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Andhra Pradesh on Monday crossed the unwanted mark of one lakh Covid-19 infections, the fourth State to do so after Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu. It had crossed the 50,000 cases mark on July 20, with the infection count dou- bling in the past one week. After unseating Karnataka from the fourth place, AP is now racing to clinch the third position in the highest number of Corona positive cases in the country with the state’s coronavirus caseload galloping day after day. Since July 20, almost each day brought a new record and the virus spread its tentacles over a hapless populace mer- cilessly. In the last three weeks, Andhra Pradesh has emerged as one of the biggest Covid-19 hotspots in the country. In a worrying trend, Covid- 19 deaths also rose for the third straight week in Andhra Pradesh. On June 1, the number of Covid-19 deaths stood at 198. By June 26, the death tally touched 1,040. In other words, the number of deaths saw a significant jump of 842 in just 26 days. Last Wednesday, the state reported a record single-day spike of 6,045 new coron- avirus cases and 65 deaths. Last Friday, the state regis- tered a record single-day jump of 8,147 new Covid-19 cases and 49 Covid-19 patients succumbed to the infection. The previous day, Andhra Pradesh reported 7,998 new positive cases while 61 people succumbed to the deadly infection. On Monday alone, 6,051 people tested positive and 49 lives were lost, as the rapid spread of the infection in recent days continued unabated. With bodies piling up in Government General Hospital (GGH) at Guntur due to reluc- tance of relatives to perform the last rites, the authorities have decided to perform bur- ial. Accordingly, the authorities plan to bury 23 bodies in a mass grave as relatives of the deceased do not want to per- form the last rites fearing Covid-19 infection. The GGH was deemed a Covid-19 hospital and since then, bodies have been piling up in its mortuary. While the capacity of the mortuary at the GGH is 50, the number of bodies that have accumulated over the past few weeks has shot up to 62, according to hospital authori- ties. Some of the bodies are of Covid patients, while others have passed away due to other medico-legal reasons. With no room to store the bodies coming in, GGH super- intendent Dr K Sudhakar informed the situation to col- lector I Samuel Anand Kumar who constituted a committee for the disposal of dead bod- ies with the consent of relatives. Guntur RDO S Bhaskar Reddy along with other rev- enue officials inspected the GGH on Monday and collect- ed information as per the directions of collector Anand Kumar. RDO Bhaskar Reddy identified 23 Covid bodies in the GGH and remaining 39 bodies related to other medico- legal cases. He also identified a place at Obulanaidupalem in Prathipadu Mandal for the mass burial of bodies of peo- ple whose relatives do not want to perform the last rites. Bhaksar Reddy said the mass burial began on Monday, with 15 bodies buried at Obulanaidupalem. He said the remaining bodies would be buried later after taking con- sent of the relatives. Dr Sudhakar said that the bodies are being handed over for burial after sprinkling hypochlorite and also after being packed in plastic cover to contain spread of Covid-19. Dr Sudhakar said that the bodies related to MLC cases would be handed over to the relatives of the victims, after completion of the inquiry by the police. Judicial Preview judge clears Rayalaseema LI Scheme Judicial Preview Judge Justice B. Shivashankara Rao on Monday approved the proposals of the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme undertaken by the Andhra Pradesh government to meet the cultivation and drink- ing water needs of Rayalaseema and Nellore districts. Officials of the Water Resources Department on Monday issued a tender notifi- cation with similar proposals. The tender applications will be accepted till 3 pm of August 13. Officials said the technical bid would be opened on the same day, reverse tendering process would be held on August 19, and the tender would be finalised on August 19. As per the tender document, this scheme will move three tmc ft of water from the Srisailam project near Pothireddypadu from the allocated share and divert them for the use of agri- cultural lands surrounding Pothireddypadu Head Regulator (PHP), as farmers widely depends on water from Telugu Ganga, Pothireddypadu Head Regulator (PHP), Srisailam Right Bank Canal (SRBC), Galeru Nagari Kurnool-Kadapa Canal (KC Canal) for irrigation needs. On May 5, the government gave approval for the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme at an estimated cost of Rs 3,825 crore to overcome the drinking water problems of the region. Somu Veerraju was on Monday named the new pres- ident of the BJP’s AP unit, replacing Kanna Lakshminarayana with imme- diate effect. BJP national president JP Nadda issued the appoint- ment orders. While the NDA government is going soft on the YSRCP government in the state, Kanna has remained highly critical of it. Political observers say it was his stance on the capital shifting and others issues crit- icising the YSRCP govern- ment; not conforming to Centres’ plan could have cost him his position as BJP state president. BJP wants to keep Naidu away from power giv- ing indirect support to Jagan. It was in the political grapevine that YSRC was also batting for a former MLC as the new BJP president. Kanna is a former Congress leader and was one of the key mem- bers of YS Rajasekhar Reddy’s Cabinet. Police investigating the child trafficking racket run by Universal Srushti Hospital Fertility and Research Centre on Monday found that six newborns have been sold ille- gally. The number could go up as the investigation is under- way. As the skeletons came tum- bling out of the child traffick- ing racket, two recipients of the babies have been traced. The investigation gathered pace after a recent case of a baby being sold to a couple in Kolkata came to light. The IVF centre in Visakhapatnam was opened in January 2019 and so far about 56 treatments were performed, as per the records. “The ring leaders would select poor and destitute peo- ple who are not in a position to raise their child, or want to sell their child,” Vizag city Police Commissioner RK Meena said, adding that they would identi- fy vulnerable pregnant women in tribal areas. The arrested accused have been identified as Patchipala Namratha, MD of Universal Srushti Hospital, Zilla Parishad area in Vizag city, K Venkata Lakshmi and B Annapurna, both ASHA work- ers from V. Madugula mandal, A Ramakrishna, son-in-law of Venkata Lakshmi, Dr Tirumala working at Universal Srushti Hospital and L Chandra Mohan. Pointing out that the Covid pandemic has badly hit the real estate sector, the Visakhapatnam unit of Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of I n d i a (CREDAI) on Monday urged the State Government to reduce the registration charges from 7.2 per cent to 2 per cent. This would, the associa- tion contended, would bene- fit the public as well as builders. Mallela Om Prakash, 53, who was serving life in prison for the murder of his jail mate and sharpshooter Julakanti Srinivasa Reddy alias Moddu Srinu, died of suspected renal failure at KG Hospital in Vizag city in the early hours on Sunday. The death came to light on Monday after the jail author- ities revealed it to the media. Superintendent of Vizag Central Prison, S Rahul said that Om Prakash has been suf- fering from kidney-related ail- ments for the past few years and he has been undergoing dialysis treatment at KGH. “We are suspecting that Om Prakash died of renal failure,” he said. The jail authorities said that Om Prakash, an undertrial from Madanapalle area in Chittoor district lodged in Anantapur district jail. Stating that during the Covid pandemic, Andhra Pradesh has created opportunities and achieved development in the industrial sector, Industries Minister Mekapati Gautham Reddy on Monday stated that the State is ‘First and Best’ in the industries sector. Speaking on the first day of the four-day ‘Virtual Conclave of Ideas to revive Andhra Pradesh’s Economy’ here, the Minister said that the Government of AP has taken the ‘Whole of Government’ approach to combat the crisis by means of technology for dynamic map- ping of hotspots and buffer zones, issue of `e-passes for manufacturing and cluster- based approach to lockdown based on the severity of cases. “Keeping the importance of MSMEs in achieving the vision for sustainable indus- trialisation and their potential contribution to the State economy foremost in our mind, web are the first State in the country to revive MSMEs through a Rs 1,110 crore re-start package announced on April 30, 2020 and completed its implemen- tation by June-en,” the Minister said. He said that the schemes such as Dr YSR Navodayam stands testimony to the State’s support and commitment to industrialisation, all the more during these such testing times. “For a long-term sustain- able growth, India and its states need to comprehend the growth story of other South-Eastern nations such as Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, etc. Along these lines, we have constituted the country task force to attract investments from USA, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam on a long-term basis into the State and capitalise on companies’ ambitions to diversify supply chains from China,” Gautham Reddy said. He said that the YSRCP government was com- mitted to developing AP as a globally preferred investment destination and withholding the #1 position in Ease of Doing Business in India. Only ICMR approved labs to conduct Covid tests in State The Andhra Pradesh gov- ernment on Monday issued key guidelines over conduct- ing of Covid-19 tests in the state. The government has made it mandatory that only Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) approved laboratories should conduct coronavirus tests. The YSRCP government also ordered laboratories not to charge more than Rs 750 per rapid antigen test. The orders said that if the sample was sent for Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratories(VRDL) exami- nation, then they can charge up to Rs 2,800. From Monday onwards, the government has made it mandatory that all private hospitals must seek its permission for conducting rapid antigen tests for Covid- 19. The state government had issued orders to this extent on Monday. The government also made it clear that all the private laboratories must enter the data of lab examina- tions in the ICMR login. The AP government also directed all private hospitals and laboratories approved by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) and National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) to seek permission of the nodal offi- cer before conducting Covid- 19 tests. Veerraju replaces Kanna as BJP chief

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Andhra Pradesh on Mondaycrossed the unwanted mark ofone lakh Covid-19 infections,the fourth State to do so afterMaharashtra, Delhi and TamilNadu. It had crossed the50,000 cases mark on July 20,with the infection count dou-bling in the past one week.

After unseating Karnatakafrom the fourth place, AP isnow racing to clinch thethird position in the highestnumber of Corona positivecases in the country with thestate’s coronavirus caseloadgalloping day after day. SinceJuly 20, almost each daybrought a new record andthe virus spread its tentaclesover a hapless populace mer-cilessly. In the last threeweeks, Andhra Pradesh hasemerged as one of the biggestCovid-19 hotspots in thecountry.

In a worrying trend, Covid-19 deaths also rose for thethird straight week in AndhraPradesh.

On June 1, the number ofCovid-19 deaths stood at 198.By June 26, the death tallytouched 1,040. In otherwords, the number of deathssaw a significant jump of 842in just 26 days.

Last Wednesday, the statereported a record single-dayspike of 6,045 new coron-avirus cases and 65 deaths.

Last Friday, the state regis-tered a record single-dayjump of 8,147 new Covid-19cases and 49 Covid-19patients succumbed to the

infection. The previous day,Andhra Pradesh reported7,998 new positive cases while61 people succumbed to the

deadly infection.On Monday alone, 6,051

people tested positive and 49lives were lost, as the rapid

spread of the infection in recent days continuedunabated.

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With bodies piling up inGovernment General Hospital(GGH) at Guntur due to reluc-tance of relatives to performthe last rites, the authoritieshave decided to perform bur-ial.

Accordingly, the authoritiesplan to bury 23 bodies in amass grave as relatives of thedeceased do not want to per-form the last rites fearingCovid-19 infection.

The GGH was deemed aCovid-19 hospital and sincethen, bodies have been pilingup in its mortuary.

While the capacity of themortuary at the GGH is 50, the

number of bodies that haveaccumulated over the past fewweeks has shot up to 62,according to hospital authori-ties. Some of the bodies are ofCovid patients, while othershave passed away due to othermedico-legal reasons.

With no room to store thebodies coming in, GGH super-

intendent Dr K Sudhakarinformed the situation to col-lector I Samuel Anand Kumarwho constituted a committeefor the disposal of dead bod-ies with the consent of relatives.

Guntur RDO S BhaskarReddy along with other rev-enue officials inspected theGGH on Monday and collect-ed information as per thedirections of collector AnandKumar. RDO Bhaskar Reddyidentified 23 Covid bodies inthe GGH and remaining 39bodies related to other medico-legal cases.

He also identified a place atObulanaidupalem inPrathipadu Mandal for themass burial of bodies of peo-

ple whose relatives do notwant to perform the last rites.

Bhaksar Reddy said the massburial began on Monday, with15 bodies buried atObulanaidupalem. He said theremaining bodies would beburied later after taking con-sent of the relatives.

Dr Sudhakar said that thebodies are being handed overfor burial after sprinklinghypochlorite and also afterbeing packed in plastic cover tocontain spread of Covid-19.

Dr Sudhakar said that thebodies related to MLC caseswould be handed over to therelatives of the victims, aftercompletion of the inquiry bythe police.

Judicial Preview judge clearsRayalaseema LI Scheme

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Judicial Preview Judge Justice B.Shivashankara Rao on Mondayapproved the proposals of theRayalaseema Lift IrrigationScheme undertaken by theAndhra Pradesh government tomeet the cultivation and drink-ing water needs of Rayalaseemaand Nellore districts.

Officials of the WaterResources Department onMonday issued a tender notifi-cation with similar proposals.

The tender applications willbe accepted till 3 pm of August13. Officials said the technicalbid would be opened on thesame day, reverse tenderingprocess would be held onAugust 19, and the tenderwould be finalised on August19.

As per the tender document,this scheme will move three tmc

ft of water from the Srisailamproject near Pothireddypadufrom the allocated share anddivert them for the use of agri-cultural lands surroundingPothireddypadu HeadRegulator (PHP), as farmerswidely depends on water fromTelugu Ganga, PothireddypaduHead Regulator (PHP),Srisailam Right Bank Canal

(SRBC), Galeru NagariKurnool-Kadapa Canal (KCCanal) for irrigation needs.

On May 5, the governmentgave approval for theRayalaseema Lift IrrigationScheme at an estimated cost ofRs 3,825 crore to overcome thedrinking water problems of theregion.

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Somu Veerraju was onMonday named the new pres-ident of the BJP’s AP unit,replacing KannaLakshminarayana with imme-diate effect.

BJP national president JPNadda issued the appoint-ment orders. While the NDAgovernment is going soft onthe YSRCP government inthe state, Kanna has remainedhighly critical of it.

Political observers say itwas his stance on the capitalshifting and others issues crit-icising the YSRCP govern-ment; not conforming toCentres’ plan could have costhim his position as BJP statepresident. BJP wants to keep

Naidu away from power giv-ing indirect support to Jagan.

It was in the politicalgrapevine that YSRC was alsobatting for a former MLC asthe new BJP president. Kannais a former Congress leaderand was one of the key mem-bers of YS Rajasekhar Reddy’sCabinet.

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Police investigating the childtrafficking racket run byUniversal Srushti HospitalFertility and Research Centreon Monday found that sixnewborns have been sold ille-gally. The number could go upas the investigation is under-way.

As the skeletons came tum-bling out of the child traffick-ing racket, two recipients of thebabies have been traced. The

investigation gathered paceafter a recent case of a babybeing sold to a couple inKolkata came to light. The IVFcentre in Visakhapatnam wasopened in January 2019 and sofar about 56 treatments wereperformed, as per the records.

“The ring leaders wouldselect poor and destitute peo-ple who are not in a position toraise their child, or want to selltheir child,” Vizag city PoliceCommissioner RK Meena said,adding that they would identi-

fy vulnerable pregnant womenin tribal areas. The arrestedaccused have been identified asPatchipala Namratha, MD ofUniversal Srushti Hospital,Zilla Parishad area in Vizag city,K Venkata Lakshmi and BAnnapurna, both ASHA work-ers from V. Madugula mandal,A Ramakrishna, son-in-law ofVenkata Lakshmi, Dr Tirumalaworking at Universal SrushtiHospital and L ChandraMohan.

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Pointing out that the Covidpandemic has badly hit thereal estate sector, theVisakhapatnam unit ofConfederation ofReal EstateD e velop ersAssociation ofI n d i a(CREDAI) onMonday urgedthe State Government toreduce the registration chargesfrom 7.2 per cent to 2 per cent.

This would, the associa-tion contended, would bene-fit the public as well asbuilders.

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Mallela Om Prakash, 53, whowas serving life in prison forthe murder of his jail mate andsharpshooter JulakantiSrinivasa Reddy alias ModduSrinu, died of suspected renalfailure at KG Hospital in Vizagcity in the early hours onSunday.

The death came to light onMonday after the jail author-ities revealed it to the media.

Superintendent of Vizag

Central Prison, S Rahul saidthat Om Prakash has been suf-fering from kidney-related ail-ments for the past few yearsand he has been undergoingdialysis treatment at KGH.“We are suspecting that OmPrakash died of renal failure,”he said.

The jail authorities said thatOm Prakash, an undertrialfrom Madanapalle area inChittoor district lodged inAnantapur district jail.

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Stating that during the Covidpandemic, Andhra Pradeshhas created opportunities andachieved development in theindustrial sector, IndustriesMinister Mekapati GauthamReddy on Monday stated thatthe State is ‘First and Best’ inthe industries sector.

Speaking on the first day ofthe four-day ‘VirtualConclave of Ideas to reviveAndhra Pradesh’s Economy’here, the Minister said thatthe Government of AP hastaken the ‘Whole ofGovernment’ approach tocombat the crisis by means oftechnology for dynamic map-

ping of hotspots and bufferzones, issue of `e-passes formanufacturing and cluster-based approach to lockdown

based on the severity of cases. “Keeping the importance of

MSMEs in achieving thevision for sustainable indus-trialisation and their potentialcontribution to the Stateeconomy foremost in ourmind, web are the first Statein the country to reviveMSMEs through a Rs 1,110crore re-start packageannounced on April 30, 2020and completed its implemen-

tation by June-en,” theMinister said.

He said that the schemessuch as Dr YSR Navodayamstands testimony to the State’ssupport and commitment toindustrialisation, all the moreduring these such testingtimes.

“For a long-term sustain-able growth, India and itsstates need to comprehendthe growth story of other

South-Eastern nations such asVietnam, Thailand, HongKong, Taiwan, Japan, etc.Along these lines, we haveconstituted the country taskforce to attract investmentsfrom USA, South Korea,Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam on along-term basis into the Stateand capitalise on companies’ambitions to diversify supplychains from China,” GauthamReddy said. He said that theYSRCP government was com-mitted to developing AP as aglobally preferred investmentdestination and withholdingthe #1 position in Ease ofDoing Business in India.

