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CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT: PARL PANEL FATHER NOT OWNER, EVERY CHILD HAS SC RULES IN AMAZON'S FAVOUR ON RAJIV KHEL RATNA RENAMED AFTER FOR RELOOK AT INDUS WATER TREATY RIGHT TO USE MOTHER'S SURNAME: HC FRL-RELIANCE RETAIL MERGER DEAL HOCKEY LEGEND MAJOR DHYAN CHAND parliamentary panel has recommended renegotiating father does not own the daughter to dictate terms and he Supreme Court Friday ruled in favour of US-based e- ndia's highest sporting honour Khel Ratna Award, which the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan to address the every child has a right to use his or her mother's commerce giant Amazon by holding that Singapore's was named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, was Aimpact of climate change on water availability in the Asurname, the Delhi High Court on Friday observed. The TEmergency Arbitrator award, restraining the Rs 24,731 Ion Friday rechristened in the honour of hockey wizard river basin and other challenges which are not covered observation came while hearing a plea by a minor girl's crore merger deal of Future Retail Ltd with Reliance Retail, Dhyan Chand. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he had under the agreement. The Standing Committee on Water father seeking direction to the authorities to reflect his name was valid and enforceable under Indian laws. The court also been getting many requests from citizens across to Resources has also recommended that India should as his daughter's surname in the documents and not her dealt with the larger question and as a proposition of law, name the Khel Ratna Award after Dhyan Chand. "Respecting constantly monitor the Chinese actions so as to ensure that mother's name. Justice Rekha Palli declined to pass such a held that an award of an EA of a foreign country is enforc- their sentiment, the Khel Ratna Award will hereby be called they do not pursue any major interventions on the direction and said, "A father does not own the daughter to eable under the Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act. FRL the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award! Major Dhyan Brahmaputra river which could adversely affect India's dictate that she should use only his surname. If the minor is had argued that an EA is not an arbitrator under the Indian Chand was among India's foremost sportspersons who national interests. happy with her surname, what is your problem?" law as the term doesn’t find any mention in the statute here. brought honour and pride for India”, he tweeted. Cabinet signals intent with nod for Lokayukta, SHRC at Kurnool

SNV SUDHIR n VIJAYAWADA Recommendation In a key decision, the YS Jagan- Double Olympics medallist PV Sindhu shows the bronze medal she won at the Tokyo Games to divest 10.4 pc to Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy as her family members and Minister M Srinivas mohan Reddy government on Friday decided to shift the State look on, at the Chief Minister’s Office in Vijayawada on Thursday. headquarters of Lokayuktha and stake in GPL AP State Human Rights Commi- ssion from Hyderabad in neigh- accepted Sindhu calls on CM, bouring Telangana to Kurnool, which has been designated as PNS n VIJAYAWADA judicial capital of as per the three-capital formula. The State Council of Ministers on gets deserving praise The State Cabinet that had Friday approved the recommen- met here on Friday took a deci- dations of the six-member Emp- PNS n VIJAYAWADA Information and Public Relations sion in this regard. owered Committee of Secretaries Commissioner T Vijay Kumar Until now, no major head- to divest the State government's Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy and officials presented a quarters or offices are function- 10.4 percent stake in Gangavaram Reddy on Friday felicitated ace cash prize of Rs 30 lakh to Sindhu ing from Kurnool, though it's Port Limited (GPL) for a "fair badminton player PV Sindhu for on behalf of the Andhra Pradesh been more than a year since the price" of Rs 120 per share. winning the bronze medal at the government. State Assembly passed a Bill The Cabinet had in May this Tokyo Olympics. SAAP chairman Byreddi paving the way for three capitals Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy chairs the meeting of the State Cabinet on Friday. year approved the merger of GPL Sindhu, along with her family Siddhartha Reddy also congratu- - Legislative capital Amaravati, with Adani Ports and SEZ members called on the Chief Min- lated Sindhu. He said that Sindhu Executive capital Vizag and judi- Limited (APSEZ). APSEZ later ister at his camp office here where is a huge inspiration for youngsters cial capital Kurnool. sought to buy the 10.4 percent Jagan felicitated the Olympics who wish to make sports their Due to the ongoing hearing of equity held by the AP government medallist with a shawl and a career. He praised Sindhu's achie- cases filed by Amaravati farmers Nod to reforms in education for Rs 645.1 crore. memento. vement of winning medals at con- in the High Court, the YSRCP Alternatively, it offered shares Sindhu showed the Olympics secutive Olympics and said that she government has refrained from worth Rs 645.1 crore to the AP medal to the Chief Minister and was the pride of the country and shifting any government office to n Revised DPR for Machilipatnam, Bhavanapadu ports, government in the new entity thanked him for his continued sup- of the Telugu people. Vizag and any judiciary related consequent to the merger. port and blessings. He wished her more success in office to Kurnool. RUDA, feasibility report of Dagadarthi airport approved On June 4, the government co- Jagan asked her to start her pro- the future. In fact, whenever he met Home nstituted the Empowered Com- posed Badminton Academy soon Speaking to the media after Minister Amit Shah, the Chief PNS n VIJAYAWADA With the revised DPR, has already distributed compensa- mittee of Secretaries to implement and train youngsters. meeting the Chief Minister, Sindhu Minister requested the former to tion of Rs 2,38,00,70,000 to the process of "disinvestment" and After her meeting with the said that the State government was issue notification shifting the AP The State Cabinet, headed by Chief the State government 3,40,000 Agri Gold victims who merger of GPL with APSEZ. Chief Minister, Minister Mutta- on the forefront of encouraging High Court to Kurnool. To this, Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy on can save around Rs have deposited less than Rs 10,000 The state government provid- mshetti Srinivas, Special Chief players. 2 Jagan had always received a cold Friday, took several key decisions, 700 crore while and the Cabinet gave its approval ed 1,800 acres of land, valued at Secretary Rajat Bhargava, response from the Centre. including approving Jagananna to clear payments of Rs 500 crore Rs 54 crore, as its 10.40 percent Taking this into consideration, Vidya Kanuka, education reforms, developing to four lakh Agrigold victims, who equity in the Gangavaram Port. the State Cabinet, based on the compensation to Agrigold victims Machilipatnam port. had deposited less than Rs 20,000, The Port began its commercial opinion of the High Court, and an additional Rs 10 lakh pack- on August 24. operations on April 17, 2009 and approving shifting of the age for the Polavaram project dis- The Cabinet also approved an so far remitted Rs 277.97 crore to VSP workers stage protest as APSHRC and Lokayukta head- placed families. The Cabinet also All schools, including additional Rs 10 lakh R&R pack- the State government, including quarters to Kurnool marks a key approved revised DPRs for Mach- Anganwadi centres, Zilla Parishad age for the families displaced for Rs 183.56 crore as 2.1 percent rev- juncture in the YSRCP govern- ilipatnam and Bhavanapadu ports Schools, Municipal and Tribal the Polavaram project. The Cabinet enue share out of the gross Nirmala reaches Vizag, arrested ment's long-term plans. and also setting up of Rajahmund- Welfare schools have been classi- also approved sanction of one income. The EGoS went by the PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM of police personnel that was "The Cabinet has decided to ry Urban Development Authority. fied into six categories - Satellite Motor Vehicle Inspector, one Junior recommendations of SBICAP and deployed at the airport refused to shift Lokayukta from Hyderabad With the revised DPR, the State Foundation Schools (PP1 &PP 2), Assistant/ Senior Assistant and also took advice from other major Hundreds of Visakhapatnam Steel allow them into the Airport prem- to Kurnool in view of the opinion government can save around Rs Foundation Schools (PP1, PP2, three Home Guard posts for a new consultants before suggesting that Plant workers, including trade ises. The workers staged a dharna expressed by the High Court and 700 crore while developing Class 1 and 2), Foundation School unit office at Punganur in Chittoor the state government sell its stake union leaders, were arrest- on the highway, disrupting also to notify the headquarters of Machilipatnam port. Plus (PP1, PP2, Classes 1-5), Pre- district. for Rs 120 per share "as a fair price ed and shifted to various traffic flow. AP State Human Rights Commi- Briefing the media after the High School ( Classes 3-7/8), High Nani said the Cabinet approved in case of a direct sale". police stations in the Slogan shouting ssion at Kurnool," I&PR Minister Cabinet meeting, Information and School (Classes 3-10) and High organising the YSR Lifetime It also suggested that Rs 120 per city on Friday evening ensued, with cries of Perni Venkataramaiah told rep- Public Relations Minister Perni School Plus (Classes 3-12). Achievement Awards and YSR share be set as the reserve price when they tried to "Nirmala Sitharaman orters after the Cabinet meeting. Venkatramaiah (Nani) said that Nani said that textbooks are be- Achievement Awards function on in case of a bid process. "The submit a representa- Go Back" and "Save When asked if shifting these proposals for transforming educa- ing printed in English and Telugu. August 13. He said the Cabinet also Cabinet approved the report and tion to Union RINL" reverberating. offices to Kurnool is part of tional infrastructure and to bring He said the Cabinet has approved Andhra Pradesh Bovine the recommendations of the Finance Minister When some of the Jagan's three-capital formula, the in comprehensive academic and approved to launch YSR Nethanna Breeding Ordinance 2021, opera- EGoS," top official sources said. Nirmala Sitharaman. workers tried to enter Minister questioned if Kurnool administrative reforms were Nestham scheme on August 10 for tional guidelines for auctioning of According to government esti- The VSP workers the airport premises, was not part of Andhra Pradesh. approved. providing Rs 24,000 per annum to fishery wealth in the public water mates, the new entity operated by and trade union leaders the police arrested and "Can't the city have such offices? He disclosed that the Cabinet every weaver family that owns a bodies of 100 hectares and above APSEZ could increase the port had reached the Vizag air- shifted them to various Is it in a desert where no one can approved the launch of Jagananna handloom for the third consecutive across the state, policy on seed pro- business to 40-45 million tonnes, port to submit a representation to police stations in the city. survive?" Nani asked, stating that Vidya Kanuka, dedication of phase- year. The decision will benefit duction through RBKs. He fur- from the current 32-35 million the Finance Minister urging a Meanwhile, the Finance the government decision was 1 of Nadu-Nedu programme to the around four lakh weavers while the nished the status note on Kharif tonnes, in the short term and gen- rethink on the Centre's decision to Minister arrived from Delhi and based purely on the opinion nation and launch of Phase-2 of State will bear an additional expen- and other seasonal crops. erate a revenue share of Rs 30 privatise the plant. under strict security, her convoy expressed by the High Court. Nadu Nedu programme on August diture of Rs 200 crore. crore per annum to the state. However, as there was no per- moved to Visakhapatnam Port 2 16. Nani said the State government 2 2 mission for the gathering, a posse Guest. TODAY HC directs AP govt ALMANAC All 6.37 lakh Polavaram work at crucial stage Month & Paksham: not to hold elections Ashadha & Krishna Paksha PNS n VIJAYAWADA PNS n VIJAYAWADA Panchangam applicants declared Contractors of Polavaram multi- Tithi : Chaturdashi 19:11 In yet another setback to the rul- purpose project, Megha Nakshatram : Punarvasu 08:15 ing YSRCP government, the Engineering Company Ltd (MEIL), Time to Avoid : Time to Avoid (Bad to have cleared SSC Andhra Pradesh High Court on on Friday began excavation for the time to start any important work) Friday issued a stay order on the hydroelectric power station pres- ordinance to hold elections for sure tunnels, thereby reaching a Rahukalam : 9:11 am - 10:46 am PNS n VIJAYAWADA Details of student grades for the corporations and municipalities crucial juncture of the project. Yamagandam : 1:57 pm - 3:32 pm 2021 academic year can be found where a few villages are merged Every year, 3,000 tmc ft of water Varjyam : 4:37 pm - 6:17 pm All the 6.37 lakh students who had by selecting the district, zone, into them. from the Godavari goes waste into registered for the Secondary school, student name and In all, 46 petitions were filed by the sea - much more than con- Gulika : 6:00 am - 7:36 am School Certificate (Class date of birth. Grades are villagers against the merger of sumed in the State. If this water is Good Time : (to start any important work) 10) were declared passed released for March their villages into the corporations utilised, the State has the potential on Friday, the second 2020 and June 2021 and municipalities. The petitions to develop and move forward in all Amritakalam : 2:38 am - 4:18 am year in a row when the based on the talents allege that the merger by the gov- sectors. Abhijit Muhurtham : 11:56 am - 12:47 pm State recorded 100 per- of the students sub- ernment will not lead to any Keeping this in view, the govern- tricts. is already in full swing. cent pass on account of ject-wise. development, but rather an ment has decided to build a The 960 MW Polavaram hydro- The Water Resources Covid-19. Speaking on the increase in taxes. The High Court hydropower plant along with the electric power station will have 12 Department is overseeing the exca- The pandemic has occasion, Suresh said issued a stay order for three Polavaram project. The Polavaram vertical Keplan turbines (each of 80 vation work, while Genco officials VIJAYAWADA ensured that like in 2020, that a high level com- weeks. project will store 194 tmc ft of water MW capacity). For these, 12 pres- are overseeing the excavation of key WEATHER no exams could be held. In mittee was constituted The High Court said it would once it is completed. Of this, 120 sure tunnels have to be dug. Each preserve tunnels and all other 2020, the government to grade the students. inquire into all the petitions filed tmc ft will be used for hydropow- tunnel will be 145 meters long and works. Forecast: Partly cloudy declared all the 6.26 lakh students He said that the Chaya Ratan against the ordinance and the er generation and irrigation pur- nine meters deep and will have 12 The Polavaram project is Temp: 36/27 who had registered as passed. Committee has looked into all the amendments put forth by the poses while the remaining 70 tmc generator transformers, each with designed to help cultivate 10.5 Humidity: 53% Education Minister Audimulapu issues and made recommenda- State government and complete ft will be stored. This water can be a capacity of 100 MW. For the lakh acres under the right and left Sunrise: 5:57 am Suresh who released the SSC tions. The Minister rued that tal- the final hearing within three used for cultivation and drinking power project, a 206 m long canals. Godavari water storage Sunset: 06:46 pm 'results' on Friday said that details ented students have to suffer due weeks. The court directed the needs of the people in the Godavari approach channel, 294 m wide, will opportunities are non-existent Current Weather Conditions would be available on to the examinations not being state government not to hold the basin, especially in the East and have to be dug. except at the Sir Arthur Cotton Updated AUGUST 06, 2021 5:00 PM www.bse.ap.gov.in. conducted. elections till then. West Godavari and Krishna dis- Work on the hydropower plant Barrage, which is limited. VIJAYAWADA | SATURDAY | AUGUST 7, 2021 vijayawada 02 Cut cross subsidy in power sector as per 2006 Tariff Policy hen private goods and SPDCL). It means some con- clear that cross-subsidy Wservices like a car, TV, sumers are paying below aver- State Governments all over India, as per Category Cost of Service Maximum Max. Cross should not exceed 20% of the cloth or mobile phone are age cost and some are paying their policy, may charge a particular (Rs. Per unit in Tariff subsidy cost of service and progres- sold, the costs involved are above average cost. This is category of citizens more as compared to its TS SPDCL) (Rs. Per unit) in % sively it should be brought to usually recovered, irrespective called cross-subsidy. LT Domestic 7.05 9.50 34.75 zero? Why are consumers in of who the buyer is. The sit- It means one category of actual cost and another category of citizens LT Commercial 7.08 12.00 69.49 Telangana still paying cross- uation is not same when the consumers is cross-subsidiz- less for the same goods or services. This is HT1 Industry 33 KV 4.94 6.15 24.49 subsidy at more than 20% of Government provides goods ing power consumed by prevalent in all states of India in varying HT1 Ferro Alloys 132 KV 4.09 5.00 22.25 cost of service? and services to citizens. another category of con- HT2 Others 132 KV 5.18 6.80 31.27 For protecting the interests State Governments all over sumers. degrees and to some extent it is desirable HT3 Airports, Railway of consumers and economic India, as per their policy, may This is prevalent in all and Bus Stations 4.59 6.45 40.52 activity in State, it is high time charge a particular category of states of India in varying HT4 Irrigation and the Telangana State Electricity citizens more as compared to degrees and to some extent it the cost of service (in simple est by the end of year 2010-11, Agriculture 33 KV 4.69 5.80 23.67 Regulatory Commission fixed its actual cost and another cat- is desirable as all sections of words, power tariff should the tariff rates are within 20% SURESH CHANDA HT4 Irrigation and cross-subsidy not exceeding egory of citizens less for the society are able to access elec- cover cost of supplying power of the cost of service. IAS (Retd.) Agriculture 132 KV 4.38 5.80 32.42 20% and also came out with same goods or services. For tricity, which is now essential to the consumers and ensure The roadmap will also indi- The author is a former Special a roadmap to make cross-sub- example, as per the Telangana part of quality living. good financial health for cate intermediate milestones sidy progressively zero, as Retail Power Tariff for 2018- With the enactment of the Discoms) and also reduces of gradual reduction in cross- Chief Secretary, Telangana Discoms to compensate for the Government claims that it mandated by the Tariff Policy 19 (latest), power tariff for Electricity Act 2003, major power cross-subsidy in the subsidy. So latest by 2010-11, such reduction in tariff so that is providing free power to of 2006. Let the consumer pay consumers who consume up reforms were codified into a manner decided by it (Section the cross-subsidy was man- provides that the Discoms are not financially farmers and at reduced rate to for what they consume. to 100 units per month varies single Act. 63(g)). This was stated in the dated to come within 20% of Government, as a policy, can burdened due to lower tariff some other categories. As far as farmers and other from Rs.1.45 per unit to The Electricity Regulatory year 2003 in the Act enacted the cost of service. But what ask ERC to fix tariff for a spe- directed by the State Govt. The fact is that it is also vulnerable sections are con- Rs.2.60 per unit. Commissions (ERCs) were by Parliament. is the position now on ground cific category of consumers The power supplied to cer- partly funded by some cate- cerned, the State government, But for same the electrici- given the mandate and duty to In January 2006, the in the year 2021, 10 years after below the cost of service tain categories of consumers gories of consumers, though as part of its welfare policy, ty, tariff varies from Rs.5.00 to ensure that that power utili- Government of India issued the target year? The informa- (Section 65 of the Electricity below the cost of service (like it is not acknowledged pub- can always extend upfront Rs.9.50 per unit if your ties like Generation, Tariff Policy under the tion below will be an eye- Act of 2003). free power to farmers and at licly. subsidy to Discoms to supply monthly consumption is Transmission and Electricity Act of 2003. opener to citizens of Free power to farmers lower tariff to some other cat- The moot question is: Why power free of charge to farm- above 200 units. Distribution arms are run on Section 8.3 of the Tariff Telangana. As per the latest comes under this category. egories) is partly funded by ERC is not able to enforce the ers and at reduced tariff to However, the average cost commercial principles Policy says that ERC would Telangana State Power Tariff But a condition relating to this cross-subsidy and partly by mandate of the Electricity other specific categories of per unit for all these con- (Section 63(b)) and the Power notify roadmap within six order 0f 2018-19: law is that the Government government subsidy. Act of 2003 and the Tariff consumers as decided by its sumers is Rs.7.05 per unit (TS Tariff progressively reflects months, with a target that lat- The Electricity Act 2003 must extend subsidy to It is a different matter that Policy of 2006, which make it policies. Efforts on to AP should be a role model in erect stop log Rail projects in limbo as at Pulichintala preventing third wave: Guv PNS n AP refuses to share cost PNS n VIJAYAWADA Irrigation department engi- neers on Friday began efforts SNV SUDHIR ject is held up on this account," Governor Biswabhusan to instal a stop log at 16th n VIJAYAWADA Vasihnaw said. Harichandan on Friday said point of the Pulichintala pro- He said that the AP govern- that the State should be a role ject, where the radial gate was Reluctance of the State govern- ment, in a letter on November model in prevention of the washed away in heavy floods. ment to share costs has affect- 3, 2020, said that it will bear Covid-19 third wave from Efforts are being made to ed execution of at least 10 rail- land cost only, in other words, happening. reduce water level at the pro- way projects worth Rs 22, 334 it has refused to share the con- Addressing a webinar ject. At present, 20 tmc ft of crore in Andhra Pradesh. struction cost of the project. organised on 'Creating aware- water was impounded at the This has held up the execu- "Since the AP government ness on prevention of third project while the inflows are tion of the new 309 km Nad- has refused to continue with wave Covid-19 in the State', 1.67 lakh cusecs. Project engi- ikudi-Srikalahasti line project. the agreed-to cost sharing Harichandan said there are the second wave and the prob- Covid-19, people have become neers said that 4.95 lakh Indian Railways has taken arrangement for the project, its several NGOs who have done lems of the second wave may aware of the precautions to be cusecs of water is being up 10 projects on cost sharing execution is held up," Vaishanw tremendous work during first not surface in the third wave. taken in prevention of spread released downstream basis with AP government, said. and second wave of Covid-19 He said that vaccination of all of the virus. He said people sh- Prakasam barrage by lifting including five new line projects The Nadikudi-Srikalashti crore of the State deposit has The Union Minister said and they can play a major role eligible people and adhering to ould avoid large gatherings and 19 crest gates. of a total length of 958 km cost- new line project was included been provided for Financial that 401 km long Guntur- in complete eradication of the Covid-appropriate behaviour advised on use of N-95 masks To carry out works to instal ing Rs 13,399 crore and five do- in Budget 2011-12. While the Year 2021-22 for the project. Guntakal doubling with elec- virus. such as wearing mask, main- as cotton masks provide less the new crest gate, at least 10 ubling projects of a total length sanctioned cost of the project The project involves acqui- trification was sanctioned in The Governor appealed to taining social distance and protection against the infection tmc ft of water should be dis- of 811 km costing Rs 8,935 is Rs 2,643 crore, the AP gov- sition of 2,220 hectare of land, 2017-18 with an outlay of Rs these NGOs to put their regular hand wash can help and masks should not be used charged from the project. crore. ernment was to provide land of which the AP government 3,631 crore. So far, an expen- resources to optimum use and prevent the third wave. for more than one week. Meanwhile, Prakasam bar- "An amount of Rs 3,263 free of cost and also share 50 has handed over 1,269 diture of Rs 1,276 crore has sensitise unvaccinated people The five-fold strategy advo- Mukesh Kumar Meena, rage is receiving heavy crore is outstanding towards percent of the construction hectares. While the State gov- been incurred and budget out- to get vaccinated and create cated by Prime Minister Secretary to Governor said in inflows following a massive the share of the AP govern- cost of the project. ernment is to expedite acqui- lay of Rs 364 crore has been awareness on following Covid- Narendra Modi - testing, trac- his introductory remarks said discharge at the Pulichintala ment. The AP government is The estimated cost of the sition of the remaining land , provided for Financial Year appropriate behaviour among ing, treatment, Covid-appro- that society is facing an project. not depositing its share in the project is Rs 5,000 crore. So far execution of the project has 2021-22. the people. priate behaviour and vaccina- unprecedented situation due to cost sharing projects and there- it has incurred an expense of been taken up in three phases. The project involves acqui- Harichandan said due to a tion - will be more effective in Covid-19 and people in unor- fore execution has been severe- Rs 1144 crore of which the AP "The Government of sition of 197 hectare private rapid vaccination drive organ- the fight against new variants ganised sector and the poor ly affected on this account," government has deposited Rs Andhra Pradesh has to deposit land, 7 hectare government ised by the State government, of Covid-19 virus, he said. have been affected the most Panel takes Railways Minister Ashwini 6 crore towards its share. Rs 1351.50 crore towards their land and forest land diversion many lives have been saved. Initiating the discussion, Dr due to the pandemic. Meena Vaishnaw told BJP Rajya Sabha The Budget outlay of Rs 95 cost share in the project. It is of 31 hectare, out of which 14 The Governor added that Mukesh Tripathi, Director, said that it was necessary that up row in member GVL Narasimha Rao crore from General Budgetary not depositing its share in the hectare private land has been not many problems the first AIIMS-Mangalagiri, said after all precautions are taken to Endowments in a written reply. Support (GBS) and Rs 1,144.35 project. Execution of the pro- acquired. wave brought were noticed in the first and second wave of prevent the third wave. wing suo motu Nod to reforms Cabinet nod... PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM Cabinet approves new DPR for Recommendation in education Continued from Page 1 With the media highlighting the differences between Continued from Page 1 The AP High Court that was Assistant Commissioner Bandar port, setting up RUDA to divest 10.4 pc... hearing a petition filed by a Shanti and Deputy The Cabinet also approved rights activist last month Commissioner Pushpavar- PNS n VIJAYAWADA Development Authority. cost of Rs 5,155.73 crore of a the launch of Clean Andhra Continued from Page 1 share (for the state govern- sought to know what was the dhan, AP Women's Commis- Accordingly, the Godavari Greenfield port at Pradesh (CLAP) programme. ment) and value," a govern- need for the APSHRC to be sion took up the issue suo Information and Public Urban Development Machilipatnam in Krishna Accordingly, 1.2 crore bins In the medium term, the gov- ment note said. located in another state. It motu and issued directions to Relations Minister Perni Authority would be renamed district. will be provided in 124 ernment estimates that the This would lead to substan- said it will shortly direct the Endowments Commissioner Venkatramaiah (Nani) after as Kakinada Urban Develop- The Cabinet also approved municipalities and municipal cargo handling could increase tial increase in export-import State government to relocate to submit a detailed report. the Cabinet meeting on Friday ment Authority. the revised DPR and revised corporations across the state, to 100 million tonnes, giving activities through the state, APSHRC, Lokayukta and The panel also asked the said approval was given to The Minister said that the administrative sanction with as well as 14,000 tricycles in a revenue share of Rs 70 crore resulting in higher tax earn- other such organisations to Commissioner to give details constitute the Cabinet approved regularisa- a total estimated cost of Rs villages 1,771 electric vehicles per annum. ings, more employment and AP from Hyderabad. of the internal complaints Urban Development tion of government land 4,361.91 crore for develop- and 3,097 autos for collection "APSEZ is the leading port revenue, the note said. A bench comprising Chief committee in the depart- Authority (RUDA) consisting under unauthorised occupa- ment of Bhavanapadu port in of garbage. operator in the country and Besides, the state estimates Justice Arup Kumar ment as per the Sexual of Rajahmundry Municipal tion by way of dwelling units . due to their rich expertise and that LNG and petroleum busi- Goswami and Justice N Harassment of Women at Corporation, Nidadavole and up to 300 sq yards. The Cabinet also approved Among other key strength in the port sector ness could earn value-added Jayasurya was hearing a PIL Workplace Act-2013. Kovvuru Municipalities with The Cabinet also accorded the draft techno economic they are likely to substantial- tax to the tune of Rs 1,200 filed by AP Citizen Rights The Women's Commiss- an extent of 1566.442 sq. km approval for the revised DPR feasibility study report for decisions taken by ly increase the traffic and crore (on import of one mil- Society joint secretary ion also directed the Endow- by taking certain areas of and revised administrative development of Greenfield the State Cabinet business of Gangavaram Port lion tonnes of LNG). Malleswara Rao urging the ments Commissioner to take Godavari Urban Development sanction to take up Phase-1 airport at Dagadarthi in and also invest in new busi- Enhanced port operations court to direct the govern- action on the allegations Authority and Eluru Urban project works with a revised . was approval to start nesses such as Container, could result in creation of an ment to provide office, staff lodged by the Assistant CLAP programme. Liquid and LNG terminals additional 1,000 jobs directly and facilities for the APSHRC Commissioner against her and create higher revenue and 1,500 indirectly. in Andhra Pradesh. immediate superior Pushpavardhan and the AP logs 2,209 Action Taken Report to the Sindhu calls on Commission. new Covid Meanwhile, the AP exports 42,935 MTs of bananas Government responded to the issue by asking Suresh CM, gets... cases, 22 deaths PNS n VIJAYAWADA identified as a cluster for Babu, the Regional Joint PNS n VIJAYAWADA banana exports under the Director, Rajahmundry to Continued from Page 1 She said her badminton Andhra Pradesh has exported Agriculture Export Policy. probe into the issue. academy would soon be The active coronavirus cases around 42,935 Metric Tonnes APEDA, in collaboration with Suresh Babu reached Sindhu that the Chief Minister opened in Vizag. went up further by 291 to (MT) of bananas in 2020-21 to the Andhra Pradesh govern- Visakhapatnam and started encouraged her before she Later, Sindhu along with her 20,593 as Andhra Pradesh several countries. It's quite an ment, has been taking several investigation. left for Tokyo. "With family members visited reported 2,209 new infec- achievement as the banana steps to promote exports of the blessing of the the Kanakadurga tem- tions, while 1,896 patients got exports from the state have reg- banana from the State, such as Chief Minister, I ple where she was cured in the 24 hours ending istered exponential growth organising capacity building CHICKEN won the bronze accorded a tradi- 9 am on Friday. from just 246 MT in 2016-17, programmes in collaboration RATES `/KG medal and he tional welcome by The State also had 22 fresh and 18,500 MT in 2018-19. with national research institu- congratulated the temple officials Covid-19 fatalities in a day, It is learnt that the Green tions and horticulture univer- Dressed/With Skin `243 me," Sindhu said, who offered according to the latest bul- Cavendish premium- Grand sities, mobilising potential Without Skin `263 promising to win Poornakumbham. letin. The total Covid-19 pos- Naine which has a lot of dem- exporters, encouraging for- Broiler at Farm `134 more medals for the Sindhu and her fam- itives now increased to and abroad contributed major- returns as it is obtained by (APEDA), based on the mation of new FPOs, imple- country. ily members offered special 19,78,350, recoveries to ly to the whopping banana cloning and micro-propagation Phytosanitary Certificates menting Global Good Sindhu said the State gov- puja on the occasion. The 19,44,267 and deaths 13,490. exports from Andhra Pradesh. of tissues of the selected elite issued by the state horticulture Agricultural Practices (GAP) EGG ernment's decision to imple- temple priests blessed Sindhu On Friday, the state com- This variety is said to be reg- plants and daughter suckers department, the export of certification. ment 2 percent reservation for after the puja, offered pleted 2.50 crore coronavirus ularly being exported to the and grown under micro-cli- bananas from Andhra Pradesh APEDA in collaboration RATES `/100 sportspersons was a major prasadam and a portrait of the tests that turned out an over- Middle East market. Exports matic conditions in green and was 42,935 MT in 2020-21," with the state government is VIJAYAWADA 456 incentive. She said it was also deity. all positivity rate of 7.7 per- are also on the rise to UAE, shade houses. Union Minister for Commerce also organising Buyer-Seller HYDERABDAD 496 highly commendable that the Dr Rajat Bhargava, Special cent. The overall recovery Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, "As per the information pro- and Industry Anupriya Patel Meets, providing training on State government was pre- Chief Secretary, Department rate touched 98.4 percent Qatar and Iran. vided by the Agricultural & told Rajya Sabha. fertigation, promoting 100 per- VISAKHAPATNAM 557 senting the YSR Awards to of Culture and Youth and oth- while the mortality rate rema- The tissue-cultured Grand Processed Food Products She said that Anantapur and cent tissue culture plantations RETAIL PRICE `4.56 encourage sports. ers were present. ined stable at 0.68 percent. Naine variety promises greater Export Development Authority Kadapa districts have been in the cluster etc. (IN VIJAYAWADA)

