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The Krishna River Manage- ment Board has directed the Andhra Pradesh government not to go ahead with irrigation schemes to draw water from the Srisailam reservoir till appraisal is received from KRMB/Central Water Com- mission and the Apex Council on River Water Resources. KRMB stated this in a letter to the Special Chief Secretary, Water Resources Department, on May 20, sources told PTI. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will per- form Chandi Yagam, Sudarshan Yagam, Gangamma puja and other rituals on Friday to mark the inauguration of the Konda Pochamma Sagar in Siddipet district. The yagams will be performed under the aegis of Sri Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamy. KCR is performing yagams after a gap of one and a half years. In January 2019, he per- formed the five-day Sahasra Chandi Yagam. In the presence of Sri Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamy, KCR will release water from the Konda Pochamma Sagar on Friday to enable pumping of Godavari River water to the highest level under the Kaleshwaram project. The water will be lifted at various stages from the Laxmi Barrage at Medigadda and will be pumped into the Konda Pochamma Sagar, which is at a height of 618 metres. The project, which has a storage capacity of 15 tmc, will pump water to hitherto arid lands which had no irrigation facility till date. There project is named Konda Pochamma Sagar as there is a Konda Pochamma temple on the borders of the united Medak, Warangal and Nalgonda districts. There is Komuravelli Mallikarjuna (Mallanna) temple also in the vicinity. Devotees throng both the shrines. The KCR administration has named the biggest reservoir constructed under the Kaleswaram project as Mallanna Sagar and the reservoir con- structed at the highest point as Konda Pochamma Sagar. Corporate schools and colleges have now started insisting that parents should pay tuition fees in full in one go if students have to be promoted to the next class and given links to access online lessons for the fresh academic year. This goes against the spirit in which Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had asked schools to collect tuition fees in instalments in view of the crisis brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. He had also warned schools against collecting any special fees under various heads. Now, corporate colleges have simply ignored the CM's orders. And, parents are wondering how schools can override orders of the state government. Online lessons are being conducted for ninth class stu- dents and Inter second year students. Several corporate colleges have been conducting coaching for NEET, AIIMS, IIT-JEE and other exams for first as well as second year stu- dents. They conduct online tests too. The college manage- ments have been calling up parents to renew the admis- sion to second year by paying Rs 10,000. They say that online classes would not be repeated in classrooms and hence par- ents must pay the tuition fee so as to enable students to get access to online links. A swarm of locusts, current- ly stationed at a distance of 400 km away in Maharashtra, is headed towards Telangana and the dreaded insects (see box) could cause large-scale damage to standing crops. Top officials of the Telangana Agriculture Department, and Director of Research at the Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, were informed by officials of Central Integrated Pest Management Centres (CIPMC), and Amravati dis- trict agriculture officers, about the possible movement of locusts to Telangana. Called 'desert locusts', they have started causing extensive damage to crops in Rajasthan, MP and Gujarat. Although it is predicted that the locusts may enter Telangana via Maharashtra, experts in TS say a clear pic- ture will emerge in two days. Locusts eat more than their body weight (see box). Greenery will disappear in areas raided by locusts. They cause heavy damage to stand- ing crops. Farmers in Asifabad, Mancherial, Adilabad, Nizam- abad, Nirmal, Kamareddy dis- tricts -- all bordering Maharashtra -- are worried over their fate should the locusts descend on their farms and homes. Just 400 km away! The Telangana State govern- ment employees and pension- ers will receive half pay for May too -- third month in a row. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao took a decision in this regard on Wednesday, keeping in view the grave financial position of the state government that has been aggravated by the coro- na-induced lockdown since March 22. The government began imposing pay cuts in March on account of the financial cri- sis induced by nation-wide lockdown. It may be recalled that in March the state government had announced 75 per cent salary cut for public represen- tatives, 60 per cent cut for the All India Service officers, 50 per cent cut for government employees and 10 per cent cut for outsourced and contract staff. Besides, it imposed 25 per cent pay cut for pension- ers. Accordingly, they were paid truncated salaries for March and April. The same will be continued for May. KCR held a review at Pragathi Bhavan here on Wednesday on the State's eco- nomic situation. He discussed the strategy to be adopted due to the steep decline in the state's income. Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, Principal Secretary (Finance) Ramakrishna Rao, CMO Principal Secretary Narsing Rao and other senior officials participated. "Telangana State should get Rs 12,000 crore income every month. TS staff to get half salary in May too, third month in a row Schools ignore CM's advice, demand full fee KCR to perform yagams before opening KP Sagar HC rules Kokapet lands belong to TS Taking a serious view of the practice of filing false cases, the Telangana High Court has imposed exemplary costs totaling Rs.1 lakh each on 10 petitioners, who had filed false affidavits in two separate cases related to two parcels of gov- ernment lands located in Sy No.239 and 240 of Kokapeta village of Gandipeta mandal in Ranga Reddy. Before dismissing the two petitions, a single judge bench headed by Justice A. Rajasekhar Reddy said that it was ordering criminal prose- cution of the petitioners for fil- ing false affidavits and sup- pressing material facts in the case. It asked the petitioners to pay the costs to the High Court Legal Services Authority and asked the authority to take steps for the recovery of the costs from the petitioner. The petitions were filed urging the HC to declare the action of the state government in dealing with the land admeasuring Ac.42.35 Gts and Ac. 45.33 gts of land located in Sy. No.239 and 240 of the Kokapet village without estab- lishing title from the compe- tent court of law as "illegal and arbitrary". The petitioners urged the HC to direct the state government to refrain from dispossessing them from their land or conducting any auction of the land. TS records over 107 Covid cases Don’t be scared about spike: KCR Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has said that people should not be scared about the spikes in Corona cases as presently the scale of the spread has not been all that alarming, despite relaxations in lockdown. Still, people need to be cautious and alert, the Chief Minister said. The CM held a review here on Wednesday at Pragathi Bhavan on Coronavirus spread, containment measures and imple- mentation of the lockdown. "According to some estimates, pos- itive cases may increase in the country in the next two to three months. But people should not entertain any fear or anxiety. The government is ready to provide treat- ment to any number of cases in the State. The required PPE Kits, test Kits, Masks, beds, ven- tilators, hospitals are all ready," the Chief Minister said. The state government has allowed all shops in Hyderabad, except those in malls, to open from Thursday. Although permission to open alternate shops had been given, since May 16 shops have been rather crowded due to the 'odd-even' rule. Hence, it has been decided to permit all shops, expect those in malls, in Hyderabad. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at Pragathi Bhavan on Wednesday. Telangana State recorded 107 Covid-19 positive cases on Wednesday. This is the highest single-dayspike in coronavirus cases so far. The surge takes the state’s Covid tally to 2,098. Previously the highestnumber of cases recorded in a single day was 79 -- on May11.From just over 1,509 cases on May 16 -- when the lockdown eased -- the numbers have shot up with nearly 629 cases being record- ed in the last 10 days. The state also witnessed six deaths.

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The Krishna River Manage-ment Board has directed theAndhra Pradesh governmentnot to go ahead with irrigationschemes to draw water fromthe Srisailam reservoir tillappraisal is received fromKRMB/Central Water Com-mission and the Apex Councilon River Water Resources.

KRMB stated this in a letterto the Special Chief Secretary,Water Resources Department,on May 20, sources told PTI.

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Chief Minister KChandrashekhar Rao will per-form Chandi Yagam,Sudarshan Yagam, Gangammapuja and other rituals on Fridayto mark the inauguration of theKonda Pochamma Sagar inSiddipet district. The yagamswill be performed under theaegis of Sri Tridandi ChinnaJeeyar Swamy.

KCR is performing yagamsafter a gap of one and a halfyears. In January 2019, he per-formed the five-day SahasraChandi Yagam.

In the presence of SriTridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamy,KCR will release water from the

Konda Pochamma Sagar onFriday to enable pumping ofGodavari River water to the

highest level under theKaleshwaram project. The waterwill be lifted at various stagesfrom the Laxmi Barrage atMedigadda and will be pumpedinto the Konda PochammaSagar, which is at a height of 618metres. The project, which hasa storage capacity of 15 tmc, willpump water to hitherto aridlands which had no irrigation

facility till date.There project is named

Konda Pochamma Sagar asthere is a Konda Pochammatemple on the borders of theunited Medak, Warangal andNalgonda districts. There isKomuravelli Mallikarjuna(Mallanna) temple also in thevicinity. Devotees throng boththe shrines.

The KCR administration hasnamed the biggest reservoirconstructed under theKaleswaram project as MallannaSagar and the reservoir con-structed at the highest point asKonda Pochamma Sagar.

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Corporate schools and collegeshave now started insistingthat parents should pay tuitionfees in full in one go if studentshave to be promoted to thenext class and given links toaccess online lessons for thefresh academic year.

This goes against the spiritin which Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao had askedschools to collect tuition feesin instalments in view of thecrisis brought about by theCovid-19 pandemic. He hadalso warned schools againstcollecting any special feesunder various heads.

Now, corporate colleges havesimply ignored the CM's orders.And, parents are wonderinghow schools can overrideorders of the state government.

Online lessons are beingconducted for ninth class stu-dents and Inter second yearstudents. Several corporatecolleges have been conductingcoaching for NEET, AIIMS,IIT-JEE and other exams for

first as well as second year stu-dents. They conduct onlinetests too. The college manage-ments have been calling upparents to renew the admis-sion to second year by payingRs 10,000. They say that onlineclasses would not be repeatedin classrooms and hence par-ents must pay the tuition feeso as to enable students to getaccess to online links.

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A swarm of locusts, current-ly stationed at a distance of400 km away in Maharashtra,is headed towards Telanganaand the dreaded insects (seebox) could cause large-scaledamage to standing crops.

Top officials of the TelanganaAgriculture Department, andDirector of Research at theProfessor JayashankarTelangana State AgriculturalUniversity, were informed byofficials of Central IntegratedPest Management Centres(CIPMC), and Amravati dis-trict agriculture officers, aboutthe possible movement oflocusts to Telangana.

Called 'desert locusts', theyhave started causing extensivedamage to crops in Rajasthan,MP and Gujarat.

Although it is predictedthat the locusts may enterTelangana via Maharashtra,experts in TS say a clear pic-ture will emerge in two days.

Locusts eat more than theirbody weight (see box).Greenery will disappear inareas raided by locusts. Theycause heavy damage to stand-ing crops. Farmers in Asifabad,Mancherial, Adilabad, Nizam-abad, Nirmal, Kamareddy dis-tricts -- all borderingMaharashtra -- are worriedover their fate should thelocusts descend on their farmsand homes.

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The Telangana State govern-ment employees and pension-ers will receive half pay forMay too -- third month in arow.

Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao took adecision in this regard onWednesday, keeping in viewthe grave financial position ofthe state government that hasbeen aggravated by the coro-na-induced lockdown sinceMarch 22.

The government beganimposing pay cuts in Marchon account of the financial cri-sis induced by nation-widelockdown.

It may be recalled that inMarch the state governmenthad announced 75 per centsalary cut for public represen-tatives, 60 per cent cut for theAll India Service officers, 50per cent cut for governmentemployees and 10 per cent cutfor outsourced and contractstaff. Besides, it imposed 25per cent pay cut for pension-ers. Accordingly, they werepaid truncated salaries forMarch and April. The samewill be continued for May.

KCR held a review atPragathi Bhavan here onWednesday on the State's eco-nomic situation. He discussedthe strategy to be adopted due

to the steep decline in thestate's income.

Chief Secretary SomeshKumar, Principal Secretary(Finance) Ramakrishna Rao,CMO Principal SecretaryNarsing Rao and other seniorofficials participated.

"Telangana State should getRs 12,000 crore income everymonth.

TS staff to get halfsalary in May too,third month in a row

Schools ignore CM'sadvice, demand full fee

KCR to perform yagams before opening KP Sagar

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Before dismissing the twopetitions, a single judge benchheaded by Justice A.Rajasekhar Reddy said that itwas ordering criminal prose-cution of the petitioners for fil-ing false affidavits and sup-pressing material facts in thecase. It asked the petitioners topay the costs to the HighCourt Legal Services Authorityand asked the authority to takesteps for the recovery of thecosts from the petitioner.

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urging the HC to declare theaction of the state governmentin dealing with the landadmeasuring Ac.42.35 Gts andAc. 45.33 gts of land located inSy. No.239 and 240 of theKokapet village without estab-lishing title from the compe-tent court of law as "illegal andarbitrary". The petitionersurged the HC to direct thestate government to refrainfrom dispossessing them fromtheir land or conducting anyauction of the land.

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Chief Minister KChandrashekhar Rao has saidthat people should not bescared about the spikes inCorona cases as presently thescale of the spread has notbeen all that alarming, despiterelaxations in lockdown.

Still, people need to becautious and alert, the ChiefMinister said.

The CM held a review hereon Wednesday at PragathiBhavan on Coronavirusspread, containmentmeasures and imple-mentation of thelockdown.

"According tosome estimates, pos-itive cases mayincrease in thecountry in thenext two to

three months. But peopleshould not entertain any fear

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The state government hasallowed all shops inHyderabad, except those inmalls, to open from Thursday.Although permission to openalternate shops had beengiven, since May 16 shopshave been rather crowded

due to the 'odd-even' rule.Hence, it has been decided topermit all shops, expect thosein malls, in Hyderabad.

The decision was taken ata high-level meeting chairedby Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao atPragathi Bhavan onWednesday.

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Telangana State recorded 107Covid-19 positive cases onWednesday. This is the highestsingle-dayspike in coronaviruscases so far. The surge takes thestate’s Covid tally to 2,098.Previously the highestnumberof cases recorded in a single daywas 79 -- on May11.From justover 1,509 cases on May 16 --when the lockdown eased -- thenumbers have shot up withnearly 629 cases being record-ed in the last 10 days. The statealso witnessed six deaths.

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“Out of adversitycomes opportuni-ty", said Benjamin

Franklin, polymath and one ofthe foremost founding fathersof the United States ofAmerica. This could beapplied to India in the post-Covid-19 scenario.

The crisis brought about byCovid-19 has also given anopportunity for the country toachieve progress on a largescale. Several economists feelthat India would be the hotfavourite of investors in thefuture as capitalists of devel-oped countries start lookingtowards India. Still, this wouldnot happen automatically.Special efforts are required toturn the adversity into anopportunity.

At a time when India wasdreaming of becoming a $5trillion economy, Coronastruck the country like a bolt

from the blue. According to Goldman

Sachs, India's GDP growthwill fall to -3.6 percent in 2020.India could see a 'deep reces-sion', compared to all slow-downs the economy has everseen. For FY 21, it expects realGDP to fall by 5 percent.

India's unemployment rateis now at a record high of27.1%, according to the Centrefor Monitoring the IndianEconomy (CMIE).Unemployment hit 23.5 % inApril -- a sharp spike from 8.7% in March. About 12 croresjobs have been lost in the pasttwo months. It has been esti-mated that the Indian econo-my lost over Rs 32,000 crore(US $ 4.5 billion) every dayduring the first 21 days ofcomplete lockdown.

The inflow of FDIs into thecountry has seen a sharpdecline in this financial year

due to Corona pandemic. InMarch, the country receivedUS$ 2 billion. In April, Chinagot about US$ 40 billionthrough FDIs. In 2019 Indiareceived about US$ 46 billion,whereas China got about US$137 billion.

After Covid-19 India wouldface two challenges simultane-ously: one, it has to recover thelosses being sustained in thepast two months; and, two, ithas to ensure higher GDPgrowth rate. It would beinstructive to look at how

China developed by leaps andbounds in the past 20 years.Starting with US$ 19 billion in1990, China reached a stage ofreceiving about US$ 300 of for-eign direct investment by theend of 2019. According toestimates, in the past 20 yearsChina has received about US$ 5 trillion FDI.

This happened because ofthe revolutionary steps takenby China to ensured higherFDI inflows and phenomenaldevelopment. China has liber-alized its economy and

ensured administrative andpolitical support to investors.In 2008, China invested aboutUS$ 456 billion in infrastruc-ture to boost the economy. Inhas built cities, roads, railwaytracks, airports for the benefitof the investors.

However, Corona has

changed the scenario drastical-ly. The governments of devel-oped worlds are presently quiteangry with China for allowingthe spread of Coronavirus,causing enormous human andcapital loss. Now investors arethinking about pulling outtheir capital from China. If wehave to attract them to India,they need certain guarantees,administrative reforms, andpolitical support.

As far as India is concerned,administration is considered tobe a big blockade to econom-ic development. The so-calledEase of Doing Business,announced BJP-led NDA gov-ernment in 2014, has nothelped much to improve theconfidence of investors inIndia. According to experts'reports, several proposals ofinvestments are kept in coldstorage and only a few compa-nies are allowed to expand

their projects in the country. The infrastructure in India

is poor and it takes yearstogether to complete one sin-gle project. Too much politicalinterference does not allow thecontractors to complete theirjob in time. Rampant corrup-tion in the political andadministrative wings thwartsdevelopment activity.

