. — PNS of Kishore Kumar rather than also has his own fan base and groups making us take up the female part of his duets was very that celebrate his birthday and other motivating,” said Sushma major achievements of his life. By PNS Saha, who had to rush to the India breaks China's record in venue from Old City after completing her academic ishore Kumar has They were there to show- commitments. many fan clubs case their singing prowess Taking up the evergreen across the country. along with their love for songs of the Burman clan, non-stop karaoke singing marathon K But one such Kishore Kumar in whose father S D Burman and his group took their 90th birth anniversary cele- talented maverick son, R D ndia’s Virag Integration”, “Beti Bachao- fandom to the brations, a musical evening Burman, the group kept the Madhumalati and Beti Padhao”, “Stop Global next-level by ceaselessly had been organised. momentum steady during the his singing troupe warming”, “Campus With singing song after song of the Titled ‘Kishoreathon’, show as the ladies took up I has broken Chinas Helmet”, “Save Water, Save famous singer. The group has this event, organised by songs from films of Dev non-stop Karaoke Trees” and “Organ Donation”. a mixed bag of participants Dakshin Dhwani, was a pro- Anand, Rishi Kapoor, Rajesh singing marathon record. The grand finale will be ranging from ages 9 to 72. gramme where they sang 100 Khanna and even Amitabh While the Chinese record held on December 22 in the This group of 17, including songs in one go between 4 to Bachchan. It was interesting stood at 792 hours and two presence of a team from the five women and a child, per- 10 pm. The five female to note that their choice coin- minutes, India will now Guinness World Records formed both solos and duets singers were part of this cided overwhelmingly with enter the Guinness World book. of the iconic playback singer music lovers group which that of the men (who had Records book with a new Over 800 singers from making it a test of endurance had put together 53 such picked 56 out of a total of 100 timing of 1,000 hours in Delhi, Kerala, Chennai, and passion. They have been programmes till then, since songs from the duo) and this non-stop karaoke singing Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, conducting programmes its beginning in October synergy made things all the marathon. Rajasthan and other states since October 2016. 2016. The event, as planned, more comfortable for the Virag and his team have sung over 9,000 songs Taking it as a challenge, came to a grand finish by the audience, who were subjected achieved the record at Little so far in this marathon, the bunch of vintage Hindi appointed time, as the organ- to six hours of non-stop nos- World Mall, Kharghar, Navi which has proved to be a film music enthusiasts braved isers had kept to a tight talgia. Mumbai. feast for music lovers. the breeze and evening chill schedule and picked up songs In all, the audience was left The marathon was held Virag Madhumalati has to warm up the atmosphere which were shorter than four asking for more as the singers from November 15 to four world records to his at Nritya — Forum for minutes. wound up with the theme December 18, in order to credit, which he has dedicat- Performing Arts, White The organiser of the show, song of the group: Ruk Jaana promote social projects ed to national integration Fields, Gachibowli. Devarajan, an IT profession- Nahin, Tu Kahin Haar Ke. including “National and eye donation awareness. 10

Hyderabad Friday December 20, 2019 what’s brewing? PARTY CITY GUIDE

COMEDY HYDERABAD COMEDY FESTIVAL lLearn the basics of Madhubani Painting, tips & tricks, in a session by Bhamini Shree.

Sonam Kapoor Madhubani Painting is a folk art of India, where

l the idea traditionally revolves around mythology and nature. The workshop will be held at Lamakaan on December 29 at 3 pm.

SPACE TIME lGallery Space, Banjara Hills is presenting a group art show Space Time Continuum by Sachin Jaltare, Ramesh Gorjala, Anjaneyulu G and Bratin Khan BADLAV today between 10 am and 6 pm. lBadlav is an original Hindi play Amisha written and directed l by Amaan Ahmad. Badlav revolves around Gayatri, Kalpana, Radha, and

Vyshnavi Bindya. Gayatri

l wants change but her hypocrisy surfaces all the time.The play takes various twists and turns and l Veenita touches the element of the Theatre of Absurdity.The play is all set to be performed on December 26 at 8 pm at Lamakaan Cultural space.