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Printed and published by B Krishna Prasad for and on behalf of CMYK Printech Ltd., Printed at Sree Seshasai Enterprises, D.No. New 3-88, Old 3-22, Chandra Theatre, Gosala, Penamaluru Mandal, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh - 521 151, Resident Editor: B Krishna Prasad, AIR SURCHARGE of Rs 2.00. VIJAYAWADA | SATURDAY | AUGUST 7, 2021 vijayawada 03 Former EO (FAC) YSRCP govt turned AP into 26% Anganwadi centres of MANSAS Trust suspended debt-ridden State: Naidu PNS n VIJAYAWADA PNS n VIJAYAWADA contractors. The financial sit- in AP do not have toilets uation of the State was crisis- Disciplinary action has been Leader of the Opposition N ridden. The R&B contractors PNS n HYDERABAD Schools. initiated by the State govern- Chandrababu Naidu on Friday refused to lay roads without Irani told the Lok Sabha: ment against K Ramachandra slammed the YSRCP govern- getting advance payments. The In Andhra Pradesh, of the “Under Swachhta Action Plan, Mohan, former Additional ment for turning Andhra national highway was blocked 55,607 Anganwadi Centres Rs 10,000 per AWC was pro- Commissioner-II and the Pradesh into a 'debt-ridden' when Devineni (AWCs), about 26 percent, do vided for drinking water facil- then Executive Officer, State by mortgaging the pub- Umamaheswara Rao was com- not have toilet facilities while ities and Rs 12,000 per AWC Varahalakshmi Narasimha lic properties in total violation ing home after getting released almost all centres have drink- for toilet facilities in govern- Swamivari Devasthanam, of the rules and laws. on bail. ing water facilities. In AP, ment buildings. Grants have Simhachalam, Addressing a meeting of Naidu deplored that the rul- growth monitoring of 11,84,125 also been sanctioned for pur- Visakhapatnam and the then party important leaders and ing YSRCP had undermined children happens at AWC. chase of water filter, furniture, Executive Officer (FAC) TDLP here, the TDP chief and pushed Polavaram into Of the total 13.87 lakh equipment, etc. in AWCs” MANSAS Trust, pointed out that there was no crisis. The ruling party leaders AWCs, 11.96 lakh have drink- The Union Minister added: Vizianagaram. To this effect, development at all even though boasted of the Pulichintala ing water facilities and 10 lakh “Under the Anganwadi G Vani Mohan, Principal the government brought huge project as a dream that was ful- have toilet facilities. The data Services Scheme, there is a Secretary to Government, loans by increasing taxes and filled during the YSR rule. was shared by Minister of provision of providing growth Endowments department on by fixing meters on agricultur- Now, the substandard con- Women and Child monitoring and home visit ser- Friday issued orders sus- al motors. Taxes were levied the streets for their payments. struction works resulted in Development Smriti Zubin As on March 31, 2021 of the Growth monitoring of vices on a regular basis to the pending K Ramachandra and increased on garbage, Chandrababu Naidu said the crest gate getting washed Irani in Lok Sabha on Friday. 35,634 operational AWCs 1,47,783 children happens at registered beneficiaries through Mohan pending inquiry. municipal services, ration the YSRCP government was away in the floods. In contrast, more than 50 across Telangana, 11,124 are these AWCs in Telangana. Anganwadi Workers. In order Earlier, a three-men com- cards and so on. Salaries were committing contempt of court Jaganmohan Reddy's mindset percent of AWCs in Telangana functioning from government Across the country, out of to ensure growth monitoring of mittee was appointed against not paid to government by disregarding its orders for was leading to a total deadlock do not have a toilet. Of the buildings, 12,459 from rented total 13.87 lakh AWCs 6.54 children and home visits, an the misconduct and misuse of employees in time. Pensioners payment of NREGS and in the process of irrigation pro- 35,634 AWCs, only 17,617 have buildings, 9,240 from schools, lakh AWCs are running from incentive of Rs 500 and Rs 250 official position in deletion of had to come out and protest in ‘Neeru Chettu’ bills to small jects in the State. toilet facilities. 324 belong to various panchay- government buildings, 74,492 is provided per month to large extents of lands from Also, as many as 1,513 AWCs ats and 2,425 have been classi- AWCs are running from pan- Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) the property register of Sri do not have drinking water fied as ‘other’. Another 66 chayat buildings and 2.28 lakh and Anganwadi Helpers Varahalakshmi Narasimha facilities in the State. AWCs are non-operational. AWCs are located in Primary (AWHs)”. Swamivari Devasthanam, Simhachalam, Lokesh demands dismissal Visakhapatnam unauthoris- edly and irregular sale of Nursing No question of stepping back lands, other irregularities in of guilty police officers MANSAS Trust, Vizianagaram. After careful staff for examination, a report was PNS n VIJAYAWADA Minister who has been selling on TS irrigation rights: KCR submitted to the Special his own brands of harmful continuation Commissioner, Endowments TDP National General cheap liquor in the name of ML MELLY MAITREYI The meeting, held at Pragathi gazette notification and the action department and having due Secretary Nara Lokesh on Government liquor shops all of deputations n HYDERABAD Bhavan here, discussed thorough- plan for its implementation. regard for the circumstances Friday condemned the non- over the State. The ruling ly the Bachawat and Brijesh Kumar However, Telangana conveyed of the case, are satisfied that stop attacks and harassment of party's atrocities were increas- PNS n VIJAYAWADA Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Tribunal awards related to that it would not be able to attend it is necessary to place K the minority communities that ing with each passing day. Rao on Friday reiterated that Telangana’s rightful and fair share the meeting as a case related to Ramachandra Mohan, under were leading to death of vic- Lokesh demanded that the The Andhra Pradesh there was no question of stepping of river waters. The meeting also Krishna waters was coming up on suspension. tims under the ruthless regime Jaganmohan Reddy regime Government Nurses back over the irrigation rights of examined the gazette notification the same day in National Green The authorities found that of Chief Minister YS take immediate action against Association (APGNA) has Telangana keeping in view the in detail and reviewed it and also Tribunal. The meeting was attend- a huge loss of about Rs 74.72 Jaganmohan Reddy in Andhra the police officers and men sought continuation of deputa- long-term benefits of the agricul- the share of both the Telugu States ed by Chief Advisor to the crore was incurred to the Pradesh. leaders' harassment caused who were responsible for the tions to head nurses and staff ture and farming community. in Godavari and Krishna waters. Government Rajiv Sharma, Chief institution as per SR office Lokesh said that yet anoth- Abdul Salaam to commit sui- death of Aleesha. Also, Rs 50 nurses working in State DME, He made it clear that the gov- KCR suggested to the senior Secretary Somesh Kumar, CM’s valuations. The suspension er minority youth named cide along all his four family lakh ex gratia should be paid DH and APVVP in view of the ernment machinery should strive officials that the voice and stance Principal Secretary Narsing Rao, order will take effect with Aleesha lost his life in the after- members in Nandyal. to the family members of the possibility of a third wave of for this with determination. of Telangana should be conveyed Irrigation Special Chief Secretary immediate effect, pending math of alleged beating by the In a statement here, Nara victim. This death should be Covid-19 spread in the coming The Chief Minister chaired a loud and clear in the meeting of Rajat Kumar, Engineer-in-Chief initiation of disciplinary excise policemen at Lokesh asked whether it was considered a Government days. high-level meeting over the strat- River Management Boards. Muralidhar, CM OSD Sridhar action against him. During Bhatrupalem in Guntur dis- sane and correct on the part of murder. The responsible offi- APGNA leaders, led by its egy to be adopted by Telangana The Telangana Chief Minister Rao Deshpande, former Advocate- the period the order remains trict. He was beaten up for the Jaganmohan Reddy police cers should be dismissed. The State president D Manjula Devi, State in the meetings of Krishna said another meeting would be General Ramakrishna Reddy, in force K Ramachandra alleged smuggling of liquor to use their brutal force against ruling party was not giving any along with AP Government and Godavari River Management held again on Sunday to discuss the senior advocate Ravinder Rao, Mohan shall not leave the from across the inter-State a youth on the pretext of ille- value to the lives of the people Employees Association presi- Boards in the wake of Centre’s same issue. It may be mentioned Irrigation Inter-State wing Chief headquarters without obtain- borders. This incident brought gal liquor smuggling charges. and the minorities. The police dent KR Suryanarayana and gazette notification fixing the that the Boards convened a joint Engineer Mohan Kumar, SE ing prior permission from the back sad memories of how the In that case, what punishment were throwing all rules to the APGEA general secretary G jurisdiction of the Boards. meeting on August 9 to discuss the Koteswara Rao and others. competent authority. police and the ruling party should be given to the Chief winds. Askar Rao, submitted a memo- randum to Advisor to Government (Public Affairs) Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy, THANKSGIVING ‘DARSHAN' ! Flat owners Principal Secretary of Medical, Poor upkeep led to Pulichintala Health and Family Welfare, M Ravichandra and DME, want GVMC Raghvendra Rao on Friday sought fulfilment of their justi- crest gate collapse, says TDLP meet on tax fiable demands. The leaders said that the PNS n VIJAYAWADA flood situation. The gap between hike cancelled Director of Medical Education, gates in each pier should not be Vijayawada, has issued instruc- TDP Legislature Party deputy more than 6 mm but it was PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM tions that all the State DME, DH leader Nimmala Rama Naidu on increased to 400 mm. This result- & APVVP are requested not to Friday held the poor maintenance ed in far higher pressure that the The Visakhapatnam relieve the head nurses and by the YSRCP government gates were not able to handle dur- Apartments Residents staff nurses who are on deputa- responsible for the washing away ing the flood. A concrete dam Welfare Association tion and their services may be of the crest gate of the Pulichintala should be built there but a 355 m (VARWA) has urged the continued until further orders irrigation project in the latest earthen dam was constructed. Greater Visakhapatnam from the government due to floods in the Krishna River. The TDP leader deplored that Municipal Corporation increase in Covid-19 cases in the Rama Naidu said that the gov- scribed norms. the crest gate was now washed (GVMC) to cancel the spe- State. ernment and the Irrigation In a statement here, the TDP away just because the project cial meeting to be held on The leaders said that unfor- Minister did not bother to ensure said the overall construction of design was changed, lesser gates August 7, to pass the reso- tunately the superintendents flood cushion maintenance works Pulichintala was full of flaws in were fixed than required and lution on property tax hike. against the continuation of dep- which eventually led to the col- both civil and mechanical works. earthen dam was built instead of The VARWA members utation orders, decided to can- lapse of the gate and the river The YSR regime was responsible a concrete one. The project met Mayor of GVMC Hari cel all the deputations. wastefully flowing into the sea. It for the present situation. The spill- designs were changed only to do Venkata Kumari on Friday They said that in view of a was a sheer betrayal of the farm- way was reduced to just 546 m 'Dhana Yagnam' in the name of and explained to her that if possible third way of Covid-19, ers that the Jaganmohan Reddy when it should be 754.59 m. Only 'Jala Yagnam'. Jaganmohan Reddy the new property tax system the services of head and staff regime was ignoring the mainte- 24 crest gates were fixed when looted commissions during his was adopted it would place nurses might be needed in the Executive Officer of Durga Temple in Vijayawada, D Bhramaramba, presents the portrait of the presiding deity to Tokyo nance and operation of the irri- there should be 33 gates at father's rule, which was giving an additional burden on coming days. Olympics bronze medallist, PV Sindhu, after the latter had 'darshan' of the Goddess along with her family on Friday. gation projects as per the pre- Pulichintala to effectively check a shocking results now. the people. The VARWA collected the opinion of the taxpayers in the city. The members of the VMC evacuates riverbank VMC second Dy Mayor assumes charge Association explained to the Mayor the financial bur- PNS n VIJAYAWADA He said that three women den on the owners and got top positions of Mayor urged her to cancel the noti- colony residents to safety YSR Congress Party and two Deputy Mayors in fication. (YSRCP) coroporator VMC which reflected the The proposed rent-based PNS n VIJAYAWADA Avuthu Sailaja Reddy aim of CM Jaganmohan house and property tax assumed charge as second Reddy. The minister assured value would place an addi- The Vijayawada Municipal Deputy Mayor of the full cooperation of the State tional burden on the own- Corporation (VMC) authori- Vijayawada Municipal government towards devel- ers and the GVMC should ties have started evacuating the Corporation (VMC) during opment of Vijayawada city stop such proposals that residents living in Bhupesh a programme here on in all respects. would cast a negative Gupta Nagar, Taraka Rama Friday. Sailaja Reddy, thanking impact on the people, the Nagar and other colonies on Minister for endowment CM Jaganmohan Reddy, leaders urged the Mayor. the banks of Krishna river Vellampalli Srinivasa Rao, for giving a chance to Meanwhile, the CPM and with over 5 lakh cusecs of flood Vijayawada Mayor Rayana women in politics, said CPI also demanded that the water being released from Bhagyalakshmi, MLC Md. that she would work government stop the new Pulichintala reservoir due to Karimunnisa, Central towards development of proposal. break down of one crest gate. MLA, Malladi Vishnu, AP Vijayawada and ensure that The Left parties also The VMC officials visited the Fibernet Limited Chairman office in her chamber. Jaganmohan Reddy, was the fruits of government demanded to cancel the colonies on Thursday on the P Gautam Reddy and oth- Srinivasa Rao said that giving priority to women welfare schemes reached special governing body banks of Krishna River and ers congratulated Sailaja the YSRCP government, in politics and was offering all eligible people without meeting to discuss the new alerted the people to move to food, drinking water and other Gupta Nagar, Taraka Reddy upon assuming led by Chief Minister YS top posts to them. fail. tax proposal. the Indira Gandhi Municipal facilities to the displaced fam- Ramanagar and Balaji Nagar Corporation (IGMC) where a ilies. VMC staff convinced the are located downstream of rehabilitation centre was people to relocate to the stadi- Varadhi and will be inundat- arranged. um as a threat to their colonies. ed with release of over 5 lakh A few families have reached VMC Commissioner V cusecs flood water. ‘Vax only solution to save people from Covid’ IGMC stadium as the flood Prasanna Venkatesh and offi- The VMC also arranged water has risen due to a huge cials of the medical and tractors to evacuate people to PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM day Model World Trade and 4.2 lakh people died in was rejected by rich countries. volume of water being released health, engineering and other the IGMC stadium and staff Organisation Mystery India due to Covid-19. Citing “Article 9 (?), 9 (4) of the from Pulichintala project as the departments visited the was appointed to create aware- Vaccination is the only solution Conference being organised by the example of Somalia which WTO declaration states that the crest gate of the project was colonies on the banks of ness among the residents on to save the people from the Damodaram Sajeevayya National does not have adequate staff right may be terminated in washed away in the wee hours Krishna river and asked the floods threat. On the other deadly the Covid-19 pandem- Law University on Friday. The and facilities to take up the vac- unforeseen and urgent circum- of Thursday. As per the infor- latter to move the IGMC sta- hand, the residents are not will- ic. The developed countries Justice appreciated the universi- cination programme, the stances. Section 31 (F) of the mation issued by the depart- dium because their houses ing to move from their homes across the world are getting ty authorities for organising the Supreme Court Justice opined tripartite agreement may also ment, the surplus flood water may be inundated with release due to fear of thefts. These res- their citizens vaccinated while conference on an important topic that the World Health waive IPR in emergency con- at Prakasam barrage was 4.44 of over 5 lakh cusecs water idents are accustomed to the the poor countries are unable ‘Equity of vaccination – every- Organisation’s (WHO) Covax ditions,” Justice Nageswara Rao lakh cusecs and 12,349 cusecs from Pulichintala. Due to the floods problem and take shel- to afford it. While the rich one’s participation or everyone’s programme was aimed at sup- detailed. in canals. All the 70 crest gates breakdown of one gate of the ter on the Karakatta for two to countries have more vaccine share in vaccination’. plying the vaccine produced to DSNLU Vice-Chancellor, of Prakasam barrage were lift- Pulichintala reservoir, the four days till flood water doses, the poor nations do not Speaking on the occasion, all countries to meet the high Prof. S.Surya Prakash, ed and 4.56 lakh cusecs flood Irrigation department is recedes in the river and go back have access to adequate vac- Justice Nageswara Rao said demand but in vain. Registrar, Prof. K. water was released down- releasing flood water. The to their homes. They cannot cines for their people, Supreme that the entire world was affect- He said India and South Madhusudharna Rao and stream. flood water inflows are move to a safe place with all Court Judge Justice Lavu ed by Covid-19 in the past one- Africa had proposed to the Director of the programme, The VMC officials have already increasing in their belongings within a short Nageswara Rao has lamented. and-a-half years. Over 42 lakh WTO waiver of Intellectual Dr.P.Sri Sudha, co-ordinated made arrangements to provide Prakasam barrage. Bhupesh span of time. Justice Rao inaugurated a two- people died across the world Property Rights (IPR), but it the inaugural session. VIJAYAWADA | SATURDAY | AUGUST 7, 2021 vijayawada 04

