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THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I MONDAY I 16 NOVEMBER 2020 WEATHER NATION 7 SPORTS 12 TABLOID Max: 31.2OC | | Min: 18.6OC Hamilton wins record Divas from God’s RH: 50% Soumitra Chatterjee, Rainfall: Nil renowned actor, dead seventh F1 title Own Country Forecast: Partly cloudy sky with haze. Max/Min deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle Vol. 83 No. 317 Established 1938 | 20 PAGES | `6.00 temperature 31/18 ºC DHARANI TO Prayer time START NON-AGRI TRS could replace 25 REGISTRATIONS DC CORRESPONDENT corporators for polls HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 Chief Minister K. Chand- Party’s surveys show people unhappy with some of them rashekar Rao has directed that registration of non- S.A. ISHAQUI I DC agriculture land and prop- HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 erties be commenced 50% PROPERTY through the Dharani portal The Telangana Rashtra BJP sends its top on November 23. On Samiti (TRS) could replace TAX REBATE September 7, the govern- between 20 and 25 corpora- ment had declared a holiday tors out of the 100 that it team for GHMC AHEAD OF POLLS for the registration depart- has in the Greater ment, stalling all registra- Hyderabad Municipal DC CORRESPONDENT Singh Vaghela and Karn- ● The state government tions, in order to introduce Corporation (GHMC) HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 ataka MLA Sathish Reddy has announced a 50 per the New Revenue Act. Council, ahead of the elec- as additional incharges cent rebate in property tions. The BJP, which is aspir- along with Yadav. ■ REPORT ON PAGE 2 The ruling party is said ing to come to power in The Dubbak win has tax in the state. It will be to be ready for the contest, Telangana state in 2023, is rejuvenated the state applicable to those who which promises to be one focusing hard on the party leadership and pay tax of up to `15,000 Devotees offer prayers at Bhagyalakshmi temple in Charminar for Lakshmi Puja during RTC STAFF TO of the most fiercely found Greater Hyderabad Muni- cadre following which the a year in the GHMC. It is Diwali on Saturday. — P. SURRENDRA polls in recent times. cipal Corporation (GHMC) central leadership has The state government is elections as the polls cover decided to take the GHMC expected to benefit GET PENDING expected to communicate 24 of the state’s 117 elections as a prestige nearly 13 lakh owners. to the State Election Assemby seats. issue, a senior leader said. ■ REPORT ON PAGE 3 SALARIES Commission (SEC) any- The BJP on Sunday Sources in the party dis- Nitish meets Gov, mystery time within the next two appointed general secre- closed that the national DC CORRESPONDENT weeks that it is ready for tary Bhupender Yadav as leadership feels that the HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 elections. the party’s election in- GHMC polls will help the SANITATION STAFF The SEC has published charge for the GHMC elec- party gauge the mood of In a relief to the staff of the on Sushil Modi’s new role the final list of voters and tions. According to a state- the people about two and a SALARIES HIKED TS Road Transport has said that it has almost ment, BJP president J.P. half years ahead of the Corporation (TSRTC), Chief NAYEAR AZAD I DC sparking speculation the oath ceremony. We completed the pre-poll Nadda also appointed K. Assembly polls — time in Minister K. Chandrasekhar PATNA, NOV. 15 about his continuance in have to prepare a list of process and will be ready Sudhakar, a minister in which the party can make FOR COVID WORK Rao on Sunday decided to the Cabinet. Sushil Modi MLAs who will also be tak- to announce the election Karnataka, Ashish Shelar, course corrections. ● Sanitation staff of the immediately pay 50 per cent JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar separately met the ing oath on Monday,” schedule. The SEC has to party chief whip in the GHMC on Sunday pending salary to them on Sunday met Bihar Governor with Union min- Kumar said. constitute the new council Maharashtra Assembly, ■ Page 2: BJP points to TRS bathed in milk, portraits which was withheld for Governor Phagu Chauhan ister Rajnath Singh, who One of the names being for the GHMC by February Gujarat BJP leader Pradip internal surveys March and April due to and staked claim to form had been deputed to over- floated by a section in the 10, 2021. of Chief Minister K. Covid -19. He was holding a government after he was see the election of Kumar. BJP is that of four-time Sources disclosed that, Chandrasekhar Rao and review meeting with offi- unanimously elected the Kumar did not comment MLA from Katihar during internal meetings, Rao had indicated to party ly conducted an internal municipal minister K.T. cials of transport and NDA’s Legislature Party about Modi’s role in the Tarkishore Prasad. Chief Minister K. leaders that surveys had survey about the perfor- Rama Rao after the gov- finance departments on the leader here. next government. Reports Sources said that the party Chandrashekar Rao and showed that people were mance of the corporators, steps being taken to bring Sushil Kumar Modi, suggest that the BJP may may also declare two TRS working president not happy with the perfor- sources said. ernment announced a RTC back on track. Kumar’s former deputy for push for a fresh face. deputy CMs for the first and municipal administra- mance of about 15 to 20 `3,000 increase in wages 15 years, did not accompa- “All these things issues time in the state, similar to tion and urban develop- corporators. ■ Page 5: Some more ■ ■ REPORT ON PAGE 3 ny him to Raj Bhavan, will be sorted out before the Uttar Pradesh model. ment minister K.T. Rama The TRS has also recent- corporators on the way out REPORT ON PAGE 3 CITY DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 16 NOVEMBER 2020 pg 2

SHORT TAKES BJP POINTS TO TRS INTERNAL SURVEYS FROM PAGE 1

A senior party leader pointed out that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had him- self disclosed that the TRS’s internal surveys had revealed an increase in the number of seats for the BJP in the GHMC polls. He said that currently the party has only three corpora- tors but serious efforts from state and national leaders will show good results. Since the 2016 GHMC elections, the BJP has won the Goshamahal Assembly seat and the Secunderabad parliamentary constituency in the city. Residents burst firecrackers to celebrate Diwali in Hyderabad. Fewer people came out to burst crackers on Saturday; many of them who did so burst fewer fireworks. The reasons were said to be increased 21-YR-OLD DIES environmental awareness, economic impact of the pandemic and higher prices of crackers. — P. SURENDRA BY SUICIDE, NO NOTE FOUND DC CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD NOV. 15 Diwali sees a smaller rise in pollution A 21-year-old man allegedly died by suicide at his house in Air quality not impacted much; court case, green concerns stopped many from bursting crackers KPHB Colony on Saturday night. The body of the victim, T.S.S. SIDDHARTH I DC Durga Rao, 21, was found by HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 his family, said the police. “On Saturday night, Durga Barring a few areas like Fewer eye injury cases had dinner with his family Sanathnagar, Saturday’s and went into the room saying Diwali celebration did not he was going to sleep. Early on leave many localities in Sunday morning, the family the city gasping for reported this Diwali members found his body,” said breath. In 2019, the aver- the police, adding that there age air quality index on SANJAY SAMUEL PAUL Despite the headlines of public in spreading aware- was no suicide note was found Diwali evening was 106. I DC a ban and relaxation on ness on eye safety and tak- at the place. This year, it was 97. HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 burning of crackers, the ing precautions.” Upon receiving information, “Many people of the city fire calls were higher than The hospital received the KPHB police reached the were aware of the court This year’s Diwali cele- that reported in 2019. nine cases of which two spot and shifted the body to cases on firecrackers, brations saw a drop in the The department received were injuries of serious the Osmania General Hospital heard in the run-up to number of accidents relat- 25 distress calls last nature and the rest were mortuary for the post-mortem Diwali,” an official from ed to the eyes with the two year, including 24 fire patients with minor examination. Telangana State Pollution major eye hospitals. The related incidents and one injuries. A case is registered under Control Board said, Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital rescue. In 2019, LVPEI received section 174 (suspicious death) adding that this appears to and the LV Prasad Eye The Sarojini Devi Eye at least 30 cases of Diwali of the CrPC and an investiga- have dissuaded many Institute between them Hospital received just related eye injuries. tion was taken up. from buying crackers and reported 12 cases of fire- three cases of minor eye “A decade ago, there used setting them off. works-related injuries to injuries this year, down to be 100 cases reporting at Mahesh Yadav with ‘Rana’, the prize bull. However, in places like the eyes on Saturday. from 58 last year. The LV our hospital,” he further FAULTY CCTV Sanathnagar, the AQI was But there was a slight Prasad Eye Institute said. recorded at a hazardous increase in the number of (LVPEI) reported nine Sarojini Devi Eye HITS PROBE INTO chart topping 500, ten fire calls received by the cases on Saturday. Hospital superintendent times the permissible rate fire services this year. Speaking to Deccan Dr V. Rajalingam said the SANDAL THEFT of 0-50 which is consid- Officials said in all they Chronicle, Dr Muralidhar hospital received three Yadavs parade prize bulls ered good. As per Central received 30 distress calls Ramappa, senior cornea cases, and all were NAVEEN KUMAR I DC Pollution Control Board on Diwali this year. consultant at LVPEI, said injuries of minor HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 norms, AQI between 51 “All calls were of minor “The messages on eye nature. and 100 is considered mod- mishaps and no injuries safety that newspapers “This year’s number of to celebrate Sadar festival Police personnel investigat- erate, 101-150 as unhealthy and casualties were and media published and cases on Diwali was the ing the theft of sandalwood at for sensitive groups, 151 to reported,” a fire services reported on, played an lowest we have had ever,” DC CORRESPONDENT them to the event in a pro- During the Risala Bazaar Indira Park are facing chal- 200 as unhealthy, 201-300 as official said. important role for general Dr Rajalingam said. HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 cession with a brass band. Sadar, people from the sur- lenges with the CCTV cam- very unhealthy, and 301- ‘Rana’ with its abnormal rounding areas of eras, which would have possi- 500 as hazardous. Sanathnagar, Begumpet, Saha, an air pollution of Greater Hyderabad ‘Sadar’, the annual buffalo weight and size, is a spe- Bolaram gather at the bly provided clues to crack The AQI monitoring sta- Bahadurpura, and expert, told Deccan area, the city requires a carnival, celebrated with cial attraction at the spot. According to the case, not working. tions in Greater Pashamylaram as per data Chronicle. minimum of 50 AQI sta- euphoria by the Yadav Khairatabad Sadar Utsav Parmeshwar Yadav, organ- As per sources, a few of the Hyderabad are located at available with World Air According to experts of tions spread over it evenly. community in the twin Mela. It is said to cost `1 ising committee member, cameras in the area were dys- Central University in Quality Index. Though the urban emissions, a gener- However, according to cities, a day after Diwali, lakh to maintain Rana, the processions and functional during the time of Gachibowli, Sanathnagar Greater Hyderabad area al understanding is that experts, the location and began on a modest note in owned by D. Laxman parade of buffaloes will offence and were later fixed. Industrial Development has six automatic ambient an ambient monitoring number of stations must 1946 at Narayanguda. It Yadav, every month. end with medals being pre- The police denied that the Area, IDA at air quality monitoring sta- station can represent an also take into account pop- spread to other localities Another mela on the first sented to each animal.For cameras were not working and Pashamylaram, Zoo Park tions, the data they pro- area covering 2-km radius, ulation density, range of and is now a big celebra- day of Sadar is at Risala Monday’s ‘Sadar’ mela, refused to respond when asked in Bahadurpur, US vide does not reflect that which translates to just a industrial activities, and tion. Bazaar, Bolaram. the city police released a whether they were privately Consulate in Begumpet, of the entire city. little over 12 sq km but local land use. In the colloquial, it is M. Mahesh Yadav, organ- traffic advisory. installed ones or government- and IDA Balanagar. “If the geography of the might be able to get read- TSPCB officials said that more popular as ‘dun- ising member of the Vehicles will not be issue cameras. Of these, as per CPCB area is hilly or is on a ings from up to 15 sq km. they will be getting new napothula panduga (festi- Khairatabad Sadar, said, allowed to proceed “The movements of the sus- data for Saturday, the air plateau there is need for As per the GHMC, the monitoring stations soon. val of make buffaloes)’. “Initially we thought of towards Narayanguda pects were not captured in the quality, particularly the more stations, as the pol- Greater Hyderabad area is The tenders for the same On the first day, the go- suspending the celebra- YMCA from Monday 7 pm cameras. It is a huge area and level of particulate matter lutants, which are carried spread over 625 sq km and would be floated in the oooja starts at tions because of the pan- to 3 am on Tuesday. is only manned by four men,” that are 2.5 microns or by the air keep flowing the six AQI stations coming days. Khairatabad. ‘Sadar’ is a demic. However, the com- Vehicles coming from a police official said, adding, smaller (PM2.5), in the around. Also, there is no between them at best pro- “We can get sufficient conclave of the Yadav com- mittee decided to go ahead Tourist Hotel, Vittalwadi “We will be nabbing the cul- evening extending well harm in having more sta- vide air quality data for data from the existing munity. They parade their with the ‘Sadar’ and pray crossoads and Ramkote prits within 3-4 days.” into midnight was at tions for a city as populous only 90 sq km or so. ones,” said an official of male buffalos by decorat- to Lord Krishna for a vac- crossroads, will be divert- The theft was reported earli- unhealthy levels in as Hyderabad,” Dr D. Just going by the spread the PCB. ing them and bringing cine to cure Covid-19.” ed to other roads. er this month. Sources con- firmed the involvement of an inter-state gang in the crime. “The gang suspected to have eight members walked some Registration of distance from the park carry- New cases plummet on back of fewer tests ing the 3-4 feet logs before engaging an autorickshaw,” BALU PULIPAKA I DC positive in the past few ● IT MAY be noted that less reliable Rapid 57 and Medchal-Malkajgiri sources said. HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 days, while the remaining during the earlier months Antigen Tests extensively. with 45 cases are second non-agri land to Apart from the Gandhinagar 9,357 were from individu- of the pandemic, positive They are not known to and third, respectively. police, who registered the theft New Coronavirus cases als who either volunteered present accurate results. As a likely result of the case, the neighbouring police plummeted to a low of 661 and got themselves tested cases were on a consis- It has been noticed that low testing, Yadadri- stations and the Task Force for Saturday, the day of or were referred for test- tent high and the ratio there has been a signifi- Bhongir, Wanaparthy, resume on Nov. 23 are teaming up to crack the Diwali. Three more per- ing. between new cases and cant reduction in testing Vikarabad, Rajanna- case. sons succumbed to the dis- Another weekend low tests was much higher. and new cases on week- Siricilla, Peddapalli, DC CORRESPONDENT ● Rao said that the According to sources, the ease on Saturday. The total was on October 25 when ends now for the past cou- Nirmal, and Kamareddy HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 process of registration of gang who is suspected to be cases stood at 2,57,374 and 582 new cases were detect- cases were on a consistent ple of months. districts registered cases agriculture properties involved in the case is alleged the deaths at 1,404. ed. Only 14,729 individuals high and the ratio between Meanwhile, the GHMC in single digits, down from Chief Minister K. through Dharani was to be part of the same family Coupled with a fall in the were tested for the virus. new cases and tests was jurisdiction continues to the double-digit figures Chandrashekar Rao has and has landed in the city number of tests during Another day that had reg- much higher. have the maximum new they recorded since directed that registration gaining popularity. He about 15 days ago from weekends, Telangana state istered lower cases than This was not just cases compared to all November 9. of non-agriculture land said, “They are satisfied Madhya Pradesh. reported testing of only on Saturday was June 20, because of the disease other districts. There were 15,425 active and properties be com- that their farm lands have The officials also questioned 21,264 samples in the 24- when 546 new cases were spreading faster but test- The health department Covid-19 cases in the state menced through the been secured by the members of a gang involved in hour period ending reported from 3,188 sam- ing was done using Rt-PCR said that on Saturday as on November 14 Dharani portal on Dharani website. The a similar incident reported Saturday 8 pm. Of these ples that were tested. tests, considered the gold GHMC recorded 167 new evening of whom 2,526 are November 23. feedback from the field- back in 2015 as the part of tests, 11,907 were from pri- It may be noted that dur- standard for Covid-19 test- cases, nearly a fourth of undergoing treatment in On September 7, the level also has been excel- their investigations. mary and secondary con- ing the earlier months of ing. Since July, the state the 661 across the state. various government and government had declared lent.” He said that the tacts of those who tested the pandemic, positive has been using the much Ranga Reddy district with private hospitals. a holiday for the registra- tion department, stalling process for registration of all registrations, includ- non-agriculture proper- ing agriculture and non- ties was delayed for fix- TOTAL | MESS After promotion, TS officers in same post; AP cops queue up to go to the Centre agriculture properties, in ing teething problems. order to introduce the New Revenue Act, which by the Dharani website. enable registrations The feedback from the through Dharani.He field-level also has been launched the portal on excellent.” IPS officers in both Telugu states in a spot October 29 and allowed Stating that Dharani registrations of agricul- had overcome minor VIKRAM SHARMA I DC move out. “look after the work” of the want a regular DCP for this (internal security) in the officer and it is rare for offi- ture properties across the issues faced during its HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 In Telangana state, IPS state Intelligence chief, a sensitive zone, which has ministry of home affairs. cers in that rank to leave on state through it. initial stages, Rao exuded officers of the 1994 batch key post. Ditto is the case witnessed several commu- Thereafter, IPS officers deputation. In undivided AP, During a review meet- confidence that all issues Be it intra-IPS rivalry trig- were promoted from IGP to with the sensitive south nal clashes and a bomb blast Atul Singh (additional secre- only H.J. Dora had left the ing on the functioning of would be resolved in the gered by political leanings the rank of additional DGP zone in Hyderabad where no in the past. In AP, intra-IPS tary, Central Vigilance state in that rank. the portal with senior next three to four days. or indifference of the pow- abd 2001 batch officers from regular DCP has been post- rivalry — be it during the N. Commission), N. It is widely believed that officers and ministers on He said that the process ers-that-be, the IPS fraterni- DIG to IG. The 2004 and 2005 ed since July 2019. Chandrababu Naidu govern- Madhusudhan Reddy the DGPs M. Mahendar Sunday, he asked Chief for registration of non- ty in the Telugu states finds batches were promoted from While two IPS officers ment or the YSRC dispensa- (National Police Academy), Reddy of Telangana state Secretary Somesh Kumar agriculture properties itself in a peculiar situa- SP to DIG and seven officers were given additional tion — is leading to an Anjana Sinha (CISF), Amit and D. Gautam Sawang of to launch the registra- was delayed for fixing tion. of the 2006 batch were pro- charge of the south zone, AP unusually high number of Garg (NPA), Grewal Navdeep AP — both of the 1986 batch tions through the portal teething problems. If several IPS officers in moted to the senior scale. cadre officer Gajarao officers leaving the state in a Singh (IB), Jayalakshmi — have little say over the formally on the day, since The Chief Minister Telangana state languish in Despite being promoted in Bhupal who came to short span. (CBI) left the state. goings-on. “This is the first he had already launched said, “Now that all the their current posts despite March-April 2019, they con- Telangana state on inter- Senior IPS officer V.S.K. D. Tirumala Rao and time that both Telugu states agriculture lands regis- issues have been plugged, being promoted to senior tinue to hold the same posts. cadre deputation from AP Kaumudi was the first to bid Mahesh Chandra Laddha are witnessing such an tration process. the Chief Secretary will ranks for close to two years, In addition to their work, (on grounds of personal goodbye during the Naidu are the latest addition to the unusual situation and it is Rao said that the process launch the registration their colleagues in Andhra many are given additional hardship) has been asked to regime. A topper of the 1986 officers proceeding on cen- strange the top brass is of registration of agricul- process for non-agricul- Pradesh are increasingly charge. “look after” the zone though batch, Kaumudi has since tral deputation, taking the unable to impress upon the ture properties through ture lands on November opting for central deputa- Strangely, the government he has not been posted there held key assignments at the number to nine even as at respective governments to Dharani was gaining pop- 23. I heartily commend tion — 10 officers have left appointed a retired IPS offi- officially. It remains a mys- Centre including stints at least three more officers are address issues concerning ularity. He said, “They are the authorities for mak- their parent cadre while cer, T. Prabhakar Rao, who tery why the government or NIA, CRPF, BPR&D and is desperate to leave AP. the IPS officers,” many IPS satisfied that their farm ing the Dharani portal an some more are desperate to obtained an extension, to the police top brass do not currently special secretary Tirumala Rao is a DG rank officers said. lands have been secured excellent one.” CITY DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 16 NOVEMBER 2020 pg 3

