Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 OPINION 6 MONEY 8 SPORTS 12 Published From HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW UNITING GOVT PLANS FURTHER STAKE 2 SA PLAYERS TEST BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH SIKHS SALE IN IRCTC, INVITES BIDS VIRUS POSITIVE BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 2 ISSUE 312 HYDERABAD, FRIDAY AUGUST 21, 2020; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable NITHYA LIKELY TO PLAY A SUPPORTING ROLE IN SHYAM SINGHA ROY { Page 11 } www.dailypioneer.com GURGAON BUILDING TILTS DUE TO RUSSIA OPPOSITION LEADER IN JAL SHAKTI MINISTER +VE, APEX RUSSIA TO PARTNER WITH INDIA HEAVY RAIN, RESIDENTS FLEE COMA AFTER ‘POISONING’ COUNCIL MEET MAY BE PUT OFF FOR PRODUCING COVID VACCINE he residents of a four-storey house in Gurgaon have been moved out he Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was in intensive care he August 25th Apex Council meet will have to be postponed once ussia is looking for a partnership with India for Tafter the building tilted following heavy rain. The building in Sector 46 Tin a Siberian hospital on Thursday after he fell ill in what his Tagain as Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekawath has Rproducing COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, Kirill has been vacated, the police told news agency ANI. Gurgaon near Delhi, spokeswoman said was a suspected poisoning. Navalny, a 44- tested Covid-19 positive. The Minister mentioned on his Twitter handle Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment the Millennium City with multiple malls, high- year-old lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner who is that he tested positive and got himself admitted to hospital on the Fund (RDIF), said on Thursday. Addressing an online rises and offices of multinational companies, among President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, was advice of doctors. He asked all those who met him over the last one press briefing, Dmitriev said several nations are has been severely challenged in two days of being treated in a hospital in the city of Omsk after he week to go for tests and stay isolated at home. Gajendra Singh interested in the production of the vaccine from countries heavy downpour. The area where the building is lost consciousness on a flight to Moscow and his was to chair the Apex Council meeting scheduled initially for in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. "The production located was severely flooded after yesterday's plane made an emergency landing. His spokeswoman August 5 in which Telugu States Chief Ministers K of the vaccine is a very important issue. Currently, we are looking downpour, according to the police.Earlier Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter that Navalny had been Chandrasekhar Rao and YS Jagan Mohan Reddy were for a partnership with India. We believe that they are capable of producing the Thursday, a part of the major road in near the placed in a coma on a ventilator and that tests were supposed to participate to discuss issues concerning Gamaleya vaccine and it is very important to say that those partnerships to busy IFFCO Chowk in Gurgaon caved in. being carried out. projects being constructed on Krishna and Godavari rivers. produce the vaccine will enable us to cover the demand that we have," he said. AP patients pick Hyderabad Double whammy for farmers: hospitals for Covid treatment Crop loss and no insurance! L VENKAT RAM REDDY n HYDERABAD Hundreds of patients from AP districts throng corporate hospitals The continual spells of heavy rains across Telangana over the NAVEENA GHANATE themselves admitted to corpo- corporate hospital in Banjara past one week have dealt a n HYDERABAD rate hospitals in Hyderabad. Hills said, “Just today I saw a double whammy to farmers Moreover, some of the AP patient from Nandyal, anoth- Want Covid19 across the state. Although Gangwar calls What if testing rates are high? hospitals are referring patients er from Kurnool; and this has treatment? crops over an extent of 5 lakh for total Treatment counts, no matter in critical condition to been the case for the past two acres have been damaged, costs. This seems to be the Hyderabad. weeks. Not just me, even my farmers are not in a position to digitalisation of refrain of many Covid-19 A doctor colleagues in other private ask no bill or claim crop insurance as the Labour Bureau patients in Andhra Pradesh working in hospitals shared the same with state government had scrapped who are opting for private a big regard to patients coming from insurance PM Fasal Bima Yojana with hospitals in Hyderabad when Rajahmundry, Vijayawada, HYDERABAD: No Bill and No effect from this Kharif season aged crops over an extent of 5 The worst-affected districts it comes to treatment. Kurnool”. insurance has become norm for abruptly without introducing lakh acres, including that over include Mulugu, Bhupalapally, Private hospitals in Rambabu from hospitals in City for providing its own version of crop insur- an extent of 2 lakh acres Warangal urban, Warangal 8 Hyderabad are witnessing Rajahmundry said, treatment for Covid19. To avoid ance scheme promised earlier. washed away completely. The rural, Jagangoan, Kothagudem, an influx of Covid-19 “We brought our rel- the wrath of government and As per preliminary esti- crops washed away includes Mahabubabad, and Siddepet patients from the neigh- ative from media scrutiny, private hospitals mates of the state agriculture paddy and cotton in 1.70 lakh districts. bouring states, particu- Rajamundry to in the city are asking people to department, heavy rains over acres and other crops over larly Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad and got pay in Cash, reducing the cost if the past one week have dam- 30,000 acres. 