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The Andhra Pradesh gov-ernment on Monday issuedkey guidelines over conduct-ing of Covid-19 tests in thestate. The government hasmade it mandatory that onlyIndian Council of MedicalResearch (ICMR) approvedlaboratories should conductcoronavirus tests.

The YSRCP governmentalso ordered laboratories notto charge more than Rs 750per rapid antigen test. Theorders said that if the samplewas sent for Viral Researchand DiagnosticLaboratories(VRDL) exami-

nation, then they can chargeup to Rs 2,800. From Mondayonwards, the government hasmade it mandatory that allprivate hospitals must seek itspermission for conductingrapid antigen tests for Covid-19. The state government had

issued orders to this extent onMonday. The governmentalso made it clear that all theprivate laboratories mustenter the data of lab examina-tions in the ICMR login.

The AP government alsodirected all private hospitalsand laboratories approved bythe National AccreditationBoard for Hospitals andHealthcare Providers(NABH) and NationalAccreditation Board forTesting and CalibrationLaboratories (NABL) to seekpermission of the nodal offi-cer before conducting Covid-19 tests.

Veerraju replacesKanna as BJP chief

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In Prime Minister NarendraModi’s administration, thefarmer has received due

attention. In 2017, Kamal Veer Singh,

a farmer, set up an agricultur-al products company in aremote village called Sirkapurain Patiala district. He gaveshares to many small and medi-um farmers in his company andtheir number ultimately rose to58. The company earned Rs 4.5crore revenue in the last finan-cial year. It is also exportinghoney worth Rs 1.75 crore.

There are many more exam-ples in the BJP administrationto prove how farmers haveoccupied the centerstage.

The Kamaleshwara Agri cul-tural Products CompanyLimited is producing seeds ona large scale in Navalgand inKarnataka. Over 1,034 farmershold shares in this company.

In Tamil Nadu, many groupsof farm producers sold theirproducts directly to consumerseven during the Covid-inducedlockdown. These include veg-etables, fruits, edible oils and soon. They also supplied seedsand fertilisers to farmers.

Safe and Fresh Foods of J&Kavailed bank loans and grants

from the Centre and set upfood processing units and coldstorages. They sell fresh veg-etables and other food prod-ucts on a large scale inKashmir.

In Rustompur nearVaranasi, a farm producerunit Kasi Viswanath sellspapads made of potatoes.There are many more successstories from UP and Rajasthan.Many farmers are establishingFarm Producer Organisationsand marketing their goodsand earning crores.

Besides food grains, theyproduce milk and dairy prod-ucts, fertilisers and fodder andmarket them. There areinstances of some of theseunits setting up an agriculturemachinery bank and supplyingthem to members and otherfarmers.

The decision of the Modigovernment to encourage theFarmers’ ProducerOrganisations at a time agri-culture was seen as a burdenfor small and marginal farm-

ers due to increasing inputcosts has changed the contoursof the profession.

The Small Farmers’Agricultural Consortium(SFAC) and the National Bankfor Agriculture and RuralDevelopment extend neces-sary financial support to farm-ers’ producer organisations.

Under the DeendayalAntyodaya Yojana and theNational Livelihood Mission ,subsidies are being extended tothe organisations.

The equity guaranteescheme, loan guarantee fundscheme and other agriculturerelated schemes financially

support farmer organisations.The SFAC, ICAR are extend-ing necessary training andtechnical support to the direc-tors and CEOs of these organ-isations.

The Centre has launched anambitious programme to setup 10,000 farmer producers’organisations. Also, the Centrewants to encourage farmers ofa district to cultivate the cropthat suits them the most andget better prices for their pro-duce.

Similarly, it launched onecluster-one district schemeand plans a committee toimplement the scheme. The

committee will decide thecrops to be raised in variousstates according to weatherconditions.

The dream of Modi to set upagriculture clusters and linkthem to national and interna-tional markets to promotethese clusters as symbols ofbrand India is not far fromreality.

Under the micro food pro-cessing units scheme, the gov-

ernment plans to set up at least2 lakh micro foodp r o c e s s i n gorganisationsidentifying atleast one prod-uct for each dis-trict.

The Ministry ofCommerce has decided topromote 50 export clustersacross the country. The min-istry has identified Kadapa andAnantapur districts to exportbananas.

Since coming to power,Modi is thinking about revo-lutionising the agriculture sec-tor. His only objective is to pro-mote infrastructural amenitiesin the agriculture sector.

Under the PM KisanSamman Yojana, the Centregave credit cards to farmersand paved the way for inter-state transportation of agricul-tural products. It also encour-aged national agriculture mar-keting through e-NAM. Itpromoted new agriculturalmethods and invited invest-

ments in the agriculture econ-omy.

At the same time,the government isimplementing manystrategic interven-

tions to ensure farmersget MSP for their produce. As a result of these mea-

sures, production of spices inthe country crossed 25 lakhtonnes earning an annualincome of Rs 15,000 to Rs19,000 crore.

Vaccination of livestock,PM Kusum scheme and pro-motion of fisheries on a largescale produced excellentresults. The Centre is givingthe benefit of Kisan Creditcards to fishermen also.

The Centre has been hold-ing discussions to implementthe revolutionary AgricultureLand Leasing Act brought outin 2016 to provide regularincome to tenant farmers.

The government has plansto attract private investment inagriculture infrastructuredevelopment from post har-

vest phase to the marketingphase of crops.

The Centre took measuresto export agriculture productsthrough promoting agricultureproduction boards, agricul-ture clusters or contract farm-ing.

The PM stresses on intro-duction of modern technolo-gy in the agriculture sector andcompetitive technology enter-ing villages. He wants farmproduce reach every nook andcorner of the world and thecountry emerging as a strongexport-based agriculturaleconomy.

If agriculture becomes prof-itable, investments flow intovillages and also technologyerasing the urban-rural divide.In such a scenario, why shouldpeople migrate from their vil-lages to another place in searchof livelihood.

Because of the recentscheme announced by theCentre the farmers need notsell their produce to marketyards and agricultural marketcommittees.

The farmer is going to playa crucial role in making thecountry a USD 5 trillion econ-omy.

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A protein in the viruses caus-ing Covid-19 and SARS isalmost identical, sayresearchers, adding that under-standing any similaritiesbetween SARS and novelCoronavirus inflammationcould help in a clinical setting.

According to the study, pub-lished in journal Frontiers inCellular and InfectionMicrobiology, the findingcould improve the outcomesfor Covid-19 patients experi-encing severe respiratorysymptoms. The researchers,who have long-standing exper-tise in analysing genomic data,had, for the current finding,compared the genomes of 24Betacoronaviruses, including

four SARS-CoV-2 viruses,which cause Covid-19. Two ofthe four were sequenced in theUS, while the other two weresequenced in China.

"SARS-CoV-2 appears to

have recently evolved fromother related Betacoronavirusessuch as the ones causing SARSand the Middle East respirato-ry syndrome (MERS)," saidstudy's first author Intikhab

Alam from King AbdullahUniversity of Science andTechnology in Saudi Arabia.

"The research team wantedto understand the geneticmakeup of SARS-CoV-2.Seeing what has changed mighthelp find ways to detect thevirus and understand its rapidspread. Seeing what remainsconserved between these virus-es might help predict if thera-peutic approaches developed

for other Betacoronavirusescould work on SARS-CoV-2,"he said.

The genomic comparisonsfollowed by structural analysesfound that a small proteinthat extends across the viralmembrane, called envelopeprotein E, is almost identical inSARS-CoV-2 and the SARSvirus (called SARS-CoV-1). Amolecular component of thisprotein in the SARS virus

helps trigger the release ofinflammation-causing sub-stances in its host. Thisinflammatory reaction causesfluids to accumulate in thelungs, resulting in breathingdifficulties, a condition calledacute respiratory distress syn-drome. Scientists studying theSARS virus have found thatthis reaction can be inhibitedin mice by FDA-approveddrugs.

"Drugs that inhibit the enve-lope protein E of previousSARS viruses should also blockthe protein in Covid-19," Alamsaid. "Even though these drugswon't stop the virus fromspreading, we hope they couldattenuate, or prevent acuterespiratory distress syndromeand help save lives," he added.

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The government has beendoing its best to contain theCovid-19 while TDP chief NChandrababu Naidu has beenscaring people with his irre-sponsible remarks unmindful ofthe fact that medicare has takena back seat during his term, saidDeputy Chief Minister andMinister for Health and FamilyWelfare Alla Kali KrishnaSrinivas (Nani).

Addressing a press confer-ence here on Monday, the min-ister stated that the TDP chief 'scomments are irresponsible,creating panic among the pub-lic instead of instilling confi-dence. Naidu and his coteriehave been disseminatinguntruths even during thesecritical times and acting as anirresponsible opposition andobstructing the governmentefforts.

The minister flayed Naidu fornot recruiting a single doctorwhen over 5,000 posts werelying vacant during his termand stated that Naidu had sab-otaged public health care,

including PHCs, ambulances,and even Aarogyasri scheme.During the TDP tenure, Naiduhad left Rs 680 crore debt withAarogyasri and almost Rs 400crore to the companies that sup-ply medicines, reminded theminister and added that ChiefMinister YS Jaganmohan Reddycleared all the pending dues.

He said the government hasissued three notifications for therecruitment of medical profes-sionals, of which 1,550 doctorsand paramedical staff have

been recruited in the first phase.In the second recruitment, asmany as 9,712 health profes-sionals are to be appointed byAugust 15 and in the thirdrecruitment, nearly 17,410posts, including doctors, spe-cialists, nurses, paramedicalstaff, will be filled exclusively totreat Covid cases. The govern-ment is spending Rs 600 crorefor the recruitment.

He asserted that the govern-ment is primarily focussing onconducting a large number of

tests, to which almost Rs 5 croreis being spent every day exclu-sively for tests. So far, 16,43,319tests were conducted acrossthe State, of which 96,298 pos-itive cases were identified.While currently, 48,956 activecases are in the State, 46,301have been recovered and dis-charged.

Nearly, 15,000 cases areunder home quarantine and aregetting treated at their houses.Apart from 130 Covid hospitalsand 105 Covid Care Centreswere also established with46,695 beds.

Alla Nani said that five moreTerritory Care hospitals to treatCovid cases will be establishedin Srikakulam, East Godavari,West Godavari, Anantapur andGuntur districts. Over 1,000more ventilators are to be addedto existing 1,513 in the State. Heassured that sufficient PPE kits,N95 masks, Oxymetres and X-ray machines are available in theCovid hospitals. He said that theavailability of the beds in eachhospital will be displayed on thehospital premises for the con-venience of patients.

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TDP General Secretary VarlaRamaiah on Mondayappealed to Chief Minister YSJaganmohan Reddy to namethe proposed Palnadu districtafter Gurram Jashuva, whowas credited for modernisingTelugu poetry and literatureand also for championing thecause of the poor.

He wrote a letter to ChiefMinister YS JaganmohanReddy on Monday regardingthe name of new district. Hehad consistently addressed notonly Dalit issues with his penbut also took up any issue relat-ed to discrimination, exploita-tion and segregation, herecalled. Ramaiah said thatJashua was born inVinukonda of Palnadu regionand he had fought against dis-crimination of the downtrod-den and weaker sections ofsociety. He opined that nam-ing Palnadu after him wouldnot only be a fitting tribute tothe modern Telugu poet butwould also help in inspiringthe future generations.

Ramaiah said Joshua's125th birth anniversary cele-brations fall on September 28,hence, the Chief Minister can

turn the birth anniversary asmemorable in the history byannouncing Jashua name tothe proposed Palnadu district.

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Krishna DistrictSuperintendent of PoliceRavindranath Babuapplauded the services ofscribes, who are the front-line workforce, as they aredisseminating the latest hap-penings and updates to peo-ple during the pandemic.

Recognising the service ofthe media personnel, theSuperintendent of Police onMonday distributed Anti-Corona kits that include vit-amin tablets, dry fruits, sani-tisers, masks, gloves andfruits. Special EnforcementBureau (SEB) ASP VakulJindal was also present dur-ing the kits distribution.

Speaking on the occa-sion, Ravindranath Babusaid that during the pan-demic police, doctors, nurs-es, sanitation, municipal,revenue, paramedical andother departments were dis-charging their duties riskingtheir lives.

All the departments areon the forefront to protectthe people and to preventthe virus from spreading.Apart from these depart-ments, the media plays a keyrole in providing the latestinformation to people risk-ing their life and these kitswould protect them to someextent, he said.

Special branch DSPDharmender, DSPMohammed Basha, traineeDSP Sravani, CIs NagendraKumar and others were pre-sent.

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After receiving good responsefrom devotees online to book Varalakshmi vratam tick-ets, TTD has also enabled tick-ets book through Govinda appin Android mobile phones too.

Special pujas were performedto puja material and prasadamsby TTD CE M Ramesh Reddyon Monday at Tiruchanoor

temple meant to be dispatchedto devotees, who bookedVaralakshmi vratam ticketsonline. The Vara Lakshmivratam will be telecast live onthe SVBC channel between 10am and 12 pm on July 31 withvirtual participation of devotees.Temple AEO Subramaniam,Agama advisor Srinivasacharyulu, priest Babu Swamiand others were present.

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A minor fire broke out in twocontainers at the containeryard of Gateway ContainerFreight Station located on theNH near Sheelanagar here onMonday. According to the dis-trict fire officer BV RamPrakash, fire broke out in con-tainers containing sodiumchlorate solution.

He said they were alertedaround 12 pm and two fire ten-ders from Peda Gantyada andAutonagar were pressed intoservice. Fire was brought undercontrol by 1.30 pm. Propertyworth Rs 8 lakh was destroyeddue to fire as per the initial

investigation. "We were able tocontrol the fire and see that itdid not spread to other con-tainers and there was no casu-alty, or injury to any person,"

he said. According to him sta-tic charge is said to be the rea-son for the fire as per the ini-tial assessment. Peda Gantyadapolice registered a case.

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District Collector DMuralidhar Reddy said that theGovernment General Hospital(GGH) was declared as Covid-19 State hospital. Speaking tothe media through the ZoomApp here on Sunday, he saidthat two lakh Covid-19 testshave been conducted in theEast Godavari district and outof them 12,483 tested positive.There are 8,595 active cases inthe district. In all, 6,000 Covid-19 patients are in home isola-tion and they are being treat-ed by the medical and healthdepartment officials. All thosewho exhibited Covid-19 symp-toms are being tested at Covid-19 centres.

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The annual three-dayPavitrotsavams of Srivaritemple will be celebratedfrom July 30 to August 1 withAnkurarpanam on July 29. Inview of Covid-19 restric-tions, the entire event willtake place in Ekantham.

Pavitrotsavam is per-formed to ward off bad effectsof lapses in utsavas and ritu-als if any committed bypriests, or devotees during theentire year. On all three days,the utsava idols of Srivaruand His consorts will be ren-dered SnapanaTirumanjanam.

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Cashing in on the anxietyinduced by the Covid pandem-ic, Cyber fraudsters have begunthe use of a new approach inluring gullible public to fall intotheir traps. With low oxygenlevels being a warning indica-tor for Corona, fraudsters arenow forwarding a message todownload an app that checksyour oxygen level. Persons,who are over cautious of theirhealth, tend to download suchapps to constantly check theiroxygen levels.

Such apps use the fingerprintsensor to check the oxygen lev-els. The same fingerprint scan-ner is used for various person-al data authentication.Especially for e-wallet transac-tions as an alternative to pass-word for screen lock and apps.

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Chief Minister YS JaganmohanReddy convened a reviewmeeting on the guidelinesframed by the Centre forexpanding the purview ofFiscal Responsibility andBudget Management (FRBM)in the municipalities andCorporations. Officialsexplained the guidelines ofthe Centre in bringing con-structive reforms as part ofOne-Nation, One Ration Card,Ease of Doing Business, mak-ing municipalities andCorporations self-reliant andreforms in the power sector.

Officials said that the Statewas in the forefront in intro-ducing portability in rationcards and bio-metric system insupply of rice to consumers inconformity to the Centre’sdecision of One Nation, OneRation Card. Moreover, 1.39crore rice cards have almostbeen ceded to the Aadhaarcards, officials told the ChiefMinister.

They said that the State wasforging ahead in the Ease ofDoing Business as desired bythe Centre. Single WindowSystem was being followed tocurb red-tapism . Similarly, theState government was ahead inrenewals to industries andensuring that the industrial

sector does not face any diffi-culties.

The Chief Minister out-lined the need for safety in theindustries and seeing that theymaintain pollution control inview of the recent gas leakmishap in Visakhapatnam.

When officials said thatguidelines framed by theCentre on industrial safety inview of the outbreak ofCovid-19 pandemic, theChief Minister directed offi-cials to see that there were nolapses in providing safety toworkers.

With regard to reforms inthe municipalities and

Corporations, the ChiefMinister said that qualitativeservices should be ensured tourban areas by providing safedrinking water and maintain-ing cleanliness. He directedofficials to have a standardmechanism in providing ser-vices to people.

In view of bringing reformsin the power sector, the ChiefMinister said efforts should bemade to contain losses inpower supply. Officials saidthat when compared to otherStates, losses in power sectorin the State were negligible. A10,000 megawatt solar powerproject was in the pipeline to

overcome the losses due to thenine-hour daytime power sup-ply to the farm sector in theState, officials said and addedthat the feeder system wasbeing upgraded for the pur-pose.

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TDP leader DevineniUmamaheswara Rao onMonday expressed concernthat though the situationacross the State turned danger-ous with the rise in Covid pos-itive cases but the YSRCP gov-ernment was not stepping upadequate measures to rescuethe people, he lamented.

Uma deplored that ministerswere busy making moneythrough illegal sand and liquor,while the Chief Minister YSJaganmohan Reddy was notventuring out of his Tadepalliresidence.

