Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer , SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2021; PAGES 10+16 `5 RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 Published From HYDERABAD LUCKNOW BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 248 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable www.dailypioneer.com ’ e-vehicles P Will retire from politics P Mysterious skull P land in Europe 6 if no OBC quota 5 fossils expand human family tree 10 In brief No pendency of Prepare State-wide CJI seeks end to poor Revanth is new TPCC chief works under Palle, digital connectivity in PNS n HYDERABAD Pattana Pragathi, inventory of lands: CM rural, remote areas ‘Will bring Cong to power’ hief Justice of N V Ramana At last, the All India Congress ewly elected TPCC chief Revanth CM instructs officials n Estate officers to be appointed has written to Law Minister Ravi Committee on Saturday named for districts and State CShankar Prasad seeking steps to MP A Revanth as NReddy has declared that he would PNS n HYDERABAD resolve the poor digital connectivity in the new Pradesh Congress bring the Congress party back to power in Telangana. He spoke to media n Agenda set for officers handling rural, tribal, remote and hilly areas that Committee chief, apart from appoint- Giving a firm direction to offi- Pattana Pragathi is "adversely impacting the pace of ing working presidents, vice-presi- persons on Saturday, after meeting cials, Chief Minister justice delivery". The CJI referred to the dents, campaign committee, election Shabbir Ali at the latter's residence. K.Chandrasekhar Rao made it n ‘Map Your Town’ plan unveiled digital divide and said that "a whole management committee, AICC pro- Revanth Reddy said that he would clear on Saturday that henceforth to set right deficiencies generation of lawyers is being pushed gram implementation committee. work for the development of the poor no works listed under the Palle out of the system" due to the Although this ends the pro- and weaker sections, keeping in mind Pragathi and Pattana Pragathi n Govt to enlist retired govt the ideology of Party leaders Sonia technological inequality. He was longed suspense and intense behind- programmes, commencing on employees, ex-servicemen for speaking during the release of a book, Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Revanth utilizing their services the-scene activity, some of the seniors said that he would consider everyone's July 1, should be kept pending. ‘Anomalies in Law and Justice', who had been in the race for the top He addressed a preparatory authored by Justice (Rt) RV Raveen- views among the party unit's senior n Officials told to utilise urban post are in a state of shock, indicat- leaders here, meeting at Pragathi Bhavan here would report to the Collectors. A dran in a virtual function here. During ing that the new party chief has a 2 on Saturday on the two pro- lands scientifically on the lines of State level Estate Officer would also the panel discussion that followed, he rough road ahead. The party grammes that are designed to the system in Rio de Janeiro be appointed. The State EO would informed that the matter of high command kept aside the transform villages and towns work under the supervision of the connectivity figured prominently in the ominous objections raised inter alia with greenery, hygiene, ML MELLY MAITREYI Chief Secretary. two-day conference of chief justices of by several senior leaders sanitation and other facilities. n HYDERABAD The officers should take Rio de high courts that he had held recently. and infused confidence KCR said that officials should Janeiro, a city in Brazil, as an inspi- in A Revanth Reddy, examine why, despite all the coop- An inventory of sites, lands and ration in utilizing the urban land who has been in Delhi eration extended to the Panchayat other assets belonging to all the scientifically in accordance with Two Indian Ayurvedic for over 20 days. Raj departments, works were still government departments across people's requirements. Plantation doctors get UAE's not being completed on time. The the State should be done by July- programmes should be taken up 2 Government issued orders releas- end, said Chief Minister K extensively on hilly terrains, he Golden Visa ing Rs.32 crore - one crore to each Chandrasekhar Rao. said. wo Indian Ayurvedic doctors have district barring Hyderabad -- for Addressing a preparatory meet- To improve greenery, 'Prakruthi received the UAE'S coveted the Palle and Pattana Pragathi pro- ing, ahead of his impending Vanam' (Nature Park) should be T Golden Visa, according to a grammes. inspection of Palle Pragathi and developed over an extent of 10 media report on Saturday. Dr Shyam Emphasising on greenery, KCR Pattana Pragathi programmes, at acres in every mandal. Wherever Vishwanathan Pillai and Dr Jasna said that six saplings should be Pragati Bhavan here on Saturday, land was required for public pur- Jamal, both from Kerala, were granted distributed to each house in every KCR said that an Estate Officer for poses, it should be acquired as per Golden Visas by the UAE's Federal village for planting. every district would be appointed law, he said. Authority for Identity and Citizenship to maintain records of lands of gov- (ICA), Khaleej Times reported. Pillai, 2 ernment departments and they 2 CEO of Vaidyashala at the Burjeel Day Surgery Centre in Abu Dhabi, was granted the Golden Visa under the medical professionals and doctors Teachers union LAKEFRONT DIGNITY HOUSING category on June 17. “My sincere TS, AP boost infra for gratitude to the rulers and requests CM to put off policymakers of UAE for the kind KTR hands over 330 2BHKs support to Ayurveda and Ayurveda practitioners,” Pillai said. oxygen independence reopening of schools NAVEENA GHANATE PNS n HYDERABAD n to ‘lucky’ beneficiaries in City HYDERABAD 3 killed, 5 seriously Leaders of The Progressive injured in Germany To avoid a Delhi-like situation Recognised Teachers' Union -- KTR calls upon beneficiaries to where people literally gasped for Telangana State (PRTU TS) have maintain it as a model colony knife attack breath at the height of the Covid- requested Chief Minister with greenery and cleanliness 19 second wave, , K.Chandrasekhar Rao to post- man armed with a long knife killed Telangana and eight other states are pone for some more time the three people and injured several strengthening their oxygen supply reopening of schools due to the PNS n HYDERABAD A others, some seriously, in the infrastructure locally. prevailing pandemic situation. southern city of Wuerzburg Friday In tune with the recommenda- They also suggested that teaching In a dream-come-true moment for before being shot by and arrested, German authorities said. It was tions of the National Task Force, should continue in online mode 'lucky' beneficiaries of the dignity unclear how many people were injured these States are also developing and instructions be given that housing scheme, Municipal in the attack in a central part of the comprehensive medical oxygen only 50 per cent of teachers Administration and Urban Bavarian city. Police identified the plans and strengthening the infra- should attend the schools. Development Minister K.T. Rama suspect as a 24-year-old Somali man structure for medical oxygen in The PRTU leaders submitted a Rao inaugurated the 330-unit DBR living in Wuerzburg. His life was not in both public and private sectors. Rajasthan. Sources indicated that memorandum to the Chief complex at Ambedkar Nagar, over- danger from his gunshot wound, they A 163-page ‘interim report’ -- during the second wave, the Minister at Pragathi Bhavan on looking the Hussain Sagar, here on said. deos posted on social media part of an affidavit filed by the demand for oxygen in Telangana Saturday on their problems. They Saturday. showed pedestrians surrounding the Union Ministry of Health and was over 100 Metric Tonnes (MT) requested that the cadre be divid- Along with KTR, Ministers MA & UD Minister K.T. Rama Rao drawing lots attacker and holding him at bay with Family Welfare in the Supreme more than allocated by the Centre. ed on the basis of new districts Mohammed Mahmood Ali, Talasani after inaugurating the 330-unit DBR complex chairs and sticks. A woman who said Court earlier this week -- says: “10 The consequence led to the and that the process for promo- Srinivas Yadav, MLC Surabhi Vani (inset) at Ambedkar Nagar, overlooking the she had witnessed the incident said that States have finalised such plans of Telangana government clearing a tions and transfers should begin. Devi and Mayor Gadwal Hussain Sagar, here on Saturday. “he had a really big knife with him” strengthening medical oxygen proposal to set up 132 PSA oxygen Education Minister P.Sabitha Vijayalakshmi participated in the and was attacking people". infrastructure till now". generation plants in government Indra Reddy, MLCs K.Janardhan inauguration of the houses taken up of the allotment was done by officials These 10 States are Telangana, hospitals and set up infrastructure Reddy, K.Raghotham Reddy, under the flagship programme of the of GHMC and other departments. Andhra Pradesh, Madhya for an additional capacity of 200 PRTU TS State President P.Sripal TRS government. Addressing a gathering on the occa- tion of 2BHK houses Ambedkar TODAY Pradesh, , MT of liquid medical oxygen in the Reddy, general secretary The Ministers handed over the sion, KTR said that he was extreme- Nagar had been transformed. Uttarakhand, Kerala, Punjab, state. 2 B.Kamalakar Rao and others were houses formally by draw of lots to ly happy to see the reaction of peo- 2 ALMANAC , and present. five of the beneficiaries and the rest ple who said that with the construc- Month & Paksham: Jyeshtha & Krishna Paksha Panchangam Fearing Covid, Deshmukh had received over Tithi : Tritiya 15:53 Nakshatram: Shravana 25:21 Maoist-couple Time to Avoid: (Bad time to start Rs 4 cr from bar owners: ED any important work) surrenders PNS n MUMBAI former head of crime intelligence Rahukalam: 5:12 pm - 6:50 pm unit (CIU) of , PNS n HYDERABAD Yamagandam: 12:19 pm - 1:56 pm Suspended police officer informed the bar owners and Sachin Waze has told managers that this money Varjyam: 6:24 am - 7:55 am, 12:00 am Fearing the spread of coronavirus Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao addressing a preparatory meeting, ahead of his impending inspection of Palle Pragathi and Pattana the ED that he "col- "will go to No. 1 and - 6:50 am among Maoist cadre, a Maoist-cou- Pragathi programmes, at Pragati Bhavan on Saturday. lected" Rs 4.70 crime branch and social Gulika: 3:34 pm - 5:12 pm ple surrendered before the police crore in cash from service branch of Good Time: (to start any important work) in Bhadradri dis- Mumbai bar Mumbai Police". trict of Telangana on Saturday. Harish back in KCR good books owners and He further told the Amritakalam: 3:30 pm - 5:01 pm Police said Surender, an area "handed it over" agency that "he was Abhijit Muhurtham: 11:53 am - 12:45 pm committee member of Manuguru SNCN ACHARYULU TRS Chief changes his well-meaning political advisors to the personal getting direct instruc- LOS (local organisation squad) and n HYDERABAD style of functioning and on the basis of feedback he assistant of former tions from Anil HYDERABAD his wife, a dalam member of had obtained from various Maharashtra home Deshmukh, the then Manuguru LOS, gave themselves up. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar sources, CM KCR has totally minister Anil home minister in a number WEATHER Both of them feared for their lives Rao, having faced much criticism representatives, has taken correc- changed his style of function. Deshmukh, the central of police investigations". Forecast: Partly cloudy due to harassment by the Maoist with regard to his scarce interac- tive steps that are visible. probe agency claimed on Saturday. Temp: 38/22 leadership and also the spread of tions with people and people's Perhaps on the advice of his 2 It also claimed that Waze, the 2 Humidity: 32% coronavirus among the cadre, the Sunrise: 05:44 am police said. The recent death of cen- Sunset: 06:54 pm tral committee member (CCM) Current Weather Conditions Hari Bhushan and some others rd nd 4 of family drown Updated June 26, 2021 5:00 PM due to COVID has put the fear in 3 wave unlikely to be as devastating as 2 the Maoists, while crossing 2 PNS n NEW DELHI ant), of which the latter has played OBTUSE ANGLE a dominant role in recent months. A potential third wave of Covid Third waves have emerged in river in Telangana infections seems unlikely to be as other countries - like the UK and PNS n HYDERABAD severe as the second wave, says a the USA - and are driven by a range modelling study by a team of scien- of factors, says the study. The Four members of a family, tists from the Indian Council Of results suggest that a third wave, if including two children, drowned Medical Research (ICMR) and the it should occur, is unlikely to be as while allegedly trying to cross a Imperial College London, UK. severe as the second wave, given the river in , Rapid scale-up of vaccination efforts, extent of spread that has already police said on Saturday. Some vil- says the study, could play an impor- taken place in India, it adds. lagers ofBirkur mandal noticed tant role in mitigating the present "Consequently, for a virus to their bodies floating in Manjeera and future waves of the disease. cause a major third wave in the face river this morning and alerted India's first wave of SARSCoV- of this pre-existing immunity, the police, who reached the spot 2 infection began in late January extreme scenarios for the abroga- and fished out the bodies. 2020 with a peak attained in mid- tion of that immunity are required, According to police, the incident September. This phase was relative- or for that matter, for the transmis- occurred when the family was ly mild compared to the second a more explosive spread across the more-infectious variants of SARS- sion fitness of any novel virus," says heading to a place of worship. wave that followed, from mid- country. A major factor driving this CoV-2, principally B.1.1.7 (Alpha the article in the Indian Journal of February 2021 onwards, exhibiting second wave is the emergence of variant) and B.1.617.2 (Delta vari- Medical Research. 2 HYDERABAD | SUNDAY | JUNE 27 , 2021 hyderabad 02 TMAA demands due share in MAA AIG treats heart patient with MARTHI SUBRAHMANYAM Narasimha Rao is gearing up TMAA. But the demand died a letter to MAA. He was also its own MAA unit, he rea- n HYDERABAD to put forward the proposal down later, for reasons best the BJP cinema cell convener soned. Shoots taking place in world’s smallest heart pump before Prakash Raj and known to elders in the film too. The letter sought bifurca- AP would mean improving The Movie Artistes' Manchu Vishnu, who have industry. tion of MAA into Andhra and opportunities for local artistes, PNS n HYDERABAD ness, was stabilised and an the IMPELLA device into Association (MAA) elections already announced their Currently, most of the top Telangana branches. The letters he suggested. angiogram was done which the heart through the groin took a curious turn as the respective panels. heroes, producers, directors were addressed to MAA exec- As the MAA executive A 70-year-old man, who had further revealed all three artery under local anesthesia, Telangana Movie Artistes' As the Kamma and Kapu who exercise authorities over utive and to the Directors' chose not to respond on the earlier undergone a liver main arteries of the heart which helped in stabilising Association (TMAA) brought communities, which wield the Tollywood industry hail Association. The letter ques- letter so far, the Telangana transplant, was cured of heart severely blocked, including heart function and ensuring to the fore the demand for its considerable influence on from Andhra. Moreover, they tioned "What is wrong in hav- Movie Artistes' Association failure and severely decreased left main coronary artery. blood flow to critical organs share in the MAA, pushing it Tollywood industry, are ready- enjoy good rapport with the ing in forming AP and president CVL brought for- heart pumping by doctors at The comorbidities list of the during the 3-hour procedure. into a complex situation. ing themselves for the MAA elders in the Telangana state Telangana divisions of MAA as ward the Telangana MAA AIG Hospitals, using a new patient was long with post The device replicates the If their proposal is not heed- elections, which are sched- government. The whole indus- the two states are endowed issue, kicking off a debate on non-surgical heart pump liver transplant, diabetes, pumping function of the ed, the TMAA will appeal to uled after two months, the try concentrated in their with their respective cine- the issue. called IMPELLA, a US-FDA hypertension, anemia, and heart. The device was the MAA members to give regionalism put forward, as the hands. Therefore the demand matography ministers and Film The Tollywood industry is approved device which is also acute kidney injury. removed at the end of the their vote to those who sub- latest development, gave new to rename MAA died in its Development Corporations?" apparently discussing the issue known as the world's small- A multidisciplinary team procedure, and the patient scribe to 'Jai Telangana'. turn to the elections. birth. The bon homie atmos- CVL Narasimha Rao argues of the division of MAA exec- est heart pump. led by Interventional was discharged after two What is curious is the In fact, the MAA, whose ori- phere between top producers that there is no movie artistes' utive posts in equal ration The patient, who was Cardiologists Dr Anuj more days of hospitalisation, demand to render justice to the gin dates back to several years of Telangana and elders of association for AP at all, ren- between AP and Telangana. admitted on June 14 with Kapadia, Dr Rajeev Menon, according to Dr D Nageshwar movie artistes of Andhra and since bifurcation of the state, Tollywood from Andhra also dering injustice to that state. None would have any objec- complaints of breathlessness, Dr Swaroop Bharadi, and Dr Reddy, Chairman, AIG Telangana origin by equally has members from Andhra as led to watering down the Since top heroes like tion of Andhra and Telangana chest pain, and severe weak- Uday Kiran Anne, inserted Hospitals. dividing the posts of MAA well as Telangana. Soon after demand. Chiranjivi, Pawan Kalyan, Movie Artistes' association are office-bearers. bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, Three years ago, character Balakrishna and so on are con- formed and their offices are TMAA president, noted there was a demand for artiste and noted advocate testing the elections in AP, located in Hyderabad, CVL advocate and BJP leader CVL rechristening the MAA as the CVL Narasimha Rao addressed Andhra Pradesh should have remarked. Nine trainee IAS officers posted Harish back in Kathi Mahesh critical Prepare State-wide inventory... as asst collectors KCR good books Continued from Page 1 ments and ex-servicemen in town. As Hyderabad city was PNS n HYDERABAD all villages and towns be pre- developing fast into a cos- Continued from Page 1 times the police have arrested after car hits truck Apart from Rs.1 crore fund pared so that their services mopolitan city, the The state government of Politicians in general and Congress MLAs who had PNS n NELLORE sanctioned for each district could be utilized. Hyderabad Metropolitan Telangana has promoted Telangana Rashtra Samithi sought to enter Pragathi Bhavan Collector for development- As part of Pattana Pragathi, Development Authority nine trainee IAS officers to (TRS) leaders in particular are to meet KCR. But on Friday Film critic Kathi Mahesh was related expenditure in vil- city/town-wise profile should should take commensurate the post of assistant collec- seeing a new KCR. The main KCR surprised the Congress grievously injured when the lages and towns, Rs.2 crore be formulated so that officials measures to keep the areas tors, according to a GO criticism that