Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 ANALYSIS 7 MONEY 8 SPORTS 12 Published From HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW TIME FOR AN ECO-FRIENDLY HOME AFFORDABILITY TO I BECAME A CRICKETER BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH DEVELOPMENT MODEL IMPROVE FURTHER IN 2021: JLL ACCIDENTALLY: ASHWIN BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 127 HYDERABAD, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2021; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable VAISSHNAV TO COLLABORATE WITH MANAM ENTERTAINMENTS { Page 11 } www.dailypioneer.com SENSEX POSTS WORST DAY IN 11 POLL OFFICIALS FRONTLINE WORKERS, SMRITI IRANI RIDES A SCOOTER IN MUMBAI'S HIGH-SECURITY ARTHUR MONTHS, SINKS 1,940 POINTS WILL BE VACCINATED: ELECTION BODY BENGAL, DAY AFTER MAMATA BANERJEE ROAD JAIL AWAITS NIRAV MODI he BSE Sensex crashed about 1,940 lection officials will be eligible for COVID-19 nion Minister Smriti Irani was seen ith a UK court ruling in favour of points to post its biggest single-day fall in vaccination, the Election Commission said on negotiating the narrow lanes of suburban extradition of fugitive diamond Tnearly 11 months and the NSE Nifty EFriday as it announced dates for assembly UKolkata on a scooter as part of a BJP Wmerchant Nirav Modi, wanted in plunged over 568 points to crack below the polls in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Assam motorcycle rally on Friday, just a day after India on charges of fraud and money psychological 15,000-mark on Friday, tracking and Puducherry. Election officials are frontline Trinamool Congress boss Mamata Banerjee was laundering in Punjab National Bank scam global selloffs triggered by a panic in bond workers and they will be vaccinated, Chief seen riding pillion to work. On a day the Election case, Mumbai's Arthur Road jail has kept a markets overseas. Investors also turned Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said in the Commission is expected to announce dates for the special cell ready to lodge him, an official cautious ahead of the third quarter GDP data news conference in Delhi. Voting time has been Bengal elections, due in April-May, along with said today. The jail official said that once release, besides keeping an eye on simmering increased by 1 hour because of the pandemic, he other states across the country, the BJP's big guns Nirav Modi is brought to Mumbai, he will be geopolitical tensions between the US and added. During filing of nominations, only two Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani are campaigning on kept in one of the three cells of barrack No. Syria. At the day's close, the 30-share BSE people will be allowed to accompany the Mamata Banerjee's turf. Rajnath Singh will be in 12, which is a high-security barrack. Sensex settled 1,939.32 points or 3.80 per candidate, he said. This is the first major set of Balurghat along with state BJP president Dilip "Preparations for lodging Nirav Modi in the cent lower at 49,099.99 its worst one-day fall elections to be held in the middle of the Ghosh while Irani took part in the rally in the jail have been completed and a cell is ready since May 4 last year coronavirus pandemic after the Bihar election. Baruipur-Sonarpur area, a TMC stronghold. for him, whenever he is extradited," he said. Dattatreya ‘manhandled’ in Himachal Five Assembly polls to begin Assembly, 5 Cong MLAs suspended PNS n SHIMLA March 27, counting on May 2 Himachal Pradesh Governor Bandaru Dattatraya was PNS n NEW DELHI allegedly manhandled by some n 18.68 cr voters will n Assembly polls in Congress members in the Voting for five Assemblies will Tirupati, N Sagar Assembly complex on Friday, begin on March 27, with West be eligible to cast West Bengal will be following which five MLAs Bengal conducting the maxi- their votes at 2.7 L held in eight phases, schedule soon were suspended for the mum eight phases continuing remainder of the Budget B'desh High PNS VIJAYAWADA: till April 29, and votes for the polling stations for up from seven Curiously, the Election Session. Commissioner meets polls in the four states and one 824 Assembly seats last time Commission of India failed to The incident took place out- Assam CM Sonowal union territory will be count- mention by-polls for the side the Speaker's office when ed on May 2, the Election Tirupati Lok Sabha seat in the Governor was leaving for Commission said on Friday. Andhra Pradesh and the Raj Bhavan after he cut Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, HP Governor Bandaru As many as 18.68 crore vot- Nagarjunasagar Assembly short his adresss in the House Dattatreya and State Legislative Assembly Speaker Vipin Parmar arrive to attend ers will be eligible to cast their constituency in Telangana following a ruckus create by the Budget session, in Shimla on Friday 5 votes at 2.7 lakh polling sta- the Congress on the opening while releasing the schedule tions for 824 assembly seats for elections in four States day of the Budget session. They also hit the bonnet of the Governor was manhandled by across Assam, West Bengal, and the Union Territory of Speaker Vipin Parmar said Governor's car, the Speaker Opposition members. Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. It was largely the Opposition members tried said, adding that he is examin- After the incident, the Puducherry. expected that the ECI would to stop the Governor, who was ing the Assembly rules to Speaker suspended Leader of The elections for the five also announce the dates for accompanied by Chief lodge an FIR against the Opposition Mukesh Agnihotri Assemblies are expected to the by-polls in the two Telugu Minister Jai Ram Thakur, Congress legislators. and four other Congress MLAs witness a determined attempt states, but going by the when he was going towards his The Speaker told PTI that Harsh Vardhan Chauhan, by the BJP to put a strong show, absence of any mention in cavalcade. this is for the first time in the Satpal Raizada, including in Assam where it is the poll panel briefing, it They hit on the Governor's history of the Himachal 2 already in power, as well as in appears that such a schedule back with copies of his address. Pradesh Assembly that a West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil April 6. The second phase of West would be announced Nadu and Puducherry where Elections for the West Bengal's assembly elections separately, perhaps in the the saffron party has been Bengal Assembly will be held has been scheduled for April 1 next few days. pushing hard in recent years. in eight phases, up from seven and will cover 30 constituen- Elections in Assam will be last time, beginning with cies, followed by the third India exits recession, conducted in three phases on polling for 30 seats on March phase on April 6 for 31 seats, phase on April 26 for 36 seats March 27, April 1 and April 6, 27, Chief Election the fourth on April 10 for 44 and last and eighth phase on The way while polling in Kerala, Tamil Commissioner Sunil Arora constituencies, the fifth on April 29 for 35 seats, Arora GDP raises at + 0.4% Nadu and Puducherry will said while announcing the April 17 for 45 seats, sixth for said. PNS n NEW DELHI advanced by 6.2 per cent, forward for the take place in a single phase on poll schedule. 43 seats on April 22, seventh 2 while electricity, gas, water Insolvency Code After contracting for two supply and other utility ser- quarters in a row, the Indian vices clocked a 7.3 per cent economy entered the positive growth. Bengal, TN's territory with a growth of 0.4 The NSO said, "GDP at SC nixes plea to implement per cent in the October- Constant (2011-12) Prices in last-minute December quarter, mainly due Q3 of 2020-21 is estimated at 2 to good performance by farm, Rs 36.22 lakh crore, as against sops before CM directs officials services and construction sec- Rs 36.08 lakh crore in Q3 of NGT fiat on Kaleshwaram tors, official data showed on 2019-20, showing a growth of announcement to formulate Friday. 0.4 per cent". PNS n NEW DELHI Trade and hotel industry The gross domestic product PNS n CHENNAI registered a contraction of 7.7 (GDP) had expanded by 3.3 The Supreme Court on Friday horticulture policy per cent during the third quar- per cent in the corre- At least two of the five poll- refused to entertain a plea PNS n HYDERABAD ter this fiscal, as the sectors sponding period bound states today rushed to seeking implementation of continued to suffer on account of 2019-20. announce populist schemes National Green Tribunal order Telangana Chief Minister K of coronavirus pandemic. hours ahead of the election on the expansion of Chandrasekhar Rao has According to the data 2 dates being announced. Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation instructed officials of the released by the National Tamil Nadu and West Project in Telangana. Agriculture Department to Statistical Office (NSO), the Bengal introduced various A bench headed by Chief formulate a Horticulture farm sector recorded a growth policy changes seemingly Justice S A Bobde said it was Policy, keeping in view of 3.9 per cent, and the aimed at electoral prospects. not the executing court of the Telangana's background, its manufacturing sector The model code of con- NGT order and for that mat- soil, weather conditions, and output grew by 1.6 duct, which comes into ter any tribunal.