Addressing a press confer-ence here on Monday, theTDP leader accused the ChiefMinister of not visiting thefield level despite large scalecomplaints about lack ofrequired facilities at theQuarantine Centres and theCovid isolation facilities.

The Vijayawada GeneralHospital was designated asState Covid Hospital butnobody was able to specifyhow many beds are available.There was no clarity on oxygen

beds and ventilators availablefor the patients there. It is iron-ic that the Chief Minister andministers had failed to convenea review meeting on shortageof beds, he flayed.

Uma alleged that like rob-bers, who share the booty,the YSRCP leaders were loot-ing the people from all sides.Sand shortage was the cre-ation of the ruling party inorder to make money and filltheir pockets. Amaravatifarmers' protests completed220 days and 68 farmers sac-rificed their lives so far but

the Chief Minister was notbothering to solve their prob-lems.

The TDP leader assertedthat it was only YSRCP's fail-ures that the virus cases in theState, which stood at just fiveto 10 in March first week, wasnow crossing one lakh mark.The presence of 30 unclaimedbodies lying at the Guntur hos-pital mortuary was an indica-tion of failure of the govern-ment, he lamented.

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TDP supremo N ChandrababuNaidu on Monday joined citi-zens and netizens in heapingheaped praises on actor SonuSood for supporting a poorfarmer in Chittoor district bygifting him a tractor, thusenabling his daughters to con-tinue their education.Calling upthe actor on the telephone,Naidu said Sonu Sood’s largessis an act of inspiration for many.

The actor had gifted the trac-tor to Dalit farmer NageswaraRao of Mahal Rajapalli villagein KV Palle mandal after see-ing a video clip on socialmedia, in which the farmer’sdaughters were helping himcultivate his field by pulling theplough in place of oxen, whilehis wife scattered seeds behindhim.

Moved by the video, SonuSood had first tweeted that hewould gift the farmer a pair ofoxen, but later changed hismind and gifted him a brandnew tractor instead, so thatNageswara Rao’s daughterscould continue their education.

Naidu on Monday told SonuSood that the TDP would takecare of the education ofNageswara Rao’s daughters.

The farmer was actuallyrunning a tiffin centre inMadanapalle but was forcedto close it down in view of thelockdown. He returned to hisnative place and began culti-vating his land.

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Prakasam district judge andchairperson of the DistrictLegal Services Authority PVenkata Jyothirmai advisedthe paralegal volunteers inthe district to create awarenesson the rights of the those whosuccumbed to Covid-19 tohave a respectful goodbye andasked them to cooperate fortheir last rites.

In a meeting held througha video conference, Jyothirmaisaid that people in some areasare raising objections for thecremation of patients died ofCovid-19 and ordered them tocreate awareness on the issueamong people. She advisedthat each paralegal volunteershould educate the public intheir area that the last rites ofthe Coronavirus victims arebeing performed as per thestandard operating proceduresstipulated by the government,and people need not worryeven if they are buried asthere will be no transmissionof the virus.

She advised them to askpublic to restrain from bathingand touching the bodies and

emphasised that it is the rightof everybody to have respect-ful last rites. She asked theparalegal volunteers to take themessage to nook and corner ofthe district and see no moreobjections raised from thepublic in the future.

The DLSA secretary PSrinivasa Rao and paralegalvolunteers from various placesin the district also participat-ed in the meeting.

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While Sonu Sood’s tractor giftto a farmer in Chittoor districtgarnering accolades for himfrom all quarters but it has rundown the tall claims of the Stategovernment about the hugemoney being spent for mech-anisation of farms, includingsubsidies for tractors.

In the recent State budget2020-21, the government hasallocated Rs 207.83 crore tofarming mechanisation inorder to provide equipment toshift the farming from manu-al to machine. Rs 29,159.97crore was spared for agricultureand allied sectors in the bud-get.

According to a report of theMinistry of Agriculture’sMechanisation and TechnologyDivision on land holding pat-tern of Andhra Pradesh, theoverall per cent area irrigatedin the State under category offarmers not having tractors(NHT) is 38% and under cat-egory of farmers having trac-tors (HT), it is 49%. The over-all cropping intensity underNHT category of farmers is133% while under HT catego-ry of farmers, it is 145%.

Majority of the farmers,about 67% have land holdingup to two hectares, 19% farm-ers have two to four hectaresand only 10% farmers haveabove four hectares land hold-ing under NHT category offarmers. While about 1.3%farmers have land each in

holding size up to two hectaresand above four hectares and0.7% farmers have land hold-ing of two to four hectaresunder HT category of farmers.

As in the rest of India, therehas been a steady shift fromanimal power to electro-mechanical sources of power inAndhra Pradesh although therate of change has been slow-er than that of the leading agri-cultural States. There is a greatscope for mechanisation inthe State.

The State government alsoboasts of a pro-farmer govern-ment. Under YSR RythuBharosa (PM Kisan SammanYojana), the total annualamount that is being paid tofarmers increased to Rs 13,500(Rs 7,500 by the State govern-ment and Rs 6,000 by theCentre under Kissan SammanNidhi Yojana). Andhra Pradeshhas allocated a budget of Rs5,500 crore for YSR Bharosa.

Andhra is one of the leadingagriculture States. However,after Sonu Sood incident peo-

ple from different quartershave been questioning theimplementation of various pro-jects meant for farmers. Sonuretweeted a video of a farmer,who had to employ his daugh-ters on his field after being leftwith no money to rent bulls.The girls would plough thefields while their father andmother helped them.

The video tweeted by ajournalist tagged with adescription read: “Terrible!Tomato farmer inMadanapalle, #Chittoor dt,forced to use his daughters forploughing as he doesn’t havemoney to rent bulls. He suf-fered huge losses last time dueto #coronavirus pandemic.With no cash in hand, hebegins kharif season on asombre note.#AndhraPradesh,”

Sharing it, Sonu had writ-ten, “Tomorrow morning hewill have a pair of ox. Let thegirls focus on their education.Starting tomorrow, two oxenwil l plough his f ie lds.Farmers are the pride of thisnation. Protect them,” hesaid. He, however, changedhis mind and gifted a tractorto the family.

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While the death toll shot upto 1,090, the overall tally of infec-tions stood at 1,02,349, the bul-letin said.

The bulletin also said thatCovid-19 tests were performedon 43,127 people(VRDL+Truenat+NACO-26,674 and Rapid Antigen-16,453). There are currently51,701 active cases, even as49,558 patients made a fullrecovery and were discharged.

So far 16,86,446 corona testshave been performed in AP.

East Godavari district record-ed the highest number of 1,210cases on Monday, followed byGuntur district with 744 infec-tions.

Kurnool reported 664 cases,655 were reported inVisakhapatnam district, 524 inAnantapur district, 422 in SPSNellore district, 408 in WestGodavari district, 367 inChittoor district, 336 in YSRKadapa district, 317 in Prakasamdistrict, 157 in Vijayanagaramdistrict, 127 in Krishna districtand 120 in Srikakulam district.

Among the 49 deaths report-ed in the state due to Covid, nine

were from West Godavari dis-trict, eight from Visakhapatnam,seven in Chittoor and EastGodavari districts, five inKrishna district, four inVizianagaram district, three inAnantapur district, two each inKurnool and Srikakulam dis-tricts and one each in Kadapaand Prakasam districts.

Meanwhile, health ministerAlla Nani asserted that the StateGovernment was focussing onconducting a large number oftests, for which almost Rs 5 crorewas being spent per day.

The Minister said that fivemore territory care hospitals totreat Covid cases will be estab-lished in Srikakulam, EastGodavari, West Godavari,Anantapur, and Guntur dis-tricts. He said that another1,000 ventilators would be addedto existing 1,513 in the State.

He assured that sufficientquantities of PPE kits, N95masks, pulse oximeters, and x-ray machines are available in theCovid hospitals.

He said that the availability ofthe beds in each hospital will bedisplayed on the hospitalpremises for the convenience ofthe patients.

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Meanwhile, APreported 6,051 newCovid-19 cases onMonday. With this, thetotal number of coron-avirus cases in the statestood at 1,02,349.

The state recorded49 more Covid-19 relat-ed deaths, taking thedeath toll in the state to1,090. A total of 49,558people have made acomplete recovery fromthe virus till date whilethere are currently51,701 active Covid-19cases across the state.

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Chief Minister YSJaganmohan Reddy was alsorequested to postpone the pro-posed enhancement of landvalues for one year as peopleare facing a lot of problems dueto slowdown in operations invarious sectors including realestate and troubles being facedby the salaried class.

The land value is scheduledto be enhanced in August.

CREDAI chairman PKoteswara Rao on Monday,said that the construction sec-tor has been going throughvery difficult times because ofCovid-19 and governmentsshould come in a big way to

help this sector and resume itsnormal activities.

Koteswara Rao told themedia that building activityhad been adversely affectedbecause of multiple problemslike enhancement of landvalue, increase of registrationfees, severe shortage of sand,steep hike in the price ofcement and steel.

The realty sector is the sec-ond largest provider ofemployment after agricultureand the present crisis in thissector would have an adverseimpact on employment oppor-tunities and hundreds of dailyworkers would be jobless.

Elaborating the issues plagu-ing the building industry,

Koteswara Rao said thatenhancement of the land valueand registration fees wouldultimately increase the cost ofthe housing units and keeppotential buyers at bay.

Postponement of enhance-ment of land value by at leastone year and reducing theregistration charges from thepresent 7.5 per cent to about 2per cent would go a long wayin attracting prospective buy-ers leading to the spurringbuilding activity, he said.

Koteswara Rao said sandbeing the main component ofconstruction activity has becomea permanent problem for thebuilders, leading to hamperingof construction activity.

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He murdered JulakantiSrinivasa Reddy alias ModduSrinu, who was accused in theTDP’s MLA Paritala Ravi mur-der case, by smashing Seenu’shead with a dumbbell in the jailon November 9, 2008.

It was in 2010, Om Prakashwas sentenced to life term andwas a slapped a fine of Rs 50,000by the Fourth Fast Track CourtJudge KV Vijaya Kumar.

Due to his aggressive behav-iour, Om Prakash was transferred

from Central Prison Kadapa toWarangal and later transferred toVizag and Nellore central prisons.In 2016, Om Prakash was trans-ferred to Vizag Central Prisonfrom Nellore on the medialgrounds.

The jail authorities said thatOm Prakash complained ofuneasiness in wee hours ofSunday and was shifted to KGH,where he died while availingtreatment. The authorities arewaiting for the post mortemreport for the exact cause of thedeath.

Many may not be familiar withParitala Ravi, the gangster-turnedpolitician in undivided AP. Hewas a TDP minister, projected asmodern-day Robin Hood butwas gunned down in 2005allegedly by followers of Congressleader Suri.

However, Rakta Charitra, themultilingual film directed byRam Gopal Varma, depicting thefeud between families of gang-ster-turned-politicians ParitalaRavi and Suryanarayana Reddyalias Maddelachervu Suri, mayhave given a sense of the violence

and power wielded by thesepolitical figures. Suri was gunneddown by his aide in a moving carin Hyderabad Jan 4, 2011.

In 1998, he had escaped froma car bomb attack in Hyderabad,which was allegedly plotted byone Suri, whose family memberswere allegedly killed by Ravindrain a 'TV bomb' attack.

Moddu Srinu was one of themain accused in the most sensa-tional political murder in AndhraPradesh. Paritala Ravi, four timeMLA from Penukonda con-stituency and minister of labour,

was shot dead by Moddu Seenuand three accomplices onJanuary 24, 2005, when he wascoming out of the TDP office inAnantapur.

Later, Mallela Om Prakash(32), an under-trial, picked up acement dumbbell and smashedSeenu’s head. Seenu, who wasasleep, died instantly. Prakasheven gnawed Seenu’s right ear.

The cement dumbbell, whichfound its way into the barracks,should not have been there at allas it is strictly against prisonnorms to have such objects.

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“Throughout the year, we havebeen engaging with Embassies,Consulates, industry associationsof various countries to promoteand sustain the ‘Brand AndhraPradesh’ in the field of trade andinvestments. We have also createdan impressive industrial clusterecosystem for electronics in theNellore - Chittoor region and arein the process of expanding theseclusters and also building newones. This region is also recognisedin 10 best places to manufacture inIndia, demonstrating our potential.To support industrial growth, weare also investing in the future,through fast-tracking develop-ment of industrial infrastructure,connectivity and holistic revamp ofeducation and skill landscape in thestate,” he said.

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Apart from these six, thetwo receivers have also beenarrested. The doctor appar-ently has a past history andthe police suspect that shecould be involved in morecases, including in otherbranches Bhubaneswar andKolkata.

Her modus operandi wasto target women who arefrom BPL segment, especial-ly those who have unwarrant-ed pregnancy, said the policecommissioner.

It is learnt that post birth,the doctor would send thenewborn to another hospi-tal, on the pretext that herhospital did not have anincubator facility and getthe registration done in thename of the recipients, whowere projected as biologicalparents of the child. Thebirth certif icates fromGVMC were also obtainedprojecting the recipients asbiological parents.

The police are also look-ing into other aspects suchas illegal pregnancy andsurrogacy. Further investi-gation is on and we willunearth more details short-ly, said Meena.

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An internal estimate of Rs3,278.18 crore has been ear-marked for these works. TheDepartment of WaterResources had sent proposalsfor a judicial preview on July16 to conduct the tenderwith the condition that theEPC process be completedwithin 30 months. Followingthat, the judicial preview, putthem on the website for aweek, and it has taken thesuggestions and objectionsmade by various people andmade changes to the propos-als and approved them.

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With the spike in Covid-19cases in districts setting alarmbells ringing, the Telanganagovernment has started focus-ing on containing the spreadin towns and rural areas. Thehealth authorities, who have sofar been focusing mainly onHyderabad, are now takingsteps to ramp up testing andtreatment infrastructure inthe districts.

With towns like Nizamabad,Karimnagar, Warangal,Nalgonda and Khammam wit-nessing a surge in infections inrecent days, the health depart-ment is redrawing its strategyto contain the virus spread.Health officials said that as thestate capital already has thebest infrastructure in place,they were now focusing onother parts of the state.

The districts are witnessinga rapid increase in cases thanGreater Hyderabad MunicipalCorporation (GHMC), which

covers the city and suburbs.Unlike in April-May when10-15 districts out of 33 werereporting very few or no casesand in June when 80-90 percent new daily infections werebeing reported from GHMC,the cases are now beingrecorded from all districts.The caseload of GHMC hascome down to 50 per cent.

Officials attribute this to theincreased movement of peoplefrom GHMC to the districts.They believe people carried thevirus from Hyderabad to othertowns and villages due to move-ment allowed in the currentunlock period. Hinting at thepossibility of a communityspread, Director of Public HealthG. Srinivas Rao last week urgedpeople to be extremely carefulfor the next 4-5 weeks.

“Covid-19 has entered intothe community. It's hard totrace where and how the viruscomes from and there is noother way but to take precau-tions,” he said.

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Hari Prasad Kunapareddi, anIndian Information Service(IIS) Officer, has taken overas Public Relations Officer(PRO), Ministry of Defencein Secunderabad, onMonday. Prior to thisappointment the officer wasDeputy Director at PressInformation Bureau inHyderabad.

Earlier, he worked in var-ious media units like AllIndia Radio, DoordarshanNews and Directorate ofField Publicity.

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The state budget was passed inthe Goa Assembly on Mondayamid noisy scenes after anadjournment motion brought bythe opposition was not admittedby the speaker. Leader ofOpposition Digambar Kamathad moved the adjournmentmotion to keep aside business ofthe day to discuss the COVID-19 situation, the rejection ofwhich by Speaker RajeshPatnekar brought oppositionMLAs to the well of the House.

Even as Goa Forward Party,Maharashtrawadi GomantakParty, Congress MLAs and anIndependent legislator continuedto demand that the adjournmentmotion be allowed, the Rs 21,056crore budget, tabled during thelast session on February 6, waspassed in the Assembly.

Chief Minister PramodSawant said a discussion on theCOVID-19 pandemic can betaken up after business of the daywas completed.

He said the budget tabled in

the House was an estimated one,and it had to be passed consid-ering the requirements to tack-le the coronavirus outbreak.

The CM said he was opti-mistic the economic situationwould the normalise in the daysto come. The House then passedseveral other bills by voice vote.

Later, opposition MLAs metGovernor Satya Pal Malik andasked him not to give assent tothe business transacted on thefloor of the House during theone-day session.

Kamat, GFP chief VijaiSardesai, MGP MLA SudinDhavalikar and Independent

MLA Rohan Khaunte submitteda memorandum to the governorwhich termed the passing of thebudget as "murder of democra-cy". "We request your immediateintervention on above issues andurge you not to give your assentto the business transacted in theGoa Legislative Assembly today"stated the memorandum.

We also demand that a full-fledged Assembly session maybe convened to discuss issues ofprime importance such asCOVID pandemic, financialstatus of the state, economicrevival plan and environment,it further stated.

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With a record single-day jumpof 49,931 COVID-19 cases,India's caseload climbed to14,35,453 on Monday, whilerecoveries surged to 9,17,567,according to Union HealthMinistry data.

The country's death toll roseto 32,771 with 708 fatalitiesbeing recorded in a day, thedata updated at 8 am showed.

There are 4,85,114 activecases of coronavirus infectionin the country, while 9,17,567patients have recovered andone person has migrated.

The recovery rate stands at63.92 per cent, according to thedata. The total number of con-firmed cases also includes for-eigners.

This is the fifth consecutiveday when COVID-19 cases

have increased by more than45,000.

According to the IndianCouncil of Medical Research(ICMR), a total of 1,68,06,803samples had been tested up toJuly 26. As many as 5,15,472samples, the highest in a sin-gle day, were tested on Sunday.