KCR has all MLAs by giving appointment to car in which he was travelling would be kept with the can capture requisite data and under its jurisdiction clean issued here on Saturday. along brazened it out is that he them promptly. collided with a container truck Ministers. The MLCs, MLAs follow 'Map your town' con- and for the development of While Mayank Mittal remains confined to either KCR started his district on the National Highway at should spend their cept for setting right towns basic amenities like drinking was appointed assistant Pragathi Bhavan or his farm- tours recently and is likely to Chandrasekharapuram in Constituency Development and cities during the 10-day water, roads. collector to house. The consequence has continue this. To have direct Kodavalur mandal of Nellore Funds by taking approval long Pattana Pragathi pro- No new layouts should be district, Apurva Chouhan been that KCR has never met interaction with people, KCR district in the intervening Mahesh was shifted to from the local district gramme. They should work to sanctioned without the clear- was posted to opposition MLAs and, for that will inspect works taken up night of Friday and Saturday. a private in Nellore. Minister, he said. fix the deficiencies, he said. ance of District Collectors district. The government matter, even MLAs belonging under the Palle Pragathi and The car was completely Each District Collectorate KCR said that all the and the provisions under the appointed Abhishek to his own party, on any Pattana Pragathi programmes crushed due to the impact of Initially, it was thought should have a State Chamber departments should clear dues new Municipal and Agastya as the assistant important matters and has from 1st July for 10 days. the collision. Mahesh was that he had sustained for the convenience of pending among them through Panchayat Raj Acts should be collector to Mahabubabad never held all-party meetings. During this period, KCR is shifted to a private in Nellore. Ministers and State level offi- book adjustments and here- enforced strictly. District district. Similarly, it post- Except during elections, KCR expected to take some spot Initially, it was thought that he minor injuries but later cers visiting the districts and after bills pending between Collectors should take over ed Makarand to has never toured the districts decisions for the development had sustained minor injuries the doctors treating him every Collectorate premises various departments should old government offices and Nizamabad, Tanaji Wakade and never interacted with peo- of rural and urban areas. KCR but later the doctors treating should have twin helipads. be paid regularly. lands as the government to Medak, Rahul to ple. KCR, in his first term as will make surprise visits to him found severe head found head injuries To give impetus to Palle Keeping in view future offices were being shifted to , Pratibha Singh the Chief Minister, followed some villages and towns to get injuries. He has been put on Pragathi and Pattana Pragathi generations and development the newly constructed inte- to Mancherial, Praful Desai this as a policy perhaps, and firsthand information about ventilator support. identified as Kathi Mahesh programmes, KCR suggested of towns, enough lands grated district collectorate to Siddipet and Kathivaran after becoming the Chief the progress of several devel- Kodavalur S-I Srinivas based on the information pro- that a list of all retired employ- should be identified for four complexes and use those to in the Minister for the second time opmental works and interact Reddy said that over-speeding vided by his driver. ees of all government depart- to five dump yards in every lands for public purposes. same position. in 2018, he has continued the with people directly. led to the car crashing into the Mahesh's friends and rela- same. Key role for Harish Rao truck. Slivers of shattered glass tives reached Nellore city to Due to this, party circles Noticeably, Finance from the car windows and enquire about his health con- believe, people may be disen- Minister T Harish Rao has windshield hit Mahesh in his dition. chanted to some extent with been playing a key role in face and hands, causing griev- Later, they shifted him to a Revanth is new TPCC chief the TRS government and they changing KCR's style of func- ous injuries to him, the S-I corporate hospital in particularly disapprove of tioning. A known trouble- said. A health bulletin released in a serious condition. Continued from Page 1 dents: Mohammed Azharuddin, KCR's ways. They fear that this shooter, Harish Rao has played by the hospital said Mahesh's S-I Srinivas Reddy said a ‘Will bring... Revanth Reddy Dr J Geetha Reddy, Anjan may lead to anti-incumbency, a key role in the party and in health condition is critical. case was registered and inves- Noticeably, the party high (@revanth_anumula) Kumar Yadav, T Jagga Reddy affecting the pink party's the government. Yet, for some Police said the victim was tigation is underway. command did not consider in While carrying the cadre and Mahesh Kumar Goud. prospects in the upcoming reasons that cannot be fath- particular the names of other with him. He conceded that Extremely honoured to be given Senior vice-presidents: Assembly elections. This was omed, KCR had kept Harish front-runners such as there would always be differ- the responsibility of Telangana Chandrashekar Sambani, the feedback that KCR Rao aloof for some time and , T ences in Congress and that it Pradesh Congress committee Damodhar Reddy, Dr Ravi received. initially did not take him into No pendency 4 of family... Jeevan Reddy and D Sridhar was natural for a 'family' to president Heartfully thanking Mallu, Podem Veeraiah, Suresh At the same time, the the cabinet after winning for Babu, among others, for the have all sorts of problems. Smt. Sonia Gandhi ji Shetkar, Vem Narender Reddy, Bharatiya Janata Party has the second time in the of works ... TPCC chief post, though sec- Still, everyone would fight Ramesh Mudhiraj, G Niranjan, been utilising every opportu- Assembly elections in 2018. Continued from Page 1 tions of the party attached to together and stay united. @INCIndia, @RahulGandhi Kumar Rao T, and Javed Aamer. nity to strengthen its base in Later, Harish Rao was taken Continued from Page 1 They decided to take a these leaders had warned the He said that he had spoken ji and @priyankagandhi ji for Campaign Committee: Madhu the state. Keeping all these into the cabinet and now he shortcut and drowned while high command as well as to leaders Uttam, Bhatti and having faith in me. Yashki Goud(chairman), things in mind, KCR is taking has come closer to KCR. The number of rice mills should crossing the river. Telangana Congress affairs in- Janareddy to work out a bet- @kcvenugopalmp Sayyed Azmathullah Hussaine corrective measures and wants During the inaugural of the be increased as there was an The area had witnessed charge Manickam Tagore ter action plan for taking the Elec-tion Managem-ent to put a full stop to criticism Siddipet integrated collector urgent need to increase the mills rains for the past few days fol- against picking the Malkajgiri party forward. @manickamtagore Commit-tee: C Damodhara of his connect with people and office complex five days ago, in view of bountiful crops and lowing which pits in the MP. Mohammed Azharuddin @INCTelangana Raja Narsimha (chairman) public representatives. KCR had praised Minister T production of food grains in the riverbed were filled with rain retained his working presi- AICC Programme Implement- In the past, KCR has denied Harish Rao, who represents State. water. Further probe is on, dent position. MLAs T Jaaga position and Pidem Veeraiah tion. The AICC has appointed ation Committee: Alleti appointments to Congress the Siddipet Assembly con- Similarly measures should be they said. Reddy got working president got senior vice president posi- five working committee presi- Maheshwar Reddy (chairman). MLAs several times. Many stituency. speeded up for setting up food processing units in the State. Food processing SEZs in not less than 250 acres should be demarcated and buffer zones KTR hands over 330 2BHK TS, AP trying to avoid Delhi-like oxygen fiasco provided around the SEZs. Permissions for layouts and Continued from Page 1 that a five-member panel was Subsequently, as the caseload ufacturing oxygen locally for constructions should be given houses to beneficiaries in city constituted by the Supreme was increasing, more and more big cities. in that jurisdiction. Telangana Sources point out that irrespec- Court to audit oxygen con- states were added. Soon the The submission reads: had evolved into a great agri- Continued from Page 1 poor. required some more houses tive of the intensity of any sumption in hospitals in the demand kept increasing even “There should be a strategy to cultural State and the govern- The Minister also said that would also be constructed, Covid third wave, the national capital. In its report, in states like Andhra Pradesh manufacture oxygen locally or ment machinery should sup- The womenfolk said that had Hyderabad was the only city in he said. Telangana government doesn’t the panel said the Delhi gov- where oxygen was produced in the neighbourhood for the port farmers and agriculture, he private builders constructed the country where houses In return for the DBR hous- want to face a situation like in ernment exaggerated the con- and consumed. big cities to fulfil at least 50 per- said. The sale of spurious seeds the complex at the same site, were being constructed at a es, the Minister asked the res- Delhi and other states due to sumption of oxygen during the With the increasing cent of their LMO demand, as had become a menace and it each apartment would have cost of Rs.9,000 crore under idents to grow trees along the shortage of oxygen. second wave. demand, a total of 1,385 MT of road transportation is vulner- should be curbed by agriculture cost not less than Rs.1 crore, the supervision of the Greater colony as the Chief Minister Andhra Pradesh on other Delhi had allegedly asked for oxygen was also imported, of able. All 18 metro cities to be and police department officers but Chief Minister K Hyderabad Municipal loved greenery and under the hand launched the AP more oxygen than required which nearly 200 MT was sup- made oxygen independent, working in coordination. The Chandrasekhar Rao got the Corporation. The allotment of Haritha Haram scheme, the Industrial Gases and Medical during peak which led to short plied to Andhra Pradesh. As with at least 100 MT storage in District Collectors, senior offi- houses constructed for them houses was being done in a green cover in the State Oxygen Manufacturing Policy supply to 12 states. Several per the submission to the the city itself”. cials should use their extraor- free of cost. transparent manner and no increased from 23 to 28 per 2021-22 recently in order to states complained about exces- court, the import of oxygen Telangana has reportedly dinary powers under the law to KTR said that construction one should have any anxiety cent. Still, there was need to increase the availability of the sive allocation to Delhi com- was continuing in June and opened its own 200 MT oxy- stop the sale of spurious seeds, of a house and marriage of on that front. grow more trees in Hyderabad. life-saving gas keeping in view pared to their caseload. On may continue in July also. As gen storage plant at he added. girls were difficult things, but The state government He said another commitment both the present and future April 15, as many as 12 states per the submission made to the Pashamylaram to make KCR said that to overcome the Chief Minister was extend- would also construct a Basthi from the residents should be requirements. were marked as high burden in Supreme Court, the national Hyderabad an oxygen-inde- power-related problems in vil- ing support for both the events Dawakhana and a function to ensure that no garbage was It may be mentioned here the first supply plan for oxygen. task force has pushed for man- pendent city. lages, 'Power Day' should be and nowhere in the country hall in the vicinity of dumped in the vicinity of implemented and people moti- such schemes were being Ambedkar Nagar for the con- Hussain Sagar, which was vated and educated to partici- implemented for the benefit of venience of residents and if being cleaned up. pate in voluntary labour for Fearing Covid, Maoist-couple ... solving the local problems. The lands allocated for com- Continued from Page 1 police said. munity requirements in layouts said On Friday, landmines plant- in villages and towns under the Deshmukh had received over Rs 4 cr... District Superintendent of Police ed by the naxals to kill a police Panchayat Raj and Municipal Continued from Page 1 bribery-cum-extortion racket home minister on instruction of Sunil Dutt. posse in Koppusuru forest area Acts should be registered with- that led to his resignation in Anil Deshmukh in two instal- Negligence and human in were dug out out fail in the names of Gram The ED made these allegations April. ments in the month of January rights violations of Maoist party safely and defused during a Panchayats and municipalities in its remand application field The former cop recorded and February 2021," the ED cadre by central committee joint operation comprising the concerned, he said. before a special Prevention of his statement with the ED say- alleged. members and other senior police and the CRPF. Money Laundering Act ing he was "called for a meet- The agency said it ques- party leaders were the reasons The operation was carried CHICKEN (PMLA) court in Mumbai seek- ing at the official residence of tioned and recorded the state- for the cadre to leave the out based on information that RATES `/KG ing custody of Deshmukh's Maharashtra home minister ment of Waze twice at the banned outfit, according to the Maoist leaders Bade Chokka aides, personal secretary wherein he was given a list of Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai SP said. The senior police offi- Rao alias Damodar and other Dressed/With Skin `160 Sanjeev Palande (51) and per- bar and restaurant owners." where he is in custody in con- cial appealed to all Maoists to senior leaders of Telangana Without Skin `200 sonal assistant Kundan Shinde In the meeting, Waze said, he nection with a case of alleged surrender. The police have said, State Committee of CPI Broiler at Farm `130 (45), whom it had arrested was asked "to collect Rs 3 lakh parking of an explosives laden "We will ensure their proper (Maoist) party, dalam members early on Saturday. per month from each bar and SUV near industrialist Mukesh medical treatment and rehabil- and militia had planted the The court sent them to ED restaurant." Ambani's residence in Mumbai. itation as per government pol- landmines, the police said. EGG custody till July 1. "Waze has also stated that he This Rs 4.70 crore was collect- icy." Explosives and accessories RATES `/100 The ED had arrested them had collected approx. Rs 4.70 ed from various orchestra bar Surender and his wife, both used for making landmines, after it raided multiple locations crore from various bar owners owners and managers for aged 23, were working for the including detonators, black HYDERABAD 495 in Nagpur, Mumbai and between the months of "smooth functioning of their banned CPI (Maoist) party slurry (explosive), electrical VIJAYAWADA 456 Ahmedabad including the res- December, 2020 to February, bars after restricted hours with- since 2018 and 2016 respective- wire, small bolts and tiffin idences of Deshmukh in a 2021 and handed over the same out the restrictions of perfor- ly and were currently working boxes were seized from the spot VISAKHAPATNAM 355 money laundering case related to Kundan Sambhaji Shinde, mance artist" and interference as guards to Azad, Telangana and a case was registered, the RETAIL PRICE `4.95 to an alleged multi-crore the PA of Anil Deshmukh, the by the police, the ED said. State committee member, the police added. (IN HYDERABAD)

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Shop owners wait to attract student Gandhi Hospital gears up to resume crowd amid move to reopen schools PNS n HYDERABAD non-Covid services as cases decline With schools in Telangana likely to reopen after several PNS n HYDERABAD various blocks to offer Covid weeks of Covid lockdown from and non-Covid treatment facil- July 1, makers and sellers of The Gandhi Hospital, a nodal ities. All kinds of medical and schoolbags, notebooks, uni- hospital for Covid services in health services will be offered forms and stationary shops in Telangana, is gearing up to to Covid and non-Covid the state are hopeful that busi- offer non-Covid treatment to patients separately, according ness will resume as usual and patients from July, provided the to hospital authorities. they will be able to recover number of Covid cases go The Covid cases have come financial losses. below 200 per day, with the down to 500-600 a day. But the May and June are the only approval of the state govern- number of cases should go two earning months for those ment og Telangana. down further. If the number of who rely on the school bag, At the height of the second cases touches down 200 and uniform business and note- wave of pandemic, during the below in the first week of July, books sellers, and it has been Covid-induced lockdown, the the Gandhi Hospital, with the hard for many as they have hospital Out-Patient (OP) used permission of the state gov- faced severe losses. to receive at least 1,300 Covid ernment, will resume non- Tajuddin Salim, who works reopen schools in the state back on track. This Covid positive patients per day. The Covid services, hospital super- at a wholesale schoolbag shop from July 1 and the decision is lockdown has brought so many patients had to wait for oxygen intendent Dr Raja Rao said. said, "The Covid induced lock- yet to be finalised. financial losses. Maybe in beds and ventilator beds. The vacant wards of Covid down was imposed exactly Those in the schoolbag and another few weeks lockdown After lifting of the lock- ly black fungus cases. Out of As the positive cases are services. patients are being sanitised as when our main earning uniform business hope that will have to be imposed again. down in the state, the situation the 650 Covid positive cases in dwindling, the hospital author- The hospital, soon after the a prelude to prepare the hos- months started. We have suf- business will be back on track, We just hope schools open is gradually improving. the hospital inpatient ward, 310 ities are taking steps to sanitise first wave, segregated its ser- pital to offer non-Covid ser- fered severe losses. For the last at least for now. soon," said Mohammad Moreover, the number of cases cases pertain to black fungus. the wards and beds in four vices as Covid and non-Covid. vices. The number of cases 15 months, we couldn't earn Many still fear that the edu- Tajuddin, another shop owner the hospital receives per day The hospital conducted storeys of the hospital building. In the same fashion, it is gear- should go down further. The anything. We were unable to cational institutes may be "As the lockdown has been dropped to 600. surgeries on at least 450 black As the Covid wards are become ing up to offer its services to people should remain alert pay the rent for the shops or forced to shut down again in lifted, we are hoping that our The superintendent of fungus patients, he said adding vacant due to discharge of patients, resuming non-Covid and follow Covid protocol so salary of our workers." the coming months. business will be back on track Handhi Hospital Dr Raja Rao that another 250 cases are patients, the hospital has plans services soon. that the number of cases will go However, authorities are still "If schools reopen we're after the schools reopen," he said that the hospital has main- ready for surgery. to switch back to non-Covid The hospital is divided into down further, he added. going over the decision to hopeful that business will come added.

