HYDERABAD l Friday l august 28, 2026 l `9.00 l PAGES 38 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 Efforts on to trace 23 with Telangana roots K HYAT I SHAH @ Hyderabad Officials on Thursday said efforts were under way to trace 23 people from Telangana, including six residents of the state and 17 NRIs of Telangana origin, who were reported missing following the floods and flash floods in Nepal and the Nepal-Tibet region. The 20 cases involving them are being followed up in coordination with the Centre, the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu and Nepalese authorities. Since the special helpline was launched, the government has received 80 to 100 calls from family members, relatives and others seeking information and assistance. Officials said that following preliminary scrutiny and verification, 20 cases involving 23 people were taken up for further follow-up. Former Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chairman Dr G Satheesh Reddy and 30 other pilgrims from Hyderabad who were on the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra have been confirmed safe in Tibet. Satheesh Reddy told TNIE that the group had completed the pilgrimage, reached Saga and was exploring an alternative route for its return. “We are all safe in Tibet. We completed our Kailash Manas Sarovar Yatra successfully and started our return journey and reached Saga in Tibet. We are working out an alternative route,” he said. The pilgrims narrowly escaped the flood-affected area on Wednesday morning, hours before the flash flood struck the region.  continued on p7 Helpline Telangana Bhavan, New Delhi 9871999044 | 9949351270 | 9618597969 E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Hyderabad An area covered in mud and silt carried by 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- CJI invite row: NLSIU cancels convocation 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 possible outburst.  more on: P7, 9 & 11 Manipur violence Four Nagas killed in alleged Kuki ambush @ Bengaluru P r a s a nta M a z um d a r @ Guwahati 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 Chief Justice of India Surya Kant attending the event. “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 university 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 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 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. Manipur’s apex Naga organisation United Naga Council condemned the “barbaric and calculated” attack. “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,” it said. 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. were left with the choice of receiving their certificates via courier or collecting them at the NLSIU campus. On August 15, around 165 students from the graduating class of 2026, 409 current students, and 128 alumni had signed an open letter to the university administration, expressing ‘unconditional solidarity’ with National Academy of Le g al Studies and Research (NALSAR, Hyderabad) students, who had opposed the CJI’s presence at their convocation. This invited Bar Council of India chairman Manan Kumar Mishra’s short-lived wrath. WITH THI S ISSUE CITY’S BEST WEEKEND GUIDE 38 PAGES, INCLUDING 24 OF INDULGE (TABLOID) Big haircut, but Chandra says it’s against `3.9K cr DIPA K M O N DA l @ New Delhi AFTER a major controversy erupted over the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approving 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 the claims against him as a personal guarantor were just `3,992 crore. In a statement, Chandra said he CWC calls TG, Maha meet on Tummidihatti had not 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 Del, hi Bench had approved the repayment plan despite objections from financial creditors over the size of the proposed recovery, the conduct of the resolution professional and the participation of entities alleged Subhash Chandra to be associated with Chandra. 99% cut: Creditors The repayment plan was apCreditors opposing proved by 80.814% of the creditors. However, Axis Bank, the plan argued HDFC Bank, Canara Bank, LIC that the proposed recovery amounted Housing Finance and some othto over 99% haircut er lenders voted against it. The Central Water Commission (CWC) will convene a meeting with Maharashtra and Telangana officials on September 1 to discuss the Tummidihatti barrage. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 11 seeking a meeting with Maharashtra on the proposed barrage. He urged the prime minister to facilitate talks with the Maharashtra government to enable construction of the barrage and utilisation of Godavari waters for Telangana’s future irrigation and drinking water needs. Following the request, the CWC decided to convene a joint meeting. “ meeting under the chairmanship of A Chairman, CWC, to deliberate upon the technical and inter-state issues concerning the construction of the Tummidihatti barrage on Pranahita River has been proposed by the Government of Telangana. The meeting will be held in Delhi on September 1 at 11 am,” Neeraj Kumar Sharma, director (Project Appraisal, South), said in a letter. AP-Telangana water panel to meet on September 7 Meanwhile, the CWC will convene the second meeting of the committee constituted to resolve water-related issues between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on September 7 in Delhi. The committee, constituted under the CWC chairman in January 2026, was tasked with examining key issues concerning water management between the two States and submitting a report to the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation within three months.  continued on p4 ACB raid on Mines dept AD yields assets worth `100 cr E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Bhupalpally The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday morning conducted raids at the residence of Bhupalpally District Mines Assistant Director Bojja Jayaraj in Bhupalpally town, after suspecting that he had amassed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. The searches resulted in the detection of assets worth `3,06,53,177 at government valuation, according to the ACB. Bojja Jayaraj Their estimated market value is around `100 crore. The assets include house properties, agricultural land, gold ornaments, three four-wheelers and household articles.  continued on p7