COVID-19 Panchatatva park inaugurated DASOJU CALLS Ahead of election, C UNT PROPERTY TAX SOP ‘GIMMICK’ CASES DEATHS TS gives 50% off FOR GHMC POLL (+70,622) (+845) DC CORRESPONDENT 88,43,398 1,30,066 HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 on property tax covid19india.org AICC spokesperson Dr MADDY DEEKSHITH | DC during the last elections in Sravan Dasoju on Sunday HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 2016, because of which STATE GOVERNMENT BULLETINS accused the TRS of those paying up to `1,000 tax indulging in political The government has a year paid only `101. (+ 661) (+4) gimmicks by announcing announced a 50 per cent Rama Rao said that the 50 per cent waiver of rebate in property tax. It government would continue TS: 2,57,374 1,404 property tax in urban will be applicable to those to disburse `10,000 relief to areas, ahead of the who pay tax of up to `15,000 the recent flood victims in (+1,056) (+14) GHMC elections. a year in the GHMC and the Greater Hyderabad Questioning the timing, `10,000 in other municipalit- area. He appealed to the peo- AP: 8,54,011 6,868 he told mediapersons that ies. The decision is expected ple to register their names the decision was annou- to benefit nearly 13 lakh in Mee Seva centres and CASES AROUND THE WORLD nced to influence gullible property owners in the city. provide bank details to avail voters. Dr Sravan asked Municipal administration the benefit. Apart from this, minister K.T. Rama Rao minister K.T. Rama Rao the state government also 5,46,84,471 why the government can- announced the tax relief as enhanced monthly salaries DEATHS not extend the benefit a Diwali gift on Saturday. He of sanitation workers from statewide. He demanded said that the tax rebate `14,500 to `17,500 in recogni- 13,22,955 that Rama Rao scrap the would be applicable for the tion of their services dur- Land Regularisation Sch- financial year 2020-21. ing Covid-19 pandemic. COUNTRIES, eme before going for the Rama Rao said that if The tax rebate was given AREAS WITH 217 elections. owners have already paid reportedly in view of the CASES “People have purchased tax for this year, the amount ensuing elections to GHMC. worldometers.info/ open plots with their (50 per cent balance) will be The State Election Comm- coronavirus hard-earned money. But, adjusted in the next finan- ission (SEC) has already ini- in the name of LRS, the cial year. It may be recalled tiated election arrange- government is trying to that the government had ments and the notification ASTROGUIDE levy a hefty penalty on extended property tax relief is expected soon. the citizens by charging Sarvari; Dakshinayana Minister K.T. Rama Rao along with environment minister V. Srinivas Goud and mayor Bonthu Rammohan at least 4-5 times the orig- Tithi: Kartika Shuddha Padyami till inaugurate the panchatatva park at the premises of Indira Park in Hyderabad on Sunday. inal cost.” 7.07 am; Kartika Shuddha Dwitiya 3 girls drown while till 3.57 am (Tuesday) Star: Anuradha till 2.39 pm Varjyam: 7.44 pm to 9.11 pm Durmuhurtam: 12.23 pm to taking selfie at Alisagar 1.08 pm; 2.37 pm to 3.22 pm NARENDER PULLOOR I DC their mobile phones. Trying Rahukalam: 7.30 am to 9 am Sanitation staff get wage hike NIZAMABAD, NOV.15 to save each other, three HIJRI CALENDAR girls were drowned in the Rabbi-ul Awwal 29, 1442 AH In a tragic incident, three reservoir. PRAYERS KTR announces `3k hike as recognition of their work during pandemic girls drowned in the The deceased were identi- Fajar: 5.19 am Alisagar reservoir in fied as Jubera, 16, Mashera, Zohar: 12.11 pm DC CORRESPONDENT ices during the Covid-19 ● THE SALARY of san- during the Covid-19 been opened to public on Yedapally mandal on 14, and Meraj, 12, of HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 pandemic. Sunday. The park was Asar: 4.05 pm pandemic. itary public health Sunday. The incident Rakasipet in Bodhan town. The salary of sanitary developed at a cost of Maghrib: 5.46 pm The ‘palabhishekam’ workers and field-level occurred when the victims They had gone to Alisagar public health workers `17 lakh. Isha: 6.56 pm Staff of the Greater was done across munici- are trying to take a selfie on reservoir with their friends. Hyderabad Municipal pal offices within the staff will be hiked from and field-level staff will This apart, Indira Park SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.21 AM Corporation (GHMC) on GHMC limits after Rama `14,000 to `17,000. be hiked from `14,000 to is spread over 16 acres SUNSET TODAY 5.40 PM Sunday bathed in milk, Rao on Saturday Wages of sanitary field `17,000. Wages of sani- with a crosswalk, infinity MOONSET 6.50 PM portraits of Chief announced the enhance- assistants and other tary field assistants and walk, yoga shed, Raasi MOONRISE 7.19 AM Minister K. ment in salaries. Excise public health field assis- other public health field Vanam, open gym, and Chandrashekar Rao and minister Srinivas Goud, assistants including tho- has herbal plants. It is municipal minister K.T. mayor Bonthu tants including those of se of entomology will go also proposed to provide COUNTER POINT Rama Rao after the state Rammohan and MLA entomology will go up up from `14,500 to one more open gym government announced a Muta Gopal were present from `14,500 to `17,500. as about 6,500 to 6,800 `3,000 increase in wages when the portraits of `17,500. Later in the day, Rama people of different of sanitation workers of Chandrashekar Rao and Rao said at a function age groups visit Indira the civic body. Rama Rao were in the twin cities. that the Chief Minister Park. Rama Rao announced bathed with milk at Mayor Rammohan said aspired to provide a good GHMC is also taking up the enhancement of Indira Park. Workers with this hike, the Chief environment to all citi- redevelopment of parks salaries to sanitation from different parts of Minister had recognised zens. Accordingly, the in a big way. These workers from `14,500 to the city arranged for sim- services of sanitation wo- GHMC has developed 17 include developing 300 `17,500, saying it was in ilar palabhishekams at rkers in keeping the panchatatva theme tree parks and 50 theme recognition of their serv- various civic body offices city clean, particularly parks, one of which has parks. BJP LEADER RTC staff to get SLAMS KTR’S pending salaries PROPERTY TAX DC CORRESPONDENT privatising PSUs, includ- CONCESSION HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 ing the LIC. We are pro- IN BRIEF tecting our state-run DC CORRESPONDENT In a relief to the staff of undertakings.” HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 the TS Road Transport He said “I will not relax Woman throws Corporation (TSRTC), till TSRTC is put back on BJP senior leader and Chief Minister K. Chan- track. Many employees MLC N. Ramachander infant from balcony drashekar Rao on Sun- and lakhs of their fami- Rao on Sunday termed Hyderabad: A 14-day-old baby day decided to immedi- lies are dependent on it. the property tax con- died after he was reportedly ately pay 50 per cent Moreover, this is the cession announced by thrown from the terrace of a pending salary to them cheapest transport net- municipal administra- three-storey building at which was withheld for work available for the tion minister K.T. Erragadda by his mother. She March and April due to poor.” Rama Rao as an elec- had attempted to take her Covid -19. He was hold- TSRTC officials tion gimmick. own life earlier last month, cit- ing a review meeting informed that due to the The TRS government ing marital disputes as the with officials of trans- Coronavirus and with had utterly failed in ful- reason. The Sanathnagar port and finance depart- people preferring to use filling its promises like police have booked the ments on the steps being private vehicles, occu- providing double bed- accused, Lavanya, 27, for mur- taken to bring RTC back pancy rate of their buses room houses to the der and placed her under on track. He asked had come down drasti- poor and developing arrest. Police said Lavanya got finance secretary Ram- cally, which resulted in Hyderabad city into married to Venugopal in 2016. akrishna Rao to immedi- the corporation incur- another Dallas, he told About sixmonths ago, she ately release `120 crore ring heavy losses. the media at the BJP briefly returned to her moth- for this purpose Rao instructed officials office here. He said er’s place when she was preg- The CM instructed to take appropriate deci- Rama Rao had also nant, saying she was unable to TSRTC authorities to sions and get over the announced a 100-day do the household work alone, make arrangements for difficulties created by action plan for the dev- said the police. “On October restoration of bus serv- the pandemic. He point- elopment of the city, 29, the couple had a fight and ices to all earlier routes ed out that cargo servic- and accused the mi- Lavanya attempted to take her and to increase services es introduced by RTC nister of cheating the life. She was rushed to a hos- to 50 per cent in Greater had become a big hit. He citizens by not keeping pital by her family, where she Hyderabad limits from hoped that like Indian his promises. underwent treatment and the present 25 per cent. Railways, TSRTC would The BJP MLC asked gave birth to a baby boy on Rao said, “The state also earn profits through Rama Rao to clarify October 30 and moved to her government is protect- its cargo services. what he had done in the parents place after getting ing the state PSUs He expressed his happi- last five years to devel- discharged. The same day, despite several difficul- ness that the RTC had op the city, and pointed her family submitted a police ties. We have opposed carried million parcels out that the citizens complaint against Venugopal tooth and nail attempts and congratulated had a miserable experi- alleging harassment,” said made to privatise the Transport minister ence during the floods. the police. power sector. On the Puvvada Ajay Kumar He said that the con- other hand, the Centre is and officials concerned. cession in property tax was nothing but a mea- gre relief from the injustice and humilia- tion meted out to peo- ple by the ruling party. Govt to set special wing Referring to the `540 crore given as flood relief, Ramachander Rao said that despite to protect water bodies claims of the state gov- ernment that `10,000 DC CORRESPONDENT GHMC officials at Buddha nalas in the new GHMC Act. was being provided to HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 Bhavan on Sunday. Mayor Rama Rao instructed offi- each affected family, Bonthu Rammohan, pri- cials to take up a detailed thousands of people Municipal administration ncipal secretaries Arvind study on all the lakes and had come out on the and urban development min- Kumar and Rajath Kumar nalas in GHMC limits, kee- roads and complained ister K.T. Rama Rao stated were present at the meeting. ping in mind the damage that they did not that the government will set Rama Rao said that a task caused by the recent receive money. Crore of up a special wing for the pro- force will be set up for the floods in Hyderabad and ne- rupees had been siph- tection and conservation of development of lakes and na- ighbouring municipalities. oned off by TRS leaders water bodies in the GHMC las. This task force will The minister asked the offi- and there is ambiguity limits. improve coordination betw- cials to study the strength- in disbursement of the The special wing will be een departments. Officials ening and stabilising of the money, he alleged.The headed by a chief engineer from the Hyderabad Metro- bunds. He instructed munici- BJP MLC expressed the from the irrigation depart- politan Water Supply and Se- pal officials to closely work hope that the people ment and a special commis- werage Board, Hyderabad with the irrigation depart- now would not fall into sioner from the GHMC. This Metropolitan Development ment to take up the study. the trap of the TRS and wing will especially protect Authority, revenue and irri- Rama Rao said the govern- they instead ‘do a the water bodies from encr- gation departments will be a ment was coming up with an Dubbak’ in the GHMC oachments and take up con- part of the Task Force. The action plan on water bodies elections. The BJP wo- servation activities, he said. minister stated that tougher and nalas in GHMC limits uld capture the GHMC The minister was speaking laws will be incorporated on along with areas located Council this time, at a review meeting with encroachments of lakes and inside the Outer Ring Road. Ramachander Rao said. CITY DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 16 NOVEMBER 2020 pg 4

SHORT TAKES BJP gears up for GHMC polls `14L MOBILE Kavitha vows help PHONES STOLEN FROM SHOP to victim’s family DC CORRESPONDENT her residence in Hyderabad DC CORRESPONDENT HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 on Sunday, seeking her inter- HYDERABAD NOV. 15 vention. TRS MLC K. Kavitha on Kavitha spoke to Unidentified burglars Sunday assured the family of Nizamabad police commis- decamped with `14 lakh worth a woman whose body was sioner Kartikeya over the mobile phones and accessories found in Nizamabad district telephone and enquired from the Reliance Digital store that all steps would be taken about the reasons for delay in at Madinaguda on Saturday to ensure that the accused are the case investigation. She morning. punished as per law and jus- urged him to expedite the Cyberabad police suspects tice is done. investigation and personally that an inter-state gang is The body of the girl was monitor it to nab the persons involved in the offence and has found under suspicious cir- responsible for the death of reportedly traced it to Pune. cumstances in Nyavanandi of the victim. “The gang came in a MUV Sirikonda mandal in Assuring the victim’s fami- (multi-utility vehicle) at Nizamabad district, accord- ly of help, Kavitha said Chief around 4.15 am on Saturday to ing to sources. Minister K. Chandrashekar the store. They took away only The members of the vic- Rao does not tolerate crimes mobile phones and the acces- tim’s family along with the against women and was tak- sories. A similar offence was members of the Yadav com- ing all measures to ensure reported in Gujarat. We sus- munity called on Kavitha at their safety. pect that the same gang is at play,” sources said. The three men who entered the store were not wearing face masks but had their gloves on; no fingerprints found at the scene of offence, according to the police. The BJP GHMC election management committee meets at the party office in Nampally on Sunday. Party state president Bandi Sanjay The Miyapur police, who Kumar, Union minister of state G. Kishan Reddy, BJP vice president D.K. Aruna and senior leaders attended the meeting. BJP leaders also booked a theft case, is felicitated newly elected Dubbak MLA M. Raghunandan Rao on this occasion. — S. SURENDER REDDY analysing the CCTV footage of the theft and tracking the vehi- cle of the accused. The CCTV footage from the store’s cam- RAGHUNANDAN eras show the men breaking open the shutter and entering TO TAKE OATH the store one by one. Hyd in a mess: Uttam “We are working on the case with the clues we that we have ON NOV. 18 DC CORRESPONDENT ● quitoes and snakes. The said. He said lack of gathered. Technical evidence HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 IN AN open letter to face the risk of contract- coordination between is helping us trace them,” said DC CORRESPONDENT the CM , the TPCC chief ing water-borne diseases the municipality, irriga- Ravi Kiran, Miyapur sub- HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 State Congress chief N. said: “The people of as well as those spread tion, revenue and elec- inspector who is also the Uttam Kumar Reddy on Hyderabad are living in by mosquitoes. tricity departments had investigating officer of the Bharatiya Janata Party Sunday urged Chief the most miserable con- “No official or public made things difficult. case. MLA-elect M. Minister K. ditions in the last two representative has come The TPCC chief said Raghunandan Rao will Chandrashekar Rao to months but the govern- forward to support the when he enquired about OBITUARY be sworn in as Dubbak extend immediate relief ment does not care.” people there,” said the the situation in GOVT TRANSFERS legislator at 1 pm on to the residents of TPCC chief who had Osmannagar with the November 18. Rao had Osmannagar, Saifnagar, toured the area on collector and other offi- 15 DSP RANK upset the much-fancied Abdullah Yahya Nagar care.” About 5,000 people Friday. “Proof of your cials, he was told that TRS to win the and other localities in about 1000 houses in governance is the fact they had submitted a OFFICERS November 3 byelection which are still sub- the three colonies were that the situation is so report to the state gov- by a narrow margin of merged in floodwaters living in miserable con- bad in a ministerial con- ernment and were a DC CORRESPONDENT 1,079 votes. He will be following the rains in ditions, he said. stituency that is not so waiting funds. HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 the BJP’s second legisla- the second week of The residents, belong- far away from Uttam Kumar Reddy tor, after T. Raja Singh. October. ing to the poor and mid- Hyderabad,” he told the asked the Chief The state government has In an open letter to the dle classes, had lost their Chief Minister. Minister to order enu- transferred 15 deputy superin- Chief Minister, the electronic gadgets, chil- The residents had no meration of damage in tendents of police (DSP) rank TPCC chief said: “The dren's books and furni- access to safe drinking the area and pay com- T. GOVIND RAO S/o. Late T. Narayan officials including Siddipet people of Hyderabad are ture. He said the people water. Three-phase pensation to each family. DOB: 14-11-1934 DOD: 14-11-2020 assistant police commissioner living in the most miser- were “experiencing power supply is required Steps should be taken to Inserted by: Wife: T. Indradevi, Son: T. Venkatnarayana A. Vishwa Prasad who had able conditions in the hell,” surrounded by to pump away the water find a permanent solu- Daughter-in-law: T. Madhavi taken charge on October 7, last two months but the water and living amid and drains have to be tion to inundation of Daughter: P. Saya Devi about the time the Dubbak government does not nauseating odour, mos- cleared, the TPCC chief those areas in the future. Grandchildren / Great Grandchildren TELUKUNTA FAMILY byelection notification was issued. DGP M. Mahendar Reddy on Saturday issued orders asking Prasad to report to the DGP’s Contract lecturers get a KCR boost OBITUARY office. Ch Rameshwar, who was awaiting posting, will be DC CORRESPONDENT The Chief Minister the Chief Minister the college contract lectur- that they should be given Siddipet ACP. HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 held a review meeting on various issues being ers. The attempt to regu- an opportunity to work There were reports among the problems faced by faced by the contract lec- larise them failed due to in the government junior police circles that the cash Chief Minister K. contract lecturers in gov- turers of government cases in courts. The gov- college of their choice in seizure by the Siddipet police Chandrashekar Rao ernment junior colleges. junior colleges. ernment has doubled the vacant posts. during the byelection from a decided to give an oppor- Education minister P. While instructing the their monthly salaries. He also instructed sen- close relative of BJP candidate tunity to contract lectur- Sabitha Indra Reddy and officials to prepare In the past they were ior officials of the educa- M. Raghunandan Rao and the ers to work in their Rythu Bandhu Samithi guidelines in this regard, paid for 10 months in a tion department to pre- alleged assault on TRS MLA choice of vacant posts chairman Palla Rao said “The state gov- year.”He instructed offi- pare the guidelines keep- Ch Kranti Kiran by BJP work- available in government Rajeshwar Reddy ernment has taken sever- cials to take into consid- ing in view the existing ers a day head of polling junior colleges. brought to the notice of al measures about junior eration their plea and rules and regulations. resulted in the transfer. Mrs. ROSY DALAVAI Siddipet Traffic ACP A. W/o Rev. Dr. Raja Deen Dayal Dalavai Balaji was transferred and Slept in the Lord on posted as DSP of Sangareddy. TECHIE DIES 13th November 2020. P. Sridhar Reddy was trans- Harish Rao’s evening out Funeral at Boiguda, Cemetery on 18th ferred as ACP LB Nagar to Nov. 2020 (Wednesday) at 3:00 PM. replace K. Pruthvidhar Rao AFTER RTC BUS Ph: 7386911226, 8790826301 who was asked to report to the REST IN PEACE (S/2021/D00830) DGP’s office. HITS HIS BIKE Akula Srinivas, DSP CID, was posted as ACP Kacheguda DC CORRESPONDENT and S. Bheem Reddy, ACP, HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 Hyderabad Metro Rail, as DSP Patancheru and M. A software engineer suc- Sudharshan, DSP Counter cumbed to severe head Intelligence Cell. as ACP injuries when a speeding Banjara Hills in place of K. RTC bus hit his bike from Srinivasa Rao who is now DSP the rear on Sunday after- intelligence. noon in P.V. Ganesh, ACP CCS of Vanasthalipuram. The Ramagundam, will be ACP deceased, Bachireddy CHITTIMALLI VEERESHALINGAM Punjagutta in place of M. Surya Thirpal Reddy, 26, D.O.D: 13th November 2020 Wife: Chittimalli Nagarani Thirupatanna who is now DSP was a resident of Son: Chittimalli Ramu Intelligence. V. Bhaskar, DSP Vanasthalipuram. Daughter-in-law: Uma and of CI Cell, will be ACP On Sunday afternoon at Grand Children & Shamshabad and V. Jaipal about 12,40 pm, Reddy CHITTIMALLI FAMILY Reddy, ACP CCS, Hyderabad was heading towards (S/2021/D00828) city, has been posted as Panama crossroads when Baswada DSP in place of S.R. the accident occurred, IN MEMORIAM Damodar who has been asked said K. Murali Mohan, “For the righteous will never be moved; they to report to the DGP’s office. inspector of will be remembered forever.” Ps. 112:6 On Friday, the state govern- Vanasthalipuram