2 Due to the lockdown, him admitted to they don't seek bill and are not initially the Telugu Continental admitting patients with states witnessed Hospital. We tried insurance. An admin from a reverse migration; to get a bed in a cou- private hospital in Hyderabad on CBI books yet, now ple of private hospi- condition of anonymity said, IMD issues red patients are tals in Rajahmundry "We don't get margin at the Hyd-based Elite largely pre- and Vijayawada. rates specified. ferring to get 2 2 alert for 20 districts Infra in Rs 26 cr AT 23RANK IN SWACCH SURVEKSHAN PNS n HYDERABAD Jayashankar Bhupalpally, bank fraud DST to set up Tech Mulugu, Warangal (urban and PNS n HYDERABAD The India Meteorological rural), Mahabubabad, Innovation Hub at Department (IMD) Bhadradri Kothagudem, Sleuths of the Central Bureau issued a red warning Khammam, Nalgonda, of Investigation have booked IIIT Hyderabad Hyd is ‘Best Mega City’ in country for the state on Suryapet, and Jangaon. a case against the directors of Thursday, predict- A red warning is a Hyderabad-based Elite Infra Naidu bats for PNS n HYDERABAD TS stands 8th in Swachta among states with <100ULBs ing “heavy to very sign of massive Projects Private Limited representation of heavy rain with flooding/water Company for allegedly women in legislature The International Institute PNS n HYDERABAD extremely heavy logging in diverting funds to the tune of of Information Technology rain” at isolated many parts Rs 26 crore. (IIITH) here on Thursday Hyderabad has been awarded places in 20 dis- of low The city branch of the said it has been selected for with "Best Mega City in Citizen tricts of lying areas CBI has registered a case 5 setting up a Technology Feedback" under 40 Lakh pop- Telangana. in the dis- against directors B Nagi Innovation Hub (TIH) on ulation category in the Swachh Red alert tricts of Reddy and B. Narsimha data driven technologies Survekshan 2020. Telangana is has been Telangana. It also Reddy under 120 B, 420, with a Rs 110 crore fund- at 8 the rank in Swachh issued for indicates massive falling of 406 (criminal conspiracy, ing from the Union among the states which have Adilabad, trees and electric poles over cheating, criminal breach) Department of Science and less than 100 ULBs. Also Komaram different roads, leading to of the Indian Penal Code Technology (DST). Hyderabad secured 23 posi- Bheem, Nizamabad, Nirmal, total collapse of transport in and 13 (2) r/w 13 (1) (d) of The National Mission tions in Swachh Survekshan Kamareddy, Jagtial, Rajanna the some areas of the districts the Prevention of on Interdisciplinary Ranks as against 35 in 2019. Sircilla, Mancherial, for some hours to a few days. Corruption Act. Cyber-Physical GHMC in Swacch Survekshan Peddapalli, Karimnagar, 2 2 Systemsunder the DST has ranking is ahead of Greater Mayor Bonthu Ram Mohan credited the civic staff and public representatives' chosen the IIITH for Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, cooperation for Hyderabad's record on the sanitation front establishing the hub which and North and South Delhi will play a pivotal role in Metro Cities. progress from January 2019 till different innovations and developing and promot- While Indore is ranked as December 2019 under Swachh practises, including Green Concerned over numbers: ing data-driven technolo- cleanest city for fourth time, Bharat Mission Urban (SBM- Kiosk, India's first exclusive gies and artificial intelli- Vijayawada and U) covering 4,384 cities. The Dog Park and Twin bins gence and machine learn- Vishakapatnam are among the Union government released made from Recycled Plastic ing across the country, it top ten cities. Swachh these rankings on Thursday. and the Feed the Need initia- Governor on CCMB study said in a release. Survekshan - 2020 rankings GHMC was also appreciat- tive. Kavitha quietly 2 are based on an assessment of ed for implementation of 2 PNS n HYDERABAD challenging the Telangana Governor Tamilisai BJP urges Guv to social media Soundararajan on Thursday seek Centre's games of BJP expressed concern over the Rahul Gandhi sounds Air fares to go up estimates of a new study that at least six lakh people in the intervention Govt to charge higher aviation security fee from Sept 1 city may have been infected by Hyderabad: Former Telanganga 4 ‘dire warning’ on jobs coronavirus.