MASALA CHAI lKissago Theatre Group is staging a BEAT STAGE FEAR play Masala l Tale Tellers Troupe India is conducting a Chaitomorrow at workshop Beat Stage Fear on December 22 at Lamakaan from 8 Phoenix Arena from 3 pm onwards. Topics that pm onwards. A lot are covered in the workshop are: How to create can happen over a stories on the fly, how to deal with stage far, cup of tea! Masala and Techniques to narrate the story in an Chai revolves around the concept tea being a form of social network. People get together for engaging manner. tea and build long term friendships with tea being the binding factor in many relationships.

KITTEN FOSTER TRAINING l Hyderabad's first ever kitten foster training is being brought to the city for all the cat-people here, tomorrow at the Pet Cafe (Road No 12, Banjara Hills). WhatsApp at 8121913573 / 9051073333 to confirm your seats.

POTLUCK l Cinephiles Film Club will screen a movie titled Potluck on December 25. The movie is about an l Anjani Kumar and Vasundhara Sinha economics graduate student studying for a year in Barcelona, Spain, as part of the Erasmus programme, where he learns from a group of A STAR-STUDDED EVE students from all over Western Europe in a student share-house. The movie shall be eeru's Emporio recently organised their Winter Fashion Show, screened at Lamakaan showcasing Neeru's exquisite winter collection, at Neeru's N emporio Road No. 1 Banjara Hills. The show stopper for the event was none other than actress Sonam Kapoor. Several well-known GET YOUR EVENT LISTED: To get your events listed, please send your details personalities including IPS officer Anjani Kumar and his wife IRS Vasundhara Sinha had a delightful time at the fashion show. along with a poster and contact number to [email protected] l Avinash Kumar and Priya Kumar Photos by SV Chary l Sanjana FUN TIME

ARCHIE CALVIN AND HOBBES

GARFIELD REALITY CHECK SPEED BUMP CROSSWORD

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SUDOKU Yesterday’s solution

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Rules l Each row and column can contain each number (1 to 9) exactly once. l The sum of all numbers in any row or column must equal 45. 11

Hyderabad Friday December 20, 2019 tollywood Charan bats for wildlife conservation long with his wife Upasna, Ram Charan will be hosting an event titled Gala in aid of World Wildlife Fund at his A remodeled residence in Hyderabad shortly. Some of Charan’s photography work — including a lion pride, cheetah and giraffes — from his summer trip to Africa will be displayed at the event. Eminent wildlife photographers including Shaaz Jung, Ejaz Khan and Isheta Salgaocar will be creating awareness and educating people through their works at the event. “The ecology of the world at large needs seri- ous attention. The Eastern Ghats (Andhra and Telangana) are home to 2,500 species of flower- ing plants, about 290 bird species and nearly 4,000 insect species. Species and their habitats need to be protected. We need to strengthen the ability of local communities to conserve the natural resources they depend upon. Together we can protect our own planet. Nature is where we belong and I have chosen a camera to express my passion for wildlife conservation at this gala event,” said Ram Charan WWF is an international organisation, which has been working towards protecting the diver- sity of life on Earth and the future of nature, since over 60 years. Working in over 100 coun- DWARAKA tries, it is supported by close to five million members, globally.