police. ment posted P. Venkata Rami Reddy suffered head Reddy back as collector of injuries and succumbed Siddipet district. He had been on the spot. shunted out of Siddipet follow- “If he had a helmet on, ing an Election Commission he could have survived directive ahead of the byelec- Finance minister Harish Rao plays a shot after inaugurating a cricket tournament at Siddipet. He also went the mishap,” the inspec- tion to Sangareddy district. to the mini Tank Bund in the town on Sunday. tor said. Based on a complaint Late Mr. R. DOMINIC GEORGE S/o Late C. Rasundram & Late Annamary received from Mourya 9th Nov 1938 - 10th Nov 2020 Chandra Reddy, the 11th Day Memorial Service @ Holy techie’s brother-in-law, Trinity Church, Chikoti Garden, Begumpet, Holy Mass 6:00 PM on Nov. HOLY | TIME Once-in-12-years pushkaralu at the river starts next week the police booked a case 20th 2020. against the RTC driver Inserted by: Wife: Mrs. Harriet D George, Francina Latha, Vijay Paul D & under IPC Section 304-A George Dominic, Meenakshi Vijay Paul, (death by negligence) and Deeksha Vijay Paul placed him under arrest. Contact: 70937-01716 Purohits queue up at Tungabhadra (S/2021/D00827) DC CORRESPONDENT tors. As a precautionary ● THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION is making a list of Tungabhadra river in the KURNOOL, NOV. 15 measure, the Kurnool dis- district. Each ghat will 2nd DEATH ANNIVERSARY priests and will start issuing them high security identity I will dwell in the house of the Lord for trict administration has have presence of 15 puro- ever. Psalm 23:6 Anticipating a bonanza, made mandatory Covid-19 cards from Tuesday. The endowments department has hits. During the 2008 purohits are coming to tests for purohits, who will said purohits will have to produce a "Coronavirus nega- Pushkarams, their num- Kurnool district from have to compulsorily wear tive report” to obtain their identity cards. ber was 20 at each ghat. within AP and neighbour- masks and wash their ● The district administra- ing districts of Telangana hands frequently with THE KURNOOL administration is being vigilant as tion is being vigilant as state and Karnataka in sanitisers. there is a wave of opinion spreading that the people there is a wave of opinion hope of making some The district administra- must be allowed to have a holy dip in the river. The spreading that people must money during the Tun- tion is cataloguing all administration had barred bathing in the Tungabhadra be allowed to freely have a gabhadra Pushkarams, a priests and will start issu- during the pushkaralu due to Covid-19 restrictions. holy dip in the river. The once-in-12-years event, to ing them high security opinion is spreading S. CHARLES AMRITRAJ be held all along the course identity cards from despite the administration DOB: 09-05-1932 DOD: 16-11-2018 of the Tungabhadra river Tuesday, November 17. The in Mantralayam. devout will have to remain banning bathing in the “We remember you with pride and gratitude. You were a noble, humble & generous soul. from November 20 to endowments department Due to fears of a second content with just sprin- river due to the risk of Showed the path & guided many. What we December 1. has said purohits will have wave of Coronavirus pan- kling water over their Covid-19 pandemic spread- are today is because of you.” CHILDREN & GRAND CHILDREN Presence of priests is to produce a "Coronavirus demic striking, Kurnool heads. ing along the river course Patron of S. Charles Amritraj Memorial sine qua non for people to negative report” to obtain administration has An endowment official if any of the patients are Gold Medal (Life time) B.R. Ambedkar perform ‘pinda pradhana’ their identity cards, said banned devotees from hav- said there are 21 bathing Coronavirus positive or Open University, Hyderabad. in honour of their ances- V.L.L.N. Sastry, a purohit ing a dip in the river. The ghats along the course of even asymptomatic. (S/2021/D00826) CITY/AP DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 16 NOVEMBER 2020 pg 5

SHORT TAKES Seeking a record RAINS ACROSS 124 acre encroached land S. COAST, SEEMA LIKELY TODAY taken back by AP officials DC CORRESPONDENT DC CORRESPONDENT VISAKHAPATNAM, NOV. 15 VISAKHAPATNAM, NOV. 15 Fusion Foods Revenue officials, accom- A trough in easterlies will panied by a large number run from Comorin to South of police personnel, dem- Bay of Bengal and adjoining olished compound walls Restaurant seized west central Bay of Bengal and sheds and freed 124 off Tamil Nadu and south acres of land in Vijayara- K.M.P. PATNAIK | DC directions to the state gov- coastal Andhra Pradesh on mapuram Agraharam VISAKHAPATNAM, NOV. 15 ernment. The VUDA Sunday. Under its influence, under Adavaivaram pan- issued extension orders scattered to fairly widespread chayat that was allegedly Dealing another blow to till 2024. rainfall accompanied by encroached upon by TD the Telugu Desam cadre, But the VMRDA in its thunderstorms are likely leaders of Rayalaseema officials of the notice dated November 14 over coastal Andhra Pradesh, and Visakhapatnam. Visakhapatnam Metr- stated that the lease vio- Tamil Naidu and Puducherry. Immediately after the opolitan Region lated rules which say that In the last 24 hours, demolition, officials put Development Authority lease period could be Tirupati and Chennai up boards warning tres- (VMRDA) seized Fusion given for only three years received 1 cm of rainfall passers from entering the Foods located at and not beyond unless the while many areas across the premises. Siripuram here Sunday state government specifi- coast and Rayalaseema The land, valued at morning. Fusion Foods is cally permits it. remained cloudy. On Sunday, approximately `1,200 promoted by T. The notice cited that Nellore received moderate crore, is located in Title Harshavardhan Prasad, a there was no government rains. Deed No 1180 on the edge close friend of permission for a nine- “The situation will remain Ravi Kumar attempts to set a record by folding and arranging 1,750 origami peacocks at the Kendriya Vidyalaya, of BRTS Road between Visakhapatnam West leg- year lease and rent was the same for the next three Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, on Sunday. — R. PAVAN National Highway and islator P.V.G.R. Naidu. The far below the specified days. Rayalaseema and south Simhachalam temple. incident comes 24 hours norms. Citing these rea- coastal Andhra will receive Giving details of the after the demolition of sons, the commissioner of good rains,’’ said IMD direc- case, CPI(M) city secre- structures in 124 acres VMRDA asked the estate tor at Amaravati, S. Stella. tary Dr B. Ganga Rao, who allegedly encroached by officer to take over the filed a case in the High TD leaders. premises. Court in 2014 on behalf of Harshavardhan shot to “I took an open land for SOME MORE the party over encroach- limelight when an lease and spent over `5 4 of family saved from ment of the land, said the employee of his restau- crore for construction of CORPORATORS court responded positively rant, J. Srinivas Rao the premises. Without giv- and asked the state gov- attacked Chief Minister ing any notice and time, ernment to file a report Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy they descended in the ON THE WAY OUT within six months. The at the Visakhapatnam early hours and removed From page 1 fire in dramatic rescue government constituted a international airport with all the furniture,’’ three-member committee, a knife. The NIA ques- Harshavardhan said and Some more corporators would which included a joint col- tioned Harshavardhan added that he was basical- be displaced due to local fac- Rescuers make ‘ladder bridge’ from adjacent building lector, the Chief and the airport authori- ly a sports person and tors and political reasons. Commissioner of Land ties later closed his associated with P.V.G.R. Sources revealed that Rama NAVEEN KUMAR | DC certificate from the Affairs (CCLA) and restaurant. Naidu. He was never asso- Rao had secured division-wise HYDERABAD NOV. 15 GHMC. Commissioner of Survey Harshavardhan obta- ciated with TD activities feedback of winning horses The fire destroyed prop- and Land Records. ined a lease of the premis- though a section of people and he will give priority to A family of four was erty worth an estimated The committee during es owned by VMRDA (for- were claiming it, he said. candidates with better win- trapped on the terrace of a `1.8 crore. The cause of their inquiry found that merly VUDA) for 10 years Senior TD leader ning chances rather than go by building for a few terrify- the fire is suspected to be a the land records were tam- in 2004. After expiry of Bandaru Satyanarayana seniority. ing minutes after a fire short circuit. No casual- pered with for the conven- the lease in 2014, he Murthy said it was politi- While this is so, there is broke out at an electrical ties were reported. ience of the encroachers. applied for a 10-year cal vendetta. “The YSRC intense lobbying among corpo- goods store located on the According to a prelimi- Initially, the encroachers extension. When the government is destroying rators and aspirants for tick- third floor, at KPHB early nary enquiry, chemicals tampered with records for VUDA refused to oblige, business houses owned or ets. on Sunday. and other metal boxes in 30 acres of land, which Harshavardhan went to promoted by TD sympa- Rama Rao has been busy in Firefighters who rushed the shop fuelled the later grew to 80 acres and the High Court and got thisers,’’ Murthy said. recent days inaugurating com- to the scene following an flames. Fire safety person- finally to 124 acres. The pleted projects and laying the alert rigged up a nel broken a wall from panel named 12 officials, foundation stones for new makeshift bridge to the behind the building in an who tampered the records committee, Ganga Rao Former sarpanch of ones, and announcing sops for terrace from an adjacent attempt to reach the fire. and asked the government said and added that the Adavivaram and promi- the people. structure with the help of According to officials, 45 to initiate action against government instead nent TD leader Pasarla Sources said that in coming a ladder and ropes. The firefighters and five vehi- them. announced that the land Prasad said 30 acres of two weeks, Rama Rao will con- gap between the two build- cles and a crane took part According to Dr Ganga belonged to Simhachalam land was donated by the centrate on distribution of ings was about six feet. in the rescue operations. Rao, the committee said Devasthanam and banned royal family of Viziana- double bedroom houses to the “Within 20 minutes, the According to the Regional that out of 8,091.67 acres, registrations. garam to the main priest beneficiaries as per his prom- family of four was suc- Fire Officer, a short cir- 560.02 acres belonged to Finding fault with the of Padmanabham temple, ise to deliver them before end cessfully rescued by our cuit may have led to the Simhachalam Devas- revenue department’s who in turn sold the prop- of December 2020. Once the team,” said District Fire fire accident. Local police thanam and the remain- action, TD leaders said erty to the head priest of task is complete, the party will Officer Sudhakar Rao. He and disaster management ing to the forest depart- Ganta Srinivasa Rao, Simhachalam temple reveal its poll strategy. said the building in which authorities supervised the ment, poramboku and pri- prior to joining politics Godavarthy Narayana the fire was reported situation at the spot dur- Fire breaks out at an electrical goods store located on vate lands. No govern- purchased 4.5 acres of Swamy Acharylu. lacked a fire no-objection ing the rescue. the third floor, at KPHB Colony early on Sunday. ment has the right to issue Inam land in 1997 in the Later the legal heirs of MAN DIES WHILE pattas of forest land but name of his company Acharyulu sold the prop- the tahsildars of Pratyusha Associates and erty in pieces of which 4.5 USING LIVE WIRES Pendurthi and China obtained bank loans. He acres was bought by Gadili issued rythuvari subsequently cleared the Ganta Srinivasa Rao, TO CATCH FISH BIG JOLT FOR pattas to people. The com- land. Similarly, PSU bank Prasad said. Diwali picnics turn tragic mittee also said these pat- employees bought five “The remaining 100 DC CORRESPONDENT CONGRESS AS tas were illegal and acres of land in an auc- acres has not been sur- KHAMMAM, NOV. 15 invalid. tion. The revenue officials veyed and there are no LEADERS RESIGN The TD government did marked both the land records regarding them Live wire fishing, which is as 6 revellers drown in TS not take any action parcels as encroached till date,’’ Prasad said. widely practiced in RAVINDRA SESHU I DC against the tahsildars or land, a senior TD leader Revenue officials could Khammam district, resulted KHAMMAM, NOV. 15 ANUDEEP CEREMILLA| DC the officials named by the said. not be contacted. in the death of a man at the WITH AGENCY INPUTS 12-YEAR-OLD LOSES BOTH HIS HANDS Nagarjunasagar left canal on The Congress in WARANGAL, NOV. 15 Sunday. Police said the victim, Kamepalli mandal Dharavat Krishna, 36, was received a jolt after the Diwali turned tragic for AFTER ‘BRINJAL BOMB’ EXPLODES electrocuted while fishing in resignation of more the residents of Ranga- DC CORRESPONDENT ment general hospital. the canal at Kranthipuram than a dozen leaders rajapuram Colony of KURNOOL, NOV. 15 Owk town sub-inspector BJP sets eyes on Tirupati under Konigerla mandal on including Utukuru Venkatapuram under Srikanth Reddy said it Sunday. sarpanch Kodem Mulugu district on A 12-year-old boy lost his was not clear whether the Live wire fishing is the prac- Sulochana and mandal Saturday after four youths both hands when a ‘brin- explosion was due to a tice of dropping a live electric parishad member Epuri from there drowned in the jal bomb’ he was handling crude bomb or any other LS bypoll to make a mark wire into the water, which Hemamalini from the river Godavari while they exploded at a cattle shed explosive device. electrocutes the fish. These primary membership of were celebrating a friend’s in Chennampally village He said that Varun AVINASH P stituency in Telangana leadership," a state party fishermen pull the wire out of the party as well as their birthday. Two bodies were in Owk mandal near found the explosive when SUBRAMANYAM I DC state, where party broke leader pointed out. the water and collect the fish. elected seats. found on Saturday, and the Banaganapalle on Sunday. he was repairing his cycle TIRUPATI. NOV. 15 into the bastion of the State leaders are con- Krishna too followed the This came about after two others on Sunday. Five cattle received pellet near a catttle shed. He TRS, the party leaders are ducting back-to-back practice, and jumped into the they were not invited to According to the police, injuries from the explo- told his friends that it was Fresh from the tremen- busy drawing strategies to meetings with key leaders water to catch dead fish. He the laying of the founda- 20 friends went to a pond sion. a ‘vankaya bomb’ (brinjal dous performance of the win over the voters. and the local cadres in was electrocuted by others tion stone for the memo- near the old Godavari sand The injured child, Varun bomb) and hit it hard with party in Bihar as well as Party sources said the Tirupati parliamentary nearby who had dipped live rial building of former ramp, about three kilome- Kumar, was immediately a stone. It suddenly bypolls across the country, local units have been iden- constituency. electric wires into the water minister Ramreddy tres from the village, to shifted to Kurnool govern- exploded. the state unit of the tifying and shortlisting The BJP is pushing local and had not seen Krishna Venkat Reddy in celebrate the birthday of Bharatiya Janata Party is the probables and recom- committees to reach out to jump into the river. Four per- Kamepalli. Venkat one Sashi Kumar on Sat- keen on making its pres- mend to the central lead- the public by propagating sons have been electrocuted by Reddy’s brother and for- urday. Four of his friends, search operations. pen. They also must alert ence felt in the Tirupati ership. Party incharge the schemes sanctioned to the practice despite being mer MLA Damodar Tumma Karthik, Sankhya The bodies of Prakash the police regarding such Lok Sabha bypolls. Sunil Deodhar recently the state and funds advised against it. Reddy laid the founda- Srikanth, Raivarapu and Karthik were found incidents,” he said warn- It is ahead of the other organised party meeting released for the develop- tion stone to the build- Prakash and Anvesh, who on Saturday evening, and ing, anyone violating two serious players — the in Tirupati and made a ment of Tirupati smart ing three days back. were in the group went for that of Anvesh and these orders, would be ruling YSR Congress and scathing attack on the rul- city by the BJP-led NDA LORRY DRIVER Congress has a strong a swim in the river and Srikanth on Sunday. All dealt with seriously. principal opposition ing party and Chief government at the centre. cadre in Kamepalli man- drowned. They were the deceased were under Elsewhere, two teenagers Telugu Desam — in Minister Y.S. Jagan On the other hand, the KILLS ATTENDANT dal and it holds the key reportedly inebriated. the age of 25. drowned at the Nizam- launching the preparato- Mohan Reddy. As expect- party is learnt to have to the party winning the On receiving informa- Eturnagarm ASP Md sagar dam in Kamareddy ry exercise for bypolls ed, the BJP based its elec- been listing out names for Yellandu Assembly con- tion of the youths going Ghouse Alam warned vil- district on Saturday. They which were necessitated tion slogans on the issue the candidature. OVER BRAWL stituency. Epuri missing in the water, lagers living on the shores were among the group of by the sudden demise of of desecration of temples Since four out of the RAVINDRA SESHU | DC Mahender Kumar, an Venkatapuram circle of the Godavari, not to five persons who went to sitting MP B. Durga and forcible conversions, seven Assembly segments KHAMMAM, NOV. 15 employee in Nuzivid inspector K. Shiva Prasad venture into the river, the dam on Diwali. Two of Prasad of the YSRC. Ever making clear its strategy under the Tirupati Lok Seeds, resigned and and sub-inspector Tirup- which is very deep and the them, aged 19, went near a since state BJP president to replace Telugu Desam Sabha seat come under A lorry driver who killed the joined the Congress five ati reached the spot and water was flowing swiftly. flood gate to bathe. It is Somu Veeraju announced as the alternative. "We Nellore district, it is attendant of his lorry in a years back he was a took part in rescue opera- “It is prohibited to take believed that they slipped in the temple town that will give equal impor- expected that the party brawl plied the vehicle with staunch follower of tions. Expert swimmers, baths or celebrate any par- fell into deep water and the party is eager to tance to highlighting the high command will select the body for nine hours. He Venkat Reddy, who died with the help of fisher- ties. Villagers must not drowned, a police official repeat the result of the progress the country is a strong candidate from later drove the vehicle to the four years back. men, and carried out allow such events to hap- said. Dubbak Assembly con- witnessing under Modiji's these four segments. Konigerla police station along with the body of the deceased, identified as Raju, on Sunday. Wyra circle inspector WEDDING | BELLS With Covid-19 easing and availability of good muhurats, families set out to perform marriages Vasanth Kumar said the accused, Nipu Raju, a native of Jagannathapuram near Kakinada, had Raju working as his attendand for long. Marriages in the air, after 8 months of lockdown Police said Nipu Raju came to Manthani from Kakinada with MD ILYAS I DC With strict restrictions ● IT IS reported that three months. a load of palmolien oil. After VIJAYAWADA, NOV. 15 being lifted, hundreds of nearly 40,000 to 50,000 G. Venkateswarlu said unloading the product, they marriages are being marriages would be per- that they had planned to Hopes renewed for function halls went to Sultanabad in The marriage buzz is in scheduled although the perform the marriage of Karimnagar district where the air after eight months guest count would have to formed across the state in their son in May year but DC CORRESPONDENT pams, marriage halls, fu- parents but only few they picked up a load of bro- of silence caused by the be restricted to between 50 the three months. had indefinitely postponed VIJAYAWADA, NOV. 15 nction halls, mini function responded. He said that ken rice. Coronavirus protocols. A and 100. it. He said that would now halls, shadikhanas and the commencement of the Nipu Raju found the tarpau- good augury is the avail- Pundits state that auspi- and January 1, 2, 4 and 7. perform the marriage in Marriage halls, caterers, community halls exist in marriage season, despite lin untied and asked the atten- ability of auspicious cious muhurat began on The next good dates are in the third week of this event managers, priests the 13 districts and these the limitations, would help dant to tighten it but he muhurats from the third October 25 with Dasara. April. They said that the month. and allied sectors, associ- are to witness activity in them and other related allegedly refused to do so and week of this month and They said that the propi- three-and-half month Recalling the bitter expe- ated with social customs, the next three months. segments get work. He said attacked the driver. Nipu Raju stretching up to the first tious Telugu Karthika Moodham/Moudhyami rience of Kerala about the had all lost their livelihood Vedic pandit P. that in the past few days he claimed that he retaliated and week of January. month starts on November starts in the second week resurgence of Coron- because of Covid restric- Raghavendarcharylu said had suggested muhurats to the attendant died. he drove Many families had either 16 and auspicious muhu- of January and is inauspi- avirus cases for ignoring tions. But now they are set that most priests faced around 60 families. the lorry to the police station postponed or cancelled rat are on November 17, 19, cious for marriages. Covid-19 protocols during to be on track with the severe financial difficul- Function hall manager along with the body at 6 am on weddings of their chil- 20, 21, 22, 25 and 26 besides It is reported that nearly Onam festival, officials marriage season set to ties in the past eight D. Rama Rao said that Sunday. Police has started an dren, although some did go which are Margasira 40,000 to 50,000 marriages appealed to the people to take off from Tuesday. months. He said that he many halls and other facil- investigation. ahead amidst Covid-19 month dates of December would be performed across strictly follow Covid-19 According to reports, near- used to suggest auspicious ities have been booked for restrictions. 1, 6, 8, 9, 17, 18, 20, 24 and 27 the state in the norms during marriages. ly 2,000 kalyana manda- mahurats for marriages to marriages. EDIT DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 16 NOVEMBER 2020 pg 6

