Follow us on: RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer Established 1864 Published From OPINION 6 MONEY 8 SPORTS 12 HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW WHO IS ‘GEMS, JEWELLERY EXPORTS MAY EYE BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH AN INDIAN? DECLINE 5-10% THIS YEAR’ OPENER BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 2 ISSUE 9 HYDERABAD, FRIDAY OCTOBER 18, 2019; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable MANCHU MANOJ CONFIRMS DIVORCE WITH PRANATHI { Page 10 } www.dailypioneer.com First AI varsity Guv decries Present state govt’s launched in Govt's failure Abu Dhabi Guv Tamilisai steps in arguments strongly in DUBAI: The UAE has set up to utilize an artificial intelligence uni- versity, claimed to be the first RUSA funds in the world, in Abu Dhabi. PNS n HYDERABAD HC today, AG told The Mohamed bin Zayed to end TSRTC impasse! University of Artificial Governor Tamilisai PNS n HYDERABAD Intelligence (MBZUAI) was Soundararajan expressed Officials are inaugurated and it offers cours- l KCR feels the heat of Raj Bhavan for the first time anger over the failure of the Chief Minister K understood to have es for undergraduate students. state government in utilizing Chandrasekhar Rao has informed KCR that It is also accepting applica- L VENKAT RAM REDDY Centre's RUSA funds for the directed the advocate- gener- the High Court had n The Governor's tions for its first masters and HYDERABAD development of universities al (AG) to effectively present only made certain PhD programmes this month. intervention assumes in state. Governor held a arguments on behalf of the 'observations' on RTC All admitted students will be Ostensibly in a bid to break the significance in the review meeting at Raj Bhavan state government in the High strike two days ago given full scholarship plus impasse with regard to the 13- backdrop of the state on Thursday with officials of Court during hearing of the benefits such as a monthly day-old RTC strike, Governor RUSA. case relating to TSRTC strike and that it did not government and RTC allowance and accommoda- Tamilisai Soundararajan on She directed the vice-chan- on Friday. issue any directions unions remaining tion. "AI is already changing Thursday intervened personal- cellors of seven universities, The Chief Minister to the government the world, but we can achieve ly and called up Transport adamant on their that were selected for RUSA held a review on so much more if we allow the Minister Puvvada Ajay to know respective stance funding, to take steps imme- Thursday, along limitless imagination of the the steps taken by the State gov- with no solution in diately to utilize RUSA funds with Transport government and RTC human mind to fully explore ernment to end the stir. She without any lapse by March Minister unions to resume talks it. The university will bring the reportedly asked the Minister to sight for the two- 2020. Puvvada Ajay to end strike and to discipline of AI into the fore- come over to Raj Bhavan and week-long deadlock When VCs brought to her and senior offi- appoint managing front, molding and empower- brief her about the RTC strike. in talks notice about the failure of the cials from transport director for TSRTC; ing creative pioneers," said Interestingly, the Minister state government in releasing and law departments, hence, they were in the Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE was with Chief Minister K its matching grant to avail in view of the hearing of nature of 'observations' and not Minister of State, who has Chandrasekhar Rao at a review Noticeably, this is the first RUSA funds released by the TSRTC strike case in the High 'directions' by the High Court, been appointed chair of the of the RTC strike at Pragathi ernment to end the strike and in talks. The RTC strike has time in Telangana State that a Centre, due to which there is Court on Friday. the officials reasoned. In this MBZUAI Board of Trustees Bhavan when the Governor's restore RTC bus services. crippled public transportation Governor has deemed it appro- a risk of Centre's RUSA funds Officials are understood to backdrop, KCR asked the offi- and is spearheading the uni- call landed. The minister, who The Governor's intervention across the state since October priate to personally intervene in getting lapsed by March 2020, have informed KCR that the cials to gather information so versity's establishment. could not visit Raj Bhavan due assumes significance in the 5th, causing severe hardships to an issue being handled by the she expressed anger and High Court had only made as to help the AG present to the review, deputed transport backdrop of the state govern- common people. Even the state government. The previous directed VCs to take steps to certain 'observations' on RTC strong arguments over why the secretary