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During the inauguration of the housing society, consisting of 330 lake view 2BHK flats located in Ambedkar Nagar, the beneficiaries welcomed the Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development KT Rama Rao, Animal Husbandry State logs 1,028 fresh ‘Mobile centres taking Minister Talasani Srinivas Rao, Hyderabad Mayor Gadwal Viajayalakshmi Covid cases, 9 deaths Covid vax to residents' and other officials with PNS n HYDERABAD to 6,01,184. The number of PNS n MEDCHAL MALKAJGIRI tion centres will take the vac- Bonams as during Bonalu active cases was 15,054, the cine closer to the people. on Saturday. Telangana on Saturday report- bulletin said. A total of Uppal legislator Bethi Subhash Deputy DMHO Dr ed 1,028 fresh COVID-19 1,18,427 samples were tested Reddy has said that the state Narayana Rao, Dr Aswini and cases, pushing the tally to on Saturday, taking the num- government has pressed into Dr Ozar Ali, medical supervi- 6,19,865, while the toll rose to bers examined so far to service mobile vaccination sor Bhoga Prakash, Uppal 3,627 with nine more fatalities. 1,82,46,482. centres to administer the municipal circle project officer The GHMC accounted for The samples tested per mil- Covid vaccine to all those Rama Devi, TRS divisional the most number of cases lion population was 4,90,233. who are over 18 years and is president Bannala Praveen with 132, followed by The case fatality rate in the conducting a special vaccina- Mudiraj and others were pre- Khammam (76) and Nalgonda state was 0.58 per cent, while tion drive to administer the sent on the occasion. (66) districts, a health depart- it was 1.3 per cent at the vaccine for all. Later, the MLA visited Patel ment bulletin said, providing national level. The recovery He was speaking after inau- Kunta tank, HMT Nagar tank details as of 5.30 PM on rate was 96.98 per cent, com- gurating a mobile vaccina- in division and Saturday. pared to 96.69 per cent in the tion centre at Chilkanagar Patel Kunta tank along with The number of recoveries country, the bulletin said. cross roads here on Saturday elected people's representa- outnumbered fresh cases with The state said it reached the along with local corporator tives and government offices 1,489 people recuperating milestone of administering Bannala Praveen Mudiraj. He and made several suggestions from the infectious disease, one crore jabs to people in dif- said that the mobile vaccina- on building sluices to tanks. taking the cumulative number ferent categories on Friday. ‘Expedite works at CM's adopted villages' Police invoke PNS n MEDCHAL MALKAJGIRI conducted a review meeting Lakshmapur villages in the up works to complete the HMDA lodges complaint against with the officials of the district. development works in the vil- PD Act against Medchal Malkajgiri District respective depart- The Collector direct- lages as early as possible. repeat offender Collector Sweta Mohanty on ments in her ed the concern Expressing concern over in private realtor for duping people Friday night directed the offi- chamber. authorities to work delay in the execution due to PNS n HYDERABAD cials to expedite the develop- In the meet- in coordination the Covid pandemic, Sweta PNS n MEDCHAL MALKAJGIRI ment works at the Chief ing, the with all the con- Mohanty directed the officials The Hyderabad City Police Minister of Telangana K Collector cerned depart- to constantly monitor the exe- A day after the pre-bidding invoked the Preventive Chandrashekhar Rao's adopt- enquired about ments, public cution of development works. meeting was held ahead of the Detention Act against ed villages and complete them the status of the representatives Additional District Collector e-auction of Hyderabad Malladi Gangadhar, who on war-footing without any ongoing works and local people. Samson, Panchayati Raj EE Metropolitan Development allegedly cheated several per- negligence. in Keshavapuram, Clarifying that Ram Mohan, Deputy EE Authority (HMDA) plots, the sons after collecting lakhs of In response to a report pub- Nagishettipalli, there is no shortage of Venugopal, R&B EE Srinivasa Central Crime Police on rupees on the pretext of lished in these columns on Muduchintapalli, funds, the Collector Murthy and others were pre- Saturday registered FIR against arranging jobs. Friday, the district Collector Lingapur Tanda and directed the officials to speed sent at the meeting. CNN Ventures which is dup- K Shiva Chandra, Station ing public in the backdrop of located in Kokapet and five Therefore, HMDA secre- House Officer of Banjara the HMDA conducting e-auc- land parcels summing up to tary, ORR project director Hills said Gangadhar, 42, a tion of its Kokapet lands. 15.01 acres are in Khanamet. lodged a complaint with resident of and Libraries in The HMDA took a serious The CNN ventures adver- Santosh Nagar Police against native of West Godavari in CM urged to name Balanagar view of the CNN Ventures tisement appealed to the pub- the CNN Ventures. Andhra Pradesh, collected Medchal to get duping the gullible public by lic that they can own 3BHK In the complaint, he urged several lakhs from job aspi- collecting money from them house site measuring 1500 sft the police to take stringent rants saying he had contacts Rs 4 cr facelift by advertising in media taking by investing 50 per cent of the action against the real estate in the GHMC and would flyover after Cong leader PJR advantage of the e-auction, funds, which the people invest company and save the image of arrange jobs for them. PNS n MEDCHAL MALKAJGIRI which is underway with the in Kokapet lands, in their ven- the HMDA as the realtor is out Two cases were registered PNS n HYDERABAD help of the public sector tures. The act of the CNN ven- to cheat the people even fore against him for cheating the The Medchal Malkajgiri MSTC. tures is influencing the people the completion of the e-auc- youth in and Over 3.5 lakh daily commuters District Grandhalaya Samstha It may be mentioned here away from Kokapet lands e- tion. The HMDA appealed to Chatrinaka police stations. will finally heave a sigh of relief has decided to give a facelift that a total of 13 land parcels auction offering 3BHK house the people not to respond to "Due to his illegal activities, as a three-decade-old problem to the libraries in the district spread over 64.93 acres will be sites at a lower price. Moreover, such commercial advertise- the PD Act was invoked of traffic bottlenecks will final- by spending Rs 4 crore. auctioned. Among them, eight the CNN venture is collecting ments under any circum- against him," the Station ly come to an end with the The all-member meeting of plots measuring 49.92 acres are money influencing people. stances, he added. House Officer said. commissioning of a six-lane the district Grandhayala two-way flyover. Samstha was chaired by chief In another two weeks, a key Akina Boina Nagraj Yadav. and crucial flyover in the city, On the occasion, several connecting resolutions were passed for 2 burglars nabbed with Cantonment and Balanagar, the development of libraries and Quthbullapur in the district. The meeting will be thrown open for com- unanimously approved Rs 1 muters, according to crore for the construction of booty worth Rs 18 lakh Hyderabad Metropolitan a new library at Kukatpally PNS n HYDERABAD The modus operandi of the Development Authority and another Rs 16 lakh for accused is to observe the (HMDA) engineering wing. known as PJR. The TPCC ing his life for their betterment. the construction of the The Rachakonda Police locked houses by moving in Once opened, the flyover official spokesperson G Though PJR was not taken retaining wall, Rs 65 lakh for nabbed two notorious house the colonies in the day time will facilitate smooth flow of Niranjan addressed a letter to deliberately into the State construction of library at burglars at a rented house in and commit thefts by entering traffic on the Balanagar main the Chief Minister in this Cabinet after the return of Fateh Nagar, Rs 18 lakh for Raghavendra Nagar Colony in in to the houses by breaking road and motorists can cross regard on Saturday. Congress to power in the state construction of retaining wall on Saturday. The the locks at nights. over to Narsapur and In a letter to KCR, Niranjan in 2004, PJR continued his at new library building in police officials recovered 300 On June 1, the complainant Fathenagar T junction. It will said that the Congress has efforts for the welfare of the Medchal, Rs 50 lakh for pur- grams of gold ornaments, along with his family went to also ease traffic congestion in urged to name Balanagar fly- people and raised his voice on chase of equipment in the 3,200 grams silver ornaments Nagarkurnool duly locking Kukatpally Qutbullapur and over as PJR flyover bridge as the injustices done to people district library, Rs 1 crore for and a two wheeler, all worth Rs home. areas. The 1.10- the former CLP leader late P and Telangana, he said. purchase of new books and 18,00,000 from their posses- On June 15, the accused km flyover is being built at a Janardhana Reddy, who was "PJR was the main reason Rs 10 lakh for purchase of air- sion. The accused persons persons found locked house of cost of Rs 104 crore, excluding elected and served as MLA five for development of Balanagar. conditioners. were identified as Dasari the complainant gained entry land acquisition, and will be times for the until He made a proposal for the Chairman Nagraj Yadav Jampaiah, 22, a gas supplier at into the house by breaking the 24-metre-wide. his death. He had not only Balanagar flyover bridge in the said that the government has Malkajgiri and a resident of main door lock with help of While the construction worked for the development of year 1998 itself, but his wish is decided to spend Rs 10 lakh Thukaramgate, Angadi Raju, iron rod and committed theft works are nearing comple- the constituency, but also being fulfilled now," Niranjan for the purchase of new com- 22, a driver and a resident of of gold ornaments. Jampaiah tion, Telangana Congress has fought for the rights of the said. puters, Rs 5 lakh for digitisa- Raghavendra Nagar Colony. kept the stolen ornaments at demanded the Chief Minister Telangana people throughout This is an opportunity to tion of books in all languages Another accused his residence to dispose them K Chandrashekhar Rao to his life, Niranjan added. remember a great leader and and Rs 2.5 lakh for the instal- Aanareddy Ravi, 22, is at large. later. The police arrested name Balanagar flyover after Niranjan said that PJR won neglected son of the soil by lation of a statue of Vattikota The accused persons were accused persons at the rented former Congress leader late P the hearts of the downtrodden naming the flyover after him, Alvaruswamy on the premis- previously involved in 18 house and recovered gold and Janardhan Reddy popularly and working classes by devot- Niranjan said in the letter. es of the district library. cases, and were arrested twice. silver ornaments on Saturday. HYDERABAD | SUNDAY | JUNE 27 , 2021 hyderabad 04

Revanth Reddy CRPF team averts major Safeguarding youth from always plays top role in politics! explosion, recovers landmines PNS n MULUG PNS n HYDERABAD narcotics underscored The CRPF personnel averted a Congress MP from Malkajgiri major explosion by unearthing PNS n MAHABUB NAGAR through various departments. A Revanth landmines planted by the CPI As part of the International Reddy, who Maoists in Koppunuru forest A massive awareness cam- Day Against Drug Abuse and was in Mulug district. On the paign was taken up to protect Illicit Trafficking, a special cam- appointed information that the Maoists young people from falling prey paign was launched by organis- as the new were planting landmines to kill to narcotics, Revenue ing a rally in villages and towns TPCC the police party engaged in the Additional Collector K to keep people away from drug president on combing operations, the CRPF Seetharama Rao said on abuse. The message should be Saturday, is teams along with the bomb Saturday. taken to the people widely and always in the fore- disposing team and dog squad On the eve of International ensure that they should be free front to capture high positions conducted search operations Day Against Drug Abuse and from intoxicants, he added. in the political arena since on the way to Gundlavagu pro- Mulug SP Sangram Singh G losses. He clarified that the Illicit Trafficking, the District Revenue Officer K beginning of his political career. ject from Koppunuru forest on Patil said innocent people were combing operations have been Additional Collector flagged Swarnalatha, District Welfare Revanth Reddy started his Friday. falling prey to the landmines carried out to protect the peo- off a 'Nasha Mukt Bharat' rally Officer Rajeswari, Information political career as an ABVP They found landmines with indiscriminate planting of ple from the landmines. taken out from the district Department Assistant Director activist. In the later years, reportedly planted by the landmines by the Maoists. A The CRPF forces were Collector office to ICDS office U Venkateswarlu, DM & HO Dr Revanth Reddy joined the TRS Maoist leaders Bade Chokka civilian Soyam Pentaiah of accompanied by ASP of Eturu in Mahabubnagar on Saturday. especially youth against these Krishna, DEP Usharani, DEMO party and worked for several Rao @ Damodar, Kankanala Mukunurupalem died when a Nagaram, RI operations, Speaking on the occasion, evils. Everyone should strive Tirupati Rao and others were years and later he shifted his loy- Raji Reddy, Militia members landmine exploded at the Vajedu and Venkatapuram SIs Additional Collector and create awareness to prevent present. Cultural programmes alties to TDP. However, Revanth and other senior leaders. The Mukunuru forest area in and special team members. Seetharama Rao said many youth from choosing the bad were performed by Telangana Reddy joined Congress a year bomb disposal team defused March 2019. Bullocks that The CRPF teams seized two families were being destroyed path by habituating to nar- cultural artists under the aus- before the Assembly elections the landmines with the help of were used for agriculture oper- steel tiffin boxes, two alumini- with the consumption of intox- cotics. He said a massive cam- pices of the Information held in 2018. Revanth Reddy a dog squad. A case has been ations have also died and um tiffin boxes, six detonators, icants like heroin, cocaine, paign was launched in Department. Anganwadi work- became ZPTC in 2006 from registered against the Maoists wildlife animals were also fac- 900 grams of black slurry gutka, pan and arrack and it was Mahabubnagar district and as ers, ICDS, Asha, ANM and Midjil mandal. He became MLC at the Vajedu police station on ing the threat. With the acts of explosives, red and black elec- need of the hour to create part of it, the 'Nasha mukt ed and people awareness pro- youth wing members participat- in 2007 and continued till 2009. Saturday. Maoists, the farmers in the for- tric wire and 10 rusted small awareness among the people Bharat' programme was initiat- grammes were conducted ed in the rally. Disclosing the details, est areas were incurring heavy bolts from the spot. Narsapur Tribal Gurukul School MLA promises to resolve Podu to become fine arts school lands issue PNS n NARSAPUR PNS n JAYASHANKAR BHUPALAPALLY The Alluri Seetharamaraju tribal boys' gurukul school The issue of Podu lands was converted into Co-educa- which were being cultivated Farm labour union stages tion fine arts school at by Dalits, girijans and BCs Narasapur in would be resolved soon by and orders to this effect were taking it to the notice of Chief protest against farm laws issued by Dr R S Praveen Minister K Chandrasekhar Kumar, Secretary of Telangana Rao, Bhupalapally MLA PNS n Where humans ZAHEERABAD was not showing empathy Social Welfare and Tribal Gandra Venkataramana though 520 people died. Welfare Residential Education Reddy said on Saturday. The BJP government was con- He said the protest pro- Institutions. The gurukul Participating at the tinuing autocratic rule at the gramme was organized here to school established in 1997, Bhulakshmi Jathara and Ma replace bullocks! Centre and as part of it, it had protect the farm sector and the continued its service for 23 would be increased up to the community students, four for Lakshmi and Pothuraju idol introduced anti-farmer laws, undemocratic emergency long years. tenth standard. There are 80 the Gundu Nayak community installation ceremony at PNS n NARSAPUR bers instead of bullocks. electricity amendment Bill imposed by the Centre. He According to officials, seats in the sixth standard of and four seats for Kondareddy, Pambapur village in The photograph taken in and anti-labour code, called upon the people to pro- Narasapur gurukul school has which 40 seats earmarked for Kolam, Chnehcu and other Bhupalapally district limits With escalating costs of diesel Lakshman Thanda in Agriculture Labour Union dis- tect the nation and people's been registered as the first girls and the remaining for sections. Similarly, four seats on Saturday, Venkataramana and tractor rentals, the small Yerragunta Thanda village pan- trict president B Ramchander food. The activists of the Fine Arts school in the state boys. The students who joined for others in the SC quota were Reddy performed special and marginal tribal farmers chayat depicts the plight of said on Saturday. Agriculture labour union and