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No sign of a thaw yet Subhani at the LAC in Ladakh ndia’s official signalling to its own citizens on where the situation stands in eastern Ladakh, where China has positioned some 50,000 troops along with artillery and armour, obliging India to play the matching game, is Iconfusing and far from reassuring. In May this year Indians woke up to the nasty fact that the Chinese armed forces had crossed over into India’s side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) across eastern Ladakh, from north to south. The government was caught wholly unawares. It simply did not matter to China that the Doklam crisis in the eastern Himalayas had been just about defused in 2017, with the informal Wuhan summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping then offering hope of a mutual understanding toward a measure of stability in bilateral relations. Now we know better. Although possessing no locus standi, China used the emasculation of Article 370 in respect of Jammu and Kashmir and declaring Ladakh as a Union ter- ritory in August 2019 as a supposed justification for its military forces to move into the Indian side across a First things first vast swathe of land. Starting from then, the govern- — let the gov- ment has refused to take the people into confidence LETTERS ernment come about the status of our borders in the Ladakh region. out with a Indeed, its communication with the public appears to COVID POTENTIAL White Paper have been less than transparent. Will apex court protect In mid-June, the PM told the Opposition leaders in a Too many customers are laying out the virtual formal meeting that China had not intruded crowding at shopping cen- factual position into Indian territory. This may have been designed to tres, especially on week- save face and to avoid political damage within the country, but this was no help to India’s cause. The ends without maintaining Chinese have continued to throw the PM’s words back at us. Even so, the mil- liberty for all citizens? social distancing. Some itaries of the two countries have so far held eight rounds of talks with the people not wearing masks intention of “disengagement” at the “friction points”, which will hopefully For 20 days Fr Stan found lying on a soiled has become very common. lead to a “de-escalation” in eastern Ladakh. Swamy will contin- bed soaked in urine with After the eighth round earlier this month, the Indian media, obviously fed no one to attend to him”. When this is brought to by unnamed government or defence sources, communicated a sense of hope Pavan K. Varma ue to wait with his His health is extremely the attention of store of reaching disengagement shortly. Central to this was the idea that the trembling hands for precarious; he has suf- incharge, they tell us to Chinese had agreed to pull back their forces from “Finger 4” (the ‘fingers” a straw or a sipper fered deliriums in jail, hurry up and finish the refer to mountainous spurs on the north bank of the Pangong Lake) eastward to be provided to where he also contract- to “Finger 8”, where the LAC runs on the Indian side. The intervening space Chanakya’s View ed the Covid-19 virus. shopping early. would be declared as a “no-patrol zone” by the troops of either side. Similarly, him... And there is Perhaps the Supreme Lakshmi Reddy on the south bank of the lake and the Kailash Range area broadly, the Indians no guarantee that... Court may also ask its Secunderabad were to vacate the heights they had seized and these tactically sensitive on Nov. 26, the judicial subordinates points were also to be converted into no-patrol zones. he Supreme since January 2018 for court would accede why bail in the case of a If the Indian government is amenable to such ideas, it will be pushed into a Court of India his alleged Maoist links pregnant Safoora COMMON FIREWORKS further disadvantageous position since the proposed “no-patrol” zones are upheld the in the Elgar Parishad to the request. Zargar, arrested for par- In keeping with the festive mood, within the LAC on the Indian side. Anyhow, for now the whole thing is acad- principle of case. On November 6 ticipating in the protests why not the government itself emic. China’s Global Times newspaper, an official propaganda sheet, has personal liber- this year, Swamy moved against the Citizenship organise a fireworks display on the rejected the contents of the Indian media stories, claiming that India’s under- Tty by granting interim a petition before the bling hands for a straw Amendment Act, took as shores of the Hussainsagar? Some standing of the LAC itself is faulty. bail to Republic TV’s National Investigation or a sipper to be provid- much as 70 days to be countries organise fireworks like Despite this, the PM said, addressing troops in Longewala on Diwali day, chief Arnab Goswami in Agency special court in ed to him. The NIA will processed. this and millions watch it on TV that those coveting Indian territory will be given a “prachand jawab”, or a 2018 case where he is which he asked for a get twenty days to con- The nation looks upon and enjoy. Have we not watched fierce response. There has been little sign of that so far. First things first — let accused of abetment of straw or a sipper cup in sider whether such a the Supreme Court, and and enjoyed IPL by sitting at the government come out with a White Paper laying out the factual position. suicide. This is a good jail. “I cannot hold a request should be con- the judiciary in general, home?. thing. There are some glass as my hands are ceded to. And there is no as an agency of the last John Appa Row who do not like unsteady due to guarantee that when it resort to get justice. Hyderabad Goswami’s views, or the Parkinson’s (disease)”, does file its reply on When the Supreme abusive felicity with his petition said. He was November 26, it would Court declares that it SCB WARD POLLS Covid-19: Stick to protocol which he name-calls and asking not for big things accede to the request. will intervene proactive- There are eight wards in verbally humiliates his like personal liberty and The legal position in the ly to ensure personal lib- Secunderabad Cantonment and he steady quantum of reports that comes out of the research laboratories ideological “opponents” freedom. His only matter may require fur- erty, it raises, in the elections for ward members are all over the world about one vaccine candidate or the other clearing or demeans those whom request was for a sipper ther deliberation. The thousands of prisoners due. Except for president from the Tanother step has been the only positive news on the Covid-19 front of late. he does not like. cup or a paper straw so rules need to be checked who are for untenable defence wing, there are no other As per the World Health Organisation, there are at present more than 100 However, anyone’s per- that he could drink out for “dangerous” and inhumane reasons defence personnel on board to Covid-19 vaccine candidates under development, with a number of them in the sonal likes and dislikes water without spilling. prisoners. If these don’t being denied personal manage civic issues. Many human trial phase. are not material to the A straw or a sipper are provide for a straw to be liberty, the possibility of encroachments have taken place Close on the heels Pfizer announcing that the vaccine it develops with protection of his or her not dangerous items, given to prisoners, how hope. Surely, the on nallahs, open defence lands and BioNTech has proved 90 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19 has come the constitutional rights. If nor are they luxury can an exception be Government of India is on park lands. Though there is news Sputnik-V being developed by the Russians is 92 per cent effective. The his personal liberty has items which prisoners made? After all a sipper, not so vulnerable that it restriction on construction of phase-III trials of the vaccine being developed by Oxford University along with been unfairly violated, should not have. But that would enable an 83- treats people above the muti-storeyed buildings, one can AstraZeneca are being undertaken all over the over the world including in and he deserves to get that request does sym- year-old prisoner suffer- age of 80 who are nearly find several such buildings. To India. It has also been reported that India will get 10 crore doses of the vaccine bail, he should not be bolise some things as ing from advanced disabled, as “enemies” check this, we must reserve 50 per by December this year, which should come as a big relief for us. US manufac- arbitrarily kept in important as personal Parkinson’s disease to who can destabilise the cent seats for defence ex service- turer Moderna has reported major advancements in the trials. Covaxin, which prison by the law liberty, which the take a sip of water, could State. The administer- men in the board elections. is being developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech International Limited enforcement machinery Supreme Court so vigi- sabotage the interests of ing of justice should M.S. Kumar along with Indian Council for Medical Research, has also entered the human of a state government lantly defended. It sym- the state. never be selective, or so Secunderabad trial phase. Ahmedabad-based Zydus Cadila's vaccine candidate is expected to with which he is at log- bolises a human being’s Perhaps the hon- lacking in humanity enter phase III clinical trials by December. gerheads. legitimate craving for ourable Supreme Court that it revolts the human It could be for the first time that the search for a vaccine has covered such It was heartening for dignity; of his supplica- could take suo motu cog- conscience. When substantial distance in such a short time as in the case of Covid-19 vaccine. citizens to hear the clar- tion for compassion; of nisance of such matters Father Stan Swamy is 50 YEARS AGO IN However, experts are worried over the timeline it could take for it to reach ion call of Justice D.Y. his expectation of as well. Travesty of jus- given the freedom to everyone who wanted it. The director of All-India Institute of Medical Chandrachud: “If we as humane treatment; of tice has many forms. In drink water with a sem- Sciences, who is a member of the Union government's Covid-19 task force, has a constitutional court do his hope in a caring sys- some cases, the rule blance of dignity, we said it could take at least two years for the vaccine to reach all. The virus has not lay down the law and tem for those in deep book is thrown at those will believe that the not gone anywhere, and the vaccine is yet to come. Strict adherence to Covid- protect liberty, then who medical distress. The deprived of personal lib- Supreme Court’s con- 19 protocols is the only option people are left with for the time being. will?” The message was special court judge who erty, who languish in cern for Arnab Goswami 86 p.c. husbands want clear. The highest court heard this desperate prison for months with- has a larger meaning wives to do jobs in the land will inter- petition simply asked out bail. In others, mat- and a message for the NEW DELHI, Nov. 15 vene to protect personal the NIA to file its reply ters are fast tracked at conduct of the judiciary Husbands of 86 per cent work- DECCAN CHRONICLE liberty at any cost, list a on the matter on incredible speed, and as a whole. ing women in the country “want, KAUSHIK MITTER K. SUDHAKAR case of this nature with November 26. the judiciary makes pub- very much want, or at least do Editor Printer & Publisher lightning speed, over- For 20 days Father lic its unwavering com- The writer, an author not mind” their wives’ being in rule the standard judi- Stan Swamy will contin- mitment to protect per- and a former diplomat, job or profession because of the DECCAN CHRONICLE offices are located at: cial procedures like first ue to wait with his trem- sonal liberty. Perhaps, is in politics extra money accruing to the fam- pursuing a bail petition the highest court of the ily. 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hen home minister Amit minority-bashing or Hindu nation- as an "item". The BJP had launched chief's minister's post rather than cases are suddenly activated in the Shah tested positive for alism. Though Yogi Adityanath did an offensive against Kamal Nath risk losing yet another ally. As it is, coming months, only to disappear the Coronavirus and do his bit, he was promptly put for insulting a woman and had there is talk that regional parties, miraculously once the person con- Anita Katyal Wwas hospitalised twice, down by Nitish Kumar. approached the Election which are making tentative moves cerned crosses over to the BJP. it was generally accepted that the Commission that withdrew the to form a joint front, would Political BJP's chief election strategist s the Madhya Pradesh govern- Congress leader's star campaigner approach Nitish Kumar to join ormer Madhya Pradesh chief would not be joining the poll cam- ment's women and child depart- status. But despite these efforts and them and if he was at a loose end, minister Kamal Nath faces an Gup-Shup paign in Bihar because of medical Iment jinxed? How else can one the publicity, Imarti Devi was the JD(U) could even be propped up Funcertain future after he reasons. But Mr Shah's recent two- explain why the incumbent minis- unable to break the jinx. as its prime ministerial candidate. failed to stop the BJP from picking day visit to West Bengal immedi- ter, Imarti Devi, previously with up a substantial number of seats in ately set tongues wagging as people the Congress and now with the rime Minister Narendra ow that Bihar is in the bag, the state byelections. Mr Nath cur- wondered that if Mr Shah had BJP, was unable to hold her seat in Modi's emphatic declaration the BJP has shifted focus to rently holds two posts - he is leader recovered sufficiently, why didn't the recently-concluded byelections. Pthat Janata Dal (United) NWest Bengal, which goes to of the Congress legislature party he make it for the last phase of the According to the grapevine in leader Nitish Kumar will remain polls next year. Keen to expand its and the state unit president. With campaign in neighbouring Bihar? Bhopal, ministers who have headed Bihar chief minister has not gone footprint in the East, the BJP is eye- Congress insiders blaming Mr While it is true that Mr Shah kept this department have invariably down well with a section in the BJP ing disgruntled leaders and workers Nath for the party's poor perfor- Why Shah held away from Bihar on doctor's failed to stage a comeback. The pre- that feels the top post rightfully of the Trinamul Congress, which mance, there is a growing demand orders, the home minister was also vious minister Maya Singh did not belongs to their party since it has a can be persuaded to join the saffron that the party follow the principle not happy with the fact that he get a ticket in the last Assembly higher tally in the Assembly. In party. West Bengal chief minister of "one man, one post" and replace back in Bihar; would be constrained from propa- poll while an earlier minister fact, even before the election, the Mamata Banerjee has reason to Mr Nath as state unit president. Mr gating his hard Hindutva line in Ranjana Baghel had also failed to BJP's Bihar unit had been urging worry as the BJP is determined to Nath would ideally like to return to his speeches. The BJP had decided make the grade. It was widely its Central leadership to stake dethrone her and will not stop at Delhi as he is used to playing on a that it would play down the com- expected that Imarti Devi would claim to the chief minister's post anything in its mission. It has larger stage but there is no role for hunt for unhappy munal card in Bihar as identity come through with flying colours. since it has emerged as the domi- deployed her former colleague him here. He may well be forced to politics usually takes precedence Not only is she Jyotiraditya nant force in Bihar. However, Mr Mukul Roy to identify the unhappy stay on in Madhya Pradesh and here. Since the home minister and Scindia's camp follower but she Modi is not pressing his party's leaders in the Trinamul. In addition, focus on grooming his son, a first Trinamul men Hindutva are inseparable, it would was also in the news in the run-up claim as it would not like to give the BJP plans to take a hard look at time MP from Chhindwara. have been difficult for Mr Shah to to the election when former chief Nitish Kumar a reason to switch Trinamul leaders whose names fig- contain himself and speak about minister Kamal Nath used deroga- over to the other side. The BJP has ure in cases of financial impropri- Anita Katyal is a Delhi-based issues that do not have a dash of tory language and referred to her decided it is better to forgo the ety. It will not be surprising if these journalist NATION DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 16 NOVEMBER 2020 pg 7

SHORT TAKES DELHI STUDENTS Gangotri temple closes for winters SABARIMALA TO GET LESSONS ASSAM DEPLOYS TEMPLE OPENS DRONES AT BORDER ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR DEVOTEES New Delhi, Nov. 15: Sabarimala (Kerala), FOR SURVEILLANCE From how much infor- Nov. 15: The hill shrine mation to share online of Lord Ayyappa here MANOJ ANAND | DC to how to deal with cyber opened on Sunday GUWAHATI, NOV. 15 threats, over seven lakh evening for the annual students in schools two-month long In the wake of growing inter- under the Delhi govern- Mandala-Makaravilla- state border dispute among ment, the city’s canton- kku season, adhering to the north-eastern states, ment board and NDMC strict Covid-19 protocol. Assam government has aug- will soon get lessons on Devotees would be mented vigil along the inter- the “responsible use of allowed inside the tem- state border areas and social media”. ple only from Monday deployed drones to keep sur- The month-long series morning, temple veillance on its forest areas of online sessions, sources said. No special along the border. which will be conducted pujas were held on Informing that even the min- for 1,040 schools, is Sunday. istry of home affairs was keep- scheduled to begin from Melshanti A.K. ing a close watch on the situa- November 23. The les- Sudheer Namboothiri tion along the Assam-Mizoram sons are being conduct- opened the doors of the border areas where conflict ed against the backdrop sanctum sanctorum and took place recently, authorita- of increased usage of lit the lamps at 5 pm in tive security sources told this gadgets and exposure to the presence of Tantri newspaper that more than 589 social media during the Kandararu Rajeevaru, square kilometres of Assam’s Covid-19 pandemic. heralding the start of land was under encroachment “Threat through the the 62-day long pilgrim by the neighbouring states. unknown and anony- season. Pointing out that it was high- mous cyber world is a The newly elected ly challenging to retrieve the harsh reality nowadays. Sabarimala melsanthi lands encroached by neigh- Ease of access and V.K. Jayaraj Potti and bouring states long back, secu- unmonitored reach has Malikkapuram Melsa- rity sources said that Assam exposed the children to nthi M.N. Raj Kumar, was determined to stop the unscrupulous elements were the first to climb fresh attempt of encroaching on the net,” deputy the holy 18 steps and the land by neighbouring director of education offer prayers. states. Mohinder Pal said. They took charge this Asserting that the Assam “The series on ‘respon- evening. Each day, only government was committed to sible use of social 1,000 pilgrims, who have protect its constitutional bou- media’ will create booked through the vir- ndaries, security sources said awareness about the var- tual queue system, that efforts are on to improve ious kinds of threats on would be allowed to offer vigil along the inter-state bor- the internet and also prayers. der areas. However, because of ways to secure oneself They have to carry the length of the inter-state from these threats. The Covid-19 negative certifi- borders and difficult terrain, children will also be sen- A large number of pilgrims attend the door closing ceremony of Gangotri Dham for winter in Uttarkashi on Sunday. After the closure of the tem- cate taken 24 hours it is not easy to deploy police sitised about responsible ple gates, an idol of goddess Ganga was carried in a palanquin decorated with flowers to Mukhba village where she will be worshipped during before they reach to guard every inch of the bor- use of social media,” he winters. — PTI Nilackkal and Pamba, der with the people of neigh- said. — PTI base camps. — PTI bouring states taking advan- tage of the situation. GUPKAR ALLIANCE Sena’s decision to FAILS TO FINALISE Cong: Delay in seat sharing SEAT-SHARING reopen temples Srinagar, Nov. 15: The People’s Alliance for Gupkar affected Bihar grand alliance Declaration members failed to finalise their seat-sharing stirs political row arrangement for the District Party serious about introspection, thorough analysis of election results Development Council polls yet again despite holding a New Delhi, Nov. 15: BHAGWAN PARAB | DC marathon meeting on Delay in finalising seat LJP CLAIMS IT MUMBAI, NOV. 15 ONLY 100 TO GET Saturday, the third one in two sharing for the Bihar elec- Nearly 160 tonnes of biomedical days, on the issue. tion adversely impacted Maharashtra govern- The seat-sharing issue defy- the Mahagathbandhan’s PROVED ITS ment’s decision of DARSHAN AT ing a resolution appeared to be poll performance, senior reopening of religious exasperating for the two key Congress leader Tariq waste generated during election WORTH IN BIHAR places has resulted in the SIDDHIVINAYAK constituents of the PAGD with Anwar said on Sunday, game of political one its vice-chairperson and PDP asserting that the New Delhi, Nov. 15: masks, 5.4 lakh single use The safety material New Delhi, Nov. 15: With upmanship with the BJP SONU president Mehbooba Mufti Congress must learn from Nearly 160 tonne of bio- rubber gloves for polling which included face questions being raised calling it a win for SHRIVASTAVA | DC reminding the alliance that it it and complete alliance medical waste in the form and security personnel masks, face shields, gloves about the Lok Janshakti Hindutva. However, the MUMBAI, NOV. 15 “has a bigger cause to fight for formalities well in of gloves, face masks and and 7.21 crore ‘one and personal sanitiser Party’s prospects after it Shiv sena has countered than to bicker over the DDC advance for upcoming empty sanitiser bottles hand’ single use bottles were put in a bag won only one seat in