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The Andhra Pradesh govern- ment on Friday kick-started the process for reorganising the districts in the state from 13 to 25 for bringing the administra- tion at the district-level closer to the people with the objective of improving the lives of the citizens. Turning each Parliamentary constituency into a new district by dividing the existing one is an election promise of the rul- ing YSR Congress as the pre- sent districts "are large in size and have become unwieldy to administer." Last month, the state Cabinet gave the go-ahead for the district reorganisa- tion plan and, according- ly, a six-member commit- tee headed by Chief Secretary Nilam Sawhney was constituted on Thursday to study the various aspects involved. Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, General Administration Secretary (Services), Planning Secretary, a representative from the Chief Ministers Office will be mem- bers of the Committee to study the restructuring of Districts in Andhra Pradesh while the Principal Finance Secretary will act as the Convener. The Committee has been asked to submit its report in three months as Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy is said to b e keen on completing the exer- cise by March 31, 2021, official sources said. Issuing an order in this regard, the Chief Secretary said the com- mittee would study var- ious aspects relat- ed to the cre- ation of new districts and the mea- sures to be taken to optimally utilise human and financial resources at all levels. The Committee will examine and sug- gest the broad princi- ples for determining the geographical boundaries and administrative units con- stituting the proposed 25 dis- tricts and the steps to be taken for ensuring that the expendi- ture (both one-time and recur- ring) is kept to the minimum. Among others, it will also study the optimal use of exist- ing infrastructure and existing human resources and rede- ployment at all levels for facil- itating the smooth functioning of the restructured districts, the order said. There has, however, been opposition within the YSRC to the formation of new districts with a Lok Sabha constituen- cy as the base. The YSRCP government has finalised Salur in Vizianagaram district as the location for the proposed Central Tribal University. While the TDP regime had identified Relli village under Kothavalasa mandal in Vizianagaram district as the site for the Tribal University, and also built a wall demarcating the boundaries of the campus, the YSRCP, soon after storm- ing to power in 2019, had made it clear that it considered Araku as a more suitable place for the varsity. Now, the State Government has made it clear that instead of the Central Tribal University, it will set up a state tribal var- sity in Araku and a tribal engi- neering college at Kurupam. In the last review meeting with higher education offi- cials, Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy gave the nod to setting up two new uni- versities in Vizianagaram and Prakasam districts and a Central tribal university in Salur. Jagan also gave approval for setting up a cluster univer- sity in Kurnool and university of architecture in Kadapa. The CM directed the offi- cials to commence work this year itself. Earlier, a compound wall was built in the land allot- ted in Relli village. In the Union Budget 2018-19, Rs 10 crore was allotted for the uni- versity and later, the MHRD sanctioned Rs 420 crore. However, the funds lay unutilised, as the University didn't start operations. Even the State government released Rs 50 lakh as start-up grant to begin the admission process. Andhra University was entrusted with the responsibil- ity of mentoring the new Tribal varsity. The varsity began oper- ation from an engineering col- lege of Vizianagaram as a tem- porary campus to commence academic session in 2019-20. Earlier, the Tribal University had submitted a detailed pro- ject report to the Union MHRD department seeking Rs 952 crore for infrastructure development. Riding on a rapid surge of infections, Andhra Pradesh on Friday crossed the two lakh-mark in the overall num- ber of Covid-19 cases as anoth- er 10,000-plus cases (10,171 to be exact) were added afresh for the third consecutive day. The state also saw 89 fresh coronavirus deaths, the highest number in a day so far, while 7,594 patients recovered from the pandemic. The state’s Covid-19 tally on Friday showed 2,06,960 over all cases, of which 84,654 were active, 1,20,464 recoveries and 1,842 deaths, the latest government bulletin said. After 23,62,270 sample tests, the infection positivity rate climbed further to 8.76 per cent, inching clos- er to the national average of 8.90 per cent. The recovery rate too improved to 58.21 per cent but was way below the national average of 67.98 per cent. The Covid-19 mortality rate stood at 0. 89 per cent against the national average of 2. 05 per cent, according to the gov- ernment data. The Covid-19 positivity rate as well as the mortality rate in Andhra Pradesh is much lower than the national average and the State Government is exten- sively carrying out the tests, particularly in containment clusters. This was the message that came across during a review meeting on Covid-19 here on Friday. Addressing the meet- ing, Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy said that about 85 per cent to 90 per cent of the total number of tests being conducted are in containment areas. He told officials to monitor the call centres — 104 and 14410 — so that they function effectively. The Chief Minister enquired about the steps being taken to further reduce the mortality rate. The officials informed Jagan that for people with severe respiratory problems five to 10 beds are available at the Primary Health Centre (PCH) level and that clinical protocol is being strictly fol- lowed all over. Patients with fever and low oxygen levels are being imme- diately admitted to hospitals. If the problems aggravates the patient is being shifted to Covid hospitals, the officials said. While the national average of positivity is 8.87 per cent, the State average has been 8.56 per cent while in Karnataka, it is 9.88 per cent, Tamil Nadu 9.26 per cent, Maharashtra 19.36 and in Delhi it is 12.75 per cent. Controversial TDP leader JC Prabhakar Reddy and his son Asmith Reddy were arrested within 24 hours after being released from the Kadapa Central Jail, over case filed with the Tadipatri police under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The case was filed against them for their inappropriate behaviour towards Tadipatri police station Circle Inspector Devendra Kumar. The TDP leaders along with 31 others also face a case under the Disaster Management Act registered at the Tadipatri police station for violation of Covid-19 curbs. Vijayawada to host official I-Day fete The official Independence Day celebrations will be held at Vijayawada on August 15 this year. It was widely expected that the YSRCP Government will organise the festivities at Visakhapatnam, having announced the port city as the Executive Capital of the Andhra Pradesh. Chief Secretary Neelam Sawhney on Friday issued instructions to the authorities to make arrangements for conducting of the Independence Day celebra- tions at Indira Gandhi Municipal Stadium, Vijayawada, with limited gath- ering strictly following the Covid-19 guidelines. Earlier, Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy had instructed the authorities to see that the Independence Day celebrations be held in a big way, including police parade and display of various tableau highlighting the achievements of the state government in the last one year. Central Tribal varsity location changed to Salur Sawhney’s tenure as AP CS extended Chief Secretary Nilam Sawhney's tenure has been extended for another three months, and she will now continue in office till December 31, 2020. This is the second time that the tenure of Sawhney has been extended for three months. She was scheduled to retire on June 30 but her tenure was extended till September 30. The AP government once again sought extension of her services by another three months, and the request has been was approved by the Centre. Principal secretary to the government (polit- ical) (FAC) Praveen Prakash issued GO Rt: 1242 on Friday night issuing orders of extension of Sawhney's services beyond September 30. AP crosses 2 lakh mark; 89 more dead As many as 265 inmates of the Rajahmundry Central Jail have tested positive for Covid-19 till Friday. As a precautionary mea- sure, Rajahmundry collec- tor Muralidhar Reddy has ordered jail authorities to conduct Covid-19 tests on prisoners, following which samples of 900 prisoners were taken on August 3. The results which were received on Friday confirmed that 247 prisoners were infected. 16 killed, many injured as AIE flight skids off runway Sixteen people were killed and several others injured when a Dubai-Calicut Air India Express flight with 191 passengers and crew on board overshot the runway here and fell into a valley, breaking into two portions, on Friday evening,police sources said. The mishap occurred at 1941 hrs.No fire was report- ed at the time of landing, an AIE statement said. Police said 16 people were killed in the accident. The Civil Aviation Ministry said the flight IX 1344 oper- ated by B737 aircraft from Dubai overshot runway at Kozhikode at 7.41 PM on Friday. "No fire reported at the time of landing," it noted. There were 174 passengers, 10 Infants , 2 Pilots and 5 cabin crew on board the air- craft, the ministry added. "As per the initial reports rescue operations are on and passengers are being taken to hospital for medical care. We will soon share the update in this regard," the ministry stat- ed. Help centres are being set up in Sharjah and Dubai, the statement said. A DGCA staet- mentsaid after landing at Runway 10, the plane contin- ued running till the end of the runway and fell into the valley and broke into two portions. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan expressed shock over the accident. CMO sources said Chief Minister spoke to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and the latter assured him all help and assistance from the Centre. Mortality rate low but room for improvement, Jagan says

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Page 1: ˆˆ,,˛ ˆ!!&˛ % ˆ! -ˆ - dailypioneer.com · 2 Vizianagaram district as the site academic session in 2019-20. for the varsity. This is the second ˘3 ... Riding on a rapid surge

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The Andhra Pradesh govern-ment on Friday kick-startedthe process for reorganising thedistricts in the state from 13 to25 for bringing the administra-tion at the district-level closerto the people with the objectiveof improving the lives of thecitizens.

Turning each Parliamentaryconstituency into a new districtby dividing the existing one isan election promise of the rul-ing YSR Congress as the pre-sent districts "are large in sizeand have become unwieldy toadminister."

Last month, the stateCabinet gave the go-aheadfor the district reorganisa-tion plan and, according-ly, a six-member commit-tee headed by ChiefSecretary Nilam Sawhneywas constituted onThursday to study the variousaspects involved.

Chief Commissioner of

Land Administration, GeneralAdministration Secretary(Services), Planning Secretary,a representative from the ChiefMinisters Office will be mem-bers of the Committee to studythe restructuring of Districts inAndhra Pradesh while thePrincipal Finance Secretarywill act as the Convener.

The Committee has beenasked to submit its report inthree months as ChiefMinister YSJ a g a n m o h a nReddy is said tob e

keen on completing the exer-cise by March 31, 2021, officialsources said. Issuing an orderin this regard, the ChiefSecretary said the com-mittee would study var-ious aspects relat-ed to the cre-a t i o n

of new districts and the mea-sures to be taken to optimallyutilise human and financial

resources at all levels.The Committee

will examine and sug-gest the broad princi-

ples for determining thegeographical boundaries

and administrative units con-stituting the proposed 25 dis-tricts and the steps to be takenfor ensuring that the expendi-ture (both one-time and recur-ring) is kept to the minimum.

Among others, it will alsostudy the optimal use of exist-ing infrastructure and existinghuman resources and rede-ployment at all levels for facil-itating the smooth functioningof the restructured districts, theorder said.

There has, however, beenopposition within the YSRC tothe formation of new districtswith a Lok Sabha constituen-cy as the base.

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The YSRCP government hasfinalised Salur in Vizianagaramdistrict as the location for theproposed Central TribalUniversity.

While the TDP regime hadidentified Relli village underKothavalasa mandal inVizianagaram district as the sitefor the Tribal University, andalso built a wall demarcatingthe boundaries of the campus,the YSRCP, soon after storm-ing to power in 2019, hadmade it clear that it considered

Araku as a more suitable placefor the varsity.

Now, the State Governmenthas made it clear that insteadof the Central Tribal University,it will set up a state tribal var-sity in Araku and a tribal engi-neering college at Kurupam.

In the last review meetingwith higher education offi-cials, Chief Minister YSJaganmohan Reddy gave thenod to setting up two new uni-versities in Vizianagaram andPrakasam districts and aCentral tribal university in

Salur. Jagan also gave approvalfor setting up a cluster univer-sity in Kurnool and universityof architecture in Kadapa.

The CM directed the offi-cials to commence work thisyear itself. Earlier, a compoundwall was built in the land allot-ted in Relli village. In theUnion Budget 2018-19, Rs 10crore was allotted for the uni-versity and later, the MHRDsanctioned Rs 420 crore.

However, the funds layunutilised, as the Universitydidn't start operations.

Even the State government

released Rs 50 lakh as start-upgrant to begin the admissionprocess.

Andhra University wasentrusted with the responsibil-ity of mentoring the new Tribalvarsity. The varsity began oper-ation from an engineering col-lege of Vizianagaram as a tem-porary campus to commenceacademic session in 2019-20.

Earlier, the Tribal Universityhad submitted a detailed pro-ject report to the UnionMHRD department seekingRs 952 crore for infrastructuredevelopment.

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Riding on a rapid surge ofinfections, Andhra Pradeshon Friday crossed the twolakh-mark in the overall num-ber of Covid-19 cases as anoth-er 10,000-plus cases (10,171 tobe exact) were added afreshfor the third consecutive day.

The state also saw 89fresh coronavirusdeaths, the highestnumber in a day sofar, while 7,594patients recoveredfrom the pandemic.

The state’s Covid-19tally on Friday showed2,06,960 over all cases, of

which 84,654 were active,1,20,464 recoveries and

1,842 deaths, the latestgovernment bulletinsaid. After 23,62,270sample tests, the

infection positivityrate climbed further to

8.76 per cent, inching clos-er to the national average of

8.90 per cent.The recovery rate too

improved to 58.21 per cent butwas way below the nationalaverage of 67.98 per cent.

The Covid-19 mortality ratestood at 0. 89 per cent againstthe national average of 2. 05per cent, according to the gov-ernment data.

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The Covid-19 positivity rate aswell as the mortality rate inAndhra Pradesh is much lowerthan the national average andthe State Government is exten-sively carrying out the tests,particularly in containmentclusters.

This was the message thatcame across during a reviewmeeting on Covid-19 here onFriday. Addressing the meet-ing, Chief Minister YSJaganmohan Reddy said thatabout 85 per cent to 90 percent of the total number oftests being conducted are incontainment areas. He toldofficials to monitor the call

centres — 104 and 14410 — sothat they function effectively.

The Chief Minister enquiredabout the steps being taken tofurther reduce the mortalityrate. The officials informedJagan that for people withsevere respiratory problems

five to 10 beds are available atthe Primary Health Centre(PCH) level and that clinicalprotocol is being strictly fol-lowed all over.

Patients with fever and lowoxygen levels are being imme-diately admitted to hospitals. Ifthe problems aggravates thepatient is being shifted toCovid hospitals, the officialssaid.

While the national averageof positivity is 8.87 per cent,the State average has been8.56 per cent while inKarnataka, it is 9.88 per cent,Tamil Nadu 9.26 per cent,Maharashtra 19.36 and inDelhi it is 12.75 per cent.

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Controversial TDP leader JCPrabhakar Reddy and hisson Asmith Reddy werearrested within 24 hours afterbeing released from theKadapa Central Jail, overcase filed with the Tadipatripolice under the ScheduledCastes and Scheduled Tribes(Prevention of Atrocities)Act.

The case was filed againstthem for their inappropriatebehaviour towards Tadipatripolice station Circle InspectorDevendra Kumar. The TDPleaders along with 31 othersalso face a case under theDisaster Management Actregistered at the Tadipatripolice station for violation ofCovid-19 curbs.

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The official Independence Daycelebrations will be held atVijayawada on August 15 thisyear.

It was widely expected thatthe YSRCP Government willorganise the festivities atVisakhapatnam, havingannounced the port city as theExecutive Capital of theAndhra Pradesh.

Chief Secretary NeelamSawhney on Friday issuedinstructions to the authoritiesto make arrangements forconducting of theIndependence Day celebra-tions at Indira GandhiMunicipal Stadium,Vijayawada, with limited gath-ering strictly following theCovid-19 guidelines.

Earlier, Chief Minister YSJaganmohan Reddy hadinstructed the authorities tosee that the IndependenceDay

celebrations be held in a bigway, including police paradeand display of various tableauhighlighting the achievementsof the state government in thelast one year.

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Chief Secretary NilamSawhney's tenure has beenextended for anotherthree months, and shewill now continue inoffice till December31, 2020.

This is the secondtime that the tenure ofSawhney has beenextended for threemonths.

She was scheduled to retireon June 30 but her tenure was

extended till September 30.The AP government onceagain sought extension of herservices by another three

months, and the requesthas been was

approved by theCentre. Principalsecretary to thegovernment (polit-

ical) (FAC) PraveenPrakash issued GO

Rt: 1242 on Friday nightissuing orders of extension ofSawhney's services beyondSeptember 30.

AP crosses 2 lakh mark; 89 more dead

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As many as 265 inmates ofthe Rajahmundry CentralJail have tested positive forCovid-19 till Friday.

As a precautionary mea-sure, Rajahmundry collec-tor Muralidhar Reddy hasordered jail authorities toconduct Covid-19 tests onprisoners, following whichsamples of 900 prisoners weretaken on August 3.

The results which werereceived on Friday confirmedthat 247 prisoners wereinfected.

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Sixteen people were killedand several others injuredwhen a Dubai-Calicut AirIndia Express flight with 191passengers and crew on boardovershot the runway here andfell into a valley, breakinginto two portions, on Fridayevening,police sources said.

The mishap occurred at1941 hrs.No fire was report-ed at the time of landing, anAIE statement said.

Police said 16 people werekilled in the accident.

The Civil Aviation Ministrysaid the flight IX 1344 oper-ated by B737 aircraft fromDubai overshot runway atKozhikode at 7.41 PM onFriday. "No fire reported at thetime of landing," it noted.

There were 174 passengers,10 Infants , 2 Pilots and 5cabin crew on board the air-craft, the ministry added.

"As per the initial reportsrescue operations are on andpassengers are being taken tohospital for medical care. Wewill soon share the update in

this regard," the ministry stat-ed. Help centres are being setup in Sharjah and Dubai, the

statement said. A DGCA staet-mentsaid after landing atRunway 10, the plane contin-ued running till the end of therunway and fell into the valleyand broke into two portions.

Kerala Chief MinisterPinarayi Vijayan expressedshock over the accident.

CMO sources said ChiefMinister spoke to PrimeMinister, Narendra Modi andthe latter assured him all helpand assistance from theCentre.