the students would be in the sixth standard would be allotted, two seats each under poojas. forced to use their family small and marginal farmers. Addressing a protest rally on demanded the immediate lift- selected for the courses at the taught general courses in the the Gurukul employees quota Speaking on the occasion, members to plough the farm- When contacted, the farmer Saturday as part of the country- ing of four labour codes. state level. The students who morning session and in the and sports quota. the MLA appreciated the ser- lands instead of bullocks. The Srinivas informed that he pre- wide protests and submitting CITU district Vice-presi- wished to join the Fine Arts evening sessions, fine arts The Telangana Social vices by the villagers for the crop investment cost is also pared his field for ploughing, memoranda to the President, dent S Mahipal, Farmers, courses have to face a tough courses as chosen by the stu- Welfare and Tribal Welfare grand celebration of idols' going up with the mecha- but the rentals of tractors and he demanded that the Central Agriculture Labour Union competition. dents would be taken. Residential Education installation of Bhulakshmi, nization of agriculture opera- cage wheels became unafford- government withdraw its anti- members, CITU leaders The students would be Out of 80 seats, six students Institutions has decided to Ma Lakshmi, Pochamma and tions. Owing to the heavy cost able. So, he opted to use his farmer policies and stop its Narsimhulu, Saleemuddin, allowed into the fine arts cours- would be given the opportuni- accept applications up to June Pothuraju. burden, some farmers in family members for tilling the autocratic policies. The Centre Veeraiah Gowd and others es in the present academic ty in the OC category, six in the 30 for admission into the fine He felt happy that the fes- Yerragunta Thanda in Narsapur field. Since the tractors and cage should revert the three farm participated in the dharna year from the sixth standard BC category, six SCs and 4 arts school and the courses are tival was celebrated with lim- mandal limits were using bul- wheels are charging exorbitant laws for which the farmers were programme. They presented a onwards. Each class would be seats for minorities, while lam- vocal(singing), violin, tabla, ited people following the locks, while some other peas- prices, they have no other agitating for the past seven memorandum to the officials upgraded every year and in a badis would have 34 seats. Six keyboard, guitar, dance, theatre corona guidelines. ants having small portions of choice except to use human months, but the government against the central laws. span of five years, the courses seats were allocated to Koya arts, painting and drawing. land using their family mem- power, he added. BJP to boycott KCR continues to cheat Sonia, Rahul CM's all-party Training for girl students thanked over meet on Dalits against cyber crimes Dalits: Uttam Kumar Reddy Revanth's PNS n HYDERABAD PNS n HYDERABAD ment and the entire Cabinet has appointment PNS n NAGARKURNOOL to apologise to the people. The Telangana BJP has Nalgonda MP and Congress civic society would hang its PNS n HYDERABAD announced that it is going to In a bid to protect themselves leader N Uttam Kumar Reddy head in shy with the death of boycott Chief Minister K from cyber crimes and create on Saturday said that Chief Mariyamma. Former Chandrashekhar Rao's pro- awareness among the girl stu- Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao Questioning the meeting with MP Dr posed all-party meeting on dents on security, the was continuously cheating the the Dalith representatives of Mallu Dalit empowerment. Telangana government has Dalits of Telangana though he various political parties on Ravi, In a statement, Telangana envisaged a programme called became CM with their support. Sunday on Empowerment of who BJP general secretary 'Cyber Congress', Girls He lashed out at KCR asking Dalits, Uttam Kumar Reddy retained Bangaru Sruthi said that the Education and development what happened to the promise of said that how the Chief Minister his TPCC Chief Minister has no moral officer Surya Chaitanya said on a Dalit CM and why the largest The MP said that when could organize such a meet vice-president position, has to speak on Dalits as he Saturday. Madiga community was not Congress leaders met the Chief while forgetting all the promis- exuded confidence that the deceived Dalits to come to She said the state Education accommodated in the Cabinet. Minister to submit a memoran- es he has made to the people. new TPCC committee will power assuring them that he Department in collaboration The entire Telangana society dum about the death of He said that apart from strive hard to bring will make a Dalit first CM of with women safety wing police was shocked at the brutal torture Mariyamma, the Chief Minister Mariyamma, Dalith persons like Congress back to power in the state. was conducting online cours- Government Zilla Parishad dents each from 8, 9 and 10 of a poor Dalit woman and her told them that he was not aware Narasimhulu, Rajababu and the state. She alleged that the TRS es for girl students from six to schools, but the education classes and a teacher were select- son in police custody. of the incident. This was a bla- Rangaiah have died due to the He thanked AICC government has been the tenth standard. Two stu- department selected students ed and the local police, SHE Addressing the Dalitha tant lie as the High court had highhandedness of police and Chief Sonia Gandhi and deceiving the Dalits for the dents from each school would from 50 highly populated team staff and DSP would be Avedana Deeksha, which was already ordered a judicial probe upper caste people. He remind- Rahul Gandhi and said last seven years and KCR be identified for the course in schools. the members of the Cyber organized to protest against the into the incident. The death of ed that the Congress has made that the party high com- convened an all-party meet- . Surya Chaitanya said about Congress team. A district-level atrocities on the SCs in the state Mariyamma, a native of Dalit leader Damodaram mand recognised the ing only to mislead the peo- About 100 students have 20 Kasturba Gandhi Balika official would be appointed as by TPCC SC Cell headed by N Chintakani mandal of Sanjeevaiah as Chief Minister of pulse of the people of ple as they are distancing been selected from 50 schools Vidyalaya (KGBV) have been a coordinator and the students Preetam, Uttam said that though at the Adla Andhra Pradesh. It has also Telangana. Another from TRS. KCR has no con- in Nagarkurnool district and given a partnership in the Cyber would be given training for a the Madiga community form 12 Gudur police station on June 17 elected Sanjeevaiah as president leader Addanki Dayakar cern for Dalits and he has they were being given training Congress programme as it was period of one year by education- per cent of the state's population, was a heartrending incident. of the All India Congress congratulated Revanth been holding the meeting through the Zoom App. The the issue of the girls' safety. From alists and experts through an no Madiga was made a minister. The Dalits in the state meted out Committee. Reddy for getting TPCC only to deceit them. Nagarkurnool district has 131 the selected schools, two stu- online awareness programme. Among 50 to 60 lakh people who with injustice in Telangana state. Uttam Kumar Reddy found Chief's position. belonged to the Madiga commu- He said that Mariyamma died fault at the BJP for criticizing the He said he is expect- nity, the Chief Minister was due to torture by the police in Congress for giving a memoran- ing a broad change with unable to find at least one MLA. front of her son and daughter. dum to the Chief Minister on the appointment of Alert people on seasonal diseases: Addl Collector K Laxma Reddy A community which formed just The police have indulged in Mariyamma's death. He said Revanth Reddy and they half per cent of the state's pop- such heinous crime with the sup- that leaders who frequently will work under Revanth PNS n MAHABUB NAGAR quits Congress ulation has more than two min- port of the government. It was a change political parties have no Reddy's leadership. isters in the Cabinet. shame on the part of the govern- right to criticise Congress. People should be alerted against PNS n HYDERABAD mosquito and water-borne dis- eases and precautionary mea- It might be a first shock to the sures should be taken to prevent newly appointed TPCC Chief seasonal diseases, Additional A Revanth Reddy as former Call to Maoist leader to join mainstream Collector (Revenue) K MLA Kitchennagari Laxma Seetharama Rao said on Reddy tendered his resigna- PNS n JAYASHANKAR them. Saturday. tion to the Congress party. BHUPALAPALLY He said the Maoist leader, Releasing a poster on the dis- Laxma Reddy, who is popu- who was continuing in the out- eases to be inflicted with mos- larly known as KLR Kataram DSP Bonala Kishan lawed Maoist party with out- quitoes and contaminated water announced his resignation has advised Maoist leader dated ideologies, would at his chambers here on the dry day every Friday, oil roundings, washing hands from the party within one Anne Santosh to take care of achieve nothing, instead, they Saturday, the Additional sprayed in the water ponds and before taking the food and hour after the appointment of the aged parents by leaving the should take care of their par- Collector said diseases like Gambusia fish be released into clean the drainages from time Revanth Reddy. According to Maoist activities. The DSP met ents who were leading a pathet- malaria, chikungunya and the water bodies to prevent the to time. The panchayat officials sources, KLR may join BJP the parents of Maoist leader ic life at the fag of end of their encephalitis would affect the breeding of mosquitoes apart should ensure that the water very soon. Anne Santhosh at Ankusapur life. The DSP appealed to health of the people and to pre- from taking up fogging. must be supplied only after the However, KLR addressed village in Kataram mandal of Santosh to join the mainstream vent them they should prevent Seetharama Rao said people chlorination. He also appealed his resignation letter to Rahul Jayashankar Bhupalapally dis- of public life and assured him water stagnation in the utensils might suffer vomiting and diar- to the people to be cautious Gandhi instead of AICC trict on Saturday and con- that all benefits and assistance and drums, jollies must be fit- rhoea and typhoid with conta- against seasonal diseases and Chief Sonia Gandhi. In his soled them. would be provided as per the ted to windows and doors, use minated water and steps must take precautionary measures. letter, he extended his grati- He inquired about their government norms if he sur- mosquito nets and use lids on be taken to check pipeline leak- DM&HO Dr Krishna, DEMO tude for giving him the well-being and gave 25 kg of rendered. CI Hathiram Naik the water storage tanks. He ages, maintain a clean environ- Tirupati Rao, DEO Usharani opportunity through the rice and new clothes to the old aged parents of Santosh were said necessary medical assis- and SI Sambamurthy were directed the officials to observe ment at the toilets and the sur- and others were present. Congress party. couple. DSP Kishan said the facing many hardships and tance would be provided to present on the occasion. HYDERABAD | SUNDAY | JUNE 27, 2021 nation 05

Raut: Opposition Farooq sees ‘level of mistrust' alliance incomplete ‘Will retire from politics if BJP without Congress fails to restore OBC quota’ PNS n MUMBAI in JK, Omar demands statehood PNS n NAGPUR the notifications issued by the Shiv Sena leader Sanjay state election commission in Raut on Saturday said that Senior BJP leader Devendra 2018 and 2020 providing reser- PNS n SRINAGAR The Srinagar Lok Sabha MP work is on to bring all Fadnavis on Saturday said his vation exceeding 50 per cent in dismissed suggestions that the opposition parties together party will restore reservation local bodies of some districts. National Conference chief June 24 meeting with the at the national level, and for OBCs in local bodies if Fadnavis, who represents Farooq Abdullah Saturday said Prime Minister signalled the this alliance will be incom- given power, and if not, he will Nagpur South-West seat in there was "a level of mistrust" end of People's Alliance for plete without the Congress. retire from politics. the Assembly, said OBCs are in Jammu and Kashmir and it Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) - He said that the Congress Addressing BJP workers being purposely deprived of was for the Centre to remove - a Six-party amalgam of main- will play an important role during a protest held at Variety the political reservation. it, even as his son and former stream parties formed after the in the alliance that aims to Square chowk as part of the "I want to appeal to all the chief minister Omar Abdullah Centre abrogated Article 370 provide a strong alternative party's 'chakka jam' (block the OBC ministers in the MVA demanded restoring Jammu and split Jammu and Kashmir to the present dispensa- traffic) agitation for the government. There is no enmi- and Kashmir's statehood into two union territories in tion. restoration of OBC quota, the ty between us and them. If you before holding Assembly polls. August 2019. Raut's statements come Leader of Opposition in the are honest towards the cause of Speaking to reporters upon "Why should it be the end of four days after leaders of state Assembly alleged the the OBCs then regardless of their return from Delhi after the alliance?" eight opposition parties, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) party lines we are ready to attending an all-party meet Omar, meanwhile, told including TMC, SP, AAP, government was misleading The Supreme Court had in stand with you. I want to tell convened by Prime Minister reporters it was made clear to RLD and the Left, assem- the people by saying that it will its March 4 order said that you with full confidence that Narendra Modi on Jammu the Centre during the PM's bled at NCP chief Sharad raise this issue in Parliament. reservation in favour of OBCs within the next three to four and Kashmir, Farooq said he house. added. meeting that the statehood Pawar's residence in New "The fact is that this issue in concerned local bodies in months we can bring back the would hold discussions with "Narasimha Raoji before The former CM said even should be restored to Jammu Delhi and discussed various can be resolved at the state Maharashtra cannot exceed OBC reservation. If you give us his party leaders and PAGD elections promised us autono- senior Congress leader Karan and Kashmir before holding of issues facing the country. level. The state government aggregate 50 per cent of the power...I want to tell you with constituents before making my and said sky is the limit, but Singh has called for the restora- Assembly elections. Talking to reporters can restore the reservation by total seats reserved for confidence that if I fail to any further statement on the not independence. We said tion of statehood to Jammu "(Ghulam Nabi) Azad sahib here, Raut said, "There is no formulating a law. There is no Scheduled Castes, the bring back the political reser- meeting. we never asked (for) indepen- and Kashmir before holding spoke on behalf of all of us that need of the third front or need for any act of the Central Scheduled Tribes and OBCs vation for OBCs, I will retire He said the country's first dence, we have asked for elections. we do not accept this timeline. any other front. Sharad government. That is why OBC took together. from politics," the former chief Prime Minister Jawaharlal autonomy. He promised us He said that at the prime We do not accept delimitation, Pawar has already made it reservation is prevalent in The apex court, while read- minister said. Nehru promised plebiscite to from the floor of the house. minister's meeting, all invited election, statehood. We want clear. Similarly, Shiv Sena other states except in ing down section 12(2)(c) of Earlier in the day, the the people of J&K, but went Where is that?" Farooq asked. persons put forth their views. delimitation, statehood and through (party mouth- Maharashtra. You (MVA) will the Maharashtra Zilla Maharashtra unit of the BJP back on it. He also said that "There is a level of mis- "This was the first step from then election. If you want to piece) ‘Saamana' has have to make a law. We will not Parishads and Panchayat held 'chakka jam' protest across before the 1996 elections, the trust....We should wait and see their side that somehow the sit- hold polls, you will have to voiced similar sentiments. stop until we expose their lie. Samitis Act 1961, which pro- the state. The party had earli- then prime minister P V what they (the Centre) do... uation is improved in Jammu restore statehood first," he told And I have also read that This protest is held to con- vided 27 per cent reservation er announced that it would Narasimha Rao had promised Whether they will remove the and Kashmir and a political reporters soon after returning the Congress has endorsed demn this government on the for persons belonging to the hold agitation at 1,000 loca- autonomy from the floor of the mistrust or let it continue," he process is restarted," he said. from Delhi. this view.” issue," he said. backward class, also quashed tions across the state.

