Follow us on: RNI No. APENG/2018/764698 @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer Established 1864 Published From OPINION 6 MONEY 8 SPORTS 11 VIJAYAWADA DELHI LUCKNOW UNITING BANKS SANCTION RS 1L-CR 2 SA PLAYERS TEST BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH SIKHS CONCESSIONAL LOANS VIRUS POSITIVE BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN HYDERABAD *Late City Vol. 2 Issue 290 VIJAYAWADA, FRIDAY AUGUST 21, 2020; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable NITHYA LIKELY TO PLAY A SUPPORTING ROLE IN SHYAM SINGHA ROY { Page 12 } www.dailypioneer.com GURGAON BUILDING TILTS DUE TO RUSSIA OPPOSITION LEADER IN TS GOVERNOR EXPRESSES CONCERN RUSSIA TO PARTNER WITH INDIA HEAVY RAIN, RESIDENTS FLEE COMA AFTER ‘POISONING’ OVER CCMB STUDY ON COVID SPREAD FOR PRODUCING COVID VACCINE he residents of a four-storey house in Gurgaon have been moved out he Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was in intensive care Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Thursday expressed ussia is looking for a partnership with India for Tafter the building tilted following heavy rain. The building in Sector 46 Tin a Siberian hospital on Thursday after he fell ill in what his concern over the estimates of a new study that at least six lakh people Rproducing COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, Kirill has been vacated, the police told news agency ANI. Gurgaon near Delhi, spokeswoman said was a suspected poisoning. Navalny, a 44- in the city may have been infected by coronavirus. Concerned on the Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment the Millennium City with multiple malls, high- year-old lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner who is numbers.Congratulations @ccmb_csir for your efforts to Fund (RDIF), said on Thursday. Addressing an online rises and offices of multinational companies, among President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, was study the problems in depth, she tweeted, tagging a press briefing, Dmitriev said several nations are has been severely challenged in two days of being treated in a hospital in the city of Omsk after he report on the findings of the study based on harvested interested in the production of the vaccine from countries heavy downpour. The area where the building is lost consciousness on a flight to Moscow and his sewage samples in the city. Soundararajan, a medical in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. "The production located was severely flooded after yesterday's plane made an emergency landing. His spokeswoman doctor herself, had on Tuesday last stressed the need to of the vaccine is a very important issue. Currently, we are looking downpour, according to the police.Earlier Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter that Navalny had been conduct adequate numbers of COVID-19 tests in the for a partnership with India. We believe that they are capable of producing the Thursday, a part of the major road in near the placed in a coma on a ventilator and that tests were state, saying eradication of the virus would be Gamaleya vaccine and it is very important to say that those partnerships to busy IFFCO Chowk in Gurgaon caved in. being carried out. difficult without sufficient testing. produce the vaccine will enable us to cover the demand that we have," he said. HC starts probe into Covid death toll breaches 3,000 mark; judges’ phone tapping rate of infections hovers around 10K PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM ‘Trump's leadership With another 95 people suc- failure has cost lives Taking cognisance of a PIL cumbing to the virus in the last State issues guidelines for alleging that phone calls of the 24 hours till 9 am on Thursday, and livelihoods’ judges were being tapped by the Covid-19 toll in Andhra the government, the Andhra Pradesh crossed the 3,000- Pradesh High Court has mark on Thursday, taking just Vinayaka Chavithi festival ordered an inquiry into the 11 days to add over 1,000 n view of the prevailing 4 case. casualties to the total. ICovid-19 pandemic, the A Division Bench of the It was on August 9 that the Andhra Pradesh High Court comprising Chief State had crossed the 2,000 Government on Thursday Justice Jitendra Kumar casualties mark and it breached issued a GO outlining the Maheswari and Justice D the 3,000 fatalities mark on guidelines for the celebra- Ramesh on Thursday posted Also, the Bench of Justices M The Court was presented Thursday. tion of Vinayaka Chavithi the hearing of the petition to Satyanarayana Murthy and with a pen drive containing the Meanwhile, the number of (Ganesh Chaturthi) on August 27 after instructing the Lalitha Kanneganti passed an recording of a conversation Covid-19 positive cases report- August 22. court registry to incorporate order requesting retired stated to be between one S ed per day continues to be more Through the GO, the gov- the affidavit filed by petition- Supreme Court Judge, Justice Ramakrishna and a retired than 9,000. ernment urged devotees to er NN Grace of Visakhapatnam (retd.) RV Raveendran to con- judge of the AP High Court. In the last 24 hours, anoth- perform puja in their homes with the main petition. duct the inquiry. er 9,393 new cases were report- instead of at public places. 