So, in order to catalyze thechange to take place in theemerging world economicorder, the Indian governmenthas to focus on administrativereforms, boost investment ininfrastructure, and extend sup-port to investors.

The political leadershipmust show flexibility to meetthe demands of investors andcreate business- and industry-friendly atmosphere in thecountry. It is imperative toraise demand domestically,considering India is home to

nearly 1.3 billion people.Economists suggest that it

would not be a bad idea toallow loans by the Indian gov-ernment to go up to 85 pent ofthe GDP. At present, the totaldebt of India is about 70 percent of the GDP and it couldborrow 15 per cent more tomake investments in the coun-try.

The noticeable weak pointof China is that it has beenpromoting cheap products ofinferior quality. It never both-ered about the quality of theproducts and this is evidentfrom the fact that severalcountries have rejected theChinese masks and testingkits in the past two months.

India could capitalize inthis aspect by ensuring safety,security and standards of theproducts. It should rationalizethe tax system so that theproducts could be producedcost-effectively.

(The author is Treasurer ofTelangana Pradesh Congress

Committee)

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Telangana has emerged as amajor contributor to thenation-wide procurement ofpaddy cultivated in the secondcrop this year. According to thefigures released by the FoodCorporation of India (FCI)chairman and managing direc-tor (CMD) DV Prasad, theprocurement of paddy at thenational level as on date isabout 83.01 lakh tones, ofwhich the contribution ofTelangana alone was about52.23 lakh tonnes.

DV Prasad congratulatedthe State and said that theTelangana had become therice bowl of the country by ful-filling the food supply needs.He said during 2020 Rabi sea-son, of the total procurementof paddy in the country,Telangana State had account-ed for 63 per cent while theother states contributed therest 37 per cent, Prasaddeclared on Wednesday. Hesaid facing all the challengesposed by the Coronavirusbackground, the Public SectorUndertakings have done theprocurement on a record level.

The FCI had kept procure-ment of 91.07 Lakh tonnes asthe target this time, more thanhalf of it was provided by theTelangana State. Since Paddywas cultivated in a large extentin Telangana state this Rabiseason, it helped a lot for theneeds of the country, the FCIannouncement released onWednesday stated. In the back-drop of Corona-lockdown, theState government has decided

to procure every grain pro-duced by the farmers.Procurement centres were setup in the villages. In total,6,386 paddy procurement cen-tres were opened and till date,55.52 lakh tonnes of paddy wasprocured. Since a lot of paddyis being procured from theTelangana State, FCI CMDPrasad was in discussions withthe government from time totime.

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The transformation journeyof Sircilla from being adrought-hit region to a watersurplus district is now beingstudied as a model. The LalBahadur Shastri NationalAcademy of Administrationin Mussoorie has chosenSircilla Water Management asa topic for the trainee IAS offi-cers.

Scholars and bureaucratsfrom across the country arealso showing interest in visit-ing the district to study thedevelopment activities. TheLal Bahadur Shastri NationalAcademy of Administrationhas asked the Sircilla officialsto document the developmentactivities and send them.

The best policies and gover-nance models from across theworld are taught to the traineeofficers at the Lal BahadurShastri National Academy of

Administration. As a part ofthe course this time, Sircillawater management pro-grammes were made as studymodels for the trainee officers.The course includes the irriga-tion projects, Mission Kakatiya,lakes maintenance, harvesting

pits, and farm ponds.The water table in the district

has increased to six meters as thegovernment has been imple-menting these programmes reli-giously. This is seen as a mile-stone in water conservation asSircilla earlier was a drought

prone district. Sircilla district hasreceived prestigious awards atthe national level in the past fiveyears under the NREGA, watermanagement, cleanliness cate-gories. Minister KT RamaRao, who is also the MLA fromSircilla, expressed happinessover the Sircilla model receiv-ing praise from across thestates. He stated that Telanganapolicies and models are beingpraised by everyone at thenational level. He reiterated thewords of Chief Minister KChandrashekhar Rao who ear-lier said that the water projectsof Telangana will becomeresearch topics for many yearsto come. He said that thewords of CM are now a reali-ty. KTR stated that the irriga-tion infrastructure of Sircillahas started bearing fruits andthe government will sooncome up with a plan of actionto make the most of these pro-jects.

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Telangana Pradesh CongressCommittee (TPCC) presidentN Uttam Kumar Reddyalleged that Chief Minister KChandrashekhar Rao and hiscounterpart in AndhraPradesh YS JaganmohanReddy jointly conspired todivert Krishna River water ofTelangana to Andhra Pradeshby expandingPothyreddypadu Project.

He was speaking duringthe power point presentationon Pothyreddypadu Projectgiven by AICC Secretary &ex-MLA A Sampath Kumarat Mahbubnagar DCC officeon Wednesday. Uttam said

that the conspiracy was joint-ly hatched by CMs KCR andJagan during several meet-ings held in Hyderabad lastyear. When Jagan announcedexpansion ofPothyreddypadu Project inDecember last year, Congressleader Nagam JanardhanReddy immediately reactedand sent a letter to KCRseeking immediate action.Since KCR himself was partof the conspiracy, he did notrespond and maintainedsilence. He alleged that KCRhas mortgaged the interest offuture generations ofTelangana just to get a fewpercent commission fromthe contractors of projects.

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Despite the State and Centralgovernments' all-out effortsto contain the spread ofCovid-19, new positive caseswere being reported fromacross the state during thepast one week. A four-month-old child has died ofCoronavirus on Wednesday.His parents belonging toKasarabada village, nearSuryapet, rushed the babyboy to Niloufer Hospitalhere on Tuesday as the childwas unwell.

At the hospital the babytested positive for the virus.At the time of providingtreatment to the child, thedoctors identified that thebaby has had a hole in hisheart. Therefore, he diedunable to take breath. Thefour-year-old child hadreturned home along withhis parents from Mumbai toJaklair village of Makthalmandal.

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Chief Minister KChandrashekhar Rao hasinstructed the officials con-cerned to immediately sug-gest to farmers, which cropsshould they go in for in thecluster as part of the regula-tory farm policy implemen-tation in the State. He saidseeds for the crops suggestedshould be kept ready andavailable at the villages byFriday night.

The Chief Minister held areview meeting onWednesday at PragathiBhavan on AgricultureDepartment. MinisterNiranjan Reddy, CS SomeshKumar, State Rythu BandhuSamithi president PallaRajeshwar Reddy, PrincipalSecretary (Agriculture)Janardhan Reddy,Agriculture University ViceChancellor Praveen Rao par-ticipated.The CM heldreview on cultivation of cropsin the Monsoon, availabilityof seeds, fertilisers, procure-ment of crops and otherrelated issues.

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The school managementsare demanding students toclear dues of last year to pro-mote them to SSC. Even if feesare paid in full, they have beendemanding payment of'renewal' fees. The schools areinsisting on payment of quar-terly fees for the academic yearcommencing from June. Theparents are worried over pay-ment of fees under the prevail-ing situation.

Some managements areputting pressure on teachers toextract tuition fees. They arebeing blackmailed by the man-agements that their salarieswould be paid only if theyrecover the fees dues from par-ents. So, rather unwillingly,teachers are calling up parentsto collect the dues. One of theteachers, who wished toremain anonymous, said thathe is finding it very hard todemand payment of fees

under the prevailing condi-tions.

Some schools have beenasking parents to show thempay slips indicating reductionin salary. Those who do notshow the slips are asked to payfull fees. A parent Anjireddy ofLangar Houz said that for thepast two months businesseshave not been running. It isvery difficult to make bothends meet. There is no flow ofmoney to meet daily expens-es. The government has askedthe schools and colleges not todemand tuition fees.Therefore, it is not proper onthe part of schools and collegesto demand payment of tuitionfees. Under the prevailing sit-uation, it is not feasible to paytuition fees, he said.

Hyderabad Schools Parents'Association president NSubrahmanyam said due tolockdown people of all sec-tions of society have beenencountering difficulties.

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But the entire income fell flatdue to the lockdown. In May,the State received Rs 3,100crore, which includes thestate's share in the centraltaxes, which is Rs 982 crore.Though, the state governmenthas given some relaxations tothe lockdown guidelines, butthe income did not increasesubstantially. Income fromtransport, registration andother departments was alsonot much. As a result, the gov-ernment earned only someincome. We have to cater to allour needs with this meagreincome. The state govern-ment has to pay debt install-ments to the tune of Rs 37,400crore per year. These install-ments have to be paid everymonth without fail. The Stategovernment has requested theCentre to re-schedule theloans. But the Centre did not

take any action in this regard.With this, the state has nooption but to pay the install-ments. Though there was anincrease in the FRBM limits bythe Centre, additional loanscould not be raised due to theconditions imposed by theCentral government. If salariesof the employees and pensionswere paid in full, the expendi-ture would be more than Rs3,000 crore. The entire trea-sury will be empty. Henceforthno payment can be made norany work can be undertaken.Hence, we have to adapt aproper strategy," the ChiefMinister reasoned. Due to thesevere economic situation inthe State, the government hastaken decisions, including, Topay promptly the loan instal-ment; To pay Asara pensionsas it is; To give the poor 12 kg of rice during May in the backdrop of the lock-down.

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The state also witnessed sixdeaths. The Telangana govern-ment separated the number ofcases reported locally in thestate from those of foreignevacuees/ Saudideportees/migrants.

According to the HealthDepartment, 1,842 cases aredomestic to the state. Of these,39 persons within the statetested positive on Wednesday.

As of Wednesday, 297caseswere reported among depor-t e e s / m i g r a n t s / f o r e i g nreturnees.

On Wednesday alone, 68positive cases were reported, ofwhich 49 are Saudi Arabiadeportees and 19 migrants. So

far, 173 migrants, 94 SaudiArabia deportees and 30 per-sons from other nations 'for-eign evacuees' have tested pos-itive.

About 37 persons were dis-charged on Wednesday, takingthe tally to 1,321.

According to the health bul-letin, "The Government ofIndia has airlifted 458 depor-tees from Saudi Arabia. Thesedeportees have been quaran-tined in government quaran-tine centers in the state. Tilldate 82 deportees have testedpositive for Covid-19 and arebeing treated".

Majority of the migrantsare arriving from Maharashtra,Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh,Orissa, Bihar etc. The general

public are requested to informthe local authorities in casethey identify any new persons,migrants who have newlyarrived in the towns and vil-lages. This is to ensure thatmigrants strictly adhere to thehome quarantine guidelines.On Wednesday, 12 personstested positive for Coronavirusin Jagityal district, reportedlyamong migrant workers whohad come from Mumbai. InVikarabad district Tandur, 1-year-old reportedly tested pos-itive, both mother and kidwere sent to Gandhi Hospitalwhile the remaining were putin quarantine. In Shadnagar,2more cases were purported-ly recorded on Wednesday,including 1-year-old.

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The Union Ministry of JalShakti has given a directionto KRMB on the matter, theletter said. The AP govern-ment had planned to drawover six TMC water per dayfrom the Srisailam reservoirunder different irrigationschemes. The letter said theaction of the Andhra Pradeshgovernment to accordadministrative approval tothe new projects through aMay 5 2020 GovernmentOrder was violative of provi-sions in the Andhra PradeshReorganisation Act, 2014.

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He declared that should therebe an increase in the numberof positive cases, the medicaland health department wouldoffer services to "any numberof cases". He instructed theofficials concerned to pro-vide emergency services tothose Corona positive patientswhose health condition dete-riorates. Medical officers,experts, state level committeesexamining the developmentsthat are taking place on Covid-19 all over the world explainedto the CM and Ministers the

present situation. According tothem, developments worldover suggest that one shouldnot be become scared aboutthe Corona issue. Going by thefindings of studies conductedall over the world and the esti-mates of the WHO, despitespread of the virus, the symp-toms are not appearing in amajority of people. About 80per cent of those having thevirus have no symptoms andthey need no treatment. Only 15 per cent of them haveinfluenza-like symptoms, cold, cough, difficulty inbreathing.

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The Konda Pochamma tem-ple draws lakhs of devotees.The deity has a reputation fortaking care of devotees' needs.The Chief Minister wantedKonda Pochamma Sagar pro-ject to fulfill the needs forwater for irrigation, drinkingand other purposes as well.Sources said KCR treats thisproject "as a temple". So, thearrangements for its inaugu-ration are being made intune with his belief.

The inaugural programmeChandi Yagam, Sudarshan

Yagam, Gangamma puja andother related rituals would beperformed as part of theinauguration of KondaPochamma Sagar project.

At 4 AM on May 29,Chandi Yagam will be per-formed in Konda PochammaTemple, Sudarshan Yagam atKonda Pochamma Sagarpump house simultaneously.

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Senior Advocate V. Giri arguedthe case on behalf of HMDA inthe case and told the HC thatthe lands in dispute weredeclared as government landsby virtue of jagir abolition

Regulation, 1358 Fasli and thestate had become the owner ofthe lands. He also said that thename of the Jagirdar wasNusrat Jung-1 in which theJagir was abolished in the year1949 under Jagir Abolition Act1358 F and merged with state.

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The Right Hand Side (RHS)flyover at Kamineni Junctionand 519 metre long vehicleunderpass (VUP) at LB Nagarwill be inaugurated by Ministerfor Municipal Administrationand Urban Development KTRama Rao on Thursday.

Constructed with a cost ofRs 43 crore as part of theStrategic Road DevelopmentProgramme (SRDP), the 940metre long RHS flyover willallow free flow of inner ringroad traffic from Secunderabadto Owaisi Hospital andSrisailam Road.

The vehicle underpass atLB Nagar has developed at thecost of Rs 14 crore and both theprojects are part of SRDPPackage II taken up at an esti-mated cost of Rs 448 crore.

MA&UD Minister K TRama Rao on Wednesday tookto social media platformTwitter to announce about theinauguration.

"Will inaugurate two latestoutcomes of SRDP at LB Nagartomorrow. Kamineni junctionRHS 940m flyover & LB Nagarjunction LHS 519 meter VUP,"the Minister posted.

Kamineni Left Hand Side

(LHS) flyover is already com-pleted and in use.

According to the GreaterHyderabad MunicipalCorporation (GHMC) offi-cials, "Once the RHS flyoveropens, the LB Nagar Junction

will have conflict free traffic onthe inner ring road. The RHSand LHS flyovers will be sav-ing travel time, savings in-vehi-cle operation costs like fuel andothers."

The peak hour passenger carunits (PCU) in 2015 at LBNagar before the launch ofMetro Rail was 14,153 and itcame down to 8,916 after theinauguration of Metro. Theprojected PCU here is expect-ed to be 21,990 in 2034.

The project will also go along way in a reduction in pol-lution and noise levels, with thereduction of waiting and trav-elling time.

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With Covid-19 lockdown hit-ting Greater HyderabadMunicipal Corporation(GHMC) revenues hard, thecorporation has pinned itshope on the property tax pay-ers. The corporation is hopingto push as many people to payproperty tax as possiblethrough early bird scheme.On Wednesday, a message topay property tax was sent to8.24 lakh unpaid tax payersmobile numbers.

Achieving the financial yearproperty tax target is reported-ly among the top priority of thecorporation amidst the pan-demic.GHMC CommissionerDS Lokesh Kumar urged peo-ple to pay property tax. Hesaid, "Now all commercial ornon residential properties andresidential properties withyearly tax above Rs 30,000 arealso eligible to avail 5 per centrebate on property tax throughearly bird scheme for the finan-cial year 2020-21. Please payyour property tax for 2020-21

and arrears if any. All the taxpayers can pay at MeeSeva,Citizen Service Centres at cir-cle offices, through GHMCwebsite, MyGHMC applicationor online before May 31."

Meanwhile, Yashoda hospi-tals paid a property tax of Rs2.5 crore and used the earlybird scheme and got a rebateof Rs 14 lakh. GHMCCommissioner DS LokeshKumar received property taxcheque from Yashoda Hospitalpublic relations officerChandrashekhar.

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With flights scheduled for earlymorning, there has been uncer-tainty over the availability ofcabs in the city. Several citizensexpressed confusion over avail-ability of cabs. A commuterGoutham said he tried bookinga cab but was met with no cabsavailable message.

According to RGIA author-ities, "Authorised cab operatorsto and from the airport will befunctional round the clock.You can take your own vehicleas well to pick the passenger.Carry a copy of the travel tick-et or boarding pass as proof oftravel."

The authorities requested totake all the precautionary mea-sures, like wearing a mask,frequent sanitisation, main-taining social distancing whiletravelling.