Of the 708 deaths reported,

267 are from Maharashtra, 85from Tamil Nadu, 82 fromKarnataka, 56 from AndhraPradesh, 40 from West Bengal,39 from Uttar Pradesh, 26from Gujarat, 21 from Delhi,15 from Punjab, and 10 eachfrom Bihar and Odisha.

Twelve fatalities have beenreported from Madhya

Pradesh, eight each fromRajasthan and Telangana,seven from Jammu andKashmir, four fromChhattisgarh, three each fromHaryana and Jharkhand, twoeach from Assam, Tripura,Goa, Puducherry and Kerala,and one each from HimachalPradesh and Ladakh.

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Chief Minister K Palaniswamion Monday gave away anappointment order to daugh-ter of Jayaraj, who died follow-ing alleged police torture atSathankulam in southern TamilNadu recently. The order,appointing her as a juniorassistant in the revenue depart-ment on compassionategrounds was given byPalaniswami to Percys, theeldest daughter of Jayaraj at theSecretariat, an official releasesaid. Speaking to reporters,Percys said the CM expressedgrief over the death of herfather and younger brotherBennicks and assured her fam-ily of justice. "A CBI probe is onand it is our belief that the judi-ciary will do justice and thegovernment will stand by us ingetting justice," she said.

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Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal launched a job portalon Monday and appealed tothe traders, industrialists andpeople to join hands to reviveDelhi's economy. The portal —jobs.delhi.gov.in — will serveas a "Rozgar Bazaar" for therecruiters and job aspirants,Kejriwal said, highlighting thatmany people had lost their jobsand businesses were affecteddue the novel coronavirus pan-demic.

"There are people who wantjobs and there are traders,businessmen, professionals,contractors who are not gettingthe right person for theirwork," he said at a virtualpress briefing. "This portalwill fill this gap by bringingthem together on one plat-form."

Kejriwal said a special orderwas being issued to allow thestreet vendors to resume work.

According to the chief min-ister, many migrant workers

who left Delhi during thelockdown have started return-ing. Labour Minister Gopal Raihad said the services of the jobportal would be free and anapplicant need not pay anymoney to anyone for registra-tion.

Kejriwal expressed happi-ness that Delhi managed tobring the coronavirus "undercontrol" without going back tothe lockdown that other citiesand states were doing.

He said Delhi was register-ing a sustained lowering of

COVID-19 cases at a time theinfections were increasing inthe country and worldwide.

The chief minister pointedout that the recovery rate inDelhi had gone up to 88 percent and the positivity ratiohad dropped from around 35per cent in June to 5 per centcurrently.

Deaths are also lower ascompared to June and only2,850 hospital beds are occu-pied by COVID-19 patients,while 12,500 beds are empty,he added.

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BJP leaders, including its Delhiunit chief Adesh Gupta andLeader of Opposition in the cityAssembly Ramvir Bidhuri,were detained during a protestagainst the AAP governmentover the issue of electricity billsin the Civil Lines area here onMonday.

The leaders staged a sit-innear the Civil Lines metro sta-tion and attempted to marchtowards Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal's residence on FlagstaffRoad when they were stoppedand detained by the police.

Addressing the protesters,Gupta said the people of Delhiare receiving electricity bills for"huge" amounts and demand-ed that the Kejriwal govern-ment withdraw the fixedcharges and stop the disconnec-tion notices being sent by thediscoms to the consumers.

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Amid an impasse over theconvening of the Assemblysession in Rajasthan, threeformer law ministers havewritten to the state governor,saying the delay in doing so hasresulted in an avoidable con-stitutional crisis.

In a letter to RajasthanGovernor Kalraj Mishra,senior Congress leaders andformer law ministers AshwaniKumar, Kapil Sibal and SalmanKhurshid said the governor'soffice, as envisaged under thecountry's constitutionalscheme, is above and beyondthe constraints and compul-sions of partisan politics, "sothat its holder can act freelyand fairly to uphold theConstitution".

"Having served as Unionministers of Law and Justice indifferent periods of time and asstudents of Constitutional law,

we are of the clear view thatestablished legal position oblig-es the Governor to call theassembly session in accor-dance with the advice of thestate cabinet.

"Any deviation from estab-lished constitutional positionin the present circumstanceswould be an avoidable nega-tion of your oath of office andwill create a constitutional cri-sis," the former law ministers

said in the letter.According to established

conventions and the relevantarticles of the Constitution,principles of parliamentarydemocracy and authoritativepronouncements of theSupreme Court, the governoris bound to act on the aid andadvice of the council of min-isters in the matter of conven-ing the state assembly, theyadded.

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The Delhi High Court Mondaysaid the AAP government hastaken adequate steps like increas-ing the number of ambulances,augmenting the capacity ofhelplines, ramping up testingfacilities and creating plasmabanks to handle the COVID-19cases in the national capital.

A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice PrateekJalan said that in view of thesteps taken by the Delhi gov-ernment it was not going tofurther monitor the PIL initi-ated by the high court to assessthe preparedness of the author-ities here to handle the risingCOVID-19 cases now andduring the coming days.

The bench directed the Delhigovernment to ensure that theofficial orders and directionsissued by it and the court withregard to real time update of data

of availability of beds and ven-tilators as also conducting testsbe followed by the hospitals.

It also directed that theambulance services, for COVIDand non-COVID patients, andthe helplines should continue tooperate and the nodal officersappointed by the Delhi govern-ment in its hospitals shouldkeep in mind the difficulties of

the people. With these obser-vations and directions thecourt disposed of the PIL ini-tiated by it, on the basis of avideo clip of a man who had torun from pillar to post to gethis mother hospitalised aftershe tested positive for coron-avirus or COVID-19, and theanother similar petition filedby a private individual.

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"More than enough" doses of theCOVID-19 vaccine developedby Oxford University andAstraZeneca will be kept for theParsi community, AdarPoonawalla, chief executive offi-cer of the vaccine's local man-ufacturer Serum Institute ofIndia (SII), has said.

Poonawalla, while replying toa tweet by film producer RonnieScrewvala, however, did notspecify the quantity of the dosesthat will be kept for the commu-nity, which is grappling withshrinking population. Whencontacted, a spokesperson of SIItold PTI that it was just a "casu-al and friendly conversation"between two Parsis and once thevaccine is made, "everyone willbe getting it".

On Sunday, replying toRonnie Screwvala on Twitter,Poonawalla said, "Yes

@RonnieScrewvala, we willkeep more than enough for thecommunity. Our productioncapacity of just one day will beenough to cover every Parsi onthe planet...given the size of ourcommunity."

Srewvala in his tweet, where-in he had tagged Poonawalla,said, "On a lighter note, SinceParsi's are to be Extinct race(Though avg age of Parsi's show

otherwise) there is a lobby thatas the vaccine does come inthere will be a special quotaunder saving from extinctionrace..& why not if a Parsi is atthe forefront of it."

When PTI asked SII throughe-mail how many vaccine doseswill be reserved for the commu-nity, the company's spokesper-son said, "It was just a casual andfriendly conversation between

two Parsis. Once the vaccine ismade, everyone will be gettingit. It is very early to talk aboutthis." On the distribution strat-egy of the vaccine in Indiapost-production at mass level,the spokesperson said "oncethe vaccine trials are done andsuccessful, it will be procuredand distributed by the govern-ments so that people dont haveto buy it directly".

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The National Green TribunalMonday directed Delhi's ChiefSecretary to hold a meetingand submit a report on the pleaalleging encroachment on gov-ernment land in Haiderpurhere.

A bench headed by NGTChairman Justice AdarshKumar Goel took exceptionover the report filed by theNorth Delhi MunicipalCorporation (NrDMC) andsaid the action taken report isin fact 'inaction report'.

"In view of the long delay incompliance, we request theChief Secretary, Delhi to lookinto the matter and get theissue resolved by necessarycoordination. A meeting beheld by Chief Secretary with-in two months from today andreport furnished before thenext date by e-mail," the bench

said. Delhi DevelopmentAuthority had earlier told theNGT that the area falls underNrDMC.

The corporation, however,denied this and filed an affi-davit saying that according tothe Chief Town Planner, Landand Estate Department and theRevenue Department, theencroachment is on the Delhigovernment's land and not onits land. Accordingly,

encroachment removal actionhas to be by the land owningagency, DDA, the corporationsaid.

The tribunal was hearing aplea filed by city resident SatishKumar alleging that there isencroachment on governmentland by some private individu-als in Haiderpur here. TheNGT had earlier directed theDDA to submit a factual andaction taken report on the issue.

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Hitting back at Rahul Gandhifor his latest remarks on theLadakh face-off, the BJPMonday said he was againinsulting the bravery of 20soldiers who sacrificed theirlives in Galwan Valley, andalleged his family cededthousands of kilome-tres of land toChina.

With his repeat-ed utterances onthe India-Chinaface-off, RahulGandhi is trying topresent falsehood astruth, BJP spokespersonGVL Narasimha Rao said.

Rahul Gandhi on Mondaysaid he is not going to lie aboutChinese transgressions in east-ern Ladakh even if it costs himpolitically.

In his response, Rao told apress conference at the BJPheadquarters here that Gandhihas again insulted the sacrificesof 20 soldiers in Ladakh withhis statements.

"Rahul Gandhi has not learnt

from his mistakes. He hadinsulted our soldiers at the timeof the surgical strike, theBalakot airstrike and now againhe has insulted them," Rao said.

He further said that RahulGandhi's political career endedin 2019 after he insulted thesoldiers. Citing a reply given by

the Congress-led UPAgovernment in

November 2012 inparliament, Raosaid during thetenure of variousgovernments ledby the Gandhi fam-

ily, they ceded morethan 43,000 sq kms of

land to China. Gandhi made his remarks in

a tweet, along with an over-a-minute-long video, as part of aseries launched by him on theIndia-China face-off along theLine of Actual Control (LAC)in eastern Ladakh.

"If you want me to lie that theChinese have not entered thiscountry, I am not going to lie.I will simply not do it. I do notcare if my whole career goes tohell. I am not going to lie."

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The Madras High Court onMonday directed the Centralgovernment to constitute acommittee to decide on theissue of providing OBC reser-vation in all-India seats (AIQ)surrendered by Tamil Nadufor medical admission.

Such a committee compris-ing representatives fromCentre, state and MedicalCouncil of India should beconstituted within threemonths, the court said.

The first bench of ChiefJustice AP Sahi and JusticeSenthilkumar Ramamoorthyalso made it clear that anydecision made by the commit-tee shall be applicable onlyfrom the next academic year.

Asserting that there was nolegal bar in providing OBCreservation in AIQ seats ascontended by the MCI, thebench said it was not passinga positive order to provide thereservation only in view of set-

tled law that courts cannotinterfere in policy matters ofthe government, unless incases where fundamentalrights are affected.

"Reservation is not a legal orfundamental right," the courtadded.

The bench passed the orderon the batch of petitionsmoved by the Tamil Nadu gov-ernment, the DMK,AIADMK, PMK and otherpolitical parties challengingthe decision of the Centrenot to provide OBC reserva-tion in AIQ seats for medicaladmission.

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A d d r e s s i n gMaharashtra BJP unitfunctionaries via videolink, Nadda also said theModi-led government hasincreased production ofPPE kits and set up addi-tional test facilities.

"Our prime ministertook bold decisions inhealthcare and economyto help people," Naddasaid. The US andEuropean countries spentmore time in debating oneconomy and health, thatled to worsening of thecoronavirus crisis, headded.

"The countries knownfor their strong economyand healthcare network,like the US and EU coun-tries, spent more timedebating on economy andhealth. It worsened thecoronavirus crisis," he said.

These countries failedto take the right decisionat the right time, Naddasaid. "Had there been nopowerful leader like PrimeMinister Narendra Modi,India could not have faredwell in the current (coro-navirus) crisis," he said.

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The first batch of five Rafalejets on Monday took off fromFrance for India, officials said.

The multi-role fighter air-craft are scheduled to arrive atAmbala air force station onWednesday, nearly four yearsafter India signedan inter-govern-mental agree-ment with France toprocure 36 Rafale jets for theIndian Air Force under a Rs59,000-crore deal.

The fleet is expected to sig-nificantly boost the IAF'scombat capabilities at a timewhen India is locked in a tenseborder row with China ineastern Ladakh.

Indian Ambassador toFrance Jawed Ashraf interact-ed with IAF pilots before theytook off from France.

"Bon Voyage: IndianAmbassador to #France inter-acts with the Indian pilots of

the Rafale. Congratulates andwishes them a safe flight toIndia with a single hop," theIndian Embassy in Paristweeted.

The first squadron of theRafale jets will be stationed atAmbala air base.

The five Rafales are sched-uled to be induct-

ed into

the IndianAir Force on Wednesdayafternoon. However, an IAFspokesperson said a formalinduction ceremony will beheld in mid-August.

Official sources said theRafale jets are likely to bedeployed in the Ladakh sec-tor as part of the IAF's effortsto enhance its operationalcapabilities along Line ofActual Control (LAC) with

China in view of the borderrow with the country.

The aircraft is capable ofcarrying a range of potentweapons. European missilemaker MBDA's Meteorbeyond visual range air-to-airmissile and Scalp cruise mis-sile will be the mainstay of theweapons package of theRafale jets.

Meteor isthe next generation of BVRair-to-air missile (BVRAAM)designed to revolutionise air-to-air combat. The weaponhas been developed by MBDAto combat common threatsfacing the UK, Germany, Italy,France, Spain and Sweden.

The Meteor is powered by

a unique rocket-ramjetmotor that gives it far moreengine power for much longerthan any other missile, said anofficial.

Besides the missile sys-tems, the Rafale jets will comewith various India-specificmodifications, includingIsraeli helmet-mounted dis-plays, radar warning receivers,low-band jammers, 10-hourflight data recording, infra-redsearch and tracking systems,among others.

The Indian Air Force hasalready completed prepara-tions, including readying

required infrastructure andtraining pilots, to welcome thefighter aircraft.

The second squadron ofRafale will be stationed atHasimara base in WestBengal. The IAF spent aroundRs 400 crore to develop therequired infrastructure likeshelters, hangars and mainte-nance facilities at the twobases.

Out of the 36 Rafale jets, 30will be fighter jets and six willbe trainers. The trainer jetswill be twin-seater and theywill have almost all the fea-tures of the fighter jets.

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Senior Congress leader PChidambaram on Mondayexpressed hope that thePresident will intervene andinstruct the Rajasthan gover-nor to convene a session of thestate assembly.

The former Union ministeralleged that BJP-appointedgovernors have violated theletter and spirit of theConstitution and have in theprocess "gravely impaired"parliamentary democracy, itsconventions and traditions.

"I sincerely hope that thePresident will take note ofwhat is happening - the ero-sion of parliamentary democ-racy, the erosion of theConstitution, the violation ofthe Constitution and do whatis right in the circumstances,"he told a virtual press confer-ence.

Chidambaram said thePresident has the “absoluteauthority” to tell the governorthat what he is doing is wrongand ask him to call an assem-bly session.

"I still believe that thePresident of India can inter-

vene and instruct the governorto convene an assembly ses-sion," he said when askedwhether the president candirectly intervene in the mat-ter.

"I hope better counsel willprevail and wise people caninstruct the governor that hemust summon a session of theassembly," the Congress leadersaid, noting that the governorhas no discretion of his own inthe matter.

Chidambaram said if thechief minister, who is accusedof not enjoying a majority,wants to prove his majority, heis entitled to call a session atthe earliest to prove it. "No onecan stand in his way," he said.

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The Supreme Court reservedits order on Monday on a plea,which has said all the moneycollected under the PMCARES Fund for the COVID-19 pandemic should be trans-ferred to the National DisasterResponse Fund (NDRF).

Solicitor General TusharMehta, appearing for theCentre, told a bench headed byJustice Ashok Bhushan thatthe PM CARES Fund is a "vol-untary fund" while funds tothe NDRF and SDRF are madeavailable through budgetaryallocations.

Senior advocate DushyantDave, appearing for peti-tioner NGO Centre for

Public Interest Litigation(CPIL), said they are notdoubting the bona fide ofanyone but the creation ofthe PM CARES Fund isallegedly in contraventionof provisions of the DisasterManagement Act.

He claimed that an auditof the NDRF is being con-ducted by the Comptrollerand Auditor-General (CAG)but the government has saidthe audit of the PM CARESFund will be done by privateauditors.

The Supreme Court hasreserved its order on the issueraised in the petition regard-ing transferring the moneycollected under the PMCARES Fund to the NDRF.

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The Delhi High Court told theAAP government on Mondaythat depletion of its revenuecannot be an answer to lack offunds with municipal corpora-tions to pay salaries of its staff.

A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice PrateekJalan said a solution has to befound, and listed the matter forhearing on August 10.

It asked Delhi governmentstanding counsel (criminal)Rahul Mehra to come withinstructions on the next date.

Mehra, during the hearingvia video conferencing, told thecourt that government's rev-enues are depleting, but it willdo the needful.

"That (revenue depletion)cannot be an answer. Solutionhas to be found. Figure it outand give us a solution," thebench said.

The observations camewhile hearing an applicationmoved by the North DelhiMunicipal Corporation(NrDMC) which has allegedthat Rs 90.60 crore payable asgrant-in-aid under the sanita-tion/urban development head,

for the first quarter endingJune 30, has not been releasedyet and Rs 181 crore under thesame head for the secondquarter is also due.

NrDMC, in its applicationfiled through advocate MiniPushkarna, has said that thefunding was meant for pay-ment of salaries of 'safai karam-chaaris' and sanitation activi-ties.

The application has beenfiled in a pending writ petitionby one Rahul Birla seekingdirections to the Delhi govern-ment and the municipal corpo-rations to pay the salaries witharrears of sanitation workers

employed by them.In its application, NrDMC

has said that expendituretowards the salary till May2020, sanitation services andproviding PPE kits, gloves,masks, sanitizers to the work-ers has been incurred by thecorporation from its own inter-nal resources, in the absence ofany amount being released bythe Delhi government.