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The Centre filing an affidavitin the court stating that they donot have any role in the choiceof capital for the State is just away to shake off their respon-sibility, alleged TDP MP GallaJayadev. He claimed that it wasthe Central government's deci-sion to split the State, whichforced the State to identify anddevelop a new capital.

Jayadev disclosed that it isclearly mentioned in the APReorganisation Act passed byParliament that the Centralgovernment would fund thedevelopment of new capital inAndhra Pradesh. He furtherstated, "The amount providedby the Central governmentfor the development ofAmaravati capital city is pub-lic money. Is the Central gov-ernment act like a mute spec-tator when its money goeswaste,” he questioned?

The TDP MP said that theaffidavit filed by the Centre inthe High Court is nothing butwashing their hands of theirresponsibility and claimed thatit amounts to criminal breachof trust. He recalled that dur-ing the foundation stone lay-ing ceremony for Amaravati in2015, the Prime Ministerpromised to developAmaravati capital better than

Delhi. He claimed that theCentre is duty bound to helpthe State develop a new capi-tal, as mentioned in APReorganisation Act.

He pointed out that Actalso mentions "a capital" andnot three capitals. He ques-tioned whether the Centralgovernment was willing tofund the development of threenew capitals in the State, ornot. He claimed that being akey stakeholder in the develop-ment of the capital of AndhraPradesh, the Central govern-ment's responsibility is equal tothat of the State.

Jayadev claimed thatAmaravati was not finalised as

the capital unilaterally andAmaravati was based on therecommendations submittedby the K SivaramakrishnanCommittee, consent of all par-ties was taken and Acts werepassed in the Assembly beforethe GO was issued to notify thesame.

He defended that farmers ofAmaravati came forward anddonated their ancestral landsfor the development of the newcapital city by following theConstitutional and democrat-ic process in the capital selec-tion. He asserted that the fightfor Amaravati will continue tillit is declared the sole capital ofAndhra Pradesh.

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“In the absence of a vaccine tofight against the Covid-19,transfusion of Convalescentplasma is a ray of hope for per-sons in critical stage of infec-tion. Hence, the Indian Councilof Medical Research (ICMR)permitted many governmenthospitals to conduct clinical tri-als of plasma transfusion. Inour State, too, Kurnool,Tirupati, Vijayawada andGuntur GGHs are alreadydoing this procedure and aregetting encouraging results,”disclosed BVS Kumar, Memberof AP State Blood BanksCommittee of Indian RedCross Society.

Based on the successfulrecoveries in Covid patients,most of the State governmentsare encouraging plasma trans-fusions to combat the Coviddeaths. The State governmenthas even announced an incen-tive of Rs 5,000 for a plasmadonor, said BVS Kumar.

Andhra Pradesh branch ofIndian Red Cross Society is

contemplating in a big way tosupport the efforts of the Stategovernment in these plasmadonations. Dr A SridharReddy, Chairman of IndianRed Cross Society, AP Statebranch, has written to allDistrict Collectors in the Stateto appoint Red Cross Society asa Nodal Agency for plasmadonations.

Red Cross Societies in mostof the districts started plasmadonations, which were inaugu-rated by those DistrictCollectors. The district branch-es of Red Cross societies willcollect the list of the persons

discharged from Covid hospi-tals after recovering from infec-tions and maintain a Data Bankof all these people, who are thepotential plasma donors.

“As per the guidelines ofICMR, 400 ml of plasma will betaken from the donors, whichcan be given to a patient in twoinstallments with a gap of 24hours. This Convalescent plas-ma will accelerate the anti-bod-ies in the patient body and cansuccessfully fight the virus. Allrecovered persons in the agegroup of 18 to 50 years can comeforward and donate theConvalescent plasma and save

other persons, who are in crit-ical stages of infection.Fortunately, we have a veryhigh rate of recovery and allthese persons are eligible todonate plasma,” he said.

In Krishna district, peoplewho need plasma can contactthe Red Cross Society office onthe following phone numbers0866- 2570082 / 2570083 and9989893346.

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“In the era of online education,students with visual impair-ment should not be left behind.Empowering them to use var-ious mobile apps for reading,writing and collecting differentinformation from onlinesources, accessing onlinelibrary for reading is the aim ofthis month-long online train-ing,” said Shanti Raghavan,Founder and ManagingDirector of Enable India,Bengaluru. She, along withMoses Chowdary, the projectdirector of Enable Vision, inau-gurated the online workshopover MS Teams.

According to coordinatorDr G Sahaya Baskaran, thereare 50 visually challenged stu-dents, studying in AndhraLoyola College, SRR College,AC College, Hindu College,Guntur, Sri Gayathri College,Acharya Nagarjuna Universityand Vijaya Mary School for theBlind joined the free training.

It is offered by trainers fromEnable India, who are alsovisually challenged, under the

leadership of Jincy, ProgrammeLead, Digital Literacy for Blind.

Due to the pandemic, visu-ally impaired college studentsare in need of getting literate oncomputer with screen readers.The training will focus on thesolutions available throughvarious Android mobile apps.“Our plan is to conduct vari-ous computer courses in mod-ule wise in-order to fulfil theirrequirement in all the aspects

such as computer knowledge,life skills, mobility and employ-ability, she said.

“We divided the batch intotwo groups-each batch with 25candidates. Both the batcheswill have combination of stu-dents having laptop and nothaving laptop in order toenable peer learning model (25people having laptops, 25 nothaving laptops). The course isdesigned for 44 hours (22working days, two hours perday online classes).

Principal of ALC Rev FrVictor Emmanuel, trainers andvisually challenged studentsfrom Vijayawada and Gunturcolleges participated.

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As Srikakulam district hasregistered 10,000 positive casesand 102 deaths till August 7,the district administration isplanning to start plasma ther-apy to treat the Coronaviruspositive patients.

District Collector J Nivas onFriday visited Lions BloodBank and Red Cross BloodBank and held discussionswith the technical persons. Hesaid therapy would belaunched in another two days.

The Collector also inspect-ed ELISA microplate reader,which has been installed inRed Cross Society Blood Bankand single donor platelet sep-arating equipment in LionsBlood Bank. He said the dis-trict administration is makingall efforts to prevent deathsdue to the virus. He also saidmany patients, who recov-ered from the Covid are com-ing forward to donate theirplasma.

Dr Srikant of Red CrossSociety said Covid positivepatients can donate plasma 28days after they test negative.Those persons aged between18 and 45 and weighing min-imum 50 kgs were best suit-able for donating plasma. He

said 220 mg of plasma couldbe obtained from 400 ml ofblood.

He said after the process ofplasma therapy begins withsuccess, he will think of mak-ing a Plasma Bank in the dis-trict.

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Online Kalyanotsava Sevacommenced at Srivari tem-ple at Tirumala on Fridaywith 118 couples taking partin first of its kind Arjita Seva.

The kalyanotsavam ishitherto performed in ‘ekan-tham’ at the Srivari temple inview of Covid-19 restric-tions since the closure ofdarshan on March 20. Eversince darshan resumed onJune 8, Kalyanotsava Seva isbeing performed in ‘ekan-tam’ only.

Upon the request of thedevotees, TTD has com-menced online KalyanotsavaSeva. The online bookingscommenced on August 6and TTD enabled the book-ings from August 7 till 31.

On the first day on Friday,118 devotees, who bookedonline for Kalyanotsavamfollowed the instructions bypriests of Tirumala, sittingright at their homes andparticipated in the holyevent, which was telecastlive by the SVBC.

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The monthly ‘Dial YourExecutive Officer’ pro-gramme by TTD ExecutiveOfficer Anil Kumar Singhalwill be conducted on August9 between 9 am and 10 amat the Conference Hall atTTD administrativeBuilding. During the pro-gramme, devotees coulddirectly interact with theTTD EO on 0877-2263261and give their suggestionsand tell problems. The pro-gramme will be telecast liveby SVBC.

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Andhra Pradesh StateChildren’s Rights ProtectionCommission chairperson GHymavathi has been con-ferred with honorary doctor-ate by the Central America-based Swahili University,according to the university’sIndia resident representativeDr Rajesh Ramdas.

He said in a statement hereon Fridaythat thehonorarydoctoratewas con-ferred onher inrecognition

of yeoman service being ren-dered by Hymavathi for thewomen empowerment andrights of the children for thelast two decades through a vol-untary organisation ‘Nature’ inthe north Andhra districts.

Hymavathi has been con-ducting training to several sec-tions of people through vari-ous government and non-government agencies at thedistrict and state-level toempower them. It may berecalled that the governmenthas appointed Hymavathi asthe chairperson of the APState Children’s RightsProtection Commission in2017.

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The IAS probationers of 2018batch on completion of theirPhase-II training are givenposting orders by ChiefSecretary to GovernmentNeelam Sawhney on Friday.

Following are the newlyappointed officers-PrudhvitejImmadi, IAS (2018) has beenposted as the Sub-Collector,Kadapa Sub-Division, Kadapadistrict; Pratishtha Mamgain,IAS (2018) has been posted asthe Sub-Collector, Nuzvid Sub-Division, Krishna district;Himanshu Kaushik, IAS (2018)has been posted as the Sub-Collector, Amalapuram Sub-Division, East Godavari district;

Amilineni Bhargav Teja, IAS(2018) has been posted as theSub- Collector, Kandukur Sub-Division, Prakasham district;Videh Khare, IAS (2018) isposted as Sub Collector,Parvatipuram Sub-Division,

Vizianagaram; he will also holdfull additional charge (FAC) ofPO, ITDA, Parvatipuram,Vijayanagaram district;Narapureddy Mourya, IAS(2018) has been posted as theSub- Collector, NarasipatnamSub-Division, Visakhapatnamdistrict;

Shrivas Nupur Ajay Kumar,

IAS (2018) has been posted asthe Sub-Collector,Narasaraopet Sub-Division,Guntur district; AnupamaAnjali, IAS (2018) has beenposted as theh Sub- Collector,Rajamahendravaram Sub-Division, East Godavari district;Ganore Suraj Dhananjay, IAS(2018) has been posted as theSub-Collector, Tekkali Sub-Division, Srikakualam district;

Medida Jahnavi, IAS (2018) hasbeen posted as the Sub-Collector, Madanapalle Sub-Division, Chittoor district;Kalpana Kumari, IAS (2018)has been posted as the Sub-Collector, Nandyal Sub-Division, Kurnool district;Ketan Garg, IAS (2018) hasbeen posted as the Sub-Collector, Rajampet Sub-Division, Kadapa district. Ontransfer, services of MS Muralihave been placed at the dispos-al of Panchayat Raj and RuralDevelopment Department topost him as the Project Director,DRDA, Chittoor district.

It is informed that in view ofthe above postings, the DeputyCollectors working at Rajampet,Narasaraopet, Kandukuru,Nuzvidu, Nandyal, Tekkali,Narisipatnam Sub-Divisionsare hereby transferred and theyare directed to report to theGeneral Administration for fur-ther postings.

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Rajya Sabha member CMRamesh is the latest politicianto test positive for Covid-19.

Ramesh, upon slight dis-comfort, got himself testedfor Coronavirus and theresult returned positive. Hethen took to social media toconfirm the news and saythat he was doing fine andthere was nothing to worry.

As he has no major symp-toms, he has not been admit-ted to any hospital, but con-fined to home quarantine.

Ramesh tweeted, “I havetested positive for#COVID__19.

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The research team of top Israelidefence scientists and healthexperts on Friday returnedhome after collecting thou-sands of samples from Covid-19 patients in India.

The research team from theDirectorate for DefenceResearch and Development,Ministry of Defence, accompa-nied by scientists from theMinistry of Health, arrived inIndia on July 27 to develop arapid testing kit for Covid-19.

The joint research grouphas managed to collect over20,000 samples from patientswithin nine days. The samplescollected in India will be ableto test and validate four Israelidiagnostic technologies.

"This cooperation againstthe Coronavirus as well ascollaboration in other areas canbring good news to India andIsrael, as well as to the wholeworld," Israel's Ambassador to

India, Ron Malka, said."Therelations between India andIsrael continue to strengtheneven under this global pan-demic," he added.

According to the IsraeliEmbassy, the data collected inIndia will be corroborated withsamples collected in Israel tofind an effective diagnosticsolution and help both coun-tries in tackling the ongoingpandemic.

Over the next few weeks, theresearchers will know if theyhave been successful in theirquest for reliable rapid tests forthe virus that will allow soci-eties and economies to func-tion until a vaccine is found.

Also, the Israeli envoy tookto Twitter and wrote: "Themost advanced Israeli medeqp't found effective 4 fightingCOVID-19 is ready to be deliv-ered 2 AIIMS hospital. As

always Israel is keen to share itsmost innovative technologieswith its good friend India.The friendship between Israeland India is getting strongerunder COVID-19 pandemic."

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Officials of SpecialEnforcement Bureau (SEB)have been conducting sur-prise checks as part of theirspecial drive against misuse ofsanitisers in the absence ofliquor for the last three days.

As many as 345 vulnerableplaces where there is possibil-ity of consumption of sanitis-ers in the absence of liquorshops were identified and 144vulnerable people were iden-tified and counselled.

During the special drive,sanitiser manufacturing unitswere inspected, including theirlicences, quality control andsales.

About 303 awareness cam-paigns were organised againstconsumption of sanitisers andtheir ill effects.

The special drive againstconsumption of sanitisers andenforcement work against IDmanufacturing areas will becontinued, according to SEBCommissioner Vinith Brijlal ina release issued here on Friday.

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Adivasi Day would be cele-brated at all ITDA officesacross the State on Sunday asper the information fromthe State Tribal WelfareDepartment on a low keynote, said T Vijay KumarReddy, Ex-officio Secretaryand Commissioner ofInformation and PublicRelations Department.

He said in a statementhere on Friday that the pro-gramme to distribute forestland rights to the Girijanswould be held on October 2.The state-level Adivasi Daycelebrations, which shouldhave been held on Sunday,were postponed due to thepandemic. However, the trib-al welfare department hasissued instructions to all theITDA offices to conduct attheir respective offices inwhich district officials andpeople’s representativeswould participate.

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In another freak incidentinvolving sanitiser, four peopledied after consuming sanitiserto get high at Scavenger Colonyin Tirupati on Friday.

About 40 people have diedso far in the State consumingthe sanitiser following theliquor sale regulation in viewof Covid spread. Many suchdeaths go unreported, accord-ing to police. On July 31, justseven days ago, 14 persons haddied after consuming sanitiserin Covid-19 hotspots ofKurichedu and Pamur inPrakasam district. While 11persons, including two beggars,died at Kurichedu, three oth-ers reportedly died after con-suming it at Pamur.

With the spate inCoronavirus cases, the sale ofalcohol has been regulated inseveral districts in the State,causing desperate alcohol-dependent persons to drinkharmful sanitiser in the hopesof getting high. Most of thesanitisers carry 70% of iso-propyl alcohol as instructed bythe government.

The deceased were identifiedas Veeraiah (50) working in theTirupati municipality, KumaraSwamy (30) and other twopeople from the ScavengerColony. All are addicted toalcohol, hence, consumed sani-tiser to get high. Soon after,they fell sick and were rushedto nearby hospital where theydied.

A case was registered by theEast Town Police Station basedon a complaint lodged byVeeraiah’s wife Bharathi andKumaraswamy’s motherJayamma. A case was registeredand investigation was under-

way by East Town PoliceStation SI S Jayachandra.

Meanwhile, SpecialEnforcement Bureau (SEB)officials conducted surpriseinspections on sanitizer sales,belt shops and herbal manufac-turing centers across the state.The team also identified 144people who were drinking san-itizer and gave counseling.

Sanitizer manufacturinglicenses were inspected andwarnings were issued. SEBofficials have registered casesagainst 76 people who weremaking sanitizers flouting theregulations

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Andhra Pradesh is one of themost important States in thehandloom industry with thesecond-largest concentrationof weavers in the country, saidChief Minister YS JaganmohanReddy in a tweet. Extendinghis greetings on the NationalWeavers' Day on Twitter onFriday, he said: “We are proudof our weaver community andare making efforts to preservethe rich textile heritage of theState. YSR Nethanna Nesthamhas provided annual assis-tance of Rs 24,000 to all eligi-ble weaver families for twoconsecutive years, positivelyimpacting the lives of all theweavers, especially during theCovid-19 induced lockdown.”

As promised during his3,648 km Praja Sankalpa Yatra,the Chief Minister launchedNethanna Nestham onDecember 21 to provide finan-cial assistance of Rs 24,000 peryear to weavers having a loomand successfully done in fortwo consecutive years. Underthe scheme, every eligibleweaver, who has a loom in thehouse received Rs 24,000incentive benefiting 81,783

families accounting for nearlyRs 200 crore per annum.Despite the Coronavirus out-break in the State, the govern-ment didn’t back out on theimplementation of welfareschemes and for the secondyear in a row, aid was disbursedas part of Nethanna Nesthamon June 20, which is sixmonths prior to the actualdateline.

Apart from the financialaid, in the times of Covidpandemic, the State govern-ment had purchased clothfrom APCO with an expendi-ture of Rs 109 crore and gaveorders to women SHGs formaking masks. The State gov-

ernment had also cleared thedues of the previous govern-ment to the tune of Rs 103crore to APCO taking thetotal amount spent during the13 months in office to about Rs600 crore.

Besides taking up the wel-fare activities to boost thehandloom sector in the State,the Chief Minister brought anidea of e-Platforms, throughwhich marketing of handloomand handicrafts can be doneeasily. The State government isplanning to launch the initia-tive on October 2 this year.

