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‘Brahmastra Part One:Shiva' nets Rs 75 cr

collection on day one

"Brahmastra Part One: Shiva" hasraised Rs 75 crore in gross box

office collection worldwide onits opening day, the makers said onSaturday. Billed as a trilogy, the first

installment of the big-budget fantasyadventure epic starring Ranbir Kapoor,Alia Bhatt, and Amitabh Bachchan was

released on Friday. "'Brahmastra PartOne: Shiva' has delivered a massive

opening day of Rs. 75 crore (GBOC),igniting celebrations across the country,

the film industry, theatre owners andaudiences, with the weekend total

expected to be huge!" according to anote shared by production banners StarStudios and Dharma Productions. While

the movie has received mixed reviewsfrom critics for its story and dialogues,many praised director Ayan Mukerji'slarger-than-life vision of ‘Astraverse'.

First batch of 12cheetahs from SA likely

to reach India in October

The first batch of 12 cheetahs are

expected to reach India fromSouth Africa next month as part

of an ambitious project to reintroducethe distinctively spotted cat species in

the country where it has becomeextinct, officials have said. A team of

wildlife experts from South Africareturned to their country on Friday fromIndia where they inspected the holding

facility where the cheetahs will bereleased. Nine cheetahs have been

quarantined at the Rooiberg VeterinaryServices run by wildlife veterinarian Dr

Andy Fraser in Limpopo province, whilethe other three were quarantined at

Phinda game reserve in KwaZulu-Natalprovince, officials said.

Computer Sciencegraduate opts for

farming in UP village

Abarren land has turned into an

enterprise and an inspirationfor many farmers with its

cash-yielding dragon fruit where anengineering graduate in Uttar

Pradesh's Shahjahanpur district hasdecided to toil a different track. A

native of Chilahua village underAllahganj police station, Atul Mishra

has done BTech in Computer Sciencefrom Chennai. Talking to PTI, he said

he did not go for a high-paying jobafter completing his studies as he

wanted to do something for his fellowvillagers and add to the prestige of his

district. After surfing the internet, hedecided to experiment with the dragon

fruit cultivation.

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King Charles III pledged to followthe "inspiring example" of hismother, late Queen Elizabeth II, ashe was proclaimed Britain's newmonarch on Saturday in a historicceremony of the Accession Councilthat was televised for the first timein history. "God save the King" werethe words with which those gath-ered reaffirmed the proclamationmade by the clerk of the council.Charles then made his proclama-

tion speech, which began with themost sorrowful duty to announcethe death of Queen Elizabeth II, "anexample of lifelong love and selflessservice." "My mother's reign wasunequalled in its dedication and itsdevotion. Even as we grieve we givethanks for this most faithful life,"said King Charles III.

"In taking up these responsibil-ities I shall strive to follow theinspiring example I have been setin upholding constitutional govern-ment and to seek the peace, harmo-

ny and prosperity of the peoples ofthese islands, and of theCommonwealth realms and terri-tories across the world," he said.

The throne had passed to the 73-year-old former Prince of Wales fol-lowing the death of his mother,Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursdayand Saturday's ceremony markedhis formal declaration and oath tak-ing at St. James's Palace in London.

King Charles was joined by hiswife, Queen Consort Camilla, andhis son and heir Prince William the

new Prince of Wales, who addedtheir signatures to the formalproclamation documents. Charlesconfirmed the tradition of surren-dering all revenues and the CrownEstate to the country in return forthe Sovereign Grant that coversroyal costs in the UK. The King hadtravelled back from Balmoral Castlein Scotland on Friday, where theQueen's health deteriorated and shebreathed her last.

NAVEENA GHANATE n HYDERABAD

Telangana Chief Minister and TRSpresident K Chandrasekhar Raoseems to have expedited his plungeinto national politics mainly to pre-vent Bihar Chief Minister NitishKumar from getting a head start inbeing projected as the oppositionparties' consensual PM candidatefor the 2024 General Election.

This is evident from the fact thatthe details concerning KCR's even-tual entry into national politics andthe timing of the launch of the pro-posed party were made duringNitish' visit to New Delhi where theBihar CM met opposition leadersostensibly to drum up support foruniting the opposition parties totake on the BJP in the next LokSabha elections.

Nitish had met Congress leaderRahul Gandhi, Delhi CM ArvindKejriwal, Samajwadi Party presi-dent Akhilesh Yadav, and Leftleaders.

Noticeably, in all places whereNitish visits slogans are raised andposters displayed declaring him asthe Prime Ministerial candidate onthe lines of the 'Desh ka neta KCR'slogan.

Posters projecting Nitish as PMcandidate for the 2024 Lok Sabhaelection were seen in Patna. Theposters, while promising goodgovernance, carried the slogan'Pradesh mein dikha, desh mein

dikhega.'It may be mentioned here that

KCR had given a call for 'BJP-muktBharat' just a day before his recentmeeting with Mahagathbandhanleaders in Patna. KCR had metNitish and deputy CM TejashwiPrasad Yadav.

Meanwhile, Bihar's ruling JD(U)went overboard on Nitish-KCRmeeting, with its spokespersonArvind Nishad proclaiming: "KCR

coming to Patna and his politicalmeeting with the Bihar CM is astrong indication that the processto recognise Nitish as possiblenational leader has begun".

Some senior JD(U) leaders,however, did acknowledge thatWest Bengal CM MamataBanerjee, KCR and Nitish werebeing discussed as the Opposition'spossible PM candidate for the2024 polls against PM NarendraModi. At a presser that followed,a loaded question about PM can-didate yielded a viral clip. KCR wasasked whether he would backNitish as PM candidate for the2024 General Election.Immediately Nitish stood up, want-ing to leave. However, KCR urgedhim to resume his seat. The "Aapbaithiye na (please sit)" fromKCR and Nitish's "Aap chaliye na(let's go) provided hilariousmoments to media persons andthose who watched the clip.

PNS n HYDERABAD

The Bibinagar AIIMS is now at thecentre of a fight on medical collegesbetween the TRS and the BJP.

On Saturday, the Union Ministerof State for Health and FamilyWelfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar,visited the institute and conduct-ed a review meeting.

This comes a day after HealthMinister Harish Rao said thatAIIMS Bibinagar doesn’t even have10 paisa worth of facilities com-pared to State-run medical colleges.

The MoS inaugurated the newdigital radiography and ultrasonog-raphy labs and participated in theplantation drive at Rainbow Parkalong with the institute’s MBBS stu-

dents.Later, she visited the hospital and

enquired about OPD and otherservices. A review was also held todiscuss the institute’s construc-tion.

Congress MP KomatireddyVenkat who represents the area

said, “It is welcome that the Centrehas supplied X-Ray and scanningmachines to Bibinagar AIIMS. Areview meeting on the new blocksfor doctors and students costing Rs1022 crore was held.

PNS n HYDERABAD

Union Tourism Minister G.Kishan Reddy said that earliergovernments had ignoredTelangana Liberation Day andthat no government in the pasthad celebrated the day.

He said the BJP is going tofelicitate the family members ofleaders who had fought againstthe Nizam and Razakars.

Kishan said that Union HomeMinister Amit Shah is partici-

pat ing in the TelanganaLiberation Day celebrationsbeing held at Parade Groundson September 17. He said thatthe KCR government has beenfiling false cases against BJPleaders. Kishan met the familyof slain journalist ShoebullahKhan, who died at the hands ofRazakars while fighting againstthe Nizam as wel l as theRazakars.

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TPCC President Revanth Reddysaid that the BJP is engaged inmindless propaganda about theDelhi liquor scam. BJP leaders arespeaking about it repeatedly like amonkey who has found a coconutshell, he said. Speaking to themedia here on Saturday, Revanthdemanded a probe to find the busi-ness partners of Sudhini SrujanReddy. He also demanded thatprobe agencies must find out thepersons with whom Sudhini hadfinancial dealings. Revanth madeit clear that he is always ready foran enquiry on the Delhi liquorscam and that the probe agencies

had not raided the houses of MLCKavitha in connection with thescam. Revanth reiterated his alle-gation that Komatireddy RajgopalReddy joined the BJP to promotehis business. The TPCC Presidentsaid that the Munugode by-poll

o c c u r r e donly due tothe BJP andthe TRS. He demanded that theBJP should give national projectstatus to the Palamuru-Rangareddyproject.

King Charles III proclaimed Britain's monarch

KCR SEEMS TO HAVEEXPEDITED HIS PLUNGEINTO NATIONALPOLITICS MAINLY TOPREVENT BIHAR CHIEFMINISTER NITISHKUMAR FROM GETTINGA HEAD START IN BEINGPROJECTED AS THEOPPOSITION PARTIES'CONSENSUAL PMCANDIDATE FOR THE2024 GENERAL POLL .

‘BJP to honour kin of activists who fought Nizam’

BJP engaged in mindless propagandaon Delhi liquor scam: Revanth

PNS n HYDERABAD

Making it clear that TRS supremoChief Minister K. ChandrasekharRao has the right to float a polit-ical party anywhere he liked,TPCC President Revanth Reddysaid the TRS chief is trying to helpthe BJP indirectly by separating

UPA partners from the alliance.He said that KCR will never

meet parties who are partners ofthe BJP and that KCR is not try-ing to meet even Andhra PradeshChief Minister Jagan MohanReddy.

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Industries Minister KT Rama Raosaid that the Union Minister forFood and PDS, Piyush Goyal, andthe Centre should implement the‘one nation one food grain pro-curement policy.’

He said the country’s food secu-rity is at risk and that the Centre’slack of foresight is the main reason

for this. “Six months ago, the Centreboasted that it had enough wheatand rice for four years. Ironically, thesame Centre imposed a 20 per centexport duty on rice exports sayingthat food grain stocks in the coun-try are decreasing. This proves thepolicy failure of the Centre inprocuring food grains.

PNS n HYDERABAD

The Director of Public Health(DPH) has not submitted a reportso far regarding the deaths of fourwomen after Double PunctureLaparoscopy (DPL) surgery at theIbrahimpatnam Civil Hospital.

Speaking to the media about theincident that happened on August30, the DPH, Dr Srinivasa Rao,said the bodies were sent for post-mortem and an inquiry will beconducted. The report will besubmitted to the government with-in seven days.

A five-member expert commit-tee including the DPH was set upafter the deaths to probe the issue.

The team visited the CivilHospital in Ibrahimpatnam andinspected the operation theatre and

the equipment used for the surgery.The sterilization process was kepton hold for the time being.

Members of the NationalCommission for Women (NCW)had also taken cognizance of theincident and had visited the hos-pital to conduct their investigation.

After the deaths were reported,30 other women were shifted toHyderabad for screening. Some ofthem have been discharged and theothers are under observation.

Food security at risk due toCentre’s lack of foresight: KTR

DPH fails to submit report onbotched FP surgery deathsCentre of TRS-BJP fight

AIIMS BIBINAGAR

BJP seniors insearch ofsuitable seatPNS n HYDERABAD

While getting ready for theMunugode by-poll, the BJP is alsoplanning for the next TS Assemblyelections too. The BJP high com-mand has appointed Sunil Bansalas the in-charge and ArvindMenon as the co-in-charge toTelangana BJP Affairs in-chargeTarun Chugh. Meanwhile, theparty is planning to field its sen-ior leaders and sitting MPs in thenext Assembly elections. SittingMPs are searching for constituen-cies as the Telangana Assemblyelections will be held much beforeLok Sabha elections. UnionTourism Minister G. KishanReddy as usual will contest fromAmberpet.

ASSEMBLY POLL

Why KCR expedited national foray Puts KCR, Babu in dilemmaSNCN ACHARYULUn HYDERABAD

Is it possible for TRS supremo K.Chandrasekhar Rao and TDPPresident N. Chandrababu Naiduto walk the same path?

Former Deputy PM Devilal'sson and Indian National Lok Dal(INLD) General Secretary AbhayChauthala has invited KCR andChandrababu along with WestBengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee, NCP President SharadPawar, Bihar Chief MinisterNitish Kumar and others toattend Devilal’s birth anniversarycelebrations.

The INLD is organising a hugerally on September 25 in Haryanato mark the occasion.

Chauthala invited all opposi-tion leaders to bring them on asingle platform against the BJP.Abhay Chauthala said that he hasinvited KCR and Chandrababualso to the meeting.

He said that people are fed up

with the BJP’s rule and that he isorganising the meeting to bringall opposition parties on a singleplatform.

Chauthala’s invitation has putboth KCR and Chandrababu introuble. For KCR who is trying tounite opposition parties againstthe BJP and trying to enternational politics, this will be agood platform. But the problemis sharing the dais withChandrababu.

All these days the TRS andKCR had branded Chandrababuas anti-Telangana.

CHAUTHALA’S INVITATION

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KCR Kit scheme helpsaround 13 lakh peoplePNS n HYDERABAD

The KCR Kit scheme introducedby the Telangana government isbeing implemented to overcomenutritional and immunization defi-ciencies affecting future genera-tions.

According to official reports, tillnow 13,29,951 people have bene-fitted from KCR Kits. The totalnumber of kits distributed is11,82,014.

The government’s aim is toincrease normal deliveries in gov-ernment hospitals and end unnec-essary Caesarean operations whichaffect women’s health. It is also thegovernment's goal to reduce mater-nal and child mortality. The kit

includes 15 items required for thecare of a newborn.

As per the scheme, the govern-ment is providing financial assis-tance of Rs 12,000 if a male childis born and an additional Rs 1,000if it is a girl.

Assam DGPspeaks withTelangana DGPPNS n HYDERABAD

Assam DGP Bhaskar JyotiMahantha called Telangana DGPMahender Reddy and expressedhis unhappiness over the lapses inthe security provided to ChiefMinister Himantha Biswa Sharmaon Friday.

It is also learnt that the AssamDGP had demanded actionagainst officials responsible for thesecurity lapse.

The DGP’s office issued a state-ment saying that the Assam DGPhad enquired only about the inci-dent but had not asked to initiateaction against the officials respon-sible.

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The BJP has named formerTripura chief minister BiplabKumar Deb as its candidate forthe Rajya Sabha bypoll in thestate. Deb will contest from theseat vacated by Manik Sahawho replaced him as the chiefminister in the run up to theassembly polls in the stateearly next year.

The bypoll is due onSeptember 22 and Deb's win isall but certain as the BJP has amajority in the assembly.

The BJP's decision to namethe 50-year-old as its RajyaSabha candidate underscoresits efforts to keep him in goodhumour after removing him asthe chief minister.

Deb has also been made thein-charge of the party's affairsin Haryana.

Both decisions also under-line the BJP's move to min-imise Deb's role in the party

activities in Tripura whileassigning him responsibilitiesoutside the state. Former statefinance minister Bhanu LalSaha of the CPI(M) has alreadyfiled his nomination for theRajya Sabha seat as the LeftFront nominee. Deb is expect-ed to file his nomination paperon Monday, the last day.

The ruling BJP has 36 MLAsin the 60-member assemblywhile its ally IPFT has eightlegislators. The CPI(M) has 15MLAs and the Congress hasone legislator.

Deb expressed his gratitudeto Prime Minister NarendraModi after the BJP namedhim as its candidate.

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The National Green Tribunal(NGT) has directed theMaharashtra government topay Rs 12,000 crore as environ-mental compensation forimproper management of solidand liquid waste.

A bench headed by chair-person Justice Adarsh KumarGoel held that the compensa-tion under Section 15 of theNGT Act was necessary to"remedy" the continuing dam-age to the environment causeddue to the shortcomings inwaste management.

The bench, also comprisingJustice Sudhir Agarwal andexpert member Senthil Velpassed the order pursuant tothe Supreme Court directionsrequiring the tribunal to mon-itor enforcement of solid andliquid waste managementnorms.

The bench said the decision

became necessary to "remedythe continuing damage to theenvironment".

It said that fixing liability was"necessary for restoration".

"Without fixing quantifiedliability necessary for restora-tion, mere passing of orders hasnot shown any tangible resultsin the last eight years (forsolid waste management) andfive years (for liquid wastemanagement), even after

expiry of statutory/ laid downtimelines," the bench said.

It added that continuingdamage was required to be pre-vented in future, and the pastdamage was to be restored.

The NGT determined thecompensation in respect ofgap in treatment of liquidwaste to be about Rs 10,840crore, and in respect of un-remediated legacy waste to bearound Rs 1,200 crore, and

rounded the amount off to Rs12,000 crore.

The bench directed the stategovernment of to deposit theamount in a separate ring-fenced account to be operatedaccording to the directions ofchief secretary and utilised forrestoration measures.

The restoration measuresfor sewage management wouldinclude establishing sewagetreatment and utilisation sys-tems, upgrading systems/oper-ations to ensure full capacityutilisation, ensuring compli-ance with standards, includingthose for faecal coliform, andestablishing proper faecalsewage and sludge manage-ment in rural areas, it said.

In terms of solid waste man-agement, the NGT said that theaction plan involves the estab-lishment of required wasteprocessing units as well as therehabilitation of 84 sites thathave been overlooked.

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The BJP has got oral permis-sion from the police for thefourth phase of its PrajaSangrama Yatra like the previ-ous three Yatras.

It may be recalled that theWarangal police had stoppedthird Phase Praja SangramaYatra three days before its con-clusion i.e. on August 24thwhich was ended on August27th with a public meetingafter the High Court gave per-mission to Praja SangramaYatra as well as Public meeting.

BJP leaders said on Saturdaythat as the padayatra coversthree police commissioneratesdetails had been given to them.However, prior written permis-sion has not been given for thepadayatra. The BJP leaderssaid that the TS government istrying to disturb the padayatra.

The leaders said that every-one knows what happened tothose who tried to stop the BJPYatra in the past and that theywill continue with the paday-

atra whether the police givepermission or not. If it isallowed, it is ok…otherwise,we will approach the court andget permission, the BJP lead-ers said. The BJP has arrangedeverything for the fourth phaseof Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s PrajaSangrama Yatra beinglaunched on September 12.The Yatra will start fromChittaramma Temple inQuthbullapur in the Medchal-Malkajgiri district.

BJP General Secretary SunilBansal will be the chief guestat the inaugural meeting beingheld at the nearby RamlilaGrounds. The Yatra will con-clude at Pedda Amberpet onOuter Ring Road onSeptember 22. The fourthphase of the Yatra is being heldto find out the problems of'Greater Hyderabad' residentsand to strengthen the party inthe GHMC area.

Speaking to the media onSaturday along with party lead-ers after releasing thePadayatra’s route map, PrajaSangrama Yatra in-charge Dr

G. Manohar Reddy and lead-ers Dugyala Pradeep Kumar,Bandari Shanthi Kumar,Bomma Jayasri, NV Subhash,T. Veerender Goud, and JittaBalakrishna Reddy made itclear that whatever the obsta-cles the government mightcreate, the padayatra will con-tinue. They said the padayatrahas been limited to 10 days dueto the Ganesh andVijayadashami Navratri festi-vals. Sanjay’s Padayatra willpass through Qutbullahpur,Kukatpally, SecunderabadCantonment, Malkajgiri,Medchal, Uppal, LB Nagarand Ibrahimpatnam LS con-stituencies, they said.

The BJP leaders said thegovernment had created manyproblems during Sanjay’spadayatra’s third phase. Theysaid that the police had liedthat there was no permissionand had cancelled the permis-sion given for the Yatra.