BACKDROP FOR BENERJEE Sonal ‘dying' to do WINS BEST KARTHIKEYA 2 ACTOR a non-glam role ll it took for Sonal has formed a good bond with Chauhan to board KS Balayya and she still remembers her The US leg filming of Pavan Sadineni's film got AWARD FOR Ravikumar’s Ruler was a first meeting with the veteran. call from Nandamuri “When I was offered Legend, I just delayed due to some unavoidable reasons, leaving A Balakrishna, with whom knew Balayya garu was a big super- RAKTHAM she had done Legend and star. I was scared before meeting Chandoo no option but to move Karthikeya 2 to Dictator earlier. The script was sec- him as I didn’t know how the con- enior actor Benerjee was ondary and once she was narrated versation would pan out. And when January, finds NAGARAJ GOUD adjudged with the best it, she was convinced that it’s a well- I finally met him, my nervousness actor trophy for his perfor- packaged role with a bit of oomph. disappeared as he was extremely he filming of of 20-25 days in nomenally well, the expecta- Mumbai mance in Raktham at the “I play Harika, who is head-strong friendly, jovial with a good sense of Nikhil Visakhapatnam. The unit tions surrounding the sequel industry S recently concluded LIFFT and gets whatever she wants. She humour. He made me feel very Siddhartha-starrer will then leave to Cambodia are relatively high. Add to and it India Filmotsav at wants something from Balayya’s much at home. I wound want to do T Karthikeya 2, a to shoot at the globally the fact that Nikhil has wouldn’t be Lonavala, Maharasthra. Playing the part, so she is competing with him. many more films with him,” she sequel to the famous Angkor Wat temple, scored a hit with Arjun a surprise if the film gets role of a revolutionary leader Shankar It’s a powerful role. She is emotion- says, adding that she eponymous 2014 which is also one of the Suravaram, the buzz has only dubbed into Hindi as well,” anna in the Rajesh Touchriver’s ally vulnerable. It also gave loves Hyderabad mystery thriller, has been largest religious monuments escalated on the project. It the source maintains. drama, his performance was lauded as me a chance to do some and even when rescheduled to January. The in the world, spread over 400 will be a proper continuation Right now, Chandoo, restrained yet filled with poise. He is comedy,” Sonal she is not initial plan was to begin it acres. Filming in Veitnam of the first part, with the besides fine-tuning the the first Telugu actor to have received shares. doing Telugu from today but with the and parts of north India actor set to encounter bigger script, is in the process of this honour. Earlier, he was the only Over the films, fans keep film’s cinematographer afterwards will call it a wrap issues this time around. The finalising his leading lady Indian actor to be nominated for the years, sending her a lot Karthik Ghattamaneni still for the whole shoot. The idea source adds that noted Tamil and a composer. “The likes best actor recognition at Indi she of love on social occupied with Pavan is to wrap it up in less than production house Y Not of Taapsee Pannu, Anupama Gathering International Film Featival, media. Sadineni’s untitled film with 70 days. The film is set in the Studios has expressed its Parameswaran and Nabha Ohio, USA where the film walked As much as Bellamkonda Ganesh, the backdrop of Dwaraka,” interest in the sequel. “Ram Natesh are in consideration. away with the best film and the best she wants to shoot had to be deferred to informed a highly-placed (of Y Not Studios) is a big Taapsee’s name was proposed cinematography laurels. experiment, she next year. “The US leg film- source close to the develop- fan of Karthikeya. He asked by Y Not Studios as they’ve An excited Benerjee, who received grouses the fact ing of Pavan’s film got ment. Chandoo to keep Tamil audi- worked with her for Game much acclaim for his recent role in that Telugu delayed due to some With the first part, which ence on mind too as the Over. As far as supporting Sree Vishnu-starrer Thipparameesam, industry has unavoidable reasons, leaving saw Nikhil’s medico’s turn director embarks on the roles go, Naseer is the new said, “I’ve been chosen as the best stereotyped her. Chandoo no option but to unearthing the mystery sur- journey of making the addition, while Tanikella actor from 250 films from 40 countries “That’s the only move Karthikeya 2 to rounding the deaths of peo- sequel. He wants to dub the Bharani, Thulasi and at the LIFFT international film festi- complain I have, January. Shooting will kick- ple who try to find out rea- film in Tamil. He insisted Jayaprakash will carry for- val. I'm extremely happy with this of the industry. I off with a Hyderabad sched- sons behind the shutting Chandoo to consider some ward their roles from the honour. It only increases my responsi- believe in being versa- ule of five days in January, down of a Subramanya Tamil names into the casting first part,” the source con- bility as an actor. The film stands out tile and I’m dying to do a followed by a long schedule Swamy temple, doing phe- mix. He also has contacts in cludes. as an important milestone in my non-glamorous role like a career.” proper village belle. Hope somebody is listening,” she adds.