Travelling in cabs is nolonger going to be the same.Cab aggregators including Olahave made it a mandate toswitch of AC and keep win-

dows open to avoid re-circula-tion of air. Cab drivers won'thelp customers to load andunload luggage, to maintainsocial distance. Only two pas-sengers apart from the driver

will be allowed in the cab pera ride. Customers are alsoencouraged to go cashless toavoid unnecessary contact.

Meanwhile, increasing safe-ty protocols, cabs services are

placing specially trained staff atRGIA to perform car fumiga-tion, temperature checks fordriver-partners and a car auditbefore every pick-up so that thecustomers can have peace ofmind before they step into thecab. Ola has asked all its driversto give selfie authentication tocheck if they wore masks beforethe start of every ride by shar-ing a selfie through the driver-partner app.

The authorities directed allthe cab drivers to disinfectbefore and after every ride.

As a strong measure, driver-partners and customers havebeen given the option of can-celling the ride if the other isnot wearing a mask to ensurenot only their safety but alsothat of those availing the serviceafter. Anand Subramanian,Spokesperson at Ola, said, "Thesafety of both passengers anddriver-partners continues tobe a top priority for us and weare committed to followingthe highest standards of safetyand hygiene.

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Excise Minister V SrinivasGoud on Wednesday inspect-ed the site for neera centreproposed to be set up onNecklace road.

The Ministersaid that ten-ders have been called for con-struction of the Centre at acost of Rs 3 crore and hintedat setting up modern neeraselling centres in all districts inphases.

He said that over 4 lakh aredirectly depended on toddytapping and another 40 lakhare indirectly dependent on

toddy and Neera. The TRS government

increased the accident insur-ance for deaths while climbingthe trees for toddy from Rs 2lakh to Rs 5 lakh. The ChiefMinisyer has given permissionfor sale of toddy in the stateand waived Rs 10 crore duesof toddy tappers' coop soci-eties.

The government has plansto introduce neera cool drinsince neera has many medic-inal properties.

The Minister said that neerahas many health benefits andAyurveda uses it as a medicine.

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Municipal AdministrationPrincipal Secretary ArvindKumar along with MLAAhmed Pasha Quadri onWednesday inspected thedesiltation works going on ata cost of Rs 2 crore inDabirpura

The Greater HyderabadMunicipal Corporation(GHMC) on the directions ofKT Rama Rao prepared aschedule for desilting works inthe city prior to the monsoonseason and afterwards.

The GHMC assessed theformation of silt in the nalasprior to the rainy season andafterwards. Accordingly, theGHMC is implementing anaction plan taking into consid-eration the past experiences.

MLC Riyadh Ul Hasan,Charminar ZonalCommissioner Srinivas, cor-porator Basith, superintendingengineer Narsing Rao, deputycommissioner Manga Tayaru,Suryakumar, Rajani KantReddy and others took part.

Later speaking to media,the GHMC maintenance wingchief engineer Jiauddin saidthat the target is to remove 4.79lakh cubic meters of silt fromthe nalas. Accordingly, 345works have been allotted to thecontractors. So far, 2.60 lakhcubic meters of silt has beenremoved. The objective is toaccomplish all works in 10days.

The silt removed from nalasis being sent to dumping yard

at Jawaharnagar. As the lanesand bylanes are so narrow, it isdifficult for big vehicles totransport the silt to dumpingyard.

Therefore, dumping pointshave been set up to deposit thesilt temporarily there. Fromthere, it would be transportedto Jawaharnagar. Paymentswould be made to the contrac-tors after estimating the totalamount of silt removed anddeposited at Jawaharnagar.

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Officials of the Central CrimeStation, LB Nagar and theMeerpet Police apprehended aperson involved in a robberyand seized RS 8,51,950 from hispossession on Wednesday.

The arrested person hasbeen identified as Maram AchiReddy, 28. A native ofPrakasam district in AndhraPradesh, he was residing atSuryapet, working as anaccountant and collection boyat Sri Sai Charana Paper MillsPvt. Ltd in Kodada after com-pleting his MBA graduation.

The owner of the company,Tirupathi Reddy, is a close rel-ative of the offender. Trustinghis relative, Tirupathi appoint-ed him as the accountant cumcollection boy. In March, AchiReddy came to Hyderabad tocollect the company's amountand on his first assignment; he

collected Rs 10 lakhfrom various agents.Lured at the prospect ofthe huge money, heplanned to steal the cash for hispersonal use. However, due tolockdown, he was unable tovisit Hyderabad for threemonths. On Monday, AchiReddy came to Hyderabadfrom Kodad and went to IDPLBalanagar and collected Rs 6lakh from Shiva Kumar. Afterthat he went to Amberpet andcollected cash Rs 2.5 lakh fromRavi Shankar and kept theamount in his bag. Later he col-lected Rs 26,500 from Raja

Reddy's Company atGurramguda and kept it in hispocket.

As per his plan, he went toan isolated area in Gurramgudaand kept the money collected

in a plastic cover which wasthen hidden in the bush-es. After that, he con-jured up a story abouthim being robbed and

told the same to his uncle.He then informed the cops

through dial 100 and thenwent with Raja Reddy to theMeerpet Police and lodged acomplaint about the cash theft.

The police said that duringthe investigation, Achi Reddyrevealed that his girlfriend suf-fers from serious health prob-lems and as he did not havesufficient money for her treat-ment, he was lured by themoney in this profession andconjured a robbery drama tosteal the cash himself.

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Wednesday witnessed a drop ofpassengers flying out of thecity.

The passenger load at theRGIA registered a dip on thesecond and third days of therecommencement of air oper-ations. Meanwhile, many com-muters took to Twitter to sharetheir plight about how disor-ganised things were at the air-port.

During usual times beforethe shutdown, the airport wasclocking a double digit growthhandling up to 60,000 passen-gers daily and more than 500flights, domestic and interna-tional. However, the airporthandled about 2,500 passen-

gers for both arrivals anddepartures on the second day.The passenger load was morereduced on Wednesday.

A passenger named SaijuGangadaram, who was travel-ling to Bengaluru during an

afternoon flight shared a videoof chaos during the boardingnear the aerobridge. Passengerscan be seen crowding togeth-er in the video near the aero-bridge leading to the aircraft.Many were spotted walking

around in groups instead ofbeing seated on the chairsmarked away from each other.He wrote on Twitter, "What isthe use of all the pain taken bycitizens? What is the use of theAarogya Setu app (sic)?"

The Indigo 6E 732 was thefirst departures flight whichtook off to Lucknow fromHyderabad at 4.46 am with 45passengers on board whileIndigo 6E 587 was the firstarrivals flight of the day, whichlanded at 01.01 am from Punewith 108 passengers. "All arriv-ing and departures passengersare being scanned by thermalscanners at both arrivals anddepartures as per the safetyprocedures with adequatesocial distancing enforced foreveryone," sources said.

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The Telangana High Court onWednesday directedHyderabad PoliceCommissioner Anjani Kumarto carry out personal investi-gation into the alleged custo-dial death of SheelamRangaiah at Manthani policestation of Peddapalli district.

It also asked the CP torecord the statement of thefamily members of thedeceased Rangaiah in order todiscover the date on whichthe deceased Rangaiah waspicked up by the police.

The HC further directedthe CP to submit his reportbefore the court. A divisionbench of the HC also direct-ed the DGP Mahender Reddyto take departmental actionagainst those who are foundto be guilty for the allegedmisconduct if any. The divi-sion bench passed this orderwhile dealing with a taken upPIL written by HC advocatePV Nagamani, a native ofGunjapadugu village ofManthani mandal.

Arguing the case before thedivision bench, Nagamanitold the HC that victim dieddue to the third degree pun-ishment meted out by thepolice in the custody.

Nagamani also said that acriminal case was registeredagainst the victim at Mathanipolice and added that thepolice brought the victim tothe police station on May 22.

Nagamani said that thevictim was kept at the policestation for four days and didnot send him to the judicialcustody after producing himbefore a magistrate. Shealleged that the policeharassed the victim. She saidthat the victim died in thelockup in the wee hours ofTuesday under suspicious cir-cumstances.

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Kamineni Umapathy Rao,former IAS officer, passedaway on Wednesday at theage of 92, due to age relatedproblems, at Hyderabad.

He was a highly principledcivil servant upholding strongvalues of selflessness andgenerosity. He rendered yeo-man service during his tenureas a civil servant with the erst-while Government of AndhraPradesh and held severalresponsible positions includ-ing Secretary Education, VC,Osmania University, heserved as the first executiveofficer of Tirumala TirupatiDevasthanam.

Umapathy hailed from theroyal lineage of DomakondaSamsthanam. He was instru-mental in the renovation ofhis ancestral home,Domakonda Fort, the Shivatemple in the precincts of thefort.

Umapathy was deeplycommitted to the empower-ment of women and wasassociated with several initia-tives related to women andchild welfare, especially inDomakonda village.

He was known for his greatsense of humour, and was apatron of Urdu poetry andshayari.

Chief Minister KChandrashekar Raoexpressed condolences onthe demise of former IAS offi-cer K Umapathi. CM recalledhis services in social welfareand education in united AP.CM conveyed his condo-lences to the family membersof the bereaved.

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Chief Minister K Chandra-h-ekhar Rao on Wednesday hasinstructed the officials toobserve greenery, cleanlinessdrive in TS from June 1 to 8.

The CM urged the officialstake all precautionary mea-sures to contain the Corona aswell against the possible out-break of seasonal diseases.The CM held a meeting on themeasures to be taken in thisregard in towns and villages.

Minister KT Rama Rao,Principal Secretary ArvindKumar and others took part.

He told the officials to cleanthe sewerages and allow freeflow of the rainwater. Fill upcrates and pits with soil so that

rainwater will not be stagnant. “Fill up all the potholes on

roads. Ensure that rain waterdoes not stagnate on the roads.Fix the leakages of the drink-ing water pipelines. Watershould not be contaminatedwith the leakages. Eradicatemosquito larvae in tanks,drums and vessels,” the CMdirected the officials.

Officials were also told toconduct fogging in all theresidential areas. Use Bytexspray to kill larvae and also useoil balls. Clear all unwantedvegetation and spray 1 per centSodium Hypochlorite disin-fectant at all the bus stands,markets, schools, hospitalspremises, ration shops andcart stands.

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A three-year-old child acci-dentally fell into a borewell inMedak on Wednesday. Policerushed to the scene to launcha rescue operation.

The incident occurred inthe evening in an agriculturefield in Podichanpally.According to police, a farmerGoverdhan dug a borewell inhis field. As the borewellfailed, he left it uncapped.

His son Sai Vardhan whowas standing near the bor-ewell accidentally fell into it.

The 120-feet borewell wasleft uncapped which led tothe incident. Collector Dha-rma Reddy and SP ChandanaDeepti rushed to the sceneand were supervising the res-cue operation.

Principal SecretaryArvindKumar directed all the offi-cials concerned to close thedefunct bore wells in townsand villages under IntensiveSanitation drive from June 1.He also directed the officialsto recheck the status inMunicipal areas in all thewards.

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While the YSRCP government has been successful inimplementing almost all of the promises made inits election manifesto, it has suffered severe setbacks

and received criticism from the courts on a regular basis. In fact, with the main Opposition party, the TDP, blud-

geoned at the hustings and reeling from massive electoralloss and defections, many believe that the courts have playeda major role in keeping the government under control. Beit the YSRCP colours on the walls of the village secretari-ats and other government office buildings to shifting of theAndhra Pradesh capital, the judiciary has been active andalert.

Jagan’s desire to scrap the plans of his predecessor NChandrababu Naidu too were challenged in the High Court.A quick glance at the first year of the YSRCP rule showsthat most of its decisions, barring the welfareschemes, ended up in court.

It’s been just one year since thevoters in Andhra Pradeshdecided to dislodge the tried-

and-tested Telugu Desam Partyfrom power and repose faith ina half-a-decade-old party tocarry forward a state that wasstruggling financially and seem-ingly unable to stand back on itsfeed.

When the results of the 2019general elections wereannounced, they only confirmedwhat YS Jaganmohan Reddyand his followers had been say-ing till then — the YSRCPwould win by a landslide and theopposition wold end up crestfall-en and at a loss for words.

So decisive was the mandatethat the YSRCP won 151 of the175 Assembly and 22 of the 25Lok Sabha seats, ushering in anew chapter in the history ofAndhra Pradesh polity.

YSRCP leaders say that thedecisive mandate was not con-jured up overnight, but was theresult of the hard work of Jaganwho was with the peoplethrough the years the TDP wasruling. They say that it was Jaganwith the people and people withJagan always. “He was in con-stant interaction with the peopleand taking up their cause atevery available forum andavenue, fighting for justice,” sayYSRCP leaders.

The game-changer, as wide-ly acknowledge, came in theform of Jagan’s 3,648 km masscontact programme PrajaSankalpa Yatra where theYSRCP chief interacted with allsections of the society andgave a patient ear to theirplight.

Electioneeringcame close onthe heels oft h e

Padayatra and the party’s cam-paign song Ravali Jagan KavaliJagan reverberated across theState.

Through the padayatra, Jaganand his team gathered inputsfrom a cross section of the soci-ety on what the people wantedand it was the basis on which theParty manifesto was drafted.

The manifesto, calledNavaratnas, was unveiled dur-ing the Party Plenary, in sim-ple language.

The simplicity of the languageof the manifesto became itsstrength and it became muchtalked about, so much so, that themain rival, the TDP was forced topull down its own manifestofrom its official website.

It was but a logical step thatthe YSRCP would showcase itsmanifesto at all venues, andpromise the people point bypoint, blow by blow that allpromises will be fulfilled.

The results were proof thatJagan’s personal credo, his appealand interactions with the peo-ple, the promises made, and thedes ireo fthe

people to rise out of the hubrisand usher in change, gelled atthe same time.

Jagan, and the YSRCP, peakedat the perfect time and a wave,like never seen before in thestate, swept him to power.

Remarkably, Jagan has kepthis word and implementedalmost all of the promisesmade in the manifesto, includ-ing increasing pensions to Rs2,250 as the first signatureafter assuming office. Thiswas in marked contrast to hisbete noire N ChandrababuNaidu, who, instead of waiv-ing farmer and SHG loans,announced a committee tolook into the feasibility of theloan waiver.

The first months saw Jaganmaking more promises —promising transparency, effi-ciency and efficacy in gover-nance.

He began by transferringmoney directly into the bankaccounts of the beneficiaries ofthe various governmentschemes.

At the very first CollectorsConference itself, Jaganshowed that he meant busi-ness, by telling the officialsnot to spare anyone ifthey step out of line andsway from the path of pro-priety. The officialswere also told to putthe people first.

From then on, it’sbeen a

year

of many firsts, and many deci-sions that are consideredunprecedented.

For example, the announce-ment of a mammoth ex gra-tia of Rs 1 crore to the victimsof the Styrene gas leak fromLG Polymers plant at Vizag.Not only was the promisemade, but the speed at whichthe cheques were handedout to the kin of the victimswas remarkable.

“Unless compensationis high, the fear does notsink into the manage-ment and there is everychance of they beinglax. In the course ofimposing prohibitionthe price of liquor wasincreased by 75 percent and availabilitywas restricted whichis a clear examplethat strict laws willyield results,” theChief Minister

explained.In

stark con-trast, kin of thevictims of theG o d a v a r iPushkaramssuffered foryears as theissue was con-veniently for-gotten under amountain of reports andcommittees.

As YSRCP leadersclaim, the main differ-ence between the TDPgovernment and theYSRCP government is

t h a tJagan is

shaping AP into awelfare state, shortcom-

ings notwithstanding, whilehis predecessor wanted toput all eggs in one basket andhad heavily concentrated onthe central region of thestate.

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The YS JaganmohanReddy government in

Andhra Pradesh has comein for praise for the way it has been han-

dling the Covid-19 pandemic. The village/ward volunteer system,

which was put in place as part of the elec-toral promise made by Jagan has come inhandy for the government to trackCoronavirus-affected people and referthem to the isolation wards set up at var-ious government and private hospitals.

Besides, the government has importedtesting kits from South Korea and start-ed testing people in right earnest.

The measure has yielded good resultsin terms of identifying the patients at thegrassroots level in line with the WHOadvice Test, Trace and Treat. Apart fromproviding nutritious food to the patients,the government is also providing the best

possible healthcare for them. The state government is being praised for

effectively tackling the pandemic as the ChiefMinister moved much faster than many ofhis counterparts and ensured things were inplace well before the first positive case in thestate was identified.

Jagan personally monitored the develop-ments by conducting review meetings withhis colleagues and officials.

The initiative taken by Chief Minister wereemulated by other states. In fact, Jagan hadbeen on the mark right from the first case wasreported in the state and he was the first tosay that Covid-19 is here to stay and it wouldbe better that we learn to live with the virus.