Sanjay who was conductingthe Yatra was arrested. Vehicleswere destroyed. BJP activistswere attacked and injured. But

the party approached the HCand got permission for thepadayatra. The party complet-ed the padayatra in one-and-a-half days instead of theplanned three days, the BJPleaders said. The Yatra’s con-cluding meeting will be attend-ed by national leaders and theparty will soon announce theirnames, they said. The leaderssaid that Hyderabad’s problemsare different compared to otherareas. Along with the stalleddouble bedroom houses andRajiv Swagruha houses whichhave been completed but nothanded over to beneficiaries,Hyderabad’s traffic manage-ment is disturbed by the mind-less imposition of fines, policebehaviour, problems like oldroads, pollution, drainage, fly-overs, and the encroachment oflakes, they said.

BJP names Biplab KumarDeb its RS candidate

NGT directs Maha govt to pay Rs 12Kcrfor improper waste management

PNS n HYDERABAD

TPCC President RevanthReddy is trying to make TPCCstar campaigner KomatireddyVenkat Reddy participate inparty programmes. But Venkatis not ready to do the same ashis brother KomatireddyRajgopal had quit the partyand joined the BJP. Revanthhas announced the names forthe Munugode by-poll cam-paign. They are Madhu YashkiGoud, Komatireddy VenkatReddy, K. Jana Reddy and T,Jeevan Reddy.

Interestingly, these leadersdidn't attend the meeting heldon Saturday at the GandhiBhavan although the party hadinvited them.

It is a million-dollar ques-tion whether KomatireddyVenkat will participate in theMunugode by-poll campaignor not as once again Revanthhad criticised Rajgopal harsh-ly on Saturday.

Revanth picksVenkat forMunugode team

Deb thanks PM Modi PNS n AGARTALA

Former Tripura chief ministerBiplab Kumar Deb onSaturday expressed his grati-tude to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi after the BJPnamed him as its candidate forthe Rajya Sabha bypoll in thestate. Deb will contest from theseat vacated by Manik Sahawho replaced him as the chiefminister in the run-up to the

assembly polls in the state earlynext year.

"Gratitude to PM NarendraModi Ji, BJP4India (BJP)President J.P.Nadda Ji & HomeMinister Amit Shah Ji fornominating me as a BJP can-didate for Rajya Sabha MPfrom Tripura," Deb said in asocial media post. "I am com-mitted to work for the devel-opment and welfare of Tripuraand its people," he added.

PNS n PUDUCHERRY

Chief Justice of India U U Lalithas said there would be agreater number of womenadorning judiciary in the nearfuture. Addressing the valedic-tion of the golden jubilee cel-ebrations of the Dr B RAmbedkar Government LawCollege here on Saturday, theChief Justice of India referredto the appeal of LieutenantGovernor TamilisaiSoundararajan earlier in heraddress during the celebrationsthat women should come for-ward in large numbers to legalstudies and also sought morewomen judges. The ChiefJustice of India said thatalready in five States, includingOrissa, Jharkhand, Rajasthanand Tamil Nadu, the numberof women at the induction-level in the judiciary was larg-er. The Chief Justice said, "Iassure the Lt Governor that tothe best of my knowledge infive States including Rajasthan,Jharkand, Tamil Nadu andOrissa, the number of womenjudges at the induction- level

is far greater than men." JusticeLalit said, "To give one exam-ple, out of 180 judges inRajasthan, there are 129women judges at the induc-tion-level and the numbers arehuge in Orissa and Jharkhand."He suggested that law col-leges include the subject of'adjudication' which wouldhelp young lawyers turning outof the institutions to nurturetheir talent. The subject ofadjudication has been includ-ed in some of the national lawuniversities, he said. JusticeLalit released a souvenir on theoccasion. Chief MinisterN.Rangasamy, an alumnus ofthe law college here, said theterritorial administration wasgoing ahead with its initiativeto establish a law universitynear the law college near PeriyaKalapet. He made out a strongcase for a Bench of the MadrasHigh Court in Puducherry.Rangasamy said thePuducherry government wasproviding a monthly assis-tance of Rs 9,000 to younglawyers in their nascent stageof practice.

CJI foresees rise innumber of women

Asad criticises Nitish & Mamataas KCR tries to unite OppnPNS n HYDERABAD

Polit ics is dynamic.Telangana Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao has beentrying to get close to BiharChief Minister Nitish Kumar.KCR went to Bihar and helda joint press conference withNitish after holding talkswith him.

Already, KCR has metWest Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee. KCR alsosupported Mamata-fieldedYashwanth Sinha during thepresidential elections.

It may be recalled thatKCR has been trying to floata new political party with thesupport of Nithish and oth-ers across the nation.

However, KCR’s a l lyAIMIM’s PresidentHyderabad MP AsaduddinOwaisi lashed out at Nitish aswel l as Mamata inAhmedabad on Saturday.

Asaduddin said that Nitishand Mamata are just pretend-ing to be secular. He said thatNitish became CM when hewas with the BJP and waswith the BJP during theGodhra riots too.

In 2015, Nitish broke withthe BJP but joined the BJP

again in 2017. Nitish workedfor Modi's victory in 2019.Again now Nitish has left theBJP and has forged theMahaghatbandhan govern-ment with the Congress andthe RJD.

Asaduddin said that underNitish's rule, even kids werenot safe in Bihar. Two minorboys were produced in courtwith their hands tied withropes for rioting. Instead ofcatching the real culprits,the Bihar police targetedMuslim children. Mamatawas also in the NDA at thattime and she had criticisedthe RSS.

Asaduddin said that when-ever he speaks for the welfareof minorities, some peoplespeak against him. He saidthat they only act like secu-larists, but none of them is areal secularist, or even reli-gious. He said that people arewatching all this.

The cr it icism ofAsaduddin may trouble KCRas KCR had criticised the BJPsitting beside Nitish. KCRhad said that there is a needfor the unity of non-BJPparties like Nitish’s JD (U).However, Asaduddin rippedinto Nitish and Mamata.

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Interestingly, during KCR'svisit to Bihar, posters paintingthe TS Chief Minister as 'DeshKa Neta' were not put up aswas the case during his previ-ous visits. TRS ally RashtriyaJanata Dal (RJD) believes thatNitish is the most suitableleader for the Prime Minister'spost. Mritunjay Tiwari, thenational spokesperson of theRJD, said that Nitish Kumar ofthe JD(U) has the longest par-liamentary career than anyother leader and has a cleanpolitical image and other lead-ers are nowhere near him inleadership quality.

This announcement from

the RJD comes at a time whenthe TRS said that KCR wouldcontinue to be the ChiefMinister of Telangana.

However, sources said thatthis could not be seen as acompetition. Only a messagewas being sent that oppositionparties favoured a 'BJP-muktBharat' and that the primaryobjective of the oppositionwas to topple the BJP govern-ment. Sources indicated that,apart from the constant threatfrom Central investigativeagencies, Nitish's movesseemed to be pushing KCR tospeed up his entry into nation-al politics. Just when Nitish wascamping in New Delhi meet-ing leaders, KCR gave a call to

unite the opposition and TRSleaders released statements onKCR's national foray.

Meanwhile, Nitish's toursto New Delhi were comparedto those of KCR. Bihar BJPleader Sushil Modi said theChief Minister arrived in NewDelhi as a political tourist. Hecounted the previous visits ofCMs of other states to NewDelhi, saying that before thisthe Telangana CM had trav-elled to six states while WestBengal CM Mamata Banerjeehad camped in New Delhimany times. "Now Nitish ji hascome. The LS election isapproaching and so Nitish is inNew Delhi as a politicaltourist," he said.

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Sharing the dais withChandrababu ahead of theMunugode by-election andTelangana Assembly elec-tions might create problemsfor KCR.

If Chandrababu attendsthe meeting KCR may skip it.If KCR misses the meetinganti-BJP parties may havedoubts about his plans tounite the opposition againstthe BJP.

If KCR shares the daiswith Chandrababu the BJPand the Congress will ques-tion KCR about how heshared the dais withChandrababu who wasbranded as anti-Telangana byhim.

Meanwhile, Chandrababualso has some problems likeKCR in attending the meet-ing. Devilal was deputyprime minister in the NDFgovernment. Chandrababuhad a key role in the NationalFront and had good relationswith Devilal.

Keeping this in mindAbhay Chauthala invitedChandrababu to the birthanniversary celebrations ofDevilal. Moreover, like KCR,Chandrababu too had tried tounite opposition partiesagainst the BJP in 2019.While Chauthala is organis-ing the meeting against theBJP, Chandrababu is trying torevive his relations with theBJP for the Andhra PradeshAssembly elections.

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He also met the family mem-bers of VandemataramRamchander Rao, who went tojail chanting ‘Vandemataram’ inOsmania University during thefreedom movement. Speakingto the media on Saturday,Kishan said that they have beenmaking arrangements to cele-

brate Telangana Liberation Daygrandly on September 17. Hesaid the Centre is recognisingactivists who did not get recog-nition in the freedom move-ment and is honouring them.Kishan said that activists whofought against the Nizam didnot get recognition in the last 75years. The Centre will organiseprogrammes to observe their

birth and death anniversaries.The Union Tourism Ministersaid that the then Union HomeMinister Sardar Vallabhai Patelhad ended Nizam rule in 1948and had hoisted the Tricolour inHyderabad city. In the sameway current Union HomeMinister Amit Shah will raisethe national flag on September17 in Hyderabad, Kishan said.

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The Modi government,which has already imposedrestrictions on the export ofwheat and wheat-based prod-ucts, has recently imposed a 20per cent duty on rice exportsand a ban on the export of bro-ken rice as well,” KTR said ina statement. He said the Modigovernment has taken the deci-sion due to the huge reductionin the stocks of food grains inFCI godowns. KTR said thereason for the current state ofaffairs is the Centre's lack ofawareness about the basicneeds of the people and the lackof a clear food grain procure-ment policy. In a bid to portrayTelangana as a failed state, theModi Government got caught

in its own trap. KTR demand-ed an explanation from theUnion Minister regarding this.

KTR said that India’s foodsecurity is in jeopardy due tothe discrimination of the Modigovernment against Telanganaand its farmers. The currentfood grain crisis clearly indi-cates that the Modi govern-ment lacks a long-term plan tomeet the country’s food needs,he said. “Six months ago UnionMinister Piyush Goyal insult-ed the Telangana team that vis-ited New Delhi with a requestto buy paddy grown in theState. The Union Minister notonly refused to buy paddy, butalso insulted Telangana by ask-ing the delegation to make thestate’s people consume brokenraw rice,” he said.

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The contractor NagarjunaConstructions was alsocalled for the review meet-ing. They had a roadmap tocomplete the AIIMS by2023. The Ministerpromised to make BibinagarAIIMS the best in India.”

The Minister also releasedthe official newsletter of

AIIMS Bibinagar titled ‘MedCommunique.’ The officialnewsletter focuses on acad-emic achievements, researchacumen as well as otherprogrammes of the insti-tute.

Dr Bharati highlightedthe intentions of PrimeMinister Modi who wants ahealthy India with affordablehealthcare for all.

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Moreover, all medical testsand immunization vaccina-tions required for the moth-er and the child are providedfree by the government. Thescheme was launched in June2017. Doctors and paramedicsare monitoring the situation toprovide quality medical careto mothers after delivery. Thescheme is limited to two sur-viving children only. However,in August 2018, the govern-ment made some exemptionsto the rules. The benefit wasextended beyond the secondchild for tribal groups likeChenchu and Kolam. Thegovernment has spent Rs1,176 crore till date for imple-menting the scheme.

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Flags lowered atop thepalace in mourning for the lateQueen were brought back upto full mast after the AccessionCouncil proclamation, whichfollowed a wave of furtherproclamations across the UKto go into Sunday when flagswill return to half-mast in astate of mourning for theQueen. "As the Queen herselfdid with such unswervingdevotion, I too now solemnlypledge myself, throughout theremaining time God grantsme, to uphold the constitution-al principles at the heart of ournation, Charles said in hisfirst televised address as Kingon Friday evening.

"And to my darling Mama,as you begin your last greatjourney to join my dear latePapa, I want simply to say this:thank you. Thank you for

your love and devotion to ourfamily and to the family ofnations you have served so dili-gently all these years. Mayflights of Angels sing thee tothy rest'," he said. Soon after aPrincipal Proclamation wasread in public for the first timeby the Garter King of Armsfrom the balcony overlookingFriary Court at St James'sPalace, accompanied by a 41-gun salute fired by The King'sTroop Royal Horse Artillery atHyde Park in London.

The Privy Council, whichincludes politicians, seniormembers of the clergy andSupreme Court justices, firstgathered without the King toproclaim the new monarchand arrange business relatingto the proclamation.

Following the proclamation,King Charles III held his firstPrivy Council meeting andmade his personal declara-tion to "assume the duties and

responsibilities of sovereignty"and follow in the footsteps ofhis late mother.

On Friday, the King held hisfirst audience with BritishPrime Minister Liz Truss atBuckingham Palace, soon afterhe was greeted with applauseand cheers by large crowdsgathered at the palace gates inmourning for the Queen andto catch a glimpse of the newmonarch and his QueenConsort. "It was so touching tosee so many people It's amoment I'd been dreading, butone must try and keep going,Charles was heard saying toTruss, in a brief clip released ofhis first audience as the PrimeMinister expressed her condo-lences. While formal details areto be released by BuckinghamPalace, it is expected that theQueen will lie in state atWestminster Hall in Londonfor the public to pay theirrespects.

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Revanth said that KCR islike the demonetised Rs 1,000currency note and that hisnational political party is adrama planned by the TRSand the BJP to deceive people.

Speaking to the media aftermeeting Congress leaders onthe Munugode by-poll onSaturday at the GandhiBhavan, Revanth said theparty had finalised its candi-date even though the ElectionCommission had not releasedthe poll schedule inMunugode.

He said that AICC ChiefSonia Gandhi did not forgetthe services of formerMunugode MLA, the latePalvai Goverdhan Reddy, andso the party had given achance to his daughterSravanthi.

Revanth reiterated his alle-gation that KomatireddyRajgopal joined the BJP for the

sake of his business. TheTPCC president said that theMunugode by-poll occurredonly due to the BJP and theTRS. He said that both the BJPand the TRS governmentshave raised the curtain topurchase the leaders of otherparties at Munugode with themoney they have earned ille-gally.

He said that the BJP has noright to seek votes inMunugode and that Telanganahas been transformed into apile of corpses by ChiefMinister K. ChandrasekharRao. Revanth said that theyhad announced the party can-didate in Munugode after dis-cussing with everyone.

“The party announced itscandidate in Munugode muchbefore other parties. The BJPand the TRS are not in a posi-tion to announce their candi-dates in Munugode and arehesitating to announce candi-dates.

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Export Utsav will be held bythe State Bank of India,Hyderabad circle, in collab-oration with FICCI andFTCCI between 9.30 amand 1.30 pm at FTCCISurana Auditorium,Federation house, Red Hill,in Hyderabad on September14.

According to SBIAssistant General ManagerV Pallam Raju, the pro-gramme is aimed at easingout the availability of financefor enhancing export capa-bilities. Exporters are invit-ed to participate in theExport Utsav. Senior offi-cials from SBI, FICCI andFTCCI will interact withexporters, he said.

This is aimed at providingsupport for exports underone roof, interacting withsenior officials and updateexporters with special ratesand incentives available.

SBI to hold ExportUtsav on Sept 14

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Minister for AnimalHusbandry, Fisheries andDairy Development TalasaniSrinivas Yadav on Saturdayinaugurated the newly con-structed Fish Market buildingat Begum Bazaar. The buildingwas constructed at a cost of Rs9.5 crore.

Speaking at the inaugura-tion, Talasani said that the fishmarket has a long history andthe government decided totake up the construction asbuyers and sellers were facinga lot of difficulties due to lack

of proper facilities. The build-ing consists of 43 wholesalestalls, 90 retail stalls, 71 cuttingstalls, 10 dry fish stalls, onecanteen and one cold storage.Besides this, two lifts havealso been made for the conve-nience of people. More than500 families depend on BegumBazar fish market for theirlivelihood. The minister direct-ed the officials to form a boardand display the list of nameswho are eligible for the stalls.Subsidized vehicles are beinggiven to fishermen for sellingtheir fish and the governmenthas been taking steps to con-

struct such markets across thestate, he added.

The minister said that con-struction of similar fish mar-kets in Kukatpally andMallapur is also being taken upby the Greater HyderabadMunicipal Corporation(GHMC). Apart from this,arrangements are being madeto build a wholesale export fishmarket at a cost of Rs 50 crore.

Also present at the inaugu-ration were GHMC DeputyMayor Srilatha Shoban Reddy,Fisheries CommissionerLachiram Bukrya and officialsfrom the GHMC.

GHMC revamps BegumBazar Fish Market

TALASANI INAUGURATES THE BUILDING

Minister Srinivas Yadav inaugurating the newly constructed Fish Market building at Begum Bazar in Hyderabad on Saturday

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Even though the KCR andYogi governments are engagedin a war of words, delegatesfrom Uttar Pradesh visitedTSMDC on Saturday to learnabout its sand operations inTelangana. The delegationfrom the UP governmentincluded Vipin Jain, IAS,Special Secretary, SK Singh,the Joint Director of Mining.They interacted with chair-person Krishank Manne andMD G. Malsur. The authori-ties informed them that afterthe formation of Telangana theTSMDC Corporation hasearned Rs 5072.76 crore forthe TS government. TheTSMDC was declared aNational Exploration Agency

(NEA) by the Ministry ofMines on January 5, 2016,with 98 sand reaches and alimestone mine in Devapurextending 210 Ha inMancherial district.

Officials told the UP dele-gates that TSMDC has secureda Management SystemCertificate from 190 9001:2015Sand Sales through its sandsales monitoring managementsystem (online system) and E-

Office File ManagementSystem. Around 10 sub-stock-yards have been established inTelangana including three sub-stockyards established nearHyderabad at Abdullapurmet,Vattinagulapalli and Borampetto meet the construction needsof various districts andHyderabad city. Sand is deliv-ered at construction sites inHyderabad. "The Oracle EBS –ERP was implemented in

TSMDC from February 2020to automate all departmentoperations through the OraclePlatform.

The following modules havebeen incorporated into theOracle ERP. They are theHuman ResourceManagement System, Sales &Purchases Finance &Accounting ProjectProgramme and InventoryManagement, the authoritiestold the UP officials. Thedepartment has also set up acall centre to provide infor-mation on sand sales. TheTele Helpline aims to reduceillegal activities at sand reach-es, in sand transportation andprovides price information onsand sales and grievanceredressal for customers.

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If one travels from NagarjunaCircle towards GVK One mallin Banjara Hills, one can seethat on the one km stretchthere are many shops sellingclothes, watches, pets andother things.

These are the shops whichare mostly visited by the rich.One can figure that out by thecars parked outside.

What the people who visitthese shops fail to realise is theproblems they create on theroad due to their parking ofvehicles right on the mainroad. The travel time on theone km stretch usually takesonly three minutes but it

zooms due to the disorderlyparked vehicles. The trafficdisorder can also be blamedon the shops as they have noparking space. The authoritiesshould also take the respon-sibility for granting permis-sions for such shops as theywill attract large crowds.

Ayush, who travels everyday on this road said, “Theproblem starts with peoplestopping vehicles to buy bou-quets. Somehow when I getpast them there is a jam at thecurve ahead because of thecars parked on the main road.The road itself is narrow andon top of that this createsmore congestion.”

Similarly, if one is passing

by SR Nagar during theevening, one is bound to getstuck in traffic. The traffic ismainly due to students com-ing out from educational insti-tutions in the locality.

It can also be noticed thatjust like those shops in BanjaraHills these institutions also donot have parking spaces.

When students come out inthe evening, the institutions’buses, minivans and auto-ricks stand right on the mainroad till all the students haveboarded and this creates aproblem for others. The stu-dents who walk home leavewithin minutes but these vehi-cles do not leave for at leasthalf an hour.