RAVIPUDI may proceed with F3 next arlier this year, leading producer Dil Raju has hinted at the possibility of F3 arriving for Sankranti 2021 and it looks it will be a certainty. E With Anil Ravipudi not committed to do any other actor after Sarileru Neekevvaru opens for Sankranti, his next project will most probably be F3. Or at least that’s what the buzz says. The direc- tor cracked the idea of F3 long back and he will flesh ALI’S it out further with his team of writers after January. Venkatesh will begin Asuran remake next month and he MOTHER will wrap it up in flat three months. Also, he is looking at doing multiple films PASSES from next year in tune with his brother Suresh Babu’s AWAY recent comment that Telugu star heroes should do multiple Popular comedian and films like à la Akshay Kumar. He actor Ali’s mother Zaithun might juggle between the sets of F3 Bibi, 77, breathed her last and the proposed film with Tharun on Wednesday night in a Bhascker. Varun Tej too will be private hospital in free from May-he will be Rajahmundry due to pro- through with his boxing drama longed illness. Her mortal with Kiran Korrapati by then. It remains were brought to is said that Ravipudi is looking Hyderabad to perform last at a late summer start for the rites. Megastar film and get it ready in time for a Chiranjeevi, Naresh, Shiva Sankranti dhamaka. Vijaya Shanti, Balaji and other popular who is making her comeback with Tollywood personalities the director’s Sarileru Neekevvaru, visited Ali’s residence on it appears, has given her consent Thursday to pay condo- to a key role after the director lences. shared her character arc on the sets of Sarileru Neekevvaru. HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | DECEMBER 20, 2019 sport 12

