Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No.APENG/2018/764698 Established 1864 ANALYSIS 7 MONEY 8 SPORTS 11 Published From RS 81K-CR DUE TO STATES AS VIJAYAWADA DELHI LUCKNOW THE BALL LIES IN INDIA AIM TO BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH THE FARMERS' COURT GST COMPENSATION FOR ’21 SEAL SERIES BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN HYDERABAD *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 245 VIJAYAWADA, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2021; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable SATYADEV: BOLLYWOOD WAS ALWAYS ON MY MIND { Page 12 } www.dailypioneer.com GOVERNMENT INFORMS LOK SABHA IT 1.32 L CLAIMS WORTH RS 99.7 CR FILED CENTRE'S GAZETTE NOTIFICATION ON OVER 34 LAKH TONNES OF PLASTIC PLANS TO COMPLETE LIC IPO THIS FISCAL UNDER ‘VIVAD SE VISHWAS’ SCHEME RIVER BOARDS UNILATERAL, UNFAIR: TS WASTE GENERATED IN FY 2019-20: GOVT he government plans to complete the initial public offering ver 1.32 lakh declarations entailing disputed tax of Rs 99,765 tating that sharing of river waters was an issue linked to the lives ver 34 lakh tonnes of plastic waste was generated in the of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) in the current fiscal, crore have been filed under the ‘Vivad se Vishwas' dispute of four crore people of Telangana, Minister S Niranjan Reddy on financial year 2019-2020, an increase of more than 10 lakh Tthe Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad Oresolution scheme, Parliament was informed on Monday. In a SMonday condemned the ‘unilateral’ Gazette notification issued by Otonnes compared to 2017-18, the Ministry of Environment said on Monday. The government on Thursday had invited bids written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, MoS for Finance Pankaj the Centre on the jurisdiction of Krishna and Godavari River informed Rajya Sabha on Monday. Responding to a question on the to appoint merchant bankers and legal Chaudhary said the declarations received Management Boards “The notification policy to phase out single-use plastic and advisors for the IPO and subsequent under the scheme cover around 28.73 per should be withdrawn immediately,” he said. annual plastic waste generation, MoS for listing of the country's largest insurer. cent of the pending direct tax disputes. The Niranjan Reddy said that some leaders were Environment Ashwini Kumar Choubey said "The Initial Public Offer (IPO) of the Life total number of pending tax disputes as on unable to digest the transformation of in the year 2019-20, India generated an Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is the eligibility date was 5,10,491. "Total Telangana in the agriculture sector “Our annual waste of 34,69,780 tonnes of plastic planned to be completed during the 1,32,353 declarations were received under State cannot accept the unilateral decisions waste while in 2018-19 it was 33,60,043 year," Karad said in a written reply to the the scheme, entailing disputed tax amoun- of the Centre and if such decisions were tonnes and in 2017-18 it was 23.83.469 Lok Sabha. The listing of LIC will be ting to Rs 99,765 crore. These declarations enforced on Telangana like in the days gone tonnes. He said that a multi-pronged crucial for the government to meet its relate to 1,46,701 pending disputes by, then time itself would give a fitting reply strategy has been adopted to phase out disinvestment target. (including cross appeals)," Chaudhary said. to such forces,” the Minister said. single-use plastic items in the country. PEGASUS PROJECT Transfer of key SETBACK TO JAGAN revenue earning Rahul Gandhi, Prashant Kishor, depts put on hold SC JUNKS AMARAVATI PNS n VIJAYAWADA ministers, Lavasa spyware targets Barely 10 days of stripping the PNS n NEW DELHI recently became a minister, was Deputy Chief Ministers of their INSIDER TRADING CASE Congress seeks among the 300 verified Indian departments, the YS Jaganmohan Former Congress chief Rahul numbers listed as potential targets Reddy government has now Gandhi, BJP ministers Ashwini for surveillance during 2017- decided not to go ahead with the PNS n VIJAYAWADA Vaishnaw and Prahlad Singh Amit Shah sacking, 2019 by a client of the Israel- decision. Patel, as also former election based NSO group, The Wire said. Late on July 8, the government In a setback to the YS Jaganmohan commissioner Ashok Lavasa and probe against PM While Parliament saw a stormy transferred two key revenue earn- Reddy government, the Supreme poll strategist Prashant Kishor start to the Monsoon Session as ing Departments to the Finance Court on Monday said that there were among those whose phone PNS n NEW DELHI Vaishnaw made the statement Department helmed by Buggana was no insider trading in numbers were listed as potential amid the din on the Pegasus Rajendranath. Amaravati. targets for hacking through an Accusing the government of affair, a political slugfest ensued On Monday, a fresh GO was A bench of Justices Vineet Saran Israeli spyware sold