the it saying it was neither a Though the Maharashtra elections.” assembly polls. used by polling personnel polythene gloves for vot- meant for a polling party Bihar Assembly polls, victory nor a defeat of government has allowed JKPC chairman Sajad Lone Anwar, party’s general and voters was generated ers to press the EVM of six persons. party sources on Sunday anybody. to reopen the places of too rued that “the statesman- secretary and a veteran during the Bihar button and sign the “They were trained for cited its “influence” in “The government was worship from Monday, ship and magnanimity is still leader from Bihar, Assembly polls held amid register at the polling sta- disposal of the safety “changing” results in over forced to reopen the Shri Siddhivinayak Trust a missing trait in our polity”. acknowledged that there the Covid-19 pandemic, tions. material also. It could be 40 seats to assert that it places of religious wor- has decided to allow only In a related development earli- were shortcomings due to poll authorities in the It had also bought a total littered anywhere,” Bihar will continue to have a key ship due to the protests by 100 people to seek the er during the day, as per the which the party per- state have said. of 29 lakh hand sanitiser Chief Electoral Officer presence in the state poli- Hindutva organizations blessing of lord Ganesha sources, PDP founder member formed worse than other The poll authorities bottles of 100 and 500 ml. H.R. Srinivas said. tics. and the support extended to its temple in Dadar. Muzaffar Hussain Baig ‘Mahagathbandhan’ con- also relied on an inexpen- As per the guidelines He said roughly, 160 The LJP was instrumen- to them by the BJP,” said Mumbai’s Iconic Siddh- resigned from the party follow- stituents and asserted that sive but effective technolo- issued by the Election tonne of biomedical waste tal in the defeat of Chief Praveen Darekar, the ivinayak Temple is one of ing disagreement over seat- the high command was gy used to track EVMs Commission and poll was generated. All dis- Minister Nitish Kumar- leader of opposition in the most revered places in sharing for the upcoming DDC serious about an intro- to ensure that the waste authorities in Bihar, the tricts have its biomedical led JD(U)in at least 36 the Vidhan Parishad. Mumbai for devotees. The elections in Jammu and spection as well as a thor- reached public health cen- polling stations were sani- waste (BMW) disposal seats which is evident Chief Minister Uddhav trust has come out with a Kashmir. ough analysis of the tres for its onward jour- tised a day before election agency. from its vote share, and Thackeray on Saturday list of SOPs (Standard The PAGD meeting which results. ney to the incinerator. and three times on the day “The challenge was the the BJP would also have announced that places of Operation Procedure) for lasted for several hours at the Anwar said the Bihar To ensure safety of of the election. agency would lift BMW been hit hard if the religious worship in the safety of devotees. National Conference (NC) poll results were “definite- voters, polling staff and The office of the Chief from health centres, hos- regional party had gone Maharashtra, which have Addressing a pressure headquarters ‘Nawa-i-Subah’ ly below” the Congress' security personnel in the Electoral Officer of Bihar pitals but not lift from all out against it in a simi- been shut from March conference in Mumbai on here concluded late on expectations and it was a first-ever polls held amid had sought the help of the polling stations. The dis- lar manner, the sources due to coronavirus- Sunday, Aadesh Bande- Saturday night, a PAGD leader setback to bag only 19 out the pandemic, the state health department to tricts then appointed claimed. The LJP might induced lockdown, will kar, Chairman of Shree said. of the 70 seats it contested. Election Commission had decide on “Covid safety BMW workers,” Srinivas have won only one seat, reopen from Monday. The Siddhivinayak Temple He said the meeting was part “There was an environ- procured 18 lakh face material” for the three said. but it has underscored its state government has also Trust, which is controlled of the consultations between ment of change with shields, 70 lakh face phase elections. — PTI presence by fetching 5.7 issued guidelines under by Maharashtra govern- the parties of the alliance for enthusiasm among the per cent votes, the party which religious places ment, said that the temple the upcoming DDC polls. common people for it, but sources said. located out of Covid-19 will be reopened for the we could not exploit that. His remarks assume sig- He said the high com- analysed and it will be They noted that the containment zones will be devotees from Monday. We had the expectation nificance as several poll mand was ready for an ascertained why the party put up candidates in allowed to remain open as As lakhs of devotees are NOW, JAIL-MADE that with the Congress analysts have stated that introspection and stressed Congress’ performance only six seats where the per the timings decided eager to take ‘darshan’ of fighting on 70 seats, it the Congress dragged the the top leadership had was not at par with other BJP was in the fray while by the authorities and Siddhivinayak, therefore, FOOTWEAR TO HIT would win at least 50 per Mahagathbandhan down given all possible support Mahagathbandhan part- contesting on almost each devotees will be allowed crowding should be avoid- cent of the seats,” the as it fell short of the during the polls with for- ners,” he said. of the 115 seats where the inside in a staggered ed in the temple. KERALA MARKETS former union minister majority mark, with the mer party chief Rahul Anwar said the reasons JD(U) contested in the manner. said. NDA under Nitish Gandhi also holding many for the below par showing elections to the 243-seat “The state government Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. “Our government was Kumar’s leadership public meetings in the cannot be ascertained Bihar Assembly polls. was against the reopen- question of taking credit 15: ‘Jail-made’ hawai chappal not formed and we (the emerging victorious in the state. immediately, but what was With the JD(U), hit hard ing of religious places. for reopening of places of will soon be available in your Congress) also have a polls by a narrow margin. “But there have been important was to identify by the LJP in the elec- But it relented as the BJP worship. “Not just tem- next-door shop or market in responsibility in that. Anwar, who was a mem- shortcomings on our part the mistakes committed tions, likely to oppose any stood firmly behind the ples, but all places of wor- Kerala as a central prison here Going forward, our efforts ber of the party’s poll otherwise we should have and ensure they are not friendly vibes to the party Hindutva organisations ship will reopen. It was has started manufacturing the will be aimed at strength- management committee, won 35-40 seats. So repeated in the Assembly by its ally BJP, the sources who demanded reopening God’s will that people stay rubber slippers now. ening the Congress and said there should be an whether there were short- polls in four states and one in party claimed that it of temples,” said Darekar. at home and now it is After dishing out a variety of the Mahagathbandhan introspection and “we comings in organisation Union Territory in the was offered only 15 seats However, senior Shiv God’s will that places of products, including delicious and we will make a strate- have also demanded that it or campaign, all of that coming months. to contest in the polls. Sena leader Sanjay Raut worship reopen with pre- but cost-effective food items, gy for it,” he said. should happen”. will be discussed and — PTI — PTI has said that there was no cautions,” he added. and successfully venturing into organic farming and beauty parlour business to running a petrol pump, the LEGENDARY | LIFE Feluda is no more. Apu said goodbye. Farewell, Soumitra (Da) Chatterjee, tweets Mamata inmates of the Poojappura central prison here are now making footwear. As part of a series of welfare measures for the prisoners to Bengal breaks down as Soumitra Chatterjee passes away bring them to the forefront of society, the Kerala Prisons and RAJIB CHOWDHURI I DC before being conferred Shri Soumitra (Da) Chatterjee. He and a host of film person- Anguished by his demise. Correctional Services KOLKATA, NOV. 15 with the Ordre des Arts et Chatterjee’s death is has been a legend in his alities, walked with a sea Condolences to his family Department recently estab- des Lettres, France’s high- a colossal loss to the lifetime. International, of Soumitra Chatterjee’s and admirers. Om lished a manual footwear man- Legendary actor Soumitra est award for artists, in Indian and Bengali cine- fans in his last journey Shanti.” ufacturing unit at the jail Chatterjee, who success- 2017. world of cinema, cultural ma has lost a giant. which covered his Golf French Ambassador to premises. fully carried forward the He worked with a league life of West Bengal and India. We will miss him dearly. Green residence, Artists India Emmanuel Lenain The jail authorities released golden period of Bengali of famous film directors Through his works, he came The film world in Bengal Forum and Rabindra tweeted, “Deeply saddened photos of inmates, in their cinema with his epic roles like Satyajit Ray, Mrinal to embody Bengali sensibili- has been orphaned. Best Sadan. to learn legendary conventional attire, engaged beyond the era of screen Sen, Tapan Sinha, Goutam ties, emotions and ethos. known for his films His funeral was per- actor Soumitra Chatterjee in chappal making and the icons like Uttam Kumar Ghose, Aparna Sen and Anguished by his demise. with Satyajit Ray, formed at Keoratala has passed away. A colourful footwear they made. and Utpal Dutt, died on Rituparno Ghosh. Condolences to his family Soumitra Da was con- Crematorium with a gun versatile artist, he earned “Each pair of slipper will be Sunday afternoon at a pri- Chatterjee has also con- and admirers. Om Shanti.” ferred with Legion of salute by the Kolkata the world’s admiration sold at `80 and it will be mar- vate hospital in Kolkata tributed to drama and Honor, Dadasaheb Phalke police. and many awards, includ- keted under the brand name- while fighting prolonged poetry during his six- NARENDRA MODI Award, Banga Bibhushan, Mourning Soumitra ing Order of Arts and Freedom Walk,” illness from Covid-19. He decade career. Prime Minister Padma Bhushan & Chatterjee’s demise, Prime Letters & Legion of Superintendent of the prison was 85. Admitted at Belle Vue several National Awards. Minister Narendra Modi Honour. My heartfelt con- and correction home The versatile thespian is Clinic in October 6 with A great loss. Saddened. said, “Shri Soumitra dolences to his family and Nirmalanandan Nair said. survived by his wife Covid-19, Chatterjee beat The film veteran’s condi- roles in popular Bengali Condolences to his family, Chatterjee’s death is a fans.” Director General of Prisons Deepa, son Sougata and the infection in a week but tion turned grave since films Joybaba Felunath the film fraternity & his colossal loss to the world Union home minister and Correctional services daughter Poulomi. he needed ventilator sup- late on Saturday night. and Apur Sansar, West admirers across the of cinema, cultural life of Amit Shah, West Bengal Rishi Raj Singh, DGP, on Chatterjee had won port twice as his condi- He stopped responding to Bengal Chief Minister world.” West Bengal and Governor Jagdeep Saturday launched the sale of the national film awards tioned weakened due to treatment early on Sunday. Mamata Banerjee said Visiting the hospital India. Through his works, Dhankhar and several the slippers at a function in thrice and was a recipient Covid encephalopathy Chatterjee breathed his on Twitter, “Feluda’ is Chief Minister Mamata he came to embody actors including Sharmila the jail premises adhering to of the Dadasaheb besides age-related ail- last at 12.15 pm. no more. ‘Apu’ said good- Banerjee later along with Bengali sensibilities, emo- Tagore condoled Covid-19 protocols. Phalke Award in 2012 ments. Eulogising his famous bye. Farewell, Soumitra her ministerial colleagues tions and ethos. Chatterjee’s death. NATION DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 16 NOVEMBER 2020 pg 8

SHORT TAKES Delhi to double RT-PCR tests REPUBLIC TV’S DC CORRESPONDENT medical facilities includ- NEW DELHI, NOV. 15 MANIPUR CM TESTS POSITIVE FOR ing services of doctors CEO GRILLED IN from paramilitary In view of rising the forces too will be uti- TRP SCAM CASE Covid-19 cases in Delhi, COVID-19, UNDER HOME ISOLATION lized to provide addi- Union home minister Imphal, Nov. 15: Man- the chief minister said, tional corona facilities SAURABH JOSHI | DC Amit Shah on Sunday ipur Chief Minister N. “Friends, I have tested to Delhi. The ITBP has MUMBAI, NOV. 15 ordered doubling up of Biren Singh on Sunday Covid positive today already set up the coun- RT-PCR testing in the said that he has tested after having some symp- try’s biggest The Mumbai crime branch has national capital, positive for Covid-19. toms. ...I am fine at the Coronavirus hospital in summoned Republic TV’s increase in hospital beds The Chief Minister moment.” Delhi’s Chattarpur area. chief operating officer Priya and ventilators, better requested all who came The Chief Minister is During the meeting, it Mukherjee for questioning in tracking and manage- in close contact with undergoing home isola- was decided to focus on connection with the TRP scam ment of home isolation him in the last few days tion, a health depart- improving the recovery case, on Tuesday. patients and review of to get themselves tested. ment official said. rate and bringing down The officials have summoned containment measures. Taking to Facebook, — PTI the death rate. Delhi’s Mukherjee for the second time These decisions were present death rate rang- in the case. The Mumbai taken following an emer- es between 1.5 and 1.8 police said that her name gency meeting between est Covid-19 cases on government,” Shah said. per cent. The high posi- cropped up during the ques- Shah, officials of the Saturday among all The home ministry has tivity rate in the capital tioning of her colleague Union health ministry states at 7,340 with 96 decided to further was also a matter of con- Ghanshyam Singh. and the Delhi govern- deaths. On Sunday the increase health and cern though officials The officials said that the ment to see what best new cases were 3, 235 medical facilities in the were hopeful that the sit- probe has also allegedly reve- Border Security Force (BSF) personnel carry the coffin of their colleague Sub Inspector can be done to check the due to fewer testing on capital. It was decided to uation would come aled that the accused persons Rakesh Dobhal, who was killed on November 13, during ceasefire violations by Pakistan near spread of infection. holidays. The deaths on go in for a much more under control within the also allegedly bribed the cable the LoC in the Nowgam Sector of North Kashmir, after his wreath-laying ceremony at STC Delhi Lt Governor Anil Sunday were 95. aggressive testing, trac- next 8 to 10 days. operators to relay the channel Humhama on the outskirts of Srinagar, on Sunday. Four Army personnel, a Border Security Baijal, Union health “We need to save as ing and isolation in the Delhi is facing a pecu- on more than one channel to Force sub-inspector, and six civilians were killed while four security forces personnel and minister Dr many lives as possible entire NCR region. liar problem as despite a their subscribers in a bid to eight civilians were injured in the firing by Pakistan during the multiple ceasefire violations Harshvardhan, Delhi and for that the Central Along with this the complete ban on burst- boost the channel’s TRPs. This between Uri, Gurez, and Poonch sectors in Jammu and Kashmir. — PTI Chief Minister Arvind government is making focus would be on ing of crackers till Nov- was done after the channel’s Kejriwal and Delhi min- available additional oxy- increasing the number ember 30, the city and its senior officials approved the ister Satendra Jain gen cylinders, high flow of ICU beds along with neighbouring area same, police has claimed. were among those who nasal cannulas, and ventilators both in pri- defied the ban on Diwali Singh has also revealed the attended the meeting as other important medical vate and government pushing pollution levels intricacies of the channel’s Delhi recorded the high- equipment to the Delhi hospitals. In addition, to “severe category.” operation, based on which the World troubled by police sought his further cus- tody for interrogation. He has been sent to extended police custody till November 16. The expansionists: PM channel however refuted alle- gations of any wrongdoings. “The COO of the channel Modi says India has come out as forceful voice will be questioned on the lines of the facts that have come DC CORRESPONDENT forward in the probe. The NEW DELHI, NOV. 15 teams are also questioning other related people who were Prime Minister Narendra Army pays tribute in contact with the channel Modi who, continuing with operators,” said an officer. his tradition, celebrated Di- The probe began following a wali with soldiers on Satu- complaint by the BARC to the rday at the historic Longew- to 4 slain martyrs Mumbai police claiming the ala in Jaisalmer of Rajasth- scam in TRP of Republic TV, an, asserted, “If there is an Srinagar, Nov. 15: The ● FOUR SECURITY forces Fakt Marathi, Maha Movie attempt to test India, the res- Army on Sunday paid floral personnel were among 11 and Box Cinema. The allega- ponse will be equally fierce.” tributes to four soldiers who people killed in multiple tions involved bribing viewers Without naming any coun- were killed in ceasefire viola- ceasefire violations by to watch Republic TV to help try, the Prime Minister said tions by Pakistan in several boost the TRP. that the entire world feels sectors along the Line of Pakistan along the LoC The same allegedly helped troubled by “expansionist” Control (LoC) in Jammu and between Gurez and Uri sec- these channels earn huge forces and expansionism Kashmir. tors of J&K on Friday. money via advertisements, shows a “distorted mindset” Four security forces per- cheating the advertisers. which belongs to the 18th sonnel were among 11 people Raju, Chinar Corps The police have arrested at century. He said that India killed in multiple ceasefire Commander and all ranks least six persons and the probe has come out as a forceful violations by Pakistan along paid homage to the gallant is underway to ascertain voice against the ideology of the LoC between Gurez and soldiers on behalf of the involvement of other channel expansionism. Uri sectors of Jammu and proud and grateful nation,” authorities including chief Modi’s comments come at a Kashmir on Friday. In retali- an Army spokesman said. editor Arnab Mukherjee. time when India has been in ation, the Indian Army He said Havildar Roy and a military stand-off with caused extensive damage to Gunner Ghosh of the China for six months at the Pakistan Army’s infrastruc- Regiment of Artillery were BODY OF WOMAN eastern Ladakh and there ture. Those killed in the deployed in Uri sector, while has been an increase in Pakistani aggression include Naik Rameshrao and Sepoy HANDED OVER TO cross-border firing with the four Armymen, a BSF jawan Ramchandra of the Maratha Pakistan at the LoC. India and six civilians. Light Infantary were WRONG FAMILY and China are set to hold “The Army today paid trib- deployed in Gurez Sector. ninth round of Corps ute to Havildar Hardhan “In the unprovoked Ahmedabad, Nov. 15: In a Commanders level talks to Chandra Roy, Naik Satai artillery shelling by Pakistan major goof-up, the body of an resolve the stand-off. Bhushan Rameshrao, Army, these brave hearts elderly woman kept in the Modi said that the world Gunner Subodh Ghosh and received multiple splinter mortuary of a civic-run hospi- knows that India will not Sepoy Jondhale Rushikesh injuries. They were provided tal in Ahmedabad was handed compromise on its national Ramchandra, who made the immediate medical aid and over to another family, who interest. “This status of supreme sacrifice on 13 evacuated to nearest military even performed her last rites. India is due to its valour and November 2020 in North medical facility but unfortu- When the family members of capabilities. India is able to Kashmir. In a solemn cere- nately succumbed to their Lekhaben Chand (65) went to forcefully hold forth on the mony at Badamibagh injuries,” the spokesman the VS Hospital on Sunday, international fora because of Cantonment, Lt Gen B.S. said. — PTI they were shocked to find the the security provided by the body ‘missing’ from the hospi- armed forces. India’s mili- tal's mortuary where it was tary power has enhanced its victory.” crore Indians are standing kept till her son arrived from negotiating power,” the “If anyone casts an evil eye strongly with the forces. He Canada to perform her last Prime Minister said. on us, our soldiers will reply said his Diwali is complete rites. He said, “No power in the to them befittingly. This only when he is with the sol- When contacted, a senior world can stop our brave sol- establishes the credibility of diers whether in the snow- official of the hospital said, diers from guarding the bor- the Indian Army in the clad mountains or in the that the “body got exchanged” ders of our country.” world. Today, the country’s desert. and the police were conduct- The Prime Minister empha- Army is engaged in military “On the day of Diwali, ing an investigation into the sised that only that nation is exercises with other big there is a tradition of matter. secure which has the capa- countries. We are engaged in preparing a rangoli in front The woman’s family mem- bility to face the attackers strategic partnerships to of the main gate of the house bers had kept the body in the and intruders. He said irre- fight against terrorism. as a sign of good luck and hospital’s mortuary here on spective of advances in inter- Indian Armed Forces have prosperity. Similarly, the the morning of November 11 national cooperation and shown that they can strike boundaries of the nation are as they were waiting for her changes in equations, “We on terrorist havens any- the gateways of the country. NRI son to come from Canada simply can’t afford to forget where, anytime,” the Prime Here, you (the army) are to perform her last rites. When that vigilance is the key to Minister said. responsible for the prosperi- they went to the hospital to security, alertness is the He conveyed the gratitude ty and good fortune of the claim the body on Sunday, they basis of happiness, and of the countrymen to the nation,” the Prime Minister found it ‘missing’. strength is the confidence of armed forces and said 130 said.