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A case was registered againstdomestic chef Siva Prasad andSwiggy delivery boy ShaikAmir for assaulting each otherwith kitchen knife inflictinginjuries. The Gachchi Bowlipolice registered a case in thisregard.

Shaik Amir sustainedinjuries on his right hand,Siva Prasad sustained injurieson his neck, chest and hand.The clash took place as checkSiva Prasad, on directions from

his friend Bhaskar, refused totake delivery of sweets orderedfrom Kakinada as the deliverywas late by at least three hours.

According to CI Suresh, oneSaisri who resides in Kakinadaon Thursday afternoonordered Swiggy sweets fordelivering it to Bhaskar, wholives in Golf Edge Flat No. 1804in Nanakramguda, on Friday.

Swiggy delivery boy ShaikAmir of First Lancer set out onhis bike to deliver the sweets onFriday. He proceeded to thewrong location of the RTC

cross roads as his mobile failedto show the destination cor-rectly. He called up Saisri inKakinada for correct location.She immediately shared thelocation. By the time, the deliv-ery boy went to deliver thesweets it was 6 pm on Friday.

Asking Siva Prasad not totake delivery of the sweets,Bhaskar went out. Thereensued a clash between SivaPrasad and Amir as the formerspoke with the delivery boy ina high handed manner fordelay in delivering the sweets.

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In all, 5181 properties worth Rs2657 crore were registered inAugust as against 4313 prop-erties worth Rs 2101 crore, reg-istering an increase of 20 percent, according to reports.

In August last year 8144houses were registered asagainst 5181 during the corre-sponding period this year, reg-istering a drop in registrationsby 36 per cent.

The realty in the GHMC isyet to reach the volume of reg-istrations carried out and thenet income generated throughregistrations in the first eight

months of last year, it said. The first eight months of last

year saw registration of over

56,035 houses worth Rs 25,007crore as against registration of46,078 houses worth Rs 22,680

crore during the first eightmonths. Houses each costs Rs50 lakh and less enjoy gooddemand in the city. In fact, 55per cent of the houses regis-tered in July this year are in thebracket of Rs 25 lakh and Rs 50lakh. The share of these hous-es in registrations carried outin August last year was limit-ed to 37%. Similarly, the shareof houses, costing less than Rs25 lakh each, registered inAugust last year was 35%. Lastmonth, the share of this cate-gory of houses dropped to 16per cent.

People are generally inclinedto buy houses that range

between 1000 and 2000 sft. Outof total registrations, propertieshaving the plinth area beween1000-2000 sft constituted 72per cent. The share of proper-ties in 2000-3000 sft from thetotal registered properties con-stituted only 7 per cent inAugust this year as against 9%last year. The following is theincome generated by way ofregistration of properties fromJan to Augst: January-Rs 3260crore, February-Rs 2838 crore,March-Rs 3135 crore, April-Rs2783 crore, May-Rs 3060 crore,June-Rs 2842 crore, July-Rs2101 crore and August Rs 2657crore.

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Around four lakh passengerstravelled by Hyderabad Metroon Friday, the day of Ganeshimmersion.

The highest passenger flowwas at the Khairtabad stationwhere around 40,000 peopleexited and about 22,500 peo-ple entered.

The second highest footfallwas at the LB Nagar stationwhere 22,629 people exitedand 22,063 people entered.

Officials of HyderabadMetro Rail Limited (HMRL)said that this was the highest

daily footfall witnessed afterCovid-19. The HyderabadMetro is divided into three cor-ridors. Corridor 1 starts fromMiyapur and ends at LB Nagar.

This route was used the moston immersion day as 1.8 lakhpassengers travelled along thiscorridor.

Corridor 2 starts from

Jubilee Bus Station (JBS) andends at Falaknuma. This cor-ridor recorded the least num-ber of passengers with just9,500 people taking it.

Corridor 3 starts at Nagoleand ends at Raidurg and about90,000 people travelled on theroute. A total of 2.8 lakh pas-sengers interchanged tripsbetween corridors.

Taking into considerationthe immersion of Ganesh idolsacross the city, the Metro hadextended its services till 2 am.The last train started at 1 amand reached its destination by2 am.

Four lakh passengers took Hyd Metro on Saturday

Chef, delivery boy arrested oncharge of assaulting each other

UP team arrives to study Telangana sand operationsCars of the elite create problems

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The Ganesh immersion processwhich began on Friday in the citycame to an end on Saturdayevening. As is the case every year,after the immersion the GreaterHyderabad MunicipalCorporation (GHMC) gets intoaction for cleaning of waste fromthe lake. According to officialreports, it has come to light thatapart from idols getting immersedin Hussain Sagar, about 90,000idols were immersed at the 74

baby ponds which were set up bythe GHMC across various loca-tions in the city.

GHMC officials revealed thattheir staff had removed 7334metric tons of garbage and wastefrom Hussain Sagar on Saturday.For getting the job done, 40 JCBsand 330 vehicles have already beendeployed at the lake which arecontinuously removing waste.Moreover, the staff has to use 27additional JCBs and 97 morevehicles because of the ganeshimmersion.

Kishan Reddy stated that Cherlapally RailwayStation will become the fourth major passengerterminal in the twin cities. The new terminal isbeing developed with modern facilities on parwith airports. The development works will becompleted by December 2023, he added.

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Cherlapally railway terminalwill be ready for inaugurationby December next year, saidUnion Minister for Tourism GKishan Reddy on Saturday. Itwill be the fourth largest ter-minal in the twin cities whenit is completed.

Kishan Reddy was inspect-ing the progress of the worksof the Cherlapally railway ter-minal. The Union Minister,during interaction with the

railway officials, advised themto complete the construction ofthe terminal by December nextyear. The officials agreed tospeed up the works thoughthey had earlier told the UnionMinister that the terminalwould be ready by February2024.

The traffic at three terminals,Secunderabad, Namapally andKacheguda, will ease when theCherlapally terminal is broughtinto service. The new terminalwould meet the growingdemand. Kishan Reddy stated

that Cherlapally RailwayStation would become thefourth major passenger termi-nal in the twin cities. The newterminal is being developedwith modern facilities on a parwith airports. The works on theterminal would be completedby December 2023, he added.The Union Minister appreci-ated the officials of the railwaysfor undertaking the project ina phased manner and statedthat the satellite terminal wouldprovide enhanced transportfacilities for rail passengers in

the twin cities of Hyderabadand Secunderabad. It wouldalso facilitate the mobility ofboth public and private trans-port as it is connected direct-ly with the Outer Ring Road(ORR). The railway officialswere praised for undertakingthe project by adopting ane n v i r o n m e n t - f r i e n d l yapproach such as translocationof trees, afforestation and rainwater harvesting. KishanReddy advised the officials tospeed up the works so as toensure timely completion ofthe project. The redevelop-ment of Secunderabad RailwayStation is also being under-taken with an expenditure ofRs 600 crore, he added.

Arun Kumar Jain, GeneralManager of the South CentralRailway (SCR) briefed theMinister about the project

details. He said as part of thedevelopment, several worksare in progress includingwidening of the existing islandplatform, new platforms alongwith a new line for MMTStrains, two Cover OverPlatform (COP) on new plat-forms and 1 COP on existingplatforms, Extension of FootOver Bridge for high levelplatforms, water pedestals onboth, the new platform andisland platform, lightningarrangements on both plat-forms.

The Minister was alsoaccompanied by NeerajAgarwal, CAO Construction, JK Jain, Principal ChiefMechanical Engineer, AKGupta, Divisional RailwayManager, Secunderabad divi-sion and other senior railwayofficials.

Union Minister for Tourism G Kishan Reddy, along with SCR General Manager Arun Kumar Jain, inspecting the progress ofworks of Cherlpally terminal in Hyderabad on saturday

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The Hayathnagar Police andthe Special Operations Team ofLB Nagar nabbed two inter-state drug peddlers and seized50 kg of ganja, a car and twomobile phones, worth Rs 17lakh.

The suspects, Shiva Reddy,Hanimi Reddy and Narsaiahwere engaged in transportingganja since two months. Theyhave contacts with ganja buy-ers in Hyderabad and wereprocuring ganja from Pderu inVisakhapatnam.

They used to buy ganja forRs 5,000 per kg and sell it to

consumers at Rs 20,000 per kg,police said. On Friday, theypurchased 25 packets of ganjawith each packet containing 2kg at Paderu, loaded it in theircar and left. On the way whenthey reached Dachepally in

Andhra Pradesh, Narsaiah gotdown from the vehicle statinghe has some urgent things todo. The other two started dri-ving towards Hyderabad viaMiryalaguda, Nalgonda andNarketpally. On Saturday ataround 10 am, theHayathnagar police intercept-ed their vehicle and nabbedthem. The arrests were madeunder the supervision ofRachakonda PoliceCommissioner MaheshBhagwat, Additional CPSudheer Babu, DCP LB NagarSunpreet Singh, DCP SOT K.Murlidhar and a team from theHayathnagar Police Station.

Two drug peddlers held, 50 kg ganja seized

7,334 metric tons of waste removedHUSSAIN SAGAR AFTER IMMERSION

BANJARA HILLS

They used to buy

ganja for Rs 5,000

per kg and sell it

to consumers at

Rs 20,000 per kg,

police said.

34 MMTSservicescancelledtoday

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The South Central Railway onSaturday announced the cancel-lation of 34 MMTS services onSunday. The SCR said the can-cellation is due to operationalreasons. The cancelled MMTSservices between Lingampalli-Hyderabad are 47129, 47132,47133, 47135, 47136, 47137,47138, 47139 and 47140 whilethe cancelled services betweenHderabad-Lingampalli include47105, 47109, 47110, 47111,47112, 47114, 47116, 47118 and47120. Between Falaknuma andLingampalli the services can-celled are 47153, 47164, 47165,47166, 47203, 47170 and 47220and between Lingampalli-Falaknuma the services can-celled are 47176, 47189, 47187,47210, 47190, 47191 and 47192.One service each betweenSecunderabad-Lingampalli(47150) and Lingampalli-Secunderabad (47195) is alsocancelled.

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Fed up of alcoholic husband,a woman allegedly committedsuicide at her house atChakripuram underKushaiguda area here.

The deceased was identifiedas Y Sushma (36). A mother oftwo children committed sui-cide, the police said. Her hus-band, Srimannarayana, whoearlier worked as a manager ina software company, had losthis job during the coronaviruspandemic. As he wasentrapped in financial diffi-culties, he took to alcohol, the

police said. As he continued todrink alcohol, the wife was fedup with him and resorted tothe extreme step.

5,181 properties worth Rs 2,657 crore registered

Officials told the UP delegates that TSMDChas secured a Management SystemCertificate from 190 9001:2015 Sand Salesthrough its sand sales monitoringmanagement system (online system) and E-Office File Management System

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Minister for Prohibition andExcise V Srinivas Goud onSaturday promised to ensureinstallation of statue of Ilammaby next year. The communityhall, which has been namedafter Chakali Ilamma, wouldbe completed soon, he said.

Speaking at a meetingorganised to pay tributes toChakali Ilamma on the occa-sion of her death anniversaryhere, the Minister said that shehad waged a battle for the pro-tection of vulnerable sectionsof people. He paid floral trib-utes to the portrait of ChakaliIlamma.

She had led a rebellionagainst the zamandari systemand razakars. Though she hadlost her son, she continued thefight against the exploiters.He praised her as a revolution-ary who sacrificed her life for

the cause of freedom. She wasthe first woman to dismantlethe supremacy of the feudallords.

Srinivas Goud further saidthe TRS government had allot-ted 2 acres of land and Rs 5crore for 'Atma GauraavaBhavan' in Hyderabad. He

exhorted the youth to emulatethe ideals of Chakala Ilamma.

Municipal Chairman K CNarasimhulu, Zilla GrandalayaSamasta president RajeswarGoud, DCCB vice-presidentKoramoni Venkatiah and theZila Rajaka Sangham represen-tatives were present.

‘Chakali Ilamma's statue willbe installed by next year’

Minister for Excise V Srinivas Goud paying tributes to Chakali Ilamma on theoccasion of her death anniversary in Mahabubnagar on Saturday

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Minister for Agriculture SNiranjan Reddy on Saturdaywarned the critics of 'directconsequences' if they failed tostop peddling lies.

Speaking at a meeting atGopalpet, the Minister saidthat, 'some people, by pump-ing illicitly amassed moneyinto a campaign, are makingarrogant statements andresorting to obfuscation offacts.' He warned that if thecritics stopped making suchbaseless allegations, they wouldbe dealt with in accordancewith the law of the land. Hewas responding to the criticismmade by YSRTP presidentSharmila during his visit to thedistrict on Friday.

Some vested interests weretrying to malign the govern-ment as they felt jealous ofdevelopment in the State. Theprevious government had

never sanctioned new pensionsunless the old pensioners died.Now, the TRS government hasbeen sanctioning new pen-sions to provide financial and

social security to the poor,Niranjan Reddy said. The pre-vious governments in theUnited Andhra Pradesh usedto pay a metre Rs 200 pension

and now, the State governmenthas increased the pension to Rs2,000.

Under the leadership ofChief Minister KChandrashekar Rao, water forirrigation was provided for anadditional 80 lakh acres. Thegovernment has been givingpensions to 50 lakh persons, hesaid. An additional 1 lakhacres has been brought underirrigation in Wanaparthy dis-trict. But, critics, like Sharmila,had been targeting the leaderswho were making all efforts toprovide welfare for all. Hechallenged Sharmila to contestfrom Munugode and win fromthere.

Zilla Parishad ChairmanLoknath Reddy and otherswere present.

Niranjan warns critics against peddling ‘lies'

Minister for Agriculture S Niranjan Reddy speaking at a meeting at Gopalpet in Wanaparthy district on Saturday

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Minister for Finance T HarishRao on Saturday ripped into theBJP government at the Centrefor imposing a ban on theexport of broken rice. TheCentre, he said, has been pur-suing 'dog in the manger' poli-cy.

Addressing a meeting, short-ly after taking part in the swear-ing-in-ceremony of AgricultureCommittee member atPatancheru, he recalled that theUnion government, during theYasangi season, advised theState to discourage farmersfrom cultivating paddy. Withirrigation projects coming up,Telangana has emerged as themain rice-producing State. Ithas, in fact, emerged a granaryof India, he said. Harish furtherobserved that Chief Minister KChandrashekar Rao had stageda protest in Delhi, demandingthat the Centre procure paddy.

A Central Minister had evenheaped insults on Telanganapeople by asking them to eat'broken rice' when the StateMinister for Agriculture SNiranjan Reddy requested theCentre to procure paddy.

The government wouldimpose curbs on the export offood grains only when there wasfood scarcity. But, there is nofood scarcity in the country atpresent. He asked the Centre to

spell out the reason for impos-ing a ban on the export of bro-ken rice. He said that there wasno clear vision for agriculture onthe part of the Union govern-ment. He recalled how CentralMinister Piyush Goel hadhumiliated Telangana peopleby asking them to eat brokenrice. Earlier, Harish Rao admin-istered the oath of office to thenew executive of PathancheruAgricultural Market committee

at a simple function. LocalMLA G Mahipal Reddy, MPKotta Prabhakar Reddy andothers graced the occasion.TheMinister said that the ChiefMinister gave 15 acres of valu-able land for construction of themarket committee office. TheChief Minister would soon laythe foundation stone for themedical college building inSangareddy and a 300-bed hos-pital at Pathancheru.

PNS n NAGARKURNOOL

A 22-year-old youth wasdrowned in MallelaTheertham perennial water-falls in Ambrabad TigerReserve Forest on Friday. Theyouth, while climbing downthe steep incline, slipped intothe waterfalls and drowned.According to local people, fiveyouths, identified as Alsam,Mansoor, Mannaan, Arif andFarhann, who hailed fromLingapally area in Hyderabad,visited several places, likeMaddimadugu View Point andSrisailam on Friday. Whilereturning, they wanted to takea bath in waterfalls. When theyouths were trekking down theincline to reach the waterfalls,Arif slipped into the waterfallsand drowned, the police said.His friends tried in vain to res-cue Arif. His friends, with thehelp of local people, retrievedthe body and shifted it toHyderabad.

PNS n WANAPARTHY

In a gruesome incident, aspurned lover murdered a19-year-old girl at Manajipetvillage under Ghanpur man-dal in the d is t r ic t onSeptember 5. Though theincident took place onSeptember 5, it came to lighton Friday. Srisailam, aftermurdering her, buried heron the banks of KLI canal.

According to p ol ice ,Srisailam, who hailed fromManajipet, fell in love withSai Priya when he was a stu-dent in Hyderabad. Sai Priyacame from Katedhan area inHyderabad. They decidedto marry. But Sai Priya'sparents rejected the mar-riage proposal and alsoasked her not to talk to

Srisaialm. According to the police,

Sai Priya, while pretendingto go to college, went toWanaparthy on September 5to meet Srisaialm. Srisailamand Sai Priya were class-

mates in a high school inHyderabad. Srisailam wentback to his native villageduring coronavirus pandem-ic.

Enraged by her rejectionfor marr iage, Sr isai lamstrangulated Sai Priya withher chunni on September 5.Later, he dragged her to KLIcanal and buried her there.

The gruesome incidentcame to light when SaiPriya 's parents went toManajipet to enquire abouttheir daughter. Srisailamsaid that the girl had goneback to Hyderabad. But, shecould not be traced.

Based on the complaint bySai Priya 's parents, thepolice took Srisailam intocustody and he spilled thebeans during interrogation.

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Millet festival has beenlaunched in the district on thedirection of Minister forIndustries K T Rama Rao. Hedirected the district adminis-tration to ensure that not a sin-gle child should suffer frommalnutrition, said DistrictCollector Anurag Jayanti.

Speaking after launchingthe millet festival on thepremises of the Zilla ParishadHigh School premises here onSaturday, along withMunicipal Chairman GKChakrapani, he said that a sur-vey by the State governmentshowed that 700 children inthe district were sufferingfrom moderate malnutritionand 200 from severe malnutri-tion. As part of the festival,children of Anganwadi centresare provided ragi (finger mil-let) laddus on Saturdays. Also,lactating and expectant moth-ers would be given nutritiousfood at the centres, he added.

On second Saturdays, peo-ple will be sensitised on theadvantages of a millet-basedfood festival. In fact, the fes-tival will benefit 36,000 chil-dren in 587 Anganwadi cen-ters. Realising the adverseimpact of anaemia on preg-nant women and children,the State government focusedon improving the nutrition ofwomen and children. The mil-let-based food festival will be

implemented with a mission-ary zeal in urban as well asrural areas, he said.

He thanked the MunicipalChairman and ward membersof Vemulavada Municipality,gram panchayat sarpanches,ward members, MPTCs andZPTCs for their cooperationto implement the programme.The programme would besuccessful only when there isparticipation of elected peo-ple's representatives, he said.

He visualised a greater rolefor the media in fightingagainst malnutrition. Thediseases like hypertension anddiabetes have been takingtheir toll on people as thecountry is developing. Somediseases are acquired due tolack of physical work andsome others are acquired forwant of nutritional deficiency.To fight against them, theweapon would be millets, hesaid.

PNS n KAMAREDDY

A class 5 student in BackwardClasses Boys Hostel died ofsnakebite on Saturday. The 12-year-old boy was identified asSairaj.

The authorities at the hos-tel admitted him to BirkoorGovernment Hospital whenthe body was found foamingat the mouth at midnight onFriday. He died while under-going treatment in hospital onSaturday. The students andhostel authorities found asnake sneaking into the roomand killed it.

