tirupati l friday l august 28, 2026 l `9.00 l PAGES 14 l late city EDITION Sehwag and Dravid’s sons to play together for India U19 Legendary batters Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag's sons, Anvay and Aaryavir respectively, are set to play for India U19 in the Australia series Maiden call-up for Aaryavir in blues It is a maiden India call-up for 18-year-old Aaryavir, who is currently playing for West Delhi Lions in the Delhi Premier League. He will be joining Anvay in the one-day squad where India U19 will play three matches from September 18. The junior cricket committee picked separate squads for the three one-day matches and two multi-day games vs Australia Anvay Dravid Aaryavir Sehwag Second series with India U19 for Anvay ■ ■ Anvay, the younger son of former India captain and coach Dravid, retained his place in the ODI squad after being part of the U-19 side that toured Sri Lanka last month The 17-year-old wicketkeeper-batter had scored 14 and 87 in the two youth ODIs he played during the tour 14 Dravid and Sehwag last played together for India 14 years ago CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Emergency contact numbers of Embassy of India in Kathmandu: +977 985 131 6807, +977 970 910 7500, +977 981 032 6117 Whereabouts of seven AP pilgrims yet to be ascertained DIPA K M O N DA L @ New Delhi P h a n i n d r a Pa pa s a n i @ Vijayawada The State government has intensified efforts to trace and assist people of Andhra Pradesh stranded or reported missing in the flash floods in Nepal, with Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directing officials to ensure their safety and facilitate their evacuation to secure locations. The government has stepped up monitoring the situation, particularly the safety of Telugu pilgrims travelling along the Nepal-Tibet route to Kailash Mansarovar. Minister for Real Time Governance and IT Nara Lokesh is coordinating the efforts, while the Real Time Governance Society (RTGS) is continuously tracking developments and collecting information about Andhra Pradesh pilgrims. Reviewing the situation, the Chief Minister made it clear that bringing Andhra Pradesh residents facing difficulties in Nepal safely back to their native places should be the top priority and directed all the de, partments concerned to work in close coordination. He further instructed them to ensure that there was no delay in providing information to the families, continuously monitor the situation and keep him u p d a t e d w i t h t h e l at e s t developments. According to officials, 41 persons from Andhra Pradesh have been identified as being stranded in Nepal. Of the stranded pilgrims, 34 are safe, while the whereabouts of seven others are yet to be ascertained, P6 officials said.  An area covered in mud and silt washed along the flash flood, near Trishuli Dam in Nepal on Thursday | PTI Toll up, 290 Indians uncontactable so far E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ New Delhi At least 290 Indian nationals remain uncontactable in Nepal’s flood-hit Rasuwa district even as rescue teams have brought more people to safety and authorities race to establish the whereabouts of those stranded in the disaster zone. The External Affairs Ministry (MEA) said on Thursday that 54 Indians had been rescued so far. The number of workers rescued from the Trishuli-1 hydropower project has also risen sharply, with 63 workers now safe, compared with 33 reported earlier. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said Indian authorities were coordinating with Nepalese officials, state governments, tour operators and project authorities to trace those out of contact. Among those still uncontactable are two large Tamil Nadu groups of 37 and 49 people, who were travelling for the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra through separate travel opera- ‘Graft by some MLAs overshadowing govt’ E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e Pilgrimage activity With Raksha Bandhan and Shravan Purnima approaching, pilgrimage activity in highaltitude areas is particularly heavy. The absence of a comprehensive record of travellers moving through the remote region is making it harder for authorities to determine the full number of people affected tors, Samrat Travels and Fly Everest Travels. Another group of 32 Indians from West Bengal, travelling through Samrat Travels, was reportedly in Timure, one of the areas affected by the disaster. Authorities are also trying to contact 61 Indians travelling through Richa Tours and 33 people from Kerala whose whereabouts remain unconfirmed. The government has stressed that “uncontactable” does not mean that a person is necessarily missing, injured or dead. It indicates that officials have so far been unable to establish communication. The scale of the disaster is growing. The official death toll rose to 362, including three in Tibet, while Nepal authorities reported 910 people missing. A newly formed lake at the flood site is also reportedly rising after a river blockage, prompting Nepal’s disaster authorities to warn residents and rescuers to stay away from riverbanks amid fears of a possimore on: P9, 11 ble outburst.  