After the review meetings virtual confer-ence was organised by the district collectorson the measures being taken and effectivetreatment to the patients and on other facil-ities provided to the inmates.

The first case was identified from a for-eign returnee in March where there was noinfrastructure facility in the state to conductthe tests. Initially the samples were drawn andsent to Pune virology lab for test and it tookalmost a week to get the report.

With the Chief Minister pushing, the firstlab was set up in Chittoor on March 11, andat present 12 VRDL labs have been set upacross the state and about 10,000 to 15,000tests can be done per day.

In all there are about 48 Treunat machines,five CBNAAT, two Viral load testing labsNACO and others. The state government hasarranged 971 ventilators, 2,362 ICU beds and18,060 isolation beds across the state in var-ious Covid-19 designated hospitals.

Measures were taken to track and identifyall Covid positive case along with their pri-mary and secondary contacts. Very strictimplementation of containment zones andbuffer zones by medical and paramedical staffalong with ANMs and volunteers, also helpedthe state government keep the virus in check.

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The Supreme CourtWednesday asked the Centre toidentify private hospitals whereCOVID-19 infected patientscould get treatment for free orat a nominal cost.

A bench headed by ChiefJustice S A Bobde, hearing thematter via video-conferenc-ing, observed that there are pri-vate hospitals which have beengiven land either free of cost orat nominal rates and theyshould treat coronavirus infect-ed patients for free.

"You identify all those hospi-tal and find out," the bench, alsocomprising Justices A S Bopannaand Hrishikesh Roy, toldSolicitor General Tushar Mehta.

"They have been given landeither free of cost or at a verynominal rates. These charita-ble hospitals should treatpatients for free," the benchobserved and posted the mat-ter for hearing after one week.

Mehta, appearing for theCentre, told the top court thatthis being a policy issue wasrequired to be decided by thegovernment.

Mehta said he would file aresponse on the issue.

The bench was hearing anapplication filed in a plea whichhas sought a direction for regu-lating the cost of treatment ofCOVID-19 at private hospitalsacross the country.

The top court had on April 30issued notice to the Centre andsought its response on the plea,filed by advocate Sachin Jain,which alleged that private hospi-tals are "commercially exploiting"patients suffering from coron-avirus in this hour of crisis.

The petition has said that thegovernment should mandateprivate hospitals which are run-

ning on public land allotted atconcessional rates or runningunder the category of charitableinstitutions to at least for the pre-sent, treat COVID-19 patientseither pro bono publico (for pub-lic good) or on no-profit basis.

"The issue requires an urgentconsideration of this court asmany private hospitals are com-mercially exploiting the patientssuffering from COVID-19 tomake a fortune out of their mis-eries in the hour of national cri-sis," the plea has alleged.

It has also sought a directionto the Centre to bear the cost ofCOVID-19 treatment at privatehospitals for the poor and vulner-

able, who neither have any insur-ance cover nor have coverageunder government schemes likeAyushman Bharat, and also ofthose who have the coverage butthe cost of treatment surpassestheir reimbursement.

It has said that given theresource constrains of publichealth sector in the country,extensive participation of pri-vate healthcare sector would berequired particularly in dealingwith moderate and severe casesof coronavirus that wouldrequire hospitalization.

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Expressing confidence that theruling Maharashtra VikasAghadi has numbers in itsfavour, the Shiv Sena onWednesday said Governor B SKoshyari should scold thosewho want to destabilise the stategovernment. An editorial inSena mouthpiece 'Saamana' saidthe opposition (BJP) has astrength of 105 MLAs.

"It is our wish that it remainsintact. But, the government has170, and they (opposition)should not blame the govern-ment if it becomes 200, it said.

Describing Koshyari as astraight forward person, theSena, however, also claimed hewants rights to make adminis-trative appointments in the state,and asked the governor torebuke those who want to desta-bilise the government using thepowers he possesses currently.

Without naming BJP leadersin Maharashtra, the Shiv Senaasked them to demand imposi-tion of Presidents rule in Gujaratinstead. The Shiv Sena also notedthat the Maharashtra VikasAghadi (MVA) — comprisingthe Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress— is completing six months of itsformation even as the opposition

had claimed it would not survivefor even 11 days.

Had the COVID-19 threatnot been prevailing and the sit-uation would have been normal,shrikhand-puri would havebeen fed to the opposition tomark completion of six monthsof the government, which isnow focused only on combat-ing the coronavirus, it said.

Maharashtra Chief Ministerand Shiv Sena president UddhavThackeray had taken oath onNovember 28 last year.

The Shiv Sena, NCP andCongress came together to formgovernment last year, after theThackeray-led party and theBJP fell out over sharing thechief ministerial post.

Describing Koshyari as asant-mahatma (saint-great soul)

who has spent his life so far fol-lowing the ideology of the RSS,the Sena said it cannot bebelieved that any sant- mahat-ma would engage in politicalconspiracies.

Koshyari treated well theguests who visited Raj Bhavanrecently, in line withMaharashtra's culture, it said.

The opposition leaders (ofBJP) met the governor and alsoNCP chief Sharad Pawar, partyleader Praful Patel and ShivSenas Rajya Sabha memberSanjay Raut, it noted.

Apparently referring toPawar, Patel and Raut meetingthe governor, the Shiv Sena saidholding discussions on the cur-rent situation in Maharashtradoes not mean "something ison" at the Raj Bhavan.

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Manjula Sardar (45) carrying abowl of puffed rice and jaggery,her first proper meal in the lasttwo days, wistfully stares at aflooded pond full of saline water.

Cyclone Amphan, which hitWest Bengal a week ago, not onlykilled all the fishes in Manjula'spond, but also snatched away hersole source of livelihood.

The fishes grown in the pondhas been her only source ofincome to feed a family of fourfor the last seven years ever sincea tiger killed her husband inGosaba area of Sunderbans in2013.

Manjula, commonly knownas 'tiger widow' or 'bagh-bidob-ha', is worried how to run herfamily as the tidal surge createdby the cyclone has flooded all thefarmlands and ponds in thearea, washing away all theirmeans of livelihood.

"After Cyclone Aila, our farm-land became barren as salinewater had entered the fields. Myhusband then took to fishing in

the creeks of Sunderbans to runthe family. It was during a fish-ing expedition that he wasdragged away by a tiger into theforests," Manjula said.

After much struggle, withthe help of an NGO, she was ableto use a nearby pond near theirone-storey mud-built house forbreeding of fishes.

"But 'Amphan' took awayeverything. A portion of myhouse was washed away and theentire pond is now filled with

saline water which has killed allthe fishes. It would take a lot ofmoney and time to restore thepond for fish farming again,"dejected Manjula said.

More than 100 'tiger widows'of the Satjelia block in Gosabaarea who had lost their spousesto endangered Royal BengalTigers of Sunderbans in the last15 years also have similar storiesof despair to share.

As per official records, 52human deaths due to tiger

attacks have been reported in theSundarbans from 2010 to 2017.

Shiba Sardar (40), anothertiger widow, who hails fromSatjelia which is often referred toas 'Bidhoba Para' or 'widowshamlet', said she is scared ofhunger more than any cycloneor dangers of man-tiger conflict.

A short-time poultry farmer,she used to sell full-grown chick-ens to meat corporations at aprofit.

"For us, the fight with natureand wildlife is a regular affair. Butwhat hurts most is that everytime a disaster hits Sunderbans,we have to rebuild everything

from scratch. "Hundred full-grown chick-

ens and 80 chicks were washedaway. The small piece of farm-land I have is full of salinewater. After the relief distrib-ution ends, how will we sur-vive?" she said.

Shiba's younger daughter iswaiting for her class 10 results,while the elder one is of marriage-able age. Embankments in theSundarban delta — a UNESCOworld heritage site — werebreached as the surge whipped upby the cyclonic storm inundatedseveral kilometres of the islandswith saline water.

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The Centre has suggested statesand UTs to organise home deliv-ery of essential medicines likecalcium, iron/folic acid and zinctablets besides contraceptives incontainment zones to ensurematernal and child healthcare isnot affected due to the coron-avirus-induced lockdown.

In its 'Guidance note on Pro-vision of Reproductive, Maternal,Newborn, Child, AdolescentHealth Plus Nutrition (RMNC-AH+N) services during andpost COVID-19 pandemic'released on Wednesday, theministry stressed that critical ser-vices for women, children andadolescent should be providedirrespective of their COVID-19status. "Under no circumstancesshould there be a denial of

essential services," it highlighted. "Home deliveries of essential

medicines like IFA, Calcium,ORS, Zinc, contraceptives etc.can be organized in containmentzones," it said.

Campaign mode services likemass vitamin A prophylaxis,campaigns for Intensified

Diarrhea Control Fortnight(IDCF), National DewormingDay (NDD) and Test treat andTalk (T3) camps for Anemia, canbe organised on an alternativemechanism like through homedelivery of essential services andcommodities etc. based on localsituation, it said.

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Their dreams of returning homefinally taking wing after twomonths of lockdown, 10 migrantworkers are flying to Biharthanks to their employer, aDelhi farmer, who bought theirplane tickets.

Their flight to the Bihar cap-ital Patna is at 6 am on Thursdayand the men, who planned togo home in April, can't believethey are going to their villages inSamastipur – not walking orcycling thousands of kilometres,or scrambling for a seat on a busor train, but on a plane.

“I never imagined in my lifethat I will be traveling in a plane.I don''t have words to express myhappiness. But I am also little bit

nervous about what I have to dowhen we reach the airporttomorrow," Lakhinder Ram,who will be returning with hisson, said. He is grateful toPappan Singh, a mushroomfarmer in Delhi's Tigipur villagewho is helping rewrite themigrant narrative, so far aboutunpaid dues, hunger and ardu-ous journeys home resulting inillness and even death.

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A Pune-based unionworkingfor the rights of employees ofIT companies has written toMaharashtra Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray, seekingintervention to save jobs ofemployees who have been laid-off or are facing pay cuts in thewake of COVID-19 crisis.

National InformationTechnology Employees Senate(NITES) in the letter written toCM on Tuesday said severalIT/ITeS/BPO/KPO companiesacross Maharashtra have start-ed terminating services of theiremployees without any reason-able cause and withholding ordeducting their salaries.

This is in complete breachand violation of directions and

advisories issued by theMaharashtra government,NITES general secretaryHarpreet Saluja said.

"In such testing times, therights of employees ought to beprotected by necessary ordersand directions to the compa-

nies by government, asprospects of several employeesof the country are under adilemma," reads the letter.

The NITES said it is seekingstate government's promptintervention and support tosafeguard life, jobs and families

of over six lakh IT/ITeS/ BPO/KPO employees inMaharashtra.

"It is our fervent hope thatsuch exploitation of employeesdoes not occur in future andthe working conditions willimprove at a faster pace," theletter said.

Employers who are in adominant position are takingharsh decisions and uncon-scionable bargains withemployees, it said, addingemployees are in no wayresponsible for the presentpandemic lockdown situation,but are at the receiving end.

In the absence of issuance ofany binding orders to the pri-vate companies, thousands ofemployees are losing their jobsand income daily, the letter said.

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The Tamil Nadu government onWednesday said it has inkedpacts with 17 companies forbringing in fresh investments ofover Rs 15,100 crore that willcreate job opportunities forabout 47,150 people in the State.

The investments, to the tuneof Rs 15,128 crore will be indiverse sectors including man-ufacturing of commercial vehi-cles and energy, the governmentsaid adding nine pacts weresigned at the Secretariat in thepresence of Chief Minister KPalaniswami and eight othercompanies firmed up the dealsvia a virtual link.

Finland-based Salcomp willinvest Rs 1,300 crore for anexpansion project that is set to

provide jobs for 10,000 people,the government said in an offi-cial release.

Salcomp, which had last yearentered into a Memorandum ofUnderstanding with the govern-ment at the Global InvestorsMeet for Rs 500 crore invest-ment, has gone in for an expan-

sion within a year in view of theconducive environment forindustrial growth, it added.

The Finnish firm, a leadingmanufacturer of componentslike chargers had acquiredNokia's mobile manufacturingfacility at Sriperumbudur nearhere that was closed down.

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A toddler's vain attempt to wakeup his dead mother from eter-nal sleep on a railway platformin Bihar's Muzaffarpur onWednesday presented the mostpoignant picture of the massivemigrant tragedy unfolding acrossseveral states. A video tweeted bySanjay Yadav, an aide to RJDleader Tejashwi Yadav, shows thechild walking unsteadily up to hismother's body, tugging at theblanket placed over her, andwhen failing to wake her up, cov-ering his own head with it.

As the mother still lay still, hewobbles away from her,announcements continuing inthe background about the arrivaland departure of trains that

would bring in tens of thousandsof people in a rush to get awayfrom hunger and hardship theyface in large cities that could sus-tain them no more. "This smallchild doesn't know that thebedsheet with which he is play-ing is the shroud of his motherwho has gone into eternal sleep.This mother died of hunger andthirst after being on a train forfour days" tweeted Yadav.

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A division bench of JusticesP B Varale and S D Kulkarnion Tuesday said if orders foressential items are placedthrough WhatsApp or phone,then shop owners can keepitems packed and people willonly have to pick them up.

"We suggest that the corpo-ration explore the possibilityof publishing WhatsAppnumbers of shops sellingessential goods in each area."the court said. This will helpcitizens to place orders inadvance for grocery andother everyday essentials andprevent crowding at shopfronts, the bench observed.

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Karnataka Chief Minister B SYediyurappa on Wednesday saidmosques and churches too arelikely to be opened for publicfrom June 1 along with templesand that his government wasawaiting permission from theCentre in this connection.

The CM also said he has writ-ten to the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on reopening ofhotels in the state. On Monday,Karnataka had announced open-ing up the temples in the statefrom June 1 for devotees, becom-ing the first state to allow publicin shrines eversince theCoronavirus- induced lockdownwas enforced on March 25.

"Temples will open from June1... for hotels and others we wantpermission from Delhi, from thePrime Minister. I have written aletter (and) the expectation isthat mostly we will get permis-sion," Yediyurappa told reportershere. "Once we say temples can

open, churches and mosquesshould also open, there will beno restrictions on them."

"In our country law is samefor every one.... but for all this,the central government's per-mission is required, we are wait-ing for it, our efforts are on in thisdirection," he said Yediyurappa'sstatement came in response toquestions raised in some sectionsabout government announce-ment on opening temples but nomention being made aboutallowing mosques and churchesalso to reopen.

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With a stimulus pack-age of �8.4 lakhcrore for the agri-culture sector, theFinance Minister

sought to usher in an economic“green revolution” based on provid-ing credit guarantee to MSMEs,stocking up capacity at the farm gateand opening this sector for business.In short, the Government aims tostrengthen rural banking networks,provide additional loans and expe-dite the goal of doubling farmers’incomes. A report by the Niti Aayogappears to be the lodestar for theFinance Minster’s presentation. Itincluded suggestions on improvingfarm gate infrastructure, dismantlingof APMC and even linking farmersto agri-business directly or throughcontract farming, among others.

Niti Aayog Vice Chairman RajivKumar even said that “the EssentialCommodities Act” is a hindrance toagri-exports and had called for itsremoval way back in 2017. With sev-eral States regulating the stock andsupply and various food items beingremoved from purview, the said Actis vestigial. Even with the spread ofthe Coronavirus, this sector is func-tioning with a pre-Corona agenda.New steps though include the grantof additional funds to galvanise NitiAayog’s vision of reforming the agrisector and Prime Minister NarendraModi’s announcement of a NewProperty Card, which would stand ascollateral for loans or advances frombanks and financial institutions.

The Government was swift tolink farmers’ lands to banking insti-tutions in a bid to allow more cred-it flow into rural India. The IndianGovernment is unsure about farmstatistics. Does it know how manydestitute farmers are connected to therural banking system? Even if incen-tives are there, can loan subversionhelp them? Can a boost in infrastruc-ture or market liberalisation uplift ourrural sector?

Maybe the US has an answer.Agriculture was a major industry inAmerica in the era before WorldWar-II. Overwhelmingly, small andmedium family farms dominated thecountry. After a slight spike post-war,farms in America soon boomerangedto overproduction. Farm incomeswere “low” compared to the “costs.”Sounds familiar?

With liberalisation, the US wasquick to enact the Farmers HomeAdministration (FmHA) Act and theDisaster Loan Act of 1949 to ensure“loans” to farmers. Direct farm own-ership loans were being provided to

secure farmlands. Emergencycrop and the “feed loan pro-gramme”, too, were launched tohelp the farmers with interimfinancing. Investments in ruralinfrastructure and easy loanswere encouraged. All such mea-sures are very much similar tothe economic policy adopted bythe Indian Government to tack-le the ill effects of the Coronapandemic.

