Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer Established 1864 RNI No. APENG/2018/764698 Published From *Late City Vol. 3 Issue 147 NATION 5 MONEY 6 VIJAYAWADA DELHI LUCKNOW *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH POLITICAL STORM ERUPTS AFTER 5 KILLED INDIA NEEDS TO GROW FASTER TO MAKE BHUBANESWAR DURING BENGAL POLL, INCLUDING... UP FOR CONTRACTION DURING COVID-19 RANCHI DEHRADUN HYDERABAD VISAKHAPATNAM VIJAYAWADA, SUNDAY APRIL 11, 2021; PAGES 10+16 `5 ALL-CIVILIAN SPACEFLIGHT CREW READY WITH TICKETS... 10 www.dailypioneer.com RULING BJP, ALLY SUFFER SHOCK DEFEAT AMIT SHAH RESPONSIBLE, SAYS MAMATA PUNJAB, RAJASTHAN JOIN MAHA IN CENTRE HAS MISMANAGED COVID, IN TRIPURA TRIBAL COUNCIL POLLS BANERJEE ON BENGAL POLL VIOLENCE RED-FLAGGING LOW VAX STOCKS SUPPLY OF VACCINE, CHARGES SONIA he BJP on Saturday suffered a massive defeat in tribal est Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on unjab and Rajasthan have warned the centre of fast-depleting ongress president Sonia Gandhi accused the Centre on council polls in Tripura, where the party rules in alliance Saturday blamed Union Home Minister Amit Shah for coronavirus vaccine stocks, even as a deadly second wave of Saturday of "mismanaging" the Covid situation and Twith the IPFT (Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura). The Wthe violence in Sitalkuchi in West Bengal's Cooch Pinfections - over 1.45 lakh were reported in 24 hours this Ccreating a vaccine shortage in the country by export- crucial Tripura Autonomous District Council polls were swept by Behar district where voting had to be called off after clashes morning - threatens to overrun the country and its already-creaking ing it, as she called for cancelling all public gatherings and a new outfit - TIPRA (The Indigenous left four people dead. "Amit Shah is compl- medical infrastructure. Punjab Chief Minister poll rallies in view of the rising number Progressive Regional Alliance) - that won 18 etely responsible for today's incident and Amarinder Singh said his state had only five of cases. Addressing a virtual meeting of 28 seats. The BJP and its ally won just he himself is the conspirator. I don't days of vaccines left - three if it reached its with the CMs of the States ruled by nine, with the other seat going to an blame central forces because they work target of two lakh shots per day - and called the Congress or its allies, she said independent. The Left Front, which won under Home Minister's order. We will on the centre to rush the next batch. the priority should be to test, track the earlier election, and the Congress demand his resignation," she said, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot wrote to Prime and vaccinate. She reviewed the failed to win any seats. TIPRA is headed calling the deaths "murder by central Minister Narendra Modi and warned of an efforts by states ruled by the Cong- by Tripura royal Pradyot Manikya Deb forces". Mamata will visit the area on even worse condition, with vaccine stocks ress to tackle the second wave of Burman, who resigned as chief of the Sunday while the TMC plans black-badge set to run out in 48 hours or less, and urged Covid after India saw a record Congress' state unit in September. protests across the state. the Centre to send 30 lakh doses immediately. 1,45,384 cases and 794 deaths. Jagan is ‘Super Boss' over AIS Bengal polls: 4 killed as CISF opens fire officers as PAR rules tweaked PNS n KOLKATA snatch their rifles, following which the central forces opened fire. In the first major outbreak of vio- Further details are awaited," a SNV SUDHIR in states like Haryana, lence during West Bengal police official said. n VIJAYAWADA Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Assembly elections, five persons The EC has sought a detailed West Bengal and Bihar where PARs were killed, including four in a fir- report on the incident. In a move that allows Chief of AIS officers finally go to the ing by CISF personnel, while five According to official sources, the Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy to respective Chief Ministers for final candidates were attacked during preliminary report submitted by wield power over All India Service stamp. the fourth phase of polling in 44 the EC's special police observer Curbs on ‘Vakeel Saab' (AIS) officers working in Andhra Under rule 5 of the “All India seats on Saturday. Vivek Dubey said a huge mob of may boomerang on Pradesh, the State government on Services (Performance Appraisal Four people were killed as cen- around 350-400 people had YSRCP in Tirupati Saturday tweaked certain service Report) Rules, 2007” a Performance tral forces opened fire allegedly gheraoed the central forces, follow- rules related to the annual Perfor- Appraisal Report assessing the per- after coming under attack from ing which they fired in "self- mance Appraisal Reports (PARs). formance, character, conduct and locals, who "attempted to snatch defence". These confidential PARs are con- qualities