Rs 24 lakh SAKAMBARI AVATAR Man thrashed by excise cops worth of gutka seized, 2 held dies, family alleges torture PNS n GUNTUR The police seized gutka PNS n GUNTUR sachets worth Rs 24 lakh while being transported in a A man, who was arrested by Suicide bid by vehicle illegally at the excise police for illegally Reddypalem, near here, on transporting liquor from Friday and arrested two per- Telangana state, died while man, woman sons in this connection. undergoing treatment at the Police said that on a tip Government General Hospital in hotel room off, a team of SEB officials, (GGH) in the city. The family led by Inspector T P members alleged that he had PNS n GUNTUR Narayana Swamy, conduct- died due to torture by excise ed checking of vehicles and police. In a shocking incident, a found that the banned The excise police held four man and a woman alleged- tobacco products including persons, including the ly attempted suicide by slit- gutka sachets were being deceased Shaik Alisha (27) at ting their throats in a hotel transported illegally in a Bhatrupalem village in affiliated to various Minority but nobody prevented them. at Brodipet in the city on vehicle. Dachepalli mandal, for alleged- associations, registered their “Only innocent people are Friday. Police said that the The police seized the ly bringing liquor illegally from protest at the GGH. They being booked,” he said. woman and the man gutka sachets, the vehicle Telangana State and thrashed alleged that Alisha died due to Janasena district president checked into the hotel at 10 and arrested two persons K them. As the condition of torture by excise police. Gade Venkateswarlu consoled am. Sometime later, the Rama Krishna and P The presiding deity of the 1,000-year-old Chalukya Kumararama Bhimeswara Swamy temple at Samarlakota in Shaik Alisha became critical, he The family members of the the family members of Alisha hotel staff heard screams Saidulu. decorated with 100 tonnes of vegetables as Sakambari Avatar on Friday. The shrine is one of the famed ‘Pancharama Kshetras'. was admitted to the GGH deceased said that he had given in the GGH. He demanded from the room. They went SEB Joint Director Bindu where he died while undergo- up the liquor business and he that the government announce there and found them in a Madhav and Guntur Urban ing treatment on Friday. was running a restaurant. Rs1 crore compensation to the pool of blood. ASP Arif Afeez appreciated The police said that they had The CI, in a bid to implicate family of the deceased. The police identified Inspector Narayana Swamy arrested the four persons as him in a fake case, caused his TDP national general secre- them as Bandi Vijay Sagar for seizure of the banned Viveka murder case: Yadav they tried to attack them. death, Muslim League State tary Nara Lokesh also con- Babu and Rahe. Police sus- tobacco products. However, the death of Alisha president Bashir Ahmad demned the incident. pect that they might have created a major controversy as alleged. Meanwhile, Excise superin- been in an illicit relation- the family alleged that excise CI “If the deceased was really tendent Chandrasekhar Reddy ship. They were shifted to Jewellery shop in CBI custody for 10 days Konda Reddy severely beat involved in illegal transport of dismissed allegations that the the Government General him up and forcibly put a pes- liquor, he should have been excise police had tortured the Hospital. A case was regis- PNS n KADAPA duced him to Vivekananda ticide in his mouth, resulting in booked and sent to prison. four persons. tered in this regard. worker held Reddy and his family. his death. Who has given the right to the He said that they were The First Class Judicial The SIT officials and the Meanwhile, in a tragic inci- CI to punish him?” he said. escorting a liquor-laden vehi- for gold theft Magistrate Court in CBI officials grilled Sunil dent in the case, grandfather of Former MLA Yarapathineni cle. Pulivendula on Friday granted Yadav, his parents and broth- Miriyala Srikanth, one of the Srinivasa Rao said that lorries When the excise officials police, the four consumed pes- PNS n ONGOLE the CBI a 10-day custody of er Kiran Kumar several times. four arrested persons by the with loads of liquor were being stopped them, they went to ticide. The deceased consumed Sunil Yadav, who is the first The CBI kept Sunil in Delhi excise police, died of cardiac brought illegally from their village and brought some more quantities of the pesticide The police arrested a worker person to be arrested in former for one month and questioned arrest at his house. Telangana on the directions of villagers. which led to his death at the of a jewellery shop for minister YS Vivekananda him. Then he approached the A large number of people Gurazala and Macharla MLAs Threatening the excise GGH, he said. allegedly stealing gold worth Reddy case. High Court complaining that Rs 15 lakh and recovered the The CBI officials arrested the CBI was harassing him in booty. Sunil Yadav in Goa on August the name of questioning. Superintendent of police 3 in the sensational murder of Later, Sunil Yadav shifted Elderly woman, daughter murdered Malika Garg told the media former minister Y S him to Goa and he did not that the accused Anil Kumar, Vivekananda Reddy and pro- cooperate with the CBI offi- PNS n KADAPA hacked to death Anjanamma from the jail on bail. Two mitted in retaliation to while working in duced him before the cials. The CBI arrested him as (60) and her daughter motorcycle-borne miscre- Charisma’s murder. Durga Jewellery shop here Pulivendula court. an accused in the Viveka’s In a gruesome incident, a Lakshmidevi (40) at their ants hacked them and fled DSP B Vijay Kumar, CI had stolen gold jewellery The court sent him to 14 CBI officials would take Sunil murder case. woman and her daughter residence. the scene. Both died instan- BV Chalapati and SI weighing 337.803 grams days judicial remand. He was Yadav into custody on Sources said that some more were hacked to death by The deceased were taneously. Srinivasulu visited the scene worth Rs 15,20,337. shifted to Kadapa central Saturday. persons could be arrested by unidentified miscreants at accused in a case related to Anjanamma’s daughter-in- of offence and registered a The police arrested him prison. Sunil Yadav used to work in the CBI in the case in the com- their house at dowry harassment and mur- law Charisma was murdered case. and recovered the same. The CBI urged the court to a sand reach. He befriended ing days. Diguvanelaturu near der of Anjanamma’s daugh- and the body was buried in The bodies were shifted to The police arrested anoth- grant 15 days custody of Sunil Uma Shankar Reddy, who The CBI officials are ques- Brahmamgari Matham here ter-in-law Charisma. their backyard in 2019. the Government General er person K Prasad and Yadav as he is to be questioned used to look after the agricul- tioning Yerra Gangi Reddy, on Friday. They were arrested in the The police suspect that Hospital for a post-mortem recovered 15 stolen mobile in the case. ture fields of slain Vivekananda said to be a close associate and Police said that miscreants case and recently released the double murder was com- examination. phones and a bike. Official sources said that the Reddy. Uma Shankar intro- driver of Dastagiri in the case. Suspect sheets opened Collector pulls up Task Force Sub-collector inspects fertiliser against 16 in East Godavari for failure to check Covid spread PNS n KAKINADA sheets were ordered to be shops in disguise, books two opened if they did not mend PNS n ONGOLE With the youth getting addict- their ways. PNS n VIJAYAWADA ed to marijuana in the district, The suspect sheets were Collector of late, the police have started opened at Town, Pravin Kumar has expressed Two fertilizer shops in Krishna cracking the whip on ganja Gollaprolu and Uppada Kottapalli anger over the Task Force district were sealed for selling smugglers. As part of this police stations under Pithapuram Committee on indifferences fertilisers at a higher price exercise, district SP Circle in East Godavari district to among its members over tak- than the MRP on Friday. Ravindranath Babu paid spe- keep a watch on 16 persons ing steps to check the spread of Dressed like a farmer, Sub- cial attention to such cases and accused in various cannabis cases. Covid-19 pandemic. Collector G Surya Sai Praveen suspect sheets were opened on The SP warned that strict legal The Collector made a sur- Chand inspected several fer- 16 people who were key to the action would be taken against prise inspection of the Etham- tiliser shops as per the direc- cannabis smuggling, but rowdy anyone found guilty. ukkala village secretariat on tions of the Friday. He checked the atten- Collector J Nivas. dance registered and enquired Praveen Chand, dressed as the staff about the maintenance a farmer wearing a lungi and MUTE VICTIM of fever survey and fever clin- He said that so far 120 cases He asked the officials at a shirt in tatters, went to a fer- ic. were reported in the village out mandal and village levels to tiliser shop in Kaikaluru man- He also went through the of which 45 were active. He give up their indifferences and dal and asked for urea and revenue records and reviewed instructed the officials to take effective measures to DAP fertilisers, but the shop the Covid situation with the implement the containment check the spread of the pan- owner did not answer. officials there as more cases zones system effectively. The demic. The Collector said that The Sub-collector went to were reported in the village. officials informed the Collector ANM and Asha workers shou- another fertiliser shop and The Collector said that that Covid was spreading ld play a vital role in checking paid Rs 1,250 for DAP which Ethamukkala stood second in through the migrant labourers. the spread of the pandemic. was priced at Rs 280 and with- reporting the highest number The Collector directed the The Collector directed the out a bill. first shop he inspected in front a seal to them. of Covid cases. He said that revenue and police officials officials to take steps to com- The Sub-Collector immedi- of everyone and noticed that The sub-collector directed due to lack of awareness and village secretariat staff to plete the construction of village ately called the Assistant there were stocks of fertiliser. the mandal agri- among people on the spread of visit rural areas and impose secretariat and Rythu Bharosa Director of Agriculture and the Later, he directed the ADA culture officer to inspect the the pandemic, the number of fines on those who violate Kendra and BMC building at Kaikaluru Tahsildar and and Tahsildar to register cases shop and take strict action cases was rising in the village. Covid norms. the earliest. inspected the godown of the against the two shops and put against the dealer. Over 50 crore vax doses administered! Sindhu prays at PNS n NEW DELHI Elaborating on the increas- the health ministry said. 1,12,56,317 have received the ing pace of vaccination, he More than 43.29 lakh second dose of the vaccine The cumulative number of said the country took 85 days (43,29,673) doses were admin- across all states and Union ter- Dwaraka COVID-19 vaccine doses to touch the figure of 10 crore. istered on Friday, according to ritories since the start of the administered in the country has It then took 45 days to cross the a provisional report complied third phase of the vaccination PNS n ELURU to the deity. The priests of the surpassed 50 crore with more 20-crore mark and 29 more at 7 pm. drive. temple blessed her. MLA than 43.29 lakh doses given on days to reach 30 crore. India The ministry said 22,93,781 Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Badminton player P V Sindhu Talari Venkata Rao presented Friday, the Union health min- took another 24 days to reach beneficiaries in the age group Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, worshipped Lord her with the Sudarshan Yaga istry said. 40 crore and 20 more days to of 18-44 years were adminis- Jharkhand, Kerala, Telangana, Venkateswara at hill shrine of gold memento. Temple EO G "India soars high on cross 50 crore vaccinations. tered the first dose, while Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Dwaraka Tirumala on Friday. V Subba Reddy gave her the #COVID19 vaccination, his- "In a significant achieve- 4,32,281 received the second Punjab, Uttarakhand and West She offered a special pooja 'prasadam'. toric record of 50 crore doses ment, India's cumulative dose of the vaccine on Friday. Bengal have administered the administered to date!" Health Covid-19 vaccination coverage Cumulatively, 17,23,20,394 first dose of the vaccine to more The bust of the architect of the Indian Constitution vandalised by unidentified Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has crossed the 50-crore land- people in the said age group than 10 lakh beneficiaries each persons on the Jagannadhapuram-Kovvur Road in Kakinada on Friday. said in a tweet. mark milestone (50,03,48,866)," have received the first dose and in the 18-44 age group. Rahul wants Chiru to play active role in Cong: Senior leader PNS n AMARAVATI Chiranjeevi to play an active According to the senior the Congress after Rahul Gan- Congress,” Rudrama Raju felt. role in the party. It is learnt that leader, Chandy told Rahul dhi evinced interest in Meanwhile, Chiranjeevi, at The Congress party has been Rahul Gandhi has decided to Gandhi that he would person- Chiranjeevi's presence in the present, is focusing on acting in relegated to nominal status in send a senior leader to talk to ally speak to Chirnajeevi and party. films. He has not been attend- AP and the activists are eager- Chiranjeevi. bring him to Delhi. Chandy APCC Spokesperson ing the party meetings for a ly waiting for a spurt in party The senior Congress leader explained to Rahul Gandhi Gidugu Rudrama Raju said long time. Moreover, activities to rejuvenate the spir- told The Pioneer that Rahul that the media had distorted his that Rahul Gandhi is formulat- Chiranjeevi welcomed Jagan’s it of the cadre. The Grand Old Gandhi had convened a meet- comments on Chiranjeevi. ing a route map for strength- three capitals concept. Party has taken up a major task ing with the party’s leaders in It may be mentioned that ening the Congress in AP. The Interestingly, Chiranjeevi’s to revitalise itself and strength- South India to review the party Chandy and APCC president S SC, ST and Minorities had younger brother Pawan Kalyan en its base. position recently. “During the Sailajanath made contradicto- exuded confidence in the YS is leading the Janasena party. In According to a Congress meeting, Rahul Gandhi asked with the Congress. He also ry statements on Chiranjeevi’s Jaganmohan Reddy govern- these circumstances, it has senior leader, former AICC Congress AP affairs-in-charge asked Chandy why the services membership in the Congress ment but their hopes were become interesting whether president Rahul Gandhi is Oommen Chandy why Chira- of Chiranjeevi were not being party. dashed. “SC, ST and Minorities Chiranjeevi will take active making efforts to convince njeevi is maintaining a distance used by the Congress in AP.” Now, speculation is rife in are now looking towards the part in the Congress. VIJAYAWADA | SATURDAY | AUGUST 7, 2021 nation 05