Given the extra flow ofcash, stressed farmers were quickto buy more land, farm equip-ment and modernise infrastruc-ture. In fact, for some years, theyearly land inflation price over-took bank investments. Overall,the business was running goodbut this ascent was artificiallysustained by way of fiscal manip-ulation. Speculation was highand credit was being used to re-finance other mortgages. Thiscaused a financial crash.Between 1950 and 1971, realfarm income decreased from$18 billion to $13 billion. Thenumber of farms, too, decreasedby 50 per cent. But income perfarm rose by 46 per cent asagainst a national average of 76per cent. Meanwhile, the totalmortgage debt on US farms rosefrom $8 billion in 1950 to $24billion in 1971.

In former US AgricultureSecretary Earl Butz’s style,either “you got big” and dou-bled your income or “got out”of farming. Is India, too, aim-

ing at doubling farm incomesthe same way? Well, one spar-row does not make a summer.Consider this: The Committeeon Economic Development(CED), in its “An AdaptiveProgramme for Agricultureof 1962 and Doubling FarmersIncomes” report of 2017 hadpresented an ably and careful-ly-prepared design, leading tothe abandonment of all farmprogrammes at the end of fiveyears. It proposed to “shift cul-tivators out of the farm to non-farm activities” as too manyfarmers were a problem.

Post the implementation ofan adaptive land managementprogramme, over one millionsmall-medium family-size farmswere lost. Farmer suicides alongwith small and medium farmforeclosures sky-rocketed asmost farmers were unable to payback their loans. The agrariancrisis worsened depressionamong farmers. They have vocif-erously been asking for loanwaivers. A NABARD studypointed out that 52.5 per cent ofthe rural households had a debtof $1,470 (over �1.11 lakh) eachin 2018. Compare this to theaverage monthly rural house-hold surplus of �1,413.

Providing more credit (yes,more loan schemes are to follow)will put additional burden on thefarmers and the entire ruraleconomy will be in a spiral ofhuge debt. With contract farm-

ing, agri-commodity tradingand agri-business among others,Indian farmers will have noother option than to be hired intheir own farms as was seen inthe US. History has a strangeway of repeating itself.

The Government’s decisionto open the farm gate and dis-mantle regulated APMC man-dis will open the doors of agri-business to Indian farms.Farmers in the US are at the endof the tunnel. This is where theIndian Government aspires tobe. In his book, Merchants ofGrain, Dan Morgan describesthe journey of how “marketaccess for farmers” led to theconsolidation of elevator shaftsand storage by giant companies.This was followed by thetakeover of farmers’ co-opera-tives. All of this culminated intoa new grain monopoly in theUS, which now controls 70 percent of the world’s supply chain.Farmers in America have nomarket left, just the corporatemarkets of Cargill and the likes.

In 2006, the BiharGovernment rescinded theAPMC Act to attract privateinvestment. What followed nextis shocking. Farmers receivedeven lower prices for their pro-duce. Meanwhile, “traders” cart-ed truckloads of produce toAPMC mandis all the way toPunjab and Haryana to sell atMinimum Support Price (MSP).Private investment never came.

The human cost of “liberal-isation” of farm gate has beenhuge. Violence, drug abuse andinsanity encircle the Americanrural towns all along the “dustbowl.” Joel Dyer’s book, HarvestOf Rage: Why Oklahoma City IsOnly The Beginning, acts as thedot-connector between the post-World War-II reforms and thecurrent dismal state of Americanfarmers. Home-grown militiamovements had led to theOklahoma City bombing in1995. The US farm debt this yearstood at $425 billion. Yet, most-ly large and company farms getthe benefits of relief packages.

Meanwhile, thousands ofAmerican farmers are waiting tobe goaded out of farming again.What started out in the post-World War as a liberal reform,has completely changedAmerican agriculture to becomea farming system with minimalfarmers.

Currently, India is trying totread the same path. As anAmerican playbook is applied tothe Indian crisis, how soonbefore artificial fiscal measuresfail, debt quadruples and foreclo-sures become the norm? As wecome out of the war againstCorona, the Government is onlyrepackaging its agenda and opt-ing for Cargillisation for a fewagri-dollars more.

(The writer is Director, Policyand Outreach, National SeedAssociation of India)

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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Up in the sky” (May 28).Domestic airlines resumed ser-vices after two months but boththe flyers and airlines had to tideover significant barriers alongthe way. The passengers were hithard by unstable schedules andabrupt cancellation of flights.

Complications in the wakeof doubts and ambivalence har-boured by States over allowinginbound flights have hamperedtravel operations. The cappingof the number of flights tooperate in some of the busiestairports like Mumbai, Chennai,Hyderabad and Kolkata, withvarying quarantine protocolsadopted by various States, isproving to be a dampener.

Fear of imported cases isgenuine but walling off com-pletely can’t be an option if theeconomy is to restart. Statesconsistently complain about thetanking of revenues during lock-down and then contradict it byworrying over the risk of reopen-ing the economy. Transport andunhindered movement of peo-ple, commodities and servicesare the lifeline of the economy.

A new normal isn’t possiblewithout reasonable compromis-es in these areas. Fear psychosis,stemming from unpreparedness,can’t be an excuse.

N Sadhasiva ReddyBengaluru

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Up in the sky” (May 28). Itwas expected that with theresumption of domestic flights,

there would be an eventual returnto normality. On the contrary, thesudden cancellation of somedomestic flights led to utterchaos at the airports. Improperhandling of the situation on thepart of the Central and State

Governments as well as the air-lines cannot be denied.Ultimately, the passengers hadto bear the brunt for no fault oftheirs. Most States were reluc-tant to accept the Centre’s deci-sion. Before opening the skiesfor air travel, the AviationMinistry should have consultedvarious States to formulate stan-dard operating procedures.

Katuru Durga Prasad RaoHyderabad

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Sir — With India registering1,51,876 confirmed Coronaviruscases, we are yet to flatten thecurve. Patchy implementation oflockdown guidelines in someStates may have led to a suddenspike in the number of cases.The exodus of migrant labour-ers from metro cities to their vil-lages was avoidable. Insufficientaid led to this situation. Hadthey come at the right time, pre-cious lives would have beensaved.

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In the ongoing battle for supremacy between theUS and China, the latter let loose its “wolf-war-riors”, signifying Beijing’s new and aggressive

diplomatic response to countries blaming it for theCoronavirus pandemic. “Wolf-warrior diploma-cy,” named after two Chinese movies, describesoffensives by its diplomats to defend China’s nation-al interests, often in confrontational ways. However,the global anger against Beijing was so much thatanti-China sentiments gained momentum and the“wolf-warrior diplomacy” failed to make animpact. Saner voices at home began to call forrestraint but they went unheeded as China todayis ruled by the all-powerful Xi Jinping and his dik-tat prevails.

So China displayed its aggressiveness inSouth China Sea (SCS) by sinking a Vietnamesefishing trawler near the Paracel Islands in earlyApril. In mid-April, the Chinese Ministry ofNatural Resources and Ministry of Civil Affairsjointly announced the naming of 80 islands, reefs,seamounts, shoals and ridges in the SCS, trigger-ing angry protests from other claimants. China wasusing the global fight against the Corona to pur-sue its territorial ambitions as part of its tradition-al expansionist policy.

The Chinese actions in SCS were checkmat-ed by US intervention as India continued to pur-sue its strategy of balance. But was the Chinese bel-ligerence in the SCS a warning to India which itfailed to read? India’s change in FDI rules to stemChinese predatory trade practices didn’t go downwell with Beijing. Neither was China happy withIndia joining the comity of nations backing a draftresolution at the World Health Organisation(WHO), nor was it happy with the likely shift ofglobal companies from China to India. The finalstraw for China was the chairmanship of the exec-utive board of the World Health Assembly by wayof which India could take to task both Beijing andthe WHO. China felt threatened by India thoughNew Delhi made it clear that it wants to avoidpower politics.

So China soon made India the target of its“wolf warrior-diplomacy” too. First through Pressstatements, harsh articles and accusations ofunfair trade practices. Then it decided to shift thescene to the Sino-Indian border.

Two of the three incursion points chosen hadtraditionally been undisputed in the past. Chinaonce again dared India but knew very well that itwas not the same India of 1962. It was trying itsusual technique of messaging and signalling tocoerce New Delhi, least realising that India hadlearnt its lessons well at Doklam. China’s recentprovocations on the Line of Actual Control(LAC) have strategic messaging rather than tac-tical. These are not the usual summer time intru-sions and are almost simultaneous. Naku La inNorth Sikkim, Galwan Valley in Sub-Sector North(SSN) and Pangong Tso (PTSO) in the MiddleSector of Eastern Ladakh.

The scuffles had very little to do with borderdisputes because both Naku La and Galwan werenever disputed by the Chinese earlier. It wantedto send signals to India that it wants negotiations,maybe to get out of the global mess it finds itselfin, a leverage against the global pandemic inquiry.China is scared of losing its status as the “globalfactory.” China has also tried to provoke Nepal byasking it to raise a boundary dispute with India inthe Lipulekh and Kalapani sectors. China isusing Nepal as a pressure point as part of its coer-cive strategy.

While the incursion in North Sikkim wasresolved using the existing border managementprotocols, the same failed to resolve the tension inEastern Ladakh. In fact, China is reported to be

strengthening its positions and alsosome movement has been reportedopposite Demchock in Sub-Sector South(SSS). The tactical dimension of thesemoves revolves around China’s assertiveand coercive policies to maintain dom-inance over adversaries in the areas ofconflict.

As part of its War Zone Campaign(WZC) doctrine, China has rapidlydeveloped infrastructure right up to theforward posts, to create military asym-metry to gain advantage over the adver-sary in a short or localised conflict.However, it objects strongly and reactswith force to India’s attempts to do thesame on its side of the LAC. In the cur-rent scenario, too, the bone of contentionis the newly-constructed Leh-Shyok-DBO Highway, which has not onlyremoved the asymmetry but placedIndian troops at an advantage.

Coupled with this is the activation ofa number of Advanced Landing Grounds(ALGs) by the Indian Air Force (IAF).The Chinese sensitivities in the area liein Aksai Chin and Karakoram Pass, bothof which have become easily accessibleto Indian troops.

That is the reason the Chinese sideis focussing on the Galwan stand-off,painting India as the aggressor. In an arti-cle, its official Global Times newspaperaccused Indian troops of crossing overinto Chinese territory. In typical Chinesestyle, they predicted India would regretits actions. “The Galwan Valley is not likeDoklam because it is in the Aksai Chinregion in southern Xinjiang of China,where the Chinese military has anadvantage and mature infrastructure. So,if India escalates the friction, the Indianmilitary force could pay a heavy price”,it says.

To understand the Chinese belliger-ence, one needs to understand thePeople’s Liberation Army (PLA). Unlikethe Indian Army, the PLA is not a nation-al army. It is the military wing of theChinese Communist Party (CCP) withthe primary role of ensuring supremacyof the CCP. Unlike a national army ded-icated to the defence of a State and its

people, the Chinese military’s purpose isto create political power for the party. ThePLA is guided by the “political warfare”doctrine of the CCP which includes“Three Warfares” or “3Ws” encompass-ing, public opinion warfare, psycholog-ical warfare and legal warfare.

The first of the “3Ws,” media or pub-lic opinion warfare, attempts to shapepublic opinion both domestically andinternationally. If the domestic elementsounds odd, it is because the PLAbelieves that energising or mobilising theChinese public is useful for signallingresolve and deterring foreign incursionson Chinese interests. The second warfareattempts to influence foreign decision-makers and how they approach Chinapolicy. The third seeks to shape the legalcontext for Chinese actions, includingbuilding the legal justification for Beijing’sactions and using domestic laws to sig-nal Chinese intentions. All of these fallunder the broader umbrella of politicalwarfare. The party leads and the PLA fol-lows.

It would be of interest to note thatboth Doklam and the current stand-offwere synchronised with the importantpolitical meetings of the CCP, which areheld periodically to critically examine theefficacy of the Government, Xi Jinpingin the instant case.

The military strategy of the PLA isbased on the famous concept of “winningwithout fighting.” Even today CCPbelieves in the famous quote of Sun Tzu,“To win hundred victories in one hun-dred battles is not the acme of skill. Tosubdue the enemy without fighting is theacme of skill.” Coercion remains the basicphilosophy for resolving political differ-ences. In military terms it’s called “shi”,calibrated power display with limitedforces on the borders in order to seekSino-centric solutions. China believes incoercing the adversaries to submit to itswill or face consequences. Psychologicalwarfare is an important component ofChinese war fighting doctrine. It alsobelieves in creating adverse politicalpressure through a disturbed neigh-bourhood. Nepal’s recent hostile attitude

and Pakistan are the two examples of thesame. Another terminology often usedto explain Chinese warfare doctrine is“Unrestricted Warfare.” The ultimateaim of all these is to secure victory overthe adversary through aggression andcoercion without the need to fight a war.Exaggerated figures of troop deployment,pitching of dummy tents, deployment ofheavy machinery, verbal aggression,propaganda, a no holds barred hate cam-paign, threatening statements throughState-controlled media, cyber-attacks,misquoting laws and interpreting themto its own advantage are all the tricks ofthe trade employed by China.

India understands the Chinesebrinkmanship very well. India’s stand tillnow has been not only politically andmilitarily correct but aggressive as well.China also understands that its interna-tional image is at the lowest in the con-temporary era. It would not be able tobrowbeat India so easily. China is scaredthat with changed military equations inthe sector, India may become aggressiveabout Aksai Chin like it has done in thecase of Gilgit-Baltistan. In geo-strategicterms China today has many vulnerabil-ities like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet,Xinjiang and the SCS to name a few.

India has strengthened its positionnot only militarily but strategically as well.Therefore, India needs to stand firm andretain its control over the LAC. The drag-on has made a mistake this time by dar-ing the tiger. India’s dominant locationin the Indo-Pacific bestows upon it astrategic advantage which it must notlose. The fact remains that both sidesneed to negotiate an exit strategy and abeleaguered China — if thinking to usethis as a bargaining strategy to strength-en the geopolitical image of the CCP athome — may have to concede more thanIndia.

The best way to face the dragon is totame it. That is exactly what India isdoing. The proverbial Chinese dragon issupposed to be peaceful unlike its fire-spitting version.

(The author is a Jammu-based veter-an and political commentator)

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Even as the Centre and StateGovernments are fullyimmersed in reviving the econ-

omy that got derailed by theCoronavirus outbreak, a new contro-versy has erupted, with trade unionleaders being up in arms against thechanges in the country’s labour laws.

What angered the trade unionbosses was the move by the ShivrajSingh Chouhan Government torelease some of the industries from theMadhya Pradesh Industrial Relations

Act, 1961 and the Uttar Pradesh(UP) Government’s decision to givefreedom to industrial and businessestablishments from the MinimumWages Act, for a period of three years.

As a result of this, all trade unionbosses, cutting across party affiliations,have joined hands and declared waragainst the Centre and the StateGovernments which were boldenough to modify the Labour Lawsand Acts that govern employer-employee relations in the country.

Every 10 years, India witnesses theappointment of the Pay Commissionby the Union Government to revisethe salaries and perks of CentralGovernment employees. Subsequently,the State exchequer spends a big for-tune to implement the panel’s recom-mendations. This is followed by theState Government employees askingfor matching hikes in their pays andperks. The question being asked is

whether our Government employees(both in Central and State services) areworth the pay which they collect everymonth. Having been a Governmentemployee for nearly 15 years, I feel thatour babus get more than what theydeserve. The corporate sector is nodifferent. The management of our pri-vate sector firms is too consideratewhen it comes to the interests of theworkers. And sadly, our employees liveby the dictum “minimum work andmaximum pay.”

I remember the day I joinedGovernment service as a Class Threeemployee. The first person to welcomeme after I submitted the joiningreport was MN Unni, a seasonedGovernment employee. He intro-duced me to the four “golden rules”of Government service. “Come to theoffice on time; leave after officehours; never say no to anybody anddon’t do any work,” was his advice. He

said the first two rules had to do withpunctuality and played a major role inconvincing the department headabout a worker’s sincerity and dedi-cation. “If the boss is convinced thatyou reach office on time and stay backtill the working hours are over, youhave won half the war”, said Unni.

The last two rules, “never say noto anybody and don’t do any work”reflect the mindset of our bureaucra-cy. “Nobody will ask whether you havecompleted the assignment you havebeen entrusted with as long as younever say no to them for anything”,was Unni’s mantra to survive the“hardship” of Government service.

Well, coming back to the present,launching a business or industrialenterprise and running it smoothly tothe satisfaction of all have to be an artin today’s world. An author has thefreedom to write whatever he feels likepenning down, an artist has the inde-

pendence to draw a painting of hischoice (as long as it does not hurt any-one’s religious sentiments) and a his-torian is at liberty to push his conclu-sions even without proper validation.But an industrialist or entrepreneurhas no such freedom and he is at themercy of his employees.

