Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer HYDERABAD, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 2021; PAGES 12 `3 RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 Published From HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 226 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable www.dailypioneer.com Managed second wave, P RBI keeps interest rates unchanged P ‘Keen on signing scripts P ‘very well’; ready for 3rd: NITIA that are fun 5 announces measures to aid economy 8 entertaining, challenging’ 11 In brief IMPORT VACCINE, SAVE Petrol crosses Etela quits Assembly, TRS Pfizer vaccine for Rs 100/litre Ex-minister confirms he would be joining BJP; 12-15 age group PEOPLE, KTR TELLS CENTRE mark in TS, AP launches no-holds-barred attack on KCR gets nod in the UK ML MELLY MAITREYI ritain's medicines regulator said PNS n HYDERABAD PNS n NEW DELHI n HYDERABAD Friday the Pfizer/BioNTech B vaccine is safe for adolescents Minister KT Rama Rao on Friday After Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh Former minister Etela Rajender let aged 12 to 15 after a "rigorous review", targeted the Centre again for its and Maharashtra, petrol price the suspense over his political following similar assessments in the “bungling” on Covid-19 vaccina- has crossed the Rs 100-per-litre future hang for some time even as EU and US."We have carefully tion and demanded that it imme- mark in almost all districts of AP he resigned from the Membership reviewed clinical trial data in children diately import vaccines from coun- and parts of Telangana after fuel of the State Legislative Assembly aged 12 to 15 years and have tries that are sitting on a huge prices were again hiked on Friday. and also from the primary mem- concluded that the Pfizer/BioNTech stockpile of unused doses. Petrol price was increased by 27 bership of Telangana Rashtra Covid-19 vaccine is safe and effective He said the Centre should use Rs paise per litre and diesel by 28 Samithi, ending his 19-year old in this age group and that the benefits 35,000 crore it allocated in the paise a litre, according to a price association with the party that was of this vaccine outweigh any risk," said Union Budget for 2021-22 to pro- notification of state-owned fuel founded for Telangana Statehood. June Raine, head of the Medicines and cure vaccines wherever available in retailers. The hike - 18th in the Later in the day, Etela con- Healthcare products Regulatory the world and provide them free of last one month - took fuel prices firmed that he would be joining the buzz that Etala was BJP-bound had Agency. cost to all the states to speed up the across India to a historic high. BJP, formally confirming rumours grown louder after he had met the vaccination. In Delhi, petrol hit an all-time that had grown louder after he had saffron party’s national president JP KTR was talking to reporters on Minister KT Rama Rao formally inaugurated 150 bed ICU at TIMS, Gachibowli. This project high of Rs 94.76 a litre, while met the saffron party’s national Nadda in Delhi. “I am not a slave Olympic-bound the sidelines of the inauguration of is sponsored by HYSEA and member companies including Microsoft, Qualcomm, Franklin diesel is now priced at Rs 85.66 president JP Nadda in Delhi. to anybody. I worked along with wrestler Sumit Malik a 150-bed ICU facility for Covid Templeton, Cognizant and WellsFargo. per litre. Fuel prices differ from Announcing his resignation KCR in the Telangana movement. patients at the Telangana Institute state to state depending on the from the Assembly and the TRS at You targeted my self-respect. Now fails dope test of Medical Sciences (TIMS), tion. out that a country of 132 crore incidence of local taxes such as a media conference at his all the forces from RSS to RSU Gachibowli. But for "some wrong decisions population required 264 crore VAT and freight charges. Shamirpet residence in the pres- which struggled for Telangana will lympic-bound Indian wrestler Sumit Malik has been He said the Centre should come taken by the Centre", the vaccina- doses but it did not even have a Petrol price is well above the Rs ence of his supporters from unite,” he affirmed. Appearing forward and take the initiative as the tion should have been completed quarter of this. 100-per-litre mark in all districts Huzurabad Assembly constituen- relaxed and confident, Etela said Oprovisionally suspended after failing a dope test during the recent vaccination is the only permanent by now or at least progressed with "Though they (Centre) knew of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh cy, Etala said he will announce his there was demand from people in Qualifiers in Bulgaria, a major solution to the pandemic. He brisk pace, he said. that there are no vaccines available, and Maharashtra - the states future plans later after discussing his constituency that he should embarrassment for the country with demanded that the Centre "When we should have procured they announced that people in the which levy the highest value- with his constituents. resign as they were pained over the just weeks left for the Games in Tokyo. announce a uniform pricing and the vaccines, we did not procure. 