Schools to reopen from Aug 23 1,058-km metro network under Govt always open to talks with protesting INDIA for classes 9-12: Karnataka CM construction in 27 cities: Union minister farmers against farm laws: Tomar CORNERhe Karnataka government has decided to reopen schools for students from class 9 to nion Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh on Friday said 1,058 km mid farmers protest against three contentious farm laws at Jantar Mantar here, T12 (II PUC) from August 23, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Friday. After Uof metro network is under construction in 27 cities to boost urban mobility across the AAgriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday informed Parliament again the taking stock of the COVID-19 situation in the state, he said that the government has country. He was speaking after inaugurating a section of about 289 metres between the government is always open for discussion to resolve the issue. For over seven months now, decided to impose weekend curfew in districts bordering Kerala and Maharashtra, and Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 and the Trilokpuri Sanjay Lake stations on the Delhi Metro's Pink Line thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been that the existing night curfew across the state will begin from 9 PM instead of 10 PM. via video-conference. The DMRC has been a trailblazer in urban mobility, and the missing camping at Delhi's borders in protest against the three laws that they say will end state The Chief Minister on Friday chaired a meeting with health and education experts, link at the Trilokpuri section of its Pink Line was bridged with least possible disruptions, the procurement of crops at MSP. Out of them, a small group of 200 farmers are staging a Ministers and senior officials of the state government to discuss minister said. He said 721 km of metro protest against the farm laws at Jantar Mantar -- only a few the COVID-19 situation in the state. "We have discussed the line was operational in 18 cities in the hundred metres from the Parliament Complex -- in central current COVID situation, also some directions have come at the country at present, while a network of Delhi after getting a special permission from Delhi all-India level about the possible increase or decrease in the 1,058 km was under construction in 27 government. "Government is always open to discussion with positivity rate in the days to come, based on that we have come cities. Puri praised the DMRC on running farmers unions and will remain open to discussion with to certain decisions," Bommai said. Speaking to reporters here, services with due protocols amid the agitating farmers to resolve the issue," Tomar said in a written he said, we have decided to impose weekend curfew in districts coronavirus pandemic, and said that in reply to the Rajya Sabha. Asserting that the government bordering Kerala and Maharashtra and the night curfew in force the pre-Covid period, its ridership was engaged itself actively and constantly with the agitating farmer across the state will begin from 9 PM itself instead of 10 PM (it about 65 lakh per day, and the hope is to unions to end the protests, the minister said that 11 rounds of will be from 9 PM to 5 AM), and police have been asked to reclaim it gradually while ensuring negotiating talks were held between the government and implement it strictly. comfort and safety of people. agitating farmers to resolve the issues.

RENAMING KHEL RATNA AWARD Mandaviya slams Oppn in LS ‘Reflects BJP’s hatred for Nehru-Gandhi family’ for not allowing MoS to speak PNS n MUMBAI PNS n NEW DELHI Ministers. snooping and farm laws issues Maharashtra Congress presi- Just as an adivasi (tribal) and protested against the gov- Cong refers to dent Nana Patole on Friday Health Minister Mansukh woman stood to reply, oppo- ernment. slammed the Modi govern- Mandaviya on Friday lashed sition members did not allow The MoS was replying to a SC's observation ment for its decision to out at the opposition in Lok her to do so and this is an supplementary question on rename the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Sabha as it protested on the "insult" to her, Mandaviya institutional deliveries and on Pegasus in Ratna Award, saying the move Pegasus issue while junior said as he came to the minis- maternal mortality and she reflects the BJP and RSS's minister Bharti Pawar was ter of state (MoS) for health's said the opposition does not Lok Sabha "hatred" for members of the replying to a question in the defence. have the courage to listen to Nehru-Gandhi family. House. When Lok Sabha convened the work done by Prime PNS n NEW DELHI The country's highest This was Pawar's first oral for the day, questions for the Minister Modi for the protec- sporting honour, which was response to a question in the Ministry of Health and Family tion of women and children. Congress leader Adhir Ranjan named after Congress leader Lower House of Parliament. Welfare were first on the list Slamming the opposition Chowdhury on Friday raised and former prime minister She was inducted in the during the Question Hour. for not letting Pawar reply, the Supreme Court's Rajiv Gandhi, was on Friday Talking to reporters here, name. Narendra Modi-led Union Pawar started replying to a Mandaviya said she hails from reference to the Pegasus rechristened in the honour of Patole said Major Dhyan He said the BJP and the RSS Cabinet last month after a question, but members of the an adivasi community and has matter as a "serious" issue hockey wizard Dhyan Chand Chand was a legend in hock- have "hatred" for Nehru- reshuffle in the Council of opposition raised the Pegasus an MBBS degree. amid a din in the Lok Sabha following the admirable per- ey and the central government Gandhi name and this was when it was set to pass a bill formance of both men's and could have instituted a new reflected in the Centre's deci- to end all retrospective women's hockey teams in the award in his memory or start- sion to rechristen the presti- taxation imposed on indirect Tokyo Olympics. ed a new sports policy in his gious award. transfer of Indian assets. RS ADJOURNED FOR THE DAY The Leader of the Congress in the House claimed the bill has been brought following "directions" from the Centre weakening four pillars of AMID OPPOSITION PROTESTS Supreme Court and also ruling at international PNS n NEW DELHI Deputy chairman Harivansh arbitrations, which has gone democracy: Raut on Pegasus row first urged members to allow the against the Indian The Rajya Sabha was adjourned House to function but adjourned government. "The same PNS n MUMBAI The Centre doesn't want to for the day on Friday after oppo- the House till 12 PM amid the din. Supreme Court yesterday discuss this issue as well as that sition members continued to cre- Earlier when the House met, said that Pegasus is also a Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut of the farmers' agitation,” he ate uproar over the Pegasus Harnath Singh Yadav (BJP) serious issue," he said amid on Friday accused the Modi said. snooping row and farmers' issues. demanded the government ruckus in the House, government of weakening the An international media con- The upper house witnessed one restore the medium of education prompting the Chair to switch four pillars of democracy sortium had earlier reported adjournment a few minutes after in mother tongue, while Ram off his microphone. He could through alleged snooping that several verified mobile it met for the day and was then Nath Thakur (JDU) urged the not be heard due to loud using Israeli spyware Pegasus. phone numbers, including of adjourned for the day a few min- government to fill up vacancies of protests in the House. Talking to reporters in two serving ministers, various utes after it met again at 12 PM. judges in the Supreme Court. The apex court on Thursday Delhi, Raut expressed surprise journalists, some opposition The Congress, TMC and other Sasmit Patra (BJD) sought the said that allegations of that the central government leaders and a sitting judge members continued to raise slo- ratio of Centre-State assistance be Pegasus-related snooping are was not even paying heed to into the Israeli spyware matter besides scores of business per- gans in the well soon after it met changed from 60:40 to 90:10 for "serious in nature" if reports the Supreme Court's observa- whether they have made any sons and activists in India for Question Hour. PM earlier. AM on Monday, August 9, 2021. development of Odisha keeping on them are correct. tion that the Pegasus case, if efforts to file a criminal com- could have been targeted for Surendra Singh Nagar, who The chair continued with the Earlier soon after the House in mind the state always gets Speaking briefly during the true, was a serious matter. plaint on this. hacking through the Israeli was in the chair, announced that Question Hour amid the din but met for the day, it was adjourned affected by floods and other nat- passage of another bill in the On Thursday, the apex court "The Centre is weakening spyware sold only to govern- the meeting of the business advi- adjourned the House for the day within minutes after the laying of ural disasters. Lok Sabha, Chowdhury said had said that allegations of the four pillars of democracy ment agencies. The govern- sory committee of Rajya Sabha after opposition members contin- papers, as opposition members Patra even urged the govern- the opposition has been Pegasus-related snooping are with Pegasus spyware. The ment, however, dismissed alle- would be prepped to 12.15 PM on ued to create noisy scenes by rais- stormed the well and started ment to declare Odisha as a 'spe- calling for scrapping the three "serious in nature" if reports on opposition's demand for a gations of any kind of surveil- the request of some opposition ing slogans in the well. raising slogans against the govern- cial focus state of infrastructure "black" farm laws. them are correct. It also asked debate on Pegasus is being lance on its part on specific parties. It was to be held at 1.10 The House will now meet at 11 ment. development. the petitioners seeking probe rejected by the government. people. Women’s hockey team members 1,016 insurance claims settled Rs. 5.05 crore ‘Feeding centres break down while talking to PM approved for PNS n NEW DELHI sweat didn't get a medal but it has families of 101 for dogs would become the inspiration for crores for health workers fighting Covid Shattered by the heartbreaking of girls in the country. I congrat- Covid-hit journos loss that saw them miss out on a ulate the coach and all of you," PNS n NEW DELHI providers, including com- tance, and hospitals of central bronze medal, members of the said Modi as the team gathered munity and private health ministries specifically draft- PNS n NEW DELHI make them docile’ Indian women's hockey team around the phone. Over 1,000 claims have been workers, who may have been ed for care of COVID-19 broke down during a telephonic After a disappointing start to settled and paid till August 4 in direct contact and care of patients were also covered The government approved PNS n KOCHI the local authority concerned conversation with Prime Minster the campaign that saw them under the Pradhan Mantri COVID-19 patients and under the scheme, Pawar Rs 5.05 crore for granting Rs and obtain a licence as mandat- Narendra Modi, who lauded the lose the first three games, the Garib Kalyan Package: could be at risk of being said. 5 lakh each as assistance to The Kerala High Court on ed under the side for its inspirational display Indian women's team put up a Insurance Scheme for Health impacted by this. The scheme is being imple- the families of 101 journalists Friday said that setting up Municipality/Panchayat at the Tokyo Olympics. splendid display to enter its Workers Fighting COVID-19, Further, on account of the mented through an insurance who died due to COVID-19, feeding centres for stray dogs Act/Rules. Modi called the team after its maiden Olympic semifinal. Union Minister Bharati unprecedented situation, pri- policy from New India Minister of State for Health would ensure they do not "The government may, if agonising 3-4 loss to Great Britain The Rani Rampal-led side Pravin Pawar told Lok Sabha vate hospital staff, volun- Assurance Company Limited, Bharati Pravin Pawar become aggressive and attack found necessary, also prescribe in the bronze medal play-off on defeated the mighty Australians on Friday. teers, local urban bodies, and a public sector company informed Lok Sabha Friday. colony residents and would the forms of licences and fix the Friday and consoled the dis- in quarterfinals but couldn't get In a written reply, the min- contract, daily wage and ad- under the Union finance Responding to a question, also remove fear regarding the fee that can be collected for the traught players, who were seen past Argentina in the semifinals ister of state for health said hoc outsourced staff requisi- ministry's department of Pawar said in a written reply canines from people's minds. registration/ licensing proce- sobbing. and Great Britain in the play-off the scheme was launched on tioned by state, central hos- financial services, she said. the Ministry of Information "If you identify the feeding dure, and ensure that as a first "All of you have played really game, signing off with a fourth March 30 last year to provide pitals and autonomous hos- The minister added that and Broadcasting undertook a centres/ areas, all these prob- step, the registration/ licensing well. You left everything in the place finish. The players could- comprehensive personal acci- pitals of the centre, states, "1,016 claims have been set- special drive for providing lems would be addressed," a of all such animals presently past five years, sweating it out for n't fight back tears as Modi dent cover of Rs 50 Lakh to union territories, AIIMS, tled and paid as on August 4, financial assistance to the fam- bench of Justices A K kept by owners is completed the sport. Your hard work and praised their efforts. 22.12 lakh healthcare institutes of national impor- 2021". ilies of such journalists. Jayasankaran Nambiar and within six months from today. PGopinath said while "The instructions dealing with the issued by the gov- issue of poisoning ernment shall also Police seize of street dogs in require the Assets of mafia worth over Rs 1,800 cr attached Thrikkakkara future owners drugs worth municipality of animals to PNS n LUCKNOW before," he said. Similarly, in the action against area of register their Rs six crore According to section 14 of the Bhati, a gangster of western UP Ernakulam animals with In a bid to break the backs of Gangster Act, a district magistrate currently lodged in Sonbhadra district. the local PNS n BENGALURU gangsters and the mafia and dis- can order the attachment of a prison, the police attached prop- The court authority con- courage their activities, the Uttar property, movable or immov- erties worth over Rs 63 crores and also said that cerned within The Central Crime Branch of Pradesh Police has attached or able, if there is reason to believe four arms licences of his gang only those organ- three months of Bengaluru nabbed five drug demolished their ill-gotten prop- that it has been acquired by a members were cancelled, Kumar isations or volunteers acquiring the animal," peddlers including a Nigerian erties worth over Rs 1,800 crores gangster as commission for an said. who are registered with the bench had said. with contraband worth Rs six in the state. offence triable under this law. In the case of Kuntu Singh, who the Animal Welfare Board of The lawyer for the state gov- crore on Friday. Acting on a tip- In a special campaign from Under the provisions, the is lodged in Ballia prison, the India (AWBI) can carry out ernment assured the court that off, police personnel raided an April 2017 till July 2021, 13,801 booked persons will be required police attached or demolished feeding or birth control activ- the circular would be issued apartment in Hennur in the city cases were lodged under the to prove to the administration that properties worth over Rs 17.91 ities. immediately. and caught the drug peddlers Gangster Act and 43,294 accused their attached properties are not crores, he said. The ADG said the The high court also direct- Meanwhile, court appointed and seized Hashish oil, marijua- arrested, while the National ill-gotten, and they need to pre- police were also trying to effective- ed the state government to amicus curiae -- advocate na, Charas balls and hydro Security Act (NSA) was invoked sent evidence for their claims. crime world," he said. from his grab. ly pursue the cases against such issue, without any further delay, Suresh Menon -- told the bench weed saplings from their posses- against 630 people, Additional Asked about the opposition's Top among those against Arms licences of 60 members elements in courts. a circular with regard to regis- that presently there are only 7 sion, police said. Director General of Police (ADG), allegation that biased action was whom action was taken includes of his gang were also cancelled, the Many hardened criminals, tration of pets by their owners animal welfare organisations in Police also seized a car, a bike Law and Order, Prashant Kumar taken targeting a particular caste, former MP Atiq Ahmad, BSP officer said. including Lucknow's Om Prakash with the local bodies and the state which are registered and mobile phones from their told PTI. the ADG asserted that the action MLA Mukhtar Ansari, Sundar In BSP legislator Ansari's case, Srivastava, alias Babloo Srivastava, obtaining a licence. with AWBI and four private possession. According to police, "In the special campaign was "unbiased and without any Bhati, Dhruv Kumar Singh, alias who is lodged in Banda prison, Muzaffarnagar's Sanjeev The court on July 14 had shelters. Nabaran Chakma, one of those against mafia and gangsters to discrimination". Kuntu Singh, Kumar said. the police attached properties Maheshwari, alias Jeeva, and directed the state government Besides that, there are 17 arrested, is a native of Assam, break their backbone and discour- "In the state, 25 mafia were Acting against Ahmad, who is worth Rs 194 crore, and action Gautam Buddh Nagar's Sunder to "immediately" order the shelters run by private people who has been selling drugs to age criminal activities, we have identified and action is being lodged in Gujarat's Sabarmati was taken against 244 gang mem- Bhati and Singhraj Bhati were local authorities to forthwith at their residences, but these are students at prominent educa- attached or demolished their ill- taken against them and their prison, police have arrested 89 bers, the officer said. awarded life imprisonment by issue public notices requiring facing harassment from local tional institutions of the city and gotten properties worth Rs 1,848 gang members to deter them members of his gang, and prop- Arms licences of 122 gang courts due to effective pursual of owners of animals -- cattle, residents and municipal software engineers for the past crores. This is a record as such from criminal activities and also erties worth Rs 325 crore were members were cancelled, while their case by the police, the offi- pets, etc -- to register them with authorities, he said. three years. action has never been taken give a message to those in the seized, demolished and freed 158 were arrested, he added. cer said. VIJAYAWADA | SATURDAY | AUGUST 7, 2021 06