A worker employed by a compa-ny has the freedom to move to green-er pastures while his employer is notthat fortunate, because he does nothave the freedom to get rid of a per-son who is unfit, unskilled or unwill-ing to work. How unfair is that?

Many times I have asked US-based entrepreneurs why they are hes-itant to set up shop in India. Theiranswer is nearly always the same. Ourarchaic labour laws and the outdatedindustrial Act prevent them frommaking any investment in the coun-try.

“Once you open a business enter-

prise in India, you are in for majortrouble. We cannot lock it down if theventure is a failure. We are bound byrules to pay salaries to workers irre-spective of the fact whether we areworking or not. It is impossible towind up the operations in the coun-try,” says a highly-successful SiliconValley-based entrepreneur.

For the good of the country,there should be a law which makes itmandatory for trade union bosses tohave worked in a factory/firm/farmand that too for a certain number ofyears. This is because only people whohave worked somewhere know thetrue value of work.

Trade union leaders should neverengage in union trade because thismeans they are dealing in somethingthat is outside the purview of theirunderstanding, experience and exper-tise.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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More liquidity is needed toboost economic activity fol-lowing the coronavirus pan-demic and states should comeforward with Rs 20 lakh crore,while another Rs 10 lakhcrore can be harnessed frompublic-private investment tofight the COVID-19 disrup-tions, Union Minister NitinGadkari said on Wednesday.

Gadkari said the economyis facing serious problems,businesses are being closedand unemployment is grow-ing. All sections of the society,whether migrants, media,business persons or employ-ees, are facing problems, butultimately "we will win theeconomic war" and the "coro-na war", he said.

"More liquidity needs to bepumped in the market toboost the coronavirus-hit economy and statesshould come forwardwith Rs 20 lakh crore,while another Rs 10lakh crore can be har-nessed from public-pri-vate investment," RoadTransport, Highways andMSME Minister Gadkaritold PTI.

He further notedthat "these fundstogether withthe Rs 20 lakhcrore package

already announced by PrimeMinister Narendra Modiwould result in Rs 50 lakhcrore liquidity in the marketto battle the adverse impact ofthe novel coronavirus pan-demic on the economy".

The Centre had announcedRs 20 lakh crore economicstimulus package, includingRs 8.01 lakh crore of liquidi-ty measures announced by theReserve Bank since March.

The five-part stimuluspackage comprised Rs 5.94lakh crore in the first tranchethat provided credit line tosmall businesses, and sup-port to shadow banks andelectricityd i s -

tribution companies, while,the second tranche includedfree foodgrain to the strand-ed migrant workers for twomonths and credit to farmers,totalling Rs 3.10 lakh crore.

Spending on agricultureinfrastructure and other mea-sures for agriculture and alliedsectors in the third tranchetotalled to Rs 1.5 lakh crore,while the fourth and fifthtranches dealt mostly withstructural reforms and totalledto Rs 48,100 crore.

He further noted that workon national highways has beenstarted on war-footing and thegovernment plans to buildhighways worth Rs 15 lakh

crore in the next two years.He said work has beenresumed on almost 80

per cent of the pro-jects.

Meanwhile, inorder to keep thenational high-ways entrusted toNHAI in patch-less and traffic-worthy condition,

National HighwayAuthority of India

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Project Directors toundertake maintenance of

the National Highways ontop priority-basis consider-ing ensuing monsoonseason.

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The BSE Sensex rallied 996points on Wednesday, led bymassive gains in banking andIT stocks ahead of the expiryof monthly derivatives amidfirm overseas cues.

After hitting a high of31,660.60 during the day, the30-share index settled 995.92points or 3.25 per cent high-er at 31,605.22.

Similarly, the broader NSENifty surged 285.90 points or3.17 per cent to 9,314.95.

Axis Bank was the top gain-er in the Sensex pack, soaringover 13 per cent, followed byICICI Bank, HDFC Bank,IndusInd Bank and BajajFinance.

On the other hand, SunPharma, UltraTech Cement,Titan and Asian Paints were

among the laggards.Despite concerns over

COVID-19, market partici-pants preferred to accumulatestocks ahead of the expiry ofMay futures and options con-tracts, propelling benchmarkindices, experts said.

Further, positive cues frommost global markets andstrong foreign fund inflowsalso enthused domesticinvestors, they said. Foreignportfolio investors purchasedequities worth a net Rs4,716.13 crore on Tuesday,provisional exchange datashowed.

Bourses in Tokyo and Seoulended with gains, whileShanghai and Hong Kongclosed in the red.

Stock exchanges in Europewere trading with significantgains in early deals.

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Coal India arm North EasternCoalfields (NEC) has said itsmining operations in TikakOpen Cast Project (OCP),under Saleki Proposed ReserveForest in Assam's Digboi, iscurrently on hold and awaitingfinal approval from the Centre.

The miner said it is in theprocess of complying with stip-ulations and conditions laiddown by the National Boardfor Wild Life (NBWL) and theUnion Ministry ofEnvironment and Forest andClimate Change for miningcoal in Tikak OCP.

The operations in the projecthave been suspended fromOctober 2019 on the directiveof the Assam forest depart-ment, and it is "awaiting thestage-II clearance" from theCentre, a statement issued bythe NEC said on Tuesday.

"Green signal from theNBWL and forest clearance forthe project are yet to bereceived for starting coal min-ing activity in Tikak OCP," itsaid.

The Assam-based coal pro-ducing unit of the MaharatnaPSU also needs to submit a fea-sibility report for exploringunderground mining, and it isyet to submit the same for con-sideration of the Centre.

The NEC had applied to the

Assam government for forestclearance in 2003, and subse-quently, another applicationwas made in 2012, the minersaid, adding that the in-princi-ple approval, was granted bythe Centre with 28 conditions.

One of the conditions forapproval was obtaining clear-ance from NBWL.

"The final clearance, whichis stage-II, for this project, willbe granted by the Union min-istry after fulfilment of certain

conditions by the project pro-ponent, NEC, and only thenextraction of coal can be done,"an official said.

The Assam forest depart-ment had, in last month,slapped a penalty of Rs 43.25crore on PSU major Coal IndiaLtd for carrying out "illegalmining" inside the reserve for-est for 16 years from 2003.

In a meeting in April, 2020,it was decided that a site spe-cific mine reclamation plan inconsultation with the Assamgovernment has to be submit-ted by the NEC for around 57hectares of forest area, brokenup due to mining.

Post nationalisation of coal

mines in 1973, the collieriesoperating in Assam were trans-ferred to CIL for a lease peri-od of 30 years till April 2003and at that time, the concept ofmandatory clearance prior tocoal mining was not in place.

It only came into effect afternotification of the Forest(Conservation) Act, 1980, theNEC pointed out.

The opposition Congress,All Assam Students' Union(AASU), conservationists,activists and students havethreatened to stage protests, ifcoal mining is allowed in areasbordering Dehing-PatkaiWildlife Sanctuary, dubbed asAmazon of the East.

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The Centre on Wednesdaysaid it has approved a finan-cial assistance of Rs 111.70crore for Rajasthan, Manipurand Meghalaya for crop dam-age due to locust attack,drought and flood duringthe 2019-20 kharif season.

A decision in this regardwas taken in the May 15meeting of the High LevelCommittee (HLC), chairedby Union Home MinisterAmit Shah, an official state-ment said. HLC has approveda proposal to grant a centralassistance of Rs 111.70 tothree states -- Rajasthan,Manipur and Meghalaya --for incurring kharif (sum-mer) crop damage due to nat-ural calamities, it said. WhileRs 68.65 crore has beenapproved for Rajasthan,where the summer crop wasaffected due to desert locustpest attack, Rs 26.53 crore isfor Manipur which facedcrop damage because ofdrought. The remaining assis-tance of Rs 16.52 crore hasbeen approved forMeghalaya, where the cropwas affected due to flood andlandslide, the statement said.

The Home Ministry hasasked its finance counter-part to release the approvedamount to the respectivestate governments.

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Restaurant players have start-ed a dialogue with mall own-ers to explore new ways ofengagement like revenueshare model in the post-COVID-19 period, theNational RestaurantAssociation of India (NRAI)said on Wednesday.

The NRAI explained thatrestaurants do not expect thebusiness volume in the post-pandemic period to be morethan 30 per cent to 40 per centof the pre-lockdown num-bers. "Considering that theproportion of fixed operatingexpenses in our business isvery high, this may lead tomassive operating losses tomany businesses unless theexpenses are brought downsignificantly and a criticalexpense like rentals is con-verted into a variable cost," itadded. The NRAI said it haswritten to all malls ownersthat the mandated lockdownhas forced restaurants to shutshop and prevented the mallsto allow entry to guests, staffor suppliers of restaurants.

This is a clear case of forcemajeure and therefore allcharges of rentals or CAM forthe duration of the lockdownneeds to be waived entirely. Theindustry body has also pointedout that the engagement con-tours in the post-COVID eraneeds to move towards a total-ly variable model.

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Engineering and constructionfirm Larsen & Toubro onWednesday said it has deliv-ered critical nuclear powerplant equipment to its globalclients during the lockdown.

The company's heavyEngineering arm deliveredthese equipment to globalclients in Abu Dhabi, Franceand other places, Larsen &Toubro said in a statement.

"The Heavy Engineeringarm of Larsen & Toubroensured dispatch of criticalreactors, coke drums and sub-assemblies of nuclear fusionreactor for their global clientsduring the lockdown period inIndia from beginning of lastweek of March," the companysaid.

During this period, a finalconsignment of four out of a

total package of 16 ARDSreactors for refinery moderni-sation project for clean, envi-ronment friendly fuels toADNOC, Abu Dhabi weredelivered by the company, itsaid. "The final 4 CokeDrums part of package of crit-ical Hydrocracking Reactorsfor DUQM Refinery inSultanate of Oman & 2Ethylene Oxide Reactors forLPCL Petrochemical Complexin China were delivered on

time," the statement said.The sub-assemblies for

International ThermonuclearExperimental Reactor (ITER)France were delivered on anurgent basis during the lock-down to ensure uninterruptedassembly of Cryostat in reac-tor pit in southern France, itadded.

The compay said it is note-worthy to mention that L&THeavy Engineering has deliv-ered key assemblies towardsrealising full fusion power bymanufacturing the world'slargest high-vacuum pressurechamber Cryostat and in wallshields for USD 25 billionmultinational ITER project.

All these significant ordersfor process plant and nuclearpower mega projects weresecured against global compe-tition with stiff deliveryrequirements.

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Markets regulator Sebi hasagain extended the deadline toapply for the post of 147senior level executives by twomonths till July 31 in the wakeof coronavirus pandemic. OnMarch 7, the regulator hadinvited applications for thesepositions as part of its plan tobeef up the headcount forfaster and more effective exe-cution of its job. The deadlinefor applying for the posts wasMarch 23.

The last date to apply forthe posts was later extended toApril 30 and thereafter tillMay 31. Now, it has beenextended till July 31, theSecurities and ExchangeBoard of India (Sebi) said ina fresh notice.

“Due to the ongoingCOVID-19 situation, thephase 1 and phase 11 exami-nation for the recruitment ofofficers in Grade A (general,legal, information technology,engineering, research and offi-cial language streams) standspostponed,” the regulator said.

The revised date will beinformed in due course, itadded.

The phase I and phase IIexaminations were sched-

uled for July 4 and August 3,respectively.

A total of 147 vacancieswere notified for OfficerGrade A (Assistant Manager)by the markets watchdog tohire legal as well as IT experts,researchers, and other officialsfor general administration.Applications were invited for80 posts of Assistant Managerfor general stream, 34 postsfor research stream and 22vacancies for InformationTechnology department. Inaddition, it invited applica-tions for engineering and offi-cial language streams.

To apply for general stream,the incumbent needs to havea master's degree in any dis-cipline or bachelor's degree inlaw or engineering.

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Aditya Birla Fashion & Retailis set to launch rights issueworth Rs 1,000 crore at the ear-liest, as part of its fund-raisingplans for the current fiscal aswell to cap the leverage, accord-ing to a company official.Aditya Birla Fashion & Retailis the country's largest pure-play fashion and lifestyle play-er with a strong bouquet offashion brands and retail for-mats with a network of over3,040 stores, and presenceacross 25,000 multi-brand out-lets across the country.

The board, which is meetingon Wednesday, is set to approvethe plan to raise Rs 1,000 croreby way of a rights issue, whichwill be fully subscribed to bythe promoters/promoter group,the official told PTI.

The management evaluatedvarious options and is of theview that the rights issue will bean equitable mode of fundraising as it gives shareholders

an opportunity to participate inthe growth story, the officialexplained. The rights issue ispart of their objectives ofreducing leverage, strengthen-ing balance sheet apart fromfunding general corporateexpenses, including workingcapital. The board is likely toconstitute a committee to eval-uate and finalise the timing andother details of the proposedissue.

The promoters and promot-er group will be fully subscrib-ing to their rights entitlementand will reserve their right tosubscribe to any additionalequity shares in the issue isunder-subscribed.

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Amazon.in on Wednesdayannounced that it was pro-viding a COVID-19 healthinsurance, completely free ofcost, for its sellers in India.

The insurance will helpcover the expenses related toCOVID-19 hospitalizationand treatment as well asambulance assistance andICU charges of up to INR50,000, and it will be valid forone year after activation, thecompany said in a statement.

Amazon has partneredwith Acko to manage the pol-icy delivery and handling ofclaims and reimbursements.

This will benefit lakhs ofAmazon sellers - anyone whohas had an active product list-ing on Amazon.in betweenJanuary 2019 and May 26,2020, the statement said.

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Insurance provider Aegon hastied up with e-commercemajor Flipkart for offering alife insurance plan withCOVID-19 cover. The planwould provide Flipkart cus-tomers with a comprehensiveinsurance cover againstCOVID-19, and can be availedon the Flipkart app instantlyalong with the base life insur-ance plan, Aegon LifeInsurance said in a release onWednesday. Aegon's 'LifeInsurance with COVID-19Cover' plan will provide forhospitalization expenses of upto Rs 1 lakh.

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Pharma major SunPharmaceutical Industries onWednesday reported a 37.12per cent decline in its consol-idated net profit to Rs 399.84crore for the quarter endedMarch 2020, mainly onaccount of one time exception-al loss. The company had post-ed a net profit of Rs 635.88crore in the same period pre-vious fiscal, Sun Pharma saidin a BSE filing. Consolidatedrevenue from operations stoodat Rs 8,184.94 crore for thequarter under consideration asagainst Rs 7,163.92 crore in thesame period a year ago, itadded. The company had aone-time exceptional loss of Rs260.64 crore in the quarterended March 2020, the filingsaid.

For the fiscal ended March

2020, the net profit of the com-pany was at Rs 3,764.93 croreas against Rs 2,665.42 crore inthe previous fiscal, SunPharma said. The revenuefrom operations for the fiscalended March this year stood atRs 32,837.50 crore. It was Rs29,065.91 crore the year-agofiscal, it added.

The board has recommend-ed payment of dividend of Re1 per equity share of Re 1 eachfor the year ended March 31,2020, Sun Pharma said. Sharesof Sun PharmaceuticalIndustries were closed at Rs450.55 per scrip on the BSE,down 1.85 per cent from itsprevious close.

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Baba Ramdev-led PatanjaliAyurved plans to issuedebentures worth Rs 250crore that will be used tomeet its working capitalrequirements and strengthensupply chain network. Thiswould be the first-everissuance of debentures bythe Haridwar-based firm,which has emerged as one ofthe leading companies in theFMCG segment in recentyears.

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India has initiated a probe intoalleged dumping of polyesteryarn, used in the garmentindustry, from China,Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam,a move aimed at guardingdomestic players from cheapinbound shipments.

The probe was launchedfollowing a complaint by eightdomestic manufacturers,including SuryalakshmiCotton Mills and SuryalataSpinning Mills.

In their application to thecommerce ministry's investiga-tion arm Directorate Generalof Trade Remedies (DGTR),

these companies alleged thatdumping of the yarn fromthese countries is impactingthe domestic industry and thegovernment should imposeanti-dumping duty on theimports.

The DGTR, in a notifica-tion, said that on the basis ofthe prima facie evidence sub-mitted by the domestic firms,

"the authority, hereby, initiatesan investigation to determinethe existence, degree and effectof any alleged dumping" of theproduct from these nations.

The directorate would probewhether the dumping of theproduct is impacting domesticplayers and if this is estab-lished, DGTR will recommendimposition of anti-dumpingduty. The revenue departmentwill take the final decision onduty imposition.