The hostel authoritiesinformed the tragic news ofthe boy's death to his parentsin the early hours of Saturday.The relatives of the boy stageda sit-in outside the hostel andrefused to allow the body to beshifted to the hostel for post-

mortem. They demanded thatthe district officials order aprobe into the incident. Itwas alleged that the wardenwas conspicuously absentwhen the incident took place.

Meanwhile, DistrictCollector Jitesh V Patil orderedthe suspension of the hostelwarden R Sandeep.

PNS n MAHABUBNAGAR

Minister for Prohibition andExcise V Srinivas Goud hasdeclared open three cementconcrete roads developed inDharmapur village at a cost ofRs 15 lakh and said that he wasmaking efforts to developDharmapur, which is veryclose to Mahabubnagar.

After declaring open the CCroads, he distributed Asarapension cards among 61 per-

sons according to revisedguidelines. He also distributedKalyana Lakshmi cheques tothree beneficiaries. Addressingthe gathering, he said Rs 4.68lakh was being spent towardsAsara pensions in the villagecurrently as against Rs 64,500earlier.

He said that Rs 5.58 crorehas been disbursed towardsAsara pensions in the villageso far, while Rs 1,00116 hasbeen disbursed among 53

beneficiaries under KalyanaLakshmi. Under ShadiMubarak, financial assistancehas been extended to two per-sons. Under Rytu Bandhu, Rs3.48 crore has been disbursedin the district to benefit 610farmers in the village. UnderRytu Beema, bereaved familymembers of 10 farmers werebenefited. Under the CMRF,Rs 12,04,500 has been dis-bursed among 26 patients tosupport their cost of treat-

ment. Drinking water prob-lem, a major problem in thevillage, has been solved withthe help of the MissionBhagiradha.

Further, he said that Rs 1crore has been paid for build-ing pucca buildings for thegovernment school in the vil-lage, Rs 10 lakh has beengiven to build MudirajBhavan, Rs 5 lakh to buildcommunity hall of BudagaJangalu and Rs 5 lakh to build

Gouda association building.The government immediatelycomes to the rescue of the sick,he said adding that develop-ment is perceptible in newstate of Telangana.

Karivena reservoir has beenthrough and will provide irri-gation facility from next yearonwards, he said adding thatthe government will take stepsto fill the Dharmapur tank atany cost even by spending Rs100 crore.

Millet festival launchedin Sircilla district

Rajanna Sircilla District Collector feeding a millet-based snack to a child atAnganwadi centre in Sircilla on Saturday

Realising the adverse impact of

anaemia on pregnant women and

children, the State government

focused on improving the nutrition of

women and children.

Class 5 student in BChostel dies of snakebite

Minister distributes new Asara cards to beneficiaries

Youth drowned inMallela Theerthamwaterfalls

PNS n MEDAK

Goddess Vanadurga temple offamed Yedupayala pilgrimagecentre has been marooned byManjira river which is inspate. In fact, the river waterflooded the temple heavily assuch the water entered thetemple. The temple has beenshut temporarily. The priestshave been conducting puja tothe processional deities atthe temple's Raja Gopuram.Following heavy inflows intoSinguru project, the authori-ties are discharging the floodwater lifting six crest gates ofthe project. They have beenadvising the people living inthe downstream of the projectto remain alert.

Manjira waterfloods Vanadurgatemple

PNS n YADADRI BHUVANAGIRI

BJP MLA Eatala Rajender onSaturday felt that ChiefMinister K ChandrashekarRao cannot succeed innational politics. Infact, the ChiefMinister has lost theconfidence of peoplein the State.

Speaking at a mediaconference at the BJPoffice at Choutuppal,Rajender sought to drive hispoint home that KCR had lostthe trust of the four crorepeople in the State. He won-dered how the Chief Minister,who had lost the confidenceof people in the State, couldmobilise people at the nation-

al level. He demanded that the gov-

ernment install the statue ofChakali Ilamma on the Tank

Bund. He alsodemanded that

the governmentobser ve thedeath anniver-sary of ChakaliIlamma offi-

cially. He criticised

the State govern-ment for failing to take

action against the authoritiesfor serving food infested withworms in hostels. Heexpressed confidence thatthe Huzurabad result willrepeat in Munugode by-poll,he said.

Huzurbad result will repeatin Munugode by-poll, Eatala

PNS n AMARAVATI

Krishna and Penna riverscontinued their full flow inAndhra Pradesh as rainshave not stopped, keeping theofficial machinery on its toes.

The flood touched 4.43-lakh cusecs mark atPrakasam Barrage on riverKrishna at Vijayawada onSaturday afternoon, butremained steady, with thefirst warning signal in place.

The Somasila reservoir onriver Penna in SPS Nelloredistrict, too, received boun-tiful water, filling it up to91.40 per cent of full reser-voir-level. While the inflowwas recorded at 44,493cusecs, the outflow was50,745, according to Water

Resources InformationManagement System data.

The discharge fromGandikota reservoir in YSRKadapa district crossed35,000 cusecs and fromMylavaram 37,556 cusecs.

According to the StateDisaster ManagementAuthority, the flood flow wasless at Srisailam reservoir onriver Krishna with reducedinflows from upstream.

With a discharge of 4.50lakh cusecs at Srisailam, theflow into the downstreamNagarjuna Sagar increased to3.93 lakh cusecs by theevening.

Further down, the Dr K LRao Sagar Pulichintala reser-voir, too, received 3.92 lakhcusecs of water but the out-

flow has been regulated to3.41 lakh cusecs as a floodcushion of 9.77 thousandmillion cubic feet remained.

According to VijayawadaIrrigation Circle VijayawadaSuperintending Engineer

(SE) Sesham Tirumala Rao,as of now about 4,23,385cusecs of flood inflows arebeing received at thePrakasam Barrage.

About 4,17,270 cusecs ofwater was released down-

stream of the PrakasamBarrage and the remainingreleased into canals, he said.Meanwhile, Ranadive Nagar,Saibaba Gudi, and SatyamGari Doddi areas were inun-dated by floods downstream

of the Prakasam Barrage.Because of the constructionof the Retaining Wall to pre-vent the flood, several areasare not affected by the flood.According to the NTRDistrict Collector S Dilli Rao,a few houses were submergedin floodwater.

He visited several areas andinteracted with local peopleand warned them about theflood. Later, he said thatabout 14 houses were inun-dated in the VijayawadaCentral constituency, and 12houses in Vijayawada Eastconstituency.

Further, he said that arehabilitation centre wasarranged at the PSRMunicipal High School inKrishna Lanka.

Officials on toes as Krishna, Penna continue to overflow

BAN ON EXPORT OF BROKEN RICE

Harish Rao rips into Union govt

Minister for Finance T Harish Rao speaking at a meeting at Patancheru on Saturday

The Minister said

that the Chief

Minister gave 15

acres of valuable

land for

construction of

the market

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Amaravati farmers gearingup for ‘Maha Padayatra 2.0'PNS n VIJAYAWADA

After the Andhra PradeshHigh Court permitted the'Maha Padayatra', prepara-tions are in full swing byfarmers to demand the devel-opment of Amaravati as theState capital. AmaravatiParirakshana Samithi (APS)and Joint Action Committee(JAC) of Amaravati farmerswill launch 'Maha Padayatra'on September 12 fromVenkatapalem in Thullurmandal at 5 am as per the'mahurat' fixed by the priests.The participants will beginthe walkathon after perform-ing 'puja' at VenkateswaraSwamy temple in

Venkatapalem.The walkathon with the

slogan 'Build Amaravati SaveAndhra Pradesh' is proposedto conclude at Arasavalli inSrikakulam district onNovember 11 after passingthrough 16 districts. It isaimed at mounting pressureon the government to com-plete the constructions andinfrastructure creation inAmaravati as ordered by theHigh Court on March 3. Aspecial 'Srivari Rath' preparedfor the 'Padayatra' will beformally flagged off at 9 am.The organisers have invitedleaders of all political partiesbarring the ruling YSRCongress Party (YSRCP).

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Dry Bihar funds women to makebangles from seized liquor bottles

Bihar, a dry state, isencouraging rural womento make glass bangles

from seized liquor bottles in aneffort to reduce waste and alsoprovide them livelihood. TheProhibition Department of thestate government has sanc-tioned Rs 1 crore as seedmoney for setting up bangle

manufacturing units with women linked to the rural livelihood pro-gramme 'JEEViKA' at the helm. Large quantities of alcohol are seizedevery year in the state and the authorities often find it difficult to dis-pose of the confiscated bottles, Prohibition and Excise Minister SunilKumar told PTI. "Seized liquor bottles are crushed using earthmoversresulting in colossal waste. As a part of this initiative, the departmentwill now provide the crushed bottles as raw materials to JEEViKAworkers for manufacturing glass bangles. A group of JEEViKA workersis being trained for making glass bangles by the Rural DevelopmentDepartment," he said.

Naxalite carrying Rs 10L rewardsurrenders before police

A27-year-old Naxalitecarrying a reward of Rs10 lakh on his head

surrendered before the policein the insurgency-hit Bijapurdistrict of Chhattisgarh onSaturday, an official said.Lallu Modiyan, a member ofthe Jharkhand RegionalCommittee, surrendered

before the police citing indiscrimination and exploitation in thebanned organisation, he said. The surrendered Naxalite was carryinga reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head, he said. Modiyam had joinedthe Naxal movement in June 2009 as a PLGA member of GangaloorArea Committee and was tasked with sending messages andkeeping a watch on the police, the official said. Modiyam waselevated as area committee member in the guard team of the centralcommittee member Sudhakar in 2014.

Light rainfall recorded in parts ofDelhi, more likely over next 5 days

Parts of Delhi receivedlight to moderaterainfall on Saturday

with the maximumtemperature settling at 36.8degrees Celsius, threenotches above normal,according to the IndiaMeteorological Department.The city is likely to receive

light rainfall over the next five days, the IMD said. The nationalcapital recorded a minimum temperature of 27.6 degrees Celsius,two notches above normal, it said. A brief spell of light to moderaterainfall was reported in several areas including Mukherjee Nagar,GTB Nagar, Vijay Nagar, Civil Lines, Dilshad Garden, Seemapuri andKashmere Gate. The relative humidity at 5:30 pm was recorded at64 per cent.

INDIA CORNER

‘Cong can only practice votebank, appeasement politics’PNS n JAIPUR

Home Minister Amit Shahon Saturday targeted RahulGandhi over the 'Bharat JodoYatra', saying the Congressleader had once said India isnot a nation and is now outto "unite" the country wear-ing a "foreign-make" T-shirt.

Addressing the RajasthanBJP's booth functionaries,he also hit out at the stategovernment over the murderof Udaipur tailor KanhaiyaLal by Muslim extremistsand the Karauli violence andalleged the Congress canonly practice politics of votebank and appeasement.

Taking aim at Gandhi, hesaid, "I want to remind Rahulbaba and other Congressmembers about his speechgiven in Parliament. Rahulbaba had said India is not anation. Rahul baba, in whichbook have you read this?This is the nation for whichlakhs and lakhs of peoplehave sacrificed their lives."

"The one who said India isnot a nation is now on a yatra

to unite India wearing for-eign T-shirt," he said, refer-ring to the the BJP's swipe atthe Congress leader for wear-

ing a Burberry T-shirtreportedly costing over Rs41,000.

Gandhi is out to "con-nect" Bharat but he needs tostudy Indian history first,Shah said.

He claimed the Congresscannot work for develop-ment. "It can only work forappeasement and vote bankpolitics."

The Congress, he said, willbe left with nothing after theBJP forms government inRajasthan and Chhatttisgarh,the only two states where itis in power on its own.

PNS n NEW DELHI/KOLKATA

The ED on Saturday said it hasseized more than Rs 7 crore incash after it raided the promot-ers of a Kolkata-based mobilegaming app company as part ofa money-laundering investiga-tion.

A picture released by the fed-eral agency showed bundles ofseized Rs 500 currency notesalong with a few in the denom-ination of Rs 2,000 and Rs 200stacked together on a bed. Thesearches were conducted athalf-a-dozen locations of thegaming app named 'E-Nuggets'and its promoter identified asAamir Khan and others, theEnforcement Directorate saidin a statement. "So far, morethan Rs 7 crore in cash hasbeen found at the premises and

the counting is still inprogress," the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) said. Themoney laundering case stemsfrom an FIR filed by theKolkata Police against the com-pany and its promoters inFebruary 2021. This FIR wasregistered at the Park Street

Police Station based on a com-plaint filed by the Federal Bankauthorities before a court inKolkata, the ED said.

Aamir Khan, son of NesarAhmed Khan, launched mobilegaming application E-Nuggetswhich was designed to defraudthe public, the agency alleged.

PNS n BENGALURU

The ruling BJP in Karnatakaon Saturday celebrated itsthree years in office, puttingout a major show of strengthattended by Chief MinisterBasavaraj Bommai and UnionMinister Smriti Irani amongothers, with over 2 lakh peo-ple said to have participated inthe event.

The 'Jana Spandana' (publicresponse) campaign, held inthe Rural Bengaluru districtalso marked Bommai's oneyear at the helm, and cameafter suffering three earlierpostponements, one of themin the backdrop of the outrageover the killing of a Hinduactivist in July. According toBommai, two lakh people

from various parts of the stateattended the party's grandevent, held ahead of nextyear's assembly elections in thesouthern state.

Irani, Union Minister forWoman and Child Welfare, inher address targeted Congressleader Rahul Gandhi over his'Bharat Jodo Yatra', askinghim who has harmed theunity of the country thatrequired the opposition partyto take out such a campaign,covering about 3,500 km fromKanyakumari in Tamil Naduto Kashmir. Making an indi-rect reference to Congressleader Kanhaiya Kumar, shetook a dig at Gandhi for beingin the company of peoplewho allegedly chanted "anti-India" slogans.

PNS n INDORE

A 70-year-old doctor in Indorein Madhya Pradesh was dupedallegedly by a man posing as amilitary havildar, a police offi-cial said on Saturday. DrRajkumar Mathur was calledby a man who identified him-self as an Army havildar post-ed in Jammu and Kashmir,said Tilaknagar police stationin charge Manju Yadav. "Theaccused said his youngerbrother required surgery forkidney stones for which heneeded Rs 60,000. Amid theconversation on online trans-fer of this amount, the accusedmanaged to siphon off Rs93,871 from the doctor'saccount," Yadav said.

PNS n NEW DELHI

Veteran archaeologist andPadma Vibhushan awardee BB Lal died on Saturday aged101. Prime Minister NarendraModi paid rich tributes, sayinghe will be remembered as agreat intellectual who "deep-ened our connect with our richpast".

Lal served as the directorgeneral of the ArchaeologicalSurvey of India (ASI) from1968 to 1972. He had report-edly found temple-like pillarsduring excavation at theAyodhya site in the mid-70s,where the Ram temple is nowbeing built.

Modi paid homage to himand tweeted: "Shri B B Lal wasan outstanding personality.His contributions to cultureand archaeology are unparal-leled. He will be rememberedas a great intellectual whodeepened our connect withour rich past. Pained by hisdemise. My thoughts are withhis family and friends. OmShanti."

Prof B B Lal, as he was fond-ly addressed, was one of theyoungest directors general ofASI, and left an extraordinarylegacy behind.

Former Additional Director

General of ASI, B R Mani wasamong several scholars andsenior officials of ASI whoattended Lal's funeral at Lodhicrematorium here.

"He was a tall figure and aveteran archaeologist. He wasmy teacher and mentored fourgenerations. I met his familymembers to express my condo-lences. His son told me that hedied Saturday around 8:40 amat his home in Hauz Khas,"Mani told PTI.

Asked about the excavationin Ayodhya which Lal led, hesaid, "The site was near Babri

Masjid. It took place in themid-1970s, but no report wasmade on it.

Officials said he had servedas one of the youngest direc-tors general of the ASI.

The ASI in a tweet, said:"The contribution of PadmaVibhushan Prof B B Lal inArchaeology is beyond mea-sure. A doyen in his field, hedevoted his entire 101-year lifeto the subject. He may begone but his work lives on andwill continue to teach andinfluence generations to come.Our homage to the great soul."

PNS n KIBITHU

The strategically key Kibithumilitary garrison on the banksof Lohit Valley along the Lineof Actual Control and a keyroad in this mountain hamletwere on Saturday named afterIndia's first Chief of DefenceStaff Gen Bipin Rawat, aroundnine months after he died in ahelicopter crash.

As a young Colonel, Rawatcommanded his Battalion 5/11Gorkha Rifles at Kibithu from1999-2000 and contributedimmensely to strengtheningthe security structure in thearea.

The military garrison looksafter the Line of Actual Control(LAC) in the sensitive sector.

Chinese People's LiberationArmy's Rima post is just oppo-site the Indian garrison.

Nestled in the mountainousand arduous terrain of the LohitValley, Kibithu is located nearthe LAC and is the eastern-mostmilitary garrison of India. The

small hamlet is inhabited byMeyor and Jarkin tribes. Lack ofsurface connectivity with thenearest road head at Meshaiprecluded movement to Kibithuwhich was air maintained till aslate as 1997. A foot suspensionbridge (FSB 17) was the sole

link to the eastern bank of theLohit River.

The garrison and the 22 km-long road stretch from Walongto Kibithu were named afterGen Rawat at a ceremonyattended by Governor ofArunachal Pradesh Brigadier(retd) BD Mishra, ChiefMinister Pema Khandu, EasternArmy Commander Lt GenRana Pratap Kalita and GenRawat's daughter Tarini.

Speaking on the occasion,Chief Minister Khanduannounced a financial packageof Rs 10 crore to make the gar-rison one of the best militarystations in forward locations.

Governor Mishra said GenRawat's contributions tostrengthening the country's

defence structures are unparal-leled. The Kibithu militarycamp was renamed Gen BipinRawat Military Garrison where-in a grand gate built in local tra-ditional architectural style wasinaugurated by the governor.

The 22 km road stretch fromWalong to Kibithu was dedicat-ed as Gen Bipin Rawat Marg byChief Minister Khandu.

A majestic life-size mural ofGen Rawat was also unveiled.

Gen Rawat was killed in ahelicopter crash near Coonoorin Tamil Nadu on December 8last year along with his wifeMadhulika and 12 armed forcespersonnel. Bad weather leadingto a phenomenon calledControlled Flight Into Terrain(CFIT) was identified as the

prime reason for the crash ofthe IAF helicopter. Rawat wasposthumously conferred India'ssecond-highest civilian hon-our Padma Vibhushan earlythis year.

The Army said Gen Rawat'svision and foresight were instru-mental in implementing theinfrastructural developmentand ensuring societal progressin the area.

"Gen Bipin Rawat's untime-ly demise in December 2021 leftan irreplaceable void in thecountry," the Army said.

During his tenure, GenRawat significantly upgradedthe garrison, synergised civil-military relations with the localsand formalised the BorderPersonnel Meeting mechanism.

PNS n GORAKHPUR

National Education Technology Forum Chairman AnilSahastrabu ddhe here onSaturday exuded confidencethat India will emerge as aworld leader by its centenaryyear of Independence, forwhich the new educationpolicy will play a vital role."India will not just developbut also lead the world bythe centenary year ofIndependence. The neweducation policy will play avital role in it as it aims at theoverall development of stu-dents, society and thenation," he said attending aseminar at Madan MohanMalaviya University ofTechnology. The event wasorganised on the 53rd deathanniversary of MahantDigvijaynath and eighthdeath anniversary ofMahant Avaidyanath.Remembering SwamiVivekananda, he said everychild has talent, which needsto be recognised and carriedforward. "In 1967, MahantDigvijaynath raised the voicein Parliament for an educa-tion system based on nation-alism and now his thoughtscan be seen in the new edu-cation police," he said.