18-44 age group will be vaccinat- added tax (VAT) in the country. This was contrary to the expec- humiliation meted out to him. distribution policy for Covid vac- Instead, we exported to other ed," he said. tations that he may also make pub- It marks the second consecutive 2 instance of a wrestler being caught in cines to ensure universal vaccina- countries," he said. KTR pointed 2 2 lic his decision to join the BJP. The dope net before the Olympics -- the previous being ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics when Narsingh Pancham Yadav had failed one and was slapped PM hails Indian scientists HC junks plea Ministers counter Etela’s criticism with a four-year ban. Malik, the 2018 Commonwealth Games gold-medallist, to de-recognise had qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in for developing covid vaccine the 125kg category at the World n YSRCP of KCR with barbs of their own Olympic Qualifier event in Sofia, PNS NEW DELHI n Bulgaria which was the last chance for PNS NEW DELHI wrestlers to earn quotas. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Why did Etela not resign the day he was humiliated: MLC Palla Friday lauded Indian scientists The Delhi High Court on Friday for developing made-in-India vac- dismissed a plea by the Anna YSR ML MELLY MAITREYI Rajeswar Reddy said that KCR has later. Earlier, he was given impor- cine against Covid and boosting Congress seeking de-recognition n HYDERABAD groomed many people who par- tant district level posts. After Visa of ‘stranded’ other measures to fight the pan- of the YSR Congress Party for ticipated in Telangana movement KCR, it was Etela who got impor- foreigners to be demic within a year of its outbreak. using the ''YSR'' acronym. On expected lines, TRS leaders as leaders, but the demand for a tant posts in the party and the Addressing a meeting of the Justice Prateek Jalan said the plea spewed venom on former minis- separate state came to fruition Government,” Rajeswar Reddy valid till August 31 Council of Scientific and Industrial was “unmerited". ter Etela Rajender on Friday in an only because of KCR. said. oreign nationals stranded in India Research (CSIR) Society via video a century, the prime minister The Anna YSR Congress Party, effort to rebut his stinging criti- “It’s a common feature for any- He countered Etela’s allegation because of the coronavirus- conferencing, he cited India's expe- praised the scientific community, in its plea, had opposed the use cism of their leader and Chief one leaving the party to criticise that he was not allowed into the F induced lockdowns and non- rience in the previous century to saying it is perhaps unprecedent- of the acronym YSR Congress Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. it and Etela is acting on expected Pragathi Bhavan in 2016 by ask- availability of normal commercial flight say that it used to wait for years to ed that vaccines were prepared Party in the letterheads of the rul- Their counterattack included lines,” Rajeswar Reddy said, ing the former minister why he operations will not have to apply for lay its hands on innovations within a year. On the occasion, ing party in Andhra Pradesh. accusing Etela of quitting the adding that everybody is aware of had not resigned then itself if he extension of their visas till August 31, achieved abroad, but its scientists Modi reiterated his call for an The Anna YSR had contended party to save himself from corrup- the plight of people who went out felt it was an insult and if his self- the Union Home Ministry has said in are now working shoulder to "Aatmanirbhar Bharat" and strong that the YS Jaganmohan Reddy- tion cases and to protect his “ill- of TRS. respect was hurt. an order."...the Indian visa or stay shoulder with their counterparts India, saying the COVID-19 crisis led party was registered in the gotten properties”. “KCR gave Etela due recogni- “He is just covering his acts of stipulation period of such foreign outside. They are working at the may have slowed its pace but our name of Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Leading the attack was MLA tion in the party and made him omission and commission in the nationals stranded in India will be same quick pace, he said.