3 ed, taking the infection count The order also advised adhere to social distancing Standard Operating in the State to 3,25,396. devotees that “When people norms and always wear a Procedures (SOP) in place Naidu bats for According to the media bul- visit shops/market places face mask.” to control the spread of representation of Shekhawat letin issued by the State for procuring certain mate- The order further stated Covid-19 such as maintain- CS tenure extension Command Control Room on rial needed for celebrations, that temples for worship ing social distancing and women in legislature tests positive, Thursday, with the testing of in all such places, the pub- would be allowed to remain wearing of face masks. another 55,551 samples, includ- lic are advised to strictly open keeping in mind the 3 ing 20,241 through Rapid is one of many firsts Apex Council Antigen tests, a total of 5 30,74,847 samples have been n meet in doubt PNS VIJAYAWADA State Government, tested so far. 1 in 4 Indians could have AP patients many of whom PNS n HYDERABAD While Andhra Pradesh con- While the exten- were hoping for tinued to be among the top five sion of the term of an advancement The Apex Council, scheduled States in terms of the number pick Hyd for Chief Secretary in their own to meet on August 25 to dis- of tests, it is ahead of all other been infected: Lab head Nilam Sawhney careers. cuss the irrigation projects States with respect to tests per Covid-19 by another three The Chief proposed for construction million population (57,581). MUMBAI: At least one in four Velumani told Reuters. months has not Secretary, when- across the Krishna and The bulletin said that a total people in India may have Thyrocare’s findings are in treatment been a major sur- ever she retires, Godavari rivers, will in all like- of 8,846 people have recovered been infected with the coron- line with government surveys HYDERABAD: Private hospi- prise, given the polit- can boast of many lihood be postponed after from the virus and discharged avirus - a much higher num- done in Indian cities such as tals in Hyderabad are wit- ical equation between firsts in her career, Union Jal Shakti Minister from the hospitals across the ber than official government Mumbai, which showed nessing an influx of the State and Central govern- especially in the twilight of Gajendra Singh Shekhawat state in the past 24 hours. figures suggest, the head of that 57 per cent of the Covid patients from Gangwar calls for ments, the speed with which the her service. She has the unique tested positive for Covid-19. The total recoveries in the leading private laboratory population in its neighbouring total digitalisation latter accepted the AP distinction of managing to get The Minister took to Twitter State increased to 2,35,218. At says. crowded slum States particular- of Labour Bureau Government’s request has raised two extensions for a total length to confirm the outcome of the time of filing of this report, Dr. A. Velumani said an areas had been ly from Andhra some eyebrows. of six months, a record of sorts Covid-19 test and added that he the State had 87,177 active analysis of 270,000 antibody exposed to the Pradesh. Due to Also, the extension of service for both undivided and resid- would be admitted to a hospi- cases. East Godavari district tests conducted by his compa- coronavirus. the lockdown, of Sawhney has upset the calcu- uary Andhra Pradesh. tal for treatment on the advice had registered more than ny Thyrocare across India The Thyrocare initially Telugu lations of all bureaucrats in the 3 of doctors. 3 1,000 Covid-19 cases in the last showed the presence of anti- survey covers paid States witnessed 8 24 hours. East Godavari stood bodies in an average of 26% of and tested patients, reverse migration, first with 1,357 cases while West the people, indicating they had covering 600 cities in now patients prefer- Godavari and Visakhapatnam already been exposed to the India for the last seven ring to get admitted to TODAY SWACHH SURVEKSHAN districts came second and third coronavirus. weeks, Velumani added. If corporate hospital and pri- with 995 and 985 cases, respec- “This is a much higher per- the current trend continues, vate hospitals in Hyderabad. ALMANAC tively. East Godavari district centage than we had expect- the percentage of India’s pop- Moreover, some of the hospi- Month & Paksham: Vijayawada bags fourth spot continued to be on top in ed.