PNS n CHANDIGARH

Almost 100 days after singerSidhu Moosewala was shotdead, Punjab Police on Saturdayarrested the sixth and lastshooter allegedly involved in hiskilling.

Deepak Mundi, along withtwo of his associates, was arrest-ed in a joint operation with theDelhi Police and central agen-cies from the West Bengal-Nepal border, Punjab DirectorGeneral of Police Gaurav Yadavsaid.

The two associates have beenidentified as Kapil Pandit andRajinder, and they have beenaccused of providing logisticsupport and weapons to theshooters.

"In a major breakthrough,@PunjabPoliceInd , in a jointoperation with central agencies

& #DelhiPolice, have arrestedDeepak @ Mundi, abscondingshooter of #SidhuMoosewala,with 2 associates. Major victo-ry in war against drugs & gang-sters on directions of CM@BhagwantMann," the DGPsaid in a tweet.

"Deepak, Kapil Pandit &Rajinder have been arrestedtoday by #AGTF team at#WestBengal-#Nepal border in

the culmination of intelligence-based operation. Deepak wasthe shooter in Bolero module,Kapil Pandit & Rajinder pro-vided logistical support includ-ing weapons & hideouts," hesaid in another tweet.

Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu,popularly known as SidhuMoosewala, was shot dead inPunjab's Mansa district onMay 29, a day after the statepolice had pruned his securitycover on a temporary basis.

He, along with his friend andcousin, was driving to JawaharKe village in Mansa when sixshooters waylaid his vehicleand sprayed bullets into him.

After the killing, Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar,who is a member of theLawrence Bishnoi gang, hadclaimed responsibility for themurder. Police had identified

six shooters -- Priyavrat Fauji,Kashish, Ankit Sersa, DeepakMundi, Manpreet Singh andJagrup Singh Roopa -- whowere part of the two modulesallegedly involved in the killing.

While the special cell of theDelhi Police had nabbed Fauji,Kashish and Sersa, the PunjabPolice neutralised Roopa andManpreet in an encounter inAmritsar. In the 1,850-pagechargesheet filed in a Mansacourt last month, the PunjabPolice had said Brar had coor-dinated with gangstersLawrence Bishnoi, JagguBhagwanpuria and some oth-ers to execute Moosewala'skilling. According to thechargesheet, Brar had given theinformation on Moosewala'ssecurity withdrawal to theshooters and had asked them tohurry up and kill him.

PNS n BHUBANESWAR

Union Environment MinisterBhupender Yadav on Saturdaysaid India needs to buildresilience among people living incoastal areas with the changingclimate across the globe.

India's coastline is ofimmense strategic, economicand social importance to thecountry, he said.

Addressing the first NationalConference on SustainableCoastal Management in Indiahere, the minister said, "With thechanging climate, we need tobuild the resilience of commu-nities living in coastal areas."

A programme on enhancingclimate resilience of coastalcommunities is being imple-mented in partnership with theUnited Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP) in Odisha,Andhra Pradesh and TamilNadu.

Supported by the GreenClimate Fund (GCF), the initia-tive is integrating ecosystem

and community-basedapproaches to adaptation intocoastal management and plan-ning. Spanning 7,500 kilome-tres, India's coastline is the sev-enth longest in the world, andis home to 20 per cent of the

country's population, he said."Three of our four metropolitancities lie on the coast. There isa great diversity of ecosystemswithin our coastal regions thatsupport more than 17,000species of plants and animals,"

Yadav said. The minister alsostated that the conference isbeing held at an important timeas India has submitted itsrevised NDCs and seeks to cre-ate multi-sectoral partnershipsto meet the targets. Nationally

determined contributions(NDCs) embody efforts by eachcountry to reduce nationalemissions and adapt to theimpacts of climate change. Theobjective of the conference is tobring officials from all 13 coastalstates of the country under oneroof to focus on three interre-lated themes of coastal andmarine biodiversity, climatemitigation and adaptation andcoastal pollution, an officialsaid.

The endeavour is aimed atcreating a vibrant network ofstakeholders so that they contin-ue to engage with each other onvarious topics and themes suchas coastal governance, tech-nologies and innovation as wellas domestic and internationalfinance, he said.

Data-driven policies andmanagement frameworks, par-ticipatory conservation models,and convergence among stake-holders are the key pillars foreffective coastal management,the official added.

Taking aim atGandhi, he said, "Iwant to remindRahul baba andother Congressmembers about hisspeech given inParliament. Rahulbaba had said Indiais not a nation

ED seizes over Rs 7 cr in cash afterraids on gaming app operators

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Veteran archaeologist B B Lalpasses away, PM pays tribute

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Last shooter arrested from West Bengal-Nepal border

Key military garrison named after Gen Bipin Rawat

MOOSEWALA MURDER CASE

HYDERABAD | SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 11, 2022money 06

MONEY MATTERS

Employees at thefactory of auto majorFord here have set

their expectations for apositive outcome on thetripartite talks scheduled tobe held next week todiscuss the severancepackage offered by the US-based automobilemanufacturer.Thedevelopment comes in the

backdrop of the recent announcement by Ford India which had saidthat it has continuously made efforts to negotiate a 'fair andreasonable' severance package with the union, spanning 68 meetingsincluding discussions with senior government officials soon after thecompany's business restructuring exercise was announced inSeptember 2021.Maintaining that the company always cared for itsemployees, Ford said its attempts to negotiate a fair severancepackage did not yield results because of the union's 'unreasonable'demands.Responding to it, Ford India Employees Unionrepresentatives said the company has left out the tax deduction onthe severance package as the employees would be receiving ameagre amount despite serving for several years."The factory hasbeen shut since August 31 and so far no employees are present atthe unit now. Only businesses like after sales (service), sale of partsare being done now. We are not even allowed to enter the factory.

Ford employees hope forbetter severance package

BHIVE Group, whichis into co-workingand fintech

investment platform forcommercial real estate,has got a 60 per centcommitment frominvestors for its Rs-400crore fund.TheBengaluru-based firm issetting up Rs 400 crorefund.In a statement, the

company said it has got "commitment of Rs 240 crore for its Rs-400crore AIF Scheme - BHIVE Commercial Real Estate OpportunitiesFund Series 1."The fund is expected to have its first close bySeptember 30.BHIVE will deploy this capital to curate primecommercial real estate properties. The category II close-ended fundwill offer a unique opportunity to High Net-worth Individuals (HNIs)and family owned businesses looking to participate in thecommercial real estate growth story."The fund will acquire fullycompleted commercial real estate properties at prime locations withclear titles and occupancy certificates, in a range of Rs 20-100crore," BHIVE said.The co-working firm will ensure leasing of theassets. The targeted Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is 20-24 per cent.

BHIVE setting up Rs 400-crore fundto invest in commercial realty

The CompetitionCommission of India hasdismissed a complaint

filed by JSW Paints, allegingunfair business practicesagainst paint manufacturerAsian Paints with regard tothe latter misusing itsdominant position and furtherdenying access to the market.In an order dated September

8, the anti-trust regulator said no prima facie case of contravention ofthe provisions of either section 3 or 4 of the Competition Act is madeout against Asian Paints.Accordingly, the fair trade regulator disposedof the complaint filed by JSW Paints.JSW Paints had alleged thatafter they launched their decorative paints segment, Asian Paintsbegan to pressurise and target the dealers who had agreed to stockand display their decorative paints manufactured by thecompany.Further, the complainant had stated that they were planningto launch its products in the south and west India. However, they hadbeen denied access to the market even in these states and faced thesame resistance in other regions due to coercive action taken byAsian Paints against the dealers.Thereafter, a probe was ordered bythe anti-trust regulator in 2020 after the complaint filed by JSWPaints.Sections 3 and 4 of the Competition Act deal with anti-competitive agreements and abuse of dominant market positions,respectively.In its 45-page order, the commission notes that JSWadded 1,591 dealers over FY 2019-20 and FY 2020-21, while AsianPaints added only 1,217 new dealers during the same period.However, the figure of dealers clearly demonstrates that JSW Paints'entry into the market has not been obstructed as they claimed it.

Competition Comm dismissescomplaint against Asian Paints

PNS n LOS ANGELES

India has recently signedtwo trade agreements withthe UAE and Australia andis hopeful of concluding thenegotiations for two moresuch pacts by the end of thisyear, C ommerce andIndustry Minister PiyushGoyal has said.

Negotiations for a freetrade agreement (FTA) withthe UK is expected to beconcluded this month, whiletalks with Canada for a dealare progressing at a rapidpace.

Goyal said two FTAs havealready been finalised thisyear and he is hoping for theconclusion of at least twomore by the end of thisyear.

He was addressing anevent hosted by the US-India Strategic Partnership

Forum here.Under a free trade agree-

ment, two trading partnersreduce or eliminate customsduties on the maximumnumber of goods tradedbetween them.

Besides, they liberalisenorms to enhance trade inservices and boost invest-ments.

He also said both the gov-ernments of India and theUS desire to strengthen eco-nomic relations and strate-gic partnership, adding thatthe strong bond with thepeople of the US will tran-scend into business and gov-ernment rapidly.

India is on course tobecoming a USD 30 trillioneconomy in next 25-30years, he said, asking theIndian diaspora to grab theopportunity that the growthstory of India offers.

PNS n NEW DELHI

Hindustan PetroleumCorporation Ltd (HPCL) hascollaborated with the IndianArmy for implementing a CSRproject to coach and mentorless-privileged girl students inKargil, a company statementsaid.The project -- 'Kargil IgnitedMinds' -- aims to prepare 50 girlstudents for various national-level engineering and medicalentrance examinations.It will focus on empowering theunderprivileged girls with lim-ited resources, residing inextreme weather conditions.The selection of students forthis project is through a rigor-ous process involving screening,preliminary test and inter-

views."HPCL has collaboratedwith the Indian Army to pro-vide a learning platform 'KargilIgnited Minds' for coaching andmentoring aspiring but less-privileged girl students of KargilRegion in UT Ladakh," thestatement said.Through a residential coachingprogram in the premises ofIndian Army at Kargil, theaspirants shall prepare forNEET, JEE and other entranceexams under supervision andguidance of 'Fire and FuryCorps' of the army."The projectshall enhance knowledge, skilland personality development ofaspiring students," it said.TheMoU signing ceremony forProject 'Kargil Ignited Minds'was held at Headquarters 14Corps, Leh.

PNS n LOS ANGELES

India has as of now opted outof the trade pillar of the 14-member Indo-Pacific EconomicFramework (IPEF), but hasdecided to join the remainingthree subjects pertaining tosupply chains, clean economyand fair economy.

Briefing media after the con-clusion of the two-day IPEFministerial meet here,Commerce and Industry min-ister Piyush Goyal said thatIndia would continue to engagewith the trade track in theIPEF and will wait for the finalcontours to be decided on thetrade pillar before it formallyjoins that pillar.

"On one pillar which dealsprimarily with trade, the con-tours of the framework partic-

ularly, any commitmentsrequired on environment,labour, the digital trade, publicprocurement are certain areas inwhich a broader consensus hasyet to emerge amongst all thenations.

"We have yet to see what ben-efits member countries willderive and whether any condi-

tionalities on, for example, theenvironment may discriminateagainst developing countrieswho have the imperative to pro-vide low-cost and affordableenergy to meet the needs of agrowing economy," Goyal hastold reporters here.

All the other 13 Indo-PacificEconomic Framework for pros-

perity countries have joinedthe four pillars -- trade, supplychains, clean economy and faireconomy.A ministerial state-ment on three subjects -- sup-ply chains, clean economy, andfair economy -- and a ministe-rial text on trade pillar wasissued after the ministerialmeeting.While India was men-

tioned in three statements aboutsupply chains, clean economy,and fair economy, there was nomention of India in the minis-terial text about the trade pillar.

The IPEF was launched joint-ly by the US and other partnercountries of the Indo-Pacificregion on May 23 in Tokyo. The14 IPEF partners represent 40per cent of global GDP and 28per cent of global goods and ser-vices trade.The framework isstructured around four pillarsrelating to trade, supply chains,clean economy, and fair econ-omy (issues like tax and anti-corruption).Goyal also said that"India, while continuing toengage with the trade track inthe IPEF, will wait for the finalcontours to be decided beforewe formally associate with thetrade track".

PNS n NEW DELHI

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani'sReliance Industries Ltd hasacquired polyester chips andyarn manufacturerShubhalakshmi Polyesters Ltdfor Rs 1,592 crore, the compa-ny said in a stock exchange fil-ing."Reliance Petroleum RetailLtd (under name change to'Reliance Polyester Ltd'), awholly owned subsidiary of thecompany, today executeddefinitive documents toacquire polyester business ofShubhalakshmi Polyesters Ltdand Shubhlaxmi Polytex Ltdfor cash consideration of Rs1,522 crore and Rs 70 crorerespectively, aggregating to Rs

1,592 crore by way of slumpsale on a going concern basis,"the firm said.The deal is sub-ject to approval of theCompetitiorn Commission ofIndia (CCI) and the respectivelenders of SPL and SPTex.Theacquisition will strengthen thetextile manufacturing busi-

ness of Reliance.SPL producespolyester fibre, yarns and tex-tile-grade chips through directpolymerisation as well asextruder spinning with valueaddition through texturising. Ithas a continuous polymerisa-tion capacity of 2,52,000tonnes per year.

PNS n NEW DELHI

Nayara Energy, India's secondbiggest private oil refiner, onSaturday announced theappointment of Prasad KPanicker as the new chairman ofthe company with effect fromOctober 3.Panicker, who cur-rently is Director and Head ofRefinery at Nayara, will replace

Charles Anthony (Tony)Fountain, whose five-year termis ending, the company said ina statement.Russia's Rosneft-backed Nayara operates a 20-million-tonnes-a-year capacityoil refinery at Vadinar in Gujaratand over 6,500 petrol pumps inthe country."Despite a very chal-lenging external environment,Nayara Energy has developed a

clearly articulated strategy for aphased expansion into petro-chemicals. The first phase of thatdevelopment plan, the expansioninto polypropylene, will be deliv-ered next year," it said.

Nayara has significantlyexpanded and focused its CSR(Corporate SocialResponsibility) role with a com-mitment to ensure that the com-

munities in which it operatesdevelop and grow alongsideit."At the new stage of its growthjourney, Nayara Energy wouldfocus on implementation of itscutting-edge asset developmentprogramme to transform itselfinto an integrated petrochemi-cal producer, while continuingthoughtful implementation of itsESG initiatives, with strong

impact on employees and localcommunity well-being and envi-ronmental sustainability."In hisnew role, Panicker will deploy hisoutstanding technological expe-rience and excellent knowledgeof the local Indian market to leadNayara Energy through a newset of strategic priorities withstrong focus on developmentprojects," the statement said.

PNS n NEW DELHI

RRPR Holding, the promotergroup firm of NDTV, does notrequire any approval from theIncome Tax Department for theconversion of warrants intoequity shares, Adani Groupfirm VCPL has informed themedia company.

In a regulatory filing, NDTVsaid RRPR Holding and thecompany has received a letterfrom VishvapradhanCommercial Private Ltd(VCPL) informing that theAdani Group firm hadapproached the IT departmenton the issue, which in its reply

said no such restriction applieson the conversion of warrants.

"The reply dated September7, 2022, from the AdditionalCommissioner of Income Tax,Central Range-02, New Delhiconfirming there are no restric-tions on RRPRH acting on theVCPL exercise of the option forconverting its warrants into99.50 per cent equity shares ofRRPRH," said NDTV in a late-night filing on Friday, whileupdating about the VCPL's let-ter.

VCPL has also sent a letter tomarket regulator Sebi onSeptember 8, 2022 about itscommunication with the

Income Tax Authority, the fil-ing said.Earlier this monthRRPR Holding informed VCPL,which along with two otherAdani group firms has launcheda hostile takeover bid for themedia firm, that its stakehold-ing in NDTV has been provi-sionally attached by the I-Tauthorities and requires theirapproval for the transfer.NDTVhad said that its foundersRadhika and Prannoy Roy haveinformed that RRPR Holdinghas intimated VCPL that theattachment of the shareholding,notified in 2018, shall remain inplace until the completion ofreassessment proceedings.

PNS n NEW DELHI

Adani Group's Rs 31,000-crore open offer to acquire 26per cent additional stakes inSwiss firm Holcim's twoIndian listed entities ACCLtd and Ambuja Cementsclosed on Friday amid lack-lustre response from publicshareholders.

According to the latest reg-ulatory filing by ACC Ltd, till6.40 pm on Friday, around40.51 lakh equity shares weretendered against the originaloffer of 4.89 crore shares,which is just 8.28 per cent.

Similarly, for AmbujaCements only 1.35 per cent ofshares were tendered.

According to the latest reg-ulatory updates on Saturdaymorning, only 6.97 lakhshares of Ambuja Cementshave been tendered in theescrow demat account com-pared to the original offer for51.63 crore shares from thepublic shareholders.

The offer for both compa-nies opened on August 26,2022.

In May, the Adani Grouphad made an open offer at Rs2,300 per share for ACC and

Rs 385 per share for AmbujaCements Ltd following itsdeal to acquire a controllingstake in Holcim's businessesin India for USD 10.5 billion.

The open offer was estimat-ed at over Rs 31,000 crore iffully subscribed.

However, on Friday whenthe open offer ended, sharesof ACC Ltd settled at Rs2,365 on the BSE, 2.82 percent higher than the offerprice.Ambuja Cements settledat Rs 453.90 on the BSE,which is 17.89 per cent high-er than the offer price.

Though on Friday, whichwas the last of the open offer,ACC had reported a spurt involume by more than 2.13times, while Ambuja Cementstraded at a new 52-week high

of Rs 484.70 per share.The letter of offer for the

open offer was launched bythe Adani family group'sMauritius-based firmEndeavour Trade andInvestment.

Endeavour Trade andInvestment is promoted byAcropolis Trade andInvestment Ltd, which is heldby certain members of theAdani family.

On May 15, the AdaniGroup announced a deal toacquire a controlling stake inHolcim Ltd's businesses inIndia for USD 10.5 billion(around Rs 83,920 crore cur-rent value), marking theports-to-energy conglomer-ate's entry into the cementsector.

Adani’s offer for ACC, AmbujaCements gets lukewarm response

India opts out of IPEF's trade pillar; to await final shape

Income Tax Dept approval not required forwarrant conversion by RRPR Holding:NDTV

Hopeful of conclusion ofat least two more tradedeals by year-end: Goyal

HPCL collaborates with IndianArmy for CSR project in Kargil

PNS n CHENNAI

India was home for over onehundred unicorns with a totalvalue of USD 250 billion whichhave managed to raise overUSD 63 billion in the last fewyears, Union Finance andCorporate Affairs MinisterNirmala Sitharaman said hereon Saturday.

Nearly 25 per cent of thestart-ups in the Silicon Valleywere managed by people ofIndian origin and it was amatter of pride, she said at anevent here.

The start-up eco-system wasbuilt well in the country and allthe one hundred unicorns werevalued at USD 250 billion andhave managed to raise overUSD 63 billion from the capi-tal markets, she said addressingnew graduates at the 10th

Convocation of the IndianInstitute of InformationTechnology, Design andManufacturing, Kancheepuramnear here.

"I am saying all these thingsbecause, even as you graduatefrom here, you all can becomeentrepreneurs and create jobsfor others. It is not the world

were entrepreneurship is wor-risome or entrepreneurshiphas risks. It may have had therisks, (but) it is possible for youall to become entrepreneursyourself," she said.