BREATHLESS | CAPITAL Firecrackers, calm winds made situation even worse Delhi AQI falls to ‘severe’ in 4 years New Delhi, Nov. 15: Delhi night, saying “celebration by recorded the worst air quality crackers is for happiness and in four years on the day after not to celebrate deaths and dis- Diwali as pollution levels in eases”. the city and its suburbs The city recorded an overall crossed the “emergency” AQI of 414 on Saturday. It had threshold on Sunday due to the soared to 454 by 10 pm. On combined effect of stubble Sunday, the 24-hour average burning and firecrackers. AQI stood at 435 at 4 pm, which However, higher wind speed was the worst on the day after — up to 25 kilometers per hour Diwali in the last four years. — and light rainfall under the Delhi recorded a 24-hour influence of a fresh Western average AQI of 337 on Diwali Disturbance brought some last year (October 27), and 368 relief. The air quality had and 400 on the next two days. turned “severe” on Saturday Thereafter, pollution levels evening with stubble burning remained in the “severe” cate- accounting for 32 per cent of gory for three days on the trot. Delhi’s PM2.5 pollution, but In 2018, the 24-hour average firecrackers emissions and AQI (281) on Diwali was record- calm winds made the situation Vendors carrying plastic balls and toys walk through smog, post ed in the “poor” category. It even worse. Diwali celebrations, in New Delhi, on Sunday. — PTI deteriorated to 390 the next day The levels of PM2.5, which is and remained in the "severe" about three per cent the diame- according to Central Pollution am at Punjabi Bagh and 1,937 category on three consecutive ter of a human hair and can Control Board (CPCB) data. μg/m3 by midnight at days thereafter. lead to premature deaths from PM10 levels below 100 μg/m3 Jahangirpuri. In 2017, Delhi's 24-hour aver- heart and lung diseases, were are considered safe in India. A large number of people age AQI on Diwali (October 19) 396 microgram per cubic meter According to the Graded burst crackers across the stood at 319. It, however, (μg/m3) in Delhi-NCR at 6 am, Response Action Plan (GRAP), national capital and its sub- slipped into the “severe” zone above the emergency threshold the air quality is considered in urbs on Saturday night, flout- the next day and stood at 403. of 300 μg/m3. PM2.5 levels the “severe plus” or “emer- ing the ban imposed by the According to India Meteo- stood at 329 μg/m3 at 7 pm. The gency” category if PM2.5 and National Green Tribunal. The rological Department, Delhi- safe limit is 60 μg/m3. PM10 PM10 levels persist above 300 tribunal had on Monday NCR witnessed light rain on level stood at 543 μg/m3 at 6 μg/m3 and 500 μg/m3 for more imposed a total ban on sale or Sunday and higher wind speed am, above the emergency than 48 hours. As per Delhi use of all kinds of firecrackers under the influence of a fresh threshold of 500 μg/m3, before Pollution Control Committee in the National Capital Region Western Disturbance which it started decreasing. data, hourly PM10 concentra- (NCR) from November 9 mid- aided in dispersion of pollu- It was 441 μg/m3 at 7 pm, tions soared to 1,636 μg/m3 by 1 night to November 30 mid- tants. — PTI WORLD 9 DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 16 NOVEMBER 2020 pg

IN BRIEF ISRAELI HOUSES Violence erupts as Trump Virus curbs tighten TO COME UP IN in Europe as global EAST JERUSALEM Jerusalem, Nov. 15: Israel is supporters, rivals clash moving forward on the constr- deaths top 1.3 mn uction of hundreds of new ho- mes for Jewish residents in a Don’s supporters rally in Washington over his massive voter fraud claims Vienna, Nov. 15: A swa- sensitive east Jerusalem neig- the of new restrictions to NEW COMPOUNDS hbourhood, the country's Hou- Washington, Nov. 15: curtail a second wave of sing Ministry and a settlement Violence erupted on the BIDEN, HARRIS, Coronavirus infections watchdog group said Sunday. streets of downtown Was- were announced or came TO TREAT NOVEL The Housing Ministry on hington after thousands of into force from Austria to Sunday opened up tenders for supporters of US Presi- TRUMP SEND Greece, Italy to Portugal VIRUS IDENTIFIED more than 1,200 new homes in dent Donald Trump held a on Saturday as the global the Givat Hamatos area of protest rally to back his DIWALI GREETINGS death toll climbed above Washington, Nov. 15: Jerusalem. The settlement unproven claims of mas- 1.3 million. More than 53 Researchers have discov- watchdog group Peace Now sive voter fraud and elec- Washington, Nov. 15: US million have been infect- ered new drug com- and other critics say construc- toral malpractices during President-elect Joe Biden, ed worldwide by Covid-19, pounds that target a pro- tion there would seal off the the 2020 presidential elec- his deputy Kamala Harris which is running ram- tein which enables the Palestinian city of Bethlehem tions. The “Million MAGA and incumbent President pant throughout America novel Coronavirus and from east Jerusalem, further March”, held a week after Donald Trump have and Europe, forcing gove- other viruses with pan- cutting off access for the Democrat Joe Biden was extended Diwali greetings rnments to take more act- demic potential to repli- Palestinians to the eastern sec- declared the winner of the to those celebrating the ion despite the potential cate in human cells, an tor of the city, which they November 3 election, was festival of lights. "To the economic devastation. advance that may lead to claim as capital of their hop- mainly peaceful through- millions of Hindus, Jains, Austria joined a grow- new therapeutics for ed-for state. The move may test out the day on Saturday, Sikhs, and Buddhists cele- ing trend announcing Covid-19. ties with the incoming admin- but by late in the night, brating the Festival of schools and non-essential According to the istration of President-elect clashes erupted between Lights, @DrBiden and I shops would close from researchers, including Joe Biden, who is expected to Trump's supporters and send our best wishes for a Tuesday, having imposed those from the the take a firmer tack against counterprotesters. A mass #HappyDiwali. May your a partial lockdown two University of Maryland Israeli settlement expansion brawl broke out later on new year be filled with weeks ago. “There are in the US, these com- after four years of a more Saturday night just five hope, happiness, and pros- still many who say that pounds disrupt the func- lenient policy under President blocks away from the Wh- perity. Sal Mubarak," infections don't happen at tioning of a protein com- Donald Trump. ite House as counterprote- Biden tweeted on Satur- school, in shops or servic- plex inside human cells sters clashed with a group day. Harris, who scripted es,” said Chancellor that are critical for the AZERBAIJAN of Trump supporters. Supporters of President Donald Trump protest in front of the Clark County Election history by becoming the Sebastien Kurtz. replication and survival According to reports, a Department, in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday. — AP first Indian-American and “But the truth is the au- of coronaviruses, includ- TO PROTECT man in his 20s, believed to Black woman vice presi- thorities can no longer tr- ing the one that causes be a Black Lives Matter lions of votes in key bat- ● TRUMP IN a tweet support of Trump. dent in the US, extended ace 77 percent of new in- Covid-19. — PTI protester, received serious tleground states. Accor- alleged that news chan- Washington DC greetings on the occasion fections, which means CHURCHES: PREZ injuries and was rushed to ding to Fox News, anti- Metropolitan Police Depa- of Diwali. "Happy Diwali they no longer know wh- Moscow, Nov. 15: The presi- a hospital after being Trump demonstrators nels are not showing rtment, late Saturday said and Sal Mubarak! @Doug- ere contamination is hap- would shut all schools dent of Azerbaijan has prom- stabbed in the back during allegedly hurled eggs at the massive gatherings that at least 20 people were lasEmhoff and I wish pening.” Greece, battling after imposing a nation- ised that Churches will be pro- the altercation and two Trump supporters — or in support of him, as arrested. Trump in a tweet everyone celebrating aro- a saturated national hea- wide night curfew from tected when the strongly police officers were also stole signs, hats and ban- he posted a picture of blasted counter protesters und the world a safe, lth system, announced it Friday. — AFP Muslim country takes posses- injured. The clash lasted ners, and lit them on fire. protestors of his who turned up at the healthy, and joyous new sion of areas formerly con- for several minutes as the Videos posted on social MAGA rally. Million MAGA March as year,” Vice President-elect trolled by Armenians. two groups wielded batons media showed some 'Antifa scum' as he joked Harris tweeted. In a joint President Ilham Aliyev's off- and pushed and shoved demonstrators and count- that they ran for the hills statement, Biden and ice said he made the promise in each other until cops er-demonstrators trading news channels are not after violent scenes erupt- Harris wished a happy German ad hails a telephone call with Russian intervened, the reports shoves, punches and slaps. showing the massive gath- ed in Washington DC on Diwali to everyone cele- President Vladimir Putin, who said. Thronging to Washi- Anti-Trump protesters erings in support of him, Saturday night. brating the festival of is deploying peacekeeping for- ngton DC from various clashed with law enforce- as he posted a picture of The president claimed lights across the US, India ces in the areas under an agre- parts of the US, partici- ment in downtown DC as protestors of his MAGA 'Antifa' had waited until and the world. couch potatoes ement that ended six weeks of pants of the Make Am- they tried to make their rally. the end of the march to Trump shared a picture fighting between Armenia and erica Great Again (MAGA) way to a hotel where “Instead they have their attack attendees as he of him lighting a lamp in Berlin, Nov. 15: The Azerbaijan over the Nagorno- Rally asserted that Trump Trump supporters were reporters standing in praised his supporters the White House along German government has SECRET PARTIES Karabakh region. Ethnic Arm- won the elections and that staying, the CNN reported. almost empty streets. We who "aggressively fought with Indian American me- released a tongue-in- enian forces controlled Nago- they were in the city to President Trump on now have SUPPRESSION back". "Antifa SCUM ran mbers of his administra- cheek ad hailing an rno-Karabakh and sizeable express their support to Saturday briefly drove by BY THE PRESS. MAGA!” for the hills today when tion. 'Happy Diwali' was unlikely hero in the fight TEST FRENCH adjacent territories since the their leader. the protestors through he said. Participants of they tried attacking the written on the photo. against the Coronavirus 1994 end of a separatist war. Trump, who has not yet Pennsylvania Avenue on the rally, which started at people at the Trump Rally, "During this Festival of pandemic: The humble LOCKDOWN Fighting resumed in late conceded the election to his way to his golf course Freedom Plaza, chanted because those people Lights, friends, neigh- couch potato. September and ended with an the projected winner, Bid- in a Virginia suburb and "four more years" and aggressively fought back," bours, and loved ones join The 90-second video Paris, Nov. 15: France is agreement that calls for Aze- en, has repeatedly assert- he waved at his support- "stop the steal." he tweeted. Later, in a in fellowship to commem- posted online Saturday in a second lockdown rbaijan to regain control of the ed, without evidence, that ers. Sporting the red MAGA series of tweets, Trump orate the spiritual trium- begins with an elderly amid a second wave of the outlying territories as well as fraud and other irregular- Later in the day, Trump cap, they displayed large attacked media outlets. ph of good over evil, light man recalling his 'service' Coronavirus, but some allowing it to hold on to parts ities deprived him of mil- in a tweet alleged that posters and banners in — PTI over darkness. — PTI to the nation back when people can't stop partying. of Nagorno-Karabakh that it he was just a young stu- Police broke up one seized during the fighting. The dent “in the winter of gigantic fete outside Paris first of the territories, Kalb- 2020, when the whole early Saturday, reportedly ajar, is being turned over on country's eyes were on using special grenades to Sunday. Kalbajar is home to the us.” do so. Police intervened to well-known Dadivank monas- Thousands attend Gilgit-Baltistan assembly “I had just turned 22 and end a middle-of-the-night tery of the Armenian Aposto- was studying engineer- house party attended by at lic Church. A day before the ing,” he continues, “when least 300 people “in total territory's handover, workers protest against Bibi the second wave hit.” disdain for health rules,” removed many of the poll over, counting begins With violins stirring at the Paris Police Prefe- monastery's sacred objects. Jerusalem, Nov. 15: ers are students and viewers' heart strings, the cture tweeted. Other residents in Kalbajar Several thousand protest- young Israelis who have Islamabad, Nov. 15: setting switches to a Party-goers threw bot- torched their own homes, fear- ers gathered outside lost their jobs. Wearing face masks, the scene of the narrator as a tles at police, police said. ing what will happen when Prime Minister Benjamin Many protesters held people of Gilgit-Baltistan young man. Police had to toss special Azerbaijani forces take over. Netanyahu's official resi- Israeli flags or black or in northern Pakistan “Suddenly the fate of grenades as intermediate Azerbaijan is about 95% dence in Jerusalem on pink flags, which the voted on Sunday in the this country lay in our weapons to break up the Muslim and Armenians fear Saturday night in what grassroots movements third legislative assembly hands," he says. gathering and escape. that churches would be dam- has become a weekly behind the demonstra- election amidst tight secu- — AP — AP aged or closed when it takes demonstration calling for tions have adopted as rity. India has slammed control of the territories. the Israeli leader to symbols. With the weath- Pakistan for its decision resign. er cooling down ahead of to hold election in Gilgit- POLICE GRAFT: The protesters have the rainy winter season, Baltistan and said any Indian couple’s been demonstrating for turnout Saturday action to alter the status some five months, saying appeared to be lower than of the militarily-occupied BALTIMORE TO Netanyahu is unfit to lead in recent weeks. Smaller region has no legal basis. People queue to cast their ballot at a polling station while he is on trial for demonstrations also were The voting which com- during the legislative assembly election in Skardu city drive-by wedding PAY $8 MN corruption charges and reported in Tel Aviv, out- menced at 8.00 am (local in Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan on Sunday. — AFP Baltimore, Nov. 15: Baltim- because of his handling side Netanyahu's vaca- time) ended peacefully Dubai, Nov. 15: An home and wished them. ore officials are set to approve of the Coronavirus crisis. tion home in the upscale without any break at 5.00 Indian couple in the UAE “We asked our guests to a roughly $8 million settlement The pandemic has hit coastal town of Caesarea pm and no untoward inci- has organised a “drive-by stop only for a few to two men who went to prison Israel's economy hard, and locations across the dent was reported. The Special courts for wedding ceremony” moments, give us their after drugs were planted on and many of the protest- country. — AP counting of votes has st- where guests were best wishes, take a pic- them a decade ago during an arted and complete resu- allowed to wish them ture and then they could encounter with members of a lts are expected by tomor- from their cars only, in a drive away,” Jazem said. rogue police unit that bru- row. Earlier, the polling speedy rape trials bid to maintain social dis- “We instructed them not talised, robbed and falsely officials said that the vot- tancing due to the Covid- to step out of the car, to arrested residents. Peru Prez faces ers present inside the Islamabad, Nov. 15: iser to the Prime Minister 19, a media report said. keep moving to avoid traf- The city's spending board is polling stations would be Pakistan government is on Parliamentary Affairs Muhammed Jazem and fic, and not pull over,” he scheduled to take up the settle- allowed to cast ballots all set to promulgate next Babar Awan said. He said Almas Ahmed from said. Jazem and Almas, ment Wednesday. The Board of even after the end of week an ordinance seek- the proposed law also sug- Kerala first had their who grew up in the UAE, Estimates has approved sever- calls to resign polling time. There are 24 ing establishment of spe- gested steps for speedy ‘Nikah' then they stood had an arranged mar- al settlements in recent weeks seats for the contest but cial courts for speedy disposal of cases. under a flower arch out- riage. Jazem, an aeronau- stemming from the misconduct Lima, Nov. 15: The head ● THOUSANDS HAVE polling on one seat was trial of rape cases, acc- He said this after PM side their home in Dubai tical engineer with of members of the Gun Trace of Peru's Congress has postponed, leaving 23 sea- ording to a media report. Imran Khan through a for a socially-distanced Emirates Airline, said Task Force, a once-lauded gr- called for the “immediate taken to the streets in ts up for grabs. As many Under the proposed law, tweet announced that the wedding reception, that since their parents oup that was supposed to take resignation” of interim days of protests against as 330 candidates, includ- rape cases would not be government had planned Khaleej Times reported. and many of their rela- guns off the streets of Balti- president Manuel Merino Merino following the ing four women, are in the investigated by ordinary to bring a “stringent and The couple's family mem- tives are elderly, they did more. The settlement for Umar after a violent crackdown ouster of his popular contest, they said. India police officials and only a holistic anti-rape ordi- bers and friends, who not want to have a big Burley and Brent Matthews is on protests against his predecessor Martin Vi- has opposed Pakistan's gazetted officer up to the nance closing all loop- could not attend the mar- event because they fall the largest settlement in con- new government left at zcarra, who was impe- plan to hold election in level of DIG or SSP would holes”. riage, stopped their cars under the high-risk cate- nection with the task force and least three dead and more ached on corruption Gilgit-Baltistan. — PTI monitor these cases, Adv- — PTI outside the newlyweds' gory. — PTI surpasses the amount paid in than 60 injured. 2015 to the family of Freddie Thousands have taken allegations on Monday. Gray, a young Black man who to the streets in days of The ultimatum came died a week after he was criti- protests against Merino after news of the death FOOD FOR | THOUGHT $15 billion needed to help malnourished kids, schools cally injured in police custody following the ouster of of three protesters dur- and whose death lead to civil his popular predecessor ing a massive and unrest. The proposed payment Martin Vizcarra, who peaceful march in Lima. includes $6.3 million for Burley was impeached on cor- and Matthews as well as $1.8 ruption allegations on Famine of biblical proportions in ’21: WFP million to pay off a lien due to Monday. “I just found out about the estate of Elbert Davis, whi- “I ask Mr. Merino to the third death” in the United Nations, Nov. 15: hardest work is yet to ● WORLD LEADERS in low- and middle-income year and how leaders are ch sued Burley. Burley and Ma- evaluate his immediate protests, said the The head of the World come.” “It was so timely responded with money, countries, and there is going to have to prioritize tthews encountered task force resignation,” Congress Archbishop of Lima, Food Programme says the because we've been fight- stimulus packages, defer- another wave of lock- programs, Beasley said. members in 2010 during an ille- head Luis Valdez said in a Carlos Castillo, deploring Nobel Peace Prize has ing to get above the choir,” downs and shutdowns. But “And the response has gal traffic stop that led to a statement Saturday night the police crackdown in a given the UN agency a Beasley said of last ral of debt in 2020. The he said the money that really been good.” “I’m te- high-speed chase. to Channel N television. statement to state televi- spotlight and megaphone month’s award, pointing money available in 2020 is was available in 2020 isn't lling them you're not going Burley crashed with another Lawmakers will meet in sion. Police reported two to warn world leaders that to the news being dominat- not going to be available going to be available in to have enough money to vehicle, killing Davis. Burley an emergency session on deaths, while the next year is going to be ed by the US elections and in 2021 2021, so he has been using fund all the projects you spent seven years in prison, Sunday to discuss National Human Rights worse than this year, and the Covid-19 pandemic, the Nobel to meet leaders historically fund,” he said. while Matthews served two- Merino's resignation, a Coordinator indicated it without billions of dollars and the difficulty of get- virtually and in person, “Those are important and-half years behind bars. statement released later was investigating “we are going to have ting global attention ing with the Coronavirus talk to parliaments, and things,” Beasley said, but Their convictions were vacated on the Congress Twitter whether there were four. famines of biblical propor- focused on “the travesty pandemic, it was also “on give speeches to sensitize he likened the upcoming in 2017 after officers cooperat- account said. The Ombudsman's tions in 2021.” that we're facing around the brink of a hunger pan- those with power to “this crisis to the Titanic saying ing in the federal investigation The ultimatum came Office said the first fatali- David Beasley said in an the world.” “So this was demic” that could lead to tragedy that we are facing “right now, we really need into the task force told authori- after news of the death of ty, a 25-year-old man, was interview with The Assoc- really a gift from above,” “multiple famines of bibli- — crises that really are to focus on icebergs, and ties that a member of the unit three protesters during a killed by pellet shots to iated Press that the No- Beasley said, recalling the cal proportions” within a going to be extraordinary icebergs are famine, star- had spoken of drugs being massive and peaceful the head and face. At least rwegian Nobel Committee surprise and delight of few months if immediate over the next, who knows, vation, destabilization and planted in the incident. “Mr. march in Lima, which 63 protesters were was looking at the work WFP's 20,000 staffers action wasn’t taken. 12 to 18 months.” migration.” Beasley said Burley and Mr. Matthews were was violently repressed injured, the health min- the agency does every day worldwide, and his own “We were able to avert it “Everybody now wants WFP needs $15 billion next overtly and undeniably framed by police firing shotgun istry said. in conflicts, disasters and shock at being interrupted in 2020 ... because the to meet with the Nobel year — $5 billion just to by a conspiracy of at least four pellets and tear gas. The police tactics have refugee camps, often put- during a meeting in Niger world leaders responded Peace Prize winner,” he avert famine and $10 bil- police officers,” the men's Lima mayor Jorge been criticized by the UN ting staffers' lives at risk in Africa’s Sahel region with money, stimulus pac- said, explaining he now lion to carry out the attorneys, Steve Silverman, Munoz, from the same and rights organizations to feed millions of hungry with the news. kages, deferral of debt,” gets 45 minutes instead of agency's global pro- said in a statement. “It should center-right Popular such as Amnesty people — but also to send Beasley recalled his he said. Now, Beasley said, 15 minutes with leaders grammes including for not take an army of lawyers Action party as Merino, International since the “a message to the world warning to the UN Covid-19 is surging again, and is able to go into depth malnourished children litigating for years to right also demanded the resig- protests began on that it's getting worse out Security Council in April economies are continuing and explain how bad and school lunches. wrongs like this.” nation of the president. Tuesday. — AFP there ... (and) that our that as the world was deal- to deteriorate particularly things are going to be next — AP WORLD 10 DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 16 NOVEMBER 2020 pg

IN BRIEF PLEA AGAINST AFRICA HIT DAKOTA PIPELINE Climate-change BY CLIMATE DOUBLING ORDER fight: Fed closer CHANGES New York, Nov. 15: Nairobi, Nov. 15: Floods, Environmental groups droughts, hotter weather and a are appealing a decision to joining peers desert locust invasion — the made last month by impacts of climate change are Illinois regulators to Washington, Nov. 15: ● THE NGFS has not yet hitting Africa hard, and worse allow the expansion of The Federal Reserve is received an official let- is ahead for the region's food the Dakota Access oil moving closer to joining ter of application laying supplies, economy and health, pipeline (DAPL), accord- an international group of the UN climate agency said on ing to documents filed central bankers working out the Fed's motivation Monday. with the state. to understand and reduce for joining and its areas Temperatures have been ris- The Illinois Commerce climate change risk, of interest, as required ing on the continent of 1.2 bil- Commission last month paving the way for the by the organisation's lion at a comparable rate to voted to approve an world's most influential charter. other regions, but Africa is application to roughly central bank to help exceptionally vulnerable to double the capacity of shape global financial the shock, according to the Energy Transfer LP's markets' response to a invited to take part in a World Meteorological Organ- ET.N 557,000 barrel-per- warming world. couple of workstreams, isation (WMO). day crude oil pipeline Fed Chair Jerome including one on sizing Warming temperatures are after legal pushback by Powell on Thursday said up the impact of climate slashing crop yields. Agricult- environmental groups the US central bank had change on the economy ure is the backbone of Africa's delayed the vote by been working with the and financial stability, economy. "By the middle of about a year. Network of Central Ba- and another on bridging this century, major cereal Save Our Illinois Land nks and Supervisors for data gaps, Despres said. crops grown across Africa will and Sierra Club, which Greening the Financial The Fed is the only be adversely impacted," the have led the fight to System (NGFS), and had major global central bank WMO said in a report. block the project, filed been attending meetings. besides the Reserve Bank It projected a reduction in an application for a "I think we are in the of India that is not a yields of 13% in West and Workers of banana fields evacuate the area in El Progreso, Honduras, on Saturday before the arrival of tropical rehearing with the ICC, process of applying for member of the NGFS. Central Africa, 11% in North storm Iota. — AFP the first step before membership there now," The Fed would bring its Africa and 8% in East and appealing to state dis- he said. expertise as regulator Southern Africa. trict court. Fed Governor Randal and interest-rate setter African countries are gener- The groups have argu- Quarles told lawmakers for the world's biggest ally low-income and ill- ed that expanding in testimony on Tuesday, economy and center of equipped to respond to this DAPL, the largest pipe- "We have requested mem- global capital markets, as and other consequences of cli- Iota all set to wallop line running out of bership," adding, "I expect well as its deep bench of mate change, the WMO said. North Dakota's Bakken that it will be granted." research economists, shale basin, posed safety The NGFS has not yet some of whom have been EPA FOR GAS and environmental risks received an official letter delving into climate-cha- and that an oil market of application laying out nge topics in recent years. Nicaragua, Honduras downturn has dimin- the Fed's motivation for "You can say it will be a PUMP LABELLING ished any need for the joining and its areas of game changer," Despres project. Dallas-based interest, as required by said. "If you are a mem- CHANGES The latest storm was moving with winds of 75 miles per hour Energy Transfer has the organisation's char- ber you contribute...and New York, Nov. 15: The US countered that the down- ter, NGFS Secretariat you can benefit. ... It does Environmental Protection Ag- Tegucigalpa, Nov. 15: turn would be tempo- head Morgan Despres make a difference for ency is considering changes to Less than two weeks after rary and has said DAPL, told Reuters on Friday. us...it does make a differ- labels for gasoline containing powerful storm Eta killed which delivers crude to But the US central bank ence in fighting climate higher blends of ethanol, or more than 200 people Philippines typhoon death Patoka, Illinois, has had has been in talks for change." In its biannual E15, in an effort to appease the across Central America, a clean safety record months with the group assessment of financial biofuel industry's concerns authorities warned that since entering service in about what it needs to do stability vulnerabilities that current labels discourage Hurricane Iota was set to 2017. The project has to join and the workload released earlier this use of the fuel, according to wallop coastal areas of toll rises as floods hit north received approvals from being a member would week, the Fed for the first four sources familiar with the Nicaragua and Honduras several other US states. entail, he said. time included climate matter. on Monday. Manila, Nov. 15: The ● THE ACCUMULATED during a briefing with — Reuters Fed staff have also been change risk. — Reuters Expanding the market for E15 As of 0300 GMT Sunday, death toll from the dead- effects of weather dis- Duterte. "We see that it is has long been a policy goal for Iota -- the latest in an liest cyclone to hit the turbances and huge vol- worsening every year." farmers and producers of etha- unusually busy storm sea- Philippines this year has umes of water from a The accumulated effects nol, a corn-based product, but son -- was about 440 miles climbed to 67, while many of weather disturbances concerns that some older vehi- (705 kilometres) east- areas remained submer- dam affected thousands and huge volumes of cles don't run well on the prod- southeast of the Cabo ged in a northern region of families in Cagayan, water from a dam affected Trump administration to uct have been a headwind. Cu- Gracias a Dios on the hit by the worst flooding some of whom had fled thousands of families in rrent federal E15 labels warn of Nicaragua-Honduras bor- in more than four decades, to rooftops to escape Cagayan, some of whom possible engine damage. der, moving slowly west- officials said on Sunday. two-storey high floods. had fled to rooftops to The Trump administration, wards with maximum sus- President Rodrigo Dute- escape two-storey high sell Arctic oil drilling leases meanwhile, has been trying to tained winds of 75 miles rte flew to Tuguegarao floods. Six cyclones hit the shore up support in the Farm per hour (120 kph). province to assess the sit- and 20 in two other regi- Philippines in a span of Washington, Nov. 15: should be offered for sale. Alaskans support it," said Belt ahead of the election Iota was upgraded to a uation in Cagayan Valley ons, said Mark Timbal, just four weeks, including The Trump Administra- That would start the Frank Macchiarola, sen- through favourable announce- hurricane early Sunday, region, which was heavily the disaster management Vamco and Super tion will take key steps to clock on a 60-day period ior vice president of poli- ments for biofuel advocates. the Miami-based National flooded after Typhoon agency spokesman. Typhoon Goni, the world's finalize a sale of oil before sales could take cy, economics and regula- An announcement for a pro- Hurricane Center (NHC) Vamco dumped rain over Twelve people were still most powerful this year. drilling leases in the sen- place in ANWR, where tory affairs at the Amer- posal on the labelling changes said. “Reconnaissance air- swathes of the main Lu- missing and nearly 26,000 But Mamba also lament- sitive Arctic National drilling had been banned ican Petroleum Institute, could come soon. None of the craft finds Iota has zon island, including the houses were damaged by ed about denuded forests Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for decades before a an industry group. sources could say exactly how strengthened into the thir- capital, metropolitan Ma- Vamco, he said. in Cagayan, prompting in Alaska just before Republican-led tax legisla- Following a 30-day peri- the administration might alter teenth hurricane of the nila. Twenty-two fatalities "This is the worst flood- Duterte to order him to Democrat Joseph Biden, tion signed in 2017 od after the call for nomi- the labelling. 