Follow us on: RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer Established 1864 Published From ANALYSIS 9 CELEB TALKS 14 SPORTS 16 HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW FRIENDLY LEADER, SHAHID KAPOOR TO STAR SINDHU OUT TO BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH SECURE TIES IN HINDI REMAKE OF JERSEY BREAK TITLE DUCK BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 2 ISSUE 6 HYDERABAD, TUESDAY OCTOBER 15, 2019; PAGES 16 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable RAJASEKHAR PICKS VEERABHADRAM { Page 13 } www.dailypioneer.com Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Kremer win 2019 Nobel Economics Prize STOCKHOLM their experimental approach to transformed development Calcutta, Jawaharlal International Professor of Mullainathan, and he remains alleviating global poverty." economics, which is now Nehru University Economics at the Massachusetts one of the lab's directors. He Indian-American Abhijit "The research conducted by a flourishing field of and Harvard Institute of Technology, accord- also served on the UN Banerjee, Esther Duflo this year's Laureates has con- research," said the Nobel University, where ing to his profile on the MIT Secretary-General's High-level and Michael Kremer siderably improved our ability committee in a state- he received his website. In 2003, Banerjee Panel of Eminent Persons on jointly won the 2019 to fight global poverty. In just ment. Ph.D in 1988. founded the Abdul Latif Jameel the Post-2015 Development Nobel Economics Prize two decades, their new exper- Banerjee, 58, was edu- He is currently Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Agenda. on Monday "for iment-based approach has cated at the University of the Ford Foundation along with Duflo and Sendhil Reports on Page 2 Parakala says TN HC allows TSRTC STRIKE govt in denial TRS SOFTENS STAND, Guv Tamilisai mode about to withdraw Conductor's suicide sparks slowdown OPEN TO TALKS WITH poll petition widespread protests NEW DELHI: Finance PNS n CHENNAI Minister Nirmala PNS n HYDERABAD Sitharaman's husband The Madras High Court on Parakala Prabhakar has said RTC EMPLOYEES Monday allowed a plea by for- A TSRTC conductor alleged- that the government is in mer BJP Tamil Nadu unit ly committed suicide by hang- denial mode about the eco- PNS n HYDERABAD chief Tamilisai Soundararajan ing himself at his house on nomic slowdown. l Keshav Rao calls seeking to withdraw her elec- Sunday night, hours after a dri- In a column for The In the first sign of softening its upon JAC to call off tion petition against DMK ver who had set himself ablaze Hindu, Prabhakar has said stand on the ongoing transport stir, resolve problems MP Kanimozhi in view of her succumbed to his injuries at a that while sector after sector strike, the ruling Telangana through talks appointment as Telangana hospital here, police said. is facing a rather challenging Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on governor. Soundararajan, who Surender Goud, aged situation, the BJP govern- Monday reached out to the l Unions agree on lost to DMK candidate around 50, hanged himself ment is yet to "show signs striking employees by appeal- Kanimozhi, had challenged from a ceiling fan at his house that it has come to grips with ing to them to call off the KK mediation, say her election from the here even as family members what ails the economy". protest. they await Govt invite Thoothukudi Parliamentary broke open the door of his In a critique of the BJP As the strike by employees constituency in the general room and shifted him to a government, Prabhakar said of Telangana State Road elections held in April this nearby hospital where doctors RTC employees raise slogans at a dharna at Kachiguda bus depot on Monday that there is very little evi- Transport Corporation credit for giving 44 per cent fit- year. When petitions filed by declared him brought dead dence to show that the BJP (TSRTC) took a serious turn ment allowance and 16 per her and Santhana Kumar, a around 9.30 pm, an official D Srinivas Reddy, who was pital, but police at the spot government has a strategic with the suicide of a driver and cent interim relief to govern- voter of Thoothukudi, came attached to the Kulsumpura part of the group of employees whisked them away in police vision to address the chal- a conductor, TRS parliamen- ment servants goes to the TRS up for hearing before Justice police station said. on a state-wide strike for the vehicles. lenges. tary party leader K. Keshav demand, barring the demand government. S M Subramaniam, the coun- Asked about the reason last nine days, died of burn Protests also broke out in Continued on Page 3 Rao appealed to them to call of for merger of RTC with the The three-tier arrangement sel for Soundararajan sub- behind the suicide, police said injuries, hospital sources said. different parts of the city