"Twenty-five per cent of thestart-ups in the Silicon Valleyare managed by people ofIndian origin. So for everyone

of who is looking at SiliconValley, you could actually liftyour collars in pride that 25 percent of all the start-ups there aremanaged by Indians," sheadded."I am sure many of youall have your sights already onthe Silicon Valley," she said.

Referring to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's IndependenceDay speech of 'Jai Jawan, JaiKisan, Jai Vigyan and JaiAnusandhan', Sitharaman saidthe slogan was no more with JaiJawan and Jai Kisan, it has beenadded with 'Jai Vigyan (tech-nology) and Jai Anusandhan(innovation)'."In the last two(Jai Vigyan and JaiAnusandhan) your contribu-tion will get recognised andthat is what going to take Indiatechnology savvy and advancedcountry in 2047 at 100 years ofIndependence," she said.

India has 100 unicorns valued at US$ 250 billion: Nirmala

‘ADB will further strengthenpartnership with India'PNS n NEW DELHI

The Asian Development Bank(ADB) will further strengthen itspartnership with India and sup-port the country's developmentpriorities for inclusive growth, anofficial said.

Asian Development Bank(ADB) Vice-President ShixinChen, on his India visit duringSeptember 5 - 9, reiterated themultilateral lending agency'scommitment to furtherstrengthen its partnership withIndia.

Chen affirmed ADB's supportto the government's develop-ment priorities that target thecountry's fast, green, and inclu-sive post-COVID-19 economicrecovery, ADB said in a releaseon Saturday.During his visit,Chen met with Department ofEconomic Affairs (DEA)Secretary and ADB AlternateGovernor Ajay Seth.

Commending the achieve-ment of record USD 4.87 billionof ADB lending commitment to

India in 2021, including USD274 million for private sectoroperations, he discussed futurecooperation with thecountry."ADB will continue towork closely with theGovernment of India to supportthe government's priorities inreinvigorating economic activ-ity to generate more jobs,improve productivity, and cre-ate livelihood opportunities heldback by the pandemic," Chensaid.

He said to achieve this, ADBwill enhance investments inhealth and education; micro,small, and medium-sized enter-

prises; and public sector man-agement. It will also supportIndia's national flagship initia-tives in infrastructure, logistics,urban development, economiccorridor development, andgreen growth.ADB's currentIndia portfolio comprises 62ongoing projects worth USD14.65 billion across transport,urban, energy, human develop-ment, agriculture and naturalresources and finance sectors.

ADB aims to help India bat-tle against climate change byserving as the climate bank forAsia and the Pacific, Chenadded.

Reliance acquires ShubhalakshmiPolyesters for Rs 1,592 crore

Nearly 25 per cent

of the start-ups in

the Silicon Valley

were managed by

people of Indian

origin and it was a

matter of pride,

she said at an

event here.

Nayara Energy appoints Prasad K Panicker as Chairman

PNS n KOLKATA

West Bengal Industry MinisterShashi Panja on Friday exhort-ed the business community tohave faith in the state govern-ment and tap the investmentpotential on offer.

Panja, while addressing city-based industrialists and mem-bers of Merchants' Chamber ofCommerce here, also empha-sised on the political andfinancial stability inBengal."Stay with us andbelieve in us," she said.

"This (Trinamool Congress)government has come backwith a thumping majority forthe third time It is a sign of sta-bility," the minister asserted.Bengal wants large industriesas well as employment gener-ation, she added. Panja alsointeracted with the businessleaders, and listened to theirsuggestions and ideas onfinance and economy.

‘Have faith inBengal govt,tap investmentpotential’

sundaymagazineHYDERABAD, September 11, 2022

“If you want to knowwhat a man's like,take a good look athow he treats hisinferiors, not his

equals.”—JK Rowling

The coordinated searches at 110locations across the county by theIncome Tax Department onSeptember 7 as part of a pan-Indiatax evasion probe against certain

registered unrecognised political parties(RUPPs), think tank Centre for PolicyResearch, and global NGO Oxfam, has rakedup a major controversy.

The raid also covered the Bengaluru-based Independent and Public-SpiritedMedia Foundation (IPSMF). Theorganization funds several digital mediaoutlets such as The Caravan, The Print, andSwarajya.

As of September 2021, there were 2,796registered unrecognized political parties, anincrease of over 300 percent since 2001.Many RUPPs do not comply with thestatutory requirements. Their combinedclaim of Income Tax exemption is estimatedto be in the range of Rs 100 crore to 608crores.

The number of RUPPs saw a 300 percentincrease in the last two decades with most ofthem coming into existence just before LokSabha or Assembly elections.

Stating that it is placing the facts in thepublic domain so that the citizens know theaffairs of the political parties, the EC said in2019 that of the 2,354 RUPPs only 623contested elections even as 87 RUPPs werefound to be non-existent on the ground.

The mega clean-up action was conductedby the IT-Department at 110 locations inGujarat, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra,Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, andsome other States following prodding fromthe Election Commission

However, the critics say that the searchesat the RUPPs and the NGOs do not portendwell for a healthy democracy. “It's absolutelyatrocious that research & advocacyorganisations, and independent charitabletrusts like CPR, Oxfam, and IPSMF havebeen raided "at the behest of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and Home Minister AmitShah,” said Congress general secretary JairamRamesh , adding, "It's a deliberate move toexterminate all independent media andvoices!"

Countering the Congress, officials saidthat by collecting donations and notfurnishing the accounts to the relevantauthorities, the RUPPs pose a threat not onlyto the political system in general but also playa dubious role in fomenting trouble to thesocio-political environment as well ascompromise national security interests byplaying it the hands of international donorswho could be acting in line with their ownvested agenda of foreign governments.

Besides the RUPPs and the NGOs, the I-T Department team also searched thepremises of certain dubious individuals like alawyer in the Mayur Vihar area of thenational capital, as part of the synchronizedpan-India raids.

The Income Tax Department is alsoinvestigating some other instances of politicalfunding through alleged illegal means likehawala and illegal grants from internationaldonors who are not supposed to fundpolitical activities as per the provisions of theForeign Contribution Regulation Act(FCRA).

The surprise move by the Departmentcame on a recommendation of the ElectionCommission (EC), which recently struck offat least 198 entities from its list of RUPP afterthey were found non-existent during physicalverification.

The poll panel had announced that it wastaking action against more than 2,100entities, categorized as RUPP by it, forflouting rules and election laws like filing ofmonetary contributions and failing to updatetheir address and names of office bearers.

The EC had said some of these partieswere indulging in “serious” financialimpropriety. The poll panel acted after chiefelectoral officers (CEOs) of States reportedthat these RUPP either were “non-existent”on verification or the letters issued byauthorities to verify their addresses andcommunication details had been returned asundelivered by the department of posts.

Subsequently, the election body decidedto withdraw various benefits accorded tothese parties under the Symbols Order(1968), including the allocation of commonelection symbols.

Earlier, the EC had struck off 87 entitiesfrom its list of RUPP after they were foundnon-existent during physical verification.

The poll panel had noted that 87 RUPPshad failed to update their address ofcommunication as mandated by law as alsoyear-wise annual audited accounts,contribution reports, expenditure reports,and updated list of office-bearers.

In a statement in June, the EC had saidany party aggrieved by the EC's action canapproach the Chief Electoral Officerconcerned for redress with "evidence ofexistence".

If these 87 RUPPs fail to take remedialsteps, they render themselves liable to be "notentitled to have benefits under the SymbolsOrder, 1968, including allocation of commonsymbols."

The panel had specific details of suchparties, available publicly, that have floutedlaws and rules on disclosure of funds anddonations.

Later, the EC also sent a reference to theDepartment of Revenue, under the Unionfinance ministry, for necessary legal andcriminal action against three such partiesinvolved in serious financial impropriety.

The Department of Revenue subsequentlysent this report to the Central Board ofDirect Taxes (CBDT), the administrativebody of the Income Tax Department.

According to official data, there arenearly 2,800 registered unrecognized politicalparties in India, and the EC had beenpushing the Government to allow it to de-register many of them.

On multiple occasions, the poll panel haswritten to the Law Ministry to amend theelection law to give it the power to de-register so that it can deter the parties thatindulge in financial and other irregularities.

The RUPPs across India have beenavailing tax relief without properly sharingtheir audit and contribution reports.

Chief Election Commissioner RajivKumar has been spearheading the cleanupdrive against such political entities.’

In the case of the think tank Centre forPolicy Research, charity organization OxfamIndia, and Independent and Public-Spirited

Media Foundation, the IT officials studiedthe balance sheets of these organizations andmatched these with the receipt of fundsthrough the FCRA route. All NGOs gettingforeign funds must be registered under theFCRA.

Registrations of as many as 1,900 NGOshave been canceled by the Union HomeMinistry for violating various provisions ofthe law in the last five years.

There were 22,762 FCRA-registeredorganizations till December 2021. The CPR isknown for critical examination ofgovernment policies and the IPSMF fundsseveral media organisations, many of whichconduct investigative stories that question thegovernments of the day.

The website of Oxfam India, which ispart of a global consortium of NGOs underthe Oxfam umbrella, says it “campaigns withthe public to demand policy changes fromgovernments for creating a just and inclusivecountry as envisioned in the IndianConstitution”.

However, Intelligence agencies haveflagged concerns about several foreign NGOsindulging in anti-government activities asalso pitching against the development push toretard the country’s economic growthtrajectory.

These NGOs pump millions of dollars asa charity under a jealously guarded web ofdeception to mask real motives.

“Accumulated evidence, painstakingexamination of the background andintelligence reports on funding patterns showNon-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)turning into sleeper cells—working andplotting against the government—in potentialcollusion with the foreign powers,” reveals aclassified Intelligence dossier.

The dossier has flagged the tricky rolesplayed by voluntary organizations such asIKV Pax Christi (Netherlands), IslamicResearch Foundation (IRF), and CompassionInternational (USA) in taking circuitousroute for funding local NGOs in a bid tocreate and run sleeper cells for the futureonslaught against the government.

(The writer is Special Correspondent,The Pioneer)

On multiple occasions, the Election Commission has written to the Law Ministry to amend the election law to give it

the power to de-register political parties for committing financial and other irregularities, writes RAKESH K SINGH

THE USUAL SUSPECTSTHE USUAL SUSPECTS

WHILE THE CRITICSSAY THE RAIDS WERE

AN ATTEMPT TOSILENCE THE VOICE OFOPPOSITION AGAINSTTHE UNDEMOCRATIC

WAYS OF THEGOVERNMENT,

OFFICIALS SAID THEACTIONS HAD

NOTHING TO DO WITHPOLITICS AND WERE

INITIATED ONCOMPLAINTS OF

ALLEGED SUSPICIOUSFINANCIAL

TRANSACTIONS ANDTAX INVASIONS BY

THESE ENTITIES.

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health 08HYDERABAD, September 11, 2022

HEALTH IS THE GREATEST GIFT,CONTENTMENT THE GREATEST WEALTH,FAITHFULNESS THE BEST RELATIONSHIP

— BUDDHA

The Hong Kong study findingswere presented recently at theannual meeting of the

American Society of Bone andMineral Research in Austin, Texas.It analyzed data in 19 countries forpatients 50 and older who had frac-tured their hips between 2005 and2018. It found that total hip fracturecounts were expected to increase overtime in 18 of the 19 countries. Hipfracture counts were projected by2030 and 2050 using predicted pop-ulation size provided by the WorldBank. By 2050, the worldwide hipfracture counts will have likely dou-bled compared with 2018, with alarger proportional increase in menthan women.

The study noted some possiblereasons for the sex discrepancy.Although the incidence of hip frac-tures declined in most countries dur-ing the study period, the magnitudeof decline was smaller for men. Men'slife expectancy, meanwhile, has beenincreasing, a result of better medicalcare, hygiene, diet, and other factors.The United Nations projects that thelife expectancy of men globally willlikely reach over 75 years by 2050, theage after which this study showed ahigh risk of hip fracture. Thus,researchers expect that the propor-tion of men with a high risk of hipfracture will grow.

Ching-lung Cheung, AssociateProfessor, in the University of HongKong’s Department of Pharmacologyand Pharmacy, presented the find-ings recently at the annual meetingof the American Society of Bone andMineral Research in Austin, Texas.

At the same time, osteoporosisin men has been underdiagnosedand undertreated for years, Dr.Cheung reported. "Our study alsoshowed that the use of anti-osteo-porosis medications following a hipfracture is lower in men than inwomen by 30% to 67%," he said."Thus, more attention should be paidto preventing and treating hip frac-tures in men."

Previous reports on hip fractureincidence are based on outdated datawith heterogeneity in methods andstudy periods. This study examinedthe most currently available seculartrends of hip fracture incidence, mor-tality, and use of post-fracture phar-macological treatment across 19countries.

A common protocol and a com-mon data model were applied acrossall sites to provide comparable data.Age- and sex-standardized annualincidence of hip fracture, mortality,and pharmacological treatment rateswithin 12 months were calculated.

Using descriptive analyses ofpatient-level healthcare data, theresearchers found wide variabilityamong the 19 countries studied. Theoverall age- and sex-standardizedincidence of hip fracture was estimat-ed to be 180 per 100,000 individu-als (Women 236; Men 118). But theaverage change in hip fracture inci-dence varied from -2.8% to +2.1%per year. The most pronounceddeclines in fractures were seen inDenmark (-2.8%), Singapore (-2.8%),and Hong Kong (-2.4%). The biggestincreases were in the Netherlands(+2.1%), and South Korea (+1.2%).One-year all-cause mortality rangedfrom 14.4% to 28.3%, while mortal-ity trends varied from -5.3% to+18.4% per year, with the largestdecreases in Australia (-5.3%), theNetherlands (-4.6%), and Singapore(- 4.3%). Use of anti-osteoporosismedications within 12 months of hipfracture ranged from 11.5% to 50.3%,with trends varying from -9.6% to+12.7% per year and declining in 6

out of 15 sites.The reasons for the observed

variability among countries wouldrequire further in-depth research, co-author Chor-Wing Sing, a researchassistant professor said. "One poten-tial reason that some countries haveseen relatively large declines in hipfractures is better osteoporosis man-agement and post-fracture care,"she said. "Better fall-prevention pro-grams and clearer guidelines for clin-ical care have likely made a differ-ence." Dr. Sing also noted people'sgreater awareness of bone health,resulting in an increase in bone min-eral density, or BMD, may also havehelped. She cited a study in HongKong, which had one of the largestdeclines in hip fractures, whichshowed that women 50 and older hadbecome more physically active andstarted doing more weight-bearingexercise, resulting in a significantlong-term increase of BMD.

The new study's key message, theauthors said, is that the decline in hipfractures in many countries in recentyears is not enough to offset the effectof the growing aging population. Theburden of hip fracture is going togrow. But post-fracture treatmentremains inadequate in many coun-tries. Meanwhile, the incidence of hipfracture in people over 85 (the “old-est old”) remains more than doublethat of other age groups, while post-fracture treatment in this populationis generally conservative. A largerand more collaborative effort amonghealthcare providers, patients, andcaregivers will be needed to preventhip fractures and improve the treat-ment gap and post-fracture care,especially in men and the oldest old.This need is urgent, and growing,worldwide.

According to doctors, the world-wide annual incidence of hip frac-tures is estimated to be about 1.6 mil-lion and is expected to increase to 2.6million by the year 2025 and 4.5 mil-lion by 2050 due to the aging popu-lation. Despite the morbidity associ-ated with elderly hip fractures, fewstudies have evaluated the incidenceand epidemiology of hip fractures inIndia.

They aver, as a result, the true fig-ures on the incidence of hip fracturesin India is lacking, though the annu-al incidence is estimated to be over120 fractures per 100,000 personsover the age of 50, with higher ratesin women. Considering that thepopulation of India over 50 is closeto 170 million according to the2011 census, this translates to about0.2 million hip fractures a year.

According to a study ‘Injury

Mechanisms of Hip Fractures inIndia’, conducted by a team of ortho-peadics led by Dr Vijay Sharma, a fallfrom a standing height is the pre-dominant mode of injury among hipfractures in India.

Women and increasing age wereassociated with fall as the mechanismof injury of hip fracture. The major-ity of falls resulted from a wet floor

or postural changes suggesting thateducation on environmental safetymeasures and on postural changesshould be included in fall counsel-ing.

“Public behaviour changes andelderly pedestrian safety measuresshould also be a part of hip fractureprevention programmes. Using theinformation presented in this study,

further research to plan and assessfall prevention initiatives is recom-mended,” said the study published injournal Hip and Pelvis in 2021. Theteam members included Dr JaibenGeorge, Dr Kamran Farooque, DrSamarth Mittal, Dr Vivek Trikha andDr Rajesh Malhotra, all fromDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery,All India Institute of MedicalSciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.

What is an osteoporotic hipfracture?

A femoral neck fracture happens1 to 2 inches from your hip joint.This type of fracture is commonamong older adults and can berelated to osteoporosis. This type offracture may cause a complicationbecause the break usually cuts off theblood supply to the head of the thigh-bone, which forms the hip joint.

SYMPTOMSl Inability to get up from a fall or

to walk.l Severe pain in the hip or groin.l Inability to put weight on the leg

on the side of the injured hip.l Bruising and swelling in and

around the hip area.l Shorter leg on the side of the

injured hip.l Outward turning of the leg on the

side of the injured hip.They can damage surrounding

muscles, ligaments, tendons, bloodvessels, and nerves. If they're nottreated right away, they could affectyour ability to get around for longperiods of time. When this happens,you run the risk of a number of com-plications, like: Blood clots in yourlegs or lungs

The risk of hip fracture can beincreased if you have:

Osteoporosis: This conditionweakens bones and makes themmore likely to break.

Thyroid problems: An overac-tive thyroid can lead to fragile bones.

Intestinal disorders.:Conditions that reduce absorption ofvitamin D and calcium also can causeweakened bones.

Problems with balance:

Parkinson's disease, stroke andperipheral neuropathy can increasethe risk of falling. Having low bloodsugar or low blood pressure also cancontribute to the risk of falls.

Certain medications: Cortisonemedications, such as prednisone, canweaken bones if taken long-term.Certain drugs or certain combina-tions of medications can cause dizzi-ness, which can increase the risk offalling. The most common drugsassociated with falls include sleepmedications, antipsychotics andsedatives.

Nutritional problems : Lack ofcalcium and vitamin D in the diet ofyoung people lowers peak bonemass and increases risk of fracturelater in life. It's also important to getenough calcium and vitamin D inolder age to try to maintain bonedensity. Being underweight alsoincreases the risk of bone loss.

Lifestyle choices : Lack of reg-ular weight-bearing exercise, such aswalking, can result in weakenedbones and muscles, making falls andfractures more likely.

Tobacco and alcohol both caninterfere with the normal processesof bone building and maintenance,resulting in bone loss.

Complications : A hip fracturecan reduce independence and some-times shorten life. About half thepeople who have a hip fracturearen't able to regain the ability to liveindependently.

When hip fractures preventmovement for a long time, compli-cations can include:l Blood clots in the legs or lungsl Bedsoresl Pneumonial Further loss of muscle mass,

increasing the risk of falls andinjuries

l Death

Prevention: Healthy lifestylechoices in early adulthood build ahigher peak bone mass and reducethe risk of osteoporosis in lateryears. The same measures adopted atany age might lower the risk of fallsand improve overall health.