www.dailypioneer.com facebook.com/dailypioneer | @TheDailyPioneer | instagram.com/dailypioneer/ PAPER WITH PASSION Implications of the Afghan turmoil India must stand with the world to ensure that peace returns to the violence-ravaged country emergency extension HIRANMAY KARLEKAR mong the first actions by India after taking over the presidency of the United Nations Security Council is to convene a meeting to discuss the worsening situation in Prolonging of Myanmar’s state of emergency until 2023, and it could be AAfghanistan. The meeting comes in the wake of Afghan Foreign Minister Mohamad Haneef Atmar calling on his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar and seeking an urgent session of the Council to discuss ways to halt the Taliban’s violence in the country. extended indefinitely, shows the junta’s miscalculations There is a huge escalation in violence as the Taliban have gone on an offensive to cap- t is hardly surprising that Myanmar’s military dictator, ture as much territory as they can to use as leverage for power negotiations after the Senior General Min Aung withdrawal of the US forces is complete this month-end. India has repeatedly expressed Hlaing, has extended the durationI of the country’s nation- its concern and is in favour of a two-pronged approach for Afghanistan: Encourage the warring sides to agree to total ceasefire and bring them to the negotiating table for al state of emergency by two years. Nor should one be sur- them to draw up a political agreement on their own. The Indian initiative comes at a prised if it is extended indefinite- time when India itself has been kept away from a sec- ly as 2023 gets under way. Earlier, ond meeting on Afghanistan convened by Russia in the army had staged a coup on Qatar on August 11. The Russians have invited the February 1, 2021, and proclaimed a state of emergency for a year. United States, Pakistan and China to the meeting. The fact is that the Tatmadaw, as Russia has been holding what is called the “Moscow Myanmar’s rogue army is official- format” of talks for bringing about a political recon- ly called, has no intention of giv- ciliation in Afghanistan. Russia has given no expla- ing up power. A huge straw in the wind is General Hlaing’s designa- nation for keeping India away. It did welcome the Indian tion as Prime Minister in a new decision for a Security Council meeting but has in the caretaker Government recent past also commented that it supports India hav- announced by the State Administration, as the junta calls ing contacts with the Taliban on the ground that they itself, last Sunday. are a reality in Afghanistan. In retrospect, the junta had Simultaneously, the CSTO alliance in Eurasia comprising Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, initially said that the national state Tajikistan, Belorussia and Kyrgyzstan is separately assessing the Afghan situation par- of emergency would last for a ticularly along the borders of its member countries. In July, Tajikistan, alarmed by the year, presumably to minimise global condemnation of the coup who have been detained by the tion of democracy there. It rialised. Rather, the move- Taliban’s offensive in Afghan towns close to its borders, appealed to the CSTO to come and because of the belief that it military in the last few days.” also imposed sanctions on 10 ment for restoring democra- up with an appropriate response but the organisation at that time felt the situation did could easily subdue such protests On the very day of the Generals and three commer- cy, honouring the outcome of not warrant an intervention. A third initiative on Afghanistan will also be in the form of as might occur. Neither has hap- coup, the UN secretary-gener- cial entities. Besides imposing the November 8, 2020, elec- pened. Except China, which a meeting in Qatar between Afghanistan and its “regional and international” partners al, Antonio Guterres, said that restrictions on strategic tion, and the release of Suu Kyi clearly stands with the junta, it represented “a serious blow exports, it has prevented the and all arrested leaders and sometime later in August. China, on the other hand, is making its independent efforts and several others which remain to democratic reforms in Generals associated with the activists ,continues despite for a settlement in Afghanistan with Pakistan as its ally. China’s Foreign Minister has perched on the fence, most coun- Myanmar.” President Joe junta from improperly access- the escalating savagery of the also formally met a Taliban delegation recently, where Beijing appears to have received tries, particularly democracies, Biden’s press secretary, Jen ing the Myanmar Tatmadaw’s repression which have been searing in their con- assurances from the Taliban to respect China’s concerns in the region. As Pakistan, Psaki, said the US opposed Government’s funds of over is clearly reflected in Hannah demnation of the coup and the “any attempt to alter the out- $1 billion lying in the US. Beech’s recent dispatch in The China, the US and Russia begin their moves to see who influences Afghanistan the arrest and incarceration of Aung come of recent elections or The US Commerce New York Times, which states, most, India needs to decide on what its role will be. Others seem to think that India San Suu Kyi and other leaders of impede Myanmar’s democra- Department placed under sus- “Since the Feb 1 putsch, at must have communication links open with the Taliban to be able to closely monitor the National League for tic transition, and will take APART FROM pension on March 4, 2021, least 940 people have died at Democracy (NLD) she leads. the intra-Afghan affairs. India needs to decide if it prefers a direct involvement or a dis- action against those responsi- ITS POWER LUST, four military-controlled the hands of Myanmar’s secu- Reaction has been sharp to ble if these steps are not Ministries and conglomerates rity forces, according to a tant one. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy minced no words when he tweeted, “This Suu Kyi being charged with reversed”. THE EXTENSION OF and, on March 22, the US tally kept by a monitoring is the last chance to become relevant”. importing walkie-talkies and Criticism grew harsher Department of Treasury group that closely tracks the other foreign equipment, alleged- with time. On February 11, US THE DURATION OF imposed sanctions on killings. More than 5,400 peo- ly found in the compound of her President Joe Biden called on THE STATE Myanmar’s police chief, a mil- ple are in detention, including PICTALK home in the capital city of the junta to release detained itary commander, and two all of Myanmar’s senior elect- Naypyitaw, illegally and using protesters and civilian leaders, OF EMERGENCY military units for their role in ed leadership.” them without permission. She has including Aung San Suu Kyi INDICATES repressing demonstrators. Apart from its power lust, also been charged with breaching and Win Myint, and cease Britain, Canada and New the extension of the duration the natural disaster management their crackdowns on demon- THE JUNTA’S Zealand have also imposed of the state of emergency indi- law by interacting with a crowd strators. He added, “The mil- sanctions and travel bans, and cates the junta’s realisation during the COVID-19 pandem- itary must relinquish power REALISATION THAT frozen assets. Australia had that the protests are not going ic, a law that President Win they’ve seized and demon- THE PROTESTS announced the suspension of anywhere soon. Will these Myint has also been charged strate respect for the will of the its limited cooperation with succeed in ousting the junta? with violating. people as expressed in their ARE NOT GOING the Tatmadaw and said it One does not know. It is, United Nations spokesman November 8 election….” ANYWHERE SOON. would re-direct the aid however, a lesson of history Stephane Dujarric told reporters Going beyond words, the marked for the Government that no regime can sustain shortly thereafter that the charges Biden Administration WILL THESE to aid groups. itself indefinitely if the entire against Suu Kyi “just compound announced on February 11 Clearly, limiting the state population of a country the undermining of the rule of the suspension of the 2013 SUCCEED IN of emergency to a year did not opposes it actively. This is law in Myanmar and the demo- Trade and Investment OUSTING THE fool the democratic precisely what is happening in cratic process”. He added: “We Framework Agreement, Governments. Nor has the Myanmar. continue to call for her immedi- meant to boost bilateral busi- JUNTA? junta’s possible belief in the (The author is Consulting ate release and the President’s ness between the US and short life of protest move- Editor, The Pioneer. The views immediate release and all others Myanmar, until the restora- ments against the coup, mate- expressed are personal.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SOUNDBITE

RENAMING AWARDS FOR OPTICS Met People wade through a street after heavy rains at Assi Ghat in PTI Sir — It’s plain politics and bias towards SC’s wake-up call on Pegasus @AdarPoonawalla, the Nehru-Gandhi family that Prime CEO of Minister Narendra Modi announced that and transmitting them. That the apex court @SerumInstIndia, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna will now be has directed the petitioners to serve copies and had a produc- Falling apart? known as Major Dhyan Chand Khel of their petitions to the Attorney General and tive discussion on the supply Ratna Award, “respecting the sentiments the Solicitor General and the Government of Covishield vaccine. The AIADMK today resembles a rudderless ship of citizens across the country”. But I total- to ensure that “somebody appears on behalf ly disagree with Modi because millions of of it” on the next date of hearing to answer without an able captain to take on the DMK’s Stalin sports lovers like me believe that if the great queries has shown the seriousness with Union Health Minister Major Dhyan Chand were alive today, he which it views the issue. — Mansukh Mandaviya he AIADMK, which was in power in Tamil Nadu for two successive terms from will not accept it. Agree, there are hundreds Implicit in the Government’s equivoca- 2011 to 2021, is at a crossroads after the last Assembly election. The party, of roads, hospitals, colleges, universities and tion and inability to issue a categorical denial stadiums in the Nehru-Gandhi family’s is an admission of Pegasus targeting I am deeply Tfounded by late MG Ramachandran and nurtured by late J Jayalalithaa, resem- name. It seems that the Congress and the he Supreme Court’s observation that Indian phone users. The Government is concerned by the bles a rudderless ship after the demise of the latter in December 2016. The party ‘first family’ took the nation for a ride, just “truth has to come out” in the Pegasus clearly in the dock since the Pegasus spy- lack of progress now has no charismatic leader with the stature of Amma, as Jayalalithaa was addressed like Modi renamed Ahmedabad’s Sardar Tsnooping issue vindicates the demand ware is “only sold to Governments or toward the goal of a nuclear-free world. by people. The turmoil in the AIADMK was revealed Patel Stadium in his name. for a probe by a JPC or a sitting SC judge Government agencies”. The NSO Group says People wonder when the country’s as a credible probe is necessary for the truth that Pegasus is used for fighting terror and when the party leadership fielded two sitting Rajya highest award for lifetime achievement in to come out. How is it possible to test the crime. The activists, journalists, lawyers, Sabha members as candidates for the 2021 sports is known as the Dhyan Chand truth or falsehood of the media reports alleg- politicians and constitutional functionaries UN Secretary-General Assembly election. Though both the MPs won the Award, what is the necessity for Modi to ing snooping without a probe? whose phones were infected with Pegasus — Antonio Guterres election, the AIADMK lost the bout, squandering away rename the Rajiv Khel Ratna award? Isn’t It will be now hard for the Government cannot, by any stretch of imagination, be it diverting the attention from the use of to dismiss the alleged use of Pegasus for regarded as terrorists or criminals. The its two seats in the Rajya Sabha. Had the party select- This is surreal, cele- Israeli spyware? Sports lovers have no snooping as a non-issue when the Supreme Government can at best run away, but can- brating 20 years of ed someone other than the two MPs, it could have objection to honour Dhyan Chand, even Court has termed it a “serious issue”. It is not hide by saying that the matter is sub Dil Chahta Hai. I’m retained its numbers in the Upper House for the next with the country’s highest civilian award indeed a serious issue with far-reaching judice. There is general perception that the so proud of the film three-four years. It is sure that the DMK would seize ‘Bharat Ratna’. implications. Pegasus turns mobile phones Government is not innocent of electronic we made. Bidyut Kumar Chatterjee |Faridabad into surveillance devices by tracking its surveillance. both the seats when the bypolls are held to fill the users, reading messages, copying pictures G David Milton | Actor Rajya Sabha vacancies. The AIADMK is divided on TREAT EVERYONE EQUALLY AND FAIRLY — Preity Zinta caste, communal and regional basis. O Sir — When we talk about “gender dis- night. His statement was not taken, which ous leg injury, Tamberi had to withdraw Panneerselvan, the coordinator of the steering committee and former Chief Minister, crimination”, most people tend to misun- indicates the gender inequality. from his third attempt. Now Barshim had We all are still is not on good terms with Opposition leader E Palaniswamy. derstand the word. The first thought that Although the girls have equal rights, it easy as there was no competition. emotional at the comes to mind is about females being dis- moment. Losing Panneerselvan is yet to recover from the shock of denial of the post of LoP to him that doesn’t mean they can misuse them. But Barshim asked the officials criminated against because of their gender. Gender equality is not only a fundamen- whether he could also withdraw so that the matches hurt for which, he believes, belongs to him only. VK Sasikala, Amma’s trusted aide who was But if we try to delve deeper into the sub- tal human right but a necessary founda- gold medal would be shared, for which he athletes. appointed the party’s acting general secretary in December 2016 and expelled by ject, we get a different insight into how tion for a peaceful, prosperous and sustain- got confirmation in affirmative. Once the males also have a share of problems asso- able future. Let’s say “Yes” to gender officials affirmed this, Barshim withdrew Panneerselvan and Palaniswamy in August 2017, is also out to grab the party. She ciated with the issue. We should raise a Indian women’s hockey coach has made many overtures to Panneerselvam, whom she herself ousted as the Chief equality. Let’s treat everyone equally. from his final jump and the gold medal was — Sjoerd Marijne question as to why gender discrimination Princy Carol Gonsalves |Goa shared, much to the delight and surprise Minister in February 2017. What Tamil Nadu is seeing is nauseating casteism under is still prevailing and why must it be put of the sporting fraternity. True sportsman- to an end? The evils of climate the garb of political realignment. Panneerselvam and Sasikala belong to the Thevar com- ship was revealed in the field of play, which change are being In my perspective, the society is to SPORTING LESSONS FROM TOKYO GAMES is far above the religious and political arena munity, a dominant section in the AIADMK, while Palaniswamy heads the Gounder fac- blame because right from childhood, it felt by the society Sir — The Tokyo Olympic games and the or country or colour. The moral of the story every day… tion. How the shadow-boxing in the AIADMK develops is anybody’s guess. This news- decides how men and women should act. final of men’s high jump have taught the is “Live and let others also live”, even in Administrators and paper had forecast in 2015 itself that the AIADMK would disintegrate into many fac- It draws certain lines, boundaries which world a sporting lesson. Italian Jean competition. Kudos to Barshim; well done men and women are not supposed to cross. Marco Tamberi and Qatar’s Mutaz Eesa policymakers have to take up tions and that is unfolding now. Palaniswamy and Panneerselvan would not be able to Tamberi! this issue with sincerity. Gender discrimination is noticed every- Barshim were vying for the gold medal. Gundu K Mani Ramani |Chennai salvage the political entity launched by MGR. Sasikala is likely to end up as a wheel- where. Recently, a video went viral show- Both jumped 2.37 metres and the result er-dealer. Tamil Nadu needs a strong politician with commitment to the State to take ing a woman slapping a cab driver in pub- was tied. The Olympics officials gave three Send your feedback to: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on DMK’s MK Stalin, who is the monarch of all he surveys, at least for now. lic. The man was sent to the lockup for the more attempts to each but due to a seri- [email protected] — MK Stalin VIJAYAWADA | SATURDAY | AUGUST 7, 2021 07 www.dailypioneer.com facebook.com/dailypioneer | @TheDailyPioneer | instagram.com/dailypioneer/ FIRSTCOLUMN THE ACADEMIC N-proliferation and

BANK OF CREDITS NISHTHA KAUSHIKI ABC will promote quality, flexibility, access and regional security equity to improve the higher education system As China seeks to find a ‘just’ world order based on its principles, its N-proliferation is to showcase its status as a supreme nuclear power