of every member of the their rifles", in West Bengal's The incident led to violence in sidered very important in the car- service shall be written for each Cooch Behar district, police said. the area where bombs were hurled, eer of AIS officers like IAS, IPS and financial year or as may be speci- The Election Commission prompting central forces to baton- 2 IFS. As per the amendments, the fied by the government. ordered stopping the voting exer- charge to bring the situation under Chief Minister would be the final The Jaganmohan Reddy govern- cise at polling station number 126 control. authority over accepting these ment had reviewed the existing of the Sitalkuchi constituency In another incident, an 18-year- PARs. channel for writing of annual PARs where the incident happened when old voter, Ananda Barman, was Hitherto, these confidential ment heads in the case of mid-level officers are based on these annual and decided to revise the rules in polling was underway. gunned down outside booth num- reports were finally accepted by the and junior officers remained the confidential appraisal reports which order to ensure uniformity and "According to preliminary ber 85 at Pathantuli, also in Chief Secretary. However, the same. will now be at the Chief Minister’s control of the executive over the reports, four persons were killed as Sitalkuchi, after clashes broke out reviewing authority of these annu- The amendments, in a way, clip discretion. administration for effective public CISF personnel opened fire after between activists of the ruling al PARs has been vested with the clipping the powers of the Chief Incidentally, Andhra Pradesh is service delivery. coming under attack in a village. TMC and the BJP. Chief Secretary and reporting Secretary. Transfers, postings and not the first state to tweak annual A scuffle took place, and locals Meanwhile, a political storm authority – their respective depart- even central deputations of the AIS PARs rules. The practice is followed 2 gheraoed them and attempted to erupted over the incident. ABV alleges forgery, seeks CBI Class X exam duration extended PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM the duration of the examination for Language, 2nd Language, 3rd Lan- all subjects. guage, Mathematics and Social probe against senior IPS officers To reduce strain on students tak- Earlier, the government had Studies. ing the Class X exam in June this decided to limit the SSC Class X It will be 2 hours and 45 minutes IMF, World Bank PNS n VIJAYAWADA gery and tampering of certain Chief Secretary Nilam Sawhney, year, the Director of School exams to six papers instead of 11, for Physical Science and Biological urged to ensure documents by senior IPS officials alleging that they had issued ille- Education has asked the education considering the closure of classes Science, 1 hour 45 minutes for 1st Suspended senior IPS officer and and also action against them. gal and arbitrary orders by mis- department to increase the dura- due to Covid-19 pandemic. Language Paper-II (Composite timely delivery former state intelligence chief AB Venkateswara Rao, also called guiding the disciplinary authority tion of the examinations. The deci- The SSC examinations will be Course), 3 hours and 15 minutes of vax Venkateswara Rao on Saturday ABV, urged the Chief Secretary to and the government due to their sion aims at making students com- conducted from 9.30 am. for OSSC Main Language Subjects wrote to Chief Secretary take action against the most pow- negligence and dereliction of duty. fortable while taking the exams. According to the new timing, the (Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian) Paper- Adityanath Das, urging him to erful bureaucrat in the CMO, 2 Considering the request, the duration of the examination will be 1 and Paper- 2 and 2 hours for SSC 6 order a CBI probe into alleged for- Praveen Prakash and also former school department has increased 3 hour and 15 minutes for 1st Vocational course. TODAY Covid spike forces Jagan to call off Tirupati tour ALMANAC PNS n VIJAYAWADA Month & Paksham: CM writes to Modi Magha & Shukla Paksha In the wake of a spike in Covid- Panchangam 19 cases, Chief Minister YS to provide 25 lakh Tithi : Amavasya: Full Night Jaganmohan Reddy has can- celled his Tirupati by-poll cam- doses of vaccine Nakshatram: Uttara Bhadrapada: 08:57 am paign scheduled for April 14. Time to Avoid: (Bad time to start With this, focus has now PNS n VIJAYAWADA any important work) shifted towards the roadshows HC backs Govt Rahukalam: 04:55 pm – 06:27 pm Twitter account to be addressed by TDP supre- Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan mo N Chandrababu Naidu, his Reddy has written to Prime Yamagandam: 12:17 pm – 01:49 pm over curb on hacked, Mekapati son Nara Lokesh and also the Minister Narendra Modi to Varjyam: 10:13 pm – 11:59 pm scheduled campaign by BJP supply 25 lakh Covid-19 vac- Vakeel Saab Gulika: 03:22 pm - 04:55 pm alerts followers national president JP Nadda cine doses.