PTI n KOLKATA Kolkata Knight Riders - Pat Fabian Allen (`50 lakh), Sandeep ustralian cricketers hit pay dirt Cummins (`15.5 crore), Eoin Bavanaka (`20 lakh), Mitchell at the IPL players’ auction Morgan (`5.25cr), Varun March (`2 cr), Sanjay Yadav (`20 with pacer Pat Cummins A ` ` becoming the most expensive foreign C'mon Aussie, C'mon Chakaravarthy ( cr), Rahul Tripathi lakh), Abdul Samad ( 20 lakh) buy ever in the league by fetching a (`60 lakh), M Siddharth (`20 lakh), ` Kings XI Punjab -Glenn Maxwell whopping 15.50 crore bid from two- ` time champions Kolkata Knight Cummins, Maxwell, Coulter-Nile headline big IPL pay day Chris Green ( 20 lakh), Tom Banton (`10.75 cr), Sheldeon Cotrell (`8.5 ` ` Riders here on Thursday. ( 1cr), Pravin Tambe ( 20 lakh), cr), Ravi Bishnoi (`2 cr), Deepak All-rounder Glenn Maxwell, Nikhil Shankar Naik (`20 lakh) ` ` who was not considered for the “Got a lot of great memories Kings XI Hooda ( 50 lakh), Ishan Porel ( 20 upcoming ODI series against India and can’t wait to create some more Mumbai Indians -Nathan Coulter- lakh), Jimmy Neesham (`50 lakh), in January, returned to Kings XI amazing ones next year. Looking Nile (`8cr), Chris Lynn (`2cr), Chris Jordan (`3cr), Prabhsimran Punjab with a price tag of `10.75 forward to getting back over its been crore after an intense bidding war a few years since I’ve been there. A Saurabh Tiwary (`50 lakh), Mohsin Singh (`55 lakh), Tajinder Dhillon with Delhi Capitals. KXIP went into lot of familiar faces there, great Khan (`20 lakh), Digvijay (`20 lakh), the auction with the biggest available franchise. Can’t wait to get back to ` purse of `42.70 crore. Mohali and hopefully entertain the Deshmukh ( 20 lakh), Prince Rajasthan Royals - Robin Uthappa ` The 31-year-old Maxwell has crowd.” Balwant Rai Singh ( 20 lakh), (`3cr), Yashasvi Jaiswal (`2.4cr), been on his way back to cricket after — GLENN MAXWELL Akash Singh (`20 lakh) taking a sudden break to deal with Kartik Tyagi (`1.3cr), Anuj Rawat mental health issues earlier this year. “I thought he (Cummins) was the Chennai Super Kings -Piyush (`80 lakh), Akash Singh (`20 lakh), Maxwell’s compatriot Nathan best player of the auction...As a ` ` Coulter-Nile also enjoyed a million cricketer he’s grown, his body has Chawla ( 6.75cr), Sam Curran David Miller ( 75 lakh), Akash dollar payday at the auction as become robust. He is now the vice- (`5.5cr), Josh Hazlewood (`2cr), R Singh (`20 lakh), Oshane Thomas ` Mumbai Indians shelled out 8 captain of Australia cricket team Sai Kishore (`20 lakh) (`50 lakh), Anirudha Ashok Joshi crore for the pacer. team, which is a mark of his ` Australia’s limited-overs captain development. Wonderful to secure a Delhi Capitals -Shimron Hetmyer ( 20 lakh) ` world-class player.” Aaron Finch went for 4.40 crore to (`7.75cr), Alex Carey (`2.4cr), Royal Challengers Bangalore - Royal Challengers Bangalore. Finch, —BRENDON MCCULLUM who had opted out of the 2019 IPL, Jason Roy (`1.5cr), Chris Woakes Chris Morris (`10cr), Aaron Finch also attracted a bid from KKR. All- “I am happy. I didn’t expect to get (`1.5cr), Marcus Stoinis (`4.8cr), (`4.4cr), Joshua Philippe (`20 picked at the auction. I must thank rounder Marcus Stoinis was sold to ` ` Delhi Capitals for `4.8 crore while Dinesh Karthik and Abhishek Nayar. It Mohit Sharma ( 50 lakh), Tushar lakh), Kane Richardson ( 4cr), pacer Kane Richardson will go home is a good opportunity for me. I hope Deshpande (`20 lakh) Dale Steyn (`2cr), Isuru Udhana ` to learn a lot by watching and richer by 4 crore after being bought (`50 lakh), Shahbaz Ahmed (`20 by RCB. training with the international stars in Sun Risers Hyderabad -Priyam Australia’s big-hitting all-rounder the KKR squad.” Garg (`1.9cr), Virat Singh (`1.9cr), lakh) Chris Lynn, who was released by —VARUN CHAKRAVARTHY Kolkata Knight Riders ahead of the auction, was bought for his base price “I still play with a mindset like I am a of `2 crore by defending champions 20-year-old young. I will bring all my Mumbai Indians, whose opening bid experience and energy to the team. became the winning bid. Similar was And that positivity. I know that I can KL will lead KXIP the case of seamer Josh Hazlewood, bring that, even if I'm with them not who went for his steep base price of playing.” PTI n NEW DELHI `2 crore to Chennai Super Kings. —PRAVIN TAMBE Teams going all out for the 26- ndia opener KL Rahul was on year-old Cummins was on expected “I am very happy. It’s a great IThursday named captain of the lines as he has been in top form with opportunity for me to learn. I want