hina’s military and nuclear links RAGHAVENDRA P TIWARI with North Korea and Pakistan are well established. Interestingly, he provision of innovative Academic Bank of Credits (ABC) in the by encouraging Pakistan against New Education Policy,a multi-disciplinary, skills-based, and flexible IndiaC by supplying average payload capac- Tcurricular structure, a Multiple-Entry-Multiple-Exit option, and expe- ity nuclear missiles and other military sup- riential learning pedagogies will help actualize new opportunities for moti- plies, China tried to avoid being noticed vated learning. Now that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rolled out ABC as the first order nuclear threat in South for implementation from the coming academic session, it has become Asia. It also served the purpose of keep- imperative to understand how it will work and democratise our learning ing India engaged with Pakistan to ensure that New Delhi’s strategic outreach remains system. ABC will digitally store essential academic credits earned from limited. select institutions for the award of a degree or a diploma It will ensure In the last three decades, Beijing pre- seamless mobility of learners among various disciplines and institutions sented before the world its “peaceful rise” for earning credits through courses or a combination of courses of their and non-belligerent face. Simultaneously, choice.As such, ABC will create opportunities for students’ mobility between China used its foreign aid and its partic- institutions. The ABC system will perform the functions of a commercial ipation in the nuclear non-proliferation bank with the facility for students to hold accounts. The bank will be respon- regime as tools to convince the world that it is a serious partner in the development sible for the opening, validation, and closure of these accounts. It will in various regions. The recent discovery of two new nuclear bases in China has caused a lot of flutter in the national and international media. One has to analyse China’s strate- gic behaviour from close quarters to gain a comprehensive understanding. Currently, China is only shedding its EXPERTS PUT camouflage. Beijing’s ‘wolf warrior’ diplo- FORTH THE VIEW ic, enough attention could not be that involves the use of military In any case, given the primary macy and its nuclear proliferation are relat- paid to its expanding arsenals. deception, propaganda, and legal understanding that since any of the ed to its tactical vulnerabilities rather than THAT IT CAN BE Today, as China seeks to find for warfare without resorting to the ICJ. silos can accommodate missiles and a position of strength. The world has wit- A TACTIC TO itself a “just” world order based on A significant question that arises is a rough estimate of the distance nessed a complete rejection of the CONFUSE THE US its own principles and philoso- why would a country build two between Xinjiang and Ladakh is International Court of Justice (ICJ) deci- AND INDIA ABOUT phies, and perceives itself as an estab- nuclear bases with silos to accom- around 1200-1300 kilometres, it is sion on the South China Sea issue, the pres- THE STRATEGIC lished power, its nuclear proliferation modate 100 nuclear missiles at a quite a possibility that in the future, ence of its nuclear submarines in the Indian is an attempt to showcase its status single place in a desert and invite it may resort to nuclear coercion in facilitate verification, accumulation, transfer, or redemption of credits,and Ocean Region, debt trap policies, belittling LOCATIONS OF as a supreme nuclear power. its discovery and subsequent inter- its open hostilities. The possible verify the credits required for the authentication of degrees. of its neighbours, and other regional ITS NUCLEAR The relative availability of tac- national attention? future deployment of Chinese inter- Higher education institutions with A Grade certification from NAAC powers. Its insecurity viz- a- viz the Quad MISSILES. tical mobility and military technol- Experts put forth the view that mediate-range missiles such as DF or the top 100 institutions in NIRF, or institutions with a minimum score and its trade wars with the US have led ANOTHER ASPECT ogy are the major determinants of it can be a tactic to confuse the US 21 D compounds the threat to of 675 from NBA for at least three programmes shall be eligible for reg- Beijing to adopt the path of nuclear pro- OF THIS offensive dominance. In this con- and India about the strategic loca- Indian security. liferation. text, China’s building up of villages tions of its nuclear missiles and China may shift to a launch- istration in ABC. The credits earned by the students may be verified by DISCOVERY the bank's educational transcripts that will be recognised by all institu- In 2018, China’s nuclear scientist Qian on the Indo-China border, moving should be treated as a part of mili- on-warning posture since it is Hu received the ‘State Supreme Science and COULD BE THAT of sophisticated artillery, and now tary deception. Another aspect of building a space-based early warn- tions included in the consortium on ABC. The ABC may allow non-sci- Technology Award’ for successfully build- PROBABLY the discovery of the silo dumps this discovery could be that proba- ing system with the help of Russia. ence students, say from arts and commerce streams, to take up cours- ing an ‘underground steel wall’ nuclear shel- CHINA IS point out to the direction of China’s bly China is strategically condition- Once completed, it would mean es in the science stream after pursuing a bridge course. It will offer Multiple- ter that could stop the hypersonic missiles STRATEGICALLY preparedness to launch surprise ing the countries, especially India that China’s nuclear missiles and Entry-Multiple-Exit options to needy students and help integrate skills into and overcome its tactical weakness. In his offensive actions which may be of and the US, to accept an ongoing or warheads would always be in an CONDITIONING a choice-based credit system. The ABC makes the higher education sys- conversations with the media that are avail- shorter duration and relatively future nuclear proliferation. Or ‘alerting state’, i.e., in a position of THE COUNTRIES, tem completely student-centric, and it enables students to choose cours- able in the public domain, he spoke of these bloodless. In a second scenario, maybe it is a safe place for its ally, eternal operational readiness. Along shelters as “shields” and also mentioned the ESPECIALLY INDIA apart from nuclear proliferation, a Pakistan, to keep its missiles in case with this, the reports of its forth- es and institutions facilitating learning from a wide range of course coor- profound importance of the nuclear mis- Sino-Pak collaborative threat can- it is declared a ‘failed state’ in the coming hypersonic vehicle-mount- dinators and institutions. For instance, a student can be enrolled for a pro- AND THE US, TO siles which he termed as “spears”. The ACCEPT AN not be ruled out. eventuality of being blacklisted by ed laser gun which can be used to gram in one institution (parent institution) and simultaneously be enrolled world might have guessed that to overcome As a counter approach, India’s FATF and a subsequent fundamen- clear the path of its missiles and jets for courses of choice in multiple institutions(sister institutions) for earn- its weaknesses, China is occupied with ONGOING OR movement has been appropriately talist takeover or as a sovereign assets to make them swifter and lethal ing credits in physical or online mode or both. This ensures enhanced nuclear proliferation. In order to divert FUTURE NUCLEAR on the offensive side that includes takeover in case it goes ‘bankrupt’ make the Indo-Pacific region high- integration of institutions for conducting academic activities and facili- attention, China brought out its 2019 PROLIFERATION heavy military and artillery deploy- with the Chinese Debt. ly vulnerable and susceptible to the tates life-long learning opportunities. The learners have the option of study- Defence White Paper that aimed to keep ment including the induction of the Experts suggest that China Chinese hegemony. Already China its nuclear capabilities at a “minimum level Rafale jets at Hasimara Air Base in adopts a salami-slicing tactic where- has launched a diplomatic offensive ing full-time or part-time. ABC will promote quality, flexibility, and collab- required for national security” which cited West Bengal. However, the discov- in it gradually erodes the internation- against countries like Vietnam, oration alongside access and equity to improve the efficacy of the high- its commitments towards the Treaty of ery of the nuclear silos near the bor- al norms by violating the internation- The Philippines, Japan, and er education system.I am of the opinion that the responsibility of imple- Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons der presents an unpredictable situ- al law and frames its own domestic Australia apart from India. Absolute menting ABC can be entrusted to the General Education Council - the apart from listing all the treaties in this ation before India concerning the rules which are in sharp contradic- power without any democratic val- fourth vertical under the Higher Education Commission of India.The UGC domain that it supposedly agreed to. Some possibility of the nuclear factor in tion with the former. Is nuclear pro- ues or counterchecks threatens the makes it mandatory for students to necesarily earn 50 per cent of cred- countries were swayed by this argument future Chinese offensive launches. liferation another example of this? entire international community. its assigned to the programme from their institutions.This implies that cred- while others probably thought that China It may also be just a threat of using The world can see it in the South Having realized the Chinese is constructively engaged. Contrary to the nuclear coercion with an intention China Sea, the Himalayas, and the threat, nations are coming togeth- its assigned for the core courses have to be necessarily earned manda- Chinese assertion, the Pentagon in its 2020 to capture Indian territories. Indian Ocean. This is heavily accom- er to help one another in order to torily earned from the parent institutions. This ceiling may vary in the future report that assessed Beijing’s military (The writer is an The traditional understanding panied by the creation of Grey Zone secure the democratic world order. upon bridging the digital divide.Another point is the seven-year maximum Assistant Professor at capabilities estimated that Beijing was Central University of the presence of nuclear silos can tactics implemented through disin- The arrival of the German Frigate validity period for credit redemption. This is essential as the curricular likely to “at least double its warhead stock- of Punjab, Bathinda. be easily related to both deterrence formation campaigns and active Bayern and the British HMS framework and course modules will undergo drastic changes after seven pile” from the then existing “low 200s”. The views expressed and military deception. China has propaganda warfare which includes Queen Elizabeth points to the years.They need to be regularly updated to ensure dynamism in the pro- Later, as the world was hit by the pandem- are personal.) adopted a three-pronged strategy fake news and forgery. evolving scenario. gram and infuse newer concepts and developments in the domain knowl- edge. It is a year since the NEP was announced and it is the prime respon- sibility of eligible higher education institutions to help actualize the ABC POINTCOUNTERPOINT so that the students enjoy its optimal benefits. The very concept of edu- cational institutions is founded on the premise of satisfying the ever-evolv- DOORS OF OUR PARTY ARE OPEN FOR ALL THE SP NOW REMEMBERS JANESHWAR MISHRA AND ing learning needs of the youth and empowering them with global com- SMALL PARTIES. MANY SMALLER PARTIES ARE HIS COMMUNITY, WHICH HAS FACED HARASSMENT petencies and skills to make them socially and economically relevant. ALREADY WITH US. AT THE HANDS OF THE BJP GOVERNMENT. This is the only road that will lead us to ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’. — SAMAJWADI PARTY PRESIDENT — BSP CHIEF (The writer is Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda. AKHILESH YADAV MAYAWATI The views expressed are personal.) Incentivising domestic telecom gear manufacturers India must follow an inclusive and strategic approach to protect its telecom ecosystem, without compromising on the growth of markets ndia today stands at the cusp again renewed its focus on the establishment of the semicon- tured products are to be con- arate dedicated corridors in less than a decade because of another telecom revolu- telecom market. The latest buzz ductor industry which is the sumed in India itself. should be earmarked for Chinese products are cheaper Ition. On one hand, we have is the introduction of the backbone of the microelec- One important aspect of BharatNet. Once all the villages than European products. the 5G technology all set to Production-Linked Incentive tronics industry. There are sev- the telecom revolution is the are connected with a robust Recently the Indian gov- transform the mobile world (PLI) scheme for the telecom eral huge gaps that need to be fast growth of rural telephony broadband network, it would ernment has defined policy while, on the other hand, the sector which the Union Cabinet plugged in to ensure India's with a special emphasis on rural add to India’s GDP and make changes to restrict Chinese ambitious BharatNet project AGGARWAL recently approved with a bud- smooth entry into the big man- broadband. Under the the villages prosperous. firms from participating in can revolutionise the economy SANDEEP getary outlay of `12,195 crores ufacturing league, which today BharatNet, Prime Minister And to make this happen, government tenders. These in rural India through a robust to promote manufacturing of is controlled by the western Narendra Modi has set up an domestic companies need to restrictions need to be extend- broadband infrastructure. telecom and networking prod- curement of ‘Made In India’ nations and China. ambitious target of taking fibre produce optical fibre cables ed to other foreign players too India today is the world's ucts in India. products for domestic con- In the past, the government to six lakh villages in 1000 days. and the related telecom equip- to safeguard the interests of the second-largest mobile market. Through this policy, India sumption, besides granting an took some half-hearted initia- The Union Cabinet recently ment to decrease dependency domestic industry. We are also the second biggest will move towards self-reliance extension of tax benefits for tives for chip manufacturing. A approved a public private-part- on imports. The core transmis- India must follow an inclu- market in terms of broadband in telecom manufacturing. By telecom industries covered by semiconductor laboratory was nership model for the rollout of sion network also needs to be sive and strategic approach to users. Our teledensity in rural incentivizing large-scale man- the PLI scheme. What is also set up long back, but this could BharatNet project for broad- upgraded. protect its telecom ecosystem, areas has crossed the 60 per ufacturing in India, domestic needed is the inclusion of spe- not meet the demand and band services in villages in 16 One area of concern is the without compromising on the cent mark. India is one of the value addition will increase cialised service sectors like requirements of the Indian States with a viability gap fund- Chinese dominance in the growth of markets, or the world's largest data con- gradually. The provision of a submarine cable-laying and industry due to a lack of prop- ing of `19,041 crore. The Indian telecom market. enthusiasm for flagship sumers. We are fast moving higher incentive to MSME will maintenance under the PLI. All er vision and planning. To Telecom Ministry has also Chinese telecom equipment schemes that can give impetus towards a total digital econo- (The writer is the Chairman encourage domestic telecom this will make India self-reliant chart the success story in chip floated a global tender to speed manufacturers today rule the to private investments. To this my. These facts showcase the of the Telecom Equipment manufacturers to become part in the manufacturing of tele- manufacturing, the govern- up the entire process. global market. In India too we end, India can do well by Indian telecom market's and Services Export of the global supply chain. com gears. ment needs to set up at least a To make this a success, the see the Chinese dominance not obtaining technology trans- Promotion Council splendid journey in more (TEPC). The views However, the industry feels One area of concern which few industries in India direct- government should provide just in the equipment market fers from friendly countries than the last two decades. expressed are personal.) that the Government should the government has failed to ly or under the PPP model with free right-of-way for laying the but also in the mobile handsets instead of going for research The Government has once ensure reservation for pro- address over the years is the the assurance that the manufac- cable. Wherever possible, sep- market. All this has happened and development work. VIJAYAWADA | SATURDAY | AUGUST 7, 2021 Money 08 RBI does not RBI raises retail inflation RBI retains growth at 9.5pc, says have specific forecast to 5.7pc for FY22 target of yield PNS n MUMBAI Shaktikanta Das said while announcing the outcome of support key to economic recovery curve: Das The Reserve Bank of India on the Monetary Policy PNS n MUMBAI Friday raised the retail infla- Committee (MPC) meeting. PNS n MUMBAI per cent in the January-March tion forecast for 2021-22 to 5.7 The Reserve Bank of India period. The Reserve of India (RBI) per cent due to supply side (RBI) has decided to keep the Reserve Bank Governor Real GDP growth for first does not have a specific tar- constraints, high crude oil repo rate -- at which it lends Shaktikanta Das on Friday quarter of the next fiscal begin- get for the yield curve but and and raw materials cost. short-term money to banks - made a strong case for contin- ning April 1, 2022, is project- focuses on the orderly evolu- The RBI in June had pegged - unchanged at 4 per cent but ued fiscal, monetary and sec- ed at 17.2 per cent. tion of it, Governor the retail inflation estimate at maintained an accommoda- toral support to nurture the Das further said after the Shaktikanta Das said on 5.1 per cent for the current tive stance as the economy is "nascent and hesitant" eco- onset of the pandemic, the cen- Friday. “We are focusing on financial year. The RBI has the yet to recover from the impact nomic recovery while retaining tral bank has announced more orderly evolution of the yield mandate to keep inflation in a of the second COVID wave. the growth projection for the than 100 measures to mitigate curve. We do not have a spe- band of 2-4 per cent, with a "Inflation may remain current fiscal at 9.5 per cent. its impact. cific target of a yield curve,” tolerance level of 2 per cent on close to the upper tolerance While unveiling the bi- "Going forward, our endeav- Das told reporters after the either side. band for the second quarter monthly monetary policy our would be to continue the post monetary policy confer- "The current assessment is of 2020-21. But this pressure review, Das said that domestic monitoring of measures which ence. He said the central that the inflationary pressures should ebb in the third economic activity has started are still in operation to ensure bank does timely interven- during Q1:2021-22 are large- quarter of 2021-22 on normalising with the ebbing of that the benefit of all our mea- tion in the market as and ly driven by adverse supply account of kharif harvest the second wave of the coron- sures percolate down to target- when required. shocks which are expected to arrivals and supply side avirus pandemic and the ed stakeholders," he said. be transitory," RBI Governor measures," Das said. phased reopening of the econ- He stressed that the efficacy omy. of RBI's monetary policy mea- High-frequency indicators sures and actions is reflected in Rate cut on housing loans augurs well for economy suggest that consumption and hesitant recovery." financial growth. Taking various factors the significant improvement in (both private and government), The governor said conditions into consideration, the RBI transmission during the cur- PNS n MUMBAI on Friday. While announcing mission during the current investment and external the conduct of mone- that nurture decided to retain the GDP rent easing cycle. the third bi-monthly monetary easing cycle. The reduction in demand are all on the path of tary policy during the and rejuve- growth forecast for the current The reduction in repo rate The significant reduction in policy review, he said, the repo rate by 250 basis points regaining traction, he said. pandemic has been nate financial year at 9.5 per cent in by 250 basis points since lending rate on personal hous- interest rate transmission has since February 2019, has However, he added that at geared to main- 2021-22. February 2019 has resulted in ing and commercial real estate improved. resulted in a cumulative this stage "continued policy tain conge- It is expected to at 21.4 per a cumulative decline by 217 sector augurs well for the econ- "The efficacy of RBI's mone- decline by 217 basis points in support from all sides – fiscal, nial cent in first quarter of the fis- basis points in the weighted omy, as these segments are also tary policy measures and the weighted average lending monetary and sectoral – is cal; 7.3 per cent in second quar- average lending rate (WALR) employment intensive, RBI actions is reflected in the sig- rate (WALR) on fresh rupee required to nurture the nascent ter; 6.3 per cent in third and 6.1 on fresh rupee loans. Governor Shaktikanta Das said nificant improvement in trans- loans," he said. Sebi clears proposals to Gold tumbles RBI's move to keep interest rates low MONEY MATTERS Rs 283; silver GSIC receives 285 innovative facilitate ease of doing biz declines by to boost business confidence: India Inc PNS n NEW DELHI sumers. It is encouraging that rate by the RBI during the last ideas, approves 19 projects PNS n MUMBAI RBI has retained the projection financial year to percolate the Rs 661 The Reserve Bank of India's for GDP growth at 9.5 per cent benefits to trade, industry and oa State Innovation Sebi on Friday approved a raft PNS n NEW DELHI decision to keep key interest for FY2022 in the difficult consumers for rejuvenating the Council (GSIC), a of measures, including relax- rates unchanged and maintain time caused by the pandemic," demand and Gstate-run autonomous ing sweat equity norms for Gold in the national capital on an accommodative monetary Aggarwal said. body, has approved 19 new-age technology compa- Friday dipped by Rs 283 to Rs policy stance will boost the Going ahead, project ideas for nies and doing away with var- 46,570 per 10 gram amid confidence of businesses prototyping grants and six ious disclosure requirements, weak international trends, and consumers, India for provisional patents in as the watchdog seeks to pro- according to HDFC Securities. Inc said on Friday. 2020-21, a top official vide a fillip to startups, ease new-age technology compa- The precious metal had in the The central bank on said.The council in its compliance burden and facil- nies listed on the Innovators previous trade closed at Rs Friday expectedly kept report tabled during the itate ease of doing business. Growth Platform. 46,853 per 10 gram. Silver interest rates recently held Goa In a significant move, the In the case of IGP-listed also tumbled Rs 661 to Rs unchanged at a record Legislative Assembly session also said the Virtual Innovation markets watchdog's board has companies, the yearly limit for 65,514 per kilogram from Rs low of 4 per cent, as it Register (VIR) has successfully supported several innovative startup in-principle agreed to move sweat equity shares will be 15 66,175 per kilogram in the chose to support eco- ideas."Out of the total 285 ideas registered on VIR, 48 are startups away from the concept of per cent while the overall previous trade. In the inter- nomic revival over infla- and 237 are new ideas," GSIC chairman Jose Manuel Noronha 'promoters' in listed companies limit will be 50 per cent of the national market, gold was tion. It also maintained economic said.He said that out of the total 33 applications for prototyping to that of 'controlling share- paid-up capital at any time, trading lower at USD 1,799 an accommodative growth trajectory, grants received during fiscal 2020-21, 19 of them were approved by holders' apart from a reduc- according to a press release. per ounce and silver was flat stance as the economy is going forward," the selection committee of the council.For the provisional patent of tion in the minimum lock-in This enhanced overall limit at USD 25.15 per ounce. yet to recover from the Aggarwal added. Assocham the ideas, a total of 148 applications were received during the fiscal, period for promoters post an will be applicable for 10 years "Gold prices witnessed selling impact of the second said the full credit must be of which six were granted provisional patent, while 69 other project initial share sale. from the date of the company's with rise in US bond yields," COVID wave. given to the RBI for prioritising ideas are under process for filing patents, the report said. Also, at its meeting on incorporation. For companies according to HDFC Securities, PHDCCI President Sanjay growth and retaining the accom- Friday, Sebi board cleared trading on the main board, the senior analyst (Commodities), Aggarwal said the central bank modative stance on policy rates. amendments to regulations annual sweat equity ceiling Tapan Patel. maintained the status quo, “Its expectations that inflation governing alternative invest- will also be 15 per cent but the despite the high inflation he should moderate from the third Johnson & Johnson applies ment funds. At a time when overall limit will be capped at stoked by a few products. said, there is an quarter of the current fiscal year many startups are attracting 25 per cent. The markets "Continuation of an accom- expectation of a continuation of are realistic as various supply-side for single-dose Covid vax significant investments, watchdog will merge two sets modative stance to revive and accommodative policy stance by issues would be resolved by then. lobal healthcare including from overseas, Sebi of regulations into one -- Sebi sustain the economic growth the RBI to rejuvenate the aggre- Besides, with the monsoon pick- major Johnson & has decided to provide relax- (Share Based Employee trajectory amid the impact of gate demand in the economy. ing up pace, a positive impact on GJohnson on Friday ations on the quantum of Benefits and Sweat Equity) COVID-19 will boost the con- "We urge the banking sector to food inflation should be seen," the said it has applied for sweat equity that can be issued Regulations, 2021. fidence of business and con- transmit all the cuts in the repo chamber said in a statement. Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of its single-dose COVID- 19 vaccine in Tata Chemicals India.Earlier on Monday, IFFCO seeks permission to the company had said shares zoom that it remained committed to bringing its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to India export nano urea from Kalol plant nearly 10 pc; hit and looks forward to ongoing discussions with the Indian government."On August 5, 2021 Johnson & Johnson Pvt Ltd PNS n NEW DELHI applied for EUA of its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to the 52-week high government of India," a Johnson & Johnson India spokesperson Cooperative major IFFCO, said in a statement. This is an important milestone that paves the which has developed nano- PNS n NEW DELHI way for bringing the company's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to urea, has sought permission the people of India, and the rest of the world, through a from the Department of Shares of Tata Chemicals on collaboration with Biological E Limited, the statement added. Fertilisers for the export of this ‘Glad we have put Friday jumped nearly 10 per nutrient in liquid form from its cent after the company facility at Kalol in Gujarat, reported a multi-fold jump in Parliament was informed on consolidated net profit for the Voltas Q1 net up nearly 50 pc to Friday. an end to retro tax’ June quarter. In a written reply to the PNS n NEW DELHI "On the withdrawal of the The stock gained 9.70 per Rajya Sabha, Chemicals & Retrospective Tax (Vodafone), cent to its 52-week high of Rs Rs 122 cr; revenue up 36 pc Fertilisers Minister Mansukh With Lok Sabha passing a bill I am glad that we have put an 844 on BSE. On NSE, it ir conditioning and Mandaviya said the nano-fer- that aims to end all retrospec- end to an issue that has been jumped 9.71 per cent to its engineering services tiliser holds great promise for (NFL) and Rashtriya Chemicals gen can enhance farmer's crop tive taxation, senior Congress troubling us for 8 years," 52-week high of Rs 844. Aprovider Voltas Ltd on application in plant nourish- and Fertilizers Ltd (RCF) signed yields beside nitrogen saving to leader and former finance Chidambaram said in a tweet. Tata Chemicals on Friday reported a 49.73 per ment because of the size- a Memorandum of the extent of 50 per cent. minister P Chidambaram The Finance Act 2012, Thursday reported a multi- cent increase in its dependent qualities, high sur- Understanding (MoU) with The crops on which exper- Friday said he is glad that an which amended various pro- fold jump in consolidated consolidated net profit at Rs face-volume ratio, and unique Indian Farmers Fertilizers iments were undertaken issue that had been troubling visions of the Income Tax net profit at Rs 342.33 crore 122.44 crore in the first properties. Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO) for include paddy, wheat, mustard, India for eight years has been Act, 1961 with retrospective for the June quarter, helped quarter ended June Nano-fertilisers releases the technology transfer for pro- maize, tomato, cabbage, put to an end. effect, contained provisions by a rebound in soda ash vol- 2021.The Tata group firm plant nutrients in a controlled duction of nano urea, he said. cucumber, capsicum and 'The Taxation Laws intended to tax any gain on umes in the US and India. had posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 81.77 crore in the April- manner contributing to high- Mandaviya said the experi- onion. In late May this year, (Amendment) Bill, 2021' was transfer of shares in a non- The company's consoli- June quarter last fiscal, Voltas said in a regulatory filing.Its total er nutrient use efficiency, he mental trials of nano nitrogen IFFCO introduced the world's passed by the Lok Sabha Indian company, which dated net profit stood at Rs income was up 36.34 per cent to Rs 1,860.17 crore during the added. "IFFCO has sought per- undertaken during Rabi/Zaid first 'Nano Urea' for farmers. Friday. When it is also passed derives substantial value from 74.15 crore during the corre- period under review, as against Rs 1,364.34 crore in the mission from the Department 2019-20 through National The indigenously developed by Rajya Sabha, all tax underlying Indian assets, such sponding quarter of 2020-21, corresponding period of the previous fiscal."The Group's operations of Fertilizers for export of nano Agriculture Research System 'Nano Urea' is in liquid form demands made on compa- as Vodafone's transaction with Tata Chemicals said in a BSE and financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2021, have urea (liquid) manufactured (NARS) at 7 ICAR research and is priced at Rs 240 per 500 nies like Cairn Energy and Hutchison in 2007 or the filing. been impacted due to outbreak of the second wave of COVID-19 from its nano fertilizer plant institute/state agricultural ml bottle, which is 10 per cent Vodafone using a 2012 legis- internal reorganisation of the Income from operations pandemic during the peak season because of lockdowns and facility set up at Kalol, Gujarat," Universities on different crops cheaper than the cost of a bag lation on indirect transfer of India business that Cairn grew by 27 per cent to Rs restricted operational hours even after easing of state-wide Mandaviya said. were found agronomically suit- of conventional urea, IFFCO Indian assets prior to May 28, Energy did in 2006-07 before 2,977 crore from Rs 2,348 lockdowns," Voltas said in a post earnings statement. National Fertilizers Ltd able indicating that nano nitro- had said in a statement. 2012 will be withdrawn. listing it on local bourses. crore in the year-ago period. Sonalika Group sales rise by Indian startups press Modi for overseas listings 5 pc to 10,756 units in July ractor maker Sonalika on PNS n NEW DELHI to the growth ambitions of China's Ant Group-backed India's policy change closely, Friday reported a 5 per cent Indian startups," they said in Indian food delivery firm told Reuters last year it had Tincrease in total sales at Leading investors including the July 29 letter. Zomato had a stellar debut on been in talks with several 10,756 units in July.The Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital Swiggy and Sequoia declined Indian bourses recently, valu- Indian tech firms on overseas company had sold 10,223 units and Lightspeed have called on to comment. Other entities, as ing the firm at $13 billion, listings. Such listings will pre- in the same month last year."The India's Prime Minister well as Modi's office, did not while others including sent an opportunity for some monsoon has registered a good Narendra Modi to spur rules to immediately respond to SoftBank-backed ride-hailing of the world's leading show across the country and allow companies to list overseas requests for comment. firm Ola are also eyeing local exchanges to vie for India's with dynamically changing agri- for better access to capital, The new policy is seen as a listings. "Even as some compa- rapidly growing startup com- requirements of farmers, there is a surge in demand for advanced according to a letter seen by shot in the arm for Indian uni- nies are gearing up to list in panies. tractors with customised crop centric solutions," Sonalika Group Reuters. corn start-ups valued at more India, many others are keen to The Indian government Executive Director Raman Mittal said in a statement.Sonalika said India in September allowed than $1 billion and the digital evaluate the option of an inter- however had been concerned for the second year in a row, the monsoon has been good and companies to list directly on unit of conglomerate Reliance, national listing," the letter said, that overseas listing could brought respite for the rural economy that largely depends on rains foreign exchanges like the New which is eyeing a U.S. listing highlighting how companies in mean that companies hunting for healthy agri-sector performance. The company has also York Sto ck Exchange or reform agenda", some 22 ing him to expedite the policy. after raising more than $20 bil- other markets like the United for higher valuations through launched an interactive, infotainment-based YouTube channel – Nasdaq, but the government investors and top Indian star- "The current inability of lion from investors last year. States have a much bigger mar- access to a wider group of 'Sonalika E-Gurukul' targetting children of rural areas as well as has yet to announce rules tups such as food-delivery app unlisted companies to tap But the letter comes when ket capitalization than in India. investors would choose to only speed up their learning about different aspects of this world."Our required to govern such listings. Swiggy and online tutoring international markets for rais- many are choosing to list in The London Stock list abroad, hurting prospects of insights state that in rural areas, children often don't have access to Calling it an "unfinished firm Byju's wrote to Modi urg- ing capital is ... an impediment India. Exchange, which is tracking Indian markets. newer tools of education compared to their urban counterparts. 9