To avoid falls and to maintainhealthy bone:l Get enough calcium and vitamin

D: In general, men and womenage 50 and older should consume1,200 milligrams of calcium a day,and 600 international units of vit-amin D a day.

l Exercise to strengthen bones andimprove balance: Weight-bearingexercises, such as walking, helpmaintain peak bone density.Exercise also increases overallstrength, decreasing the risk offalling. Balance training also isimportant to reduce the risk offalls since balance tends to dete-riorate with age.

l Avoid smoking or excessivedrinking: Tobacco and alcoholuse can reduce bone density.Drinking too much alcohol canalso impair balance and increasethe risk of falling.

l Assess the home for hazards:Remove throw rugs, keep electri-cal cords against the wall, andclear excess furniture and any-thing else that could trip people.Make sure all rooms and passage-ways are well lit.

l Check your eyes: Have an eyeexam every other year, or moreoften if you have diabetes or aneye disease.

l Use a cane, walking stick orwalker: If you don't feel steadywhen you walk, ask your doctorif these aids might help.

Dr. JS Titiyal, Chief, RP cen-tre for Ophthalmic

Sciences, AIIMS, Delhi aversthat pandemic conditions likeCovid-19 have made us realisedthe importance of techonolgiesto ensure healthcare of the eyepatients.

In this regard, Dr Titiyalsays that plans are afoot todevelop a mobile app toimprove the treatment and careof eye patients and create aware-ness about hospital admission,transplantation, and post-surgery follow-up.

He adds, "I think it's ademand of time. COVID hasalso made us realise that youhave to approach people in a dif-ferent manner because a phys-ical approach may be difficultsometimes. It's only for peoplecoming from far-off places."

The app will come with acamera system using whichpatients can share photos andconsult with doctors.

"Through the application,doctors can have direct interac-tions with patients. There willalso be a camera system, usingwhich patients can share pho-tos of their eyes and explaintheir problems and symptoms.Doctors can diagnose them, andif the patients are registered withus, we can tell them the time-frame for admission andsurgery at the centre," he says.

He further points outpatients can also be called in on

priority based on their diseaseprogression. The app will alsohelp track patients who haveundergone transplantation andafter a transplant surgery, fol-low-up becomes quite difficult,the doctor says.

"If somebody develops arejection of a transplant, it hasto be taken care of within a fewdays. If the patient comes afterone or two weeks, you cannotreverse the rejection.

“If such a patient is tracked,he or she can be rushed to anearby hospital so that the graftcan be saved. It will be connect-ed with many other hospitals.

"We will also be connectedto various hospitals where peo-ple are trained to carry outtransplantation or can take careof post-transplant patients,"Titiyal says.

At Columbia’s ZuckermanInstitute, scientists study-

ing mice have found that fatentering the intestines trig-gers a signal. Conducted alongnerves to the brain, this signaldrives a desire for fatty foods.

The study raises the possi-bility of interfering with thisgut-brain connection to helpprevent unhealthy choices andaddress the growing globalhealth crisis caused by overeat-ing.

“We live in unprecedentedtimes, in which the overcon-sumption of fats and sugars iscausing an epidemic of obesi-ty and metabolic disorders,”said first author Mengtong Li,PhD, a postdoctoral researcherin the lab of the ZuckermanInstitute’s Charles Zuker, PhD,supported by the HowardHughes Medical Institute. “Ifwe want to control our insa-tiable desire for fat, science isshowing us that the key conduitdriving these cravings is a con-nection between the gut andthe brain.”

Researchers found that glu-cose activates a specific gut-brain circuit that communi-cates to the brain in the pres-ence of intestinal sugar.Calorie-free artificial sweet-eners, in contrast, do not have

this effect, likely explainingwhy diet sodas can leave usfeeling unsatisfied.

“Our research is showingthat the tongue tells our brainwhat we like, such as thingsthat taste sweet, salty or fatty,”said Dr. Zuker, who is also aprofessor of biochemistry andmolecular biophysics and ofneuroscience at Columbia’sVagelos College of Physiciansand Surgeons. “The gut, how-ever, tells our brain what wewant, what we need.”

Dr. Li wanted to explorehow mice respond to dietaryfats: the lipids and fatty acidsthat every animal must con-sume to provide the buildingblocks of life. She offeredmice bottles of water with dis-solved fats, including a com-ponent of soybean oil, andbottles of water containingsweet substances known tonot affect the gut but that areinitial ly attractive. Therodents developed a strongpreference, over a couple ofdays, for the fatty water. Theyformed this preference evenwhen the scientists genetical-ly modified the mice toremove the animals’ ability totaste fat using their tongues.

“Even though the animalscould not taste fat, they were

nevertheless driven to con-sume it,” said Dr. Zuker,according to the paper, titled“Gut-Brain Circuits for FatPreference,” available on thenews website Eurekalert.

The researchers reasonedthat fat must be activating spe-cific brain circuits driving theanimals’ behavioral response tofat. To search for that circuit,Dr. Li measured brain activityin mice while giving the ani-mals fat. Neurons in one par-ticular region of the brainstem,the caudal nucleus of the soli-tary tract (cNST), perked up.This was intriguing because thecNST was also implicated in

the lab’s previous discovery ofthe neural basis of sugar pref-erence.

Dr. Li then found the com-munications lines that carriedthe message to the cNST.Neurons in the vagus nerve,which links the gut to thebrain, also twittered with activ-ity when mice had fat in theirintestines.

Having identified the bio-logical machinery underlying amouse’s preference for fat, Dr.Li next took a close look at thegut itself: specifically theendothelial cells lining theintestines. She found twogroups of cells that sent signals

to the vagal neurons inresponse to fat.

“One group of cells func-tions as a general sensor ofessential nutrients, respondingnot only to fat, but also to sug-ars and amino acids,” said Dr.Li. “The other group respondsto only fat, potentially helpingthe brain distinguish fats fromother substances in the gut.”

Dr. Li then went oneimportant step further byblocking the activity of thesecells using a drug. Shuttingdown signaling from eithercell group prevented vagal neu-rons from responding to fat inthe intestines. She then usedgenetic techniques to deactivateeither the vagal neurons them-selves or the neurons in thecNST. In both cases, a mouselost its appetite for fat.

“These interventions veri-fied that each of these biolog-ical steps from the gut to thebrain is critical for an animal’sresponse to fat,” said Dr. Li.“These experiments also pro-vide novel strategies for chang-ing the brain’s response to fatand possibly behavior towardfood.”

The stakes are high.Obesity rates have nearly dou-bled worldwide since 1980.Today, nearly half a billion

people suffer from diabetes.Among Indians, the preva-

lence of obesity has increasedin 2019-21 compared to 2015-16, as per the latest NationalFamily Health Survey (NFHS-5) data. Nearly one in everyfour persons is overweightcompared to one in every fiveearlier. India is already on theverge of becoming the worldcapital of diabetes.

Obesity is calculated on thebasis of a Body Mass Index(BMI). Anyone with a BMI ofmore than 30 is consideredobese; a person with a BMIbetween 25 and 29.9 is deemedoverweight.

“The overconsumption ofcheap, highly processed foodsrich in sugar and fat is havinga devastating impact on humanhealth, especially among peo-ple of low income and in com-munities of color,” said Dr.Zuker. “The better we under-stand how these foods hijackthe biological machineryunderlying taste and the gut-brain axis, the more opportu-nity we will have to inter-vene.”

The other authors of thestudy are Hwei-Ee Tan,Zhengyuan Lu, Katherine S.Tsang, Ashley J. Chung andCharles S. Zuker.

AIIMS, Delhi Plans First-of-its-kind Mobile App for Eye Patients

Blame Gut-brain link for your cravings for fatty foodIf you have been blaming your tongue for your temptation for those fatty foods causing obesity, diabetes and heart diseases, then betternot! Researchers have found that gut-brain connection is the culprit that derives our desire for unhealthy foods having high fats. The HEALTH PIONEER shares findings of the study published in Nature.

DR JJS TTITIYALChief, RP centre for Ophthalmic

Sciences, AIIMS, Delhi

SAVE YOUR BONES!

Deborah Sellmeyer,, medical director of theJohns Hopkins Metabolic Bone Centerwarns that, “Older adults can have life-threatening complications during or aftersurgery to treat a hip fracture, such as bloodclots, infections and heart arrhythmias.”

“That’s why it’s important to do allyou can to prevent fractures—especiallyhip fractures.”

He give tips for hip fracture preventionTake your risk seriously : One in threewomen and one in five men will have a frac-ture at some point after age 50.Screen—and maintain—bone strength:Low bone density doubles or even tripleship fracture risk. That’s a major concern,because 56 percent of women and 18 per-cent of men age 50 and older have reducedbone mineral density, including the 16 per-cent of women and 2 percent of men withbone density low enough to be categorizedas osteoporosis. Another 40 percent ofwomen and 16 percent of men haveosteopenia, a milder degree of low bone density.

Bone density tests are recommendedfor all women age 65 and older, and foryounger women at higher-than-normal riskfor a fracture. Discuss your individual riskfor fracture and need for bone density test-ing with your doctor. Screening for problemswith bone density scans resulted in a 36 per-cent lower fracture risk in one JohnsHopkins study. Screening for osteoporosislets you and your doctor make decisionsabout treatments that keep bones strong andfracture-free, Sellmeyer says.

Men may want to discuss osteoporo-

sis screening with their doctor if they’re overage 70 or at risk for thinning bones due tofactors such as long-term use of corticos-teroid drugs, like prednisone.

Keep muscles strong: Nine out of 10hip fractures are caused by falls. Exercisesthat maintain muscle strength, enduranceand balance can lower your risk for the slips,trips and tumbles that break bones. In onestudy, women who had not exercised in ayear were at higher risk for hip fracture, evenif they did not have osteoporosis. A regularexercise routine can cut your risk of a fallby 20 percent to 30 percent, research hassuggested.

Eat for a healthy frame : Aim for 1,000mg of calcium daily for women before age50 and men before age 70, then 1,200 mgfor women over age 50 and men over age70. “You also need vitamin D to help absorbcalcium. The current recommendations are600 IU per day up to age 70 and 800 IU afterage 70,” Sellmeyer notes. “There’s nodoubt that this combination reduces fracturerisk.”

But don’t stop there. Get plenty ofpotassium-rich fruits and vegetables daily.And don’t skimp on protein, which seemsto help by maintaining muscle mass (impor-tant for strength) and by helping build bones.

Check your eyes and your medicines: If you feel drowsy, dizzy, weak or off-bal-ance when walking, ask your doctor for amedication check. Some prescription drugscan cause these fall-inducing side effects.“And stay up-to-date with vision checks andeyeglass prescriptions,” Sellmeyer says.“Sharp vision can also help you avoid a fall.”

Osteoporotic hip fracture, already a dangerous and debilitating problem for older men and women worldwide, ispoised to become a far more severe global public-health issue as the population grows older and frailer, according toa new study led by researchers at the University of Hong Kong. The findings hold importance for India whose elderlypopulation (aged 60 and above) is projected to touch 194 million in 2031 from 138 million in 2021, a 41 per centincrease over a decade, according to the National Statistical Office (NSO)’s Elderly in India 2021 report. Hence,requiring immediate attention by the medical and public health community. The HEALTH PIONEER talks to a batteryof doctors on various aspects of the osteoporotic hip fracture and remedies therefore.

Could blood marker predict the riskof osteoporotic hip fracture in men?

Bone health requires a balancedactivity of various bone cell

types including bone-formingosteoblasts and bone-resorbingosteoclasts. Osteoporosis occurswhen osteoclasts dominate withoutadequate bone formation to com-pensate. In new research pub-lished in the Journal of Bone andMineral Research, elevated bloodlevels of a certain chemokine, orsmall signaling protein, that pro-motes osteoclast formation werelinked with a higher risk of hipfracture in men.

The study included 55 menand 119 women who had experi-enced a hip fracture an average of6.3 years after their blood was col-lected. The participants werematched individually to controlswho did not develop hip fractures.

Investigators observed higherblood levels of the chemokine

CXCL9 in the pre-fracture bloodsamples of men with subsequenthip fractures compared with theirnon-fracture controls. No such dif-ference was seen women.

“The unexpected difference inthe results between men andwomen in our study may beexplained by how changes in sexhormone levels during aging couldinfluence the level and effects ofCXCL9 differently in older menand women,” explained corre-sponding author Woon-Puay Koh,from the National University ofSingapore (NUS).

“Our findings open the excit-ing possibility that early interven-tions targeting CXCL9 or CXCL9-CXCR3 signalling could be bene-ficial in preventing hip fractures inolder men,” added co-correspond-ing author Christoph Winkler,also from NUS.

sundaymagazine

opinion 09HYDERABAD, September 11, 2022

MAKHAN SSAIKIA

PRASHANT BBARTHWAL

ARVIND AARAHANT

NARENDRA KKUMAR

PERSPECTIVE

INSIGHT

Queen Elizabeth II

remained a

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on clone journals. Still,

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Boosting rural economy with start-up village entrepreneurship

Rural poverty and inequali-ty are significant road-

blocks to building an egalitar-ian society. Even after 75 yearsof Independence, it is a signif-icant challenge because a largesection of the rural populationdepends on agriculture.

Looking for a way to eco-nomically empower ruralIndia, a well-known manage-ment consultant, CK Prahalad,coined the word “future at thebottom of the pyramid” (BOP),eradicating poverty throughprofits.

Prahalad highlighted thechallenges of rural poverty,which need to be addressed bymultinational companies(MNCs). A book was also pub-lished under the same namewith some innovative, fruitfulideas from the bottom of thepyramid.

Even today, MNCs’ reachto the remotely heterogenousrural population remains adistant dream. The horizon ofthe Indian rural market is so

vast that the penetration of ser-vices and products is only pos-sible through indigenous vil-lage entrepreneurs. And hencethe concept and importance ofvillage entrepreneurs is nowtaken into account by policy-makers with the much-dis-cussed rural economy nowgetting the limelight.

The rural economy ofIndia has been facing an agrar-ian crisis because of poverty,unemployment and migration.The village economy of India isnot sustainable, which is a bigchallenge for policymakers,and there are many reasons.Even after 75 years ofIndependence, the rural youthstrive for jobs and a decentstandard of life. The lack ofemployment creates migrationof the rural population tourban cities. However, the edu-cational campaign by theGovernment for the ruralyouth has motivated them.

Due to the increase in lit-eracy rate among the rural

youth, they look for holisticemployment. The technologi-cal advancement in the agri-cultural sector has changedthe dimensions of dependencyof rural and marginal workerson agriculture sectors. Ruralyouths are looking after theircareer in entrepreneurship, ser-vices and self-employment.This new wave of educatedrural youth is a challenge forthe policymakers and theGovernment to formulate apolicy that caters to the largemasses of the rural population.The startup village entrepre-neurship programme is thegem among all whose pro-grammes to resolve the agrar-ian crisis.

Start-up VillageEntrepreneurship Programme(SVEP) is a budget announcedscheme and was approved bythe Minister of RuralDevelopment, Government ofIndia, on May 6, 2015, as a sub-scheme under the DAY-NRLMand the guideline was issued on

June 15 2015.Deendayal antodaya

Yojana (DAY-NRLM) has beencentrally sponsored andimplemented since May 2013.The main objective of the mis-sion is to eliminate rural pover-ty through an innovativeimplementation strategyinvolving four core compo-nents viz., (1) social mobilisa-tion and community institutionbuilding; (2) financial inclu-sion; (3) livelihood promo-tions; (4) convergence andsocial development.

The SVEP proposes toaddress the three major prob-lems of start-ups. Through theprogramme, the rural entre-preneurs will get the technicalsupport such that the enter-prises (both existing and newlypromoted) would be profitablethrough addressing ecosystemvis., (i) a missing knowledgeecosystem, (ii) a missing incu-bation ecosystem; and (iii) amissing financial ecosystem.

The SVEP programme is a

four-tier structure from clusterlevel federation to villageorganisation to self-help groupand finally reach beneficiarymembers. This four-tier struc-ture gives an implementationroadmap for SVEP to blockresource centres.

The SVEP is implementedin a project mode throughImplementing Agencies (PIAs).The PIAs include the StateRural Livelihood Mission(SRLM), higher-level SHG fed-eration and NGO/NRO with agood track record of promot-ing rural livelihood. The cur-rent pattern of Central assis-tance for SVEP projects is60:40 (Centre-State). The ceil-ing on the administrative costof the SVEP project is 6 percent of the total approved bud-get. The SVEP intends toenable the rural poor to set upbusiness enterprises throughvillage-level CommunityResource Persons (CRPs) sup-port. It helps the rural entre-preneurs to get finance for

starting their enterprises fromthe National Rural LivelihoodMission (NRLM), Self HelpGroups (SHGs), banks andcluster level federation. Thereare a few conditions whichentrepreneurs need to justify toget the benefits from this pro-gramme. These conditions arethat the entrepreneur should beeither a member of SHGsworking in the blocks of aselected district or a member oftheir family, preferably a femalemember.

One of the mid-termreviews conducted by theQuality Council of India in2019 highlights that 75 percent of enterprises were man-aged and owned by women. Wefind the fulfilment of socialinclusion one of the core ideasof the national rural livelihoodmission satisfied because thesampled entrepreneurs acrossthe blocks reported being fromSC, ST, and OBC categories,which stood at 82 per cent.

The number of enterpris-

es supported under the SVEPfrom 2018-19 to 2020-2021 is1,34,475. The breadth of blockdevelopment is blossoming.The inception was with only125 blocks across the country;during 2021-22, it stood at 205blocks. A total of 19 blocks areunder implementation in UttarPradesh which stood first; thesecond is Jharkhand, with 18blocks under implementation.Policymakers should focus onthis large chunk of the ruralpopulation through an income-generating innovative entre-preneurship model. The SVEPis all set to transform the livesof the rural poor, and womenentrepreneurs have shown theircapabilities to lead.

(Prof Narendra Kumar ischairperson at Center forPolitical studies; ArvindArahant is an AssociateProfessor at School ofManagement &Entrepreneurship, both at JNU, New Delhi)

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIpassed away at the age of 96.

She spent her last days in Scotland,her summer palace known asBalmoral Castle. She has leftbehind a historical legacy full ofhits and misses. She became Queenat the age of 27 in the year 1952when the world had just come outof a devastating Second World War,the first ever atomic bombing overJapan, the Holocaust and the lossof the largest treasure of the Britishcolonial empire i.e. India. She setthe record of becoming the longestserving monarch of the UK byserving the nation for seven longdecades.

Once the news of the death ofthe Queen spread, thousandsthronged her official residence,the Buckingham Palace in London,and all other royal palaces aroundthe country. Despite heavy down-pour across the UK, the mournerscame out in hordes simply to bidadieu to their dear monarch. Andfinally, all quietly sang: “God savethe Queen.”

In keeping with the royal tra-dition, a written statement men-tioning the death of the Queen wasdisplayed on all the palace gates.The statement read: “The Queendied peacefully at Balmoral thisafternoon. The King and theQueen Consort will remain atBalmoral this evening and willreturn to London tomorrow.”

This indicates that there was nospecific illness mentioned in theroyal statement of death.

The Queen probably could bethe last ever female heir to the seatof the British sovereign for anoth-er century. Now the secondElizabethan era has gone. Thoughthe British people never everlooked at the Queen for politicalleadership, they all identified herwith “stability”. Despite all the ifsand buts, she remained steadfastand took the leadership to theworld stage. She oversaw Britainfrom a war-weary European nationto a modern multicultural one,finally a sad divorce from theEuropean Union, after a long part-nership of 47 years.