Manipur violence Four Nagas killed in alleged Kuki ambush @ Vizianagaram/Visakhapatnam P r a s a n ta M a z u m d a r @ Guwahati AP BJP president PVN Madhav admitted that allegations of rampant corruption against some MLAs at the grassroots level are overshadowing the good work being done by the NDA government in the state and said such practices need to be curbed immediately . Speaking to TNIE during AP Dialogues, Madhav said almost all MLAs are working towards development but a few are involved in activities that are drawing public criticism. Though the NDA government is bringing huge investments and taking up several developmental and welfare initiatives across the state, the good work is getting overshadowed due to corruption at the lower level, Madhav said. He said such allegations are giving ammunition to the YSRCP to target the coalition government. Amid signs of normalcy returning to Manipur following the resumption of inter-state bus services, alleged Kuki rebels carried out an ambush on Thursday, killing four Naga civilians. One other Naga individual was injured in the ambush while a student leader was reported missing. The incident occurred at around 8.30 am at a place between Makui Ashang and Thanamba Naga villages on the IT Road in Kuki-majority Kangpokpi district. The victims were travelling from Makui village to Senapati which is a Naga-majority district bordering Nagaland when they were attacked. Manipur’s apex Naga organisation, ‘United Naga Council’ (UNC), condemned the “barbaric and calculated” attack on the Liangmai Naga civilians. “It was reported that armed Kuki militants under Suspension of Operation…ambushed and attacked innocent Naga civilians in an area that serves as an important lifeline for Nagas living along the IT Road,” the UNC said in a statement. Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh chaired a high-level security meeting, where the government condemned the ambush. He instructed security officials to nab the culprits. “These allegations at the grassroots level are heavily shadowing all the good work. This should be curbed,” he said. Madhav said the issue has been brought to the notice of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and expressed confidence that he would take appropriate action. Responding to allegations of illegal mining and harassment of the public by a private agency engaged for tax collection, he said there is a need for a proper policy to deal with such P6 issues.  CJI invite row: NLSIU cancels convocation E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Bengaluru National Law School of India University (NLSIU) on Thursday cancelled its 34th annual convocation, initially scheduled to be held on September 12, citing “unavoidable circumstances”. The development comes amid pushback from students against Big haircut, but Chandra says it’s against `3.9k cr Chief Justice of India Surya Kant attending the convocation. “Despite our collective best efforts, due to unavoidable circumstances, we are unable to hold the 34th annual convocation,” read a circular issued by the NLSIU administration on Thursday morning. This is the first time after the Covid-19 pandemic that the uni- versity has cancelled a convocation ceremony . Graduating students of the 2026 batch will be conferred their degrees ‘in absentia’ after due approvals by NLSIU’s governing bodies. The students were left with the choice of receiving their certificates via courier or collecting them at the NLSIU campus. AFTER a major controversy erupted over the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra’s `6.5-crore repayment plan against admitted creditor claims of `22,006 crore, the media baron on Thursday said that the claims against him as a personal guarantor were just `3,992 crore. In a statement, Chandra said he had not personally borrowed money from any lender and was only a personal guarantor for the loans raised by Vivek Infracon, Spirit Textiles and Churu Enterprises. Chandra further said that `620 crore of these claims had already been settled, while the borrowing entities had offered to pay `1,113 crore to multiple lenders. Discussions are continuing, he said. On Tuesday, the NCLT’s Delhi Bench had approved the repayment plan despite objections from Subhash Chandra financial creditors over the size of the proposed recovery the conduct , of the resolution professional and the participation of entities alleged to be associated with Chandra. The repayment plan was approved by 80.814% of the creditors. However, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, Canara Bank, LIC Housing Finance and some other lenders voted against it. Creditors opposing the plan argued that the proposed recovery amounted to over 99% haircut. While approving the plan, the tribunal held that its role was to examine whether the plan complied with the law and whether there was any statutory infirmity warranting its rejection. express read Panchadarla declared ‘No Mining Zone’ Visakhapatnam: The AP government has declared Panchadarla Hills in Rambilli mandal of Anakapalli district a ‘No Mining Zone’, citing the religious, cultural, archaeological, ecological and hydrological significance of the hills. It has initiated termination of a 10-year gravel quarry lease spread over 2.153 hectares in Survey No.1 of Panchadarla village | P6 BARC land exempted from stamp duty Vijayawada: Finally paving the way for one of the country’s most prestigious scientific projects, the AP Government has granted a full exemption from stamp duty and registration fee for 4,950 acres of land allotted to the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Anakapalli district. The decision removes major financial hurdles for the premier institution | P7