DELTA PLUS VARIANT Top BJP leaders INDIA CORNER Corona will win if stakeholders discuss preparations Centre asks Karnataka for Assembly polls CJI releases book by former SC fight one another: Kejriwal in 5 states in 2022 judge on evolving legal system to take up immediate PNS n NEW DELHI While AAP leaders accused PNS n NEW DELHI the BJP of "cooking up" the hief Justice of India N V Seeking to move on from the report from the Supreme Court Preparation for the assembly CRamana on Saturday released a controversy over a Supreme appointed committee, the saf- polls in five states early next year book -- ‘Anomalies in Law and containment measures Court appointed panel report fron party charged the Delhi was the main agenda of a meet- Justice' -- by former Supreme on Delhi's oxygen demand, government with "criminal neg- ing of senior BJP leaders, includ- Court Judge Justice (retd) R V PNS n BENGALURU measures in these districts and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ligence". Deputy Chief Minister ing several Union ministers, Raveendran explaining in simple clusters including preventing on Saturday called for everyone Manish Sisodia alleged that the on Saturday as they deliberated terms various deficiencies in the The Centre has urged Karnataka crowds and intermingling of to work together to ensure "bogus" and "misleading" report on political and governance law which needs to be overcome. to take up immediate contain- people, widespread testing, there is no shortage of oxygen was "cooked up" at BJP's office issues linked to these states. The Chief Justice of India (CJI) said ment measures, including pre- prompt tracing as well as vaccine in the next Covid wave. and submitted by the Centre in Party president J P Nadda the book was an attempt to explain venting crowds, conducting coverage on a priority basis," it The virus will win if there is the apex court. and Union ministers Amit Shah, to a common man that the law and widespread testing as well as said. a fight among stakeholders, The sub-group constituted by Rajnath Singh, Nirmala the legal system is still evolving increasing vaccine coverage on a The letter also asks the state to Kejriwal tweeted, a day after his so no one faces shortage of oxy- the Supreme Court to audit oxy- Sitharaman, Narendra Singh and it requires more critical priority basis in districts ensure that adequate sam- Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP gen in third wave,” Kejriwal said gen consumption in hospitals in Tomar, Smriti Irani, and Kiren thinking to resolve issues that have persisted for a long time. He where the Delta Plus ples of positive persons hit out at each each other over in his tweet in . the national capital during the Rijiju were among those who praised Justice (retd) Raveendran and said he was "an amalgam of variant of COVID- are sent to the desig- the report that said Delhi's oxy- “There was an acute shortage second wave said the Delhi attended the meeting, party unwavering commitment to rule of law, strong belief in the 19 has been nated laboratories gen needs were “exaggerated” of oxygen in the second wave. government "exaggerated" the leaders said. independence of the judiciary, a deep sense of morality and detected. of INSACOG four times over during the sec- It should not be so in the third consumption of oxygen and "Preparation for the assem- scholarship par excellence.” Union Health promptly so that ond Covid wave. wave. Corona will win if we made a claim of 1,140 MT, four bly polls in five states were the Secretary Rajesh the clinical epi- "May we work now if your fight with each other. The times higher than the formula main agenda of the meeting," Bhushan has writ- demiological cor- fight over oxygen is finished? nation will win if we fight for bed capacity requirement of a party leader said after the ten to Karnataka relations can be Let us together make a system together," he added. 289 MT. meeting. Goa-bound Rajdhani Exp derails Chief Secretary P established. Ravi Kumar in this Similar measures have inside tunnel in Maharashtra regard. been suggested to seven states Pointing out that this variant other than Karnataka. According oa-bound Rajdhani has been found in Mysuru dis- to INSACOG, the Delta Plus Three more arrested in dubious vax case GExpress from Hazrat trict, the letter dated June 25 said, variant which is currently a Nizamuddin derailed "the Public Health Response, in Variant of Concern (VOC) has PNS n KOLKATA Kolkata Municipal Corporation arrested," the officer said. lakh to get around 72 employ- inside a tunnel in Ratnagiri this case while broadly remain- characteristics like, increased (KMC) by the accused, the offi- The third person, a resident of ees inoculated lodged a com- district of Maharashtra ing the same, has to become transmissibility, stronger binding Three more associates of fake cer said. Taltala, was arrested after police plaint at the Kasba police station. early on Saturday, but more focused and stringent." to receptors of lung cells, and IAS officer Debanjan Deb were The third person, who was on found him to be "very active" in Another complaint was lodged there was no report of "Thus, you are requested to potential reduction in mono- arrested on Saturday morning in the payroll of Deb, had actively helping organising the camps, he by a contractor who claimed to injury to any passenger, take up immediate containment clonal antibody response. connection with the dubious taken part in the camps where said. have paid him Rs 90 lakh to get an official said. The train - 02414 - was going to Madgaon in Goa when COVID vaccination camps in several people were "inoculated" Meanwhile, three more cases the tender for the construction it derailed inside Karbude tunnel, approximately 325 kms from Mumbai, Kolkata, a senior police officer by spurious vaccines, he said. were registered against Deb at the of a stadium," he said. around 4.15 am, a spokesperson of the Konkan Railway, which TN reports first 8 cases of said. "One of them is a resident of Kasba police station, the police "The third complaint was filed operates the route, said. A boulder had fallen on the tracks, which led to Two of the associates were sig- Salt Lake, while another is from officer said. by a pharma company that paid the derailment, he said. "The front wheel of the locomotive of Rajdhani Delta Plus natories of the bank account that Barasat. Both were called for "A private firm which claimed him Rs 4 lakh to get a tender," he superfast train derailed in Karbude tunnel located between Ukshi and ‘Delta Plus' was created in the name of questioning before they were to have given him about Rs 1.2 added. Bhoke stations in Ratnagiri region of the Konkan Railway," the official said. A rail maintenance vehicle (RMV) has reached the site and an variant fatality variant in MP accident relief medical van (ARMV) having re-railing equipment has left PNS n CHENNAI PNS n BHOPAL Covid positive for the site from Ratnagiri for the restoration work. Tamil Nadu has registered its At least eight persons have been Dharamsala BJP MLA accused first death due to the Delta Plus found infected with the Delta prisoner escapes variant of COVID-19 with a Plus variant of coronavirus in PNS n Pondy logs 228 new Covid cases, person from Madurai Madhya Pradesh so far, state of mental, physical torture by wife DIPHU succumbing to it, according to Medical Education Minister the state health department. Vishwas Sarang said on PNS n SHIMLA development agency (DRDA), MLA from Dharamshala in a by- A prisoner, undergoing treat- overall tally touches 1,16,414 Minister for Medical and Family Saturday, adding none of the claimed that Nehriya had phys- election on October 24, 2019. ment for COVID-19 at the Welfare Ma Subramanian said contacts of these patients was Dharamsala BJP MLA Vishal ically and mentally tortured her Sharma also alleged that her Diphu Medical College and uducherry registered 228 fresh three positive cases of the new found to be infected with this Nehriya has been accused by his several times. Nehriya and husband had expelled her from Hospital in Assam's Karbi Pcoronavirus cases in the last 24 ‘Delta Plus' variant were strain. According to officials, HPAS officer wife of physical Sharma were married two his house on the fourth day of Anglong district, escaped, hours ending 10 am on Saturday, identified of which two have two persons who died in May and mental torture. months ago on April 26. their marriage when she tested police said on Saturday. taking the total positives to 1.16 recovered. Those tested this year were found to be In an 11-minute video that Sharma said she has now positive for COVID-19. She The prisoner was admitted to lakh. The new cases were detected positive for the Delta Plus infected with the Delta Plus has gone viral on social media, returned to her maternal house. said she had agreed to return the COVID ward of the hospi- at the end of examination of 8018 variant include a 32 year old variant. Speaking to reporters, the 2020-batch Himachal The HPAS officer claimed then as he threatened to harm tal on Thursday afternoon after samples. The total cases reported nurse from Chennai and another Sarang said the patients infected Pradesh Administrative Services that Nehriya had also beaten her himself. he tested positive, they said. He today were spread over individual from Kancheepuram with the Delta Plus variant are (HPAS) officer Oshin Sharma in February this year at a The HPAS officer also stated escaped from the hospital on Puducherry 166, Karaikal 43, district. “After the death of the being tested as per protocol and alleged that the BJP legislator Chandigarh hotel. that she knew Nehariya since Friday night, they added. He Yanam 13 and Mahe 6. Two more persons succumbed to the Madurai patient, the samples the National Centre for Disease slapped her thrice on Thursday. The BJP MLA neither their college days. She said she was arrested on June 12 from infection and they were aged 72 and 42 years old. Director of Health were collected, which confirmed Control (NCDC) has been Sharma, posted as the block answered calls nor replied to had ended her relationship with Matipung in the Diphu police Department S Mohan Kumar said the active cases stood at 2,775. that it was ‘Delta Plus' variant,” regularly sharing information development officer at Nagrota messages sent to get his version. him then as he used to beat her station area after huge quantities While 421 patients recovered today only the overall recoveries were he said. with the state in this regard. Suriyan in Kangra district rural Nehriya (32) was elected as even during those days. of drugs were seized from him. 1,11,898. Kumar said 12,76,071 samples were tested so far, and it was found that 10,96,058 out of them were negative. Meanwhile, 37,133 health care workers and 22,866 front line workers were vaccinated so far. He said 3,43,044 people coming under the category of the senior citizens (60 years and above) or those above Vax of 60-plus population sluggish after initial high: Experts 45 years with co morbidities have been inoculated so far. PNS n NEW DELHI March 1 at both government making it harder to remove vac- and then they feel that they and private centres. cine hesitancy," he added. should not take the vaccine," The pace of vaccination of the 60- On an average about 80.77 lakh He said it has also been Bajaj said. Bajaj said mobility is Lekhpal suspended over plus population has become slug- vaccine doses were given to the observed that most public places also a very big issue for the 60- gish in the past few weeks after an 60-plus population per week in rural areas lack senior citizen- plus age group. ‘derogatory' remarks against PM initial high, with healthcare between March 13 and April 2, friendly infrastructure. "The most important problem experts attributing it to mobility but the weekly figure dropped to Hospitals have expressed con- is mobility because they are not lekhpal in this district has issues and misinformation and about 32 lakh between June 5 to cern over the slow pace of vacci- really able to visit the vaccination Abeen suspended for unsubstantiated apprehensions 25, according to the data. nation of 60-plus people who also centres themselves and also they allegedly making derogatory about the jabs. Healthcare experts expressed suffer from the maximum num- have a fear that if they go into a remarks against Prime Minister According to Health Ministry concern over the slow place of ber of comorbidities. crowded place, they will catch Narendra Modi, an official said on Saturday. Lekhpal (revenue data, 2.29 crore elderly people vaccination of the 60-plus people Dr. Shuchin Bajaj, Founder Covid. We need to ensure that we officer) Jitendra Nath Singh, have been fully vaccinated so far who are more prone to have co- Director, Ujala Cygnus Group of educate them about the various posted in Odrai village of while 6.71 crore have received just morbidities and remain more Hospitals, said vaccine hesitancy risk factors and try to provide vac- Jakhanian Tehsil, had made one dose of COVID-19 vaccine susceptible to severe disease. never contract COVID-19, oth- but having wide following can in the elderly population is a very cination to them at their derogatory remarks on the till now. Dr Sujeet Ranjan, Executive ers believe that the virus itself is influence people," he said. real issue. doorstep," he said. prime minister, which were found to be against the government The 60-plus population in Director of The Coalition for on the way out. Irrational mistrust "Some people in rural areas "Among many factors, one is a Dr. Piyush Goel, Senior service rules, Sub-Collector (SDM) Jakhanianm, Suraj Yadav said on India was projected to be at 14.3 Food and Nutrition Security of scientifically approved vaccines believe that COVID-19 is most- fear that people with previous Consultant- Pulmonary and Saturday. An inquiry was ordered based on a complaint against the crore in 2021, so that would imply (CFNS), said myths, misconcep- is also a factor. While vaccine hes- ly for urban people. Also, many heart disease will have some Critical Care, Columbia Asia remarks. The inquiry report received on Friday evening found the that just 16 per cent of them have tions and rumours about itancy has always been a phenom- people have heard on the social issue because of some unfortunate Hospital, Palam Vihar, lekhpal guilty of not following the government service rules, the SDM been fully vaccinated till now. COVID-19 vaccines are the enon in our country, today it media that the vaccine and its videos that were circulating Gurugram, said for mass-scale said, adding he was placed under suspension with immediate effect. Vaccination for those over 60 biggest hurdle to vaccination tends to accentuated by opinions side-effects will show up two to around. Some people have done vaccine coverage, vaccine hesi- The suspended lekhpal is a resident of Sarsena village in Mau years of age and those of 45-plus coverage. on social media, where even three years from now. These their CRP (c-reactive protein) tancy is one of the biggest hur- district. with co-morbidities started from "Some people think they will people with no subject expertise rumours, suspicion and fear are tests also to see if that was raised dles. HYDERABAD | SUNDAY | JUNE 27 , 2021 money 06

EAM discusses India is ‘incredibly important’ regional, global Hero Cycles delivers first batch of issues with his Made in India e-vehicles to Europe Greek counterpart partner to US: White House PNS n NEW DELHI n ATHENS PNS n WASHINGTON India's Hero Motors Company External Affairs Minister S (HMC) Group has said that India is an "incredibly impor- Jaishankar held a produc- Hero Cycles has successfully tant" partner to the US in the tive informal discussion delivered its first batch of region and globally, the White on regional and global “Made in India” e-bikes to House has said, underlining issues with his Greek Europe. that America is working with counterpart Nikos The shipment, under the the country on wide-ranging Dendias as he arrived in HNF brand of Hero issues like economic, strategic Greece for the first visit by International (HIT), marks and security. an Indian foreign minister the start of the Indian bicycle White House Press Secretary since 2003. major's plan to become a Jen Psaki on Friday said that Jaishankar is on a two- leader in the European Union the US took a range of steps to nation visit to Greece and (EU) market, the company help India to deal with the Italy. He met Dendias on said this week. COVID-19 pandemic. Friday. "Thank FM The first batch of around “India is an incredibly impor- @NikosDendias for a warm 200 units has been delivered to tant partner to the United States welcome to Greece. A pro- Germany, with further units of HMC – said the company's International. in the region and globally. We ing forward,” Psaki said in lion worth of COVID-19 assis- trators, a release said on June 3. ductive discussion on region- planned for the EU in future. aim is to achieve an organic “Clearly, a major part of the work with India on a range of response to a question. tance to India. Also, India will be a signif- al and global issues. Greece is “The shipment marks a step revenue of up to EURO 300 future is e-bikes with e-bike issues, as you well know -- eco- In April and May, India strug- The US-India Chambers of icant recipient of the US vac- an important partner in our forward to establish HMC as million by 2025, while adding sales expected to reach around nomic, strategic, security,” gled with the second wave of the Commerce Foundation has cines after Biden announced broader EU engagement. the largest fully integrated e- EURO 200 million from inor- 15 million units in Europe by White House Press Secretary Covid-19 pandemic with more raised more than USD 1.2 mil- details of his administration's Look forward to our formal bike company in Europe, with ganic growth. 2030. We are confident that Jen Psaki told reporters at her than 3,00,000 daily new cases. lion for coronavirus-related decision to send 25 million talks tomorrow," Jaishankar a well-oiled manufacturing “The first HNF branded Hero is poised to become a daily news conference. Hospitals were reeling under a efforts in India. COVID-19 shots to countries tweeted on Friday. The capability in India and bright- bike built in India has landed market leader in this segment, “The United States certainly shortage of medical oxygen and With a record-breaking across the globe. Ministry of External Affairs ens the prospect of India as a on European shores. This is a making high-quality e-bikes took a range of steps, as India was beds. In mid-May, new coron- fundraising, US-India India has been included in (MEA) in New Delhi on reliable supplier to the market big moment for the company fusing HNF's engineering and at the early stages of dealing with avirus cases in India hit a record Chambers of Commerce both the identified categories - Thursday said that Jaishankar other than China,” HMC said and will demonstrate its abil- design expertise with Hero's a rise in the pandemic, to help daily high with 4,12,262 new Foundation has shipped or en direct supply to neighbours will embark on a two-nation in a statement. ity to disrupt the market in manufacturing capability, espe- provide a range of assistance, and infections. In May, President Joe route nearly 120 ventilators and partner countries, and visit to Greece and to Italy. Hero International – the Europe,” said Jeff Weiss, the cially with the 100-acre Cycle we will continue to do that mov- Biden announced USD 100 mil- and over 1,000 oxygen concen- under the COVAX initiative. European bike and e-bike arm London-based CEO of Hero Valley in Ludhiana,” he said. Scientists develop MONEY MATTERS Unemployment: Federal Bank technique that can Petrol crosses Rs 100 in TN gives 400-odd part-time jobs generate electricity after steep hike in fuel rates from vibrations etrol price soared past PNS n NEW DELHI PNS n NEW DELHI Rs 100-a-litre mark in PTamil Nadu after fuel Federal Bank on Saturday said Scientists have fabricated a prices were hiked again on it has provided 400-odd part- simple, cost-effective, bio- Saturday. Petrol and diesel Phase 1 of Ola e-scooter factory time jobs with a monthly compatible, transparent prices were hiked by 35 paise salary of Rs 18,000 at its nanogenerator that can gen- per litre each - the steepest in branches in Kerala so far, in a erate electricity from vibra- recent times, according to a nearing completion, says CEO bid to help those who lost their tions all around for use in price notification of state- employment due to the optoelectronics, self-pow- owned fuel retailers. The increase took rates across the coun- PNS n NEW DELHI him from the factory site. Upon COVID-19 pandemic. ered devices and other bio- try to fresh highs with Tamil Nadu becoming the latest state completion, the factory will cre- Designated as 'Covid medical applications, the to see petrol cross Rs 100-a- litre mark. In Delhi, petrol hit an The first phase of Ola's electric ate nearly 10,000 jobs and is Wardens', these people were government said on all-time high of Rs 98.11 a litre, while diesel is now priced at scooter factory is nearing expected to be the world's largest hired to manage crowds, pro- Saturday. Rs 88.65 per litre. Fuel prices differ from