It has claimed that the Delhigovernment has not beenreleasing grant-in-aid pay-ments timely under the catego-ry of Health and it released anamount of Rs 27.66 crore underHealth plan only on July 9.

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As Ayodhya gets ready for the'bhoomi pujan' of the proposedRam temple, some Muslimdevotees of Lord Ram are gear-ing up to celebrate the historicceremony. The August 5 cere-mony will mark the beginningof the temple construction, aftera decades-long title suit over thesite was settled by the SupremeCourt in November last year.

Jamshed Khan, a resident ofFaizabad district, said he will cel-ebrate the beginning of thetemple construction with hisHindu brothers.

"We have converted to Islamand embraced its prayer system,but that doesn't change ourancestors. We believe that Lord

Ram is our ancestor," he said.Wasi Haider, also a native of

Faizabad, echoed similar senti-ments. "We believe in the fun-damentals of Islam and wepractice Islam, but we alsobelieve that Lord Ram was ourancestor. It will be great that wewill witness the construction ofthe Ram temple," he said.

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Palaniswami gave away themasks to five people at theSecretariat marking the inau-guration of the first phase ofthe scheme, which wouldwitness distribution tobene-ficiaries through ration shops.

The initial phase envisagesdistribution of 4.44 crorereusable masks -bought at acost of Rs 30.07 crore- to 69.09lakh families in town pan-chayats, municipalities andcorporations barring theGreater Chennai Corporation,an officialrelease said.

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The health ministry onMonday said the results of thegovernment's effective inter-vention in managing the coro-navirus situation in Delhi arevisible with the number ofCOVID-19 beds available inthree central government hos-pitals and the AIIMS in thenational capital.

In a tweet, the ministrysaid against a total of 529COVID-19 beds in the RamManohar Lohia (RML),Safdarjung and Lady HardingeMedical College (LHMC) hos-pitals, 404 were vacant at 7 amon Monday.

"Against a total number of1515 COVID beds in AIIMS,New Delhi, 1283 beds are

vacant today at 7 am," theministry said in another tweet.

"Visible results of Uniongovernment's effective inter-vention in managing#COVID19 situation in Delhiare apparent in the number ofCOVID beds available in thethree Central Govt hospitalsand #AIIMS, New Delhi," theministry said in another tweet.

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Upset over downgrading ofJammu and Kashmir to the sta-tus of a Union Territory follow-ing abrogation of Article 370, for-mer chief minister OmarAbdullah on Monday said he willnot contest assembly elections tillfull statehood is restored.

However, Omar, a formerunion minister in the Atal BihariVajpayee government, made itclear he would continue to workfor his party NationalConference(NC) and people ofJammu and Kashmir.

"I have been leader of theassembly of the state. In its timethe most empowered assembly.I cannot and will not be a mem-ber of what is now one of themost disempowered assemblies

in the country. It's as simple asthat," Omar, 50, said.

"It is not a threat or blackmail,it's not a display of me sulking.It's just a simple acknowledge-ment that I won't fight an elec-tion to lead the Union Territoryassembly which is such a disem-powered assembly." Stronglycritical of the dilution of Article370 of the Constitution, Omar

said many reasons had beengiven to justify abrogation of theprovision that granted specialstatus, and claimed that none ofthose stand any scrutiny.

Omar, who is the vice presi-dent of the NC, was critical ofwhat had been done to Jammuand Kashmir on August 5 lastyear, and said his party wouldoppose it in the Supreme Court.

"We believe in democracyand peaceful opposition."

The abrogation of Article370 was supposed to end ter-rorism but the governmenthad been telling SupremeCourt that violence in Jammuand Kashmir was increasing, hesaid. Similarly, arguments tout-ed such as lack of developmentand investment due to Article370 belie facts, he added.

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A high-level team of researchersfrom Israel arrived here onMonday to take forward thework it has been doing withIndia to develop a rapid testingkit for COVID-19 which cangive the result within 30 seconds.

Israel's Ambassador to IndiaRon Malka said if the testing kitis developed, it could be a "gamechanger" in the battle againstCOVID-19. The Israeli defenceministry research and develop-ment team has been workingwith India's chief scientist K VijayRaghavan and Defence Researchand Development Organisation(DRDO) to develop rapid test-ing for COVID-19 in less than30 seconds, the Israeli Embassyhad said last week.

The team from theDirectorate of Defence Researchand Development (DDR&D)in the Israeli Ministry of Defencewill conduct a series of "finalstages of testing" to determine theeffectiveness of a number ofrapid diagnostic solutions withtheir Indian counterparts.

The special flight, whicharrived here in the morning, also

brought with it breakthroughemerging Israeli technologiesfor combating COVID-19,Malka said. Latest medicalequipment developed in Israel tofight COVID-19 has beenbrought on the special flight, hesaid. "We also brought on thisflight advanced respirators thatare banned for export in Israelbut a waiver was given to bringthem to India," he added.

Since the outbreak of theglobal pandemic, Israeli PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahuand Prime Minister NarendraModi have held three telephon-ic conversations in which theypromised mutual assistance indealing with the virus and com-mitted to joint technologicaland scientific research betweenthe two countries.

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The digital divide stretches longand deep across the expanse ofIndia, further separating thehaves from the have-nots and thetech-empowered from the tech-deprived with millions of chil-dren struggling to keep up withthe challenges of online classes.

The coronavirus pandemicthat forced people into theirhomes and forced schools andcolleges to move to virtual class-es has edged education dreamswith conditions aplenty – a com-puter or at least a smartphone,proper internet connectivity anduninterrupted power supply.

The education playing field,never really level, is now potholedand bumpy as students, andtheir teachers, in cities, towns andvillages scramble to cope with thedemands of the times.

Children in a small settlement

in the floodplains of the Yamunaalong the Delhi-Noida border, forinstance, have never had it easy.They would cross the river in aboat to reach school, just minutesaway from the bright lights of thenational capital and its suburb.

Four months ago, when Indiawent into lockdown, their oddsincreased manifold.

Joshna Kumar, 12, has a phonebut often no electricity so it is dif-

ficult to attend her online class-es everyday. Most residents of thesettlement rely on Charan Singh,a cattle rearer who visits daily, tocharge their phones. And so doesshe. “Every evening I give myphone for charging. He brings itcharged next morning,” she said,sitting on a charpoy in the back-yard of her home, quicklyscrolling through her Whatsappmessages to take down notes and

finish her homework. To savebattery, Joshna keeps the bright-ness of her phone low.

Her 10-year-old brother study-ing in the same school mostlystays away from class. When hedoes attend, Joshna has to missschool and catch up through pre-recorded videos. Their father is adaily wage worker and anotherphone cannot happen for them.Her story finds echo in Faridabad,

Haryana, where Suchi Singh, aClass 8 student, said there is onlysmartphone between her threesiblings and her. So, the four taketurns in attending class. ThatSuchi, a topper, is forced to missclass troubles her father RajeshKumar, a newspaper vendor, buthe said he has no option. A smart-phone is a luxury when he isstruggling to provide for hisfamily. “E-classes have made lifedifficult,” he said, pessimisticabout what the future holds forhim and his children. Hundredsof kilometres away in Mumbai,Jyoti Randhe, a Class 10 studentin a municipal school, shares asmartphone with her motherwho takes it to work. Her class-mate Roshni Nere has to divideher phone time with two sisterswho also take e-classes. Roshni'smother said she is worried abouther future and appeals to author-ities to at least equip them withthe required technology.

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The sudden and tragicdemise of Sushant SinghRajput in rather mysteri-ous circumstances hastriggered a huge debate

on all that is wrong with Bollywood,especially the incestuous relation-ship that exists within the film fra-ternity and the discouragement, ifnot hostility, with which it greets“outsiders.” While the Mumbaipolice is still probing the cause of hisdeath, Sushant’s colleague, KanganaRanaut, another “outsider” whohas had to struggle to find her placein the industry, has stirred the hor-net’s nest by talking about a “moviemafia” that exists in Mumbai andthe nepotistic tendencies that it pro-motes. Her detailed interview to aprivate television channel recentlyhas dredged up a lot of muck andbrought the issue of nepotism to thecentrestage.

One of the allegations againstthe “Bollywood mafia” afterSushant’s tragic death is that it dri-ves talented “outsiders” out of thebusiness while promoting medioc-rity among “nepo-kids” (children offilm stars). This is not to say that starkids are not talented. Many of themhave blossomed as excellent actors.But there is no denying the fact thatthey have a safety net. Interestingly,what is true of the cinema world inMumbai is also true of the world ofpolitics in Lutyens’ Delhi and else-where in the country. Nepotism isso well entrenched that it is nowcentral to our way of life. However,even if it is a bit late in the day, onemust identify this trend and call itout because it militates against thedemocratic dharma , whichdemands a level-playing field foreveryone.

Producer-director Karan Johar,who has been at the receiving endof Kangana’s accusations, has not, infact, denied the part played bynepotism in the film industry. Hehas stated publicly that when a pro-ducer launches the son of a moviestar, he is actually wanting to be ina “comfort zone” because eventual-ly, it’s also a commercial decision. “Abig movie star’s son is going to getthe eye balls…you don’t want to takea chance…it’s money.” In otherwords, he says, producers feel “pro-tected” when they are in that (nepo-tism) zone.

Is this not true of politics aswell? Just look at the way party tick-ets are distributed during a parlia-mentary election and you realisethat “being connected” matters a lot— or so it did for much of the seven

decades that have gone by afterindependence. In fact, nepo-tism is so well entrenched thatthe children and grandchildrenof individuals, who held pub-lic offices at the national levelin India many decades ago,almost deem it their right torepresent the constituencieswhich their grandfathers orgrandmothers represented andlive in the very houses whichtheir forefathers occupied inLutyens’ Delhi. They get soattached to these houses thatafter a while they even forgetthat these dwellings are publicproperties. And in case they arenot living in those houses, thesecond and third generationpoliticians demand that they beconverted into memorials ormausoleums.

The Nehru-Gandhis arethe real initiators of this trendin our national politics and inLutyens’ Delhi. It began in thedays of our first Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru, when heensured the appointment of hisdaughter, Indira Gandhi, as thepresident of the IndianNational Congress in 1959.What happened thereafter isfairly well-known to the peopleof the country. As one memberof this family succeeded anoth-er as the country’s PrimeMinister, the family’s familiar-ity with our republicanConstitution grew weaker and

weaker and it began to imag-ine that India was indeed amonarchy.

As this family entrencheditself and started promoting itsrelatives and friends, theNehruvian School becamedominant and ambitiousbureaucrats, academicians,thought leaders, artists, mediaprofessionals and businessmenbecame part of it. All of themrealised that only those whowere part of this caravan, could climb the ladderin bureaucracy, academia,media and so on.

Barring honourable excep-tions, all the Governors, ViceChancellors, newspaper edi-tors, TV anchors and PadmaAward winners were membersof this school. There was nosuch thing as respect for diver-sity or other points of view. Inpolitics, those who made it tothe Lok Sabha and the RajyaSabha in the days of theCongress’s complete domi-nance, had to be part of thisideological “biraadri” of theirfellow travellers. So the whimsand fancies of this familybecame the law and its nepo-tistic attitude was dignifiedand universalised when it pro-moted the children and grand-children of its loyalists andhangers-on.

All this went on unchal-lenged until Narendra Modi

became the Prime Minister inMay 2014. He has emerged asthe arch disruptor and has sub-stantially worked towards cre-ation of a level-playing field inLutyens’ Delhi. Kangana isdoing the same in Bollywood —fearlessly calling out those whoshamelessly promote nepotismin the Hindi film industry andeven launch vicious attacks ontalented “outsiders” who dare tofind a place for themselves inBollywood.

For example, it appears tobe common practice to crackjokes in television shows andpublic events at the expense ofnewcomers like what ShahRukh Khan and Shahid Kapoordid to Sushant during an IIFAawards event. Kangana alsotalks about some extremelyworrying situations, like whena noted Bollywood directortold Sushant that he was notdrifting but drowning.

Further, Sushant began lifein Maldiha in Purnia district,Bihar. He was a NationalOlympiad winner in physics. Arank holder in an entranceexam for a top-of-the-line engi-neering college. He had eclecticinterests, ranging from readingto mathematics and astronomyto dance, music and cinema.Was he too much of an intellec-tual for Bollywood becausemany “stars” have publicly gloat-ed over their poor academic

record? In fact, Karan Johar hasconfessed that he was told at ayoung age that if he wanted tomake Hindi movies, “you don’tneed to be qualified….and thisdoesn’t speak highly of the fra-ternity I come from.”

This writer is not a moviebuff but he got to see some ofSushant’s work — his lead rolesin Chichchore and in the biopicon MS Dhoni, for example. Hissensitive portrayals in boththese movies is there for all tosee. So how come Bollywood,instead of embracing and pro-moting such talent, chose todrive him into a corner? If thereis a “mafia” or to put it moreaccurately, a cosy club of nepo-tists, it must be identified andcalled out. The issues raised byKangana call for some seriousdebate and cleaning up.

Further, if Sushant’s deathis not to go in vain, the democ-ratisation of Bollywood isessential and a level-playingfield is absolutely essential. Butthis can happen only if the cur-rent national indignation at thetreatment meted out to Sushantis turned into a national move-ment to encourage the work oftalented “outsiders” and, moreimportantly, gets reflected atthe box office.

(The writer is an authorspecialising in democracy studies. Views expressed arepersonal.)

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Sir — The cyber cell of theHaryana police has done a com-mendable job in busting a gangof cheats involved in onlinefraud. Such scams haveincreased in times of uncertain-ty when the pandemic has con-fined us to our homes. Luresrange from run-of-the-millscams to non-targeted spamcampaigns, which are used fordata harvesting. In many cases,the victims are induced to fol-

low a malicious link ostensiblyto get more or updated informa-tion on the COVID-19 treat-ment rates in their local area.Alertness is the key to fight thescourge of online fraud.

Yugal Kishore SharmaFaridabad

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Delhi can’t ease up” (July 23).Findings by the National Centrefor Disease Control (NCDC)indicate the possibility that one

out of four Delhi residents mayhave contracted COVID-19 untilJune 20. This translates into awhopping 47 lakh people withtemporary immunity, revealinga wide gulf between the conta-gion and its detection. The infec-tion has already passed through

a sizeable population in Delhi. Ifso many people did contract theinfection and are asymptomatic,it brings down the infectionfatality rate. But there’s no roomfor complacency. Given the valu-able information uncovered fromDelhi, sero-surveys must be con-ducted in other major cities, too,as they could indicate the possi-bility of herd immunity.

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Sir — It has been over a monthsince Sushant Singh Rajput left usbut the controversy over hisdecision to end his life has refusedto die. In fact, the debate over theexistence of nepotism has gainedmomentum. The problem lieswith the influential class of peo-ple who decide on the fate of anactor, whether he/she must bepromoted or demoted. Tragedieslike that of Sushant must stopnow. Time for the film industryto recast its functioning.

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Even as the efforts made by the NarendraModi Government — including an assetquality review (AQR) by the Reserve Bank

of India (RBI), enactment of the Insolvency andBankruptcy Code (IBC), amendment of theBanking Regulation Act (BRA) and massive cap-ital infusion in public sector banks (PSBs) — werebeginning to yield results in terms of reductionin non-performing assets (NPAs), the crisis trig-gered by Covid-19 has turned the clock back.

According to a report by India Ratings andResearch (Ind-Ra), the impact of the pandemicand the associated policy response are likely toresult in an additional �1,67,000 crore of debt fromthe top-500 debt-heavy private sector borrowersturning delinquent between 2020-21 and 2021-22. Together with �2,54,000 crore anticipated priorto the onset of the pandemic, the cumulative quan-tum will be �4,21,000 crore. As a proportion ofoutstanding debt, NPAs will increase from 11.57per cent to 18.21 per cent.

Ind-Ra has also projected a scenario where-in funding markets would continue to exhibitheightened risk-aversion. Under this, the corpo-rate stress could increase further by �1,68,000crore, taking cumulative NPAs to �5,89,000 croreby the end of 2021-22. This is 20.84 per cent ofoutstanding debt. To deal with the situation, inMay the Indian Banks Association (IBA) had sub-mitted a proposal for setting up a “bad bank” tothe Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the RBI,proposing equity contribution from theGovernment of India (GoI) and banks.

A “bad bank” buys the NPAs and other non-liquid holdings of other banks and thereby helpsclear their balance sheets. In 2018, a committeeheaded by the former Chairman, Punjab NationalBank (PNB), Sunil Mehta, had recommended set-ting up of an asset management company (AMC)to be named ‘Sashakt India Asset Management’for fast track resolution of large bad loans. Now,the IBA has resurrected the idea.

Before analysing the proposal, it is importantto take stock of what all was done in the last fiveyears or so to deal with NPAs. First, it was a schemenicknamed ‘5/25’ introduced in December 2014,under which maturity of loans given to infrastruc-ture companies could be extended up to 25 years.Second, in June 2015, this was followed by ascheme for ‘Strategic Debt Restructuring (SDR).’Under SDR, banks could convert debt into equi-ty and take control of a company and sell off itsassets. They were required to sell the assets with-in 18 months from the day of taking control; ifwithin this deadline they could not, full provisionhad to be made for writing off the debt.

Third, in 2016, under a ‘Scheme forSustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets (S4A)’for large accounts involving borrowings of �500crore or more, where no malfeasance was seen,lenders were required to first segregate the exist-ing debt of a company into “sustainable” (the sharewhich can be serviced with subsisting low cashflow) and “unsustainable”, which can’t be serviced.The unsustainable portion (up to 50 per cent oftotal debt) was to be converted into equityshares.