In international trade par-lance, dumping happens whena country or a firm exports anitem at a price lower than theprice of that product in itsdomestic market.

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he crisis inducedby Covid-19 hasbrought manyfactors, hithertomostly unno-ticed, to light.

One among them is the factthat humanity is here tostay and that we’re all inthis together.

Several organisations,groups, and individualshave been doing their bestto help the sick, poor, andmigrant workers in thestate. One such organisa-tion is a church atRamkote, that is known torush to the aid of the help-less in and around the area.

During any other normalweek, the CSI WesleyChurch feeds many of theless fortunate forced to live

on the streets. The desolatein and around the areaknow that they can walk into the church everyWednesday for stomach-filling, tasty food that isalso healthy. Most times,members of the churchsponsor food in memory oftheir loved ones, and othertimes, it’s the church thatpays for it.

“We started feeding thepoor once a week over fouryears ago. It costs us any-where between Rs 1,200 toRs 20,000, depending onthe menu, which dependson whoever sponsors thefood. The menu rangesfrom lemon rice to chickencurry and fried rice,”

informs Dara Johnson,Poor Fund Secretary of thechurch.

But when Covid-19struck, the church knewthat once-a-week was notgoing to be enough.Members realised thatthere are several daily wagelabourers and migrantworkers who are now pen-niless and without food.

That’s when they decidedto distribute food, twomeals a day, to as many as400 people every day, eversince the lockdown wasannounced by TelanganaChief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao onMarch 23.

A group of 10-15 mem-bers of the church gathersevery morning at around10 am in the churchpremises and begin cook-ing and packing food. “Allof us members maintainsocial distancing, wearmasks and gloves, andcarry out our work amidclean, sanitised and hygien-ic conditions,” informsPrabodh Dasari, treasurerof the church.

Interestingly, the churchhas a Muslim among one ofthe three cooks. While onegroup helps with groceries,another helps with helpingout the cook, another, withpacking the food in boxesand another, sets out to dis-tribute.

These foodpackets/boxes are distrib-uted in areas includingKoti, Narayanguda,Ramkote, Abids, and oth-ers. The very sight of theirchurch van is enough tobring smiles across thefaces of the desolate. Theirbeneficiaries includemigrants and anybodythat's homeless on thestreets. They ensure thatthe food they give lasts fordinner time too.

“Hunger is a reality, evenmore in times like this. Ourintention was to be of helpto anyone, irrespective ofreligion, caste, colour, orlanguage. These testingtimes gave the church anopportunity to come

together to put ‘Faith intopractice’. I commend thecongregation of CSI Wesleychurch, Ramkote for risingto the occasion and donat-ing generously to thecause,” says Rev. U. Daniel,Presbyter-in-charge of thechurch.

Asked if they had to faceany challenges, he says,“Initially, we didn’t havesufficient rice bags andwere also apprehensive ofpermits by the police. Lateron, donation started pour-ing in well, and the policetoo allowed us to continueafter they witnessed ourgenuine efforts.”

Several people of differ-ent faiths, especiallyHindus, have sponsoredrice bags. “They saw thework the church was doingon our Facebook page anddonated a few bags of rice.Their support was so gen-uine, they did not evenmention their names,” saysM. Solomon Prem Kumar,Property Secretary, CSIWesley Church, Ramkote.

The church’s efforts havebeen acknowledged andlauded by the Ranga ReddyCollector. She has alsoinformed the church aboutpeople in other areas thatneed help, and the churchwas more than happy tooblige.

The food they distributehas several items.

“We’d prepare lemonrice, tomato rice, vegetablerice, and sometimes chick-en too. We also suppliedwater and buttermilk,”Mohd. Javid, one of thethree cooks, tells us. “Itcosts us over 5,500 per dayon average,” informs thetreasurer, Prabodh Dasari.

Interestingly, on the firstFriday of Ramzan, thechurch got the cook to pre-pare lip-smacking haleemto feed more than a 1,000people on the streets. Ondays like Good Friday andothers, the church tries tofeed more people.

Sometimes, some fami-lies have come forward andcelebrated their birthdaysby donating to the cause.

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iscovery Network,in a unique initia-tive aimed at rais-ing awarenessabout the rich bio-diversity of India

and the need for wildlife con-servation, has pulled in

celebrated actors toprovide voice-

overs for thepremiere ofthe documen-tary Wild

Karnataka onWorld

EnvironmentDay.

Produced byaward-winning

filmmakersAmoghavarsha JS

and KalyanVarma in

collabora-tion with

Karnataka

Forest Department, WildKarnataka focuses on the bio-diversity that flourishes in thewild, as Karnataka now hassome of the best forests in theworld. Sir DavidAttenborough’s narration inEnglish will be joined byIndian film stars includingRajkummar Rao in Hindi,Prakash Raj in Tamil andTelugu, and Rishab Shetty inKannada.

Wild Karnataka will releaseon the Discovery Plus App at6:00 am on June 5. The TVpremiere will follow the sameday at 8:00 pm on Discovery,Discovery HD, DTamil, andAnimal Planet channels. Thefilm shot using 4K Ultra HDtechnology, by a team of 20camera persons using dronesand 15 stationed camerasacross Karnataka over a peri-od of 4 years, is a visual spec-tacle that is to be enjoyed onthe big screen.

“The premiere of WildKarnataka is part of our long-

term vision of promotingand elevating Indian film-makers and storytellerswho are making excep-tional content,” says SaiAbhishek Director-Content, Factual &Lifestyle Entertainment -South Asia, Discovery. “Iam indebted to the

celebrities who came for-ward and supported this

film readily andbrought forward theirunique sense of story-telling,” he shares.

Talking about thefilm Wild Karnataka,co-filmmakerAmoghavarsha JS says,

“Following the theatricalrelease of our film, it

gives immensepleasure to be

associatedwith a plat-

form like Discovery Channel.We could not have found abetter platform to showcaseour film in which we tried tobring to the screen the won-drous Wildlife of Karnataka.”

Karnataka is the home tosome of the richest wildplaces on the planet andboasts of rich biodiversity.Interestingly, one quarter ofIndia’s plant and animalspecies are found here, manyof which are still unknown tothe people of India. The filmspotlights the efforts of thegovernment of Karnataka tosave tigers and elephants asthe state is home to thesemajestic animals. The moneyraised by this launch is beingdonated to the TigerFoundation of Karnataka for-est Department.

Lending his voice to thefilm in Hindi, the actorRajkummar Rao says, “As an

actor, you’re always lookingfor interesting stories to tell.However, to be able to narratethe story of our country’swildlife was an extremelyenriching experience for me.Discovery has always been mygo-to channel whenever I’vewanted to explore somethingnew. Now to be a part of thechannel through a film that sobeautifully portrays the natur-al heritage of our country, it isdefinitely a proud moment forme.”

Actor Prakash Raj wholent his voice for the Tamiland Telugu version of thefilm. He says, “I connectwith the ethos of the show -celebrating the rich bio-diversity that is prevalent inIndia. The magnitude of thiswild based magnum opuscan be gauged from the factthat this hour-long docu-mentary is sieved from fourhundred hours of shotfootage. To use one’s craft forraising awareness about thebeauty and the diversity ofour natural heritage is abeautiful thing and now it isup to us, the viewers and thecitizens of India to not onlycelebrate this beauty but alsowork towards taking care ofit.”

“This film, Wild Karnataka,is close to my heart as I amfrom Karnataka and I feelgrateful to be a part of thisproject for Discovery India. Itis extremely important for usto save our wildlife and thegovernment and ForestDepartment of Karnataka aretaking great efforts despite thepressures of development andvast human populations. It istime we learn more about thisand understand how we canbe a part of the solution,” saysactor Rishab Shetty, who hasdubbed for the film inKannada.

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more than 3,000 years.Considered as a detox-

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through swishing oil inthe mouth and in-between the teeth.Swishing the oil for aprolonged period cleans-es the mouth anddecreases the bacterialload. Not only does thispromote oral hygiene,this technique aids inoverall health and well-being.

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In most Indian house-hold’s, virgin coconut oilis a staple for consump-tion and beauty practices

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They have been pollut-ing the environment andalso land up in water bod-ies due to lack of properdisposal systems. Thesepads are often foundwashed upon beaches andobstruct sewerage systemin cities leading to water-logging.

So, it is important toconsider more environ-ment-friendly options —

most of these materialscan be classified aseither beingreusable or dispos-able, says Dr DikshaS. Chadha Director,Medical & CSR

Division, Sirona(PeeBuddy).

The disposable optionsinclude biodegradablepads and organic tamponsor tampons with card-

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Oxo-biodegradable bags— While the basket ofchoice is full already, let usnot forget the disposal ofdisposable products. The

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ith lockdownrestrictions eas-ing out day byday, Anushka-starrerNishabdam is the

first high-profile projectthat has gone under thecensor eyes. The horror-thriller has been clearedwith ‘U/A’ certificate onTuesday, making it readyfor theatrical exhibition.

Film’s director HemanthMadhukar too, like its co-producer Kona Venkat, ishighly in favour of the filmvisiting cinema halls thandirectly dropping onstreaming sites. “Both ourfilms #nishabdham Teluguand #silence given U/Acensor certificate and I amoverwhelmed by theresponse of the #cencor-board panel members andmy sincere thanks to

them for there advice torelease the film

first in theatre (sic),” thedirector wrote on hisTwitter pages minutes afterhe got the censor certifica-tion.

Also featuringMadhavan, Anjali, ShaliniPandey, Subbaraju andAvasarala Sriniva and pop-ular Hollywood actorMichael Madsen in keyroles. Nishabdam, shotcompletely in the US, is aGopi Sundar musical.People Media Factory andKona Film Corporationhave jointly produced it.

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opular cinematog-rapher Shyam KNaidu, who hasshot many a PuriJagannadh films,including the

monster hit Pokiri, has beentaken into police custodyafter actress Sai Sudha allegedthat he duped her after hav-ing a relationship with her. Inher complaint to SR Nagar

police, Hyderabad, shewrote that Shyam hasbeen avoiding her eversince she asked her tohonour his promise ofmarrying her. Police havefiled an FIR and arerecording a statementfrom the cameraman.

Sudha, whoplayed

smallroles

in

films like YevadeSubramanyam and ArjunReddy, refused to speak to themedia, saying that she willopen up only when actionagainst Shyam is not initiatedby the police.

Shyam, younger brother oftop cinematogra-pher Chota KNaidu, isknown tomaintain alow-pro-file.

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outhern starSamantha Akkinenihas garnered a fol-lowing of 10 millionon Instagram, and tohonour her new “big

ten million family”, she donatedto 10 NGOs.

Samantha took to Instagram,where she shared a still of her-self from a movie.

“Yayyyyyyyyyy 10 million...taking a cue from the gorgeous@natalieportman. I have donat-ed to 10 amazing NGO’s inhonour of my big ten mil-lion family. I love you all#thebigten ...@ashakuteer,” shecaptioned theimage.

Recently,Samanthashared a photo-graph of her“handsome”husband, actorNagaChaitanya, tothe world. Shetook toInstagram andshe shared asmiling pictureof Chaitanya,where he looksdapper in whitechequered shirtand brown pants.

Samantha hasmade a name forherself in Tamiland Telugu filmindustries. She isknown for herperformances infilms such as YeMaaya Chesave,Neethaane EnPonvasantham,Eega, Mersal

and Rangasthalam. Sheimpressed all with her role in

Super Deluxelast year.

aking full use of the lock-down period,KarthikeyaGumma-konda,

one of thefittestactorsaround inTelugu cinematoday, onWednesday posted apicture on his social media pagesflaunting his newly developed six-pack abs. He has been working onhis physique for his future endeav-ours and it looks like he has achievedthe desired result — a well-chiseledfigure that his admirers couldn’t stopdrooling over. “Lockdown changed ourplans..But it can’t effect ourgoals..Clicked by @ rajapranay Guidedby @kuldepsethi sir. Thank you forguiding me through this lock downperiod with routine and diet .. (Sic),”the RX100 actor wrote on hisInstagram page.

The actor will be next seenlocking horns with Tamilsuperstar Ajith in Valimai.The film marks his Tamildebut and many believethat it was for this filmthat he sweat it out in thegym. He also hasGeetha Arts filmChaavu KaburuChallaga with debu-tant directorPegallapati Koushik.

et to be launched onsuperstar Krishna’sbirthday this Sunday,Mahesh Babu’s nextwith Parasuram hasgot a tentative title

— Sarkar Vaari Pata. Althoughthe film’s team has not madeup their mind on the final title

yet, Sarkar VaariPata is definitely inconsideration as itgoes with the themeof the story, confirms awell-placed source close tothe unit. “The film apartfrom being a love storylaced with family emotions,plenty of humour and actionalso drives home a socialmessage due to a strong issue ittackles. The said issue garnerednational attention five yearsago. It is the reason whyParasuram chose Sarkar VaariPata. The fact that it soundsdifferent and fresh is alsoanother reason,” adds thesource.

While the film, a joint pro-duction venture betweenMythri Movie Makers, 14 ReelsPlus and GMB Entertainment,doesn’t have a production dateyet, the source adds it will like-ly roll in July. Gopi Sundar hasbeen roped in to composetunes and it will be the firsttime that he will be scoringmusic for a Mahesh-starrer.Kiara Advani is tipped to be theleading lady.

inematographyminister TalasaniSrinivas Yadav onWednesday contin-ued his discussionswith cine personali-

ties like C Kalyan, Dil Raju, N

Shankar, MAA presidentNaresh and Rammohan Raoamong others over the resump-tion of film shootings andreopening of cinema halls. Themeeting was held at AnimalHusbandry Ministry Director’s

Office at Masab Tank,Hyderabad. The personalitiesbrought to the notice of theminister that shootings of 85films are at various stages, whilesome films are ready for release.The members assured the min-

ister all the guidelines that thegovernment issues will be fol-lowed in toto by the cast andcrew of any film.With livelihoods of lakhs ofemployees who depend onfilms and TV soaps affecteddue to lockdown, the ministerhas once again assured the filmcontingent that governmentwill help the entertainmentindustries in any which waypossible. He reiterated that thegovernment has already giventhe film and TV industry con-sent to resume work on post-production and as far as shoot-ings and reopening of cinemahalls go, appropriate decisionswill be taken after discussingthe issue in detail. The mem-bers will be meeting ChiefSecretary Somesh Kumar andother officers for further roundof discussion today inHyderabad. The minister spokeabout the issues that the mem-bers should raise with CS.

ontroversial film-maker Ram GopalVarma has releasedthe trailer of hisupcoming produc-tion titled

Coronavirus, which deals withthe pandemic and the lock-down as its subject.

On Tuesday evening, thefilmmaker took to Twitter torelease a four-minute trailer ofthe movie, which has beencompletely shot amid thelockdown. The film deals withthe story of a family amid thelockdown.

“Here is the CORON-AVIRUS film trailer..Thestory is set in a LOCKDOWNand it has been SHOT duringLOCKDOWN ..Wanted toprove no one can stop ourwork whether it’s GOD orCORONA @shreyaset,” tweet-ed Ram Gopal Varma.

“CORONAVIRUS is a filmabout the fears in all of us ..it

TESTS the POWER of LOVEagainst the FEAR of DISEASEand DEATH,” mentioned the filmmaker in a separatetweet.

Taking dig at celebrities’videos in quarantine, Varma

said, “When the rest of filmpeople were sweeping floors,cooking food, washing uten-sils, drying clothes, etc, Imade a film.”

Coronavirus featuresSrikanth Iyengar and is

helmed by Agasthya Manju.The music has been com-posed by DSR.

The trailer only mentions2020 but does not display anyother detail on the film’srelease.

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t has been a ritual for JrNTR and his brotherKalyanram to pay floraltributes to their grand-father NTR, legendaryactor and Telugu

Desam Party founder, on his birthanniversary (May 28) at NTR ghatevery year. Today though, theywill be desisting from the usual

practice in the interest of publicsafety. The ghat generally attractsa large number of NTR fans andTDP cadres on May 28. Jr NTRfans too swarm the place in bignumbers.

With Covid-19 threat still loom-ing large, especially withTelangana recording more than 70cases on Tuesday, both the broth-

ers decided to offer their prayersand respects to their grandfatherat their respective homes.

NTR, one of the most reveredpoliticians, launched TDP in 1982with the slogan of Telugu self-respect and established a record ofsorts by coming to power within 9months, ending the single partyrule of the Congress.

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Serie A’s hopes of follow-ing Germany and

Spain back onto thepitch will be decided onThursday in a meeting withthe Italian Governmentwhich will determine thefate of the season in Italy.

Sports MinisterVincenzo Spadafora willtell representatives fromthe Italian football federa-tion and Lega Serie A if thehealth conditions are right toreturn to action after near-ly three months.

