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 NO POWER IN THESE NEW MUTATION OF VIRUS PULLS DOWN BOXING DAY TEST WILL BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH REFORMS INVESTOR WEALTH BY RS 6.59 LAKH-CR DECIDE SERIES FATE: BURNS BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 63 HYDERABAD, TUESDAY DECEMBER 22, 2020; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable AVIKA GOR ON A ROLL { Page 11 } www.dailypioneer.com ‘RELATIONSHIP OVER’: BJP MP SAYS WORST DAY IN 7 MONTHS FOR SENSEX AS CONGRESS LEADER, GANDHI FAMILY ‘BJP BENT ON DIVIDING THE COUNTRY, WILL DIVORCE WIFE WHO JOINED TMC MUTANT VIRUS SPOOKS GLOBAL MARKETS LOYALIST, MOTILAL VORA DIES AT 92 CANCELLED XMAS HOLIDAY: MAMATA olitical acrimony in Bengal appeared to threaten a marriage today as a omestic stock markets suffered their worst single-day loss in more than eteran Congress leader Motilal Vora, a staunch Gandhi family est Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday hit out at the BJP- PBJP MP said he would file for a divorce after his wife joined Chief Dseven months on Monday tracking a selloff across global equities over Vloyalist who had a political career spanning almost five decades, Wled government at the Centre saying it is only bent on dividing the Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, going upstream in a tidal fears of a new coronavirus strain that shut much of the United Kingdom. died at a hospital here on Monday following country and has cancelled public holidays on festivals like Christmas. wave of defections to the BJP ahead of the state The Sensex index dropped 2,037.61 post-COVID-19 complications, his family said. Inaugurating Christmas festival at Allen Park in the election. Shortly after Sujata Mondal Khan joined the points, or 4.34 per cent, to 44,923.08 He was 92. Vora was admitted to the Escorts city's downtown Park Street area, the TMC Trinamool, her husband Saumitra Khan wept and said at the weakest level of the day, and the Hospital in Okhla here a few days ago with a supremo condemned the "politics of hatred" "politics had ended his marriage". Saumitra Khan, a broader Nifty benchmark tanked to as urinary infection. He developed a severe lung pursued by the Narendra Modi government. "Some former Trinamool leader, won the 2014 parliamentary low as 13,131.45, falling 629.1 points, infection and was put on ventilator support, people can only divide the country. The BJP election from the Bishnupur constituency and is chief or 4.57 per cent, from its previous his family said. He completed 92 years on government has cancelled the public holiday on of BJP's youth wing Yuva Morcha. His wife Sujata was close. A selloff across sectors -- led by Sunday, they said. His last rites will be Christmas after coming to power. Why did they do credited with his win in last year's national election banking, financial services, automobile conducted on Tuesday in Durg in Chhattisgarh, so? Don't they have any regard for the sentiments when he was barred by a court from entering his and metal shares -- dragged the where he stayed most of his life. of the Christian community?" Banerjee said lashing constituency as a condition for bail in a criminal case. markets lower. Full report inside out at the saffron party. India halts UK flights over deadly strain of Covid-19 n PNS NEW DELHI Does not appear to be Vaccine equally The Government on Monday Big concerns over new UK virus Maharashtra banned flights from the UK till effective against new December 31 over a new fast- deadlier: Vivek Murthy imposes spreading strain of the strain: Is it resistant to vaccines? WASHINGTON: Indian-American physician Vivek mutant : CSIR DG Coronavirus in that country. LONDON: Faced with a newly emerging coronavirus mutation with Murthy, US President-elect Joe Biden's pick for night curfew The ban will start from "significantly faster" transmission rates, Britain on Saturday Surgeon General, has said there is no evidence PNS n NEW DELHI Wednesday and all passengers announced tightened pandemic restrictions that returned London to suggest that a new and more contagious MUMBAI: Maharashtra has arriving from the UK before and parts of the country to virtual lockdown and reversed earlier coronavirus variant reported in the UK is any imposed a night curfew - 11 The coronavirus vaccines will be On alert, no need then will be tested on arrival at promises for relaxed rules over the holidays. deadlier. Murthy, 43, said that there was no PM to 6 AM till January 5 - equally effective against the new to panic: Govt airports. The new mutation, or variant, was first detected in southeast reason to believe that the for Mumbai and all municipal mutant of the virus and there is "Considering the prevailing England in September and is quickly becoming the dominant strain coronavirus vaccines that have corporation areas, in view of no reason to panic, Council for situation in UK, the government in London and other regions in Britain. Experts said it does not already been developed would the mutated strain of Scientific and Industrial of India has decided that all appear more deadly or resistant to vaccines. not be effective against the coronavirus that has emerged Research Director General flights originating from UK to At a news conference from 10 Downing Street, British Prime new strain as well. "This news in the United Kingdom and Shekhar Mande said on Monday. 