2020 Atlantic hurricane were recorded in Cagayan, ing that we had in the last curb logging operations in who opposes drilling removed that ban. nations, the government EPA and the White House did season,” it tweeted. 17 in southern Luzon, 45 years," Cagayan Gover- the province. there, becomes president, Biden opposes drilling would have to issue a not immediately comment. Iota is projected to hit eight in Metro Manila, nor Manuel Mamba said — Reuters a government spokes- in ANWR, while lawmak- notice for an impending President Donald Trump in the Colombian island of woman said on Friday. ers in Alaska have long sale of leases. mid-September said in a tweet Providencia by late Sund- The White House will be pushed to open up the eco- Thirty days after that, he would allow states to permit ay and is expected to rap- river flooding in parts of areas, resulting in signifi- gered landslides as far sending out a call for nom- logically sensitive area for the sale would take place, fuel retailers to use their cur- idly strengthen into a northern Colombia and cant impacts.”Honduras, north as Chiapas, Mexico. inations in coming days, oil and gas exploration in just before Biden's inau- rent pumps to sell E15. major hurricane as it Central America,” the Guatemala and Nicaragua The NHC warned that according to a spokeswo- the region. guration on Jan. 20. Under US law, refiners must approaches Central NHC warned. announced evacuations Iota would deposit as man for the US Bureau of "Development in ANWR Alaska produces rough- blend billions of gallons of bio- America. “It is likely that “The flooding and mud- Friday, even as the region much as 16 inches of rain Land Management in is long overdue and will ly 500,000 barrels per day fuels into their fuel pool, or buy the heavy rainfall from slides in Honduras and was still reeling from the on Honduras, northern Anchorage, Alaska. create good-paying jobs of crude oil, far below its credits from those that do. Iota, through Thursday, Nicaragua may be exacer- devastation inflicted by Nicaragua, eastern The call is a request to and provide a new rev- peak of 2 million bpd in Refiners that prove the require- will lead to life-threaten- bated by the recent effects Eta. Eta's heavy rains Guatemala and southern energy companies on enue stream for the state - the late 1980s. ments harm them financially ing flash flooding and of Hurricane Eta in those burst river banks and trig- Belize. — AFP what specific land areas which is why a majority of — Reuters can get waivers from the obli- gations. So-called small refin- ery exemptions, or SREs, have been a lightning rod of contro- LENS ON BANK versy between the Corn and Oil lobbies. Wyoming oil drilling again blocked LOANS OVER STATION FOR Wyoming, Nov. 15: A fed- his 2019 order had come ● ACCORDING TO court Wyoming after five sales eral court judge on Friday up short in its obligation papers, Judge Ralph held in 2015 and 2016. WILDLIFE HARM for the second time in two to comply with the Though the leases were ZERO-EMISSION years blocked drilling on National Environmental Contreras of the US issued before President London, Nov. 15: more than 300,000 acres in Policy Act in part by fail- District Court for the Donald Trump took office, Campaigners called on TRAIN FLEET Wyoming because the gov- ing to consider the cumu- District of Columbia his administration has global banks to stop Frankfurt, Nov. 15: German ernment failed to ade- lative impacts of leases in ordered that the envi- fought the lawsuit as part financing industrial regional transport group RMV quately consider its the region and country. ronmental analyses for of its strategy to expand activities that are driv- began construction of a filling impact on climate change. "Our commonsense deci- 282 oil and gas leases be oil and gas drilling on fed- ing animal and plant station near Frankfurt that According to court sions were based on the sent back to the US eral lands. species toward extinc- will use hydrogen generated as papers, Judge Ralph best available science," "This is clearly another tion, after a report a by-product of chemicals man- Contreras of the US BLM spokesman Richard Bureau of Land powerful rebuke of the ranked 50 lenders ufacturing to fuel the world's District Court for the Packer said in an emailed Management (BLM) for Trump administration's involved in sectors that largest fleet of zero-emissions Deforestation in District of Columbia statement, adding that the additional study. climate denial and pro-fos- pose the greatest threat passenger trains. ordered that the environ- agency would continue to ● IT WAS the second sil fuel 'energy dominance' to wildlife. France's Alstom ALSO.PA mental analyses for 282 oil "support domestic energy agenda," Jeremy Nichols, While European and will deliver 27 hydrogen-pow- and gas leases be sent production and conserve time Judge Contreras an attorney with US banks have faced ered fuel cell trains to the Amazon increases back to the US Bureau of our environment." issued such a ruling on WildEarth Guardians, years of pressure from Infraserv Hoechst industrial Land Management (BLM) The lawsuit by environ- the same set of leases. said in an email. regulators or environ- park in the Rhine-Main region Brasilia, Nov. 15: Defor- lift the region out of for additional study. mental groups WildEarth President-elect Joe mental groups to act on in mid-2022. Starting regular estation in Brazil's Ama- poverty, which environ- It was the second time Guardians and Physicians Biden, who served as climate change, their local services by that winter, zon increased in October mental advocates say is Judge Contreras issued for Social Responsibility gas development when it Obama's vice president, role in financing eco- the fleet will replace diesel for the first time in four emboldening Brazilians such a ruling on the same alleged that the govern- leased parcels in the has pledged to end new oil nomic activities that engines. The fuel cells on board months, government data to cut down the forest. set of leases. ment, under former Western states of Utah, and gas leasing on federal destroy biodiversity is the trains will turn hydrogen showed on Friday, as de- Brazil is expected to On Friday, he said the President Barack Obama, Wyoming and Colorado. lands when he takes office also coming under grow- and oxygen into electricity to struction of the world's release its official meas- supplemental analysis failed to account for emis- Friday's ruling only per- next year. ing scrutiny. provide low-noise propulsion largest rainforest rema- ure of 2020 deforestation BLM produced following sions generated by oil and tains to leases issued in — Reuters — Reuters that only emits water, helping ins high under right-wing by year's end, which is cut carbon pollution from President Jair Bolsonaro. usually far higher than transport. In October, deforesta- the preliminary figures. Hesse state and the federal tion rose 50% from the That measure, called CLEARING | THE AIR Outpouring of anger over perceived danger to habitat of species government helped fund the prior year to 836 square PRODES, compares satel- 500 million euro ($590.4 mil- kilometers (323 square lite images at the end of lion) project. miles), according to pre- July 2020 to those taken at The Coradia iLint trains will liminary data from gov- the beginning of August be fuelled by hydrogen released ernment space research 2019 to detect forest clear- ‘Jurassic Park’ no threat to Komodos as a byproduct of chlorine agency Inpe. ances. There are fewer made in the chemicals and But monthly deforesta- clouds in that period to Jakarta, Nov. 15: Indo- the picture. Wiratno, a bite. The project, which pharmaceuticals park, and tion eased from its peak obscure deforestation. nesia's environment min- senior environment min- involves the country's pub- piped to the tank tracks. from July to September as Researchers at the non- istry sought to calm out- istry official, said rangers lic works and housing More hydrogen will come the rainy season begins governmental Amazon rage over construction of would ensure the safety of ministry, seeks to cater to from a yet-to-be built 5 and makes logging diffi- Environmental Research an island tourism project dragons roaming near the visitors of the Komodo megawatt (MW) electrolyser cult. Forest clearances Institute (IPAM) say that being dubbed "Jurassic construction, which will National Park, where that will draw on renewable are down 6% in the first PRODES is predicted to Park", after an image went include an elevated deck, a these can be seen in the electricity. ten months of 2020, com- show a dramatic increase viral on social media of a dam and an information wild. Social media users "We have shown that we will pared to the same period to more than 14,000 squa- Komodo dragon facing off centre, to be completed in have likened the project to have enough hydrogen to fuel a year ago, to 7,899 square re kilometres deforested with a big truck. June. "They will intensive- one on a dinosaur island the fleet economically. With kilometres, Inpe found. for 2020 compared with The picture of the drag- ly make checks of whether featured in the "Jurassic one full tank per day, the trains That's roughly 10 times 10,129 square kilometers on, one of the world's the Komodo dragons are Park" films. The public can travel 1,000 kilometres, just the size of New York City. for 2019. That would like- largest lizards, blocking under the buildings, rem- works ministry assured like diesel trains," said RMV's Destruction in 2020 con- ly be the highest defor- the path of a big vehicle nants of buildings, and the safety of the Komodos. managing director Knut tinues to be far higher estation since 2016. on Indonesia's Rinca under the trucks carrying But environmentalists Ringat at a ceremony. than the years prior to Bo- Separate Inpe data also Island prompted an out- material," he said in a An image of a komodo dragon facing off with a truck said the construction must RMV will reclaim parts of its lsonaro assuming office show that fires, which are pouring of anger about statement. went viral on social media. — Twitter stop. "Komodo need to be investment via fares. The on Jan. 1, 2019. Bolsonaro typically set to clear land perceived threats to the Indonesia's current protected," said Umbu Wu- Berlin government has also has weakened environm- for agricultural use after natural habitat of the vul- Komodo population is up to 10 feet (3 metres) limbs and a long tail. lang Tanaamahu Parang- helped pay a 40% price premi- ental enforcement called cutting down the trees, nerable species. about 3,000, according to long, have curved and ser- They can take down prey gi, director of the Indo- um for the trains over a diesel for more farming and have increased 20%. Reuters was not able to government data. rated teeth, a yellow as big as a water buffalo nesian Forum for the equivalent. mining in the Amazon to — Reuters verify the authenticity of Komodo dragons reach forked tongue, strong with a single venomous Environment. — Reuters HYDERABAD | MONDAY | 16 NOVEMBER 2020 pg 11  World’s biggest trade agreement floats 15-country bloc Infosys says quick 63% of US RIL acquires 96% Asia-Pacific nations sign ops no longer in Urban Ladder BITES tied to visas New Delhi, Nov. 15: % RCEP pact without India Infosys has been INDICATORS "intensely focused" on Sensex 43,637.98 0.45 GURDIP SINGH negotiations of the RCEP, skilling and generating Nifty 50 12,780.25 0.47 SINGAPORE, NOV. 15 the largest free trade local employment in S&P 500* 3,566.86 0.84 agreement in the world, markets like the US, Fifteen Asia-Pacific will send a strong message which has helped the IT Dollar (`) 74.61 0.04 nations, including China, of Asean’s leading role in services major become Pound Sterling (`) 98.19 0.21 on Sunday signed the supporting the multilater- about 63 per cent visa- world's biggest trade al trade system, helping to independent in the US Euro (`) 88.11 0.049 agreement, the Regional create a new trading struc- and over 50 per cent in New Delhi, Nov. 15: ed by it as it looks to Gold (10gm)* (`) 50,425▼241 0.47 Comprehensive Economic ture in the region, VNA Europe and Australia- Reliance Industries' compete with e-com- Partnership (RCEP), sans quoted Phuc as saying. New Zealand, its chief retail arm has picked up merce majors as Brent crude ($/bbl)* 42.87 -0.66 India with hopes that it Singapore prime minis- operating officer Pravin a 96 per cent stake in Amazon and Flipkart. IN 10-Yr bond yield 5.878 -0.024 will help recover from the ter Lee Hsien Loong said Rao said. online furniture retailer The investment will US 10-Yr T-bill yield* 0.893 0.007 shocks of the Covid-19 pan- he joins fellow RCEP coun- Infosys, which counts Urban Ladder for over further enable the demic. tries "in hoping that India the US as its biggest Rs 182 crore. group's digital and new * As of Friday/Saturday The RCEP was signed too, will be able to come on market, said it is still In August, RIL had commerce initiatives after eight years of negoti- board at some point so that early to comment on the acquired a majority and widen the bouquet ations at the annual sum- the participation in the approach the new US stake in digital pharma of consumer products mit of Southeast Asian RCEP will fully reflect the administration could marketplace Netmeds provided by the group, FPIs invest over leaders and their regional SIGNATORIES WAIT FOR INDIA emerging patterns of inte- take towards work visas for around Rs 620 crore. while enhancing user partners, held virtually gration and regional coop- but it expects to contin- Reliance Retail Vent- engagement and experi- this year. New Delhi, Nov. 15: remain open to India. eration in Asia." ue benefiting from its ures Ltd (RRVL), a sub- ence across its retail `35K cr in stocks, The agreement, which Countries that have "The RCEP signatory They make up nearly a localisation efforts. sidiary of Reliance offerings, it said. covers almost a third of signed the RCEP agree- states will commence third of the world's popula- "We continue to see Industries (RIL) , has According to RIL, no debt this month the world economy, will ment can start negotia- negotiations with India at tion and account for 29 per challenges to mobility acquired equity shares governmental or regula- progressively lower tariffs tions with India for join- any time after the signing cent of global gross domes- of talent. New proposed of Urban Ladder Home tory approvals were Foreign portfolio investors across many areas in the ing the pact once New of RCEP agreement once tic product, he said. immigration regula- Decor Solutions Pvt Ltd required for the invest- (FPIs) have invested a massive coming years, reported Delhi submits a written India submits a request "We have reached a major tions in USA could for a cash consideration ment. Rs 35,109 crore in Indian mar- Channel News Asia. request stating its inten- in writing of its intention milestone of signing this impact onsite wage of Rs 182.12 crore, RIL RIL, which has been on kets in November so far, as cor- After the signing, all tion for the same, accord- to accede to RCEP agree- agreement today. It has costs, granting of visas, said on Saturday. a fund raising spree by porate earnings and reforms countries would have to ing to a declaration. ment to the depository of taken us eight years, 46 tenure of visas, and The investment repre- selling stakes in RRVL, measures undertaken by the ratify the RCEP within two On November 4 last the RCEP agreement, tak- negotiating meetings and overall costs of compli- sents 96 per cent holding had earlier this month government to revive invest- years before it becomes year, India walked out of ing into consideration the 19 ministerial meetings to ance. in the equity share capi- announced a Rs 9,555 ment activities kept the effective. mega free trade agree- latest status of India's get here,” he said. "Our localisation pro- tal of Urban Ladder, it crore investment from investors' sentiment upbeat. India, a leading con- ment as negotiations participation in RCEP Malaysia's trade minister gramme across USA, added. Public Investment Fund According to the depositories sumer-driven market in failed to address New negotiations and any new Mohamed Azmin Ali, Europe and Australia, RRVL has an option of of Saudi Arabia, taking data, FPIs invested a net sum the region, pulled out of Delhi's outstanding development thereafter," ahead of the summit, had launched three years acquiring the balance total fundraise in the of Rs 29,436 crore into equities talks last year, concerned issues and concerns. according to the said, "after eight years of ago, mitigates many of stake, taking its share- last two months to Rs and Rs 5,673 crore into debt that the elimination of tar- The remaining 15 mem- Ministers' Declaration on negotiating with blood, these," said at a recent holding to 100 per cent. 47,265 crore. segment during Nov. 2-13. iffs would open its markets ber countries have India's Participation in sweat and tears, we have analyst meet. Besides, RRVL has pro- The investment had to a flood of imports. signed the RCEP agree- RCEP. finally come to the He said Infosys has posed to make a further valued RRVL at a pre- But other nations have ment and have stated The declaration is dated moment where we will seal eight innovation hubs investment of up to Rs 75 money equity value of said in the past that the that the pact would November 11. —PTI the RCEP Agreement this across the US and the crore in Urban Ladder. Rs 4.587 lakh crore. door remains open for Sunday." EU, nine global Digital The further invest- Reliance Retail Ltd, a UAE ‘golden’ visa India’s participation in the The four-day Asean sum- Studios (including a 5G ment is expected to be subsidiary of RRVL, RCEP, influenced by with China, Japan, South pating in the RCEP talks. mit included meetings lab in Melbourne) and completed by December operates India's largest allows 10-year China. Korea, New Zealand and The global and regional between Southeast Asian seven global cyber 2023, it said. retail business with The RCEP was first pro- Australia. economies are facing huge leaders and their counter- defence centres. This acquisition will 12,000 stores. posed in 2012 and loops in Host country Vietnam's obstacles and challenges parts from China, Japan "We are close to 63 per help RIL in bolstering its The booming e-com- residency to pros 10 Asean economies— prime minister Nguyen caused by not only Covid- and South Korea in the cent visa-independent presence in the fast- merce market in India Indonesia, Malaysia, the Xuan Phuc said the pan- 19 but also decreased glob- Asean Plus Three Summit, in the US and over 50 growing e-commerce will be worth $86 billion Philippines, Singapore, demic has harmed global al trade, he was quoted as as well as the East Asia per cent in Europe and segment and widening by 2024, according to Thailand, Brunei, and regional trade and saying by the Vietnam Summit and RCEP ANZ,” he said. the bouquet of con- research firm Forrester. Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar investment flows, includ- News Agency (VNA). Summit. — PTI sumer products provid- — PTI and Cambodia—along ing the countries partici- The conclusion of the — PTI

INDIA RECOVERING ONGC NET Drug firms recall FASTER: OXFORD Minimum broadband speed The UAE has approved granting PROFIT DOWN “golden” visas allowing 10-year ECONOMICS residency to certain profession- products in US needs to be 2 Mbps: Forum 55% IN Q2 als and others. All holders of New Delhi, Nov 15: The doctorate degrees, medical New Delhi, Nov. 15: uct due to deviation from Indian economy is seen New Delhi, Nov. 15: gories of broadband New Delhi, Nov. 15: doctors and also computer, Indian drug firms like the current good manufac- recovering faster than Industry think-tank BIF depending on speeds; Top oil and gas produc- electronics, programming, elec- Marksans Pharma, turing practices (CGMP). expected and the Reserve has said a revision of need for speed measure- er ONGC booked a Rs trical and biotechnology engi- Aurobindo Phar-ma, "FDA analysis detected Bank is likely to have broadband definition and ment programmes in the 1,238-crore impairment neers are eligible. Also eligible Zydus and Jubilant are N-Nitrosodimethylamine come to an end of the rate speeds in India are long country, amongst others. loss, which together are those with specialised deg- recalling products in the (NDMA) impurity above easing cycle, according to overdue and that it When contacted, BIF with a fall in prices led rees in artificial intelligence, big US market, as per the lat- the acceptable intake global forecasting firm should be reviewed and president T. V. Rama- to a 55 per cent drop in data and epidemiology, as well est enforcement report by level," it noted. Oxford Economics. upgraded to 2 Mbps from chandran said the cur- the company's Septem- as school students living in the the US Food and Drug NDMA has been defined It further said inflation current 512 kbps, which rent definition of broad- ber quarter net profit. UAE who rank top in studies. Administration (FDA). as a probable carcinogen. is expected to average sig- is "dismally low". band in India at 512 kbps Standalone net profit While Marksans Pharma The FDA said Zydus nificantly above 6 per cent The Broadband India is dismally low, and the at Rs 2,878 crore in July- is recalling a diabetes Pharmaceuticals (USA) is in the fourth quarter and Forum (BIF) has said upgrade to 2 Mbps for the September was 54.6 per drug, Zydus Pharmaceu- recalling 14,748 cartons of the RBI may hold policy communications technol- redefined," the BIF said same is long overdue, cent lower than Rs 6,336 ticals (USA) is recalling a lansoprazole delayed- rates in the December ogy has transformed rad- in its submission to even by the national poli- crore net profit a year drug used to reduce stom- release orally disintegrat- monetary policy review. ically over the past years Telecom Regulatory cy mandates. ago, the company said. Ministry seeks ach acid. Similarly, ing tablets due to failed "While Q4 is likely to and entirely new markets Authority of India (Trai). According to the BIF, Revenue dropped 31 Aurobindo Pharma (USA) dissolution specification. mark the peak for infla- for data services have The submissions form the broadband speeds in per cent to Rs 16,917 opinion on social is recalling a pain reliev- The product has been man- tion, we have turned more emerged across the part of BIF's response to India, even post the intro- crore. ing drug while Jubilant ufactured by Ahmedabad- cautious on the trajectory nation. Numerous mod- the regulator's consulta- duction of 4G, are less The company got Cadista is recalling a med- based Cadila Healthcare. over 2021," it said. ern internet applications tion paper on 'road map to than half of the global $41.38 for every barrel of security code ication used to treat schiz- The FDA has classified Costlier vegetables and and use cases now promote broadband con- good practices. crude oil it produced The Ministry of Labour and ophrenia. the initiatives taken by eggs pushed up retail require higher speeds nectivity and enhanced It suggested that a net- and sold in the second Employment has sought feed- Marksans is recalling Marksans and Zydus as inflation to a nearly six- than prescribed by the broadband speed'. work must provide 2 quarter of the current back from stakeholders on draft close to six lakh bottles of class II recalls. Further, and-a-half year high of current definition. Trai had floated the dis- Mbps download and fiscal. This was 31.4 per rules under the Code on Social diabetes drug metformin Aurobindo Pharma USA is 7.61 per cent in October. "It is our view that since cussion paper to seek upload speeds to be con- cent lower than $60.33 Security, 2020. The feedback hydrochloride extended- recalling 7,440 bottles of "At the same time, the current definition of stakeholder views on var- sidered a broadband. per barrel price it had has to be given within 45 days release tablets in strengths ibuprofen oral suspension robust bottom-up activity broadband captures nei- ious issues, including Different categories of got in July-September from Nov. 13. The draft rules of 500 mg and 750 mg in the drug for labelling error. data suggest that the ther the development of whether existing defini- broadband such as 'Basic, 2019. Gas price was also provide for operationalisation US market. The medica- Jubilant Cadista Phar- economy may be recover- the technology nor the tion of broadband need to Fast, and Ultra-Fast' down by more than one- of provisions in the Code on tion lot has been manufac- maceuticals, Inc is recall- ing faster than we antici- Indian consumers' be reviewed along with would help set optional third to $2.39 per mil- Social Security, 2020 relating to tured at the firm’s Goa- ing 23,616 blister packs of pated. As such, we see an appetite for high speed threshold download and thresholds that can serve lion British thermal EPFO, ESIC, gratuity, maternity based facility. olanzapine orally disinte- increasing possibility broadband services, it upload speeds; possibility distinct use cases, it said. unit. benefit, social security and cess As per the FDA, the com- grating tablets for being that the RBI's easing cycle must be reviewed and of defining different cate- — PTI — PTI in respect of construction work- pany is recalling the prod- "subpotent." — PTI has ended," it said. —PTI ers, gig workers and the like.