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As there is a huge ambigui-ty over the school fees col-lection and online classrules, the IndependentSchool ManagementsAssociation (ISMA) hassought clarification fromCommissioner of SchoolEducation V ChinaVeerabhadrudu. The associ-ation urged theCommissioner to issueinstructions on collectionof tuition fee and flexibilityof number of online classesfor Class VI and VIII stu-dents.

In a letter addressed to theCommissioner, President ofthe Association K SreekanthBabu said member schoolspossessed adequate infrastruc-ture, including playground,safety and hygiene to the bestlevels and that the majority ofparents are from affluent fam-ilies, with capability to pay theschool fees. All the affiliatedschools across the country arecontinuing transacting the syl-labus as per the plan, but hefeared AP students would fallbehind if online teaching wasnot resumed.

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There is no ammonium nitratein the possession of Customs atVisakhapatnam- Gangavaram,Kakinada and Krishnapatnamports, a top Customs officialsaid here on Friday.

In the light of the explosionof the chemical in Beirut andthe resultant fatalities and loss-es on Tuesday, storage of suchsubstance in India has becomea cause for concern. The ChiefCustoms Commissioner andCentral Tax, VisakhapatamZone, Naresh Penumaka, saidthe import and storage of thechemical in Andhra Pradeshhas been examined.

He said there was no ammo-nium nitrate in the custody of theCustoms and that the ports inVisakhapatnam, Gangavaram,Kakinada and Krishnapatnamhave no such cargo. Penumaka,however, said there are regularimports of ammonium nitrate atVisakhapatnam port and theentire import is bagged cargo

imported by manufacturersunder licence

All the manufacturers haveto obtain a pre-shipmentimport licence from Petroleumand Safety Organisations(PESO), Nagpur, for importingammonium nitrate. OnThursday, Customs authoritiesin distant Chennai sought toallay fears over safety regardingthe storage of nearly 700 tonnesof ammonium nitrate at a con-tainer freight station the city.

The chemical worth Rs 1.80crore was seized from a TamilNadu-based importer, who

had allegedly declared it as fer-tiliser grade although it was anexplosive grade, a Customsofficial had said. However, theconsignment, imported fromSouth Korea, was safe and ane-Auction process was on toclear it, he had said.

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The authorities concernedclaimed that British diplo-mats lauded the measuresbeing taken by the YSRCPgovernment in public healthand the effective manner inwhich tests are being con-ducted for containing theCovid-19. Officials said thatthe UK diplomats invitedChief Minister YSJaganmohan Reddy toBritain af ter normalcyreturns.

During a video confer-ence with the Chief Ministerhere on Friday, acting BritishHigh Commissioner JanThompson and Deputy HighCommissioner for AndhraPradesh and TelanganaAndrew Fleming appreciatedthe initiatives of the govern-ment in public health.

“The government has beendoing well by conductinghigh number of tests andidentifying the positive cases,while keeping the mortalityrate low. New initiatives

like Telemedicine are beingimplemented and the State istaking effective measures inhealth, education and med-ical fields,” they said.

The Chief Minister toldthem that the government isconducting about 62,000tests per day and 90 per centof the tests are in contain-ment clusters, which resultsin higher number of cases.Tracing, testing and isolatingthem is being done quickly asa result of which the mortal-ity rate is as low as 0.89 per

cent as against the nationalaverage of 2.07 per cent, hesaid.

The diplomats said that theMoU recently signed withAP Med Tech Zone for themanufacture of medicalequipment will be useful forCovid containment. The UKwill encourage start ups inthis regard and will jointlywork in containing Covid,they added.

The partnership withEngland’s National HealthMission will help in mainte-nance and following the goodpractices in running 104 and108 ambulance service andtechnology. They invited theChief Minister to UK afterthe pandemic is over andnormalcy returns.

In wake of the pandemicthere is need for all countriesto work in tandem and UKand India have been workingtogether on this front withmutual cooperat ion inresearch, developing vaccineand formulation of medi-cines, they said.

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When it comes to mortal-ity rate, the national averageis 2.07 percent while thestate average is 0.89 per centwhile Karnataka recorded1.85 per cent andMaharashtra 3.52 per cent.

The tests being conduct-ed per million populationwas 43,059 in the districtsof Srikakulam, Kurnool,Kadapa, Krishna, Nellore,West Godavari andChittoor, tests conductedwere more than the stateaverage.

The Chief Ministerenquired about the foodand hygiene in the 138Covid Care hospitals towhich the officials said thatthe menu was being strict-ly followed thereby main-taining quality.

He also enquired about

the funct ioning ofTelemedicine and asked theofficials to call back theusers to get the feedbackand take corrective mea-sures wherever there arecomplaints.

“Medicines should beavailable for emergency use.There should be consisten-cy in the medicare and theofficials should see to it thatcal lers are sat is f ied with the service and if thesystem is working well,”Jagan said.

The officials said as perthe instructions of the ChiefMinister Help Desks werestarted at 110 Covid hospi-tals. To this, Jagan said thatfeedback should be takenon the SOPs to be followedby Covid hospitals.

Masks should be given tostudents along with theJagananna Vidya Kanuka

kit and feedback should betaken from Covid hospitalsas well, he said.

Details of hospitals pro-viding medicare should bedisplayed at Vi l lageSecretariats and the ANMsshould be the referral pointto Aarogyasri hospitals. Thehoardings should displayas to what a person shoulddo once there are suspect-ed symptoms.

MLAs should be part ofthe preventive measures ofCovid and create aware-ness among the people.

Deputy Chief Ministerand Minister for Medicaland Health Alla Nani, ChiefSecretary Nilam Sawhney,DGP Goutham Sawang,Medical and Health SpecialChief Secretary JawaharReddy and other officialsparticipated in the reviewmeeting.

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On August 1, Covid-19 tests wereconducted on 75 persons, of which 24prison staff and nine prisoners test-ed positive.

A total of 64 samples were testedon August 2, where nine prisonerswere found infected withCoronavirus. There are currently1,675 prisoners in the jail, out ofwhich 265 prisoners tested positivefor Covid-19.

A total of 24 prison staff who test-ed positive were being treated in-home quarantine.

The jail officials arranged treat-ment facilities for the 18 prisoners

who tested positive on August 1 andAugust 2, in GSL Hospital. One ofthem had escaped from the hospi-tal. Later, GSL hospital manage-ment discharged all prisoners andthe jail authorities released eightprisoners on bail and the rest 10were being treated at RajahmundryGovernment Hospital.

Superintendent S Rajarao saidthat if 247 prisoners who werefound positive in the tests conduct-ed on August 3 were to be shiftedto an outpatient hospital, therewould be a security problem, so toavoid that a large number of bedswill be arranged in the central jailfor treatment.

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Leaders from Srikakulam district,including Assembly Speaker TammineniSeetaram, have voiced their oppositionto the splitting of their district as it wouldlose three important Assembly seg-ments.

They wanted the government to workout an alternative plan so that the exist-ing geography of Srikakulam district isnot disturbed even after the reorganisa-tion.

Similarly, there is opposition overmaking Araku a new district as the exist-ing Lok Sabha constituency is spreadover four districts. There are several otherParliamentary constituencies that arespread over two districts, division ofwhich could become a ticklish issue.

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Prabhakar Reddy andAsmith Reddy were releasedfrom the central jail onThursday after their arrest inforging documents and wrong-ful registration of buses.

The two, besides a few oth-ers, are accused of fabricatingdocuments to facilitate regis-tration of buses besides illegal-ly converting BS-III vehiclesinto BS-IV vehicles in Kohimaof Nagaland using forged doc-uments.

At the time of their releasefrom jail, their followers gath-

ered outside the prison inlarge numbers created ruckusthere, in complete violation ofCovid-19 guidelines. In a showof open defiance of rules, theduo went to their home townTadipatri leading a rally of hissupporters.

During the rally, PrabhakarReddy allegedly abused policeinspector Devendra when thelatter objected to their travel-ling in a procession involvingmany people. The tempera-mental leader not onlybehaved rudely with the Dalitinspector but even issuedthreats to him openly.

As part of their conditionalbail, the father and son duocame down to One TownPolice Station in Anantapur topresent themselves and sign inthe register there. The policeofficials were believed to havequestioned about his rudebehaviour with the Dalitinspector.

Security was beefed up inTadipatri town to prevent anyuntoward incidents as there isa high probability of the policeregistering at least four morecases against JC PrabhakarReddy and his followers in thisconnection.

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Vijayan informed him that rescueoperations were in full swing, thesources said. Vijayan has also asked allgovernment agencies to engage in res-cue operations using all governmentfacilities. The CM has deputed state min-ister A C Moideen to coordinate the res-cue operations. An IG of police has beendeputed to oversee the rescue operations.Fire and Rescue teams of two districts-- Kozhikode and Malappuram have beenengaged. According to informationfrom Kozhikode medical college, serious-ly injured people have been admittedthere. The condition of a mother andchild injured in the accident was veryserious, Health minister K K Shailaja said.

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Initially, there were reportsthat Jagan would unfurl theNational Flag on the BeachRoad in Visakhapatnam onAugust 15 and address thegathering heralding the launchof the Executive Capital of thestate. He was expected to laterin the day lay the foundationstone for the executive capitalsomewhere near Kapuluppadaarea. There were also specu-lations that the CMO wouldalso be partially shifted toVizag on the same day.

However, with the stateHigh Court granting stay onthe shifting of offices tillAugust 14 following a petitionfrom the farmers ofAmaravati, the Chief Ministeris learnt to have dropped theidea of conductingIndependence Day celebra-tions at Visakhapatnam andsticking to Vijayawada.

It may be mentioned thateven for the Republic Day cel-ebrations, the Jagan govern-

ment had made all thearrangements inVisakhapatnam.

The Navy officials had con-ducted trials for the RepublicDay parade and several schoolchildren also took part in thepractice sessions. However,the programme was cancelledat the last moment and thevenue was changed to IndiraGandhi Municipal Stadium inVijayawada.

On Friday, StateEndowments MinisterVelampalli Srinivas Rao,MLAs, along with districtCollector A MohammadImtiaz and officials of variousdepartments visited the stadi-um.

The minister told the mediathat the Independence Daywould be celebrated withoutany pomp this year in view ofthe pandemic situation. TheCorona protocol would be fol-lowed while preparingarrangements for visiting peo-ple and display of tableaux.

He said that he would visit

the stadium once visited onAugust 13 and 14 to fine-tunethe arrangements.

The programme would betelecast live for the people allover the state.

The District collector saidthat there would be limitednumber of invitees in view ofthe corona. The tableauxwould depict the activitiesthat were undertaken to con-tain the pandemic. He ruledout the presentation of cultur-al programmes. Later, theofficials discussed works to beundertaken in the stadium,protocol to be followed, theroad map for the guests andother issues.

Talasila Raghuram, coordi-nator of the Chief Minister'sprogrammes, MLA JogiRamesh, municipal commis-sioner Prasanna Venaktesh,police commissioner BSrinivasulu, DCPsHarshavardhan Raju andVikrant Patil, I&PR joint direc-tor P Kiran Kumar and oth-ers were present.

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“But, now they are not evencoming forward to accept the TDPchallenge to go for a fresh mandateon three-Capitals decision. TheYCP leaders have cheated AP peo-ple with their double standards. Forthis, they will pay a heavy price fora long time to come,” Naidu said.

He said that at least now, the CMshould realise how important itwould be to move ahead with avision for ushering in overall growthin the State.

The TDP chief pointed out thatduring his rule, while 132 projectswere started in Amaravati, simulta-neously 160 additional projects werebegun in all the 13 districts fromSrikakulam to Anantapur.

“Five clusters were visualisedunder the Visakhapatnam-Chennai

Industrial Corridor and anotherthree clusters were planned underChennai-Bangalore IndustrialCorridor. Three mega cities, 14smart cities, 3 international airportsand ports were on the anvil,” Naidusaid.

He said that 12 out of the 15Central government institutionswere given to backward regions ofRayalaseema and North Andhra forbalanced development in the State.“These included Indian Institute ofTechnology, Indian Institute ofManagement and so on. Seema wasconverted into a horticulture hub,”Naidu said. The former chief min-ister asserted that decentralisationwas not a new concept andAmaravati was actually visualised asa vibrant city to achieve the largerobjective to ensure decentraliseddevelopment in AP.

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While Prime Minister NarendraModi on Friday hailed the NewEducation Policy (NEP) as thefoundation of 21st century,Andhra Pradesh ChristianLeaders Forum (APCLF) termedit as a clear saffronisation of edu-cation thrusting the ancient cul-ture and ignoring the rights ofminority and their suggestions.

To its dismay, the APCLF,which had raised an online peti-tion with over 20,000 signato-ries against the drafts of theNEP found that many crucialelements of the NEP 2020,have been sugarcoated andrephrased in a bid to show it asan unbiased document.

“Many of the demands raisedby APCLF and other minoritieswere overlooked. The word 'sec-ular' has not been mentioned evenonce, leave alone the concept offostering religious harmony andmutual acceptance - two vitalcomponents of the wellbeing ofa nation,” said APCLF chairmanOliver Rayi.

He pointed out that while

organisations affiliated to theRSS have openly claimed that atleast 60 per cent of their sugges-tions have been accommodated,acknowledgement of contributionby minorities to education and therole of minorities in policy mak-ing were also ignored.

The new education policy, hesaid, did not make any mentionof ‘Minority EducationalInstitutions’. “This is nothing butclear encroachment over auton-omy and role of minority insti-tutions as NEP proposes tohave various bodies, multi-levelstructures and overseeingauthorities who will have finalsay to achieve the goalsenshrined in the document,”Oliver rued buttressing the factthat the rights for the linguisticand religious minorities arebased on the Constitution.

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With a considerable increase inthe deployment of its war-ships in the Indian OceanRegion (IOR), the Indian Navyis providing strategic supportto its fellow services in theongoing activities related to theborder tensions with China.

The Indian Navy is said tohave increased deployment ofwarships in the IOR since theborder tensions with Chinabegan, government officials said.Some estimates indicate that theincrease is almost 25 per cent.

The officials said that past100 days have seen the IndianNavy operating from Ladakh(with its P-8I surveillance air-craft) in the north to Mauritius,7,000 km to the south, andfrom the Red Sea in the west tothe Malacca Strait in the east,a distance of nearly 8,000 km.

Indian Navy deploys shipson Mission BasedDeployments at key locationsin the IOR so as to build a

comprehensive maritime pic-ture and respond to develop-ing situations.

At any time, there are war-ships patrolling the Bay ofBengal, the Malacca Straits, theAndaman Sea, the southernand the central Indian OceanRegion, the Gulf of Aden andthe Persian Gulf. Additionally,following maritime securityincidents, a combat-ready war-ship has also been deployed onOperation Sankalp since June2019 for protection of Indian

merchant vessels passingthrough the Persian Gulf.

"Being a network-enabledforce, the Navy maintains totalawareness of the IOR by usingthe IFC-IOR (InformationFusion Centre-Indian OceanRegion), ships on Mission BasedDeployments, P-8I and Dorniersurveillance aircraft and otherhigh-end surveillance tools," asenior government official said.

Near-coast surveillance isalso coordinated by the IndianNavy by coordinating the

resources of nearly 20 govern-ment agencies to draw an elec-tronic fence over our coastline,to deter any 26/11-type incident.

After Chinese PeopleLiberation Army's activities ineastern Ladakh increased inthe months of May and June,culminating in June 15 clash-es in which 20 Indian soldierswere killed, the chiefs of theIndian Army, Navy and AirForce are meeting on a dailybasis to coordinate the jointresponse.

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India's COVID-19 managementis marked by "two significantachievements" of continuouslyrising recovery rate amongCOVID-19 patients and a casefatality rate that has remainedmuch below the global average,according to the health ministry.

While the recovery rateamong coronavirus patients hasrisen to a record high of 67.98per cent, the fatality rate has gonedown to 2.05 per cent, it said onFriday. "These two in tandemhave enabled a higher and risingdifference of more than 7.7 lakhbetween the number of recov-ered patients and active cases inIndia," the ministry said.

With 49,769 patients recuper-ating from the disease in 24hours, the number of recoverieshave jumped to 13,78,105 onFriday.

The recovery rate hasincreased from 51.08 per cent onJune 15 to 67.98 per cent onAugust 7, while active caseswhich comprised 46.06 per centof the total COVID-19 caseload

now account for 29.96 per cent,it said.

"Ramped up hospital infra-structure and emphasis on effi-cient treatment of hospitalisedpatients through the standard ofcare incorporated in the ClinicalTreatment Protocol issued by theCentre, have effectively ensuredimprovement in the recoveryrate," the ministry said.

It said the average daily recov-ered cases (seven day movingaverage) have increased fromaround 26,000 cases to 44,000cases in the last two weeks.

Sustained efforts by the

Centre, states and UnionTerritories through focused andcoordinated containment, wide-spread testing combined withsupervised isolation and effectivetreatment have ensured thedecline in percentage of activecases and rise of the percentageof recoveries, the health ministrysaid. Registering a record 62,538cases in 24 hours, India'sCOVID-19 tally galloped past 20lakh on Friday, while the deathtoll climbed to 41,585 with 886people succumbing to the infec-tion in 24 hours, the ministry'sdata updated at 8 am showed.

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Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal on Friday launched'Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy'under which his governmentwill waive registration fee androad tax, and provide incentiveof up to Rs 1.5 lakh for newcars in the national capital.

Addressing an online mediabriefing, he said the policy,which aims to boost the econ-omy, create jobs and reducepollution level, has been noti-fied, adding that he hoped thatafter five years, Delhi's namewill be taken when there is adiscussion on electric vehiclein the world.