Sunil Sharma to brief ment and RTC unions remain- High Court had sought an affi- Governor, ESL Narasimhan, secure matching grant from strike two days ago and that it state government had to adopt the Governor on the status of ing adamant on their respective davit from the RTC manage- never intervened in affairs con- the state government and fill did not issue any directions to a tough stance on RTC strike. Pak: Bid by the RTC strike and the measures stance with no solution in sight ment on the steps taken to mit- cerning governance. vacant faculty positions in the government. India to divert being taken by the state gov- for the two-week-long deadlock igate hardships to people. ContinuedonPage2 universities. The High Court had asked Continued on Page 2 water would be ‘aggression' Draw of lots Digital hundis helping ‘Nitish to lead ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said for liquor NDA in 2020 on Thursday that it has "exclu- sive rights" over three Western rivers and any attempt by shops today temples go cashless Bihar polls’ India to divert the flow of these l TS earns Rs 968 cr PNS n PATNA rivers would be considered an through application fees NAVEENA GHANATE Devotees in "act of aggression". Foreign n HYDERABAD Speculations about the BJP- Office spokesperson PNS n HYDERABAD Telangana have JD(U) alliance in Bihar suf- Mohammad Faisal made the With digital transactions been at the fering yet another split were remarks during his weekly The venue of Chief Minister K Chandrasaker Rao’s public meeting in Huzurnagar The draw of lots to select increasing at most of the reli- forefront in doing put to rest on Thursday with media briefing here in decked up on Thursday licencees for setting up liquor gious places, digital hundis Union Home Minister Amit response to a question regard- shops in Telangana will be have become the need of the digital transactions Shah stating that the NDA will ing Prime Minister Narendra held on Friday across the hour. at temples and contest the assembly polls Modi's recent remarks to stop state. The draws will be held The Tirumala Tirupati some villages have next year under the leadership water flowing to Pakistan. KCR cancels H’nagar rally at all the district headquarters Devasthanams (TTD) recent- of Chief Minister Nitish Addressing an election rally in the presence of respective ly announced that cashless already adopted Kumar. in Haryana early this week, district collectors. transactions were picking up the cashless path Leaders of the JD(U), head- Modi reportedly said that his due to bad weather The State government has in Tirumala, be it for accom- to hundis ed by Kumar, erupted in joy as government would stop the invited applications to set up modation or other purchases. snippets of an interview given water flowing to Pakistan. PNS n HYDERABAD accompanied by a copy of a 2,216 liquor shops for a two In this context, Chief to a news channel by Shah Faisal said that Pakistan had letter written by Director of year period — from Secretary Dr S K Joshi on Devotees in Telangana have in any form are good - cash or were beamed, capping weeks "exclusive rights" over the The crucial public meeting of Aviation V N Bharat Reddy to November 1, 2019 to October Thursday tweeted that it was been at the forefront in doing cashless. of bad blood between the two waters of three Western rivers TRS president and Chief the CMO, stating that it was 31, 2021. The deadline to sub- important to make hundis digital transactions at temples M Pavan Kumar Sharma, parties. under the Indus Water Treaty. Minister K Chandrasekhar not advisable for the Chief mit applications ended on cashless. Seeking suggestions, and some villages have already convenor of Telangana "The gathbandhan (coali- Rao at Huzurnagar on Minister to fly to Huzurnagar Thursday. Each applicant was Dr.Joshi said: "Certain media adopted the cashless path to Brahmana Association, said, tion) is atal (unshakeable). Thursday was cancelled osten- due to adverse weather con- required to furnish a non- reports have stated that cash- hundis. "Donations can be given in The NDA will contest sibly due to 'adverse weather ditions. refundable deposit of Rs 2 less transactions are on the For instance, in Mukhra, a any form and in anyway. assembly polls under the lead- Bihar man conditions'. The letter said there would lakh towards application fees. rise in the religious places. village of just 650 people in People put money in hundi for ership of Nitish Kumar in KCR was scheduled to be heavy rain and thunder- The State government earned Now the challenge is to make Adilabad district, during the punyam or dravya shuddhi or Bihar. Nationally, it is Prime jumps inside address a huge rally in the storms in Huzurnagar and a whooping Rs 968 crore by the Hundis cashless while Dussehra festival in 2017, vil- other reasons.