5 India to be suspended till Minister Boris Johnson said the new variant "may be up to 70 from the UK appears to be caused several nations, He said the transmissibility of December 31," said the aviation percent more transmissible" than previous versions of the virus about a new strain of the virus including India, to temporarily the new strain N501Y is a "bit ministry after a joint monitor- here. "This is spreading very fast," he said, announcing local and that's more transmissible, more ban flights to and from that higher" but this does not mean ing group on Covid-19 met international travel bans and other extreme measures for about 18 contagious than the virus we've seen country. Passengers from it is more lethal and more peo- this morning to discuss the million people in England beginning Sunday. prior to this," he said. European countries other ple are going to die due to it. mutant Coronavirus that has 2 2 than the UK, or any in the "It is likely that there will be spread rapidly in the UK, send- Middle East, will be sent to differences between certain ing cases rocketing within days. 14-day institutional aspects like anti-bodies but it Union Health Secretary enhanced epidemiological sur- tained decline in the number of interjection of a SARS-CoV-2 Passengers on flights from quarantine, and others must doesn't necessarily mean that Rajesh Bhushan said the new veillance, enhanced contain- fresh Covid-19 cases for over variant virus through passengers Britain arriving before mid- adhere to a similar period of vaccines will be ineffective. variant had an unusually large ment" and other measures to two months now, accompanied with air travel history could pose night tomorrow will be subject- home quarantine, Vaccines will be equally effec- number of genetic changes and effectively tackle the challenge. by a decline in the number of critical risks for pandemic man- ed to RT-PCR tests at the airport. 2 tive despite the mutation. the development "calls for "India has been seeing a sus- deaths. In this scenario, any agement in India," he said. 2 2 The writing is on KCR hits pause button on LRS Telangana to use old districts the wall for PNS n HYDERABAD Mamata Banerjee The TRS leadership Chief Minister K Chandras- is of the opinion pattern to fill vacancies quickly ekhar Rao is learnt to be hav- that the LRS ing second thoughts on the scheme had VENKAT RAM REDDY LAKKADI recruitment drives. 2 issue of Layout Regularisation n HYDERABAD KCR had created 31 districts Scheme (LRS). triggered anger in Telangana in 2016 by reor- The government launched against the KCR After switching back to the old ganising the 10 districts that the LRS scheme across the Kamal Haasan version on non-agriculture existed in undivided AP. state on September 1 and govt, especially property registrations, the TS In 2018, KCR brought a Crime rate in though the deadline to submit among the promises government is now making new zonal system applications ended on October middle and lower moves to go back to old dis- for recruitment 31, there is no clarity over the middle classes ‘payment' to tricts and zones format for the purpose by creating city dips by next course of action. sake of conducting upcoming seven zones and two The government had home makers recruitment drives in various multi-zones out of 31 received over 25 lakh LRS departments. This is despite districts with the aim to pro- 10% in 2020 applications across the state. sections to avail the facility proved layouts. However, buy- PNS n KANCHEEPURAM the Central government issu- vide 95 percent reservations to The TRS leadership is of the without payment, based on ers are angry at the government ing gazette notification for- dri- locals in jobs in respective opinion that the LRS scheme their annual income limit. for asking them to get their plots Actor-politician Kamal Haasan mally recognising the realign- ves at the zones. Page 3 had triggered anger against the Thousands of illegal lay- approved by applying for LRS by on Monday assured 'payment' ment of districts in the State.