to Kings XI Punjab franchise for the the ball and at times has also proved learn as much as I can during my 2020 Indian Premier League with his worth with the bat. time with Rajasthan Royals. It is a co-owner Ness Wadia calling him “Can’t wait,” tweeted Cummins platform for me to make a name for the “unanimous choice”. after KKR head coach Brendon myself.” "We are happy to appoint McCullum posted a welcome mes- —YASHASVI JAISWAL Rahul as our captain for the sage for him on the micro-blogging upcoming season. He has been site. “We traded very hard (for Chawla) through a lot in the last year or so “I am very happy to be back in and certainly the captain has a great and has now come back strongly,” KKR,” he later said in a video relationship with him. He’s proven Wadia said on the day of the IPL released by KKR. that he’s a quality leg-spinner which auction in Kolkata. Delhi Capitals and Royal we value very highly.” “He has silenced his critics. Challengers Bangalore were engaged —STEPHEN FLEMING You will get to see his ability not in an intense bidding war for the just as a batsman but also as a cap- Australian before KKR joined the Pat Cummins celebrates after taking wicket AP “As a player, you always want to be tain. He was our unanimous battle at ` 15 crore and eventually with a good team, play under a good choice,” he added. outbid the two franchises. Cummins price of `50 lakh, fetched a winning for Cummins and Morgan, KKR’s captain and you can't have a better KXIP had bought Rahul for a has taken 32 wickets in 25 IPL bid of `8.50 crore from Kings XI assistant coach Abhishek Nayar team than CSK and a better leader whopping `11 crore ahead of the matches so far with an economy of Punjab. said: “Morgan’s recent form has been than Mahi bhai. I can’t ask for more.” 2018 season. just over 6. “I am looking forward to tremendous. As a leadership group, —PIYUSH CHAWLA Rahul’s ascendancy to captain- He is also the No1 playing for Kings XI,” said Morgan will add a lot of strength to cy was expected after bowler in ICC Test rank- Cottrell in a viedoe relased by what we already have. “We were pleasantly surprised to get Ravichandran Ashwin was traded ings and has 92 wickets in the franchise. “And for a player of his Chris Woakes and Jason Roy for to Delhi Capitals last month. KL Rahul celebrates after hundred PTI `1.5 crores each, and then getting a 77 career T20 matches at Another Caribbean star, (Cummins) calibre, he brings a lot player like Shimron Hetmyer was the “I feel he is one of the best an economy of little Shimron Hetmyer, was expect- with the ball and bat as well.” icing on the cake. And I hope Roy players in the world. He showed too much for Maxwell, who above 7. edly a sought-after entity for his big- Maxwell returns to KXIP to along with Hetmyer, he could be the yesterday what he is capable of. recently took a break to deal with With the price he fetched, hitting abilities and went to Delhi boost their unsettled middle-order. x-factor for us at the top of the Even India captain Virat Kohli his mental health, Wadia said: “Not Cummins broke the record for the Capitals for `7.75 crore. The left- KXIP CEO Satish Menon expressed rates him very highly. He is also a at all. Anil (Kumble, head coach) ` order.” most expensive foreign buy held by hander had a base price of 50 lakh confidence in Maxwell coming —PARTH JINDAL (DC CO-OWNER) very humble human being, has all was very clear in his thinking and Ben Stokes. England all-rounder and recently made his case with a good for them. qualities of a good leader,” said what he wanted. Maxwell has Stokes was bought by Rising Pune match-winning hundred against “He was always on our radar. Wadia. been with us in the past so he Supergiant for `14.5 crore in the 2017 India in the first ODI in Chennai. The middle order was a bit of con- India pacer Jaydev Unadkat At the IPL auction, KXIP know the set up. auction. It also marks Cummins’ Veteran Indian spinner Piyush cern. He has been with us (in the returned to Rajasthan Royals for `3 spent big money for Glenn “I have no doubt in my mind return to KKR. The pacer has also Chawla remained a hit with the past) so he knows the set up well,” crore, a massive pay cut from the Maxwell (`10.5 crore) and Sheldon that he will be back to his best very played for Mumbai Indians and franchises and was bought by said Menon. last two editions when RR bought Cottrell (`8.5 crore). soon. Also very happy to have Delhi Capitals. Chennai Super Kings for `6.75 The seasoned Robin Uthappa him for `11.5 crore (2018) and `8.5 Asked if they