only to the "treason" and compromising on outside Parliament with the issued keeping the earlier G O and Dinesh Maheshwari struck government agencies, an interna- national security over the Congress and the BJP trading related to transfer of these depart- down the SLP filed by the State tional media consortium report- Pegasus spyware issue, the barbs over the issue. ments in abeyance. government over the Andhra ed on Monday. Congress Monday demanded While the Congress demanded According to the fresh GO, as Pradesh High Court’s order staying The Wire news portal, in the the sacking of Home Minister the sacking of Home Minister the government constituted a a CID probe into the alleged insid- second part of its revelations Amit Shah and a probe into the Amit Shah and a probe into the Committee of Secretaries to er trading in Amaravati. from the international collabora- "role of Prime Minister" "role" of Prime Minister Narendra review every Department with The AP High Court had on tive investigation called the Narendra Modi in the entire Modi in the matter, the BJP hit out regard to improvement in public January 20, 2021, struck down Pegasus Project, reported that the matter. at the Opposition party over its service delivery, expenditure opti- cases registered by the AP Crime phone number of West Bengal attack and claimed that there is misation and revenue augmenta- Investigation Department (CID) based on a complaint filed by one top court to strike the stay order Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 2 not a "shred of evidence" to link tion, the order issued to transfer alleging insider trading in purchase N Suresh of Velagapudi, alleging given by the High Court. nephew and TMC MP Abhishek either the ruling party or the Modi the Departments to Finance of lands by some individuals close insider trading. He further cited the previous Banerjee and 11 phone numbers levelled just ahead of the dispensation with the matter. Department has been kept in to the TDP in Amaravati. It was alleged that some people judgments of the Supreme Court belonging to the Supreme Court Monsoon session of Parliament Reacting sharply to the report, abeyance until further orders. Later, the Jagan government with prior knowledge of the loca- and various High Courts on the staffer and her close relatives, are aimed at "maligning Indian Shah said, "disruptors and The YSRCP government had filed a Special Leave Petition in the tion of the state capital, purchased Transfer of Property Act in the past who accused former Chief Justice democracy". obstructers will not be able to on July 8 issued orders transfer- Supreme Court on June 29 chal- lands at cheaper rates in Amaravati. that stresses the transparency in of India Ranjan Gogoi of sexual In a suo motu statement in Lok derail India's development trajec- ring the Commercial Taxes lenging the High Court judgement Senior advocates Dushyant Dave information between the land sell- harassment in April 2019, were Sabha, IT and Communications tory through their conspiracies" Department, being looked after delivered on January 20 stating that and Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki repre- er and land buyer. selected as targets for surveil- Minister Vaishnaw said that with and asserted that it the report has by Deputy Chief Minister K there was no insider trading in sented the State government while However, the respondents’ advo- lance. several checks and balances being been "amplified by few with only Narayana Swamy, and Amaravati. Paras Kuhad, Shyam Divan and cate Paras Kuhad differed with the The government dismissed the in place, "any sort of illegal sur- one aim - to humiliate India at Registrations and Stamps, being The bench struck down the Siddharth Luthra argued in favour petitioners’ argument. media reports on the use of veillance" by unauthorised per- world stage." looked after by another Deputy petition on Monday stating that AP of the respondents. He argued that the Transfer of Pegasus software to snoop on sons is not possible in India. 2 Chief Minister Dharmana High Court has struck down the Dave argued that the investiga- Properties Act was not applicable Indians, saying the allegations The number of Vaishnav, who Krishna Das, from the Revenue petition after taking into consider- tion into the “illegal purchase” of to the case. He informed the bench Department to Finance. ation all the issues. land in Amaravati capital region that the news about Amaravati The move left many in politi- The CID had registered the can be allowed under the Transfer Capital Region had appeared in the cal circles surprised as it was cases against several individuals, of Property Act. He informed the media in October 2014, which was already two years into the func- including Kilaru Rajesh, a close apex court that the probe was in the two months before the issuance of YSRCP MPs press Centre owes tioning of the current govern- aide of TDP general secretary preliminary stage when the High the government’s notification on ment.