Clubs returned togroup training on May 19but competitive actionremains suspended untilmid-June.

The indications are that

Spadafora and theGovernment’s ScientificTechnical Committee will

agree to both implement-ing a health proto-col and to resumethe season.

If there is agreen light onThursday, LegaSerie A willmeet on Friday toexamine “the differ-ent calendar

hypotheses” for theremaining Serie A and

Italian Cup matches.The league wants com-

petition to resume on theweekend of June 13-14,starting with four postponed

fixtures — Atalanta-Sassuolo,Verona-Cagliari, Inter Milan-Sampdoria and Torino-

Parma.They hope the season will

resume fully on June 20, with thegoal of awarding the league

title, defining promo-tions and relegations,before playing ItalianCup semi-finals, withthe final in early August.

The closing stages ofthe European club com-

petitions could also be played inAugust. Three Italian clubs arestill in the Champions Leagueand two in the Europa League.

On Friday, the Plan B willalso be analysed at the Lega SerieA meeting, a format with shortplayoffs to determine the title,European places and relega-tion, if the season is again sus-pended, or all the matches notplayed.

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The postponement of this year’sT20 World Cup in Australia to2022, which might open up a

window for the lucrativeIPL in October, is expectedto be formalised when theInternational CricketCouncil’s all-powerful boardholds a tele-conference onThursday.

The decision, if it is for-malised, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic will give members achance to chalk out their bilateralblue-print in the coming months.

“There is a good chance that post-ponement of World T20 will be decid-ed during Thursday’s board meeting.Whether there will be a formalannouncement or not is the question,”an ICC board member said.

“There is very little chance ofWorld T20 going ahead in this situa-tion. I don’t think either CricketAustralia or the top boards will mind,”he added.

It was reported that ICC’s EventsCommittee — led by Chris Tetley —might present multiple options and oneof the options that members are likelyto seriously contemplate is shifting thetournament to October-November,2022 while India hosts its edition in2021. An ICC spokesperson said

reports stating that a decision to post-pone the World Cup has been taken are“inaccurate”.

However, the spokespersonacknowledged that a “number of con-tingency plans are being explored inlight of the rapidly changing publichealth situation caused by the Covid-19 virus.”

It can also be safely concluded thatIndia will be touring Australia at the endof the year as members are likely to givemore precedence to bilateral engage-ments to recover from the financial loss-

es incurred during the pandemic.The board member also said that

it’s not only about the countries but alsoabout broadcasters Star Sports, whichincidentally holds rights for both theICC events as well as BCCI’s IndiaCricket rights and the IPL rights.

“There are a few questions thatneed to be asked. The commercial via-bility of having a T20 World Cup inFebruary-March 2021. Before that, anIPL in October-November window andanother IPL in the March-May win-dow,” a BCCI insider privy to the broad-

cast deals said.“So we are looking at three big-tick-

et tournaments in six months. In thiscurrent economic scenario, that will bea very bad call,” he added.

He also listed the bilateral engage-ments that the BCCI will agree to.

“India is most certainly going toAustralia and England is coming for afive-match series in India. As far asSouth Africa T20 series is concerned,let Cricket South Africa decide wherethey stand as far as ICC policy mattersare concerned,” the source said.

“With Chris Nenzani, BCCI willonly believe when he puts pen to paper,”he added.

The organisation of the IndianPremier League will largely depend onIndia’s Covid-19 situation during that

time but with the central Governmenttrying to bring in normalcy, the cash-rich league could get a five-week con-densed window to go ahead.

Some of the issues that BCCI aswell as all other stakeholders will bedealing with include, limited or no spec-tators as per ICC regulations.

Limited number of venues andincrease of double-headers could be theway forward. Also the organisationshould be in such a manner that all for-eign players coming in might need togo for a mandatory 14-day quarantine.

In that case, when do they arrive?Also when India tour Australia, theymight also have to quarantine them-selves which means the team needs atleast three weeks before playing thefirst Test.

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Cricket Australia has lockedin four venues for the finan-

cially crucial Test series againstIndia and the first match is ten-tatively set for a December 3start in Brisbane, as per localmedia reports.

Two Australian media out-lets — 7news.com.cu and theSydney Morning Herald —reported that the schedule forthe four Tests has been finalised.According to reports, CA ChiefExecutive Kevin Roberts willmake it official on Friday and theplan does not include any quar-antine hub or bio bubble for thevisitors.

“Cricket Australia (CA) onWednesday ticked off on the Testseries beginning in Brisbane onDecember 3 before heading toAdelaide from December 11 andMelbourne andSydney for the tradi-tional Boxing Day(December 26)and New YearTests (January 3),”7news.Com.Aureported. It isexpected that the sec-ond Test inAdelaide will be

Day/Night affair as BCCI pres-ident Sourav Ganguly had com-mitted earlier.

The Sydney Morning Heraldreported: “Perth is scheduled tokick off the Australian Testsummer with a pink-ball matchagainst Afghanistan butBrisbane has won the right tohost world powerhouse India inthe season’s marquee series.”

According to the SydneyMorning Herald, “CA will onFriday announce the interna-tional schedule for the 2020-21season, which will feature asmany as five international men’ssides, though this will be subjectto change due to the globalhealth crisis.”

The 7news.Com.Au reportalso stated that there will be noquarantine hub or bio bubblerequired as of now.

“With Australia’s coron-avirus situation easing, the

series looks certain to goahead without the need for aquarantine hub. The entire

tour taking place in one cityhad been a possibility but thebiggest question now iswhether — or how many —fans will be allowed to attend the

matches,” thewebs ite’sr e p o r tstated.

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Premier League clubs votedunanimously on

Wednesday to resumecontact training as theEnglish top-flight took asignificant step towards apossible restart in June.

Clubs returned totraining in small andsocially distanced groups lastweek but they have now movedto stage two of the “return totraining protocol”.

“Premier League sharehold-ers today (Wednesday) votedunanimously to resume contacttraining, marking another steptowards restarting the PremierLeague season, when safe to doso,” the league said in a state-ment.

“Squads are now able totrain as a group and engage intackling while minimising anyunnecessary close contact.”

It added: “Discussions areongoing as work continuestowards resuming the season,when conditions allow.”

The small number of posi-tive tests from the first tworounds of testing at PremierLeague clubs has raised hopes ofa return next month.

Eight cases of coronavirusamong players and staff havebeen detected from 1,744 testsin the Premier League.

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The burning desire to succeed abroad acted as astimulus for India to consciously create a fear-

some pace battery, says former West Indies speed-ster Ian Bishop, who compared the current unit tointimidating Caribbean bowlers of the past.

Bishop said the trend started with the likes ofZaheer Khan, RP Singh, Munaf Patel following inthe foot steps of Javagal Srinath and Kapil Dev inthe 2000s.

“It is perhaps the best generation of talents offast bowling India have produced. And it started awhile ago,” Bishop said on Cricbuzz in Conversation.

“We can go back to Zaheer, RP Singh, MunafPatel and that little cluster that came through afterSrinath, who followed Kapil Dev. It’s great to see,”he added.

Led by Bumrah, India has one of the most fear-some pacers. Mohammed Shami, BhuvneshwarKumar and Ishant Sharma add variety to theattack.

“It seemed to me from the outside that there wasa deliberate attempt by India to recognise that ‘bats-men were good, but if have to win overseas, we haveto get players from the MRF Pace Foundation andthe NCA coming through, try to prepare pitches toencourage these faster bowlers rather than dustyturners’” the 52-year-old said.

Bishop, who took 161 wickets in 43 Tests forWest Indies, in a huge compliment, said the currentIndian bowling unit reminds him of the West Indianpace battery that included the likes of Andy Roberts,Michael Holding, Joel Garner Malcolm Marshal andColin Croft.

“And now when you have three fast bowlers,sometimes four and an excellent spinner, it takes mymind back to the West Indies pace quartet beforemy generation — the Marshalls, the Holdings, theGarners, the Roberts — I’ll stick Colin Croft in there,”he said.

“There is no release point, two come out, twocome on. There is no flow of runs, and there is alwaysa threat of penetration and physical harm to a less-er extent. That is one of the things that makes thisgroup of fast bowlers excellent,” he added.

���� ���� J,�K: JoshuaKimmich described his winninggoal as “brutally important”after Bayern Munich took ahuge step towards an eighthstraight Bundesliga title onTuesday with a 1-0 win atBorussia Dortmund to leavethem seven points clear at thetop with just six games left.

Kimmich’s brilliant effortcame just before half-timebehind closed doors at SignalIduna Park as hosts Dortmundmissed the chance to turn up theheat on the Bavarians without

the backing of their huge sup-port.

“It was brutally important:I looked around to see if every-one understood howimportant it was,”Kimmich said of his deftchip. Kimmich’s captainManuel Neuer echoed thedefensive midfielder’s thoughts.

“That was a very importantsign,” said Neuer. Bayern won 4-0 when the teams met inMunich in November and they

kept up their excellent recentrecord against second-placedDortmund.

“Now only Bayern candecide what happens,” saidfrustrated Dortmund cap-tain Mats Hummels.

Dortmund’s starteenage striker, Erling

Braut Haaland, who had scoredten goals in as many leaguegames, failed to make an impactagainst Bayern’s watertightdefence before going off injured

in the second half.Jerome Boateng and David

Alaba gave him no room, whileKimmich and Leon Goretzka inmidfield made sure passesintended for him rarely mettheir mark. The Norway for-ward limped off with 20 min-utes left after a heavy tacklefrom Boateng.

Elsewhere, BayerLeverkusen dropped to fifthafter being routed 4-1 at homeby Wolfsburg, whose defenderMarin Pongracic claimed twogoals. It was a shock defeat athome for Peter Bosz-coachedLeverkusen who had won theirprevious 12 games.

M o e n c h e n g l a d b a c hclimbed over Leverkusen intofourth with a goalless draw atsecond-from-bottom WerderBremen, who are two pointsfrom safety.

Eintracht Frankfurt took apoint at home in a 3-3 drawwith Freiburg thanks to lategoals by Timothy Chandler andJapan striker Daichi Kamada.

��)�: Paris Saint-Germain for-ward Kylian Mbappe has lav-ished praise on Premier Leaguegiants Liverpool and their man-ager Jurgen Klopp amidrumours that he wants a moveaway from Parc des Princes.

Mbappe feels Klopp hasconverted Liverpool into a ruth-less machine that keeps onchurning out positive results dayin day out.

“This season, Liverpoolhave been a machine in thePremier League. They havemade winning look easy but thetruth is that it is never easy,”Mbappe was quoted as saying bymirror.co.uk.

“Performances like theyhave been having don’t justhappen. To be as ruthless as theyhave been would come from lotsof hard work in training andfrom having a very good man-ager,” he added. IANS

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An extended qualification peri-od for the Tokyo Olympics will

be introduced next year and rank-ing points earned at tournamentsduring the original qualificationphase will be maintained, theBadminton World Federation(BWF) said on Wednesday.

With the Covid-19 pandemicdisrupting the international calen-der, the BWF was unable to com-plete the last six weeks of its one-year qualifying period, which endedon April 28.

But with the Tokyo Gamespostponed, the governing body ofbadminton has decided to extendthe Olympic qualification period tonext year.

“An extended Olympic qualifi-cation period will be introducedfrom Week 1-17 in 2021 andincludes the select number of tour-

naments that were postponed, can-celled or suspended due to Covid-19,” the BWF said in a release.

“These eligible tournaments

within the new qualifying periodmust be completed by Week 17 in2021.”

The BWF also said that thepostponed Olympic qualifiers islikely to be held in the same weeknext year as originally planned in2020.

“Such eligible tournamentswithin this new qualifying periodshould preferably take place in thesame corresponding week from2020 to 2021.

“If this is not possible, the BWFwill allow sanctioning another datewithin Week 1-17 in 2021 subjectto approval.”

The BWF also said that theranking points gathered by playersin the completed tournaments dur-ing the qualification phase whichwas between April 29, 2019 to April26, 2020 will be maintained.

The governing body had lastweek unveiled a revised calendar for

the remainder of 2020 to salvage thedisruption-hit season.

However, the BWF made itclear that those tournaments won’tbe included in the Olympic quali-fication.

“Tournaments rescheduled forthe end of 2020 outlined in therevamped BWF TournamentCalendar 2020 released last weekwill not count towards qualification.Only the 2021 editions of each tour-nament,” it said.

The BWF also said that “play-ers from China and Hong Kong willbe eligible to earn points from the2021 Badminton Asia TeamChampionships as they “were notable to participate in the 2020Badminton Asia TeamChampionships in Manila due toCovid-19 travel restrictionsimposed on athletes from thosenations and territories by theGovernment of the Philippines.”

��������� J��)K: Aggressioncan’t be taught to bowlers as it’sa trait they ought to be born with,says West Indies legend CurtlyAmbrose, who tormented bats-men in his glorious career.

Ambrose said though hewas naturally aggressive, it wasfellow legendary Antiguanbowler Andy Roberts, whoencouraged him to embrace itwhile bowling.

“One of the things he men-tioned to me was to always beaggressive, to always get underthe skin of batsmen. That stuckin my mind coming from a greatman like him,” Ambrose said ona Sky Sports podcast.

“I don’t think you can teacha bowler to be aggressive — it hasto be something within you. Youcan try but if a bowler doesn’thave it inside of him, it probablywon’t work. For me it workedbecause I am naturally aggressivewhile I am competing. It natural-ly flowed for me.”

Ambrose, who took 405wickets in 98 Tests, said if one can

make the ball talk, there is hard-ly any need to sledge the bats-men. “...If you are good enoughat what you do, you let the fiveand a half ounces (the cricketball) do the talking for you.

“If you keep sledging, youprobably aren’t any good. Thatwasn’t the West Indian way. Fiveand half ounces coming at youat 90mph is more than enough!”

������: Split-coaching is the way forward forIndian cricket and rest of the world since it isbecoming increasingly difficult to balancework and family, reckons former Australia coachDarren Lehmann.

Lehmann said dividing responsibilitiesformat-wise should increase the longevity of thecoaches.

Talking alongside former England WorldCup-winning coach Trevor Bayliss on BBC’sTuffers and Vaughan Show, Lehmann said beingaway from the family for more than half a yearis too much pressure on a coach.

“I think split coaches is the way to go inIndia as well as here. You just can’t be away for200 days a year. It’s too much for the family andit’s too much pressure on a single coach,”Lehmann said.

“I think to get longevity out of your coach-es you have to have split roles,” he added.

The 50-year-old suggested divid-ing responsibilities on the basis offormats.

“It might be white ball orred ball cricket. You have to seehow that works. I see that evolv-ing and maybe the stage they starttalking to the players onthe ground but that’sprobably way off,”Lehmann said.

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In an unusual move, acelifter Mirabai Chanu has

been nominated for theArjuna award by the nation-al federation though the for-mer world champion isalready a recipient of KhelRatna, country’s highest sport-ing honour.

The Indian WeightliftingFederation (IWLF) has nom-inated Chanu along withRagala Venkat Rahul andPunam Yadav.

Chanu had receivedthe Khel Ratna along

with Indian cricket

team captain Virat Kohli in2018. She was also awardedthe Padma Shri — the coun-try’s fourth-highest civilianaward — the same year.

The 25-year-old, whoreceived the twin honour afterwinning the 2017 weightlift-ing world championship inUSA, says there is an honourattached with the Arjunaaward, so she won’t mind itgetting it after Khel Ratna.

“I know Khel Ratna is thehighest but I missed out on theArjuna award earlier and Iwant it too. Sometimes youwant all of it. Players like to getthe Arjuna award,” Mirabai

said. “I had also applied forArjuna award in 2018. We hadapplied for both the Arjunaaward and the Khel Ratnathen,” she said.

Asked if an athlete, whohas already been awarded theKhel Ratna, can be nominat-ed for an Arjuna Award,IWLF secretary generalSahadev Yadav said “it is pos-sible.” After recovering from aback injury, which marred herprogress in 2018, Chanuimproved her performance,further, in 2019.

She lifted 86kg in snatchand a personal best of 113kgin clean and jerk for a total of199kg at the AsianChampionships in April lastyear but missed the Bronzemedal by a whisker.

Her best performancecame at the World champi-onship in September, whenthe Manipuri breached themuch anticipated 200kg markby bettering her personal bestin all three sections. In snatch,she lifted 87kg, followed by114kg in clean and jerk for atotal of 201kg.

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“If that opens up a window Ithink the IPL would be a great fit,”Cummins, who was bought by

Kolkata Knight Riders for a whopping�15.5 crores, told reporters.

“You have millions and millionsof people watching that tournamentaround the world... Potentially evenmore after a long break off cricket.There’s a lot of reasons why I wouldwant it to go ahead but the main oneis it’s a great tournament.” PTI

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