shelled out a bit Cottrell on board,” added Wadia. Both Maxwell and Cummins crore. He was the highest paid was bagged by inaugural edition crore (2019). India U-19 youngsters had opted out of last year’s IPL. India during this auction. winners Rajasthan Royals for `3 Priyam Garg (`1.9 cr for SRH), Another big buy at the auction KKR went for England’s World crore. Uthappa had gone into the Yashasvi Jaiswal (`2.4 crore) and Vihara went unsold. South African auction entrant Noor Ahmed of was South African Chris Morris, who Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan, auction with a base price of `1.5 Kartik Tyagi (`1.3 crore) — both to pace great Dale Steyn finally had a Afghanistan didn’t have any takers, was sold for `10 crore to Royal paying `5.25 crore for the stylish crore, the highest for an Indian. He Rajasthan Royals. face-saving bid of `2 crore from the the oldest Praveen Tambe at 48, got Challengers Bangalore. West Indies southpaw. too was released by KKR last The Indian Test specialist duo RCB during the last round. a base price bid of `20 lakh from the pacer Sheldon Cottrell, with a base Asked why they paid big money Glenn Maxwell during practice sesion Twitter month. of Cheteshwar Pujara and Hanuma While 14-year-old youngest Kolkata Knight Riders. DELHI STARE AT DEFEAT AGAINST ANDHRA Pak fightback after SL bowlers shine RANJI: K'TAKA TAKE FIRST overs. Bhui faced 313 balls during his n INNINGS LEAD AGAINST AFP KARACHI guised delivery. Pakistan at 10-2 in the morn- UTTAR PRADESH unbeaten knock and struck 15 ing. HUBLI: All-rounder Shreyas Gopal boundaries and four sixes. akistan fought back after UNDONE BY THE PITCH Fernando’s new-ball part- struck a gritty half century, as Navdeep Saini took a five-for but Pbeing dismissed relatively Shafiq hooked Kumara ner Kumara dismissed first hosts Karnakata managed to take his side had little to cheer apart cheaply Thursday as bowlers tentatively to deep square- Test centurion Abid Ali for 38 the crucial first-innings lead from that. dominated the opening day of leg, ending Pakistan's hopes of to end a third-wicket partner- against Uttar Pradesh on the third In the second innings, Delhi were the second Test against Sri a big total in their bid to win ship of 55, which had lifted day of their Elite Group B Ranji in a precarious position with Lalit Lanka in Karachi. the series after the first Test Pakistan from a precarious 10 Trophy match here on Thursday. Yadav holding fort on 23 not out Lahiru Kumara and Lasith ended in a draw due to poor for two. Courtesy Gopal’s patient 58 off from 48 deliveries, along with Embuldeniya grabbed four weather in Rawalpindi. Fernando thought he had 182 balls, the hosts managed to Vikas Mishra (7 not out), at wickets each to dismiss Shafiq admitted the Azam leg-before on four, but take a slender 40-run first innings stumps on the third and Pakistan for just 191 before the Pakistani batsmen were TV referalls showed the ball lead. penultimate day. home team had the visitors at undone by the wicket. hit the bat first. In case of a draw, the first innings Openers Kunal Chandela and Hiten 64-3 at stumps at the National “It was unexpected turn Azam reached his fourth lead matters, as the team which Dalal contributed just 19 and 13 Stadium. and seam on the first day’s half-century in the last five gets it, earns points. runs respectively while four Delhi Pacer Kumara took 4-49 At stumps, Angelo pitch,” said Shafiq, playing his innings with a crisp boundary Gopal’s knock meant that batsmen could not reach double- while left-arm spinner Mathews was eight not out 67th consecutive Test. to cover off-spinner Dilruwan Karnataka first passed the UP total digit figures. Embuldeniya finished with 4- and nightwatchman “(But) If we bowl well we Perera, but could not match and then their bowlers J Suchith Chasing 364 for victory, Maha 71 after Pakistan won the toss. Embuldeniya unbeaten on can get them out in this total his hundred in the first Test. (28 off 120 balls) and Abhimanyu 192/5 in 2nd inngs against J&K But Pakistan staged a three. and then put up a winning Azam’s 96-ball knock con- Mithun (34 not out), also fightback with the wickets of Pakistan were well set at score.” Kumara dismissed tained eight boundaries and a contributed with the bat and PUNE: Jammu and Kashmir nosed Oshada Fernando (four), 127-3 with Babar Azam (60) Mohammad Rizwan for four six while Shafiq's 126-ball scored valuable runs. ahead on the third day of its Ranji Dimuth Karunaratne (25) and and Asad Shafiq (63) involved and Yasir Shah (nought) off stay had