The chief minister termed ita "progressive policy" of thecountry and said it also aims toconstitute 25 per cent electricvehicles by 2024, which is cur-rently just 0.29 per cent in thecity. Under the policy, the Delhi

government will give incentiveof up to Rs 30,000 for two-wheelers, autos, e-rickshawsand freight vehicles while forcars, it will provide an incentiveof up to Rs 1.5 lakh, he said.

He said the AAP govern-ment will also give low-inter-est loan on electric commercialvehicles.

"After launching this policy,we expect five lakh new elec-tric vehicles in the next fiveyears...the Delhi governmentwill set up dedicated 'EV Cell'

to implement the policy,"Kejriwal said. He said the gov-ernment will also set up a 'StateElectric Vehicle Board', addingthat his government will set up200 charging stations in oneyear and ensure that peopledriving these vehicles can geta charging station within theradius of three kilometers.

The Delhi government willgive a ''scrapping incentive''under the electric vehicle pol-icy, which will be first-of-its-kind in the country.

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Olympic gold medallist AbhinavBindra is set to take part in thefund-raising initiative 'SunfeastIndia Run As One', a "virtualevent" which supports peopleaffected by the COVID-19 pan-demic. The funds collected fromthe registration fee of each "vir-tual runner, will go on fromAugust 15 to September 15.

The initiative is aimed atproviding support to vulnerablesections of society who havebeen distressed and have losttheir livelihoods due to the pan-demic. "Many of us have beenlucky to have a phone or a lap-top as we sit comfortably athome. Others across the coun-try have not been so lucky,"Bindra was quoted as saying ina media release.

"With the 'Sunfeast India Run

As One' campaign, we have anopportunity to stand and run insolidarity with those who havelost their livelihoods or are indanger of losing their liveli-hoods," he added.

The registrations for the eventhave already begun. The partic-ipation fee starts at Rs 99.Donations can be made beyondthe registration fee.

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Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakhmay witness a temperatureincrease of up to 6.9 degreesCelsius by the end of the cen-tury due to climate change,according to a study whichwarns that the glaciers in thisHimalayan region could shrinkby 85 per cent if the projectionscome true.

The study, published in thejournal Climatic Change onJuly 29, predicted the impact offuture climate change in theJammu, Kashmir and LadakhHimalaya, by the end of thetwenty-first century using anensemble of 11 models underthree greenhouse gas emissionscenarios.

It also highlights the changesin the distribution of the preva-lent climate zones in theregion.

"The study has been carried

over the entire region ofJammu and Kashmir, includingJammu, Kashmir, Ladakh,Gilgit-Baltistan, Aksai Chinand other regions across theLine of Control (LoC)," notedProfessor Shakil AhmadRomshoo, Dean of Research atthe University of Kashmir.

"The average annual temper-ature is projected to increase by4.5 degrees Celsius, 3.98degrees Celsius, and 6.93

degrees Celsius by the end ofthe twenty first century underthree different scenarios,respectively," Romshoo, leadauthor of the research, said.

The temperature increase of6.9 degrees Celsius for theJammu and KashmirHimalayas is way more thanthe projected average rise inthe global and national tem-peratures by the end of thecentury.

Romshoo added that if thecurrent emission rates ofgreenhouse gases are sustained,the global average temperatureis likely to rise by nearly 5degrees Celsius by the end ofthe twenty-first century underthe worst case scenario.

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The Centre accorded the high-est priority for health andnutrition and the latest moveto provide nutritious breakfastto school children announcedin the new National EducationPolicy 2020 is a welcome step,Vice President M VenkaiahNaidu said on Friday.

The recently announcededucation policy has a provi-sion to provide a nutritiousbreakfast to school children,the Vice President said inau-gurating a virtual consulta-tion 'Science for ResilientFood, Nutrition andLivelihoods: contemporarychallenges' organised by theMS Swaminathan ResearchFoundation here. "This(announcement in the NEP) isa welcome step but muchmore needs to be done in thecontext of pandemic and prob-lems of hunger," he added.

Among the Centre's healthand nutrition initiatives are thePradhan Mantri MatruVandana Yojana which hasbenefited more than 98.16lakh women, the POSHANAbhiyan, and rotavirus vacci-nation, he noted.

On farming techniques, theVice President said, India is atreasure trove of traditionalwisdom in the field of agricul-ture. "Instead of rejecting thiswisdom as archaic, we mustmake every attempt to inte-grate the best of these tech-niques into agriculture alongwith modern technology."

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Before he was killed along withseven colleagues during a raid onVikas Dubey's hideout, DeputySP Devendra Mishra had sug-gested that the then Kanpur SSPwas "protecting" the then stationofficer of Chaubeypur who hadlinks with the gangster, audioclips of his purported phone con-versations show. Three audioclips of Mishra's purportedphone conversations — onewith then Superintendent ofPolice (Kanpur Rural) BrijeshSrivastava and two withChaubeypur SO Vinay Tiwari —have surfaced on social media.After the killing of eight police-men during the July 2 raid inBikru village, Tiwari was sus-pended and later arrested, whileKanpur Senior Superintendentof Police (SSP) and Deputy DIGAnant Deo Tiwari was shunted

out. Asked about the audioclips, Kanpur SSP PreetinderSingh said the matter is being"looked into" and that it is tooearly to say anything about theclips and the allegations madetherein. Singh said that thecommission headed by a formerSupreme Court judge and thespecial investigation team head-ed by the Additional ChiefSecretary are already inquiringinto the case and they would

check the veracity of the audioclips as well. During his first con-versation with SO Tiwari, DSPMishra, who was posted as theCircle Officer (Bilhaur), wasbeing apprised about a com-plaint filed by Rahul Tiwari, aresident of Jadepur-Ghassa,Chaubeypur. In the clip, Mishraasks Tiwari "whether or not thecrime occurred and chargeslevelled in the complaints weretrue or not".

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Pitching for peace and stabil-ity in Jammu and Kashmir,the union territory's newlieutenant governor ManojSinha on Friday said theadministration would sooninitiate direct dialogue withthe people to end the situa-tion of uncertainty and themenace of terrorism.

Talking to reporters aftertaking oath, Sinha termedAugust 5 an important day inthe history of Jammu andKashmir. "After years of isola-tion, Jammu and Kashmir hasjoined the national main-stream," he said.

Discussing the priorities ofthe administration, the 61-year-old former Union minis-ter said, "We need to establisha dialogue with the commonpeople of Jammu and Kashmir.

"We don't have any agendain that, there will be no dis-

crimination against anyone.Constitution will be Gita inthat," he said.

Sinha, who was adminis-tered the oath of office at asimple ceremony in the RajBhavan, said the process ofdirect dialogue with the peo-ple will be start in a few days.

"There should be peace andstability in Jammu andKashmir. The situation ofuncertainty should end, terror-ism should end. Achieving allthis along with accelerateddevelopment will be our aim,our mission," the lieutenantgovernor said.

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The Maharashtra governmenton Friday told the BombayHigh Court that it has reject-ed the representations made bylawyers from the city seekingthat legal services be recog-nised as essential services andthat lawyers and their staff beallowed to travel by localtrains. On August 5, the sec-retary of the state DisasterManagement Relief andRehabilitation unit had passedan order saying that it was notpossible at this stage to permitlawyers and their staff to uselocal train services and todeclare them as essential ser-vices, Advocate GeneralAshutosh Kumbhakoni said.He told this to a divisionbench of Chief JusticeDipankar Datta and Justice AS Gadkari.

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The Supreme Court made clearto the Centre on Friday that itwould not pass any order on theplea seeking closure of casesagainst two Italian marines,accused of killing two Indianfishermen, without hearing thevictims' families who should begiven adequate compensation.

A bench headed by ChiefJustice S A Bobde allowed theCentre to file fresh plea makingthe victims' family membersparties to its application forseeking closure of ItalianMarines case. Solicitor GeneralTushar Mehta informed thebench, also comprising JusticesA S Bopanna and VRamasubramanian, that Italyhas assured the Indian govern-ment that it would prosecute theMarines.

When the bench insisted thatadequate compensation shouldbe paid to the family membersof the victims, Mehta said theCentre will ensure that maxi-mum compensation is given tothem. At the outset, the benchsaid it appreciates the stepstaken by Italy to prosecute thesemarines but the court is on theissue of adequate compensationwhich should be paid to the vic-tims' family.

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The Brihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC) on Fridaysaid it has allowed Bihar IPSofficer Vinay Tiwari, quaran-tined here after arrival to over-see probe in actor SushantSingh Rajput death case, toreturn to his home state. Tiwari,Superintendent of Police ofCentral Patna, has been exempt-ed from quarantine protocolsand allowed to return to hishome state, an official said.

On Thursday, Bihar PoliceADG wrote a letter to theMumbai municipal commis-sioner, seeking the IPS officer'sexemption from quarantine pro-tocols and facilitate his return toPatna to resume his duty.Tiwari's presence is no longerrequired in Mumbai and hisarrival period (in Patna) is with-in seven days, the letter said.

Accordingly, the BMCinformed the Bihar police that

they are exempting the IPSofficer from quarantine norms.

The IPS officer, who wasunder 'home quarantine' atSRPF guest house in suburbanGoregaon for two weeks, isexpected to return to Biharlater in the day.

Tiwari had reached Mumbaion Sunday to oversee investiga-tion into the FIR filed againstactress Rhea Chakraborty in theSushant death case.

Rhea Chakraborty (28), girl-

friend of Rajput, was booked onabetment to suicide and othercharges on a complaint filed bythe late actor's father in Patna.

On his arrival in Mumbai, hewas asked to remain in quaran-tine till August 15 in view of theCOVID-19 pandemic and wasstamped as quarantined by theBMC. The IGP (Patna) hadwritten a letter to the citymunicipal commissioner onMonday, requesting him toexempt Tiwari from homequarantine protocols.

After this, the BMC hadadvised the Bihar officer tocarry out his work using digitalplatforms. In a letter sent to theBihar Police ADG on Thursday,the Additional MunicipalCommissioner of Mumbai saidit was unfortunate to note thata visiting senior officer, beforeproceeding to Maharashtra, hasnot acquainted himself withCOVID-19 quarantine guide-lines, the official said.

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Vice President M VenkaiahNaidu on Friday urged youngIAS officers to treat their voca-tion as a mission to bridge therich-poor, and urban-ruraldivides and be pro-activechange agents in building a"new India".

Addressing the valedictoryceremony of the two-yeartraining programme for IASofficers of 2018 batch at LalBahadur Shastri NationalAcademy of Administrationthrough video, he said thesocio-economic upliftment ofmarginalised sections shouldbe their main goal.

Reminding the officers thatSardar Vallabhbhai Pateldreamt of a civil service thatwould work zealously to createa new nation by fighting pover-ty and discrimination, the vicepresident asked them to behonest, disciplined, simple,responsible, transparent andaccountable.

Calling former prime min-ister late Lal Bahadur Shastri asa remarkable leader, Naidusaid his hallmarks were integri-ty and humility, empathy andquiet efficiency, national prideand indomitable courage.

Urging the officer trainees tokeep learning, thinking andinnovating, Naidu said "goodgovernance is what we needtoday".

He stressed that governancehas to be lean but efficient witha system that is transparentand responds to people's needsand aspirations. It has to be asystem that delivers and createsconditions for growth anddevelopment.

The vice president said leg-islature may make a number ofpolicies and laws, but ultimate-ly it is the actual implementa-tion of those policies onground that matters.

A government will beremembered by the delivery ofthe services, he underlinedand said that it was the duty of

civil servants to ensure thatpeople get their entitlementswithout delay. Whatever postyou hold, you should create arecord in good work so thatpeople will remember you later,he told the young civil servants.

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Air India is allowing travelagents to sell seats only onselect flights under the VandeBharat Mission and "otherinventories have been blocked",the Travel Agents Associationof India (TAAI) has alleged.

Asked about the matter, AirIndia told PTI it has received sev-eral complaints from passengersabout overcharging by agents ortheir sub-agents, especially onsectors with a high demand, andconsequently, it has been "com-pelled to restrict access of distri-bution" on such sectors. In astatement late on Thursdaynight, the TAAI alleged that ata juncture when economies aretrying to revive and come backon their feet, Air India contin-ues to play "monopolistic".

"After our repeated requestto your good-selves, agentswere permitted to book on theGDS (global distribution sys-tem), but now inventories have

been blocked and selectivesectors are only being permit-ted. This is totally unfair andbiased," it added.

The TAAI has over 2,500travel agent companies as itsmembers. "We once againrequest you (Civil AviationMinistry and Air India) toensure that accredited membertravel agents are given duerespect and permitted to pro-mote and sell airline seats...onall sectors that are being oper-ated by Air India under theVande Bharat Mission," it said.

Moreover, Air India should

withdraw its statements askingthe passengers to report anyissue of overcharging by trav-el agents for flights under theVande Bharat Mission, theTAAI demanded. "Such com-munications (of Air India) aredemeaning to our memberagents in the trade who you call'Travel Partners'," it said.

The TAAI has written twoletters on the matter -- one onJuly 30 and another on August6 — to the Civil AviationMinistry and Air India.

Asked about the matter, AirIndia told PTI that it has been

operating the Vande BharatMission flights under directionsfrom the government to evac-uate Indian citizens strandedabroad due to the cessation ofscheduled flight operationsbecause of the COVID-19 pan-demic. "This initiative is alsoserving Indians working/study-ing abroad to travel and rejoin

their companies/institutionsfrom India," the national carri-er said in a statement.

It added that it has alsobeen keeping fares at a veryreasonable level, in spite of themounting costs due to severalconstraints in India and abroadduring the pandemic.

"After opening sale of flightsto travel agents, Air Indiareceived several complaintsfrom passengers of overcharg-ing by agents or their sub-agents, especially on sectorswith high demand. To addressthe issue, Air India has beendisseminating complete infor-mation on country-wise crite-ria and documents required fortravel to make the exorbitantservice charges unjustifiable.

"For this, Air India has beencompelled to restrict access ofdistribution of high-demandsectors to agents with the solepurpose of safeguarding theinterest of passengers in thesetrying times," it said.

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Serum Institute of India (SII)on Friday said it has enteredinto a new partnership withinternational vaccine allianceGavi and Bill & Melinda GatesFoundation to accelerate man-ufacturing and delivery of up to100 million doses of COVID-19vaccines for India as well asother low and middle-incomecountries (LMICs).

"The collaboration will pro-vide upfront capital to SII to helpthem increase manufacturingcapacity now so that, once a vac-cine, or vaccines, gains regula-tory approval and WHO pre-qualification, doses can be pro-duced at scale for distribution toIndia and LMICs as part of theGavi COVAX AMC mecha-nism as early as the first half of2021," SII said in a statement.

The company has set anaffordable ceiling price of USD3 (around Rs 225) per dose, itadded. The funding will supportat-risk manufacturing by SII forcandidate vaccines fromAstraZeneca and Novavax,which will be available for pro-curement if they are successful

in attaining full licensure andWHO prequalification, thestatement said. The Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, viaits Strategic Investment Fund,will provide at-risk funding ofUSD 150 million to Gavi, whichwill be used to support the SIIto manufacture the potentialvaccine candidates and forfuture procurement of vaccinesfor low- and middle-incomecountries via Gavi's COVAXAdvance Market Commitment(AMC), the statement said.

"In an attempt to make ourfight against COVID-19stronger and all-embracing; SIIhas partnered with Gavi and theBill & Melinda GatesFoundation to advance the

manufacturing and delivery ofup to 100 million doses offuture COVID vaccines forIndia and low- and middle-income countries in 2021,"Serum Institute of India CEOAdar Poonawalla said.

Through this association, SIIseeks to ramp up constantefforts to save the lives of mil-lions of people from this dread-ful disease, he added.

Serum Institute has a longhistory of partnerships withGavi and pharmaceutical com-panies to manufacture vaccinesthat protect against meningitis,severe diarrhoea, pneumoniaand measles, the statement said.

"We are very happy to see SIIenter this global partnership to

respond to the global health cri-sis posed by COVID-19," RenuSwarup, secretary in theDepartment of Biotechnology,Government of India, said.

India has a proven trackrecord of manufacturing safeand cost-effective vaccines notonly for India, but for the world,she added. In a similar vein,Indian Council of MedicalResearch Director GeneralBalram Bhargava said: "ICMR isdeeply supportive of our cuttingedge vaccine research and man-ufacturing prowess, of which SIIis one prominent example. Thispartnership signifies yet anoth-er step in India's efforts to bol-ster the fight against this glob-al pandemic."

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Prime Minister NarendraModi will on Saturday inaugu-rate the 'Rashtriya SwachhataKendra', an interactive expe-rience centre on the SwachhBharat Mission.

A tribute to MahatmaGandhi, the RashtriyaSwachhata Kendra (RSK) wasfirst announced by the primeminister on April 10 2017 onthe occasion of the centenarycelebrations of Gandhiji'sChamparan 'satyagraha'.

After taking a tour of theRSK, located near Raj Ghat,Modi will interact with 36school students from Delhi,representing the 36 states andunion territories, at theamphitheatre of the RSK,

adhering to social distancingprotocols, an official state-ment said.

This will be followed by hisaddress. The installations atthe RSK will introduce futuregenerations to the successfuljourney of the world's largestbehaviour change campaign,the Swachh Bharat (cleanIndia) Mission, it said.

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The Samajwadi Party onFriday sought an apology fromUttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath over hisremark that he would notattend the inauguration of themosque to be built in Ayodhya,replacing the demolished BabriMasjid.

After the bhoomi pujan fora Ram temple in Ayodhya,Adityanath had said on televi-sion that “as a yogi and as aHindu” he couldn't go for theinauguration of a mosque.