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SHORT TAKES Thiem survives SEVENTH WONDER Tsitsipas scare London, Nov. 15: Dominic icately dinked forehand at Hamilton wins record-equalling seventh F1 world title Thiem beat Stefanos the net in the second game. Tsitsipas in the opening The fifth game ultimately Istanbul, Nov. 15: Lewis singles match of the ATP proved to be decisive. Hamilton secured a I often say it is beyond F1 DRIVERS WITH MOST Finals on Sunday. Tsitsipas had a chance to record-equalling seventh wildest dreams but my whole CHAMPIONSHIPS In a repeat of last year’s break but caught the net Formula One world title life secretly I have dreamt as final at London’s O2 Arena, with a powerful backhand on Sunday after winning high as this. It felt so far- 7 — Michael Schumacher, won by Tsitsipas, US Open and could not engineer the Turkish Grand Prix fetched. I remember watch- Germany (1994, ’95, 2000, champion Thiem stumbled another break point in a despite starting sixth on ing Michael win those world ’01, ’02, ’03, ’04) after winning a first-set tie- game that contained six the grid. championships. To get one or 7 — Lewis Hamilton, Britain break but found his range deuces. Sreekara Darbha Dhruva Thota The Briton matched (2008, ’14, ’15, ’17, ’18, ’19, again to win 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6- Earlier, Novak Djokovic two or even three is so hard. ’20) Michael Schumacher’s Seven is unimaginable. 3. received the ATP Tour No. haul of drivers’ crowns 5 — Juan Manuel Fangio, Thiem was impressive on 1 trophy after finishing the Sreekara, Dhruva — LEWIS HAMILTON Argentina (1951, ’54, ’55, with three races of the ’56, ’57) serve in the first set, win- year at the top of the rank- are chess champs season remaining. 4 — Alain Prost, France (1985, ning 79 per cent of service ings for a record-equalling The 35-year-old sealed ’86, ’89, ’93) points, but failed to convert sixth time. DC CORRESPONDENT his latest title with a typi- 4 — Sebastian Vettel, Germany three break points against The Serbian, who has HYDERABAD, NOV. 15 cally measured master- (2010, ’11, ’12, ’13) the Greek world number drawn level with American class, handling treacher- 3 — Jack Brabham, Australia six. Pete Sampras, said: Sreekara Darbha and Dhruva ous wet early conditions (1959, ’60, ’66) The Austrian third seed “Obviously I am super Thota won the juniors and open to claim his 94th career 3 — Jackie Stewart, Britain found himself in deep trou- proud of it, but I have categories of the 174th Brilliant win despite his unaccus- (1969, ’71, ’73) ble when trailing 4-1 in the mixed emotions because of Trophy Chess Tournament that tomed start position. 3 — Niki Lauda, Austria (1975, tie-break but battled back what is going on in the was conducted online at A breathless Hamilton ’77, ’84) and made his first set point world. I can’t be ignorant www.lichess.org due to the said: “I’m lost for words. 3 — Nelson Piquet, Brazil (1981, count when Tsitsipas went to that, although I have Covid-19 pandemic. This is way beyond my ’83, ’87) long with a backhand lob. achieved one of the biggest Sreekara won the event by dreams.” 3 — Ayrton Senna, Brazil (1988, Tsitsipas produced a fore- goals in sport.” scoring 10.5 points out of 12 Hamilton, who sealed ’90, ’91) hand winner in the third Top seed Djokovic, who is rounds. Sk Taj Abdul and his first title in 2008, was game of the second set to competing in Group Tokyo Aahlad Karthik took the second adding to his unprece- break the Austrian and 1970 alongside Daniil and third places with 9.5 points dented roster of records haul himself back into the Medvedev, Alexander each. — most wins with 94, contest, facing no break Zverev and Diego In the Open category Dhruva most pole positions (97), points as he levelled the Schwartzman, plays his Thota and M. Niranjan tied for most podium finishes match. opening match on Monday. first place with 10.5 points each (163) and most consecu- The defending champion London’s O2 Arena is out of 12 rounds. The tie-break tive points finishes (47). appeared to have the hosting the ATP Finals for was clinched by Dhruva of It was widely declared momentum but it was the 12th and final season Maestro Chess Academy. as one of his finest tri- Thiem who drew first before the year-end cham- Niranjan and Ritobroto Sen fin- umphs and entirely blood in the deciding set, pionships moves to Turin ished third with 10 points each. appropriate on the day he earning a break with a del- next year. — AFP THE RESULTS drew alongside ■ Boys Under 15: 1. Aahlad Schumacher in the record Karthik, 2. Pradyumna. Under books. 13: 1. Hemanth, 2. Akshith He lapped his team-mate Mattupalli. Under 11: 1.Sk. Taj and only remaining title Abdul, 2. T. Aryan. Under 9: 1. rival Valtteri Bottas, who Vihaan Saikrishna, 2. Vineel R. finished 14th after a Karthik. Under 7: 1. Havish desultory outing, to claim Kovidh, 2. Hariram Perecharla. his 10th victory in 14 ■ Girls Under 15: 1. races this season. Swaralakshmi S. Nair, 2. Sara Hamilton came home Kausar. Under 13: 1. Naannya, 2. over half a minute clear Sahasra Samudrala. Under 11: 1. of Sergio Perez for Racing P. Sravani, 2. Amulya Point. Both chose to make Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates after winning the Turkish Formula One Grand Prix at the Istanbul Bhagavathula. Under 9: 1. only one pit-stop and Park circuit racetrack in Istanbul on Sunday. — AFP Hrithika Thota, 2. L. Laasya. spend most of the race on Under 7: 1. SriLakshmi, 2. a single set of intermedi- Bhavishya. ate tyres as their rivals ■ Open category: 1. Dhruva pitted several times to Thota, 2. Niranjan, 3. Ritobroto cope with the slippery Sen, 4. S. Sumer Arsh, 5. Tulasi conditions. LEWIS LETS TEARS FLOW AFTER WIN Ramkumar, 6. A. Sai Mahathi, 7. Hamilton’s old rival, A. Vikas, 8. Siddarth Ramanand, four-time former champi- Istanbul, Nov. 15: After starting to build up. No. 94 and title No. 7, he that.’ But it was too 9. Chidvilas Sai, 10. Abdul on Sebastian Vettel, fin- winning a difficult race “All these emotions sat in his car with his much,” he said. Sattar. ished third ahead of his to equal Michael were running through head in his hands. Speaking a short time Ferrari team-mate Schumacher’s record of me and I was trying to “It really hit me and I after his win, Hamilton Charles Leclerc, Carlos seven Formula One stop it,” Hamilton said in just burst into tears. I was wiping away those France bag finals Sainz of McLaren and, championships on his post-race news con- couldn’t get out of the tears as he prepared to Novak Djokovic poses with his year end ATP number one after a wild and impulsive Sunday, the hardest ference. car because I just could- mount the podium. trophy during Day One of the ATP Finals tennis champi- spot, Germany win afternoon, Max thing for Lewis Hamilton “I was thinking about n’t believe it,” Hamilton “I’m definitely a bit lost onship at The O2 Arena in London on Sunday. — AP Verstappen in the leading was containing his emo- my whole career, from said. for words. I dreamed of Paris: World champions France Red Bull. Alex Albon tions. when I was five when I “I didn’t want the visor this as a kid. This is way, and Germany rode on the influ- came home seventh in the His voice could be drove in a go-kart, from to come up and people to way beyond our ence of their Chelsea stars to second Red Bull ahead of heard breaking as he when we won the British see tears flowing, dreams,” he said, thank- rack up Nations League wins on Lando Norris in the sec- thanked his team over championship, driving because I had always ing his family. Aussies love to hate Saturday while Spain’s Sergio ond McLaren, Lance the radio moments after home with my dad and said I would never let Hamilton only had one Ramos missed two penalties on Stroll, who had started crossing the line at the singing ‘We Are The you see me cry. I remem- title, with McLaren in the night he celebrated a from his maiden pole Turkish Grand Prix, Champions’ and dream- ber watching drivers in 2008, when he replaced record-setting 177th interna- position for Racing Point, while underneath the ing of being here.” the past crying and I was Schumacher at Mercedes ‘polarising’ Kohli tional appearance. Chelsea mid- and Daniel Ricciardo of helmet the tears were Moments after victory like ‘I’m not going to do in 2013. — AP fielder N’Golo Kante scored just Renault. — AFP Sydney, Nov. 15: Test cap- a go at each other at every his second international goal as tain Tim Paine says given opportunity. The duo France defeated European Australians have “polaris- even had to be separated by champions Portugal 1-0 in ing” opinions on India the on-field umpires on a Lisbon to secure a place in next skipper Virat Kohli, one couple of occasions. year’s finals. Kante was quick- Hami: Not bad for boy from council house whom they love to hate as “Australia and India, it’s est to react to a rebound as he rivals but at the same time a heated competition and netted the winner on 53 min- Istanbul, Nov. 15: Lewis luxury, but it was clear be for all his future team- enjoy watching him bat as he’s obviously a competi- utes that clinched France top Hamilton cemented his from an early age that he mates as Hamilton, who fans. Australia and India tive person and so am I, so spot in their group. France lead position as one of had an outstanding gift narrowly missed out on are set to lock horns in a yeah there were a few occa- Portugal by three points ahead Formula One's true greats for speed and all the gutsy the 2007 title, returned to four-Test series with the sions when we had words of Tuesday’s clash with Sweden when he equalled Michael natural instincts of a triumph in 2008 with a opening Day-Night game in but that wasn’t because he in Paris but are guaranteed first Schumacher's all-time born racer. dramatic last-gasp fifth- Adelaide starting was the captain and I was place by virtue of their superior record of seven world In 1995, aged 10, and place finish in Brazil. December 17. the captain, it could have head-to-head record. — AFP titles on Sunday, another wearing a jacket and He also showed frustra- “I get asked a lot of ques- been anyone,” Paine said. staggering achievement shoes borrowed from his tion as McLaren failed to tions about him, he’s just Comparing his on-field for a boy who grew up in predecessor as British deliver the speed to beat another player to me it battle with Kohli to the Johnson seizes modest circumstances. Formula Cadet karting Sebastian Vettel and Red doesn’t really bother me. likes of Joe Root and Ben His victory in Istanbul -- champion, he went to a Bull, who reeled off four There’s not really a rela- Stokes, the wicketkeeper- Masters lead the 94th of his career -- glittering awards ceremo- straight title triumphs tionship there with him to batsman said it always a allowed him to add the ny in London where he from 2010 to 2013, by be fair, I see him at the toss heated affair when the best Augusta: Top-ranked Dustin 2020 title to his champi- met McLaren’s then-boss which time Hamilton had and play against him and players are out in the mid- Johnson went four-under par in onships of 2008, 2014, 2015, Ron Dennis. departed for Mercedes. that’s about it,” Paine told dle. “There is always a bit the first four holes to seize a 2017, 2018 and 2019. He asked for an auto- Escaping the manage- ABC Sport. more tension when a play- three-stroke lead early in The son of a black father graph and told him “one ment regime of Dennis “With Virat it is a funny er is as good as he is, it’s Saturday’s third round of the and a white mother, whose day I want to race for Lewis Hamilton poses with his dog as he celebrates his and his father, Hamilton one, we love to hate him the same when you play Masters, pulling away from an parents separated in his you”. Dennis replied: record win in Istanbul on Sunday. — AP found freedom at but we also love to watch against England, its Joe elite field at Augusta National. youth, Hamilton, 35, grew “Phone me in nine years Mercedes alongside team- him bat as cricket fans. He Root or a Ben Stokes,” The 36-year-old American, who up on a municipal hous- and I'll sort you a deal.” reeled off nine successive curial and occasionally mate Nico Rosberg, his certainly is polarising in Paine said. grew up only an hour’s drive ing estate. His father podiums from his debut in tempestuous and the com- teenage karting friend that type of scenario. We “It’s often the best player ‘MERCURIAL, from the course, unleashed his Anthony at one time held Melbourne, rocking the bination led to a fierce and rival. Rosberg broke love watching him bat, but is the one that your team TEMPESTUOUS’ best to any major round in his down three jobs to fund establishment along the rivalry with team-mate Hamilton's sequence of we don’t like seeing him goes up a little bit, the career to stand on 13-under par his son’s embryonic rac- Bold, determined and way with his speed and and two-time champion supremacy in 2016 and score too many runs.” intensity goes up when the for the tournament. South ing career in karting. individual, he almost won his style. Fernando Alonso at then retired, leaving the The last time the two best players in the world Korea’s Im Sung-jae, Spain’s Hamilton's journey was the title in his first record- On and off the track, he McLaren. That was a sig- Englishman to dominate. sides met tempers flared come out to the crease.” second-ranked Jon Rahm, third- unprivileged and without breaking season as he was fast, somewhat mer- nal of how tough it was to — AFP with both skippers having — PTI ranked American Justin Thomas and Mexico’s Abraham Ancer shared third on 10-under. Johnson is trying to become the first top-ranked golfer to win the Masters since Tiger Kohli withdrawal has put broadcaster, CA in distress Woods in 2002. Defending champion Woods, who began the T20 World Cup. tant for Channel 7 and CA, today. It could be unaccept- weeks of the IPL too to at the time of delivery was the third round four strokes off Meanwhile, Cricket this is not the only reason able to the mother that her spend more time with his known even before the IPL the pace, opened with seven Australia structured a why Kohli’s absence from partner is not with her at dad. started. Had the Tests been pars before taking a bogey at complex telecast deal the three Tests has invited the time of delivery. Or What’s compounded mat- scheduled before the ODIs the par-5 eighth. — AFP Ayaz Memon between Fox Cricket and widespread scrutiny and indeed the male partner ters currently is of course and T20s, he would have Channel 7 where the latter opinion. even if the female partner the Covid pandemic. Had played in all four. Over The Top got rights for all Test crick- Former players like is accepting of his times been normal, Kohli But that would have Live on TV et played in Australia and Allan Border and Steve absence. perhaps may have missed meant missing almost the the former exclusive rights Waugh, while respecting While uncommon in the one Test at most. entire ODI and T20 series, TENNIS irat Kohli’s deci- brated win also came in for all white ball cricket, Kohli’s decision have past, this is hardly unusu- Once out of the bio- which would have left Fox ATP Finals: Matches from 7.30 pm sion to be with his Australia, in 2018, when plus simulcast rights for recalled the times when al in this day and age. secure bubble, however, he Cricket fuming! and 1.30 am (Tuesday) on Sony Six wife for the birth led India to a first-ever Tests. Had things gone nor- these things wouldn’t even Rohit Sharma returned would have to be quaran- All told, the final deter- of their first-born Test series Down Under. mally, Fox Cricket would have been on the radar of from Australia in 2018, tined again for a fortnight, minant can’t be based only WWE V has thrown the impending That he is the game’s have had 7 exclusive match cricketers. missing a Test, to be with which makes his return to on monetary considera- Raw: Bouts from 6.30 am (Tuesday) Test series against biggest drawcard has days featuring Kohli (4 This, in fact, is the crux his wife who was expect- Australia redundant. tions. In being present for on Sony Ten 1, HD Australia into a tailspin on added to the turmoil his ODIs, 3T20s), plus 20 days issue (financial implica- ing their first child. Dismay at Kohli missing the birth of a child or several fronts. decision to return to India (potentially) of him in the tions are consequential) This year, Joe Root three Tests is genuine, and someone sick in the family, Kohli is among the fore- after the pink-ball Test at four Tests. and needs to be assessed in missed the first Test not just for CA and broad- the decision rests with the Regd. No. H/SD/509/2018-20 most batsmen in the game, Adelaide has caused more Kohli’s withdrawal from a contemporary frame of against West Indies to be casters, but also fans. The player. Printed and Published by and over the past 7-8 years particularly for broadcast- three Tests has put reference. with his wife who was longest format deserves HR practices in sport, K. Sudhakar on behalf of Deccan easily India’s best batsman ers Channel 7. Channel 7 in deep distress. Societies evolve, sensibil- expecting their second the best to be seen in certainly at the elite level, Chronicle Holdings Limited. Printed in the five-day format. Financially in the dol- Now they have only five ities change, people’s child. And it need not be action. are no longer about diktats at Deccan Chronicle Press situated only about birth of a child. Could the itinerary have from authority or rough at Plot No. 9 Alwal Village, Vallabh His absence considerably drums for over a year, days (maximum) of the behavioural patterns also Nagar Taluk, Medchal Malkajgiri weakens the Indian bat- India’s tour has come as a Indian captain, which change over time. What Ben Stokes missed the been planned differently and ready solution-find- Dist. Telangana and Published at 36, ting. Considering he is lifeline for Cricket potentially diminishes may have seemed normal home series against so that he featured in all ing. That such practices S.D. Road, Secunderabad-3. also captain, this is a dou- Australia. This included a viewership and hence rev- 30-40 years back in several Pakistan to be with his ail- Tests? have to be holistic, highly RNI Registration No. 3081/1957. ble whammy for the Indian trade-off to ensure the IPL enues. aspects, would be consid- ing father in New Zealand. Perhaps. That Kohli sensitive and enlightened Editor: Kaushik Mitter team. Kohli’s most cele- was played at the cost of But while terribly impor- ered gross and insensitive In fact, he missed a few wanted to be with his wife is the new reality.