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XXIIII IISSUESSUE NNO.O. 3388 PPAGES.AGES. 88+8+8 ` //-- 4 EENGLISHNGLISH DDAILYAILY THE30 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER,SOUTH 2020 PUBLISHED FROM: HYDERABAD, CHENNAI INDIA & BANGALORE EDITOR INTIMES CHIEF: BUCHI BABU VUPPALA www.thesouthindiatimes.com /facebook/thesouthindiatimes.yahoo.in / thesouthindiatimes.yahoo.in WILL FIGHT AGAINST ‘ARRIVALS TO AUS FROM K’TAKA CM PLAYS DOWN FARM LAWS ON ALL FRONTS: COVID-19 SAFENATIONS COULD TEJASVI SURYA’S ‘BLURU A PUNJAB CM QUARANTINE AT HOME’ TERROR HUB’ REMARK Landslide closes SHORT TAKES India has never accepted Rajnath launches startup challenge to Srinagar-Leh 15 MLAs test Covid 1959 definition of LAC promote self-reliance in defence sector positive in Odisha highway Delhi, Sep 29 (UNI) Union New Delhi, Sep 29 (UNI) with China: Govt Srinagar, Sep 29 (UNI) A Defence Minister Rajnath Singh The BJP is planning to massive landslide has closed on Tuesday launched a startup counter the opposition’s the Srinagar-Leh highway as challenge to achieve self-reliance attack over the farm Bills scores of vehicles are strand- in the military sector under the by reaching out to the elec- ed on the two sides of the Zo- ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ campaign. torate. The BJP is believed jila Pass. Traffic officials said Singh launched the Defence India to have asked all its MPs to a massive landslide hit the Startup Challenge (DISC 4) featur- go back to their respective India Gate area in the Zojila ing initiatives aimed at expanding constituencies and reach Pass on Monday evening af- the horizons of the Innovations out to their electorate. ter which traffic on the over for Defence Excellence (iDEX) The ministers too may be 340-Kms long Srinagar-Leh ecosystem. “The iDEX4Fauji ini- the programme qualitatively and gal innovation ideas from the sol- asked to reach out to larg- Delhi, Sep 29 (UNI) Warn- including to the Chinese highway was halted. “Ef- tiative and the Product Manage- quantitatively,” the Ministry of diers. There are more than 13 lakh er masses through press ing Beijing against advancing side.” Under various bilateral forts are going on to clear ment Approach (PMA) guidelines Defence said in a statement. It is a service personnel working in the conferences. All BJP MPs its untenable unilateral inter- agreements, including the the landslide and restore were also launched by the Defence first of its kind initiative launched fields and on the borders, handling are believed to have been pretation, India on Tuesday 1993 Agreement on Mainte- traffic on the highway”, traf- Minister during the event. Each to support the innovations identi- extreme conditions and equip- asked by the party leader- said that it has never accepted nance of Peace and Tranquil- fic officials said. Meanwhile, of these initiatives is expected to fied by the members of the Indian ment and would be having many ship to go back and stay the 1959 definition of the Line ity along the LAC, the 1996 scores of vehicles including facilitate iDEX-DIO to scale up armed forces and will bolster fru- ideas to improve such equipment. put in their respective con- of Actual Control (LAC) with Agreement on Confidence trucks and light vehicles are stituencies for the next 15 China. In response to que- Building Measures (CBMs) stranded on the two sides days, meet their electorate ries on a recent media report in the military field, the 2005 of the Zojila Pass that con- JAVADEKAR SAYS 5 STATES and highlight the reality of quoting a Chinese Foreign Protocol on Implementation nects the cold desert Ladakh the farm Bills, on which the Ministry statement regarding of CBMs, the 2005 Agree- region with the rest of the TO MEET ON THURSDAY party feels the opposition is China’s position on the LAC, ment on Political Parameters country. The highway re- over the issue of pollu- that air pollution affects taries of 5 states and UTs “deliberately misleading” the official spokesperson of and Guiding Principles for mains closed from Novem- tion while asserting that not according to state -- Delhi, Punjab Haryana, the people. The outreach the Ministry of External Af- Settlement of the India-China ber to April each year due to various measures have al- limits but according to air Uttar Pradesh and Rajas- programme includes door- fairs, Anurag Srivastava, said, Boundary Question, both In- heavy snowfall on the Zojila New Delhi, Sep 29 ready been taken in order shed which affects Delhi, than. He informed that to-door visits, holding lo- “India has never accepted the dia and China have commit- Pass. To ensure round-the- (UNI) Union Environ- to curb it. He added that Ghaziabad, Noida, Farid- state pollution control cal seminars, and meeting so-called unilaterally defined ted to clarification and con- year