Reacting to the remark, theopposition SP said he shouldseek an apology from the peo-ple of the state. When contact-ed, a UP Congress spokesper-

son, however, refused to com-ment on the chief minister'sremarks over the mosque.

"If you ask me as a chief min-ister, I have no problem withany belief, religion or commu-nity. If you ask me as a yogi, Iwill definitely not go because asa Hindu I have the right to

express my 'upasana vidhi' (wayof worship) and act according-ly," Adityanath had said.

"I am neither 'vaadi or “pra-tivadi' (petitioner nor respon-dent). That is why neither willI be invited, nor will I go. Iknow, I won't be getting anysuch invitation,” he said.

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The Central VigilanceCommission (CVC) has halvedto one month the time forreconsideration of its adviceagainst government officialsaccused of corruption in caseswhere the department con-cerned wants to have lenient orstricter view on the quantum ofpunishment recommended by it,according to an official order.

The move comes after it wasnoticed that such proposals werenot received in the stipulated timeperiod of two months, thus caus-ing delay in processing of vigi-lance cases. The CVC is consult-ed by the government depart-ments at two stages in vigilancecases -- advice is first obtained oninvestigation reports and secondbefore a final decision is taken atconclusion of proceedings against

corrupt employees. Citing itsearlier guidelines, the commis-sion said government depart-ments are required to approachthe CVC for advice wherein alenient or stricter view than thatadvised by it is proposed to betaken in the vigilance cases.

Further, it was also prescribedthat such reconsideration propos-als should be sent within twomonths from the date of receipt

of the commission's advice, saidthe order issued on Thursday.Considering the need for expedi-tious finalization of vigilancecases and to adhere to the time-lines for its finalisations, the com-mission on review of the existingtimelines, has decided that anyproposal for reconsideration of itsfirst stage advice should be madeto it within one month of receiptof the first stage advice, it said.

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BJP president J P Nadda onFriday cited some observationsof the Supreme Court on a PIL,which sought a probe into thealleged 2008 agreement betweenthe Congress and theCommunist Party of China, toseek explanation from Congresspresident Sonia Gandhi andparty leader Rahul Gandhi.

"Even the SC is surprised atthe MoU signed by the Congressparty with the Chinese Gov...Mrs Gandhi & her son, who ledthe signing, must explain. Doesthis explain donations to RGFand opening Indian market forthe Chinese in return, which

affected Indian businesses?"Nadda tweeted.

The Supreme Court onFriday refused to entertain a PILseeking NIA probe into thealleged 2008 agreement.

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Mumbai: Actor RheaChakraborty, accused of abet-ting suicide of actor SushantSingh Rajput, appeared beforethe Enforcement Directorate(ED) here on Friday in connec-tion with the money launder-ing case lodged by it. The EDhas also summoned for ques-tioning Shruti Modi, who isChakraborty's business man-ager, and Rajput's friend androommate Siddharth Pithaniin connection with the moneylaundering probe stemmingfrom a complaint filed by hisfather with the Bihar Police inconnection with his death,officials said.

They said the two areaccused in their case and theirstatements will be recordedunder the Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA) oncethey appear on their scheduleddates for Friday and Saturdayrespectively.

Pithani is stated to be out of

Mumbai at present and hehas said in various news chan-nel interviews that he waspresent in the Bandra flat onJune 14 when the 34-year-oldactor hanged himself.

The IT professional, statedto be living with Rajput forabout an year, had earlierrecorded his statement withthe Mumbai Police as part oftheir accidental death report(ADR) probe in the case.

Chakraborty (28), accusedby Rajput's father of abetting

his son's suicide, appearedbefore the ED at the agency'soffice in Ballard Estate here onFriday after initially refusing todo so, citing her appeal pend-ing before the Supreme Court.

"In view of the fact that theED has informed the mediathat the request to postponeher attendance is rejected,Rhea has appeared before theED office," her advocate SatishManeshinde said.

She was accompanied by herbrother Showik.

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Flood-like situation and land-slides continue to cause havoc inseveral parts of Karnataka thathas been battered by torrentialrains.

Many places in Malnad,coastal and north interior regionsof the state have been affected bydeluge, putting life and proper-ties at risk. While most of therivers in these regions are swollendue to rising inflow because ofshowers continuing in the catch-ment areas, there are reports oflandslips in hilly regions ofKodagu and Chikkamagaluru.

Flood like situation persists inthe border regions of Belagavidistrict, with rising water levelsin Krishna river and its tribu-taries due to rains in ghat areasof Maharashtra and water beingreleased from the dams there.

Adding to this, the district toohas been receiving rains, inun-dating low lying areas and crops.

In Uttara Kannada andShivamogga districts also thereis similar situation of swollenrivers and inundation of lowlying areas. Water is beingreleased from several dams in thestate including Alamatti andKabini by opening the gates asinflow has increased.

Tungabhadra dam inHosapete has reached the brim.There have been reports ofmudslides near Botlappa andother places in Kodagu, alsoalong Charmadi ghat nearChikkamagaluru and DakshinaKannada.

District in-charge Minister VSomanna has rushed to Kodaguthat has been ravaged by floodsand landslides.

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The COVID-19 pandem-ic has affected humanbehaviour throughoutthe world, causing newfocal points of irritation

to emerge and the old ones to inten-sify, sometimes to levels whereviolence follows inevitably. This, inturn, is the result of the fear of catch-ing the disease and boredom causedby prolonged confinement at home,either by choice or compulsion cre-ated by lockdowns. Moods markedby irritation and anger intensify oldanimosities and create new ones.An example is the resurgence ofhatred towards stray dogs, who havebeen an integral part of India’surban and rural population centressince the time of the Ramayana andthe Mahabharata, if not earlier.

Directly or indirectly, animalsand creatures that live in water orthe sky feature prominently in thephilosophy of the Upanishads andthe narratives of the Vedas, BrahmaSutra, the Puranas and the epics,Ramayana and Mahabharata.Examples are many, but two well-known ones merit a mention. InMahabharata’s MahaprasthanikaParva (The Chapter of the GreatDeparture), a small brown dogbegan to follow the five Pandavasand Draupadi as they began theirfinal journey out of this world. Oneby one, Draupadi and fourPandavas fell dead as they climbedMount Meru. Yudhisthir, the eldestPandava, and the dog marched on.Suddenly Indra, the king of gods,appeared in his flying chariot andsaid that he had come to takeYudhisthir to heaven in his mortalbody. Assured that Draupadi andhis four brothers were alreadythere and well, he asked whether thedog could come with him. On beingtold that heaven had no place for adog, he refused to go without thelatter. It was then that the dogappeared in his true self as Dharma,the God of Virtue, and said this wasYudhisthir’s final test. He would nothave been able to enter heaven aliveif he had agreed to abandon the dog.

This account is widely knownand cited. Another incident isfound in the Bengali translation ofthe Saptakanda Ramayana (TheRamayana in Seven Parts) byKrittibas Ojha. It happened whenRam, after defeating Ravan andsending Sita to sage Valmiki’s her-mitage, was holding court inAyodhya with Lakshman guardingthe entrance. A white dog with redeyes, lame in one leg and limping,with thick patches of congealed

blood on his head, indicatingthat it has hit with a stick, cameand touched Lakshman’s feet.Asked why he had come, he saidhe would relate the cause of hissorrow to Ram if the lattergranted him an audience.

Told of the dog’s request byLakshman, Ram asked for thedog to be brought before himforthwith. Arriving in Ram’spresence, he began to sing theformer’s praise with folded handsand head bowed. Asked aboutthe reason for his coming, hesaid, “A sanyasi (a mendicantascetic who has renounced theworld) has hit me for no fault ofmine. Distressed and hurt afterbeing hit, I have come to yourcourt after starving for threedays. The court should please askthe sanyasi what was my faultthat he should have hit me witha stick?” Ram said that thesanyasi should be broughtimmediately before him so thatthe court could judge. Howcould a sanyasi be cruel to ananimal? (All quotations are fromSaptakanda Ramayana translat-ed from Bengali to English bythis author).

The dog, who accompa-nied Ram’s messenger, identifiedthe sanyasi as he was broughtbefore Ram, who asked, “Whyhave you abandoned your dhar-ma and are cruel to animals?One who perpetrates adharmahas to live in hell. What kind ofrenunciation is yours when yourbody is so full of anger?Castigation of others and malev-olence towards others are gravesins. A terrible hell is the pun-ishment for a cruel and malev-olent sanyasi. A sage who has

given up greed, illusion anddesire, is respected in this world.And, though a sanyasi, you sud-denly burst into anger! What wasthe fault of the dog that you hithim with a stick?”

The ascetic replied, “I wentto the town for alms after recit-ing prayers on the banks of theGanga during the whole day.Begging for alms, the wholebody burning with hunger, Ifound the dog lying in frontoccupying the whole road. Iloudly asked him go give way buthe pretended not to hear. He wasasleep with one eye closed andlooked at me with the other. Ibecame angry and hit him on thehead with a stick. Now that Ihave said all this before the court,you decide what punishment togive me.”

On being asked by Ramabout the punishment, thecourtiers said that the sanyasishould be barred from bathingin the Ganges. At this, the dogsaid that he should not be pun-ished but made the ruler of thekingdom of Kalinjar. Thecourtiers laughed as Ram madethe sanyasi the king of Kalinjar.Climbing onto the back of anelephant, his splendourenhanced by the royal sceptre,the sanyasi began travelling hap-pily towards Kalinjar as peoplelaughed at his attire — a loin-cloth — with the royal umbrel-la over his head.

Asked by the courtiers as towhy was the kingdom given tothe sanyasi when the idea was topunish him, Ram directed themto the dog, who said, “Under acurse by Lord Shiva, death doesnot alter the king’s destiny to be

reborn as a dog…I was the kingin the previous birth and now Ihave been reborn as a dog andsuffered much. But having seenyou, I will now escape from mytorment.” While everybody saidthat the sanyasi’s worldly posses-sions have now increased, thedog said, “Have no doubt, who-ever becomes the king ofKalinjar becomes a dog in hisnext birth.” He then didnamaskar to Ram and walkedslowly to Varanasi where he fast-ed to death and attained heav-en because he had seen Ram.

Ram’s statement that a “ter-rible hell is the punishment fora cruel and malevolent sanyasi”has an echo in a passage inSkanda V, chapter 26 of SrimadBhagavata: The Holy Book ofGod. It reads, “God has given dif-ferent forms of livelihood tocreatures. Some of these may goagainst the interests of man. Butman should not retaliate againstthese creatures for two reasons.They are not endowed with thecapacity to know that they aredoing injury to man; and next,man knows that they will beinjured if he retaliates. A personwho injures lower creations forselfish purposes goes to a pur-gatory called Andhakupa andthere he will have to live in a lowtype of body, attacked by thecreatures he had injured. Indarkness, without sleep, andrestless, he will have to drag ona wretched existence.”(Translated by SwamiTapasyananda).

The passage quoted fromThe Srimad Bhagavata: The HolyBook of God applies especially tothose who inveigh ceaselessly

about the “menace” posed bystray dogs. They can neither seethe role the latter play as sen-tinels, whose barking alerts peo-ple against the arrival of thieves,robbers and terrorists/insur-gents. Precisely for this reason,terrorists in some areas ofJammu & Kashmir and Maoistsin parts of central India haveasked villagers to kill all dogs intheir areas.

In the present situation,how many of India’s stray doghaters have tried to understandhow the COVID-19 pandemichas turned the lives of thesecanines completely upsidedown? It has been said oftenenough to become common-place knowledge that the closureof hotels, dhabas and restaurantshave deprived vast numbers ofthem of their food. It is not justthe left-overs thrown intogarbage bins that they miss.Many of them, who had been fedregularly by the staff and own-ers of these eating places, havenow to fend for themselves —something to which they havegrown unused.

Finally, how many haters ofstray dogs have any idea of thelove and loyalty that most dogsunconditionally lavish on peo-ple? Not surprisingly, KonradLorenz writes in Man Meets Dog,“The whole charm of the dog liesin the depth of friendship andthe strength of spiritual tieswith which he has tied himselfto man.” Author of the landmarkbook On Aggression and perhapsthe best-known authority on ani-mal behaviour, he should know.

(The writer is ConsultantEditor, The Pioneer, and author)

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Now Pak in map war”(August 6). Close on the heels ofNepal’s issuance of a map show-ing Lipulekh, Kalapani andLimpiyadhura under its territo-ry, Pakistan has released a terri-torially misleading map thatincludes the former princelyState of Junagadh (Gujarat) andKashmir. This prompted a quickresponse from India’s Ministry ofExternal Affairs, which termed it“an exercise in political absurdi-ty.”

Pakistan Prime MinisterImran Khan claimed that themap represented the aspirationsof the whole nation and all itspolitical parties. It is likely thatPakistan has China’s blessings inproducing the map given simi-lar border claims by Nepalrecently. Pakistan has expressedits frustration through a series ofsteps that coincided with the firstanniversary of the abrogation ofArticle 370. It had announcedthat August 5 would be observedas “day of exploitation” even asthe Khan Government againfailed to persuade the UNSecurity Council to come up

with a resolution on Kashmirdespite having China on its side.The FATF has decided to keepPakistan on the “grey” list as itfailed to check the flow of moneyto terrorist groups. If it fails to ful-fil the FATF’s requirements, it

could be downgraded to theblacklist. India must firmly dis-prove the ridiculous claims madeby its neighbours and reassert itsterritorial sovereignty.

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “After Ayodhya” (August 6).The pomp and show displayed ata simple event such as the bhoo-

mi pujan at Ayodhya was avoid-able. The event has raised sever-al questions. Was it correct for thePM to lay the foundation of thetemple, one which remainedembroiled in a long history ofdisputes? In a secular democra-cy, the PM is not expected to rep-resent any particular religion ororganisation. For a head of thestate, religious affiliations shouldremain confined within the fourwalls of his home.

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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Monumental apathy”(August 7). The massive explo-sion in Beirut, Lebanon could-n’t have come at a worse time forLebanon when the country hasbeen battling one crisis afteranother. Nations across theworld as well as internationalinstitutions must offer help toLebanon so that it can overcomethe catastrophe.

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The pandemic and the response to it by vari-ous governments around the world have posedunprecedented challenges, the effect of which

would be felt for decades to come. People andeconomies are suffering not only due to the hugeloss of lives but also from the slowdown of econom-ic activities during the lockdown. According to theUnion Minister of Road Transport Nitin Gadkari,the contagion is expected to cause a loss of over �10lakh crore to India’s economy. The World Bank, too,estimates that 12 million people in India could bepushed into poverty. While initially, the most visi-ble impact of the crisis was on the healthcare sec-tor due to shortages of personal protective equip-ment (PPE), ventilators, critical medical supplies andhealthcare professionals trained in the handling ofa contagion, its impact is now being felt on the freemovement of people, goods and services, too.

A circular economy is based on the principlesof reducing our waste and pollution throughout thelifecycle stages, keeping products and materials inuse for long and regenerating natural systems.Circular economy-based concepts, such as cascad-ed reuse of resources to design reusable masks tosubstitute single-use masks, supported byGovernment-formulated guidelines and awarenessabout the same, are steps in the right direction.

The global market for refurbished medicaldevices is also predicted to witness significantgrowth. Recently, fuel cell manufacturer BloomEnergy started to refurbish ventilators to meet thesupply gap in hospitals in the US. Due to COVID-19, organisations preferred work from home (WFH)and educational institutes preferred to learn fromhome using virtual platforms for meetings and onlineclasses, which led to an unprecedented surge indemand for refurbished laptops. This cascaded useof refurbished laptops would also be critical in fill-ing the void that has emerged in supporting onlineeducation to rural and urban poor students.Measures like these will create new market oppor-tunities, increase the use of existing assets and reducethe pressure on the environment created by thedemand for virgin raw materials.

Integrating circularity in various governments’recovery agenda and strategies thus assumes impor-tance. In April, the City of Amsterdam launched itsCircular 2020-2025 strategy, which outlines theactions it would take to cut down the use of new rawmaterials to half by 2030. The local government alsoconsiders this strategy to be the basis for econom-ic recovery from the effects of COVID-19. Similarly,the European Union (EU) and South Korea haveboth adopted “Green Deals” as central pillars to theireconomic recoveries, both leveraging regenerativemodels and circular economy principles. Thedeployment of idle railway coaches by IndianRailways as isolation wards during the surge ofCoronavirus infections is adapting the approach touse existing infrastructure to an extent possible. Thisprovides an opportunity for other governments tointegrate resilience, low carbon and sustainablegrowth thinking into their recoveries by avoidingshort-term emission-intensive projects.

Rethinking the mostly linear global supply chainsystems by adopting a circular economy as a modeof production can help economies withstand sup-ply disruptions like those experienced in the cur-rent pandemic. This was particularly visible in thecase of stressed food production and distribution,which was experienced during the hastily-imple-mented lockdowns. By creating new and shorter sup-ply chain connections between producers and con-

sumers, we can ensure a continuous sup-ply of essential goods in vital sectors andhelp improve resilience through stockavailability and competitiveness whilenot giving up the commitment to achiev-ing the UN-set Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs).

In order to support the AtmanirbharBharat Abhiyan, newer ecosystems needto be envisaged that are based on local,shorter and more distributed supplychains via localised material sourcing. Atthe start of the pandemic in India, theavailability of PPEs was critically low, own-ing to non-availability of local manufac-turers, long gestation period to importtheir machines and the high cost. In linewith the spirit of ‘Vocal for Local’ and withvarious Government initiatives, India istoday the second-largest manufacturer ofPPE body overalls within a short span offour months. There is also a need toengage in collaborative consumption toshare resources by replacing traditionalownership of products with lending, bor-rowing and the availability of repair ser-vices to facilitate reuse. This would helpreduce panic buying. For instance, theassurance of the Delhi Government toprovide “Pulse Oximeters” for monitor-ing oxygen levels of patients undergoinghome isolation is a positive step in thisdirection. Acceptance of such “pay for ser-vices” rather than “owning facility options”would gain momentum if hygiene isensured. Local waste sites can be turnedinto resource centres that undertakerecovery and recycling of plastics.

