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State adds 1 lakh cases in just 10 days, crosses 4 lakh mark /#"$234-.' "$ %.#0#%&+1&2 *.03..#1.4.#06&+0 ' - 61,331 tests. In the 24 hours ' ending 9 am on Friday, 8,463 (! ) Andhra Pradesh on Friday coronavirus patients were dis- The stoic silence being main- went past the grim mark of charged from hospitals after tained by the Chief Ministers of four lakh Covid-19 cases as recovery while another 81 suc- the two Telugu States over the *) over 10,000 new infections cumbed. demand for postponement of were added for the third The state completed 35.41 JEE Main, NEET exams has straight day. lakh sample tests so far, show- become a subject of hot debate + ) The number of people cured ing an infection positivity rate in national and local political %, of the infection increased to of 11.40 per cent. circles. over three lakh, the latest gov- AP reached the 10,000 cases Telangana Chief Minister K ernment bulletin said. Nadu, which had crossed the mark on June 24, the 50,000 Chandrasekhar Rao and his It took just 10 days, the four lakh mark on Thursday, in mark on July 20, one lakh on Andhra Pradesh counterpart YS shortest span so far, for the a day or two. July 27, 1.50 lakh on August 1, Jaganmohan Reddy have been 89 " : ; : efforts to stall NEET, JEE exams. number of coronavirus cases to As on Friday, the Covid-19 two lakh on August 7 and 2.50 tight-lipped at a time when KCR and Stalin were the only swell from three to four lakh in count in AP read 4,03,616 lakh on August 12. NEET, JEE exams have two leaders from South who the state. total cases, 3,03,711 recoveries It touched the three-lakh polarised non-BJP parties Jharkhand jointly filed a review the NDA. were present at the ceremony Going by the pace at which and 3,714 deaths. mark on August 18. across the country against the petition in the Supreme Court. More than Jagan, it's KCR where Jagan was sworn-in Chief new cases are being added, AP The active cases stood at It took 170 days for the state NDA government at the Centre. Chief Ministers of non-BJP who is attracting more attention Minister in May, 2019. is expected to climb to the sec- 96,191. to go from just one to four lakh Both the Chief Ministers ruled states Mamta Banerjee, in this episode as he had made Political analysts see KCR los- ond spot, behind Maharashtra, The bulletin said 10,526 (cases) after the first person have neither extended support Amarinder Singh, Uddhav an attempt to mobilise the sup- ing a golden opportunity to in the overall national tally, fresh positive cases were tested positive for the conta- to exams nor opposed them. Thackeray, Ashok Gahlot, port of all regional parties to mobilise the support of non- surpassing neighbouring Tamil reported in the state from gion on March 12. On Friday, six ministers of Navin Patnaik and Arvind float his Federal Front ahead of BJP parties for his Federal non-BJP ruled states moved the Kejriwal, had also demanded April 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Front and become a major Supreme Court, seeking review postponement of the exams. What's interesting is that political force at national level of its order on conducting However, there is no word KCR and Jagan ignored even with his 'silent stand' on JEE, 4 . NEET, JEE. from Chief Ministers of the two the personal request made by NEET row and giving scope for Ministers from West Bengal, Telugu States, fuelling specula- DMK president MK Stalin who suspicion for non-BJP parties Punjab, Maharashtra, tions that KCR and Jagan are wrote to them two days ago that KCR indeed is a secret ally ,7# . Rajasthan, Chattisgarh and not in favour of moving against seeking their support for the of the BJP. ' basis of earlier years assess- ment and internal assessment The Supreme Court on Friday whereas the UGC guidelines !"#$ 7 # said the University Grants dated July 6 directed specifi- RK moves SC, seeks razing Commission's guideline for cally to conduct final year/ter- % &!/8 conducting the final year uni- minal semester examination." 4 '#$ % ' versity examination The top court rejected 5#4 before September the petitioners' con- 5#! &"$ of ‘illegal’ TDP state office 30 is correct, and tention that promot- ' - states and uni- ing students thus 54"&06 ' - It may be recalled that RK versities cannot on earlier assess- TDP former MLA from filed a petition in the Andhra promote stu- ment would in no ' North Andhra Panchakarla Alleging that the Telugu Desam Pradesh High Court to cancel dents without manner lowering Ramesh Babu on Friday Party state office at Atmakur in the lease of the said land allo- holding exams. the standard of edu- Congress MP from joined the YSRCP in the Guntur district was construct- cated to the TDP. However, the A bench com- cation Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, H presence of Chief Minister YS ed in violation of all rules, High Court dismissed the peti- prising Justices The top court said Vasanthakumar died of Covid- Jaganmohaan Reddy here. Mangalagiri MLA Alla tion and the MLA then moved Ashok Bhushan, R. the decision of the 19 at a hospital here on Friday, MP V Vijayasai Reddy said Ramakrishna Reddy on Friday the Supreme Court. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Disaster Management Autho the party said. The 70-yr old that the YSRCP would utilise filed a petition in the Supreme In a statement, the MLA said Shah said: "We, thus, conclude rity or the state government first time MP, and working pres- the services of Ramesh Babu, Court, seeking its demolition. that valuable government and that the State Disaster that students should be pro- ident of Tamil Nadu Congress who has a long innings in The YSRCP MLA said that temple lands in Vijayawada, Management Authority and moted without appearing in Committee, who was admitted North Andhra. the TDP had obtained lease for Guntur, Machilipatnam, the State Government has no the final year/terminal semes- to the Apollo Hospitals on Stating that that nobody the land from the government lease from the then govern- Visakhapatnam and several jurisdiction to take a decision ter examination, is not with- August 10 after he tested posi- can stop the government for a throwaway price and ment for about 3.65 acres other towns and cities had that the students of final in the domain of the Disaster tive for coronavirus, succumbed from going ahead with its urged the apex court to scrap extant land at Atmakur in been leased to supporters of the year/terminal examination Management Act, 2005. to the illness, a party spokesper- decision to establish the exec- the lease too. Guntur on June 22, 2017 TDP for periods 30 to 99 years should be promoted on the C son said. C utive capital in Visakhapat Appearing on behalf of through GO 228 for the party at very meagre amounts. nam, Vijayasai Reddy accused Ramakrishna Reddy, advocate office. He said the law prohibits He said that the lease of all Leader of the Opposition N Allanki Ramesh filed a Special construction of buildings on such lands should be cancelled Chandrababu Naidu of being Leave Petition in the Supreme land adjacent to a canal and the and these valuable properties +' , . / anti-people and communal. Court, mentioning that the building was constructed vio- should be returned to the gov- C TDP had obtained a 99-year lating CRDA law. ernment. 0 1.2,.,(3 . ' - drinking water will be supplied Atchannaidu gets bail in ESI scam case to 30 villages under DBR Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Branch Canal, including ' - and the court appealed to TDP cadres YSRCP leaders for 'targeting Reddy on Friday laid the foun- Jaggaiahpet Municipality reserved its orders not to visit him.