and the strike before things get out government. of operating 50 per cent of mitted that she would like to Goud was apparently The driver had doused him- other places, with employees of hand. The senior leader, in a state- RTC buses, 30 per cent stage withdraw her petition since depressed over the "fear of job self with kerosene and set raising slogans and holding the Keshav Rao, or KK as he is ment, claimed that the TRS carriers and 20 per cent private she has been appointed to a loss and the non-payment of himself ablaze near his house state government responsible popularly known, is also TRS government is always consid- vehicles should be viewed as an constitutional post as the September salary" due to the in Khammam, about 190 km for Reddy's death. general secretary and a close erate to the issues of RTC experiment in the backdrop of Telangana governor. ongoing Telangana State Road from Hyderabad, reportedly in At many places, the striking aide of Chief Minister K. employees. Stating that suicide an ongoing agitation, he felt. The judge, who permitted Transport Corporation strike. protest against the govern- employees and workers Chandrashekhar Rao, urged is not a solution to any prob- Keshav Rao, who headed the withdrawal of the petition, Earlier, a 55-year-old ment not acceding to the observed silence and later took the employees to sit for talks lem, the Rajya Sabha member TRS committee to draft the directed Soundararajan to TSRTC driver died on Sunday, demands of striking employ- out protest rallies and raised with the government on all said he was deeply pained by party manifesto for the 2018 publish her decision in one a day after he set himself ees. slogans like 'Srinivas Reddy demands except merger of the suicides of the two employ- Assembly elections, said the English and one Tamil daily ablaze, even as the strike by the As news about Reddy's Amar Rahe', while candlelight TSRTC with the government. ees. Quoting precedents of party never promised TSRTC's and posted the matter for fur- transport employees in death spread, a large number vigil was also held at some He advised the government to state government solving RTC merger with the government. ther hearing to November 11. Telangana entered the ninth of striking employees of places on Sunday evening. go into the RTC workers workers' problems, he said the Continued on Page 2 Continued on Page 3 day. TSRTC gathered near the hos- Continued on Page 4 ‘Never give up’, says Two children Pakistan under drown in first visually-challenged massive pressure Sangareddy woman IAS officer PNS n SANGAREDDY Two school children drowned n from FATF: Ajit Doval PNS THIRUVANANTHAPURAM through which we want", the in Sangareddy while a man 30-year old Kerala cadre officer PNS n NEW DELHI slipped into an anicut and "Never be defeated, Never give told mediapersons here. was feared dead in Medak up", said Pranjal Patil, the coun- Patil, who hails from Pakistan is under a lot of pres- district on Monday. try's first visually challenged Ulhasnagar in Maharashtra, sure at the Financial Action In Sangareddy, two chil- woman IAS officer, as she had lost her vision when she Task Force (FATF) meeting, dren who were playing at the assumed charge as the Sub was just six years old. She currently under way in Paris, to edge of a small tank, slipped Collector of cracked the UPSC examination rein in terror groups operating into the water. Since neither Thiruvananthapuram here on in 2016 and secured 773rd Joint Action Committee (JAC) members of TSRTC meet Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan at Raj Bhavan on Monday from its soil, National Security of them knew swimming, Monday. rank and improved her ranking Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval said the two died. The deceased "...we should never be defeat- to 124 the next year. Patil was on Monday. were identified as Suresh (10) ed and we should never give up appointed Ernakulam Assistant Doval, who was addressing a and Haricharan (11), who because with our efforts all of Collector during her training RTC JAC leaders seek Governor’s meeting of the chiefs of the Anti were studying 5th class in a us will get that one break- period. Terrorism Squads (ATS), said local school. The bodies were the biggest pressure on Pakistan Doval said. The FATF is an fished out later. intervention to resolve stalemate comes from the functionaries of inter-governmental body estab- In another incident in the FATF. lished in 1989 to combat money Medak district, a 50-year-old PNS n HYDERABAD the Governor that workers were revision despite the lapse of con- In the present context, no laundering, terrorist financing man was feared drowned in on strike since October 5 over siderable time. The leaders also country can afford to go for a and other related threats to the Ghanpur Anicut on Sunday TSRTC JAC on Monday urged their legitimate demands.