Circular innovations can addressmanufacturing and supply chain shortageswithin the healthcare sector, too, where cir-cular knitted fabric (washable andreusable) can be used to produce non-medical protective face masks. The needfor investment in technology for design-ing responsible packaging solutions thatmaintain food safety and quality standardsand prevent contamination can enhancethe sustainability of the home delivery ser-

vices that people are increasingly relyingupon. Such solutions could also help con-tinue efforts to reduce the usage of plas-tics and styrofoam. Several initiatives byvarious Fast Moving Consumer Goods(FMCG) companies and collaborationsinvolving various stakeholders have beendone across the globe to minimise single-use plastics.

In addition, enhancing materialproductivity also plays a significant rolein addressing the diminishing cost com-petitiveness of industries (such as theIndian automobile sector in comparisonto China, Singapore, Indonesia, andBangladesh) due to high material cost. Thecircular economy emphasises reuse, andthrough this has the potential to generatenot only environmental benefits but costbenefits, too, and create new revenueopportunities. For example, the focus onmanufacturing durable goods would helpthem to generate income from rentals,repairs and refurbishment while reducingthe environmental footprint.

In the COVID-19 crisis, digital solu-tions have promoted virtual workspaces,a mobile Government and a multitude ofplatforms to monitor and trace infections.Digitalisation has not only been limitedto medical solutions or WFH set-ups buthas been an instrument in supportingonline education modes, too.

Digital technology can play a role increating city and village systems that areregenerative and restorative by offering de-materialisation opportunities, increasingour knowledge and understanding of dataon the lifecycle of materials, people andexternal conditions, allowing for moreinformed decisions based on accurate data.This would help close the loop of mater-ial cycles and contribute to keeping prod-ucts/materials in use for a longer periodof time.

For example, digital technology canhelp aggregate local marketplaces dealingin secondary and alternative materials andformalise the informal sector waste-pick-

ers. Real-time tracking technologies pro-vide information on where a product endsup and how it will be reused or recycled.

However, despite the many opportu-nities that circular thinking presents,ongoing efforts in this direction have beenhit due to the pandemic. For example, inthe waste management sector where sig-nificant work was done to manage plas-tic waste, many efforts have been haltedduring the lockdown, particularly in theprivate recycling space.

Recycling plants are mostly shut or areoperating at limited capacity with a lot ofthe informal sector workers, who playedthe role of aggregators (such as the junkcollectors) leaving urban centres for theirnative places. Procurement of recyclablewaste has also become a challenge.Among plastics, virgin plastic may becomeeven cheaper than secondary raw mate-rial plastic due to falling prices of hydro-carbon fuels resulting from the current lowdemand. This will also affect the econom-ic viability of many plastic recyclers.Efforts would be required to stimulate thedemand for recycled materials and closethe price gap between virgin and recycledplastics.

As countries step towards econom-ic recovery after COVID-19, they shouldundertake circular economy strategies forlong-term sustainable development andfor creating resilient economies. TheBRICS nations recently acknowledged theheightening of social vulnerabilities andjob losses due to the pandemic and haveemphasised on the need for improving theenvironment and promoting the circulareconomy in national plans as stepstowards recovery. The time is ripe for usto rethink our consumption patterns, tobuild in resilience, circularity and an effi-cient rural-urban connection to reduce thevulnerability of our economic and socialsystems and move towards anAtmanirbhar Bharat.

(Bakshi is Senior Fellow and Tewari isFellow and Area Convenor, TERI)

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becoming increasingly dependent ondigital technology. Pushed into anuncertain future, we are spendingmore time to digitally connect withpeople, work, shop, keep ourselvesinformed and even entertained.

While a digitally-mediated dailylife can keep us safe from the risk ofinfection, too much exposure to it canharm our mental health. There hasbeen a lot of awareness raised about theimpact of exposing oneself to negativeinfluences on social media and thenews. The more information we receive

the more insufferable the pandemicbecomes. We have seen people feelhopeless and helpless as a result of allthe information they absorb and unfor-tunately, sink into deeper mentalhealth issues.

Fake news and conspiracy theoriescan induce fear and lead us to eitherfight, freeze or fold up. If you are oneof the fighters, the information on dig-ital feeds will help you take action inserving others, hence, limiting youronline time.

You may also minimise the under-standing of the situation and label allthose people, who err at the side of pre-caution, as hysterical and not abide bythe safety rules. Thus, putting yourselfand others in danger. If you freeze, thenyou will lock yourself down and if youfold, you will need support to upliftyour mental health.

At all costs, people must keep theirdigital activity healthy during the out-break. Let us take a look at three evi-dence-based tips for a healthy digitaldiet during the outbreak.

Take control: It is natural to feel

powerless and scared in the face of apandemic but people can use digitaltechnology to regain control and givethemselves a degree of autonomy overtheir life.

This is critical as having controlpromotes emotional well-being. So,people must think about ways inwhich they can use digital technologyto help them do it. It can be somethingas simple as using the technology attheir disposal to make plans, managetheir schedule, organise activities withothers and even do online shopping atwebsites where they get to exert greaterchoice.

The key is to use digital technol-ogy actively instead of letting them-selves get passively guided by algo-rithms. People must think of digitaltechnology as a tool that allows themto extend their autonomy and makesit possible for them to develop strate-gies to cope better. For instance, peo-ple can consider limiting passive screentime and balance passive viewing withmore interactive screen time — play-ing educational games, making

YouTube videos, coding a website —where they are in control.

Nurture relationships: Whilesocial distancing is good for our phys-ical health, isolation is not good for ourmental health. So, we must use thisopportunity to digitally connect withold friends, family members oracquaintances that we somehow losttouch with. We must also nurture ourexisting relationships by schedulingregular chats online and using digitaldevices to spread positive news, expressgratitude to the people serving us andhelping others.

For instance, people can orderfood and groceries online for friends,family members and neighbours whoare not digitally-enabled. Helping oth-ers can give life more purpose and allayanxieties. Organise group chats andregular virtual meet-ups — seeing afamiliar face, even on a phone screen,can be reassuring. People must use thistime as an opportunity to rebuild affil-iations with those who matter.

Be smarter: Our well-being is alsoinfluenced by our competence, ability

to rise above challenges, take smartdecisions and experience a sense ofachievement and degree of success.Hence, people must use this opportu-nity to take online courses, learn newskills and do things that engage them.

People must consider using dig-ital technology to look after theirbody and mind during this period ofconfinement. They may not be able tohit the gym but they can use digitalreminders and prompts to move andexercise more — even if they are con-fined inside a restricted environment.People can consider downloading anutrition app, exercise, mindfulness orrelaxation app. They must think abouthow they can use digital technology toimprove exercise, sleep and dietregimes.

People can use digital technologyto be smarter about their informationdiet, too. Use fact-checking services tocounter conspiracy theories, unfound-ed rumours, urban legends and mis-information. Reduce informationintake to one or two trustworthysources. Most importantly, get infor-

mation from reputable sources insteadof regurgitating what they read onsocial media.

The way towards digital well-being: Our increased digital dependen-cy can be of benefit to our well-beinginstead of a hazard. We need to use ourscreens positively and promote greaterautonomy, relatedness and compe-tence. To be balanced, people mustschedule their downtime, off-screentime, exercise time and fun time. Thiswill form the core of their emotionalwell-being and hold them in goodstead.

People must remember not toreach for their phone as soon as theywake up. They must give themselvesthe time to get ready, eat and then getto their device. We should use technol-ogy to increase our independence, fur-ther our well-being and harness ourinner potential. Doing so will not onlyhelp us get through the pandemic butwill also ensure that we emergestronger from it.

(The writer is Director of a Wellnesscompany and heads a foundation)

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Global shares were mostlylower on Friday in lacklustertrading, as trade tensionsbetween the US and Chinaovershadowed optimism aboutmore fiscal stimulus for the ail-ing US economy.

Investors were also awaitinga US report on jobs later Fridayfor another gauge of the eco-nomic fallout from the coron-avirus pandemic. US shareshave been rising as investorswait for Congress and theWhite House to reach a hoped-for deal on more aid for theAmerican economy.

France's CAC slipped 0.2%in early trading to 4,873.55,while Germany's DAX edgedup nearly 0.2% to 12,611.50.Britain's FTSE 100 inched

down less than 0.1% to6,025.79.

US shares were set to driftlower with Dow futures down0.4% at 27,116. S&P 500futures were also lower, down0.4%, at 3,331.62.

Asian benchmarks appearedto be still steeped in worries

about the growing number ofcoronavirus cases in someareas, and the painful impactof lockdowns, especially inSoutheast Asia. “The hope isfor a smooth recovery as lock-downs ease, but the fear is thatglobal 'second wave' risks andrising US-China tensions may

throw a spanner at ... recoveryin the works,” said HayakiNarita at Mizuho Bank inSingapore. Japan's benchmarkNikkei 225 slipped 0.4% to fin-ish at 22,329.94, whileAustralia's S&P/ASX 200 sank0.6% to 6,004.80. South Korea'sKospi edged 0.4% higher to2,351.67. Hong Kong's HangSeng slipped 1.6% to 24,531.62,while the Shanghai Compositelost 1.0% to 3,354.04.

Chinese technology shareswere shaken by PresidentDonald Trump's decision toissue executive orders ban-ning the popular messagingapp WeChat and short videoapp TikTok from the U.S.Shares in Tencent Holdings,owner of WeChat, plunged10% but ended the day 5%lower.

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Domestic equity benchmarksSensex and Nifty ended flat onFriday as muted cues fromglobal markets and spikingCOVID-19 cases in the coun-try kept investors on the edge.

After touching a low of37,787.38 during the day, theBSE Sensex settled just 15.12points or 0.04 per cent higherat 38,040.57.

Similarly, the NSE Niftyrose 13.90 points or 0.12 percent to finish at 11,214.05.

Asian Paints was the topgainer in the Sensex pack,spurting over 4 per cent, fol-lowed by Bajaj Finance, BajajFinserv, IndusInd Bank andMaruti.

On the other hand, Titan,

HCL Tech, Infosys, SunPharma and M&M wereamong the laggards.

According to traders, mar-ket sentiment turned choppytracking weak cues from glob-al indices amid reports that theTrump administration wasconsidering a proposal tocrackdown on Chinese compa-nies listed in the US.

Spiking COVID-19 cases

too kept investors jittery, theysaid.

Registering over 60,000cases in 24 hours for the firsttime, India's COVID-19 tallygalloped past 20 lakh onFriday.

The number of cases aroundthe world linked to the diseasehas crossed 1.9 crore.

Bourses in Shanghai, HongKong and Tokyo ended in thered, while Seoul finished withgains.

Stock exchanges in Europewere trading on a negative notein early deals.

Global oil benchmark Brentcrude was trading 0.86 per centlower at USD 44.70 per barrel.

On the currency front, therupee ended almost flat at74.93 against the US dollar.

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Union minister NarendraSingh Tomar on Friday flaggedoff the country's first 'KisanRail' train from Deolali inNashik to Danapur in Bihar,through video-conferencing.

Speaking on the occasion,the Union minister for agricul-ture and farmers welfare saidKisan Rail will help in trans-porting agricultural produce,especially perishable com-modities, at cheaper rates andaid farmers in getting the rightprice for their crops.

Tomar, who also holds RuralDevelopment and PanchayatiRaj portfolios, said the Indian

Railways had operated 4,610trains on 96 routes, ensuringsupply of food items across thecountry amid the COVID-19pandemic.

Railway Minister PiyushGoyal, who presided over the

event, said Prime MinisterNarendra Modi had plannedvarious measures to free farm-ers from years of bondage andthese will make farmers of thecountry "atmanirbhar" (self-reliant) and prosperous.

Minister of state for railwaysSuresh Angadi, Leader ofOpposition in Maharashtraassembly Devendra Fadanvis,Maharashtra Minister CivilSupplies and ConsumerProtection Chhagan Bhujbalwere among the dignitarieswho attended the virtual cer-emony.

'Kisan Rail' is a weekly ser-vice that will depart fromDeolali every Friday at 11 amand reach Danapur the nextday at 6.45 pm.

On the return journey, thetrain will depart from Danapurevery Sunday at 12 pm andreach Deolali at 7.45 pm thenext day.

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State-owned Coal India Ltd(CIL) on Friday said it loggeda 21.5 per cent growth in coalallocation at 19.76 milliontonnes (MT) under the four e-auction windows during theApril-June quarter.

In the corresponding quar-ter a year ago, the fuel alloca-tion by the PSU under all thefour windows of e-auctionwas 16.26 MT, a CIL statementsaid.

The four categories of e-auction are spot e-auction ofraw coal, special forward e-auction for power producers,exclusive e-auction for non-power sector and special spotauction.

Booking by non-power sec-tor, under an exclusive e-auc-tion to it, witnessed a three-fold rise during April-June2020 over the same period in2019.

CIL has allocated a total of6.66 MT during the referredperiod to this sector against 2.2MT in the year-ago quarter,with a volume increase of4.46 MT.

Under spot e-auction, themaharatna coal miner hadoffered 24.4 MT during thefirst quarter of FY'21, up by149 per cent from 9.8 MT inthe comparable period of2019.

However, amid the COVID-19 led crimp in demand sinceMarch, the actual bookingvolume was marginally downat 6.9 MT as compared to 7.4MT in the same quarter lastyear.

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State-owned engineering firmBHEL on Friday said it hascommenced civil works at660-MW Sagardighi super-critical thermal power projectin West Bengal.

Following the strategiccompletion of pre-engineer-ing activities for the projectbeforehand, ground breakinghas begun on zero date itself,a BHEL statement said.

This is a major achieve-ment as conventionally ittakes a few months after thezero date to initiate civilworks on-site, the companysaid.

Valued at approximatelyRs 3,500 crore, the turnkeyorder for SagardighiThermal Power ProjectExtension Unit-5 was won byBHEL against stiff interna-tional competitive bidding.

The order for the projectlocated at Manigram village

in Murshidabad district ofWest Bengal was placed onBHEL by West Bengal PowerDevelopment Corporation(WBPDCL).

The notice to proceed wasissued after obtaining thenecessary approvals likeenvironmental clearances.

The package comprisessupercritical boiler and tur-bine generator along with itsauxiliaries, electricals, con-trols and instrumentation,switchyard, flue gas desul-phurisat ion (FGD) andselective catalytic reduction(SCR) systems, coal han-dling plant and ash han-dling plant.

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Homegrown FMCG firmEmami Ltd on Friday report-ed a 1.17 per cent increase inits consolidated profit-after-tax(PAT) to Rs 39.58 crore for thefirst quarter ended June.

The company had posted aPAT of Rs 39.12 crore duringthe April-June quarter of theprevious fiscal, Emami said ina regulatory filing.

However, its revenue fromoperations during the quarterunder review was down 25.79

per cent to Rs 481.34 crore asagainst Rs 648.64 crore in thecorresponding period of theprevious fiscal.

“Emami posted a resilient

performance with improvedmargins in Q1FY21, defyingthe challenging times that theCOVID-19 pandemic present-

ed,” said Emami.According to the Kolkata-

headquartered firm, supplychain, sales improved consid-erably in May and in June andrevenues were even better witha high single-digit growth overthe previous year.

“During the quarter, Emamiincreased its gross margins by230 bps at 66.5 per cent andEBIDTA margins by 490 bps at25.5 per cent. Profit-after-taxincreased by 1 per cent andPAT margins increased by 220bps.

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Murugappa Group firm TubeInvestments of India Ltd (TIIL)has agreed to invest Rs 700crore in CG Power andIndustrial Solutions Ltd for a51 per cent stake, the scam-hitcompany said on Friday.

Tube Investments of IndiaLtd will be issued 64.25 croreshares at Rs 8.56 apiece aggre-gating to Rs 550 crore, CGPower said in a regulatory fil-ing.

Also, TIIL will also invest Rs150 crore in the company overthe next 18 months in the formof buying warrants that can beconverted into equity shares.

The Rs 36,900-croreMurugappa Group, which also

had an engineering arm, hadmade a non-binding offer toinvest in CG Power.

The board of CG Power atits meeting on Friday approvedthe investment, the filing said.

The investment is, however,subject to TIIL being declaredthe winner of the Swiss chal-lenge process to be undertak-en by the lenders of CG Powerby August 28.

Under the Swiss challenge,

other potential investors canmake a counteroffer subject tothe first investor (TIIL) havethe right to match the counteroffer.

The investment is also sub-ject to lenders accepting one-time settlement and restructur-ing of debt, the filing said.

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The Directorate of CashewResearch (DCR) in Karnatakahas launched a mobile app thatwould provide informationrelated to the crop's cultivation,market data and research forstakeholders, including thefarmers.

The "Cashew India" app ofDCR, which is under the Indiancouncil of agricultural research(ICAR) and located at Puttur inDakshina Kannada district, isavailable in 11 languages andcan be downloaded fromGoogle play store, a senior offi-

cial said.It gives comprehensive infor-

mation on cashew grafts, nurs-ery, cultivation, plant protection,post-harvest processing, marketinformation and e-market ben-eficial for farmers, researchers,developmental agencies andprocessors at one place, S

Mohana, senior scientist atDCR, who conceptualised anddesigned this app, said in arelease. He said a farmer oruser of the app can upload andstore images related to cashewand videos in My Cashewsub-section under the cultiva-tion section.It was also possi-ble to record the expenditure,observations and data of thecashew farm. Real-time chat-ting is available for users underthe chat room section.