The underlying theme in all the three schemeswas to make banks bear the brunt and let borrow-ers go scot-free. In the first, this was via indefi-nitely deferring repayment whereas, in the second,the entire outstanding debt was condoned by con-verting this into equity. In the third, even as 50per cent of the total debt was condoned, for the

balance 50 per cent, no credible mech-anism was proposed to recover themoney. Even so, with a promoterreduced to minority status, s/he won’thave much interest left in running thecompany for generating the requiredcash flow.

The outcome was there for all to see.Under ‘5/25’ and ‘SDR’, the banks werestuck with dud assets even as the ‘S4A’failed to take off. On February 12, 2018,the RBI abolished all the three schemesand came up with a broad circular. Foraccounts with aggregate exposure of�2,000 crore and above, the circularrequired that as soon as there was adefault in the account with any lender,all lenders — singly or jointly — shallinitiate steps to cure the default bypreparing a resolution plan (RP). The RPapproved by all lenders had to be read-ied within six months from the defaultdate. If the deadline was missed, pro-ceedings under the IBC would be initi-ated by referring the case to the NationalCompany Law Tribunal (NCLT) whichwould get six months to complete theresolution process.

This indeed was the way to go. Themechanism under the IBC yielded goodresults with dozens of NPA accountsresolved and lenders recovering over�3,00,000 crore. But the circular wasquashed by the Supreme Court (SC) onApril 2, 2019. On June 7, 2019, the RBIissued a revised circular. Under it, fromthe day an account is in default, lendersget 30 days to enter into an inter-lenderagreement (ILA) to decide on a RP.

Unlike the 2018 circular, which seta deadline for finalising the RP, this orderprescribes no time limit. It only requiresbanks to make an additional provisionof 20 per cent if the RP is not ready with-in 180 days and a further 15 per cent ifnot ready within 365 days. The plan has

to be approved by 75 per cent of thelenders by value and 60 per cent by num-ber. If lenders don’t come up with a planeven at the end of 365 days and refer theaccount to the NCLT then, the provi-sions can be reversed viz. 50 per cent ofit at the time of initiating the proceed-ings under the IBC and the balancewhen the case is admitted by the tri-bunal. In short, the June 2019 circulargives a free hand to lenders in comingup with a RP. It has rendered the reso-lution under the IBC dysfunctional. Ifthe account is not referred to the tribunalin time, how will the IBC processwork?

The lockdown necessitated by thepandemic and consequential policyactions by the RBI, viz. granting a mora-torium on loan repayments and exclu-sion of the moratorium period for thepurpose of declaring the account anNPA, have only worsened matters. Inthis backdrop and with the quantum ofNPAs threatening to increase sharply, theworry of banks is understandable.Hence, the idea of a “bad bank” has beenrevived.

As mentioned earlier, a “bad bank”buys the NPAs of other banks. The mostcrucial component of this arrangementis the value at which the loan accountis transferred from the latter to the for-mer. From the IBA’s proposal, whichwants the GOI to be a majority share-holder, it would appear that banks arekeen on securing maximum value forthe assets transferred to the bad bank.

Put simply, the banks don’t want tomake any efforts on their own (comingup with a RP) and won’t let the accountgo under the hammer as that wouldentail huge provisioning (50 per cent forsecured loans and 100 per cent for unse-cured loans). Instead, they expect the“bad bank” to take upon itself the onus

of recovering the money from delin-quent borrowers. Even if it is unable torecover (a more likely scenario) and getsinto trouble, the sovereign Government— being the majority shareholder — willeventually foot the bill. This is not ahealthy proposition. If ultimately theGovernment has to bear the brunt, thiscan be done even while bad loansremain in the bank’s books. There is noneed to create a dedicated bank andincur the additional cost associatedwith it.

There are three strong reasons whythe Government must not accept thisproposal. First, having already recapi-talised PSBs (during the last threefinancial years alone, it has infused�2,65,000 crore), it makes no sense topump in more of the taxpayers’ moneywhich is what a GOI-sponsored “badbank” will tantamount to.

Second, already, there are many assetreconstruction companies (ARCs) in theprivate space which are better-equippedto handle stressed assets; why createanother institution? Third, setting up a“bad bank” will bring to nought allefforts that have gone into the IBCprocess and seriously undermine it.

Instead, the Union Governmentand the RBI should take measures tostrengthen the IBC process. The way for-ward is to fix a timeline for banks tocome up with a RP. It was there in 2018and needs to be restored. As for theSupreme Court’s concern that “the RBIdoes not have legal authority to issue ageneralised order”, this can be taken careof by the latter giving directions on “spe-cific cases” — under the authorisationfrom the GoI — as the former hasupheld the legal validity of Section 35AAof the amended BRA in its order of 2019.

(The writer is a New Delhi-based policy analyst)

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After the Rajasthan High Courtordered status quo in relation tothe notices issued by the Speaker,

initiating proceedings against Congressrebels under the Tenth Schedule of theConstitution, Chief Minister (CM)Ashok Gehlot paraded more than 100MLAs in front of the Governor. Herequested him to convene the Assemblysession but Kalraj Mishra exhibitedreluctance to do so.

Article 163 of the Constitution saysthat there shall be a Council ofMinisters with the CM as the head, toaid and advise the Governor in the exer-cise of his/her functions, except whenthe Governor is required by theConstitution to exercise any of his/her

functions at his/her discretion. Article 174 of the Constitution

mandates that the Governor fromtime to time summon the House oreach House of the Legislature of theState. The Constitution Bench of theSupreme Court (SC) in the NabamRebia vs Deputy Speaker case hadexamined the scope of the words “in hisdiscretion” used in Article 163. Theapex court held that in so far as the exer-cise of discretionary powers vested withthe Governor is concerned, the same islimited to situations wherein constitu-tional provisions expressly providethat s/he should act at his/her own dis-cretion. It was also held that theGovernor can exercise his/her discre-tion in a situation where an interpre-tation of the constitutional provisionconcerned could not be construedotherwise. The SC held that the framersof the Constitution decided not to vestdiscretion with the Governor in thematter of summoning and dissolvingthe House or House of the StateLegislature by omitting Article 153(3)of the Draft Articles, which envisaged

that the power to summon and dissolvethe House shall be exercised by theGovernor at his/her discretion.Therefore, the Governor can summon,prorogue and dissolve the House onlyon the aid and advice of the CM andthe Council of Ministers.

After examining the JusticeSarkaria Commission report, JusticeMM Punchhi Commission report andthe treaties by MN Kaul and SLShakdher Practice and procedure ofParliament, published by the Lok SabhaSecretariat, the apex court had held thatin ordinary circumstances, during theperiod when the CM and his/herCouncil of Ministers enjoy the confi-dence of the majority of the House, thepower vested with the Governor underArticle 174 to summon, must be exer-cised in consonance with the aid andadvice of the CM and the Council ofMinisters. If the Governor has reasonto believe that they have lost the con-fidence of the House, it would requirethem to prove their majority in theHouse through a floor test and there-after exercise his/her discretion if the

Council of Ministers and the CM havelost the confidence of the majority.

In the light of the said judgmentand the parading of 102 MLAs byGehlot, the Governor invariably has toabide by the aid and advice of theCouncil of Ministers and summon theAssembly. Or, if s/he is in doubt withregard to the said majority, still s/he cansummon the Assembly and direct theCM to prove majority. In either case, theGovernor has to immediately summonthe Assembly to resolve the face-off.

All constitutional functionarieshave to act as per the mandate con-tained in the Constitution. It is anorganic document that requires all itsfunctionaries to observe, apply and pro-tect the values spelt out by it, whichmake up constitutional morality. TheSC, in Navtej Singh Johar’s case, hasobserved that “it is the concept of con-stitutional morality that strives andurges the organs of the State to main-tain such a heterogeneous fibre in soci-ety in multifarious ways and it is theresponsibility of the three organs of theState to curb any propensity or procliv-

ity of popular sentiment or majoritar-ianism.”

The Constitution Bench of the SCin the Government of NCT of Delhi Vs.Union of India case, has held that “con-stitutional morality is that fulcrumwhich acts as an essential check uponhigh functionaries and citizens alike, asexperience has shown that unbridledpower without any checks and balanceswould result in a despotic and tyran-nical situation which is antithetical tothe very idea of democracy. Any act togarner justification must possess poten-tiality in harmony with constitutionalimpulses.”

The SC further held that the con-cept of constitutional governance in abody polity like ours, where theConstitution is the supreme fundamen-tal law, is neither hypothetical norabstraction but is real, concrete andgrounded. Governance should be con-sistent with the Constitution and shalloperate under it. The apex court saidthat the parliamentary form of democ-racy, as envisaged by the Constitution,has its very base in the power bestowed

upon the people to vote and make thelegislature accountable for their func-tioning. Of late, the powers of and rolesplayed by the Governors of Karnataka,Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtraand now Rajasthan have become high-ly controversial. Differences aroundissues such as selecting the CM, deter-mining the timing for proving major-ity and so on, have projected a negativeimage that the Governor is “an agent ofthe Centre.”

BR Ambedkar in his speeches hadsaid that the discretionary power is inno sense a negation of a responsibleGovernment and it is not a generalclause giving the Governor power todisregard the advice of his Ministers inany manner. The SC, in the SR BommaiVs Union of India case, while examin-ing the invocation of Article 356(1) ofthe Constitution imposing President’sRule in Karnataka, had specifically heldthat the Governor is expected to con-duct her/himself fairly and conscious-ly and be circumspect.

(The writer is Advocate, Andhraand Telangana High Courts)

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The government on Mondayreleased guidelines of fourschemes for the development ofbulk drug and medical deviceparks in the country to pro-mote their domestic manufac-turing.

"In line with the vision ofPrime Minister Shri NarendraModi, the schemes have beenconceptualised for makingIndia 'Atma Nirbhar' in thepharma sector," Union Ministerof Chemicals and Fertilisers DV Sadananda Gowda said.

The objective is to makeIndia self reliant in productionof 53 critical ActivePharmaceutical Ingredients(APIs) or Key StartingMaterials (KSMs), and in pro-duction of medical devices,for which India is cruciallydependent on imports, he saidin a series of tweets.

The schemes seek to reducedependence of the country onthe imports of critical APIs/KSMs and medical devices, headded.

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have been drawn up meticu-lously after having in depthconsultations with stakeholdersincluding industries and StateGovernments. The selectionof their location will be basedon objective criteria, and inspirit of competitive federal-ism," Gowda said in a tweet.

Similarly, eligible manufac-turers will be selected for thePLI scheme on the basis ofmarks obtained in the evalua-tion criteria as per the guide-lines, he added.

"Supported by both Central

and State Governments, theseparks will be based on plug andplay model with prior regula-tory approvals, state of artinfrastructure, excellent con-nectivity, affordable land, com-petitive utility charges, andstrong R & D ecosystem and soon," Gowda said.

This will significantly reducetime and investment cost forsetting up new manufacturingunits. In addition, new unitswill be eligible for ProductionLinked Incentive (PLI) schemeof the government, he added.

"I am sure that these schemeswill elicit good response frominterested companies. Theseparks will be able to attract sig-nificant investment as well asthe latest technology," Gowdasaid.

Once operational, in abouttwo to three years, these parkswill generate thousands ofdirect and indirect jobs, reduceimport dependency and makeIndia a global pharmaceuticalhub, he added.

The idea is also to cementIndia's position as global drugsupplier. As already known, inspite of various odds, India sup-plied critical medicines such ashydroxychloroquine and parac-etamol to number of countrieson their requests, Gowda said.

"Currently valued at aroundUSD 40 bn, pharma sectorcan reach USD 100 bn by 2024given right support, and thushelp achieve PM's goal of mak-ing India a USD 5 trillioneconomy by 2025. I am of afirm belief that these schemeswill prove to be a turning pointfor the pharma industry," headded.

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Industry body Ficci in itsUnlock 3.0 roadmap has sug-gested the government toreopen multiplexes and cine-mas and metro rail, and allowinternational flight services,among others, with adherenceto all safety precautions.

The industry chamber hasalso favoured reopening ofschools and educational insti-tutions keeping in mind thelocal situation, as it outlinedstandard operating proceduresfor lifting of several restrictionsas part of Unlock 3.0.

The chamber suggested thatIndian and foreign air carriersbe allowed to operate betweentwo countries. It also called forpermitting usage of restau-rant and eateries in hotels,opening up of cinemas andmultiplexes and reopeningmetro rail services.

As the world continues tobattle the effects of theCOVID-19 pandemic, it hasbecome clear that a strategy oflong-term total lockdown issimply unsustainable for most

economies, Ficci mentioned."As lockdown orders contin-

ue to be enforced in manyparts of the country, business-es and livelihoods are undertremendous pressure due tothe collapsed demand, layoffs,and wage reductions," it said.

As the end of 'Unlock 2' isapproaching on July 31, 2020,and the country prepares for'Unlock 3', there is need tolook at lifting of existingrestrictions keeping in mind'Threat of COVID is not overyet and we need to remain vig-ilant', said the chamber.

It has recommended that itis now time to consider easing

the prohibitions placed onsectors such as aviation, sportsand tourism, provided busi-nesses follow the guidelineslaid out in this document tothe fullest.

Laying out its suggestionsfor international air travel ofpassengers except as permittedby Ministry of Home Affairs,Ficci said, "Indian and Foreigncarriers be allowed to operatebetween two countries".

India should allow foreign-ers to travel to the country ona reciprocal basis while accept-ing the COVID-19 NegativeCertificate issued by the OriginCountry.

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Expecting prolonged restric-tions in movements due to ris-ing COVID-19 cases, a foreignbrokerage has cut India's FY21GDP estimate sharply to acontraction of 6 per cent asagainst 4 per cent earlier.

In the "bear case" scenario,if the vaccine against the novelcoronavirus is delayed, theGDP contraction can go up to7.5 per cent, analysts at BofaSecurities have said.

To arrest the spread of thevirus, the Centre firstannounced a country-widelockdown in March, whichbrought economic activitiesto a standstill.

Later, it began a process ofunlocking, but localized lock-downs continue because ofhigh number of cases. All theanalysts, including those atthe Reserve Bank of India(RBI), expect a contraction inGDP in FY21, with some peg-ging a negative growth of up to9.5 per cent.

The analysts at Bofa saidthey now expect the currentrestrictions to stretch till mid-November because of a spike

in the number of cases andadded that as per its base case,1 percentage point of GDP islost for every month of lock-down. A base case is the mostprobable case or expected case.While a bear case means a typ-ically pessimistic case.

"India's daily COVID-19cases have risen by 5.8x to48,661 since Unlock 1.0 beganin June," it said, adding thatboth the total number of casesat 1.39 million and the 32,063deaths are "relatively limited"to the overall population of 1.4billion. It also added thatdespite limitation on the health

infrastructure side, the testinghas ramped up to 4 lakh a day.

If the global economy has towait for a vaccine against thevirus for a year, India's realGDP will contract by 7.5 percent in FY21, it said, addingthat its earlier estimate on thesame was for a 5 per cent con-traction. In response to thesharper contraction in GDP,the RBI will go for further eas-ing in its monetary policy, itsaid. It can be noted that thecentral bank has already deliv-ered rate cuts of 1.15 per centin two moves since the onsetof the pandemic.

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Australia's consumer watchdoglaunched court action againstGoogle on Monday alleging thetechnology giant misledaccount holders about its use oftheir personal data.

The Australian Competitionand Consumer Commission'saction in the Federal Court isthe latest litigation Google hasfaced around the world overallegations of privacy breach-es.

The commission alleges theCalifornia-based company

misled millions of Australiansto obtain their consent andexpand the scope of personalinformation that Google col-

lects about users' internet activ-ity to target advertising.

The allegations arise fromGoogle's move in 2016 to start

combining users' personalinformation in their Googleaccounts with informationfrom the same users' activity onnon-Google sites that usedGoogle technology, formerlyDoubleClick technology, todisplay ads.

“We allege that Google didnot obtain explicit consentfrom customers to take thisstep,” the commission's chair,Rod Sims, said in a statement.

“The ACCC considers thatconsumers effectively pay forGoogle's services with theirdata, so this change intro-

duced by Google increasedthe 'price' of Google's services,without consumers' knowl-edge,” Sims added.

Google said it had cooperat-ed with the watchdog in itsinvestigation and that itsaccount holders had beenasked to “consent via promi-nent and easy-to-understandnotifications.” “We stronglydisagree with their allegationsand intend to defend our posi-tion,” a Google statement said.

Google has also been close-ly involved with the watchdogin recent months over the

Australian government's planto make global digital plat-forms including Facebook payfor content siphoned fromnews media.

The commission this weekwill release draft rules for theplatforms to pay fair compen-sation for journalistic contentafter the coronavirus pandem-ic slashed advertising revenuefor legacy media.

British regulators want newrules to foster competition indigital advertising markets andrein in the industry's dominantplayers, Google and Facebook.

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For the first timesince FY04, theeconomy is setto close the cur-rent fiscal with acurrent accountsurplus of 0.4 percent of GDP,boosted byfalling importsand crude prices, and not dri-ven by better exports, accord-ing to a report.

After many quarters, theeconomy logged in a margin-al current account surplus inJune quarter at 0.1 per cent orUSD 600 million as against adeficit of USD 4.6 billion or 0.7per cent of GDP in FY19,according to the latest ReserveBank data. For fiscal 2020,CAD improved to 0.9 percent of GDP from 2.1 per centin FY19.

"For the first time sinceFY04, the economy is set toregister a small currentaccount surplus of 0.4 percent of GDP in FY21…led byweak domestic demand andlower crude prices leading toa collapse in imports ratherthan a strong export recovery,"Tanvee Gupta Jain, the houseeconomist at UBS SecuritiesIndia said in a note, withoutquantifying the surplusamount that year.

