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c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I TUESDAY I 22 OCTOBER 2019 WEATHER WORLD 10 TABLOID O SPORTS 13 Max: 28.9 C | | Min: 22.2OC RH: 89% Boris denied new India 2 wickets away Growing the fruits Rain: 2.2mm Brexit deal vote from 3-0 sweep of SA of her labour Forecast: Cloudy sky. Thundershower, rain likely. Max/Min 32/22ºC deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 82 No. 292 Established 1938 | 32 PAGES | `4.00 RTC has no money for salaries Advantage TRS Tells Telangana High Court it has only `7.49 cr, requires `239.68 cr to pay September salaries in Huzurnagar VUJJINI VAMSHIDHARA | DC Punters strike it rich on bypoll HYDERABAD, OCT. 21 S.N.C.N. ACHARYULU | DC The Telangana state gov- Congress strike HYDERABAD, OCT. 21 EXIT POLLS SEE BIG ernment and the Road Tra- BIG WIN FOR BJP nsport Corporation (RTC) After promising through- management informed the out the campaign to be a ● In Maharashtra, High Court that they are hits traffic hard cliffhanger, the Huzur- exit polls projected unable to pay September nagar byelection finally salaries to the RTC staff on ADITYA CHUNDURU | DC Congress leaders, who had seems to have tilted on up to 243 seats for strike. The 49,000 striking HYDERABAD, OCT. 21 tried to lay siege to the voting day towards S. the BJP-Shiv Sena workers salaries total near- CM’s residence, Pragathi Saidi Reddy, the candidate alliance and up to 90 ly `240 crore, while the RTC Hyderabadis reporting for Bhavan, near Begumpet. of the ruling Telangana for the Congress-NCP has only `7 crore. work on Monday morning Heavy security was deploy- Rashtra Samiti (TRS). in the 288-member TSRTC managing director were in for a rude shock. ed along the road. As a Despite political analysts Sunil Sharma said this in Across the city, at several result, traffic crawled at an portending a clean win for Assembly. an affidavit before the locations, many found excruciatingly slow pace. the TRS, punters are still ● bench led by Justice themselves stuck in Murali, a techie in Hitec able to inveigle huge In Haryana, they Abhinand Kumar Shavili, bumper-to-bumper traffic. City, said he left his amounts on bets about the projected 75 seats for dealing with two petitions The traffic was largely Neredmet home at 9.30 am. likely winner of the politi- the BJP and 15 for of the Telangana Jathiya caused by shortage of “I was stuck between cally crucial bypoll battle. the Congress in the Mazdoor Union and TSRTC TSRTC buses and the Paradise and Panjagutta According to sources, Bahujana Karimika Union reopening of schools and for nearly two hours. It Mumbai-based bookies 90-member House. pleading for a direction to colleges after prolonged took me another 45 min- are offering an incredible TSRTC to pay the salaries Dasara vacations. utes to get to my office,” he equal amount to punters for September, 2019. The heaviest traffic was said. The traffic, coupled on their bets either side, organised betting games. Asked for a response, Mr reported on the Secund- with the shortage of be it the TRS or the The Huzurnagar byelec- Sharma said the critical erabad-Panjagutta stretch, TSRTC buses on the road, Congress; with no takers tion had created an unusu- financial position made where commutes got meant waiting times at bus or interest for other candi- ally huge interest in polit- RTC unable to pay the extended by as much as stops on this stretch got dates, including the meek ical circles as both the salaries on the first of every two hours in some cases. even longer. One Twitter also-rans of the BJP and TRS and the Congress had month from its own Bikers were seen resting user complained that he TD. Bookies were report- made it a battle of high resources. It depended on against cars for some had been stuck at edly offering 95 paisa per stakes, making the result government assistance to reprieve. Commuters Rasoolpura waiting more rupee to punters for a bet a pointer to not only their pay staff wages. tweeted that the nine-km- than an hour for a bus. in favour either TRS or acceptance and strength, RTC is left with only `7.49 long stretch took more The Metro offered little Congress. but also a crucial factor to crore whereas `239.68 crore than an hour to cover, and solace. Cabins of trains Estimates put the likely future narrative. was required to pay they were all in the dark as running on this stretch amount of money put on Generally, most bookies September salaries. to why this was happening. were packed to the brim, bets only on Huzurnagar conduct their own