Mohana said it was possibleto order for grafts online inplanting material section fromthe research stations in a state.

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Franklin Templeton MutualFund's six shut schemes havereceived Rs 4,280 crore frommaturities, pre-payments andcoupon payments since theannouncement of their closurein April. The amount has beenreceived without the ability toefficiently monetise assets,Franklin Templeton AssetManagement (India) PresidentSanjay Sapre said in a letter toinvestors on Wednesday.

The schemes will endeavourto accelerate monetisation post

the successful completion ofthe e-voting exercise and theunit holder meets, he added.

"From April 24 till July 31,2020, the schemes havereceived Rs 4,280 crore frommaturities, pre-payments, and

coupons," Sapre said. FranklinTempleton shut six debt mutu-al fund schemes on April 23,citing redemption pressureand lack of liquidity in thebond market. As on July 31,while two schemes werealready cash positive, the bor-rowing levels in the otherschemes continued to comedown steadily, Sapre said.Franklin India Low DurationFund and Franklin IndiaCredit Risk Fund now have anoutstanding borrowing of only1 per cent and 4 per cent oftheir AUM respectively.

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The rupee ended almost flat at74.93 (provisional) against theUS dollar on Friday due to acaution prevailing in the forexmarket in view of mountingcoronavirus cases and US-China trade tensions.

Starting off on a tepid note,the rupee fell to a low of75.04, but recovered slightlythereafter and moved in anarrow band throughout thesession. It finally settled at74.93, gaining 1 paisa over itsprevious close.

On Thursday too, the rupeehad closed steady after the

Reserve Bank maintained astatus quo in its policy rates.

Meanwhile, the US dollarindex rose 0.32 per cent to93.08. Analysts said forex mar-ket sentiment was mainlyguided by growing US-Chinatrade tensions and mountingcoronavirus cases in the coun-try.

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TV Today Network on Fridayreported a 74.99 per cent fallin consolidated net profit toRs 12.76 crore for the firstquarter ended June 30.

It had posted a net profit ofRs 51.03 crore in the year-agoperiod. The firm's totalincome declined by 32.64per cent to Rs 175.45 croreduring the quarter underreview, as against Rs 260.5crore in the same period ayear ago. The total expenseswere down 18.92 per cent atRs 147.64 crore, as comparedto Rs 182.11 crore, it added.

In a separate filing, TVToday said its Board ofDirectors has approved theproposal to suspend printpublication of its Englishdaily newspaper 'Mail Today'with effect from August 10,2020, for now, given the via-bility of print media in thecurrent situation.

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Export-Import Bank of India(Exim Bank) on Friday saidit has extended a USD 250-million (about Rs 1,870 crore)line of credit (LOC) toMozambique for improvingpower supply quality in thecountry.

The agreement to thiseffect was signed on August3 through exchange betweenSaroj Khuntia, general man-ager, Exim Bank, andAdriano Isaias Ubisse,national directorate of trea-sury, Ministry of Economyand Finance, Mozambique.

Exim Bank has now inplace 264 LOCs, covering 62countries across regionsincluding Africa, Asia, andLatin America, with creditcommitments of around USD25.98 billion, available forfinancing exports from India.

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Homegrown diversifiedgroup Mahindra & Mahindraon Friday reported 94 percent decline in consolidatedprofit at Rs 54.64 crore forJune quarter 2020, adverselyimpacted by the COVID-19pandemic. The company hadposted a profit after tax of Rs894.11 crore in the sameperiod last fiscal, M&M saidin a regulatory filing.

Revenue from operationsduring the quarter underreview stood at Rs 16,321.34crore as against Rs 26,041.02crore in the year-ago period,down 37 per cent, it added.

The automotive segmentposted a revenue of Rs 6,508.6crore in the first quarter, downfrom Rs 13,547.84 crore in thesame period a year ago, thecompany said. Farm equip-ment segment's revenue wasRs 4,906.92 crore as against Rs6,077.9 crore in the samequarter last fiscal. Revenuefrom financial services stoodat Rs 3,031.69 crore as com-pared to Rs 2,822.03 crore infirst quarter last year.

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Netflix on Friday launched itsuser interface in Hindi, say-ing the move will enablemembers who prefer the lan-guage to easily access theirchoice of Indian and interna-tional films as well as series.

The Hindi user interface isavailable across devices onmobile, TV and the web, itsaid in a statement.

"Netflix members canswitch to the Hindi userinterface from the Languageoption in the 'ManageProfiles' section on theirdesktop, TV or mobilebrowsers. On Netflix, mem-bers can set up to five profilesin each account,” it said.

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North Bengal University(NBU) in Siliguri will intro-duce Tea Sciences as a full-time undergraduate coursefrom this academic year, asenior official of the institutehas said.

No other university in thecountry, having general sub-jects in Arts and Sciencestreams, has Tea Sciences asa subject and NBU is thetrendsetter, Nupur Das, sec-retary of the varsity's under-graduate council, said.

"The Tea Sciences coursewill help generate employ-ment opportunities for stu-dents as several tea estates arelocated in north Bengal," shetold reporters on Thursday.

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lot of love storieshave blossomed inlast few months ofthe lockdown andthe new couplesare eagerly waiting

to meet their loved ones.From the outset, it’s hard tojudge when this global healthcrisis is going to leave thecountry but one thing is forsure, love is unhindered fromthe outside surrounding andblooming like never before.

A dating app, Gleeden,conducted a survey after thebeginning of ‘Unlock 1.0’and found out that about 75per cent of its users are will-ing to meet their love inter-ests if provided an opportu-nity. The survey was rolledout among 1,000 of its newlyjoined users and was con-ducted across metropolitancities like Mumbai, DelhiNCR, Bangalore, Chennai,Hyderabad and Pune. Thefindings from the survey arepretty exciting and it alsoaddresses the untouched sideof the reasons behind infi-delity. Here is a glimpse ofthe same.

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Can you cheat on your

spouse and still love them atthe same time? Well, theanswer to this question is astricky as the question itselfand the users are no excep-tion. About 45.6 per cent of

them think that their sharedintimacy won’t affect theircurrent relationship, while 47per cent of them believe thatthey cannot share the samelevel of emotions with twodifferent people. A minute7.4 per cent are indecisiveabout their stand on sharedintimacy with their spouses.

Why partners cheatInfidelity is considered as

a taboo worldwide and thereare a lot of factors leading upto the same. Lack of intimacyand compatibility in a rela-tionship are just the kick-starters to the ultimate fate.Interestingly, it has beenfound out that 37 per cent of

people cheat their partnersbecause they want to try outsomething new or spice uptheir existing relationship.About 36 per cent of peoplecommit infidelity becausethey are in love with some-one else other than theirspouses, while for theremaining 27 per cent, thedecision of committing infi-delity was taken when theyrealised that their currentpartner is not the rightmatch for them both emo-tionally as well as physically.

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It has been found that peo-ple usually try to make newconnections while attendinga social gathering or at a clubparty; it can range from anoffice function to a reunion.About 23 per cent of thepeople admitted that theylook for new relationships orflings in a party gathering,while 22 per cent of the peo-ple would prefer it on a vaca-

tion or while travelling. For19 per cent of them, the besttime is when their spouse isnot at home or is out for abusiness trip. Also, about 12per cent of the people arewilling to find new connec-tions within their officepremises, while the remain-ing 24 per cent of the totalusers are willing to try outmultiple measures to find outtheir love interest.

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awarded author, you would pic-ture a man to be middle-aged,with a family, leading a groupof youngsters. You’re wrong! Allof 18, Yash Tiwari is all that andmore. His most recent feat ishis having authored the world’sfirst novel on the ongoingCoronavirus outbreak titledPANDEMIC 2020 - Rife Of TheVirus.

The narrative he presentsthrough the novel — a tributeto the warriors of the COVID-19, along with a lot many otheraspects deserves accolades notjust because it’s one of theworld’s first novel based on thepandemic or because heauthored it at the age of 18, butmore because of the story ittells. And the final nail is thathe has written the novel withina record 30 days, while his firstnovel was written within 22days!

What exactly is the premiseof the story? “The story is aboutan impoverished boy in China,a helpless doctor in the UnitedStates, a stranded traveler inItaly, and a blooming journalistin India,” shares Yash Tiwari.Pandemic 2020 is a harrowinglook at how the pandemic

turned the lives of everyonearound the world upside down.It presents an immersive per-spective on the privations,atrocities, and horrors that theunanticipated global pandemicbrought to the world. “Thestory is a globally-interconnect-ing tale, intriguingly blendingmajorly affected regions aroundthe world through charactersfacing the severity of one com-mon pandemic, COVID-19. Itnarrates the story of howimportant the platforms ofmedia and news are in a time ofthe global pandemic, how med-ical workers sacrifice their livesin such horrendous situations,how the impoverished and poorones suffer the most at thehands of such an ailment, andhow the stranded travellers areunable to survive through theclutches of the outbreak rightnow,” Yash adds.

Interestingly, the youngauthor’s first book, ACelebration In Tribulation wasalso based on a medical ailment— The Creutzfeldt JakobDisease. For the same novel,Yash was awarded the ‘Authorof the Year award’ by NE8x,‘100 Inspiring Author Award’by T.I.A, was nominated for‘Best Debut Author’ award byICMDR and was also bestowedwith the coveted TCC REX‘Karamveer Chakra Award’ and‘GYLF Fellowship’ by iCongo in

association with UnitedNations.

What does the 18-year-olddo when he is not writing sto-ries? “I speak to young people. Ihave delivered four TEDx talksand Josh Talks, and frequentlydeliver International andNational talks, sessions andworkshops,” Yash informs. As ayoung public speaker and youthmentor, he is frequently invited

to deliver talks and sessions invarious schools, colleges,Literature Festivals, events, andseminars. He recently deliveredan International webinar inAfrica for the people of Nigeria,Cameron, Ghana, and other

regions. He also delivered aweb-based interview recently inNew York City on his journey.He has delivered talks in vari-ous states all around the nation.

On the response his newbook has been receiving, Yashsays, “I’ve no words to describemy gratitude for the way peoplehave been accepting my noveland me with open arms.Positive reviews have beenflooding in for some time inquite a good number, and allreaders have been appreciatingthe fact that they’re able to con-nect with the story very well.”

He is currently working atMyCaptain as a mentor, atTheClimbers and IIMBangalore incubated andUnited Nations recognisedcompany, where he teachesyoungsters from all walks of lifeincluding civil engineers, med-ical students, academicians,professionals, etc.

Pandemic 2020 - Rife Of The Virus is availableInternationally in paperback aswell as e-book edition OnAmazon, Kindle, Google Play,iBooks, and Kobo and hardcov-er in India. The acclaimed the-atrical trailer of Pandemic 2020is available to be watched on hiswebsite. So what are you wait-ing for? Go grab a copy ofyourself, as Yash says, “rush”,because they’re selling like hot-cakes!

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ctor Tahir RajBhasin is anoutsider withno connectionsin the industry.He debuted

with Mardaani to show hisacting prowess as a villainand since then, Tahir isdelighted about how hiscareer has been shapingup. After making a markin Mardaani, which earnedhim the Best SupportingActor and Best Villainawards, Tahir decided notto look back. His powerfulperformances in the subse-quent films like Manto,Chhichhore and manymore made him grab pro-jects like 83 and LooopLapeta. He is thrilledabout the fact that he hasshaped his own destiny inthe Bollywood.

“I’m very proud of thejourney I’ve had inBollywood. When youstart from the scratch, youvalue the recognition thatyour work gets and theopportunities you’veearned because they arebuilt solely on the basis ofyour talent. I consider theparts I’ve done so far to bea personal collage of expe-riences,” he says.

The actor credits thedirectors he has collabo-rated with for havingfaith in him. “I’vebeen fortunateenough to workwith someamazingfilm-

makers. This has led to mygrowth as an actor and asa person. Every project hastaught me to focus onbeing true to the process.What matters is making apart fun to watch andauthentic. The next excit-ing turn of my career isgoing to be equally chal-lenging. Looop Lapeta is athriller comedy and pair-ing up with a talent likeTaapsee (Pannu) is some-thing I really look forwardto.”

Tahir discloses his jour-ney in cinema makes himproud. “The part in YRF’s

Mardaanichal-

lenged me to stretch myabilities as I was a staringopposite an icon like RaniMukerji. The uniquenessof the part made it a greatone for me. From doingthat to shifting gears in alight hearted collegedrama Chhichhore andnow to a romantic lead inLooop Lapeta is incrediblyfulfilling and gives me asense of pride in the jour-ney so far,” he says.

Tahir also reveals whohis biggest inspirations are.“People who I count asmentors in cinema aren’talways the ones with meon a day to day but aremagnetic people who I’vebriefly crossed paths with.It’s something they’ve saidor did that left a deep

impression on me.Aamir Khan, who I

had a chance to meetsoon afterMardaani, said —never be in a rushand never beafraid to takechances. It seemedcryptic back then

but as time passes, itmakes more and

more sense. My othercinema mentor is

Nawazuddin Siddique,who I worked with inManto. His work teaches

me to never underesti-mate the power of

the audience,”says Tahir.

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he Bihar govern-ment on Fridayinformed theSupreme Courtthat the MumbaiPolice has been

obstructing the investigationinto the Sushant Singh Rajputcase by Patna police and havenot supplied crucial docu-ments connected with thecase.

The affidavit has been filedafter the top court soughtresponse from the Bihar gov-ernment on the petition filedby Rhea Chakraborty seekingtransfer of the case from Patnato Mumbai. The case was filedby the late actor’s father accus-ing Rhea and several othersfor abetment to suicide.

“The non-cooperation bythe Mumbai Police with thePatna Police, who is alreadythere in Mumbai for a probe,is very much clear from thefact that the Mumbai Policehas not supplied any docu-

ments such as Inquest Report,Post Mortem report, FSLreport, CCTV footage etc. tothe Patna Police despite sever-al requests made by the latter,” said the affidavit.

The Bihar government saidKrishna Kishore Singh lost hisyoung, vibrant son due to actcommitted by the accusedpersons including Rhea.Hence, the Patna policehas jurisdiction to regis-ter the FIR and thecourt at Patna hasjurisdiction to try theoffence as mentionedin the FIR registeredwith Rajeev NagarP.S (Patna).

The state gov-ernment con-tended thatwhen IPS offi-cer VinayTiwaryreachedMumbai, hewas forcibly

quarantined by the civic bodyBMC, which casts seriousaspersion on the role ofMumbai Police who is appar-ently siding with the petition-er.

The state government saidthe Mumbai Police has beenmaking “lame excuses” that ithas jurisdiction to investigatethe offence despite the factthat no cognizable case hasbeen registered in Mumbai inconnection withdeath of SushantSinghRajput.

“Thatevenwith-outlittlesup-portfromthe

MumbaiPolice, themembers ofthe SITcarriedout

investigation wherein variouswitnesses have been examinedand the Kotak Bank accountdetails of the deceased actorhas been verified, the detailswhereof has been mentionedin the FIR with regard tosiphoning of money by thepetitioner and other accusedpersons,” said the affidavit.

The state government saidin the present case, the PatnaPolice has jurisdiction to reg-ister the FIR and investigate it

as per the law laid downby the ConstitutionBench of the top courtin Lalita Kumari Vs.the State of UttarPradesh reported in

(2014) case. “Thesubmission of thepetitioner that theentire cause ofaction arose in

Mumbai and theState of Bihar has no

jurisdiction to registerFIR is liable to be rejectedin view of the provisionscontained under section

179 Cr.P.C,” added theaffidavit.

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Describing the yet-untitled pro-ject as “a lovely, heart renderingfilm”, Vaani said she is “thrilled” toact opposite Ayushmann.

“Ayushmann is one of the mosttalented actors of our generationand I'm only thrilled about our firstfilm together to be this beautifullove story,” she said.

This is the first time Vaani willshare screen space withAyushmann.

About working with AbhishekKapoor, she added, “I have alwayswanted to work with AbhishekKapoor, being so inspired by hisfilms. This feels like an amazingopportunity to be part of hisvision.”

About casting Vaani asAyushmann’s love interest,Abhishek said, “I thought Vaani wasfabulous in Befikre. She is beautifuland a very committed actor. I amlooking forward to having her andAyushmann on set. I believe thecombo will be electrifying.”

The film casts Ayushmann as across functional athlete. It is set innorth India, and shooting is sched-uled to begin in October.

ormer actressCameron Diazfeels peacefulafter retiringfrom films.

On GwynethPaltrow’s series, In goopHealth: The Sessions, Diaz

opened up on her decisionto quit films, reportscnn.com.

“I just decided that Iwanted different things outof my life. I had gone sohard for so long, working,making films and it’s such

a grind. I didn’t really makeany space for my personallife,” Diaz said.

“A peace. I got a peace inmy soul. I finally was tak-ing care of myself,” sheanswered when she wasasked about the changes

she witnessed in herlife post quittingfilms. Diaz marriedmusician BenjiMadden in 2015. Thecouple have a daugh-ter, Raddix, born inJanuary 2020.

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Barcelona coachQuique Setién says that he is

ready to count on youngsters AnsuFati and Riqui Puig to eliminateNapoli and advance to theChampions League final eight inPortugal.

Barcelona will be withoutmidfielders Sergio Busquets,Arturo Vidal and Arthur forSaturday’s second leg of theirround-of-16 tie. The match willbe played five months after theSpanish side earned a 1-1 draw atNapoli before the pandemic broughtmost sports to a halt.