According to the RBI, inFY04, the country logged incurrent account surplus atUSD 10.6 billion which was1.8 per cent of GDP of that

year. However, she added thatthe surplus trend will not besustained for long as risingcrude prices, gradual recoveryin domestic demand and onlya modest recovery in exportswill reverse the trend.

"We estimate the currentaccount to swing to a deficit of0.3 per cent of GDP in FY22,which is still lower than sus-tainable range on below trendGDP growth," she said.

The Reserve Bank of Indiasaid the current account sur-plus was primarily due to alower trade deficit which pen-ciled in at USD 35 billion anda sharp rise in net invisiblereceipts of USD 35.6 billion.

Net services receipts rose toUSD 22 billion in the quarterdue to a rise in net earningsfrom computer and travel ser-vices, the RBI had said, addingprivate transfers, mainly remit-tances, jumped 14.8 per centto USD 20.6 billion.

Jain also warned of remit-tances - where India is thelargest recipient at USD 76 bil-lion or 2.7 per cent of GDP inFY20 - plunging by 25 per centthis year.

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As construction activitiescame to a screeching halt dueto COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown, construc-tion equipment sales volumewitnessed a sharp 70 percent fall in April-June 2020quarter, Crisil Research said.

According to the ratingsagency, volume would declineon-year this fiscal, especial-ly since public spending willbe diverted towards health-care and public welfare.

"With the COVID-19 pan-demic induced lockdownbringing construction activ-ity to a halt and labourerstrudging back to the pre-sumed safety of their nativeplace, construction equip-ment sales volume has nose-dived 70 per cent on-year inthe first quarter, and utilisa-tion has nearly halved," theagency said. Constructionequipment business, com-prising backhoes, excavators,cranes, compactors and load-ers, has run into greasygrounds, it said.

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The industry should not shyaway from spending its CSRfund as it would help makeIndia a better place for presentand future generations,Minister of State for Financeand Corporate Affairs AnuragThakur said on Monday.

He also said that the govern-ment has made several changesin the Corporate SocialResponsibility (CSR) law to de-

criminalise certain provi-sions. Without takingname, Thakur saidthat a multi-nation-al company whichhad not spent closeto Rs 500 crore inthe last two years aspart of its CSR activitieswas issued notice earlierafter which it was "happy" tospend that money at that time.

But now when the govern-ment has de-criminalised cer-

tain provisions, it is "run-ning away again from

spending that money"."On one hand, we

help the corporate sothat they do not needto go through this pain

of criminal sections, buton the other hand.. if the

companies are making mil-lions, not only millions but bil-lions out of India...why they donot want to spend that money onthe Indians," he said in a Ficci

webinar on CSR. "So that is whyat times the government isforced to bring in such kind ofsections into the CSR. So myrequest to all of you is that itis our responsibility towardsour nation, towards our pub-lic, and I am sure all of you,who have contributedimmensely, will contributemore and bring more peopleout of poverty and make Indiaa better place for present andfuture generations," he added.

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Global stock markets weremixed and gold surged to arecord price Monday amidUS-China tension and concerna recovery from the coron-avirus pandemic might beweakening.

London, Tokyo and HongKong declined while Frankfurtand Shanghai advanced. USstock futures were higher.

Wall Street ended lastweek down after anew diplomatic flare-up betweenWashington andBeijing and mixedearnings reports.

Global markets haveregained most of this year'slosses but forecasters warn therebound might be too big andtoo early as virus case numbersrise in the United States and

some other economies.Weak stock prices

“speak volumes ofsoured risk appetiteamid escalating US-China risks, wors-

ening virus out-breaks and a flagging

recovery,” said HayakiNarita of Mizuho Bank in areport.

In early trading, the FTSE100 in London declined 0.1%

to 6,117.51 while the DAX inFrankfurt advanced 0.5% to12,898.10. The CAC 40 inFrance was off less than 0.1%at 4,953.

Gold jumped $41.80 to arecord $1,939.30 per ounce ina sign investors were lookingfor safe havens to park money.

On Wall Street, futures forthe benchmark S&P 500 indexand the Dow Jones IndustrialAverage were up 0.4%.

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The industry should not shyaway from spending its CSRfund as it would help makeIndia a better place for presentand future generations,Minister of State for Financeand Corporate Affairs AnuragThakur said on Monday.

He also said that the gov-ernment has made severalchanges in the CorporateSocial Responsibility (CSR)

law to de-criminalise certainprovisions.

Without taking name,Thakur said that a multi-national company which hadnot spent close to Rs 500crore in the last two years aspart of its CSR activities wasissued notice earlier afterwhich it was "happy" to spendthat money at that time.

But now when the govern-ment has de-criminalised cer-tain provisions, it is "runningaway again from spendingthat money".

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Mid-size IT firm PersistentSystems has reported a 9 percent growth in its net profit toRs 90 crore for the June 2020quarter, helped by increase inrevenues despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Pune-headquarteredcompany had posted a netprofit of Rs 82.47 crore duringthe corresponding quarter ofthe previous financial year, ithas said in a BSE filing.

Its revenues jumped over 17

per cent to Rs 1,012 crore dur-ing the quarter as comparedwith Rs 862 crore a year ago,the company added.

Persistent Systems CEOChristopher O'Connor saidthat the company hopes tomaintain the momentum asthe company has a goodpipeline of deals.

He added that the firm hasrolled back the salary cuts forthe senior management, andwill be looking at achievingother milestones through thecourse of the year.

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A unit increase in artificialintelligence (AI) intensity,measured as the ratio of AIinvestments to total sales,can result in a 2.5 per centincrease in India's GDP in theimmediate term, according toa report by economic thinktank ICRIER.

The economic effects of AIalso include indirect effectson productivity, the IndianCouncil for Research onInternational EconomicRelations (ICRIER) said inthe report titled 'Implicationsof AI on the IndianEconomy'.

"The results find a positiveand significant relationbetween AI using firms andTFP (total factor productiv-ity) growth. The estimatessuggest that a unit increase inAI intensity, measured as theratio of AI investments tototal sales, can result in a 2.5per cent increase in India'sGDP in the immediate term,"it said. It also pointed out that'business-as-usual growth' inAI investments is unlikely toincrease current levels of AIintensity."In order to triggera positive growth shock, AIintensities should be sharplyincreased," it said.

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is upcomingshort film MomMe, directed bydebutante direc-tor UjjwalKashyap and pro-

duced by Planet GreenStudios, Madhapur hasbeen selected by theInternational Film Festival2020 and young Vivaancan’t stop going gaga aboutit. Adapted from realevents, the short film fol-lows the story of anextremely busy business-woman who is a singlemother raising her ward allby herself amidst difficul-ties. Soon, she abandonsher child (Vivaan) due to a

lack of time, to fend forhimself.

Vivaan keeps balancingbetween his school and pas-sion for acting, preciselybecause of no support fromthe authorities of the edu-cational institution, forcinghim to always cut his hair,although his locks are hisUSP, as believed by hismother.

“He’s been acquiringfame at a very young age, Ihope to see him as a suc-cessful actor someday run-ning the race in Bollywood.I balance between being hismother and manager, fromregulating his activities,finding him good projects

to taking care of him in thelong working hours, andhis finance! There’s cut-throat competition inTollywood for child actorsbut my son has managed tosecure his spot,” says SapnaMunoth, his adorable kid’smother.

Born and brought up ina rich affluent family hail-ing from Rajasthan, initial-ly, the parents were criti-cized for allowing thisbright star to work evenwhile making sure theynever compromised on hiseducation. “My familybelieved Vivaan should beindulging in ‘normal’ activ-ities, why does he have to

be around glamour andglitz? they asked. We haveinstilled a work ethic inhim at a very young age tothe extent that he nevercares about fame or howmany followers he has onhis social media accounts.He has many times gar-nered praises from A-lis-ters, that just makes us tooproud of him,” adds LokeshMunoth Jain, father toVivaan.

The short film teachesparents the importance ofspending quality time withthe most important peoplearound, kids, as reviewedby one of the critics fromthe Halicarnassus Film

Festival Committee.Talking about Vivaan’s

proximity with sports starMahendra Singh Dhoni, hismother tells us, “Vivaan hasshot two commercials withhim and now we share a verywarm and friendly relation-ship with Dhoni sir. Realstars do exist! Despite tightsecurity around him, hewent out of his way to ensuremy son and I were comfort-able during the shoot. Heintroduced us to his go-toceleb hairstylist SapnaMotibhavnani and clickedrandom pictures with us. Wehad a good time togethereven off-camera. I presentedto Dhoni’s daughter Ziva,

couture from my own labeldesigned by me, and Dhonijiwas overwhelmed. In fact,Sapna managed to makeVivaan his young buddy tooand in the near future I willnever hope to pass on anyprojects with them, we’rewaiting for more such pro-jects,” adds the mum.

“I always wanted to be anactor, it’s a fun careerchoice for me. I wish to jointhe elite cast A-listers soonwith my passion for thecraft. I find it a pleasure tobe the center of attractionand love performing forothers. Also, I love danc-ing,” shares the child prodi-gy himself.

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n a regular summer day in2019, a journalist had goneto a madrasa with a spycamera and a fictitious storyof a known PhD scholarwho wanted to remarry her

husband after an instant triple talaq butdidn’t know the way out. He wasreferred to some of the people aroundand a man came up with a suggestion— nikah halala. “Marry her to a carpen-ter who works here,” he said. He woulddivorce her in two days after consum-mating the marriage, post which shecould go back to her previous husband.When the journalist refused the offer,stating the social incompatibilitybetween the two as a reason, the manoffered his own candidature. And inturn, he asked for Rs 30,000, an amountwhich the journalist refused as hecouldn’t afford it with an income of Rs25,000 and a family of four. After somebargaining, the man finally came downto Rs 15,000.

Journalist and writer Ziya Us Salamamusingly recalls this story on the otherend of the phone, while talking abouthis recent book, Nikah Halala: SleepingWith A Stranger. It aims to present therealities of marriage and divorce inIslam, marking the differences betweenhow the Quran looks at relationshipsand how the people misuse them. Whilethe holy book does not mention instanttriple talaq, the tradition of nikah halalais unique to the Indian subcontinentthat claims to bring squabbling couplestogether but ends up making a mockeryof the faith and punishes women for thecrimes of men.

Ziya says that Nikah Halala... hasbeen written as a comparative volumeafter the book, Till Talaq Do Us Part:Understanding Talaq, Triple Talaq andKhula (2018). “After the book, therewas a lot of curiosity among peopleabout nikah halala. Many people whoread it told me that they wanted toknow more about the concept and howit functions in our society. I had also at

the time come across some people whohad a different perspective. I felt I mustclarify before the average reader whatthe Quran says about nikah halala andwhat is the reality of the practice inIndia,” he adds.

The nikah halala, according toMuslim Personal Laws, dictates that awoman must consummate her marriagewith another man if she wants to goback to her former husband, whom shehas divorced. However, there are a num-ber of misconceptions around the prac-tice, which not only lead to its manipula-tion but exploits women hugely. So howdoes the book address these myths? Ziyatells us, “I have spoken about theQuranic injunctions of the subject. Thethree verses of the Quran — from 229to 231 — talk about the divorce, multipledivorce and the nikah halala. As per thedivorce section, the Quran allows ittwice. The man can divorce his wifeonce, post which there is a three-monthwaiting period. In that span, the womanhas to stay with her husband and thetwo can try to reconcile. If the man takesback his words and establishes the rec-onciliation in bed, the talaq is ruled outand the marriage continues.”

However, if it doesn’t happen forthree months, the woman moves out ofthe husband’s house but both are stillgiven a chance to rethink, after which ifthey want to get back together, they canhave a proper nikah again without anythird party intervening. In case thingsfall apart again, three months are againgiven for reconciliation. However, ifnow there comes a second divorce andthen the third one after a second nikah,the two cannot remarry.

“The Quran now completely estab-lishes a woman’s independence. Sheshould not become an object of play inthe hands of a whimsical husband whojust thinks that he can take back his wifewhenever he wants to and then againgive talaq. After the third divorce, thewoman is independent to get married toanother man if she wants to,” says Ziya,

adding that now if her second husbanddies or she wants to go back to her for-mer husband, the two can remarry.

He adds, “Now, it’s called a nikahhalala! However, it cannot be one if ithas a pre-decided date of divorce. It can-not be a planned course that a man hasnow given triple talaq to his wife and hewants her back, so she has to marrysome other man for a night, who thendivorces her so the former husband cantake her back. They cannot marry justto be divorced the next day. That’s nothow it works. That’s not how Quranallows it.”

One of the chapters in Ziya’s booknarrates an incident of a man who hadmade a business out of nikah halala. Inearly 1990s, Islamuddin left for Bombayto earn a livelihood, leaving his wife andchildren in Sasaram. While strugglingday and night to find some relief in thenew city, the man met an acquaintancewho suggested he marry a woman fortwo nights and ask for an amount inreturn and then divorce her. This wouldnot only make him earn a little extra butalso let the woman go back to herdivorced husband. He suggestedIslamuddin to become a nikah halalahusband.

While that was how it worked in thepre-digital era, on social media, today,trolls have been using nikah halala as athreat/abuse. Several websites and blogshave been conceptualised to offer halalamarriage services to women who havebeen divorced by their first husbands.One such currently active Twitter page’sbio reads, “Assalamu’alaykumAlhmadulillah, this is a marriage servicefor Muslims worldwide. Take an advan-tage of it now.”

Ziya comments, “People are com-pletely ignorant about the provisions ofnikah halala. These blogs and Facebookpages offer various men’s candidature tobe a halala husband and surprisingly,most of them are pretty well-off andeducated people settled in places likeDubai and Kuwait. This is highly

prominent in Pakistan. They are readyto take an international flight to Indiaand do a nikah halala for two-threedays, consummate the marriage, divorcethe woman and then go back.”

He says that while for some the inten-tion of doing nikah halala is completelypious and pure — to help their brothersor sisters in need — what they do notknow is that this is not the way of theQuran. Adds he, “Having said that, thereare also ill-intentioned people around uswho are just trying to fulfill their lust.But both of them are wrong. And it’sonly the woman who suffers. And that’sexactly what my book highlights.”

Is the book an attempt to change thedialogue as to how Muslims and theirtraditions are perceived in India? Thewriter says that since he is a pratisingMuslim, he has known his communityinside out and hence, wants to bring outthe wrongs. He adds, “I am criticising aMuslim practice being a part of this reli-gion because I know very well what isafflicting the community.”

He recalls his book Women inMasjid: A Quest For Justice, whichtalked about how mosques do not allowwomen to pray inside their premises asmen, a restriction which is not grantedby the Quran but is practised widely.He says, “In the book, I pointed out thatacross India, masjids have no provisionsfor women. They not only bar womenactively but also practically. There areno toilets or no musallahs (prayer mats)available to them in the mosque. Eventhe biggest two, Nizamuddin and HajiAli Dargah, have strict regulations forwomen’s entry. After that book, one ofthe mosques in Seelampur addressed itsgathering one evening and talked abouthow women also have the completeright to practise their religion and prayin mosques just as men do. Some of theimams of the masjid had read the bookand they changed some of the provi-sions of their premises. So when a bookcan change the way religious practicesare followed, why should I not write

about it?”He also recalls how a woman journal-

ist, after his book Till Talaq Do UsPart..., “finally divorced her violent andabusive husband who had also given heran (invalid) instant triple talaq.” Lookingat history, religion is quite sensitive andcomes with a certain kind of censorshipin India. So how does Ziya keep suchsensitivities in mind? He believes thatevery religion, irrespective of whether itis Islam, Hinduism, Christianity orSikhism, is “male-dominated.” He adds,“A religious society is designed by mento suit their taste. If as a Muslim, I criti-cise certain practices of other religions,whether it is Hinduism or Sikhism, itmay not be taken in the right spirit,given the times we are living in. So justlike I said, I am a practising Muslim.And it’s also a reason why I’m more like-ly to be given a patient hearing. They

are more likely to listen to me if I amcalling out that practice. Also, when oneis speaking the truth, you don’t have tothink whether it’s the right time to speakit or not. Reality never transforms.When you are talking about a goodthing in any religion, there’s never awrong time to say it. The book in a wayexpresses the Quran. I think this is alsothe best time to dispel any misconcep-tions about Islam.”

On a lighter note, the quarantineperiod has turned out to be quite pro-ductive for Ziya given that apart fromNikah Halala..., two of his other workshave been published and are releasing— Inside the Tablighi Jamaat andShaheen Bagh: From a Protest to aMovement. He chuckles and says thatthe first book was already drafted in2019 and had to be published in April.But alas, “the lockdown!”

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ikTok sensationSachin Tiwari,lookalike of thelate actor SushantSingh Rajput, starsin a film with a

title shouting out the wordsSuicide and Murder. A sec-tion of fans, media and filmindustry watchers were natu-rally quick to infer that thefilm in question is a biopic ofSushant.

Director Shamik Maulik ofthe film Suicide Or Murder,however, hastens to quashsuch ideas. The film is nei-ther a biopic, nor does it dealwith Sushant’s untimely andtragic death, he insists.

“This is not a biopic. Thefilm is about how young menand women from smalltowns come to Mumbai witha lot of dreams. They alsotaste success, and when theyare about to reach where theywanted to, suddenly they findother forces stopping them,because those people don'twant to lose their position atthe top,” Shamik told IANS.

While Sachin plays thelead, right now the castingprocess is on for the rest ofthe characters, informs thedirector.

But why pick such a titlefor a film starring Sushant’slookalike? “There are somesituations where you havebeen forced to kill yourself.Not that somebody has killed you, but the situation is such that you are depressed

and you kill yourself,”explained Maulik.

Sushant Singh Rajputpassed away in Mumbai onJune 14. While post mortemreport stated the actor hadcommitted suicide, MumbaiPolice is still investigating thecase. Several celebrities andpoliticians have beendemanding a Central Bureauof Investigation (CBI) probe.