The Queen was the head of the56-member Commonwealthnations around the world. HerCommonwealth leadership thoughpurely ceremonial spanned acrossall the five continents covering apopulation of almost 2.5 billion.Today, the Commonwealth isproud that during her tenure as theHead of the organisation, she trav-elled to almost all the nations of thebloc. Between 1971 and 2018, theQueen missed only one Head ofGovernment Meeting. Her awe-some sense of duty and responsi-bility as the head of the group wasalways reflected in her actions. Shewas both a generous host and aconsummate diplomat. The lastmessage she sent out for theCommonwealth described thenations as “a modern, vibrant andconnected Commonwealth thatcombines a wealth of history, andtradition with great social, cultur-

al and technological advances ofour time. That the Commonwealthstands ever taller is a credit to allwho have been involved.” Thishighlights how deeply she felt thebond between the nations andtheir incremental growth in therecent decades. TheCommonwealth was formed ini-tially as the British Commonwealthof nations through the BalfourDeclaration at the historic 1926Imperial Conference. But the groupwas formalised later only in theyear 1931 by the UK through theStatute of Westminster. But the pre-sent shape of the Commonwealthwas given under the LondonDeclaration of 1949. And QueenElizabeth took over the headship ofthis very historic organisation justafter three years. She had the expe-rience of the service of 15 BritishPrime Ministers and met 14 USPresidents during her long tenureas the monarch.

The reign of her son, KingCharles III, has just begun. He willbe handling a Britain far morepolitically polarised than what hismother had witnessed. Today, theConservatives are widely separat-ed from each other as it was seenduring the last race for the post ofthe Prime Minister. And sadly, theLabour is on the decline, andJeremy Corbyn has left no chanceof hope for the party in the nearfuture unless a new leader emerges.It is rightly said that King Charleshas prepared for all his life for this

day. He has pledged to serve thenation with the same “unswervingdevotion”, as his mother did. Hebecame King immediately after thedeath of his mother, but theAccession Council has to make theformal proclamation of the suc-cessor. He is already the King,according to the terms of the Actof Settlement 1701. The very pur-pose of the Accession Council ispurely a ceremonial one and itannounces the name of the newmonarch. Generally such a procla-mation is made within 24 hours ofthe death of the monarch. But thistime it has taken a little more time.Again this occasion will have a his-toric break-as the new King hasdecided to televise the AccessionCouncil ceremony.

The new monarch has paid histribute to his “Darling Mama” andcalled her an inspiration. He alsohas vowed lifelong service to thepeople. He further said: “QueenElizabeth was a life well lived; apromise with destiny kept and sheis mourned most deeply in herpassing. That promise of lifelongservice I renew to you all today.”

Queen Elizabeth II remained abeacon of stability for the last 70years. She will always be fondlyremembered for her larger-than-life image and the role she playedin public life. She was an extraor-dinary person who also lived anextraordinary life. To many of thepeople of the Commonwealth andthose who know her closely, she

truly lived the life of faith, serviceand a sense of duty. This wasechoed in one of her historicspeeches that she made in 1947before she became the monarch.She said: “My whole life, whetherit be long or short, will be devot-ed in service.” The great Britishroyalty survived and sustainedwith full might and dignity underher leadership.

Modern Britain indeed built itsedifice on her statesmanship. Whilepaying tribute to her, UK PrimeMinister Liz Truss said, “QueenElizabeth the second was the rockon which modern Britain wasbuilt. Our country has grown andflourished under her reign.”

It’s a clear indication that thecurrent political leadership of theUK has rightly recognised therobust role played by the lateQueen. The majestic Queen wasfondly remembered as the “LittleLilibet” by her family as she couldnot pronounce her name“Elizabeth” properly during herchildhood. Today we all miss boththe hilarious Little Lilibet and HerMajesty Queen Elizabeth.

(Dr Makhan Saikia has taughtpolitical science and international rela-tions for over a decade in institutionsof national and international reputeafter specialisation in globalisationand governance from Tata Institute ofSocial Sciences, Mumbai. He is thechief editor of the Journal of GlobalStudies, an international journal.)

End of a legacy with ‘Lilibet’ Let’s ‘CARE’ about academics

Research is a significant part of higher education, and publishing a researchpaper is even more critical for institutionalising the significance of acade-

mics in higher education. Hence, research papers have been considered the mostessential part of academics. No academics in higher education are complete with-out a well-written research paper with an appropriate methodology and significantparadigms. This helps every scholar, researcher, and academician to thoroughlyevaluate or re-examine the subject. On November 28, 2018, University GrantsCommission (UGC) issued a public notice “to stimulate and empower the Indianacademia” through its quality mandate and that notice announced the estab-lishment of a dedicated “Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics (CARE)”to fulfil this objective. Therefore, there is a need to evaluate the objectives ofthis initiative where it intends (i) to promote quality research, integrity and pub-lication ethics, (ii) to promote high-quality publication, (iii) to develop researchparadigms and methodology for the identification of standard journals, and (iv)to stop the predatory or dubious journals. Since then, there has been a massiveacademic research revolution, and an unexpected mad race for publishing researchpaper(s) in UGC CARE Listed Journals.

But unfortunately, these listed journals have brought many severe shifts inthe publication process. The shift allows the researchers to indulge in manyillegalities, such as publishing research papers in dubious journals. We now knowthese journals with a new form, i.e., “clone journals”. There are many instanceswhere one can easily trace the clone of the listed journals in the academic world.Researchers publish their papers in most educational institutions (includingleading universities and colleges) without knowing its worst impact. They arepublishing their papers for the minimum eligibility to submit their thesis anddissertations; faculties are publishing their papers for their due promotions.

As a matter of fact, UGC has made multiple efforts to put strict restric-tions on these clone journals. Still, faculties whose academic promotions aredue publish their papers in these clone journals without knowing the authen-ticity and standards of these journals. Despite multiple and sincere efforts byCARE, it has come to public notice that many have published their papers, thoughsometimes intentionally, in clone journals, especially in language specificationjournals; for instance, foreign language journals are published multi-lingual-ly in clone format. And many instances are also there where many publishersand editors are publishing the papers with password-protected mechanisms andpublishing the papers under “multidisciplinary” despite subject-specificauthorisation. This process of publishing papers in “listed journals” has alsosupported the idea of introducing the “clone” journals because it has been wide-ly noticed that those in listed categories charge a huge amount for publishinga single paper.

In contrast, on the other hand, many leading listed journals are forcing theresearchers to subscribe to their journals or take their lifetime membership topublish their research papers. And even after subscribing to the journals, theyare taking a lot of time to publish the research papers. This time-consumingprocess, which is undoubtedly essential to publish any paper as a part of thepeer-reviewed process, is somehow an invitation to accept the calls from theclone journals to publish the research papers. CARE regularly revisits the stan-dards based on their set norms and parameters to halt such unacademic actsover such invitations. They have also removed many leading journals from theirlisted categories.

Above all, some leading journals publish research papers strictly based onideological shifts, which is a matter of grave concern. If we are talking aboutthe standard of academics through this consortium, we must first stop this “mar-ketisation of academics”. Therefore, it should be the ethical concern of every-one to pursue the research with proper care, and we all need to follow the sug-gestions carefully and unconditionally given by the CARE to maintain the stan-dard and integrity of research. But still, CARE also needs to understand theseissues where, to some extent, the theory is a bit different from praxis and putssevere restrictions on such unacademic acts. Conclusively, we all need to worktogether to put restrictions over such unacademic steps not only to maintainthe standard and integrity but also to protect the apt research environment and,above all, the value of the research.

(The writer is Assistant Professor in Sri Aurobindo College, University of Delhi)

A tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on a bus stop in London’s West End AP

This new wave of educated rural youth is a challenge for the policymakers to formulate a policy that caters to the large masses of the rural population

Street hawkers, whose busi-nesses crippled due to Covidand construction work of the

Central Vista Avenue, are backwith a hope that their businesseswill limp back to normalcy with theinauguration of the newly-chris-tened Kartavya Path.

Rajinder Singh, who has beenselling ice creams at India Gatesince 1990, said he faced great dif-ficulty in feeding his family in thelast couple of years.

"Even after the Covid restrictionswere removed, the business wasslow and we used to earn a profitof only Rs 100 to Rs 200. Duringpre-Covid times, the business wasquite good and people would comeeven at midnight," he said.

The last couple of days havesomewhat shown us glimpses of thepast days as the visitors are increas-ing, he added.

The hawkers are, however,allowed to sell only up to the bar-ricades installed by the police. "Butwe have been told that we will beallowed inside like earlier from

Monday," Singh said.His friend, Devi Saran, said his

father and uncle have been sellingice creams at India Gate since1956, and back then, they were theonly ice cream sellers at the iconicplace.

The pandemic, however, causeddistraut as Saran and his familyfound it difficult to even make endsmeet. "I hope no one goes throughthe misery that we went through.Everything was shut and even aftereconomic activities resumed, wehad to sometimes forego meals," hesaid.

Rakesh, a pani puri seller, said hehad to shift to other market areas

as business at India Gatewas close to none. "Theearnings have somewhatincreased in the last cou-ple of days but they arenowhere close to the pre-Covid times. Even now,the place becomesdeserted after 8 pm - 9pm," he said. His neigh-bour, Laxman, who sellsbhel puri, said his earn-ings had declined to Rs100 a day, but are nowup to about Rs 200. Hehoped the refurbishedsite brings in morevisitors.

The Centre's ban on ther-mocol (polystyrene) justthree months ahead of

the Durga Puja festival has putartisans of West Bengal in a fixas they use that product forlong to decorate pandals andembellish ornaments of theidols.

The artists feel that it wouldhave been better had the gov-ernment launched an aware-ness campaign among themabout the item's bad effect onthe environment and giventime to them to find out analternative product.

The Government of Indiafrom July 1 banned the man-ufacture, import, stocking,distribution, sale and use ofidentified single-use plasticitems such as plates, cups,and straws, besides poly-styrene.

Thermocol is a syntheticpolymer often used in protec-tive packaging, thermal insu-lation and decorating variousitems. However, it is notbiodegradable and thus notenvironment-friendly.

Internationally known artistSanatan Dinda welcomed themove but said artisans shouldhave been given some time forthe transformation.

Most people go for thermo-col based decorations. Theyshould have been trained firstand then the ban should havebeen imposed, he said.

I used thermocol in thepast but shunned it a long timeago. In this year's puja, I amusing iron, paper, different

kinds of clay

and fibreglass for my work,said Dinda who is bringingalive the concept of a couple ofDurga pujas in Kolkata.

Artist Pradip Das also sup-ported the government's deci-sion.

The government also mustensure that thermocol is notmanufactured. People cannotuse it if it is not available in themarket, Das said, adding thathe is using pieces of cloth togive shape to the theme foranother puja organiser in thecity.

Every year, many pujaorganisers choose a theme,mainly social issues, and usetheir pandals, idols and light-ing arrangements to depict it.

Chairman of West BengalPollution Control BoardKalyan Rudra said everyonehas to comply with the ruleslaid down by the Governmentof India.

Ranjit Sarkar, an artisanwho creates various itemswith thermocol as a basebesides making embellish-ments for ornaments for idols,said nothing much can bedone this year as most of theitems have already been pre-pared. We will have to thinkof other materials instead ofthermocol now. The govern-ment should have thoughtabout it a long time ago.Many people will be affecteddue to the ban and shifting toother materials will take time,he said. This is a great move,yet a campaign should havebeen organised before theban, feels artist Bhabotosh

Sutar.

Charles became king immediatelyupon the death of his mother,Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday. He

was officially proclaimed King Charles IIIon Saturday during a ceremony at St.James's Palace in London, and manymore formal steps will follow until hiscoronation, which may not come formonths.

A look at the centuries-old traditionsand rules surrounding the accession of a

new British monarch:WHO FORMALLY DECLARES

NEW MONARCHS?

In Britain thedeath of a sov-ereign andtheir successoris officiallyproclaimed

by the Accession Council, formed of a largegroup of senior politicians and officials.

Traditionally the council is summoned

within 24 hours of a monarch's death fora ceremonial meeting at St. James's Palace.But the accession ceremony for King

Charles III was delayed because thequeen's death wasn't announced until earlyevening on Thursday, and there was notenough time to set the plans in motion forFriday.

The Accession Council is formed ofmembers of the Privy Council mostly pastand present politicians, including all liv-ing prime ministers, as well as Church ofEngland leaders and senior royals andother ceremonial leaders, such as the LordMayor of London.

The Privy Council advises the monarchand is one of the oldest parts of govern-ment. It can be traced back to the time ofthe Norman kings when the monarch metwith a group of advisers in private, predat-ing the modern functions of a governmentcabinet.

Historically the entire Privy Council is

called to the Accession Council to over-see the new monarch's proclamation. Butjust 200 were summoned Saturday becausethe number of Privy Council membersnow stands at 700.

The ceremony was broadcast live ontelevision for the first time Saturday.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER

CHARLES IS PROCLAIMED?

Shortly after a new monarch is formal-ly confirmed, the sovereign holds his firstPrivy Council meeting, makes a person-al declaration and then signs an oath tomaintain the Church of Scotland, accord-ing to the Act of Union of 1707.

Afterward, a heraldic official known asthe Garter King of Arms publicly reads outthe proclamation of the new sovereignfrom a balcony at St. James's Palace andgun salutes are fired around London.

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Some of the most populardiet advice in recent years hascentred around the idea that

the right timing for your mealscan make a big difference in theamount of weight you lose. It waslong said that if you wanted to loseweight it was best to eat a largemeal at the beginning of the dayand keep any later meals smaller.

The logic behind this theory isunderstandable, especially giventhat almost every cell in the bodyfollows the same 24-hour cycle thatwe do. Circadian clocks are foundthroughout the body and regulate thedaily rhythms of most of our biologi-cal functions, including metabolism.

Because of these metabolic rhythms,scientists have proposed that the way inwhich we process meals varies at differenttimes of the day. This field of research is calledchrono-nutrition , and it has great potential forhelping to improve people's health.

Two studies from 2013 suggested that consum-ing more calories early in the day and fewer calo-ries in the evening helps people lose weight. Yeta major new study has found that while the rel-ative size of breakfast and dinner influences self-reported appetite, it has no effect on metabolismand weight loss.

To investigate the link between the size ofbreakfast and dinner and their effect onhunger, a team of researchers at the universi-ties of Aberdeen and Surrey conducted a con-trolled study in healthy but overweight peo-ple. The participants were fed two diets, eachfor four weeks: a big breakfast and a small din-ner, and a small breakfast with a big dinner.We kept lunches the same.

We provided all of the meals so we knewexactly how many calories study participantswere consuming. We measured the partici-pants' metabolism, including monitoring howmany calories they burned.

All study participants undertook both diet

conditions so that the effect ofmeal patterns could be comparedin the same people.

We predicted that a big break-fast and small dinner wouldincrease calories burned andweight lost. Instead, the results ofthe experiment found no differ-ences in body weight or any bio-logical measures of energy usagebetween the two meal patterns.

Measures of energy usageincluded basal metabolic rate(how many calories your body

uses at rest), physical activity, anduse of a chemical form of water that

enables assessment of total dailyenergy use. There were also no differ-

ences in daily levels of blood glucose,insulin or lipids. This is important

because changes of these factors in theblood are associated with metabolic health.

Our findings are consistent with short-term (one to six days) meal-timing studies,

where participants live in a laboratory respi-ratory chamber (a small, air-tight room equipped

with basic comforts) for the duration of the exper-iment. Together, the research suggests that the way

our bodies process calories in the morning versus theevening does not influence weight loss in the way thathas been reported in other studies.

In our study, the only difference was a change inthe self-reported feeling of hunger and related fac-tors, such as the quantity of food they wanted to eat.Across the day, the meal pattern of big breakfast andsmall dinner caused participants to report lesshunger throughout the day. This effect may be use-ful for people looking to lose weight, as it may helpthem better control their hunger and eat less.

As with all research, there were some limitationsto our study. We only studied participants for fourweeks for each meal pattern. Past research hasshown the largest differences in the effects of earlyversus late energy intake after four weeks.However, the fact that neither calories eaten norcalories burned changed over four weeks showsthat body weight is unlikely to have changed if thestudy was longer.

During its rolling royalcoverage since QueenElizabeth II died on

Thursday, the BBC made anembarrassing blunder inits audio subtitles whichmisheard a key word.

The BritishB r o a d c a s t i n gCorporation uses a sys-tem of automatic subti-

tling for the deaf and hard of hearing and thereare often errors in the words that are transcribedby the system on screen. On Friday, during cov-erage of the new King Charles III and his wifeCamilla as they landed in London from Scotlandthe subtitles flashed the word vagina instead ofRegina. It was to explain that Camilla will notbe Queen Regina, or a reigning queen, but aQueen Consort as the partner of the newmonarch. "BBC subtitles spectacularly mis-hearing the words "Queen Regina" during a con-

versation about Camilla just now," one eagle-eyedviewer commented on Twitter soon after spot-ting the awkward moment on television.

Many others followed suit on social media tosay that the state broadcaster needs to be morecareful with its audio subtitles.

Most news channels in the UK suspended theirusual programming the moment the 96-year-oldmonarch passed away peacefully at her BalmoralCastle residence in Scotland. In the coming days,the Queen's coffin will depart her Balmoral estate

for the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburghthe official residence of the British monarch inScotland. It will then be taken in procession toSt. Giles' Cathedral in the city, where the Queenwill lie at rest, allowing the public to view hercoffin. The coffin will then move to London,ready for lying in state for around four daysbefore her funeral. On Saturday morning, theQueen's son and heir Charles was formally pro-claimed King in an ancient ceremony televisedfor the first time in history.

The time of day you eat yourbiggest meal has little effect

WEIGHT LOSS

Thermocol ban justahead of Durga pujaputs artisans in a fix

Formal rules galore around Charles's accession

California: Drought, record heat, fires andnow maybe floodsC

alifornians tried toweather the extremes of a changingclimate on Friday, as a punishing heat

wave that has helped fuel deadly wild fires hadthe state teetering on the edge of blackoutsfor a 10th consecutive day while a tropicalstorm barrelled ashore with the promise ofcooler temperatures but also possible flood-ing.

The abrupt swing in conditions even whip-sawed weather junkies.

This is perhaps the singularly most unusu-al and extreme weather week in quite some timein California and that is saying something.Whew, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles, wrote onhis western weather blog.

While the rains may be welcome in thedrought-plagued state and will bring relief withmore normal temperatures, deluges and morebrutal heat waves are forecast to become regularfixtures as climate change warms the planet andweather-related disasters become more extreme.

"We'll see these heat waves continue to get hot-ter and hotter, longer and longer, more wildfire-plagued," said Jonathan Overpeck, dean of theUniversity of Michigan School for Environment and

Sustainability.The odds of really

intense precipitationare going up. And sothat's why we areworried aboutflooding associatedwith this remnanthurricane.

California is justthe latest casualtyin a year of some-times deadly heatwaves that began inPakistan and India this spring and swept acrossparts of the Northern Hemisphere, includingChina, Europe and others areas of the US.

Climate change also has exacerbated droughts,dried up rivers, made wildfires more intense andconversely led to massive flooding around the globeas moisture evaporating from land and water is heldin the atmosphere and then redeposited by intenserains.

Scientists are reluctant to attribute any specif-ic weather event, such as Hurricane Kay, nowdowngraded to a tropical storm as it heads into

Cali fornia , toglobal warming.

But they say heat waves are exactly the typeof change that will become more common.

The so-called heat dome that cookedCalifornia was stuck in place by an exceptionalhigh pressure region over Greenland, of allplaces, that essentially created a meteorologicaltraffic jam, said Paul Ullrich, a professor ofregional climate modeling at the University ofCalifornia, Davis.

Street hawkers see ray of hope asKartavya Path sees rise in footfall

BBC suffers embarrassing subtitle blunder during royal coverage