state to state depend- completion and the company scooter manufacturing facility vide masks and sanitiser to the to the pandemic in the state part-time 'Covid Wardens' will be The Science and ing on the incidence of local taxes such as value-added tax (VAT) expects to start rolling out that will initially have an annu- public visiting the branches in there were requests for creating helpful to both. We provided jobs Technology Ministry, in a and freight charges. While petrol had crossed Rs 100-a-litre vehicles soon, Ola Group CEO al production capacity of 2 mil- the state, it said. part-time jobs from several agen- to about 400-odd people in statement, said searching mark in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Bhavish Aggarwal said on lion units. The livelihood enhancement cies and organisations. Kerala," he said. for renewable energy Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Saturday. While the company is yet to project was started as part of its "We thought of finding a way Hiring was done in Kerala resources with reduced car- and Ladakh, several towns in Tamil Nadu including Salem, Last year, Ola had announced disclose the pricing and specifi- corporate social responsibility to provide livelihood to people because the state was having bon emissions is one of the Vellore and Cuddalore saw that level after the steep price hike. a Rs 2,400-crore investment for cations of its e-scooter, Ola has (CSR) initiative in August 2020 who lost jobs due to the pandem- many positive cases at that time most urgent challenges due setting up its first electric scoot- stated that it is working on set- and is continuing even now. ic and help them tide over the eco- and moreover the footfall in to the increasing threat of er factory in Tamil Nadu. ting up a 'Hypercharger Speaking to PTI, Federal Bank nomic hardship. That's why we branches were also high. global warming and energy "In just four months, this Network' to include one lakh Chief Human Resource Officer decided to hire such people," he Whereas in other states, 'Covid crisis. Renuka Sugars will be investing place has transformed from charging points across 400 cities. Ajith Kumar K K said: "This is a part- added. Wardens' were not hired as there “Some of the unconven- acres of empty rock land to the Aggarwal had earlier said time job given to tide over the situ- Kumar further said crowd were security guards managing tional methods to generate Rs 450cr to raise ethanol capacity world's largest 2W factory. The that the e-scooter was likely to ation, not a full-time employment." management at branches had the crowd at bank branches, electricity include piezo- Ola Futurefactory phase 1 is be launched in India in July this The bank hired these people become a big issue during the Kumar added. electric, thermoelectric, and hree Renuka Sugars nearing completion! The scoot- year, and that Ola Electric would at a monthly salary of Rs 18,000 pandemic as the Kerala govern- Asked if the initiative will con- electrostatic techniques will invest Rs 450 crore ers are coming soon! Great look at taking the vehicle to per month. About Rs 6 crore has ment has restricted entry of not tinue, Kumar said the bank will used in devices like touch Sto expand its ethanol work by team @OlaElectric," international markets, including been spent towards salary in the more than five people at a partic- discontinue if the Covid-19 pos- screens, electronic displays, capacity, the company said Aggarwal tweeted. countries like France, Italy and last 10 months, he said. ular time. itivity rate falls below five per cent and so forth," the statement on Saturday. In a regulato- He also shared a picture of Germany, in this fiscal as well. Since many had lost jobs due "Therefore, we thought hiring in a particular locality. said. ry filing, the company informed that its board has approved expanding pro- duction capacity by 430-kilo HC tells U'khand to litre per day to 1,400-kilo Affle claims victory in Indus OS stake litre per day. In February, the board had approved a capac- decide on salary ity expansion of ethanol from 720-kilo litre per day to 970- kilo litre per day. "Considering the huge untapped demand issues of roadways sale lawsuit; PhonePe, OSLabs refute for ethanol due to the policies of Government of India on ethanol blending, the Board of Directors of the company employees soon PNS n NEW DELHI approved further capacity expansion for ethanol production PNS n NAINITAL from 970-kilo litre per day to 1,400-kilo litre per day," the Digital advertising firm Affle filing said. The investment required for this capacity expan- The Uttarakhand High claims to have won the initial sion is Rs 450 crore, it said. The capacity addition would Court on Saturday asked the legal battle in a case filed be completed by October 2022. state government to con- against it by Walmart-owned vene a meeting of the cabi- PhonePe in a Singapore net to take a decision on SJVN Q4 profit grows court in the Indus OS stake roadways employees who sale matter. CESL resumes distribution have not received their PhonePe had placed a bid to salaries for the last five 55 pc to Rs 620 crore acquire 92 per cent stake in months. Indus OS at a valuation of around of LED bulbs in UP, Hearing a PIL by Roadways PNS n NEW DELHI to Rs 1,084.96 crore, from Rs USD 60 million. However, the nergy Efficiency Employees United Council 703.72 crore a year ago. biggest shareholder in the com- Services Limited and Roadways Employees State-owned power producer The company's total pany, Affle Global Pte Ltd E(EESL) on Saturday Union, a division bench com- SJVN Ltd on Saturday posted expenses reduced to Rs 348.74 (AGPL), has opposed the deal. Bengali, Assamese and . 2021, PhonePe has clearly lost the said its subsidiary CESL has prising Chief Justice RS a 55 per cent jump in its con- crore compared to Rs 439.07 AGPL estimates that the val- AGPL had filed an injunction corporate legal battle in resumed distribution of LED Chauhan and Justice Alok solidated profit after tax (PAT) crore in the same period of the uation of OSLabs, known as suit against the resolution passed Singapore," AGPL told PTI. bulbs in villages of Uttar Kumar Verma asked Chief at Rs 619.92 crore during the preceding fiscal. SJVN further Indus OS, is around USD 90 mil- by Indus OS approving stake sale However, Fintech firm Pradesh and Bihar, as part of Minister Tirath Singh Rawat to quarter ended March 31, 2021. informed that its board has lion and has refused to sell its 25 to PhonePe which has been chal- PhonePe and OSLabs have refut- its Gram Ujala Scheme.Under convene a meeting of the state The company's net profit recommended a final divi- per cent stake at a lower valuation. lenged by the fintech firm in a ed the claims made by AGPL that the Gram Ujala programme, cabinet on Monday to take a after tax from continuing oper- dend of 40 paise per share of The company operates app Singapore court. it has won the legal battle. rural consumers are given a 7 watt and a 12-watt LED bulb with call on the issue and inform ations was at Rs 399.21 crore Rs 10 each for the FY 2020-21. store 'Indus App Bazaar', which Both AGPL and Indus OS are AGPL told PTI that as per the a three-year warranty against submission of working incandes- the court on Tuesday. Non- in the January-March quarter Shimla-headquartered comprises over four lakh apps registered in Singapore. last hearing in Singapore High cent bulbs at an affordable cost of Rs 10 per bulb. The scheme payment of salary is against the of the financial year 2019-20, SJVN Ltd is a joint venture of accessible in English and 12 "AGPL has attended 7+ court Court on June 18 , PhonePe has was launched by Union Power Minister R K Singh in March constitutional rights of the SJVN said in a BSE filing. the Government of India and Indian languages -- Hindi, hearings held in Singapore High lost its existing voting rights in this year, EESL said in a statement.So far, CESL has distributed employees, the Chief Justice During the quarter under the Government of Himachal Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Court from 19th May 2020 till OSLabs' general meeting in view 2,52,069 LED bulbs in Arrah and Buxar districts of Bihar, where- said. review, its total income jumped Pradesh. Urdu, Odia, Punjabi, , 18th June 2021. As of 18th June of the orders made by the court. as in UP, nearly 1,08,470 LED bulbs have been sold in Varanasi, Prayagraj, Kaushambi, Pratapgarh, and Bhadohi.Any consumer from a rural household with a valid electricity connection from a DISCOM can avail LED bulbs under the initiative. Amidst Covid, tech ensured uninterrupted governance Future Consumer Q4 loss at n Imperative for India to health services and to become a coming five years or more. With Platforms. This will spread to citizen-facing front-end as PLI Scheme, many eminent Education, Healthcare, Smart manufacture its own National Digital Health Mission brands have set up their units in Cities, Urban Governance, and Rs 155.12 cr, revenue slides software and hardware develops.” recent times. We are committed other sectors. uture Consumer Ltd products Mr. Sawhney said there was to provide incentives to compo- On 5G, Mr. Sawhney said, (FCL) on Saturday n Software potential of a pressing need to step up man- nents manufacturing as these “While we move from 4G to 5G, Freported a lower net ufacturing of both software and components make their way we have to strengthen and work loss of Rs 155.12 crore for India a significant area hardware products in order to into a large array of products.” on related devices like IOTs. Our the quarter ended on March of growth in the coming reduce dependence on imports He also talked about building digital infrastructure needs to be 31, 2021, compared to that years from different countries. Digital Products and said, strengthened with Digital India of Rs 175.46 crore in the n Connected devices will “Entrepreneurs and companies “Digital technologies must be Infoway creating a robust network year-ago quarter. Revenue need to move aggressively in this integrated into traditional sec- in Research and Development from operations of FCL, enable India to area. The National Policy on tors like energy, transportation institutions.” which is the FMCG arm of the Future group, declined by capitalize on 5G Software Products has triggered manufacturing, healthcare and On IT laws, Mr. Sawhney said 59.2 per cent to Rs 386.26 crore during January-March 2021 significant growth and we expect so on. The advent of digital tech- that, “While we have to focus on compared to Rs 947.07 crore in January-March 2020, accord- PNS n NEW DELHI its best potential and offered Forum of India (PAFI), Mr. the software potential to be a nologies into each of these tra- Data Privacy Bill, there is also a ing to a regulatory filing by the company.Total expenses were highly innovative solutions to Sawhney said, “Indian IT major area of growth in the next ditional sectors will help make requirement to refresh the exist- at Rs 500.06 crore, down 52.5 per cent in the last quarter of Ajay Prakash Sawhney, ensure the continuation of gov- Industry has rapidly adjusted to 5-10 years,” he added. 10-15% of growth a distinct pos- ing IT act, that was last amended 2020-21 against Rs 1,051.87 crore in the year-ago period.For Secretary, Ministry of ernance with utmost efficiency the new environment and added On electronics manufacturing sibility.” in 2008, as the issues that we deal the full fiscal year, which ended on March 31, 2021, FCL Electronics & Information during these highly unprece- that the AarogyaSetu has rein- Mr. Sawhney said, “The pan- Talking about E-governance he with IT sector have changed sig- reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 483.30 crore against Technology, Government of dented times. vented itself as Vaccine Passport demic has slowed us down, but mentioned that the government nificantly - the companies that we a net loss of Rs 216.50 crore in the previous year. Revenue India, said on Friday that Addressing a webinar orga- and has the possibility to lever- our ambition today is to grow is working on national scale and deal with have brought immense- from operations was at Rs 1,184.51 crore in FY 2020-21, down Indian IT industry showcased nized by the Public Affairs age wide reach to bring more more than 25% YoY over the with National Public Digital ly in terms of innovation. 70.7 per cent compared to Rs 4,040.33 crore in FY2019-20. sunday magazine HYDERABAD, June 27, 2021

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FROM THE INSIDE Urvashi’s quest for love COVID SHIELD A N D Haksar’s translation of Kalidasa’s COVID-19 has led to many innovations. Vikramorvashiyam lends a contemporary SHALINI SAKSENA chats up such innovators touch for the modern reader 8 9 who are doing their bit to fight the pandemic

essential nature is sixteen. The spirit (Ruh) includes the essence and the descending-face Opening up about grief is not easy. Deep inside, of consciousness of the one alive. Like the ascending-face of consciousness of the one departed, the descending-face also is four. we perceive grief to be too personal for it to be When the one alive seeks peace and together- ness within the consciousness of the one departed, she exchanges her warm “maternal shared or dissolve, writes VIPIN GUPTA, as he consciousness “(Chaithanya) with the cold “paternal consciousness” (Pitra) of the one suggests ways to cope departed. Spirit’s numerical value is twenty. THE FIFTH WAY The fifth way is to behave like a child and decide to isolate oneself from the world until someone brings back the loved one, like a toy or a baby that the child may love forever. Childish is how the protagonist behaves in the 2013 Hollywood blockbuster, Gravity. After MANAGING her young daughter died from a fall while playing, the protagonist decides she will never touch the ground that took in her daughter. She knew life in space is impossible. So, that’s what she chooses in her quest to run away from the ground reality. To defy the gravity, grave, grief, and ground, she decides to float above everything. However, she finds herself facing another tragedy while in space when the spacecraft malfunctions and her co-astronaut floats into the deep space without oxygen. At that moment, she decides to fight it for the sake of everything she taught her daugh- ter and returns safely to the ground beat- GRIEF ing all odds. THE SIXTH WAY e are living in difficult times. The sixth way is how one behaves Each of us has experienced when faced with challenges. One uses some loss due to Covid-19. wisdom when neither science nor We are all grieving the prema- spirituality is there to offer a solu- ture loss of our near and dear tion. When there is no guru to Wones to this pandemic. In times such as these, lend us a helping hand, we make we seek to cope in different ways. our wisdom the guru. We take the spirit of each of the five pre- THE FIRST WAY ceding ways to make “wisdom” The first way to cope is at the psychologi- (Chitta) a 100 unit solution. cal level. We try to fill the void in our lives Therefore, without the spirit, we with religion, spirituality, or divine entities. extend our age (Brahmani) by But, we also question the meaning of religion, eighty units. spirituality, or divine entities when their faith Wisdom spontaneously becomes our or devotion could not save their loved ones. guiding force when we have a goal in We kindle our faith in the ancient wisdom that sight. When we have a goal, we become offers healing techniques such as yoga and a goalkeeper. In the moment of crisis, Ayurveda. But we also double up our faith in our goal is to let us as the unit person modern science and the need to advance sci- be the enjoyer of the consciousness of ence further to help protect everyone from the challenge we overcame and of future pandemics. At the same time, we blame the solution we applied. Therefore, modern scientific experiments for the present the goal is of the nine units. We pandemic. know it as Maha Shiva. The enjoyer is also of nine units. We THE SECOND WAY know her as Maha Saraswati. A second way is at a more subtle psychic The goalkeeper is the goal level. Psychically, we notice subtle changes in without the unit person con- our moods, emotions, thoughts, feelings, inter- ceiving the challenge and the ests, preferences, expressions, interactions, val- one perceiving the solution. ues, and behaviours. We question the meaning WE ALL HAVE The goalkeeper is of seven of material wealth that can’t save even the units. We know him as wealthy from the pandemic. We become disil- EXPERIENCES WHERE Shiva. lusioned about our busy lives and seek time for JUST OPENLY CRYING The challenge’s con- our physical and human well-being. We sciousness is the descend- become depressed, helpless at the plight of AND SHOUTING IS THE ing face, fading from those with limited resources, starving and sad, memory like a distant barely surviving. We get angry with anybody BEST HEALING nightmare for the enjoyer, we believe is not concerned with our social, enjoying the goal after realiz- ecological, economic, national, and psycholog- METHOD, NOT SCIENCE ing it. The descending face is ical well-being. Why do we not have a social the “child consciousness” discipline of taking care to avoid infections? OR SPIRITUALITY. THE (Putatma) that childishly con- Why nobody took care of pollution and eco- SILENCE AND CALM ceived something solvable with wis- logical degradation that has made breathing dom into a challenge. shallow even in regular times? Why have we AFTER OUR The solution’s consciousness is the not economically developed like China and ascending face, playing like an intense cli- other East Asian nations after so many years of EMOTIONAL OUTBURST max scene in our mind as if we just woke up our independence to have the resources to deal like a “hero” (the protagonist) after fighting with the problems proactively? Why do we not IS OUR HEALED STATE hard and destroying all the “discordant ener- have a cohesive national action plan even dur- gy” (Asura shakti). The ascending face is the ing the pandemic? Why do we have to suffer “wisened grandmother consciousness” psychologically and physically for the failings (Jyotistava) that embodies wisdom. of others and no fault of ours? When we multiply the descending and the ascending faces of the challenge and the solu- THE THIRD WAY tion, we get the sixteen units of “essence” A third way is to let time bring us in terms (Rab). Similarly, when the seven-unit goal- with our new consciousness. This process is a keeper realizes the goal of his incarnation as a deeply emotional one. We all have experiences THE FOURTH WAY away from reality, choosing a life of mental The spirit is one’s belief system about a param deity, he reverts to the “essence” (Rab) where just openly crying and shouting is the A fourth way is to give ourselves space by hallucination. He lives in a dream world, person. It is the spirit with which we make living like an inanimate entity, Maha Durga, best healing method, not science or spirituali- doing something that calms our minds. We dreaming that he is always with the beloved’s sense of someone, with or without a body. The also of sixteen units. ty. The silence and calm after our emotional pick new hobbies, make new friends, get spirit. The remake’s protagonist chooses the spirit comprises the essence fusing another’s outburst is our healed state. engaged in supporting those in need, reach path of self-development his beloved laid for forward-facing and our backward-facing THE SEVENTH WAY Let me share the experience of my cousin, out to those who could support us emotional- togetherness and finds her consciousness essential nature and the consciousness of that The seventh way is to develop self-aware- Captain Prachi Jain, a helicopter pilot, in her ly, if not financially. Opening up about grief is always with him, prodding him on. He leads a essence. ness of the purpose for our birth as a unique own words: not easy. We fear others judging us, fueling fulfilling, successful life in the finance indus- To help make this easy to understand, let’s entity. In Bhagwad Gita, Shri Krishna illumi- “Covid got hold of all three of us at the our emotions, or not empathising with our try. use some numbers. Let’s say the consciousness nates all of us that he is the essence of every- same time, my beloved 37-year old younger state of mind. Deep inside, we perceive grief Note that the beloved is not the spirit of the one departed is four. In that case, essen- thing. He is the sixteen-dimensional “Child brother, his wife, and I. While we all struggled to be too personal for it to be shared or dis- (Ruh) nor the consciousness that forms the tial nature is eight. Eight is the horizontal face Primordial Greeter” (Madhusudan), gifting to recover in the separate hospital rooms, he left solve. soul (Atma). of essential nature, in identity with Mother the wisdom to everybody for living a joyful behind his wife and a five-year-old son. After Indeed, managing grief is a theme few The soul is one’s consciousness, following Nature (Kudrat). Four is the ascending face; it life, filled with a unique purpose to be ever- our recovery, my younger sister broke the news, Bollywood films have dared to handle. And, another like a shadow. The shadow feels like makes the person a