surveys J. Ramchander Rao, addi- Sai Kumar, commuting with commuters jostling in Mumbai circles at and base the calculation of tional advocate general rep- from A.S. Rao Nagar to for space and bodies about `50 crore. odds and the rewards they resenting TSRTC, told the Ameerpet, said he had seen crushed into the steel In addition to this, some offer to punters based on court that the strike pre- such traffic only during walls. local politicians and busi- these survey findings. vented the RTC from realis- heavy rains. nessmen were placing ing the money. More than The jam here was the ■ Page 2: Begumpet Metro huge bets amongst close ■ Page 6: Exit polls predict `125 crore of revenue was result of protests by station shut down circles and personally a win for TRS lost during the Dasara festi- val season due to the strike. The RTC could not pay workers. Chikkudu Prabhakar, counsel for the petitioners, informed the court that employees on strike have been on duty in September in spite of which RTC is not paying them, making them the equivalent of bonded labour. He added that 75 per cent of buses are being run, gen- erating revenue. He prayed for a direction to RTC to pay from that. Rao countered that it would be used to pay part-time employees who have been working to pro- Traffic on one of the busiest stretches — Secunderabad to Begumpet — came to a grind- vide transport facilities as ing halt on Monday following stepped up security at Pragathi Bhavan, the office-cum- regular employees were on residence of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, to thwart Congress dharna in support strike. The case was of the striking RTC drivers. — S. SURENDER REDDY adjourned to 29 October. Fire in Shine Hospital kills baby DURGA PRASAD SUNKU | DC admitted their baby on in critical condition. “So we HYDERABAD, OCT. 21 Thursday. “It is clearly the dropped the plan to take the negligence of the hospital baby to another hospital,” A fire in the neonatal ICU authorities which caused he said. (NICU) of Shine children my nephew’s death,” he The baby’s father lodged a hospital at LB Nagar early said. complaint with police Monday killed an infant According to Mr Suder- against the hospital’s man- and injured five others. The shan, there was a short cir- aging director, Suneel babies were low birth- cuit in the NICU, during Kumar, as well as the on- weight and being treated which time the children duty Dr Mohan. for pneumonia. were brought out of ICU The ICU had no smoke Out of a total 42 children and kept outside without detectors or fire alarms, at the hospital, six were in any incubator support or fire officers said in their ICU. oxygen. preliminary investigation. The fire started at the The hospital staff assured Other parents rushed out ICU’s refrigerator. D. The infant victim him there was nothing to with their babies in their Manasa’s son, a pneumonia worry about; when the fam- arms. patient, had burns all over The boy’s uncle, D. ily spoke of taking the baby his body, which was cov- Sudershan, said his brother away the staff said it was ■ Page 4: Hospital lacks fire ered completely with soot. Naresh and Manasa had dangerous to shift an infant safety equipment NATIONAL | SURVEY Stressful traffic conditions lead to diseases Long commutes result in road rage PAVAN RAO K. | DC likely to exhibit road rage if Going by the National an individual’s physiology. BENGALURU, OCT. 21 they were held up in traffic Crime Records Bureau, “It’s a serious concern, and and were getting late for 4,255 incidents of road rage more people are succumb- It has long been suspected work and could over-react were reported in Bengaluru ing to stress brought on by and now it is confirmed in their responses to the in 2015 and 50.1 per cent of staying in their vehicles for that with life becoming traffic police and other dri- those involved were too long, leading to all sorts increasingly fast-paced in vers. Exhibiting a greater injured in such incidents. of trouble like depression, the metropolitan cities, peo- degree of rancour, 16 per While the National Family hypertension, anxiety, ple are suffering from stre- cent of those surveyed said Health Survey — 4 makes rage, diabetes, fatigue, and ss during long commutes to they “were more likely” to no reference to traffic indu- even heart disease,” it adds. work and are becoming misbehave with other dri- ced stress, it says 10 per Dr Aviva Pinto Rodrigues, prone to road rage. vers or traffic police and cent of men in Bengaluru fertility consultant, Nova An ‘Age of Rage’ national disobey traffic laws.