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Beat Monsoon blues with ancient herb remedies

he sudden fluc- Nutritionist, Tata Tea Brahmi is one of the Ginger tuation of tem- Gold Care lists the herbs most popular Ayurvedic perature dur- that are perfect to add to ingredient. It is also Ginger is an evergreen t ing the mon- your cups to make it known as water hyssop or spice and is luckily a soon season more wholesome and to Indian pennywort and prominent ingredient in makes us more bid adieu to the monsoon helps create a protective Indian cooking. The herb susceptible to common induced flu. shield of vital nutrients is loaded with vitamin B6 cold and fever. The mon- Mulethi and antioxidants in the and has various medici- soon season is known for body that helps in fight- nal values due to the inviting disease spreading Mulethi also known as ing infection and dis- multiple antioxidants it germs and viruses which liquorice has traditionally eases. Brahmi is benefi- delivers. It is an effective can take a toll on our been used to aid cold, cial in relieving stress and immunity booster too health. Indians anyway cough, boost immunity anxiety as well due to the presence of love tea, and the mon- and strengthen the liver. Tulsi compound Gingerol. soons are a perfect time It helps to loosen up the Cardamom for many of us to have a phlegm which is the root Almost every house- cup (or two) of hot cause for chest conges- hold has this herb plant. Cardamom is one of masala herb chai. tion, cold and cough. The It is rich in vitamin C and the most expensive spice Resting heart rate is Traditionally herbs have herb also protects our zinc. Plus it is anti-viral, in the world and its dis- been our go to for curing body from foreign anti-bacterial and anti- tinctive flavor comple- and preventing flu, and microbes, pollutants and fungal and its combina- ments both sweet and an herb infused tea has allergies by boosting our tion of phytochemicals, savoury dishes equally always been our first immunity system. bioflavonoids and anti- well. It delivers man- important health indicator choice for combatting Mulethi has active com- oxidants compounds, ganese, which is known seasonal ills. Herbs pounds which help such as rosmarinic acid to help boost virus-fight- ccording to data Electrophysiologist and you wait for at least five to A heart rate between 60 advised by our grandpar- relieve constipation, (a very good anti-micro- ing cells in the body and published by the Cardiologist in Jaipur, rest- ten after strenuous activity. and 100 is normal, but a ents, have inculcated in improve the digestion bial agent) helps combat is rich in multiple antiox- World Health ing heart rate (RHR) is a It is best to check it first heart rate above 80 is con- our minds the medicinal and help us score a respiratory illnesses rang- idants and minerals too. Organization vital indicator of your pre- thing in the morning. sidered a high resting heart values of herb infused healthy gut. ing from a simple cold Plus it is a gut strength- a and the sent and future health, and “Normally the heart rate rate. It indicates your low beverages. and cough to severe ener and helps relieve Brahmi International if mapped properly and is between 60 and 100. But physical fitness, overweight Kavita Devgan, bronchitis and asthma. digestive problems. Labour Organization this often, can detect abnormali- if the heart rate is above 80 or fat or blood pressure. year, long working hours, ties early on. The process to in a pulse reading of 60 sec- The higher the patient’s that is working 55 or more check your resting heart onds, then your risk of high resting heart rate, the hours per week, is associat- rate, the doctor explains, is blood pressure, high choles- greater the risk of heart dis- ed with a 17 per cent higher very simple. Put two fingers terol, and cardiovascular ease or premature death. risk of dying from ischemic on your pulse for 60 sec- disease increases twice. If it This is because the higher heart disease, compared to onds and count the heart- is above 90, the risk of all the heart rate, the more working 35-40 hours a beats. The pulse rate can be these hazards increases by pumping the heart has to week. Your lifestyle, there- read any day of the week, three times. Experts consid- do. “While it is good to get fore, has a direct bearing on but at that time of the read- er a beat between 70 and 80 your heart rate up during your heart health and quali- ing, you should not be in as the ideal resting heart exercising, it is not the same ty of life. stress or anxiety because in rate.” High resting heart rate thing as a high resting heart According to Rahul this situation the heart rate means low physical fitness, rate. When at rest, the pulse Singhal, Senior becomes high. Make sure says Singhal. reading should not be too high, or it is an indication that your heart muscles are under duress.” Due to the high pressure, the muscles of the heart get stressed, which can cause all these problems to the patient. One can stabilise a high resting heart rate by improving lifestyle, medita- tion, and yoga. Moreover, stress is a silent killer that can take your heart rate shooting through the roof. There have also been stud- ies in which patients have normalised their high rest- ing heart rate in just one week with lifestyle modifi- cation. FUN

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Saturday August 7, 2021 HYDERABAD MIRRORS DISTINCT CONFLUENCE OF CULTURES

SHIKHA DUGGAL

umanity has always been on the move. Throughout history, h we have migrated in search of new oppor- tunities, as well as to escape persecution, conflict India's first butchery and poverty. Although migra- tion is a global phenomenon, Subhajit Saha, Director and Head of CII Telangana, hailing school in Hyderabad from Kolkata, feels it’s a marathon of time that he has yderabad is the meat Director of Proteins Hygienic Non- been building with Hyderabad consuming city and Veg Mart. until now and there hasn’t been tops the country. Meat “It plans to train five hundred a moment where he hadn’t had H worth Rs 3,500 crore is butchers in the next eight months. a beautiful feeling up until same time, he says! Company consumed every year in Tenth pass or failures will be now. environment and suitability is the city! The city boasts absorbed for the training too! “I share a dazzling connect an important thing for an of conventional shops. The city is Upon completing the three-month of 42 years here in Hyderabad. employee to have better pro- home to four thousand chicken, training they will be absorbed into A breathtaking place to settle duction and work, and that’s two thousand mutton, and two full-time employment. Butchers are in, we can see the changing what Hyderabad is always thousand fish shops. But most of the meat cutters who prepare the demographics here and ready to offer. them are untidy and unhygienic. meat for the purpose of sale. The advancing technology. Anyone As a member of Thanks to Proteins Hygienic training will be a short term course thinking of establishing a Confederation of Indian Non-Veg Mart, a Hyderabad-based that offers skills and training on home for themselves in Industry, he is playing a key bootstrapped phygital startup that how to expertly perform butchery,” Hyderabad should just pack role in the IT industries of is soon going to have a meat acade- informed Vijay Chowdary their bags as soon as possible Telangana. From setting up of my that will teach lessons of butch- Tripuraneni, founder of Proteins and begin wonderful life here! ultra modern EV manufactur- ery! It is probably the first city in Hygienic Non-Veg Mart and the It’s not easy to leave one’s ing unit to newer policies of India to think in this direction of brain behind this novel academy. homeland and start a new life growth — he didn’t let the his- professionalising butcher craft. Many hotel management col- but Hyderabad offers you that toric fusion slip away. The “We are planning to invest in the leges have this subject as their multifariousness that one can’t architecture of this city, is a academy because we are seeing a course curriculum. But, there is no stop themselves.” fantastic source of remarkable huge potential for the space. What exclusive butcher craft training He who has also lived in the stories, adventure, and legends. was known in 2010 for general institute! Also, there is no informa- city of Chennai, famous for its “The city of Hyderabad taps retail and e-commerce, these few tion available on the internet about British military roots, he tells into the old legacy keeping years will be the same for the meat such an exclusive training institute. us, despite the lifestyle there, modernism in mind. A histori- industry,” said Manchala Vamshi That is why it is going to be the Hyderabad is truly ‘hum sab ka cal pearl trading centre and a Rai, alumni of Bits Pilani and first in India. city’ (everyone’s city). Moving multi-cultural hub, Hyderabad from a fractured perspective of has earned monikers such as a city he has lived in, when it ‘The city of pearls’ and ‘The comes to Hyderabad, he has city of Nizams’. I am a bona- shared a beautiful understand- fide Hyderabadi now and there Neil Patrick Harris to lead Netflix ing of it and a commitment to are some really grand master- do better things for it, till the pieces from here that’s dotting comedy series Uncoupled time he’s here. the city! The only drawback “It’s always carried the aura that I can witness is the traffic ctor Neil Patrick Harris 17 years. “Overnight, Michael has of being a sophisticated-cum- woes and a laid-back civic is set to lead Emily in to confront two nightmares — cosmopolitan city that knows it sense from the locals, other- Paris creator Darren losing what he thought was his hospitality roots very well. You wise this Deccani kingdom is Star’s upcom- soulmate and suddenly finding cannot find national prejudices topping the charts of most live- A ing Netflix himself a single gay man in his here! A group of people come able city across the country,” he comedy mid-40s in New York City,” together here from different concludes. series Uncoupled. the plotline reads.Harris will ethnicities, beliefs and culture According to also be serving as executive but accepted as a whole. That’s He who has also lived in the city of Chennai, famous for its British military Deadline, the story producer on the show along the beauty of this city. Built on centres on Michael with Star and Jeffrey the foundation of culture, eco-system, Subhajit Saha roots, he tells us, despite the lifestyle there, Hyderabad is truly ‘hum sab ka (Harris), who Richman. makes this city even greater, asserts that hyderabad offers city’ (everyone’s city). Moving from a fractured perspective of a city he has thought his life was The show from MTV along with its moderate climate the best networking system perfect until his hus- Entertainment Studios and Jax changes,” he adds. Helping him and work arena for profession- lived in, when it comes to Hyderabad, he has shared a beautiful understanding band blindsides him by Media will start filming in New big time in order to expand his als. You deliver and learn at the of it and a commitment to do better things for it, till the time he’s here. walking out the door after York later this year. PASSIONATE ABOUT ART THAT GOES TO HEART

K RAMYA SREE naturally. “When I see driftwood was meager.” no platform for artists to display or a broken tree trunk, I see a lot When asked how defines art their work, nor there is a plat- of potential to build create any and what is art to him, the popu- form for budding artists to learn rom what started off as interesting sculptures out of lar sculptor shares, “For me, art is new skills,” says the craftsman a schoolboy painting them. The moment I see them, I therapeutic and is connected to requesting the state government structures and taking visualise the sculpture. The my heart. Art makes the heart to allow some space to build an f instruments from a beginning of my creative process happy and gives people happi- art gallery. carpenter in his neigh- is to visualise a sculpture out of ness, confidence, and self-satis- “As the president of Warangal borhood, to carve the material in front me,” he faction. Only art has the power Art Society, I held exhibitions. sculptures, Marri Gopal Reddy, shares. Broken pieces of wood, to do this.” With no art gallery to display the fondly called Gopanna by his farms, trees, greenery is what He further goes on to explain, work of artists like me, for the admirers, has reached places with inspires the artist. “In the modern era, people are last 30 years, we could not hold his art. The artist has been To be an artist, one needs to giving into stress for various rea- any art exhibitions. I encouraged sculpting since middle school. adore art. The 78-year-old artist sons. To come out of this, society a few of my students to display For Gopanna, carving beautiful says, “The advice I give to bud- has to fall in love with art, their artwork at Lalitha Kala structures out of any wood he ding artists is to first start liking encourage artists. One has to be Pradarsanam in Hyderabad, sees is his ultimate goal. their art form. If one is passion- passionate about art. For this, the Delhi, Mumbai, Aurangabad, and Gopanna has so far created ate about the work they do, there government has to inculcate BFA more,” he adds. sculptures from 20 different is no stopping them.” and MFA in every district. And I Some of the awards he won kinds of wood. A recognised Upset about the fact that youth request the biggies and art lovers include: AP Lalitha Kala national craftsman, Gopanna these days pay no heed to artists to come forward and contribute Academy in 1978, 79, and 81, All says, “Sculpting needs patience as and sculpting, Gopanna shares, for the development of Art exhi- India Art Exhibition, Ugadi it needs intricate details to be “No importance is being given to bitions and keep the art alive.” Puraskar from the then chief carved. I use various kinds of art in today’s society. Youth are Sixty five years into sculpting, minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy instruments to get perfect details turning towards engineering, the artist is still waiting for sup- in 2005, Visista Puraskar in 2010 on my wood. The art, work, time, medicine and so are their par- port from the government. by the then CM K Rosaiah, Potti patience that goes into sculpting ents. Despite all kinds of arts “There is no support from the Sriramulu Telugu University in involves newness in every prod- having their own advantages, government for artists like me. 2000, INTACH in 1989, PT uct. If we put these into practice, youth is still hesitant to take up For 46 years, I held a key posi- Reddy Memorial in 1999 and one can churn themselves into an arts as their career choice. I held tion in Warangal Art Society. I other awards. This apart, twice expert artist.” various kinds of workshops for conducted art shows with my he won ‘Best Teacher’ in 1988 For Gopanna, sculpting came budding artists, but the response own money. Even today, there is and 97. VIJAYAWADA | SATURDAY | AUGUST 7, 2021 sport 11