unique local point above alert about the well-being of our physical ‘Hum bhai ko bacha nahi paye, He is no more’ makers have added their personal experiences pushing us gently forward on a linear path the universal global horizon. One who has body. Only then we have the limitless energy in one breath. To date, my shrieks and non-stop when telling a storyline involving grief. and guiding us not to distract from the goal departed is the forward face, gently pushing us and vitality to use wisdom to resolve all the chanting of his name from that day echo back Consider the 2004 Tamil movie, 7G Rainbow within that consciousness. The consciousness with his forward-facing essential nature like a challenges we face today. in my ears. I feel a part of me has been sliced off Colony, and its 2019 Hindi-remake, Malaal. is immortal because it is not something that confident masculine. One who is alive is the The writer is a professor of management that I did not realise exists. Alongside all the In both versions, the protagonist fights anybody creates or destroys. Consciousness is backward face, turning the face around trying and a co-director of the Center for Global emotions of sufferings, the ‘Gita Saar’ now against all odds seeking a life of togetherness a part of our essential nature that self-perpet- to look for the one who has departed and can’t Management at the Jack H. Brown College of keeps me going. All that shouts in the silence with his beloved. However, the universe plays uates as a unique local point personifying a be found ahead like in the past. She is radiat- Business and Public Administration, California within me is his name. I call his name to thank the antagonist and negates the due fruits of his person who projects that unique part of the ing her backward-facing essential nature with State University, San Bernardino. He explains him for being my brother and loving me as long efforts. His beloved dies in a road accident. He essential nature as a personal force. Our love for the one who has departed. many ways to live the seventh way in the 2021 as he was in his physical body. I know he resides survives. In the original version, the protago- essential nature is everyone’s essential nature Therefore, the essence (Rab) that includes 12-book namesake project, Vastly Integrated peacefully in his new home.” nist gravitates toward the option of running (Svabhav). both the forward-and the backward-facing Processes Inside Nature (VIPIN) sunday magazine THE READING OF ALL GOOD BOOKS IS LIKE A CONVERSATION WITH THE FINEST MINDS OF books 8 PAST CENTURIES — RENE DESCARTES HYDERABAD, June 27, 2021 URVASHI’S QUEST FOR LOVE Aditya Narayan Dhairyasheel Haksar’s translation of Kalidasa’s masterpiece Vikramorvashiyam lends a contemporary touch for the modern reader, writes CHRISTY VARGHESE Chitralekha: Friend, be at ease. The demon who defied the gods has been defeated. Urvashi (opening her eyes): Was it by the power shown by the great god Indra? Chitralekha: Not by the great Indra! But by this saintly king whose prowess is no less! Urvashi (to herself, after seeing the king): The demon has done me a favour. King (to himself, after seeing Urvashi back to normal): I now understand why all the nymphs who were sent to seduce the sage Narayana, were embarrassed on see- ing what emerged from his thigh. But how could a sage create her? Indeed the moon, all creatures’ lord, must have given her this glow, or Madana, the god of love, whose special rasa is erotic, or the season that brings flowers: VIKRAMORVASHIYAM: QUEST for how could an ancient sage, FOR URVASHI his person with scriptures rigid, Author: Kalidasa and interest in pleasures gone, Translated by: A N D Haksar create such an enchantress? And thus begins the passionate Penguin, ` 499 exchange between King Pururavas and Urvashi, celestial nymph extraordinaire... Purana tells how once sages Nara- Narayana were meditating and their aus- hile we kicked off this tere penance alarmed the gods so much review with a short that Indra sent apsaras to distract them. excerpt from the book, The sage Narayana took a flower and we have to confess that placed it on his thigh and from it sprung we were hooked right off Urvashi whose charms far excelled those Wthe bat. Beginning with the introduction, of the apsaras sent by Indra. They penned by the translator, Aditya Narayan Indra and apsaras in heaven — part of Ajanta art series by Vijay Kulkarni. Picture used for representational purposes returned to heaven, filled with shame and Dhairyasheel Haksar, himself for his ren- vexation at this embarrassment. dition of Kalidasa’s Vikramorvashiyam, While there are several prominent fit of rage and banishes her from heav- sidered to be among ancient India’s great- with a Sanskrit commentary by M R Surprisingly, Narayana sent Urvashi to you would lose yourself to a world where schools of thought on what the title en. Matters are coming to a head on est poets and playwrights. Although very Kale in 1889. Indra along with the other apsaras and celestial beings traverse the earthly plane. implies, the most widely accepted transla- the earthly plane where Queen little is known about his life, Kalidasa’s Getting back to our take on the book, continued to meditate. And we believe you would be eager to tion of Vikramorvashiyam is ‘Urvashi won Aushinari, chief wife of Pururavas, dis- popularity has endured for centuries Haksar has brought forth a contemporary On a contrary note, celestial beings finish reading this translation of the play by valour’. The five-act play revolves covers that her king now fancies some- through three plays, two epic poems and touch to a direct translation of the wide have been shown to throw tantrums and in one sitting, just like we did. Those around the romantic tale of Urvashi, an one else and expresses her displeasure two lyric poems. range of emotions, scenes and moods indulge in somewhat passive behaviour, interested in the scholarly consideration apsara from Indra’s court, and Pururavas, with the same. However, she later The first English translation of employed by Kalidasa while preserving its not unlike what a human who has been and critical understanding of plays will mortal ruler of Pratishthana. makes peace with Pururavas by con- Vikramorvashiyam, by an Oxford profes- poetic nobility. scorned is prone to. Quoting Haksar from find a friend in Haksar, who has provided After Pururavas rescues Urvashi veying that she accepts the situation for sor of Sanskrit, appeared in 1849. This The most prominent instance, his introduction, even when Urvashi a copious amount of notes through the from the clutches of a demon that what it is and cedes ground by consent- was followed by numerous translations according to us, among them being the takes her time to warm up to Pururavas, book. abducted her, they are besotted with ing to his union with Urvashi. over the years and the play’s most recent god-like qualities of total forgiveness and on account of the trials and tribulations Inspired by a hymn from the Rig each other. However, this poses serious Just when it looks like the pair are in English translation appeared in 1984, moral high handedness being displayed that came her way due to a curse, she is Veda, the oldest known Vedic Sanskrit problems. To the uninitiated, celestial for a happy ending on Earth, they fall courtesy of Columbia University acade- by a mere human such as Pururavas’ wife. depicted as ‘a person with human com- text, Vikramorvashiyam underwent modi- nymphs like Urvashi are expected to be prey to another curse and what follows is mic, David Gitomer. Haksar’s transla- How many of us can measure up to her, passion rather than divine disdain.’ fications with every retelling in Puranic subservient at Indra’s court. When she a pure poetic delight. While the tale has tion is based on H D Velankar’s version disregarding our own feelings just so that Drawing on nuances such as these, literature. Down the line, it is understand- accidentally utters her newfound lover’s its ups and downs, in a sense everything of the play, authorised and published by the person we love may attain what they ace translator of Sanskrit-classics, Haksar able that Kalidasa made some changes name during a drama staged by Sage turns out for the best. the Sahitya Akademy in 1961, while also seek? has retained the essence of Kalidasa’s and additions of his own, for dramatic Bharata at the court of the King of The book completes Penguin consulting a well-known text that was Urvashi’s origins, too, are charac- original work while reworking it for the effect, to his version. Gods, the celestial sage curses her in a Classics’ special series on Kalidasa, con- edited and translated the original play terised by such traits. The Bhagavata modern reader. NEW ARRIVALS The contribution of widows

KABIR, KABIR A Taste of Time: A Food History of Calcutta by Mohona Kanjilal is a well researched historical and Purushottam Agrawal With an introduction & cultural account of Calcutta’s rich gastronomical affair spanning centuries. An edited excerpt: illustrations by Devdutt Picture used for representational purposes Pattanaik engali cuisine includes a cooked with phoron, ground Westland, `599 wide variety of vegetarian spices and a little bit of sugar. Bdishes that have evolved Boris often feature in ghanto over the years. Food historians preparations. A mixed veg- Kabir: weaver of words and wisdom, are of the opinion that the wid- etable ghanto, in which mystic and rebel, a freethinker claimed by ows of Bengal have greatly con- chopped potatoes, aubergines, conservatives and liberals, the religious tributed to the evolution of its hyacinth beans and radish are and the agnostic alike. vegetarian cooking. They once cooked in oil with a phoron of Who was this fifteenth-century poet of led very repressive lives and kalo jeera and dried red chill- Varanasi whose words still speak to us? were compelled to stick to a ies, the pastes of turmeric, vegetarian diet though social coriander and cumin, salt, Was he a man of god? progress has ensured that many sugar and fried boris, and sea- of these restrictions are no soned with ghee, is commonly Did he establish a new faith or eschew longer observed or imposed. eaten with rice. Palong shaak, organised religion altogether? Their difficult lives included a in traditional Bengali cuisine, lot of dietary restrictions. They is popularly cooked into a Was his modernity an exception or a were prohibited from eating ghanto dish with vegetables reflection of the time he lived in? high protein foods like meat, like potatoes, pumpkin, fish, eggs and even musur dal A TASTE OF TIME: A FOOD aubergines and hyacinth beans. Could Kabir’s life and poetry tell us about because these were believed to HISTORY OF CALCUTTA Boris are often used in this our nation’s past and present? have libidinous effects. Garlic Mohona Kanjilal dish. Kochu shaak (stalks of and onion were also banned for Speaking Tiger, `899 colocasia leaves), a very popu- In this rare appraisal of the poet- their alleged impassioning prop- lar leafy green vegetable in the philosopher, based on a lifelong study of erties. culinary culture of East Bengal, his work, Purushottam Agrawal presents In the chapter ‘Bangla cooking. is also used to make a ghanto Kabir as he himself may have wished to be Ranna’ from their book, The The widows even experi- dish. This ghanto preparation, understood: in the context of his own time and its preoccupations. Calcutta Cookbook: A Treasury mented with the bori (‘vadi’ in which originally hails from of Recipes from Pavement to Hindi) or sun-dried lentil blob, Opar Bangla, is made with the In today’s world, polarised along the lines Palace (1995), the authors which took on a more impor- boiled and mashed stalks of of religion, caste and race, Agrawal teases describe the plight of a Bengali tant role in their kitchens. Since colocasia leaves, and features out the possibilities for balance and widow, ‘In a secluded corner of it is made of lentil, they wel- black chickpeas and coconut harmony that Kabir’s imagination presents the cookhouse, a widowed rela- comed it as an optional source meat. us with. tive sits over her own stove. She of protein. Most importantly, it Fried boris were not only has added delicate nuances to added some variety to their fru- added to vegetarian prepara- the rich vegetarian cornucopia gal dishes. The boris were fried tions but they were also eaten KEEPING IN TOUCH of Bangla ranna. Her role in the and added, in either whole or plain. The widows even devised Anjali Joseph kitchen warrants an explanation went into their dishes in order black mustard seeds and dried were made out of them. crumbled forms, to many of curry dishes made only with Context, `599 of her situation. Up to the turn to add more taste to them. red chillies. Some salt and Chachchari usually implies a their dishes. Some of their shaak these blobs like borir jhal and of the century, a ten- or twelve- One of the things that they turmeric are added to the cook- lightly spiced dry vegetable dish (leafy green vegetables) prepara- bori posto. ‘Jhal’, literally mean- Winner of the Desmond Elliot year-old girl was sometimes did was to think of different ing. In alur khosha bhaja (fried made with one or more varieties tions like palong shaak and lal ing ‘hot’, is generally a prepara- Prize, the Betty Trask Prize widowed and lived for the rest ways of making use of the wast- peels of potato), the leftover of vegetables. Often, the prepa- shaak (red spinach), and veg- tion of fish, shrimp or crab and the Crossword Book of her life dressed in white with ed parts of vegetables instead of potato peels are thoroughly ration is flavoured with mustard etable preparations like shukto cooked in mustard paste or with Award, Anjali Joseph returns her hair cropped, eating a radi- throwing them away. For exam- washed, chopped and fried in or poppy seeds paste. (a bitter and mild mixed vegeta- the paste of dried red chillies. with a finely observed tale about love. cally vegetarian diet’ (pp. 35- ple, they used the leftover peels hot mustard oil with a phoron Sometimes, the stalks of cauli- bles stew), alu begooner jhol (a Borir jhal can also be made in Keteki is charming but allergic to 36). and scrapings of vegetables to of kalo jeera and dried red chill- flower and leafy green vegeta- lightly spiced curry of potatoes either of the two ways. Fried commitment; Ved is smitten but something But, naturally, Bengali wid- make simple but delicious ies. A pinch of salt and a small bles, and even drumsticks, are and aubergines), and ghanto, boris are also cooked in a paste of a toxic bachelor. As they begin the intricate and ows craved tasty food. preparations-something which quantity of posto are added to cooked with vegetables to make made with either lau (bottle of poppy seeds, lending the dish transformative dance of a long-distance Gradually, they decided to make is unique to Bengali cooking. the cooking. Both preparations this dish. Such chachchari gourd) or chaalkumro (ash the name, bori posto. relationship, they also navigate changes in the best of the bad bargain and Lauer khosha bhaja (fried peels are eaten with steamed rice. preparations are known as gourd), featured boris. Excerpted with permission their lives. began using their innovative- of bottle gourd) is a preparation Even the stalks of cauli- danta chachchari (‘danta’ means A ghanto generally means a from A Taste of Time: A Food Set in Assam and London, Keeping in ness to add colour to their fare. in which the thinly sliced peels flower and leafy green vegeta- ‘a succulent stalk’). Thus, in this semi-dry vegetable dish made History of Calcutta by Mohona Touch is edgy, funny, and They started experimenting of the vegetable are fried in hot bles were not thrown away. land of plenty, the widows made with either one or a few comple- Kanjilal. Published by Speaking uncompromisingly modern. with the limited ingredients that mustard oil with a phoron of Instead, chachchari preparations thrift an integral part of Bengali menting vegetables, which are Tiger, 2021 HYDERABAD | SUNDAY | JUNE 27, 2021 special 09

COVIDCOVID SHIELDSHIELD COVID-19 has led to many innovations. SHALINI SAKSENA chats up such innovators who are doing their bit to fight the pandemic Mask-up the right way This is the coolest one is no gap left and the air has to go through ike lakhs of students who an external device that is con- the material and not from anywhere else. went back home when col- nected to the PPE kit. In order The idea behind the mask was to address Lleges shut during summer to connect this device with the the issue of fogging of the lens but when the vacation in 2020, Nihaal Singh suit a small hole has to be cre- second wave hit us and the virus became air Adarsh who is pursuing elec- ated in the PPE. The ventilation borne, anything that is inhaled or exhaled tronics engineering from KJ system comes with a stencil that has to be controlled and this mask did this Somaiya College of Engineering, helps to cut the precise hole in brilliantly,” Gupta explains. Mumbai also headed home in the kit with the scissors. The Made with two layers of simple cotton . His college has a incuba- device has been designed in such fabric, the mask took a week’s time to reach tor Research Innovation a way that once it is attached to its final version after trials and feedback from Incubation Design Laboratory the kit it is a tight fit and there volunteers. (Riidl) that held an open design is no leakage. Cotton fabric was used to make this competition challenge in which “The stencil that has been innovative mask. However, there is no hard invited application for any kind provided ensures that the right and fast rule that only cotton needs to be of COVID-related problem size hole is cut. Even if it is not used. One can use two-layer that uses cot- solutions. That is when the idea a precise round, the device has ton-silk mix or the three-ply light weight of Cov-tech Ventilation System been made in such a manner non-woven material used for surgical took root. that it will fit snugly. Since the masks. The Riidl is supported by final product was made, my But Gupta recommends that one uses the National Science & mother and a few doctors have cotton as an inner layer. The design has been Technology Entrepreneurship been wearing the kit and the developed mindfully to fit any average Development Board, results have been satisfactory. Indian face size which can also be extend- Department of Science & While my mother doesn’t need ed in case of larger/broader face structures. Technology, Biotechnology to wear the device since it has The good part is that this mask when made Industry Research Assistance of bacteria. This is when I got the started raining in Pune, there are doesn’t cost more than `15-`20 per piece. Council, Department of idea of developing a gadget that two hospitals — Lotus He tells you that the idea here is not to Biotechnology and Maharashtra can help ventilate the kit itself,” Multispeciality Hospital and Sai he second wave of COVID-19 shook and the nose and covers it completely. This make money but to serve the country. “Last State Innovation Society. Adarsh tells you. WE ALL KNOW THAT Sneha Hospitals in Pune. A few the nation. The numbers had just ensures that any open space around the nose year, we had designed a PPE kit and shared His start-up received the The system, he says is PPE KITS HAVE POOR units have also been sent to hos- Tstarted to go down when news head- is blocked offering extra protection prevent- it on Insta. Anybody could pick it up and NIDHI PRAYAS grant of `10 extremely economical and com- pitals pan India and are being lines once again started talking about the ing the air from outside to slip in. manufacture it, free of cost. The same is true lakh from the Department of pact which is an add-on compo- VENTILATION; IT IS used by NGOs and private prac- third wave, a wave that is far more lethal than This is not all. The design does not allow for this mask. We already shared the design Science and Technology for his nent that is to be worn around ALMOST LIKE BEING titioners,” Adarsh says. He has the second ever was. Maintaining COVID- vapours from the breath to be expelled out on social media. People can take the design prototype development and the waist over the PPE kit. sold 20 units and because of the 19 protocol has never been more important and fog up the spectacles thereby making from there and make their own mask. Unlike product innovation. “We all know that PPE kits INSIDE A PLASTIC results, there are many queries as it is today. Since the mutated variant of it extremely functional for persons wearing the normal mask this one goes around the Adarsh who is the founder have poor ventilation; it is almost BAG FOR EIGHT from other hospitals. For the Delta Virus is more powerful single cloth glasses. Third, the design is such that one nose in a bais form in a single piece,” Gupta of Watt Technovations and is the like being inside a plastic bag for manufacturing, Sanjay masks and ordinary masks may not give suf- can wear the mask for long hours without says. chief innovator of Cov-tech eight hours. What this system HOURS. WHAT THIS Technoplast. The device is ficient protection. any discomfort. Mallika Gupta, one of the volunteers Ventilation System tells you that does is take