“Both Rique and Ansu are readyto play,” Setién said on Friday. “Theyhave performed and played prettywell and could perfectly well start

(against Napoli). And ifthey do start, I am sure theywill be guaranteed to play

well.” The 20-year-old Puig has a

good chance to earn his debut inEurope’s top-tier club competitionand Setién values Puig’s pass-ing and ball-control skills,

which remind someBarca fans of XaviHernández and AndrésIniesta, and rewardedhim with a biggerrole during the

final stretch of the LaLiga. Fati, 17, madea huge splash thisseason by becom-ing the youngestplayer to score in LaLiga and the

Champions League, among otherprecocious scoring milestones.

With Lionel Messi and LuisSuárez set to start in attack, Fati couldget picked over fellow forwardAntoine Griezmann, who was cleared

to play by team doctors on Fridayafter having recovered from aright thigh injury last month.

Clement Lenglet was alsocleared by team doctors and willlikely play with Gerard Pique in

the center of the defence withSamuel Umtiti still injured.

With only 13 first-teamplayers available,

Setién has called upseven members ofBarcelona’s youthsquad, including

American Konradde la Fuente.

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India on Friday retained theright to host the 2021 T20World Cup while Australia will

conduct this year’s postponed edi-tion in 2022, the ICC announcedon Friday after its board meeting,straightening out a schedule thatwent topsy-turvy due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This year’s edition had to bepostponed because of the ragingpandemic, which has severelyimpacted all sports calendarsglobally.

“The International CricketCouncil (ICC) today (on Friday)

confirmed that the T20 World Cup2020 that was postponed due toCovid-19 will be held in Australiain 2022. India will host the T20World Cup 2021 as planned,” theICC stated in a press release.

The global body also con-firmed that next year’s women’sODI World Cup in New Zealandhas been postponed until

February-M a r c h2 0 2 2because ofthe impact

the pandemic has had on cricketglobally. ICC Chief ExecutiveManu Sawhney said: “We now

have absolute clarity on the futureof ICC events enabling all of ourMembers to focus on the resched-uling of lost international anddomestic cricket.

“We will now proceed asplanned with the Men’s T20 WorldCup 2021 in India and host the2022 edition in Australia.”

The format of the 2021 T20World Cup will remain as it was for2020 and all teams that qualifiedfor that event will now participatein India in 2021.

A new qualification processwill be started for the 2022 editionin Australia. “BCCI were neverkeen to host the 2022 event which

would have meant that they had tohost back to back ICC eventsincluding the 50-over World Cupin 2023. That wasn’t a viableoption,” an ICC Board membertold PTI.

However, it was a big setbackfor the women’s game with themuch-awaited World Cup beingpushed by a year.

Sawhney said the decisionwould “give players from everycompeting nation, the best oppor-tunity to be ready for the world’sbiggest stage and there is still aglobal qualifier to complete todecide the final three teams.

An ICC Board member said

that due to various countries fac-ing different situations with regardsto the Covid case load, it wouldhave been difficult to hold the qual-ifiers in time.

The postponement also raisesdoubts about the future of Indialegends such as Mithali Raj andJhulan Goswami, who probablywould have played their last ICCtournament in 2021.

The decisions were taken bythe IBC (the commercial sub-sidiary of the ICC) following anextensive contingency planningexercise which took into accountthe health, cricket and commercialimpact of Covid-19 around theworld. The format of the post-poned World Cup will remain asit was for 2021. Five teams havealready qualified for the eventand that will stand for 2022.

The original global qualifica-tion event to determine the finalthree teams to contest the eventwas scheduled to be held in SriLanka in July this year, but waspostponed due to Covid-19.

The qualification event willnow be held in 2021.

“There has been no women’sinternational cricket played sincethe conclusion of the women’s T20World Cup earlier this year anddue to the varying impact ofCovid-19 globally that is likely to

remain the situation for a numberof the teams,” Sawhney spokeabout the impact of the pandem-ic.

“Moving the event by 12months gives all competing teamsthe chance to play a sufficient levelof cricket...So the integrity of thetournament is maintained.”

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Wolves battled into the quarter-finals of the Europa League on

Thursday while Sevilla, BayerLeverkusen and Basel enjoyed farmore comfortable victories in thematches that brought the Europa League round of16 to a belated close.

Raul Jimenez scored the only goal from thepenalty spot in the ninth minute and Wolves sur-vived a series of scares to edge Olympiakos 1-0 atMolineux for a 2-1 aggregate win in a tie that beganin Athens on March 13.

At Molineux, Bobby Allain, the visitors’ Franco-Scottish goalkeeper, failed to control a back pass inthe seventh minute.

Daniel Podence, who scored for Olympiakos atTottenham in September but moved to Wolves inJanuary, darted in and stole the ball.

Allain clumsily bundled his former clubmateover and Jimenez converted the penalty.

The Greek champions created a string ofchances but were thwarted by good saves by RuiPatricio, a tight offside decision and their own inac-curate finishing.

Wolves, who began their Europa League cam-paign on July 25 last year against Crusaders in thesecond qualifying round, will next face Sevilla atDuisburg on August 11.

Sevilla were also in Duisburg on Thursdaywhere they took the lead against Roma after 22 min-utes. Captain and right back Jesus Navas switchedplay with a cross-field pass to left back SergioReguilon that caught Roma flat-footed.

Reguilon surged past two defenders and intothe box before sliding a low shot past Spanish goal-keeper Pau Lopez’s foot.

Sevilla added a second on the counter-attack inthe 43rd minute.

Lucas Ocampos burst down the right and afterLopez failed to cut out the low cross, Youssef EnNeysri finished into an empty net from close range.

Sevilla, coached by former Spain boss JulenLopetegui, dominated as they stretched theirunbeaten run to 18 games in all competitions andkept on course to add to their record five EuropaLeague titles.

In Basel, defender Fabien Frei scored the onlygoal in the 88th minute as the home team won 1-0 to complete an aggregate 4-0 victory overEintracht Frankfurt.

In Leverkusen, Moussa Diaby scored the onlygoal after 51 minutes to complete a comfortable vic-tory for Bayer, who won 3-1 in Glasgow in March.

In the quarter-finals, Bayer will make the shorttrip to Dusseldorf to face Inter Milan on August 10,Basel will play Shakhtar Donetsk in Gelsenkirchenthe next night.

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World champion PVSindhu, along with B Sai

Praneeth and N Sikki Reddy, hitthe courts for training on Fridayunder strict safety protocols atthe SAI Pullela GopichandBadminton Academy inHyderabad, ending a four-month-long coronavirus-forcedhiatus.

This was after the SportsAuthority of India (SAI) decid-ed to resume the national bad-minton camp for the eightOlympic hopefuls followingTelangana Government’sapproval on August 1.

“I am very happy to haveour elite shuttlers back for on-field training after this longbreak. We are fully equipped toresume training in a safe envi-ronment,” Chief national coach

Pullela Gopichand said.The eight Olympic hopefuls

also include London Bronze-winner Saina Nehwal, formerworld No 1 Srikanth Kidambi,

women’s doubles player AshwiniPonnappa and men’s doublespairing of Chirag Shetty andSatwiksairaj. Saina, who is basedin Hyderabad, didn’t train onFriday, while the others, whohad gone to their respectivehomes in March, and are yet toreturn to the city.

On Friday, Sindhu was thefirst one to train with Gopi andforeign coach Park Tae-Sangseparately.

“Sindhu trained today from6:30am to 8:30am. Gopi andPark were also present. She willbe training everyday at the sametime this week. In the evening,she will have her fitness trainingat Suchitra academy for agilityand endurance,” the RioOlympics Silver-medallist’sfather, P V Ramana said.

“She has been training athome so physically she is in

good shape but there are notournaments till October, soshe can afford to go easy, nopoint exerting too much. We

have to be careful.”After Sindhu, Praneeth and

Sikki also trained at the acade-my from 8:30 to 10:30 am.

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England was bowled out for219, a 107-run first innings

deficit, after losing six wicketsto Pakistan’s leg-spinners on thethird day of the first Test at OldTrafford on Friday.

At tea Pakistan stretched itslead by another 20 runs to takecontrol despite Shan Masood’sduck.

Ollie Pope’s 62 was as goodas it got for the England bats-men, with the majority of thoseruns scored on day two, withYasir Shah claiming 4-66 andShadab Khan taking the lasttwo wickets.

England resumed the dayon 92-4 with Pope and JosButtler hoping to continue therescue mission they had start-ed the previous evening.

Pope had 46 to his namewhen he walked out but almostfell short of his half-century,deflecting Shaheen Afridi overthe top of the stumps in anearly scare. He got there soonafter, off 81 balls, but the firsthour was little more than a trialfor the home side.

Just nine runs came off thebat in that time, outscored bythe 10 extras Pakistan con-tributed, with the three-pronged pace attack ofShaheen, Mohammad Abbasand Naseem Shah working upa head of steam.

Buttler edged the thirdball of Naseem’s spell just shortof second slip but after that itwas a string of plays and miss-es. Somehow the duo reachedthe drinks break without anycrucial nicks and when both hittheir first boundaries of the daythere was a small hope they hadweathered the storm.

Tentatively, the fifth-wick-

et stand crept up to 65, everyrun hard-earned, beforeNaseem produced a memo-rable delivery to claim hisdeserved reward.

Pope was hardly to blame,reeling back and fending togully after the teenager got oneto kick viciously off the surface.Barring an early blow to thehelmet for new man ChrisWoakes, the remainder of thesession was better for Englandas they eased the score out to159-5.

Buttler had scrapped hisway through to 38 but fell to hissecond ball after lunch, leavinga gap between bat and pad thatallowed Yasir enough room topart the stumps.

The experienced spinnerwas buoyed by the success andmade short work of Dom Bess,producing the turn and bouncethat left Asad Shafiq with a div-ing catch at slip. He claimed his

third wicket of the spell andfourth overall when Woakeslost his patience and his shape,bowled for 19 swinging hard toleg.

England were in turmoil at170-8t but had Stuart Broad tothank for two tail-end standsthat added 49 to the total.

He finished unbeaten on29, with three boundaries in arow off Shaheen and a slog-swept six off Yasir under hisbelt, but all-rounder Shadab didenough at the other end to seeoff Jofra Archer and JamesAnderson.

Broad then chipped inwith the ball, getting Masoodcaught down the leg-side for aduck to go with his career-best156 from the first innings.

Anderson should havemade it two down by tea butBen Stokes dived in front ofRoot and spilled the chance toleave Pakistan 20 for one.

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India’s white-ball series againstEngland, scheduled at home in

September-October, was onFriday postponed to early 2021with both the boards citing theCovid-19 pandemic, whichwrecked the international calen-dar and created space for the IPLduring this window.

Both teams were scheduled toplay three ODIs and as many T20sand the matches could now beheld after the Test series betweenthe two in India early next year.

The series was to be apreparatory one ahead of theT20 World Cup, which was orig-inally scheduled from October 18to November 5 in Australia, buthas now been postponed.

“BCCI and ECB are in con-sultation with a view to confirm-ing the 2021 schedules for an all-formats England men’s tour toIndia to run from late January tolate March and for India’s Test tourto England due in the summer of2021,” the BCCI said in a state-ment. BCCI secretary Jay Shahadded: “The BCCI and ECB areworking closely to finalise the day-wise schedule as we move towardsthe resumption of cricket.

The five-Test series to behosted by India could be trimmedto four to accommodate thewhite-ball games next year.

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The men’s doubles pair iscurrently apart with Shetty athis home in Mumbai andRankireddy lodged at his basein Amalapuram in AndhraPradesh.

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training camp has resumed butwe will have to wait for a cou-ple of weeks before we take acall on joining the camp,” the23-year-old Shetty, who along-with Rankireddy won theThailand Open and finishedrunners-up at the FrenchOpen last year, told PTI.

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tar writer andactor ParuchuriVenkateswaraRao’s wifeVijayalakshmipassed away in

Hyderabad on Friday morn-ing following a heart attack.She was 74. “With grief Iannounce the death ofParuchuri Vijayalakshmidue to a heart attack todaymorning,” team ParuchuriGopalakrishna tweeted onFriday. Gopalakrishna isVenkateswara Rao'syounger brother and one

half of the celebratedParuchuri Brothers duo.

Megastar Chiranjeevi,who shares a long-standingworking relationship withParuchuri Brothers, uponknowing the bad newsimmediately rangVenkateswara Rao andexpressed his condolencesto the writer and his family.“I share a good bond withVenkateswara Rao’s family. Iwish Vijayalakshmi garu’ssoul rests in peace,” he said.MAA too expressed its griefon her death.

o far, filmmaker Prasanth Varmahas managed to keep the lead actorof his next, a film on coronaviruspandemic, under wraps. But thecat is out of the bag finally aswe’ve reliably learnt that his good

friend of years Teja Sajja is headlining thefilm, which is in the final stages of produc-tion. “It was intentional from Prasanth’s endto refrain from revealing the lead actor’sname. He wanted to use it as a promotionalploy and announce the lead actor’s namewith the first look. The idea was to attractmore eyeballs towards the project,” pointsout a source.

This is the second time that Prasanth andTeja are teaming up for a feature project. Thelatter has already spearheaded a whackylove-story written by the former. Directed byNaruda Donaruda fame Mallik Ram, itsfilming is almost over. Prasanth’s film oncoronavirus pandemic has a lot of day-to-dayfunny life incidents incorporated into the nar-rative, making it a hilarious entertainer. The titlewill be unveiled today.

ike his colleagues RamCharan and Jr NTRsometime back, super-star Mahesh Babu hasappealed to his fans tosteer clear of large-

scale social gatherings as theycelebrate his 45th birthday thisSunday. The actor, who com-mands a following second tonone, took to Twitter andunderscored the importance ofsafety in view of the presenttimes. “I feel blessed andthankful to have all of you. Itruly appreciate all the good

deedsyou

do to make my special dayworth remembering. Since weare battling a global pandemicthis year, safety is indispens-able. I request all my fans toavoid any social gatherings onmy birthday. Please stay safe(sic),” he wrote on Friday. He islikely to ring in his birthdaywith family and close relativesat his residence inHyderabad.

On the work front,Mahesh will be next seen inParasuram’s Sarkaru VaariPaata. Announced on hisfather Krishna’s birthday onMay 31 earlier this year, theproject is a joint productionventure between MythriMovie Makers, 14 Reels Plusand GMB Entertainment.While story details regardingthe film are under wraps, we’ve

learnt that Parasuram drewinspiration from bank default-ers in the last five-six years andpenned a fictional socialdrama peppered with action.“Obviously, the signatureParasuram humour will be inabundance. He’s also present-ing Mahesh in a romantic

avatar,” a source tells us.There’s no produc-

tion dateattached to

the pro-ject yet.

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ilmmaker NagAshwin, who got thenod of Prabhas for apan-India project,says that he is reallyexcited to take it in

front of the cameras. “Withoutrevealing the story or thegenre, all I can say is that it'sgoing to be really excitingbecause I’ve been waiting forthis for a long time. It’s (thefilm) very experimental interms of story. Forget about thebudget and technical side, justthe story idea itself is tricky. Tonarrate it properly so that itreaches everyone is a chal-lenge,” the director said in a recent interview.

Earlier, speaking to 10 TV,Ashwin said nobody other than

Prabhas could’ve featured inthe story. “There is no otheractor who can shoulder thestory other than him presently.Not just budget-wise… I’mtalking about someone headlin-ing the story as it’s filled withintense emotions,” he had said.

Touted to be a futuristic sci-entific-thriller set against thebackdrop of an imaginarythird world war, the as-yetuntitled film was supposed toroll towards the year-end butwith Prabhas’ Radhe Shyamdelayed due to COVID-19 out-break, Ashwin’s film, aVyjayanthi Movies produc-tion, will begin next year.Deepika Padukone has beensigned on to romance Prabhasin the film.

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Hari Nalva and Gayatri Ayyar inthe lead roles, are looking for a

direct-to-digital release for the film.A romantic thriller which marks

the directorial debut of G Kumar, the film'ssongs are already out. Expressing her happi-

ness on the product, S Thanuja, who producedthe film under Charitha and Goutham pro-

ductions banner, believes that Sree will provehimself as a lead actor with the film once

again. “Although it’s the first film of Kumar, hepacked it with elements that audiences would

take a fancy for. It has been shot withoutcompromising on the budget. The first copy is

ready and we will release it on an OTT plat-form shortly,” she said.

The likes of Gemini Suresh, Naveena,Jabardasth Baabi, Dorababu, Sameera among

others have played supporting roles in thefilm, a Padma Rao Bharadwaj musical.

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Meher Ramesh for a film. To thisend, the latest buzz is that the direc-

tor is working on Tamil super hitVedalam remake for Chiru. Word in

the corridors of Tollywood is that theMegastar has shown interest towards

the tweaks that Meher has made.With the status of Lucifer remake

still hanging in balance, it issaid that Chiru wants to go

ahead with Vedalam remakesometime later next year.While an official confir-

mation is awaited, KSRamarao and Anil

Sunkara’s names areattached to the pro-

ject as producers.The originalfilm, a pop-corn enter-

tainer direct-ed by Siva,

featured Ajithas Ganesh, a

gangster-turned-cab dri-

ver, who secretlyavenges the murders of

his sworn sister’s parents. It wasset in Kolkatta.

Interestingly, Chiru’s youngerbrother Pawan Kalyan was sup-

posed to feature in VedalamTelugu remake and the film —

under the direction of Tamilfilmmaker RT Neason —

even had an official muhu-rat but as the actor gotbusy in politics, it has

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