six boundaries. Karnataka were eventually bowled Trophy Group ‘C’ match against Kusal Mendis (13) leaving Sri in a 62-run stand for the successive deliveries in the It was Fernando who pro- out for 321. Maharashtra on Thursday with late Lanka still 127 runs behind on fourth wicket, but once Azam first over after tea before vided Sri Lanka with early Uttar Pradesh made 281 in their wickets as the hosts reached 192 the first innings. fell the home side lost their last Embuldeniya removed the tail. breakthroughs. first essay. for 5 in 56.4 overs, requiring 172 Lanky pacer Shaheen six wickets for just 24 runs. Earlier, Sri Lanka left- He angled one in to more runs for a win. Karnataka resumed the third day Suchith hit two boundaries. took complete control of their Shah Afridi had Fernando Azam was shaping well arm pacer Vishwa Fernando Masood to hit his off stump on their overnight score of 168/4, Resuming at the overnight 155 for caught behind before after scoring his 13th half-cen- dismissed opener Shan before clean bowling skipper When Gopal fell, Karnataka were Group A Ranji Trophy match 4, the visiting team was dismissed with Abhishek Reddy (32 off 102 279-8, just two runs behind Uttar against Delhi on the third day here Mohammad Abbas removed tury before Embuldeniya had Masood for five and skipper Azhar with a full-length deliv- balls) and Shreyas Gopal (58 off for 263 in the second innings, Karunaratne and Mendis. him stumped off a well-dis- Azhar Ali for a duck to rattle ery. Pradesh's first innings total. on Thursday. leaving Maharasthra 364 to secure 182 balls) at the crease. Later, Mithun, who had bagged six After conceding a 153-run first While Reddy fell early, Gopal held victory and six points. wickets, also made a fine unbeaten innings lead to Andhra, Delhi was Suryash Raina (83) and Abdul one end and hit six boundaries in 34. reduced to 89 for 6 in 28 overs in his knock. Samad (78) batted well for the In their second essay, Uttar their second innings with Stephen visitors and helped the team set a Reddy and Gopal conjured a 38- Pradesh was teetering at 29/1, running through their top-order. Saini replaces Chahar for 3rd ODI run stand for the fifth wicket stiff fourth innings target for having lost their opener Aryan As Delhi still trail by 64 runs with before Reddy was caught by Rinku Maharashtra. n Juyal (0). just four second innings wickets in Ruturaj Gaikwad (78), who plays PTI CUTTACK “Deepak felt mild pain added. Singh off slow left- arm bowler Juyal had made a hundred in the hand and one day left in the in his lower back following Saini had an impressive Saurabh Kumar (6-116). for Chennai Super Kings in the first innings. match, Andhra can aim for a IPL, and MS Trunkwala (54) put ndia pacer Deepak Chahar the second ODI played in start to his India career dur- Then Uttar Pradesh dismissed rival The visitors trail Karnataka by 11 bonus point and grab seven points was on Thursday ruled out Vizag on Wednesday. The ing the three-match T20 wicket-keeper B R Sharath (16) on 108 for the opening wicket in I runs and will need to bat if they can notch up an innings 28.1 overs to set up a good of the series-deciding third BCCI medical team exam- series against the West Indies and David Mathais (4) in quick throughout the fourth and final day win on Friday. ODI against the West Indies ined him and has suggested in Florida and Trinidad ear- succession to peg back the platform for the home team. to avoid defeat. Resuming at overnight individual However, the fall of three wickets owing to a back injury and that the fast bowler needs lier this year. In his first visitors. score of 70 and team total of 249 replaced by Navdeep Saini. some rest in order to fully match, he returned figures of However, then Suchith joined in the space of 13 runs pegged Ongole: Ricky Bhui cracked an for 6, Bhui batted for 40 overs Maharashtra back. The series is currently recover,” the BCCI said in a 3/17, which included a wick- hands with Gopal, and the two not unbeaten 144 while pacer with the tailenders and carried his locked 1-1 with the final statement. et in his very first over and only frustrated the UP bowlers, but Mohammed Mudhasir took two of Cheepurapalli Stephen scalped bat through the innings to take the wickets to fall including that ODI to be played here on “He has thus been ruled also a wicket maiden in the also took the team on the cusp of four wickets as Andhra Pradesh Andhra to 368 all out from 127 Sunday. out of the final ODI,” it last over. getting the first inning lead. Trunkwala and R A Tripathi (13).