the air from outside priced at `5,499 per unit and is Another problem is that most masks do Dr Sanjay Gupellor, vice-chancellor, who was roped in to try the mask tells you his mother, Dr Poonam Kaur and filters it through a SYSTEM DOES IS a one time buy. not fit around the nose causing people to Word University of Design tells you that that the design team gave her a few designs Adarsh, is the reason how he polypropylene fibre with effi- TAKE THE AIR FROM For now, Adarsh is busy either wear it below their nose or to keep once the idea came up, it took the team a to try on. “I wear specs and yes, fogging is came up with this system. ciency of 99 per cent. It has lithi- expanding his business and adjusting them. To solve this problem, World week to come up with the final design of the a big issue when one wears a mask. The team “I asked my mother what um-ion battery that lasts for six OUTSIDE AND focus on perfecting the device. University of Design has come up with a new mask. “Before we came up with this design, tested a lot of shapes and sizes. In fact, every- were some of the problems that to eight hours and runs on FILTERS IT THROUGH After his graduation, he plans to design that provides utmost safety along with we examined many masks that were avail- one in the campus has been weaning this doctors were facing. That is pulse width modulation technol- go abroad for his masters with ease of functionality. able in the market. Mostly, these mask were mask and it can be Do It Yourself project. when she told me the problem ogy. This filter pumps air inside A POLYPROPYLENE masters in technology and a Professor Umair Khanalong with his all about the material used rather than how Since this pattern has been made public, that arises due to wearing PPE the suit which then escapes FIBRE WITH minor in entreprenuership. students and staff members have come up the mask has been made. Most of the mask there are a few players in the market who kits for long hours — the heat through space around the neck “The aim is to continue to with a face mask that not just covers the have space around the nose from where the are making this mask. Also, the pattern is and the sweat that builds up. She and the hands.So there is a con- EFFICIENCY OF innovate more products. My nose, mouth and chin but envelopes them air can pass. This is a problem for those who simple enough for a local tailor to replicate told me that there was little ven- stant flow of air inside the PPE 99 PER CENT venture in India will continue snugly. The mask has a specially designed wear spectacles — it fogs the lens. This mask it. The good part of this mask is that it has tilation and that meant that kit helping the doctors be more even if am not here. But I have extension. In fact, this is the USP of the has been designed to cover, to create a flex- been made keeping in mind the contouring doctors who be sweating pro- comfortable,” Adarsh explains. another two years to go; it is a mask. It follows the contours around the face ible extension around the nose so that there around the nose,” Mallika says. fusely leading to accumulation In other words the system is long way to go,” Adarsh says. TEST THE WATERS MUSBA HASHMI speaks with DR ANDY WARD and DR SIDDHARTH TALLUR about the low-cost sensor that they have developed to trace COVID-19 in wastewater

t was only last week that the University of Strathclyde, tells you ly costly lockdowns as a last resort can’t tell its quantity. This is some- when launched by big brands make researchers at the Indian that the design relies on the use of to stop the spread of the virus,” says thing we are working on and hope- headlines, but not when not-so- Institute of Technology (IIT) a well established PCR approach, Ward. fully should be able to achieve in a famous people do such big things, Gandhinagar has found the which can detect the presence of Dr Siddharth Tallur, Associate few months,” Tallur tells you. Tallur says, is because of lack of presence of Coronavirus in genetic material at very low concen- Professor in the Department of Coming up with something as proper marketing. Iwater. Whether the genes found trations. Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, unique as this one may give many “For scientists, to communicate were alive or dead is still a matter “We take advantage of the tells you that the sensor is like a car- people hiccups, but for Ward and their work is important, but not of investigation, but the fact in itself cheapest form of PCR — called end- tridge based instrument and each of Tallur, their expertise came to their many of us know to do it well- is enough to give red flags. point PCR — which does not them costs not more than `40 per rescue and they were able to sail enough. We expect that we sit These findings may highlight depend upon expensive laboratory cartridge. through without having to face too around and the world takes notice the need for a device that can trace equipment or infrastructure. The “This price is for the 200 car- many setbacks. and come to our doors to talk to us, the presence of Coronavirus in PCR allows small quantities of the tridges that we got as of now. If we “However, the biggest challenge it is not something that will happen. water. While it may sound a distant genetic material from the SARS- increase the production, we can was the timescales and the availabil- We need to make more conscious dream, scientists from the CoV-2 coronavirus to be amplified even bring down the cost to as low ity of reagents to support the work efforts to reach out to the public. To University of Strathclyde and the from wastewater. This is then as `10 per cartridge,” says Tallur. being carried out. At the start of the do marketing, you need people Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) placed upon an electrochemical The team started working on pandemic, these were particularly and resources, and as a Bombay have demonstrated a low- sensor that we pioneered in order to the sensor, which still in the final hard to come by, so we had to be Government-funded institute we are cost sensor that can detect frag- identify whether or not the virus is development stage, in May of 2020. innovative in the way that we made not perhaps doing it as aggressive- ments of the virus responsible for present,” explains Ward. ple to come forward for tests or have make each test count more, and “We want to give the sensor a the sensor. This actually worked ly as other private institutes. If that COVID-19 within wastewater. He adds that monitoring waste- access to tests. therefore stop new outbreaks at few touch-ups like we want to quite well and resulted in a design changes, it will be well and good, Dr Andy Ward, Chancellor’s water like this provides a way to “By detecting Coronavirus in source. This is critical to stopping introduce the quantity factor. As of that can be made using resources because at the work front, there is Fellow in the Department of Civil detect the presence of coronavirus wastewater, we can target human hospitals becoming overwhelmed now, the sensor can only find out the available in India,” says Ward. a lot happening and it can be & Environmental Engineering, quickly, without relying upon peo- diagnostic testing of the disease to and also helps prevent economical- traces of the virus in wastewater, but As to why such technologies utilised better.” kaleid scope backpage HYDERABAD | SUNDAY | JUNE 27, 2021 Know how diet affects gut microbes, health Traces of age-old arms race with here is growing evidence that our normal resident gut microorganisms, termed commensal microbes, can affect human health. Promoting Tbeneficial commensal microbes through a type of nutritional supplement called a prebiotic is an area of intensive scientific and medical research. However, trying to harness a diet with the coronaviruses written in our DNA desired effect is challenging because the gut microbial community (also known as the microbiome) is highly complex, and because dietary responses are modulated by multiple coronavirus may family of viruses in 42 family also includes the hereditary and non-hereditary factors. Writing in Nature, have swept across genes in modern popula- related MERS and SARS Delannoy-Bruno et al fill an essential gap in our mechanistic AEast Asia more than tions in these regions. viruses, both of which have understanding of diet–microbiome interactions by focusing 20,000 years ago, leaving The COVID-19 pan- caused significant deadly on dietary fibre, a family of substances of pronounced traces in the DNA of peo- demic, caused by the coro- outbreaks in the past 20 physiological virtues that are predominantly metabolized by ple in modern China, navirus SARS-CoV-2, is so years. commensal microbes. This provides a sequel to the team’s Japan and Vietnam. far responsible for more The results show how previous work on the development of microbiome-targeting Research, published in than 3.8 million deaths the hunt for genetic traces foods. To characterize the effect of dietary-fibre Current Biology, found and billions of dollars in of historical viral outbreaks supplementation in overweight individuals, Delannoy-Bruno and evidence of genetic adapta- economic losses world- may help us treat the out- colleagues used germ-free mice — animals raised and tion to the coronavirus wide. The coronavirus breaks of the future. maintained in a sterile environment that are therefore devoid of the usual resident microbes of any sort. The team colonized the gut of each of nine mouse groups with the microbiome of one of nine women classed as obese. The mice were continuously fed a low-fibre, high-fat diet, coupled with periodic fibre supplementation. Is one vax dose enough if you’ve had Covid? What the science says any people who’ve greater than, those found in Medicine at Mount Sinai in been infected with individuals who have not New York City, who has Mthe coronavirus been infected and have advised the Spanish govern- might be able to safely skip received double doses4. ment on vaccination guide- the second jab of any two- France, Germany and Italy, lines. But scientists still don’t dose vaccine regimen, a among other countries, now know whether one-jab pro- growing number of studies advise only one dose of vac- grammes for the previously suggest. These results could cine for people with a healthy infected could leave some help to stretch scarce vaccine immune system and a con- individuals with suboptimal supplies and are already firmed previous diagnosis. protection. Nor is it clear that The marks of ancient coronavirus influencing vaccination poli- Many scientists who have such programmes would be Pandemics may be as cies in some countries. But studied immune responses to effective for all types of vac- Research applied cutting-edge computational questions remain about vaccination say such policies cine. old as human history analyses to the genomes of more than 2,500 people whether the findings hold are a sensible way to make “If you have been infected Humans have had pandemics from 26 populations around the world. We found for all individuals and all the most of limited supplies before, then probably one before. In the 20th century signatures of adaptation in 42 different human genes vaccines — and therefore in countries that are racing to dose is sufficient,” says alone, three variants of the that encode VIPs. how policymakers should inoculate their populations. Giuliana Magri, an immu- influenza virus each resulted in These VIP signals were present in only five popu- respond to the findings. “To follow the current nologist at the Hospital del wide-ranging outbreaks that Adaptation to disease lations, all of them from East Asia the likely ances- Studies show that people two-dose vaccination sched- Mar Research Institute in killed millions: the Spanish Flu can leave genetic traces tral homeland of the coronavirus family. This sug- with previous exposure to ule in previously infected Barcelona, Spain. But putting of 1918-20, the Asian Flu of gests the ancestors of modern East Asians were ini- SARS-CoV-2 tend to mount individuals, when there are that knowledge into prac- 1957-58, and the Hong Kong Flu Over the past few decades, geneticists have devised tially exposed to coronaviruses around 25,000 years powerful immune responses millions of people waiting for tice? “It’s complicated,” she of 1968-69. powerful statistical tools to uncover genetic traces of ago. Further testing revealed that the 42 VIPs are to single shots, and gain little their first dose, simply does concedes. Historical records of outbreaks historical adaptation events that remain present with- primarily expressed in the lungs, which is the tissue added benefit from another not make sense,” says Jordi There’s ample laboratory- caused by viruses and other in the genomes of people living today. These tools most affected by COVID-19 symptoms. We also injection1,2,3. What’s more, Ochando, an immunologist based evidence that people pathogens stretch back thou- have allowed scientists to discover genes that mark confirmed these VIPs interact directly with the for people with immunity at the Icahn School of who’ve been infected by sands of years. It seems plausible adaptations for high-altitude living and the adult SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the current pan- gained through infection, SARS-CoV-2 benefit from that these interactions go back consumption of milk, among other things. demic. one dose typically boosts vaccination, prompting the even further, to the earliest peri- Our team was curious to see whether historical Other independent studies have also shown that antibody numbers to levels World Health Organization ods of human prehistory. encounters with ancient coronaviruses have left any mutations in VIP genes may mediate SARS-CoV-2 that are equal to, or and other public-health The ancient migrations that such trace in today's human populations. Besides susceptibility and the severity of COVID-19 symp- often agencies to recommend that saw our ancestors spread out from revealing historical coronavirus outbreaks, this infor- toms. In addition, several VIP genes are either cur- such individuals still get vac- Africa across the world would mation may hold new insights in the genetic basis of rently being used as drug targets for COVID-19 cinated. There’s less clarity, have introduced them to new coronavirus infection and how these viruses cause treatments or are part of clinical trials for this pur- however, on whether they pathogens. Like many other envi- disease in modern humans. pose. Several of the adaptive VIPs identified in the need to roll up their sleeves ronmental challenges, these Viruses are simple creatures with one objective: to study are also drug targets for other types of viruses, twice. ancient viral encounters may have make more copies of themselves. But their simple such as Zika virus and hepatitis C. Several of these triggered adaptions that helped biological structure means they cannot reproduce drugs have been successfully repurposed, and sug- our ancestors survive. These independently. gests that others could potentially be repurposed for adaptations may have included Instead, they must invade the cells of other organ- COVID-19 treatment. physiological or immunological isms and hijack their molecular machinery. Viral By uncovering the genes impacted by historical changes that improved resistance invasions involve attaching and interacting with spe- viral outbreaks, our study points to the promise of to infection or reduced the health cific proteins produced by the host cell, which the evolutionary genetic analyses as a new tool for fight- impacts of the disease. study call viral interacting proteins (VIPs). ing future outbreaks.

op Biden administration health officials trying to slow the armers from the Japanese village of Kiso in White House vs Delta variant spread of the Covid-19 Delta variant have largely given up on Nagano Prefecture have formed a “monkey Tthe possibility of reinstating mask and social-distancing rules Monkey militia mount vigil Fmilitia” to deal with the primate pests that in favor of a grassroots vaccine education campaign. The Centers keep raiding their crops.Located in the Kaida for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Highlands at the foot of Mount Ontake, Kiso has Human Services and the White House Covid-19 Task Force have an ideal climate for farming. Crops thrive, discussed whether to press mayors and governors in the especially sweet corn, but this also makes them a Midwest and South, where the highly transmissible Delta variant particularly attractive target for monkeys.In the is spreading quickly, to once again require mask mandates, past, people have tried scaring off the monkeys according to three senior Biden health officials. But the with shouts and bottle rockets, but these proved administration ultimately concluded that many people who are ineffective. Now, a group of roughly 30 farmers not vaccinated are also those who have resisted wearing masks. and other workers have formed the “monkey Instead, the federal government will try to convince hesitant chaser” squad and will be more proactive in Americans to get vaccinated by working with state officials and fighting off the simian invasion.The town spent trusted community members to communicate the benefits of the 850,000 yen ($80,000) on 30 air guns and a shots, the three senior officials said. The president’s team is not supply of pellets.[2] Earlier this month, the confident that the new campaign will change hearts and minds, “monkey fighters” underwent training in order to the two officials said, but it is falling back on old messaging in learn how to use their new weapons. From now part because top administration officials are unsure what other on, they will patrol their crops regularly. Should tactics will work. Only about 46 percent of the U.S. population is they spot monkeys munching on their corn, they vaccinated, and the number of doses administered has fallen by will alert the rest via group-messaging app. The almost 300,000 per day since June 7, according to the Centers entire squad will gather and fire warning shots to for Disease Control and Prevention. scare off the animals. Mysterious skull fossils expand human family tree ossils found in China and ly classified it as a new species — they interacted with others, and trac- described in 2015; and Filipino H. Israel dating from around dubbed Dragon Man — which might ing their evolution are all difficult luzonensis, detailed in 2019. F140,000 years ago are adding be an even closer relative to modern and contentious: “It’s very messy,” These species overlapped in time to the ranks of hominins that mixed humans than are Neanderthals. says Jeffrey Schwartz, an anthropolo- with modern humans, which are and mingled with early modern But both findings have sparked gist and evolutionary biologist at the thought to have emerged from Africa humans. debate among scientists. The studies University of Pittsburgh in and spread into Israel and other The fossils from Israel hint that a are based on analyses of the size, Pennsylvania. Since 2000, the view of regions some 200,000 years ago, and previously unknown group of shape and structure of fossilized human evolution during the past half Neanderthals (H. neanderthalis), hominins, proposed to be the direct bones — methods that are subject to a million years has become ever- which had a stronghold in Europe ancestors of Neanderthals, might individual judgement and interpreta- more complicated as researchers have 300,000 years ago and were outcom- have dominated life in the Levant tion. As is often the case for fossil added to the list of species in the peted by, or subsumed into, modern and lived alongside Homo sapiens. finds, there is no DNA evidence. genus Homo that lived in the Middle humans by around 40,000 years ago. Meanwhile, researchers Separating early and Late Pleistocene. The family tree studying an extremely hominin specimens now includes the Indonesian well-preserved into unique H. floresiensis, discov- ancient human species, ered in 2003; Scuba Diver finds message skull found in working Siberian China in the out if Denisovans, 1930s have and identified in controversial- how 2010; South in a bottle from 1926 African magine finding a message some- of paper inside the bottle. H. naledi, one wrote for you nearly a centu- Ms Dowker, who owns tour compa- Iry ago. Fascinating, right? And ny Nautical North Family Adventures, this isn't a movie we are talking about. returned to the deck and took a few What's even more fascinating is the pictures of the treasure she had found place where this message was found— in the deep waters of the Michigan deep into a river, inside a green- river. Posting the pictures on the offi- coloured glass bottle. Jennifer Dowker, cial Facebook handle of Nautical a scuba diver who owns a boat tour North Family Adventures, she wrote, company, found the green bottle with “So, look what I found when I was the message written in 1926. “Will the washing windows (and cruising along person who finds this bottle return with the fish)... any Morrows out there this paper to George Morrow know a George Morrow that would've Cheboygan, Michigan and tell where it written this circa 1926? COOLEST was found?” read the note on a piece night diving EVER.”