connectivity, a tunnel is ment Minister Prakash Ja- it needs to be understood abad, Gurugram and oth- board chiefs, other senior community leaders and 1959 Line of Actual Control firmation of the LAC to reach being constructed from Bal- vadekar said on Tuesday that pollution stays for 2-3 er cities alike, Thursday’s officials and heads of influential people of the (LAC). This position has been a common understanding of tal in Ganderbal district to that a state environment months and it also has a meeting will be attended corporation bodies like society. In the next two consistent and well known, the alignment of the LAC. Gumri in Kargil district. ministers meeting will “geographic” reason for it. by environment ministers DDA, NDMC will also be days, key Union ministers take place this Thursday Javadekar said that given and environment secre- in attendance. may also kickstart media interactions. Sources in- dicate that two key Union ministers -- Piyush Goyal With 70K new cases, India’s corona tally crosses 61 lakh and Dharmendra Pradhan New Delhi, Sep 29 (UNI) With a es, which then doubled to 20 lakh has come down to 1.57 per cent, were conducted across the coun- -- may be tasked with coor- spike of 70,589 coronavirus cases on August 7. The country added the data from the Ministry of try in a single day on Monday, dinating the entire matter. and 776 deaths in 24 hours, In- another 10 lakh on August 23 and Health and Family Welfare said. taking the total number of sam- The BJP is also exploring dia’s tally on Tuesday breached went past 40 lakh on September Maharashtra continues to be the ples tested so far to 7,31,10,041. the option of holding press the 61 lakh-mark with a total of 5. In 11 days, it added another 10 worst-hit with a total of 13,39,232 On the global front, India rallies conferences in almost all 61,45,291 cases. Out of these, lakh cases thus taking the total to cases, including 35,571 deaths; behind the US, which has record- the state capitals. 9,47,576 are currently active; 50 lakh cases. Thirteen days later followed by Andhra Pradesh, ed 7,147,751 cases and 2,05,062 51,01,397 have been discharged, the tally has mounted to 61 lakh. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Ac- deaths. As of Tuesday morning, while 96,318 lost the battle While the recovery rate stands at cording to the data from the Indi- the total number of cases stood at J&K Police file against the viral disease. On July 82.58 per cent, one of the high- an Council of Medical Research 33,273,720 and the fatalities rose chargesheet 17, India had logged 10 lakh cas- est in the world; the fatality rate (ICMR), 11,42,811 sample tests to 10,00,825. against 4 Lashkar terrorists Congress misleading Pak resorts to Modi hits out at opposition unprovoked ceasefire Srinagar, Sep 29 (UNI) The farmers on new farm J&K Police on Tuesday violation on LoC submitted a chargesheet as he talks ‘clean Ganga’ in a case pertaining to an laws: Tomar incident dated April 3, New Delhi, Sep 29 (UNI) New Delhi, Sep 29 (UNI) the Rafale deal, Modi said, augurated on Tuesday, Modi taken to a new level. Apart when Handwara Police Union Agriculture and Farm- Prime Minister Narendra “Four years ago, around said, “The condition from the cleanliness of the along with the army and ers Welfare Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hit out at this time, the nation’s here was such that Ganga, there is now a focus the CRPF arrested four ter- Singh Tomar has accused the the opposition for raising bravehearts had carried an important subject on the development of the rorists and three terrorist Congress of misleading the questions about the Rafale out a surgical strike and like water was economy and environment associates of proscribed farmers and playing politics in deal and demanding proof destroyed terror bas- divided into of the entire area adjacent to terror outfit Lashkar-e- their name. He says that those of the surgical strike carried es. But these people many min- the Ganga. The government Taiba (LeT). The police who are opposing the new out in PoK. He was inaugu- were asking for istries and has planned to connect all said that after the con- agricultural laws are pursuing rating six projects under the proof of the departments. the people of Uttarakhand clusion of investigation, their vested interests in the tion) Agreement on Price As- ‘Namami Gange Mission’ for surgical strike. In these min- with organic farming, Modi the chargesheet has been name of farmers. surance and Farm Services Uttarakhand and said, “To- By opposing the surgical istries, there was no coordi- said. Speaking on specifics filed before the compe- Talking to , the Agricul- Bill, 2020, and the Essential day money is not wasted in strike, they have cleared nation, nor any clear guide- he said, “The country’s first Jammu, Sep 29 he added.