Suicide Or Murder wasrecently announced. Thefilm’s first look poster wasshared on social media lastweek and everyone notedSachin’s uncanny resem-blance with Sushant.

The makers plan to go onfloors around September.Isn’t it a bit too early to makea film on such a subject, considering Sushant’s death is still fresh in everyone’smind?

“This film is not onlyabout Sushant's death. It’sabout how the industryworks. People should knowbefore coming, the kind ofproblems they might face.Strugglers who come toMumbai with a lot of dreamsare not aware of a lot ofthings. They should alsoknow that it is not easy. Also,when you think that youhave reached the sky and willreplace the person at the top,it would not happen so easi-ly!” Maulik replied.

The film is expected torelease by December this yearor January next year.

�ctor AbhishekBachchan shared thathis wife, actressAishwarya RaiBachchan, and theirdaughter Aaradhya

have been discharged from hospi-tal after testing negative for Covid-19.

“Thank you all for your contin-ued prayers and good wishes.Indebted forever. Aishwarya andAaradhya have thankfully testednegative and have been dischargedfrom the hospital,” tweetedAbhishek.

Abhishek and his father,Bollywood icon AmitabhBachchan, tested positive to thecoronavirus and are in hospitalsince then.

While Aishwaryaand Aaradhyareturn home,Big B and sonAbhishek

have to be in hospital for now.“They will now be at home. My

father and I remain in hospitalunder the care of the medicalstaff,” wrote Abhishek on his veri-fied account.

Abhishek’s mother JayaBachchan test-ed nega-tive.

ollywood actress Olivia deHavilland is no more. Thetwo-time Oscar winner diedpeacefully in her sleep. Shewas 104 and she died of nat-ural causes at home in Paris

where she had been residing for over 60years, her publicist Lisa Goldbergannounced.

“A two-time Best Actress Oscar win-ner, Olivia de Havilland was a mainstayof Hollywood’s Golden Age and animmeasurable talent. Here’s to a true leg-end of our industry,” the Academy ofMotion Picture Arts and Sciences wroteon Sunday, on its verified Twitteraccount, @TheAcademy.

A private funeral is being arranged,according to a report in holly-woodreporter.com.

The Japan-born British-Americanactress had an active career in films forover five decades from 1935 to 1988,during which time she appeared in 49feature films. She was considered one ofthe leading stars of Hollywood’s GoldenAge. Her mother was the late Englishactress Lilian Fontaine and her sister, lateJoan Fontaine, was also a majorHollywood star of the era and an Oscarwinner.

De Havilland rose to stardom featur-ing opposite Hollywood action superstarof the era, Errol Flynn, in several swash-buckling hits of the 1930s. Her mostprominent roles in that early phase werein Captain Blood (1935) and TheAdventures Of Robin Hood (1938). In all,De Havilland worked with Flynn inaround eight big films, and the duo

became the most saleable on-screen pairof their time.

Over the years, she would go on tocarve her space as a versatile artiste,beyond just playing Lady Marian toFlynn’s Robin Hood. She made her markin genres as varied as historicals (TheCharge Of The Light Brigade; 1936), rom-coms (Hard To Get; 1938), Westerns(Santa Fe Trail; 1940), film noir (MyCousin Rachel; 1952), and psychologicalhorror (Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte;1964).

Her most notable roles were in films ofthe drama genre, such as In This Our Life(1942), The Snake Pit (1948), and Light InThe Piazza (1962).

Beyond courting fame as an artiste, DeHavilland also hit the headlines when shetook on the mighty Warner Bros. in alegal battle over a contract that the studiotried to extend, in a bid to intimidate herwhen she refused certain roles. The courthad ultimately ruled in her favour.

De Havilland won her first Oscar asBest Actress for the 1946 romanticdrama, To Each His Own, where sheplayed a young mother who gives birthto a child out of wedlock but has to giveit up. The 1949 drama, The Heiress,where she essayed a girl manipulated byher powerful father, won her the secondBest Actress trophy at the Oscars.

De Havilland’s last professional workas an artiste happened in 2009, when sheworked as a narrator of the documentaryfilm, I Remember Better When I Paint,about the positive impact of art and cre-ative therapies on patients suffering fromAlzheimer's disease.

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The day was a washout,leaving the fate of the three-test series to the last day,weather permitting again.

England is on the brink ofa series win and regaining theWisden Trophy in perpetuity,seeing as it will be retired. Theseries is at 1-1.

The West Indies is 10-2 inits second innings, tasked with389 more runs to win theseries decider. But, really, it isin survival mode and wouldnot have been unhappy withthe rain delay.

Kraigg Brathwaite is 2 notout, and Shai Hope 4 not out.The team will have to survive98 overs on Tuesday to retainthe trophy. Fast bowler StuartBroad took both wickets onSunday evening and has eightfor the match. He's on 499career test wickets. (AP)

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Left-arm pacer Reece Topleymade a return after four yearsas England on Monday nameda 14-member squad for thethree-match ODI seriesagainst Ireland beginning hereon Thursday.

Eoin Morgan will captainthe side while Moeen Ali willbe his deputy. Three playerswere also named as reserves.

The 26-year-old Topley hastaken 16 wickets in 10 ODIsbut last represented England inthe World T20 in 2016. He hadissues with his back and wentunder the knife in 2018. Hewas Sussex's leading wickettaker in the Blast last year.

Sam Billings, Liam Dawsonand David Willey also made acomeback to the Englandsquad for the series which willbe played behind closed doorsin a bio-secure environment.

Billings is making a returnafter two years, having missed

out of a World Cup selectionafter dislocating his shoulder.Willey, on the other hand,missed out the 50-over show-piece as Archer was preferredover him.

The uncapped trio ofRichard Gleeson, LewisGregory and Liam Livingstonehave been named as reserves.

While the likes of Joe Root,Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, ChrisWoakes and Mark Wood havenot been considered as theyare currently involved in theTest series against the WestIndies, World Cup winnersJonny Bairstow, Tom Curran,Liam Dawson, Adil Rashid,Jason Roy and James Vincehave been named in the squad.

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The World Test Championshipschedule has been thrown hay-wire by the COVID-19 pan-demic and its much-awaitedfinal next year will depend onthe number of rescheduledbilateral series after the disrup-tion, ICC GM (CricketOperations) Geoff Allardicesaid on Monday.

The COVID-19 pandemichas thrown the Futures Toursand Programme (FTP) intodisarray with the T20 WorldCup already postponed to givemember nations time to com-plete their bilateral commit-ments.

"We are currently in discus-sion with members on whattheir plans are around resched-uling their series," Allardiceanswered to a query from PTIduring an interaction withnews agencies.

Given the circumstancesand tight schedules, ICC mighthave to postpone the Junefinal at the Lord's asBangladesh, New Zealand, SriLanka, England have backlogseries but Allardice, a former

Australian first-class cricketer,would like to wait a bit more.

"Obviously their teams havere-scheduled them (theirengagements) as quickly aspossible. Depending on howmany of them (postponedseries) could be re-scheduledwithin the available time willgive us the most appropriatetiming for the final. But at thisstage the final is scheduled forJune 2021," he said.

"We are working with themembers on that...Countriesare now working out on howto resume and when it's best toresume and they are all in theirprocess of looking at calen-ders," Allardice added.

Allardice also made it clearthat the ICC's role in this sce-nario would be of a facilitator

for the members as the bodycan't directly get involved indrawing up their calendars.

"I don't see us taking agreater role in terms of beingpro-active. ICC plays a role incoordinating competitions, butit has no role in scheduling asit is on members," he clarified.

He admitted that there is alot of "uncertainty aroundwhen international cricket canresume in a number of coun-tries" considering that the sit-uation is different everywhere.

Allardice also said that since2018, when the ICC ODILeague was first devised, theglobal body has tried to recom-mend a bit of balance betweenODIs and T20 Internationalformats with bilaterals featur-ing three 50-over and an equal

number of 20-over games."The rules around league

were established, back in 2017-18, a decision was taken at thattime that T20Is and ODis willbe three-match series.

"Earlier, it used to be fiveODIs and a T20 International.Probably it changes the balancebut when the league wasdesigned, the countries agreedthat there would be three ODIsand three T20 Internationals,"he added.

While South Africa hasstarted with 'Three TeamCricket' or better known as3TC on an experimental basis,ICC will only be focussing onthe three formats at its dispos-al.

In 3TC, three teams of eightplayers compete in a singlematch. Each team bats for atotal of 12 overs, split betweentwo periods of six overs apiecefrom each of the other twoteams in the match.

"Look the ICC's position isat the moment we have threeinternational formats butmembers are encouraged to tryout new format," Allardicesaid.

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The International CricketCouncil (ICC) on Mondaylaunched the ODI SuperLeague, a qualifier for the2023 World Cup in India thataims to add context to the 50-over format.

Hosts India and the next topseven teams in the SuperLeague will automaticallyqualify for the World Cup, theworld body stated.

The competition beginswith a series between worldchampions England andIreland, beginning atSouthampton on July 30. Therest of the schedule will beunveiled later.

“The league will bring rel-evance and context to ODIcricket over the next threeyears, as qualification for theICC Men’s Cricket World Cup2023 is at stake,” ICC’s GMOperation Geoff Allardicesaid. With T20 cricket thriv-ing and Tests remaining theultimate challenge, formerplayers such as Ricky Pontinghave questioned the relevanceof ODIs.

Featuring 13 teams, the 12ICC Full Members and theNetherlands, who qualifiedby winning the World CricketSuper League 2015-17, theSuper League will see each sideplay four home and four awaythree-match series.

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Indian Grandmaster PHarikrishna registered animportant win over tourna-ment leader RadoslawWojtaszek in the fifth roundof the Classical event of the53rd Biel International ChessFestival in Switzerland onMonday.

The Indian No.3, playingwith black pieces, put it acrossthe Polish player in a 50-move game to reduce the leadto three points with tworounds to go. Harikrishnanow has 28.5 points.

It was a much-needed winfor the world No.26 Indian,who had a tough time in theBlitz event on Sunday, notch-ing up only six points.

Harikrishna had drawn hisfirst three matches beforebeating young GermanVincent Keymer for his maid-en victory.

In another game, ArkadijNaiditsch of Azerbaijan andFrenchman Romain Edouardsigned peace in 51 moves.

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Seasoned pacer Stuart Broadhas shown that he still has“fire in the belly” to achievea lot more for England, saidformer skipper MichaelAtherton, asserting that the“champion sportsman” hasthe potential to claim 600 Testwickets.

After being ignored forthe series opener againstWindies, the 34-year-oldpacer silenced his critics byputting up scintillating per-formances in the remainingtwo Tests. He ended the thirdday of the series decider with499 Test wickets, just oneshort of the coveted 500mark.

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Page 12: ˇ˜ ˛ Rayalaseema LI Scheme ˇ/4˙/39: ˇ/4:4 · 2020-07-27 · Lakshminarayana with imme-diate effect. BJP national president JP Nadda issued the appoint-ment orders. While the

dah Sharma, who has featured inhits like Heart Attack andKshanam, is going solo with hernext Telugu flick, the muhurat ofwhich was held in Hyderabadon Monday. A production ven-

ture of Gouri Krishna under Shree KrishnaCreations, the film, to mark the directorialdebut of Vipra, features Sanjay, Bhanu SreeMehra, Abhay, Hari Teja, AkshathaSrinivas and Ajay in other key roles.

A mystery thriller, the untitled film wentto floors on Monday itself and it will beshot in Hyderabad for another nine days,before the setting shifts to Nirmal. Theidea is to wrap it in a start-to-finish sched-ule.

This new film announcement ofAdha’s comes two days after she spilledthe beans of signing a newTelugu film. For nowthough, she is excitedabout the launchedmovie. “It isgoing to be amad madride,” sheposted onTwitter.

amil actressVijayalakshmi hasbeen admitted tohospital after sheallegedly tried tocommit suicide.

Vijayalakshmi, who had spo-ken against actor-turned-politi-cian Seeman a while back, isrecovering in a private hospital,said sources close to the actressaccording to a report publishedin one of the eminent publica-tions.

According to reports, she haduploaded a video on socialmedia recently, talking about thetorture she has been facing from

Seeman and his partymen.“This is my last video and I

have been in tremendous stressin the last four months becauseof Seeman and his partymen. Itried my level best to survive allthese days because of my motherand sister, but I have beenhumiliated in the media byHarinadar recently,” she report-edly said in the video.

“I have already taken a coupleof my BP tablets, so in sometimeI will suffer from low blood pres-sure and in a few hours I will bedead. I would like to tell the fanswho are watching the video justbecause of I was born inKarnataka Seeman has torturedme a lot.”

“As a woman I have put upwith it to my highest capabili-ties, I won’t be able handle thepressure anymore. I am fromthe Pillai community, thesame community LTTEleader Prabhakaran is partof. Prabhakaran is the onlyreason Seeman is who he istoday, but now he has beenharassing me on socialmedia continuously. Youslut shamed me to makeme feel the pain and it isup to me to decide onwhat to do after facingsuch insults from you. Irequest my fans to notlet Seeman away fromthis case, he shouldnever get an anticipa-tory bail. My deathshould be a big eyeopener to everyone. Idon’t want to be a slaveto anybody.”

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ctor Nithiin tied theknot with long-time girl-friend Shalini Kandukuriat a dazzling ceremonyin Hyderabad on Sundayevening. With COVID-

19 scare still around, the families ofboth the actor and Shalini madesure to take precautions and sportmasks. A traditional affair, the wed-ding venue — Falaknuma Palace —was all decked up with flowers. Theactor wore a bright right red sher-wani with white dhoti and printedred dupatta for the big event, whileShalini, who has a Master’s inBusiness Management from a UKuniversity, looked resplendent in agolden saree with an embroideredblouse, completing the look by don-ning diamond jewellery.

In adherence with the COVID-19guidelines, the guest count was kept

minimal. TRS leader Kavitha, min-isters Talasani Srinivas Yadav andSrinivas Goud were some of thehigh-profile attendees. FromTollywood though, Nithiin’s friendslike Sai Tej, Varun Tej, Karthikeyaand Neeraja Kona and producerTagore Madhu were among a selectfew who attended the wedding.

“Mothaniki oka INTIVAADINIayyanuu. need all ur blessings nlove (sic),” Nithiin posted onTwitter after the wedding, sharingpictures of him tying the knot andapplying jeelakarra bellam.

On the work front, Nithiin’s nextrelease would be Venky Atluri’sRang De, a romantic comedy enter-tainer which is 70 per cent over.The makers are considering shoot-ing a small schedule in NewZealand in September with whichthe filming will come to an end.

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Jagarlapudi was unveiled onMonday, as one of the pro-ducers of the film, NarayanDas Narang, celebrated hisbirthday on Monday.Prominent director SekharKammula unveiled the firstlook — in which Shaurya isseen flaunting his chiseledeight-pack abs with a stylishbeard and ponytail, aimingto hit the bull’s eye witharchery tools. The actorplays an archer in the film, asports drama. The posteralso shows a cut on the fore-head and blood seepingfrom a wound to his abs.

Kammula appearedimpressed with Shaurya.“The first look is really good.Shaurya in a six-pack and ina warrior kind of pose… Iknow it’s a herculean task topack on the muscle. I laudShaurya for his commitmenttowards the role. The filmseems hatke from what hehad done previously. Fromplaying boy-next-door rolesto cool guy, this looks puremass and it is the way to go,”the director said.

Addressing Shaurya, henoted that he has been fol-lowing the actor’s body ofwork. “I like your acting andyour script choices. I appre-ciate the fact that you arenot afraid of experimenting— especially doing a role ina film like Oh! Baby. Such

choices only help actors tohave a long career,”Kammula pointed out.

Replying to Kammula,Shaurya wrote on Twitter,“Thank you for your Kindwords and Appreciation@sekharkammula Sir Yourwork has always been QuiteInspiring and these wordsfrom you really means somuch (sic).”

The as-yet-untitled film, ajoint production venturebetween Sharrath Marar,Narayan Das Narang andRam Mohan Rao, seesRomantic girl KetikaSharma alongside Shaurya,while Naseer and Satyaround off the supportingdepartment. Kaala Bhairavahas been signed on torender tunes.

�rominent singerand voice artistSunitha hasslammed oneChaitanya wholooted money

from men and women, luringthem that he knows thesinger very well. Taking toher Facebook page, the soft-spoken singer said that shecame to know throughreports that a guy calledChaitanya — hailing fromAnantapur — is doing “allsorts of things” using hername. “I’m surprised andshocked to know that manymen and women have fallenvictims to his tactics. I don’tknow him nor have I seenhim. If I get to see him, I willbreak his teeth. Many peoplelike him use celebs as amedium for theirown needs and tomake quickbucks. I justhope peopledon’t believesuch men. Itseems hemadeacquaintancewith variouscelebs tellingthem that heknows me. I willofficially lodge a

complaint soon,” the singer,who has multiple Nandis toher name, said and addedpeople should be extremelycareful in believing such

fraudsters.

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e’ve alreadyinformed you(on Dec 31 lastyear) thatsuperstarNagarjuna has

in-principle agreed toheadline PraveenSattaru’s next, withNarayan Das Narangattached to produce. Theexciting combination wasofficially announced onMonday to coincide withNarayan Das’ birthday.

Sharing productionduties with Das will be PRammohan Rao andSharrath Marar. Themakers announced thefilm to be a slick actionthriller.

According to a source,this untitled film drewinspiration from Hindisuper hit Raid. “It will bean investigative thrillerpredominantly and thepace will be double thanthat of Raid. Plus, the

screenplay and mood ofthe film will be different.While Raid was onlyabout one major case ingeneral, this one tells thestory of an upright ITofficer and his manywork assignments.Overall, it will look like anew film altogether. Itwill commence after Nagwraps up his presentfilm, Wild Dog withwriter Ahishor Solomon,”added the source.

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