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lAthletics: Priyanka Tokyo: The Indian women’s It has been learnt that both Goswami and Bhawna Jat IT ALL ENDS IN TEARS hockey team’s chief coach Marijne and team’s analytical finished 17th and 32nd Sjoerd Marijne on Friday coach Janneka Schopman were respectively in the women’s Indian women’s hockey team lose 3-4 in third place play-off to miss out on historic Bronze revealed that the Bronze medal offered an extension by the 20km race walk event. match against Great Britain in Sports Authority of India (SAI) Gurpreet Singh did not fin- PTI n TOKYO the ongoing Olympics was his but the former refused the ish the men’s 50km race last assignment with the side. offer due to personal reasons. walk event. he history-making Indian The 47-year-old coached Sources in the know of Indian team of Muhammed women’s hockey team’s the Indian women’s hockey developments said that Anas Yahiya, Tom Noah Tdream of securing its team to its best ever perfor- Schopman is expected to take Nirmal, Rajiv Arokia and maiden Olympic medal mance in the Olympic Games over Marine’s position on a full- Amoj Jacob finished fourth remained unfulfilled as it lost 3- and hours after this feat, time basis now. in Heat 2 and ninth overall 4 to Great Britain in a hard- Marijne announced that it was Marijne, a former Dutch in men’s 4x400 relay race; fought Bronze play-off but the his last assignment with the player, took over the reins of failed to qualify for final. stout-hearted side managed to Indian team. the Indian women’s team first lGolf: Aditi Ashok and record its best ever finish at the “I don’t have any plans in 2017 but was appointed the Diksha Dagar at second and Games here on Friday. because this was my last match coach of the men’s side later tied 51st respectively at the The team had already cre- with Indian women. It’s upto that year. However, in 2018, he end of women’s individual ated history and surpassed all Janneka (Schopman) now,” the was re-designated the stroke play round 3. expectations by entering the Dutchman told media in a vir- women’s coach in a rejigging lHockey: India lost to Great semifinals for the first time. tual press conference. of roles. PTI Britain 3-4 in women’s But the maiden Olympic Bronze medal match. medal remained out of bounds lWrestling: Bajrang Punia as world No 4 Great Britain, who “We are feeling so disappointed because we were so close. beat Ernazar Akmataliev were Gold-winners in the 2016 We were 2-0 down and then we equalised and we were (Kyrgyzstan) 3-3 in opening Rio Games, came out on top in 3-2 up. I don’t know what to say, but yeah it hurts a lot round, beat Morteza Cheka the pulsating encounter. because we couldn’t win the Bronze medal.” Ghiasi (Iran) 2-1 in quarter- India’s best performance in —RANI RAMPAL finals, lost to Haji Aliyev the Olympics before this was a (Azerbaijan) 5-12 in semifi- fourth-place finish in the 1980 “It was a very tough loss but we put in a lot of effort. nals of men’s 65kg freestyle Moscow Games but there were It was a tough loss, but every single player gave their 100 event; will play for the no semifinals in that edition as per cent.” Bronze medal. only six teams competed in a —GURJIT KAUR Seema Bisla lost to Sarra round-robin format and the Indian players react after defeat against Great Britain in the women’s hockey third place play-off match in Tokyo on Friday PTI Hamdi (Tunisia) 1-3 in first top two featured in the final. round of women’s 50kg The heartbreak came a day Britishers found the net four freestyle event. after the Indian men’s team times through Elena Rayer ended a 41-year-old medal (16th), Sarah Robertson (24th), IN ACTION TODAY drought by clinching Bronze skipper Hollie Pearne-Webb Players break down while talking to PM Modi lAthletics: Neeraj Chopra with a 5-4 win over Germany. (35th) and Grace Baldson (48th) New Delhi: Shattered by the “A l l o f y o u h a v e p l a y e d Modi praised Vandana pride in you. After so many Modi also applauded head in the final of men’s javelin The Indians played their to emerge winners. heartbreaking loss that saw really well. You left everything Katariya and Salima Tete for years hockey, India’s identity, has coach Sjoerd Marijne for his throw. (04:30pm) hearts out and overcame a two- them miss out on a Bronze in the past five years, sweating their performances. Katariya, been reborn. This is all because efforts. lGolf: Aditi Ashok and goal deficit to lead 3-2 at half NETHERLANDS WIN GOLD medal, members of the Indian it out for the sport. Your hard whose family was subjected to of your efforts,” Modi said. “You have tried your level Diksha Dagar in women’s time. But a desperate Great The Netherlands won their women’s hockey team broke work and sweat didn’t get a allegedly casteist slurs after the The 70-year-old also best, I am seeing how you have individual stroke play Britain gave their everything in fourth Olympic women’s hock- down during a telephonic con- medal but it has become the semifinal match, scored four enquired about Navneet Kaur, encouraged them. I am thank- round 4. (03:00am) the second half and scored two ey title by defeating Argentina 3- versation with Prime Minster inspiration for crores of girls in goals in the entire competition. who was seen with bandages on ful to you, I wish you all the best lWrestling: Bajrang Punia goals to snatch the match from 1 in the final. All the action came Narendra Modi, who lauded the the country. I congratulate the “Vandana and everyone her face to stop the bleeding for the future,” Modi said. in men’s 65kg freestyle India’s hands. in the second quarter, when the side for its inspirational display coach and all of you,” said played well. And everyone from an injury during the Marijne responded, “Thank bronze medal match; either India scored three goals in Netherlands struck three times at the Tokyo Olympics. Modi as the team gathered though Salima was brilliant.” match. you for your encouragement sir. second or third bout after a span of five minutes through in the space of six minutes to Modi called the team after around the phone. After a brief silence Modi Skipper Rani informed him The girls are a bit emotional 03:15pm start) Gurjit Kaur (25th, 26th minutes) build a commanding 3-0 lead. its agonising 3-4 loss and con- The players couldn’t fight urged the players to stop crying. that the forward had to get four right now, but I have told them Live on SONY TEN and Vandana Katariya (29th) to Argentina did grab one goal soled the distraught players, back tears as Modi praised “Please everyone, stop cry- stitches while thanking the PM to take pride in what they have & SIX Network stun Great Britain. But the back from a penalty corner. who were seen sobbing. their efforts. ing the entire country is taking for his encouragement. achieved.” PTI Golfer Aditi holds 2nd spot All eyes on Neeraj today Tokyo: Indian golfer Aditi the lower half of the leaderboard Tokyo: All eyes will be on grasp in 1964 and 1984 edi- Ashok carded a three-under 68 after an erratic one-over 72, her Neeraj Chopra to deliver India’s tions. in the third round to hold on to third successive over-par card of elusive Olympic medal in ath- Chopra’s performance on the second position and remain the week. letics and end a wait of 100 Wednesday was one of the in strong contention for the This is Aditi’s second years when he competes in the best performances by an Indian country’s maiden Olympic Olympic appearance. She had men’s javelin throw final here in the Olympics, as he finished medal in the sport on Friday. finished tied 41st in the 2016 Rio on Saturday. ahead of Gold medal favourite The Bengalurean, who has de Janeiro edition. A pre-tournament medal and 2017 world champion her mother, Maheshwari, on the The tournament faces pos- contender, the 23-year-old Johannes Vetter of bag, shot five birdies against two sible interruption and the final Chopra fuelled country’s Germany. bogeys and moved to 12-under, round could even be cancelled expectations by topping The Indian camp three strokes adrift of leader because of the forecast of a trop- the qualification round here is hoping that Nelly Korda of USA who card- ical storm on Saturday and with a stunning first round Saturday should ed a two-under 69 in the penul- maybe even Sunday. throw of 86.59m. turn out the finest timate round. The organisers have brought A farmer’s son day of Indian Four players — New forward the tee times for the from Khandra vil- athletics. Indian 4x400m relay team Zealand’s Lydia Ko (66), final round and have the option lage near Panipat “I have always Australia’s Hannah Green (67), of playing on Sunday morning in Haryana can wanted an Olympic Denmark’s Kristine Pederson if weather permits. script history by medal since I first became breaks Asian record but (70) and Japan’s Mone Inami They are hopeful of com- winning the AFI president (in 2012) (68) — shared the third spot Nelly Korda, left, and Aditi Ashok speak during the third round on Friday AP pleting 72 holes, but if 72 holes elusive medal, and I am hoping the with totals of 10-under 203. cannot be completed, the tour- which the likes dream will be realised Aditi fired five birdies and enth holes before bogeys on 17th to keep herself in the hunt nament will revert to being a 54 of late Milkha before the end of my fails to qualify for final two bogeys on the day. She was ninth and 11th pulled her back. for a historic medal. holes tournament. That would Singh and P T term,” Athletics Federation Tokyo: The Indian men’s had to run the longest distance three-under after picking up However, she made amends The other Indian golfer in mean Aditi will have Silver Usha let it slip of India President Adille 4x400m relay quartet shattered after starting the race in lane shots on fourth, sixth and sev- with birdies on the 15th and fray, Diksha Dagar, remained in behind Nelly Korda’s Gold. PTI from their Sumariwalla said. PTI the Asian record during the number 2. Olympics heat race but missed Yahiya said he’s happy that qualifying for the final round the team broke the Asian by a whisker here on Friday. record but gutted to miss the Bopanna retains The quartet of Muhammed final. Bajrang loses in SF, WFI sacks Deepak Punia’s coach place in Indian Anas Yahiya, Tom Noah “Really happy with the Nirmal, Rajiv Arokia and Amoj team’s performance and the Davis Cup team Jacob completed the race in new records but gutted to have to fight for Bronze Gaidarov for assaulting referee 3:00.25sec to finish fourth in not make it to the finals. Thank New Delhi: Doubles expo- the second heat. you everyone for your wishes Tokyo: The Wrestling being withdrawn from the assistant secretary Vinod Tomar nent Rohan Bopanna on India missed out the eight- and messages,” he tweeted. Federation of India (WFI) on Tokyo Olympic Village immedi- said. Friday retained his place in the team final as they ended at Friday terminated the services of ately and is being called back to “Gaidarov is being sent back Indian Davis Cup team despite ninth spot overall. RACE WALKERS FAIL Deepak Punia’s Russian coach India on the latest flight,” Indian to India so that he can collect all his recent run-in with the The first three in each of Earlier in the day, the race Murad Gaidarov after it Olympic Association Secretary his belongings. Then he will national federation, which the two heats and the next two walkers failed to impress with emerged that he had assaulted a General Rajeev Mehta stated. leave for his country,” Tomar named a five-member squad fastest qualify for the final. below-par performances at referee during the ongoing The United World added. for the upcoming World The earlier Asian record Sapporo. Olympics. The incident also led Wrestling (UWW), the world Gaidarov’s accreditation was Group I away tie against was in the name of Qatar National record holder to his expulsion from the governing body of the game cancelled after the hearing. Finland. which had clocked 3:00.56 Priyanka Goswami was among Games. summoned the WFI for a disci- The Russian has been guid- Expectedly, all top three while winning the Gold in the the leading pack around the Deepak lost his 86kg Bronze plinary hearing, in which the ing Deepak since last year after singles players of the country 2018 Asian Games. halfway mark but eventually play-off to San Marino’s Myles national federation faced an the WFI assigned him to train — Prajnesh Gunneswaran Jacob, who ran the last finished 17th while compatri- Nazim Amine on Thursday, embarrassing situation as a ban the 2018 junior world champi- (ranked 158), Sumit Nagal leg, was the best among the ot Bhawna Jat ended at 32nd in after which Gaidarov went to the on them was being considered. on. (159) and Ramkumar four Indian runners with 44.68 the women’s 20km race walk room of the referee, who had “We told them that the Gaidarov, 42, had won a Ramanathan (204) — have seconds as he overtook two event. officiated in the bout, and Indian coaches are well-behaved Silver medal at the 2008 Beijing been picked for the September rivals after the team was placed In the men’s 50km event, India's Bajrang Punia (blue) competes against Azerbaijan's Haji Aliyev (red) during assaulted him. and although Gaidarov trains Olympics, representing Belarus. 17-18 tie, which will be held on at sixth when he took the Gurpreet Singh pulled out after their men's freestyle 65kg wrestling semifinal match on Friday PTI “Indian wrestling team’s for- the Indian wrestler, his actions He was disqualified from indoor courts in Espoo Metro baton from Rajiv Arokia the 35km mark due to cramps eign assistant coach Mr Murad should not affect the WFI. We the 2004 Olympic Games when Areena in Espoo city. (44.84). under hot and humid condi- Chiba: Bajrang Punia’s perenni- A dejected and helpless Gaidarov who was involved in assured them that Gaidarov will he assaulted his opponent out- Bopnna, ranked 40, will National record holder tions as the Indian race walk- al leg-defence weakness came to Bajrang fell on the mat, aware an uncalled incident of assault be terminated immediately. We side the arena after losing his have his doubles partner in Yahiya understandably clocked ers ended their disappointing haunt him at the big stage as he that he had lost battle to a on one of the match referees, is barely survived a ban,” WFI quarterfinal bout. PTI Divij Sharan, ranked 82. PTI the slowest (45.60) time as he campaign. PTI lost the men’s freestyle 65kg superior wrestler. semifinal to three-time world Bajrang will now fight for champion Haji Aliyev here on Bronze. If he manages to win, Friday and he will now fight for India will match its best result at Anderson surpasses Kumble’s Bronze medal at the Olympic the Olympics. Sushil Kumar KL, Jadeja help India take lead Games. and Yogeshwar Dutt had won a tally of 619 Test wickets Rio Olympics Bronze-win- Silver and a Bronze at the 2012 PTI n NOTTINGHAM a six in his 56 off 86 deliver- ner Aliyev of Azerbaijan consis- London Games. ies at Trent Bridge. Nottingham: Veteran England wicket-keeper Jos Buttler. tently attacked Bajrang’s legs and Ravi Dahiya on Thursday nd the sword came out With it, the lively cricketer pacer James Anderson on Only Sri Lankan spin great twice got himself into position had won a Silver in the 57kg. Aagain, this time meaning has paid in full the faith the Friday surpassed Indian spin Muttiah Muralitharan (800), from where he could roll the Bajrang began the day by Ravindra Jadeja has justified team management showed in legend Anil Kumble’s tally of and Australian wizard Shane Indian comfortably for easy edging past Kyrgyzstan’s Ernazar his selection in the team, him while making the big 619 Test wickets. Warne (708) are now ahead of two-point throws. Akmataliev and then pinned which gave India a priceless move to leave out the seasoned The right-arm fast bowler, Anderson, who is playing in Trailing 1-4 after the first Iran’s Morteza Cheka Ghiasi to first-innings lead of 95 runs Ashwin from the playing XI at achieved the feat during the his 163rd Test. period, Bajrang looked for a big reach the semifinals. over England in the first Test the expense of a man who can third day of the first Test Anderson made his debut attack but Aliyev very smartly Elsewhere, debutant Indian here on Friday. bat a little better than the off- against India at Trent Bridge way back in 2003 and is the effected a counter take down, wrestler Seema Bisla could not The chatter around all- spinner, who himself is no when he removed a well-set most successful pacer in Tests placing his shoulder close to the find a way to get out of the rounder Jadeja being pre- mug with the bat in cricket’s KL Rahul on 84, caught by in terms of wickets. PTI thighs of Bajrang and threw the defensive trap of Tunisia’s Sarra ferred over specialist off-spin- top-flight. Indian for a huge 8-1 lead. Hamdi and lost her 50kg open- ner Ravichandran Ashwin 1st Test. Day 4 For England, medium old. Actually, too good as he is the task, especially the likes of The Azerbaijani was losing ing round 1-3. would stop for the time being Live from 3:30pm IST pacer Ollie Robinson emerged now third in all-time bowlers’ Rahul and Jadeja, while steam and Bajrang got two take- The 27-year-old could not as the optimistic visitors focus SONY SIX NETWORK as the most successful bowler list behind Muttiah Rishabh Pant and Jasprit downs to reduce the deficit but make her moves as Hamdi on things more important to as he bagged an impressive Muralitharan and Shane Bumrah contributed useful the required big move never applied the body lock to great take them closer to victory KL Rahul fist bumps with Ravindra Jadeja as they wait for umpire's decision AP 5/85, leading the team out in Warne with 621 wickets. runs, something that will not came. Under 30 seconds left in effect, never allowing Seema to and a 1-0 lead in the five- day, England were 11 for no itors with an 84 off 214 balls, the presence of legends such as Among his wickets were suffice for the flamboyant the bout, Bajrang desperately initiate a strong attack. match series. loss in their second innings. Jadeja snatched the initiative James Anderson, who finished the team’s top scorer Rahul and wicketkeeper-batsman, who looked for an attack but Aliyev The Tunisian later lost her By the time the two teams While opener K L Rahul with his characteristic enter- with figures of 4/54 from 23 the top batsman Virat Kohli. fell prey to a trap laid by did not let him do that by grip- next bout, which drew curtains took tea break on the third laid the foundation for the vis- prise, hitting eight fours and overs, not bad for a 39-year- The Indians were up to Robinson. ping him in strong body-lock. on Seema’s campaign. PTI 12

Vijayawada Saturday August 7, 2021 tollywood Venky's 75th film with Trivikram Mahesh Babu urges arlier it was Drushyam and F2, and now Narappa — actor Venkatesh E is rocking with hit fans to promote Haritha films, despite his age and long career. It’s now time for his 75th film in his career. Drushyam 2 is going to Haram on his birthday released this month. F3, sequel to F2 is on sets now. After these two projects, uperstar Mahesh can see them too! :) adopted in Andhra Venkatesh will begin working Babu has #HaraHaiTohBharahai Pradesh on May 31, the for the film in the direction of appealed to his @santoshkumarjoginipally birthday of his father Trivikram Srinivas, this will S fans to plant (sic),” he posted with a actor Krishna. be his 75th. saplings on his beautiful picture on his “Vaccination is our ray of This combination of birthday on Instagram page. hope for a normal life Venkatesh and Trivikram was August 9. Thanking Mahesh Babu, again! Doing my bit to planned way back in 2017. As a part of Green India MP Santosh Kumar, the ensure everyone in But it could not be materi- Challenge, the actor took founder of GIC, wrote, Burripalem is vaccinated alised until now. But finally, to his Instagram account “This is so nice and safe. Extremely grate- the film is now going to come to urge his fans to plant @urstrulyMahesh garu! It’s ful to #AndhraHospitals true. Venkatesh has done a saplings on his birthday in so moving gesture to ask for helping us arrange this film Nuvvu Naaku Nacchav a way to demonstrate their your huge fan base to vaccination drive (sic),” with Vijay Bhaskar as a direc- love and affection towards plant three saplings to the star had tweeted earli- tor. But the kind of impact him. show their love for you on er. that movie had was a result of “It always humbles me... your birthday as part of On the workfront, Trivikram Srinivas’ writing. All the things you do to #GreenIndiaChallenge. It’s Mahesh Babu has started We cannot forget the comedy celebrate the love you have all because of the massive shooting for Sarkaru and punches in that film and for me. This year, I have a support from personalities Vaari Paata, directed by the timing of Venkatesh play- special request. I urge you like yours, we have come Parasuram. If everything ing those episodes. all to plant 3 saplings each this far.” goes according to plan, Later on, Trivikram has on my birthday to support Earlier in May, the actor the filmmakers hope to went on to give hits and is a the #GreenIndiaChallenge. launched a vaccination release the film in January big director today. Now, Tag me in your posts so I drive in the village he 2022. everybody is curious about this Venkatesh and Trivikram’s combination — the story, the cast, concept and more. JR NTR PIC FROM UKRAINE GOES VIRAL AJAY BHUPATHI'S Khushboo's NEXT A SOLID SCRIPT fitter avatar ver since she after she shed a lot of given fitness goals to irector Ajay Bhupathi impressed stopped taking weight. “When hard- many youngsters out one and all with his debut film, up lead roles work finally starts there. RX 100. The way he showcased E after her mar- showing results!! The actress’ picture is Payal Rajput in a negative role riage, senior #weightlossgoal #fitness- now going viral all over d became a rage. He had to wait Tamil actress motivation,” s h e c ap - the internet. close to two years to start his Khushboo Sundar had tioned the picture. Kushboo will be next new film, Maha Samudram with actors put on a lot of weight. With this incredible seen in Rajinikanth’s Sharwanand and Siddharth. The actress, who went transformation, Annaatthe. She is also Maha Samundram is almost nearing on to play various roles Khushboo looks acting in Sharwanand’s completion and we hear that Ajay as a sister, and mother, charming than ever. upcoming film Bhupathi has alreasy readied a solid script was seen in a healthy With this, she has Aadavallu Meeku few days ago SS Rajamouli and his RRR team including Ram Charan, and Jr NTR flew for his third film and will not wait long avatar in most of the inspired many and has Johaarlu. to Ukraine for the final schedule of the film. before he starts working on it. films she acted in, in A While a picture taken by Upasana in the flight along with her hubby Ram Charan, Sources tell us that Ajay prepared this the recent past. But the enroute Ukraine, went viral on social media, on Friday. Jr NTR’s pic from the sets of RRR script during the lockdown time and will veteran heroine decided started to do rounds on social media. Cinematographer KK Senthilkumar took to Instagram to approach some noted stars soon. Like his to shed all the extra share the photo that was taken inside the flight. two films, Ajay’s third film too will be a kilos and has become The actor will be seen wearing an ID card in the picture. strong content-based drama. fit. Jr NTR is playing the role of tribal freedom warrior Komaram Bheem in RRR. Irish actress Olivia Meanwhile, Maha Samudram is done Recently, the Morris is playing the lead opposite him. DVV Danayya is producing it under the banner of DVV with its shoot, and those who have seen Kaliyuga Pandavulu Entertainment. The much hyped big budget film has music by MM Keeravani. the rushes of the film cannot stop raving heroine stunned every- The multilingual film also has Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn, Samuthirakani, Ray Stevenson, about it. Ajay is busy with the post-pro- one when she shared Alison Doody, Shriya Saran and others in pivotal roles. The pan-India film is set in the pre- duction of the film as of now. her latest selfie. She independence era and it will be released on October 13, 2021 worldwide in a very grand The first song from Maha Samudram, looked stunning with a manner. Hey Rambha Rambha..., composed by lean and slim look, Chaitan Bhardwaj was released on Friday that clocked close to three lakh views at the time time of writing this article. Sekhar Kammula's political subject with Dhanush

fter Leader, director Sekhar film in Tollywood for the first time. Kammula is finally going to This movie will be a multilingual, a do another story based on pan-India movie. As Dhanush has a A politics. His next film after good market in the entire south Love Story, is with Tamil Indian film industries and also in actor Dhanush. For this Hindi, the makers decided to make it film, Sekhar Kammula has taken a a pan-India movie. political subject. All of Sekhar Buzz is that actress Sai Pallavi is Kammula’s film were with love and going to play the female lead role in emotional drama, except Leader and this movie too. Anamika. Leader has gotten great The last two films of Sekhar applause, but was not a commercial Kammula had Sai Pallavi play the hit. Anamika too disappointed Sekhar lead actress: Fida and the forthcom- Kammula. ing movie Love Story. Dhanush and Sekhar Kammula’s political film Sai Pallavi too did work together with Dhanush is the actor’s straight before, in Maari 2.