tirupati l wednesday l july 06, 2022 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l anantapur EDITION England ride on twin centuries, retain Pataudi series 2-2 Jonny Bairstow 3 Perfect execution of Bazball Playing aggressive, positive cricket is essentially what the new regime of Brendon McCulum and Ben Stokes have empowered the team to do. At the toss, Stokes said they like chasing and the team showed why Hosts hunt down 378 thanks to unbeaten tons from Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root. Draw five-match series that began almost 11 months ago. It’s their highest successful run chase ever in Test cricket More questions for India India has lost their last three Tests While Rahul Dravid has enjoyed remarkable white-ball success since taking over, Test returns have disappointed. They have now lost 3 ties defending scores in excess of 200 thrice in last six months overseas England skipper Ben Stokes and Jasprit Bumrah share the Pataudi Trophy after the 5-match Test series ended in 2-2 draw | BCCI | P11 Bairstow liberated This time last year, Bairstow had lacked belief & was unsure of himself. His Test scores reflected that. A new style of play has benefited him the most and now has 4 tons in last 5 innings 4.89 England’s run rate in the fourth innings 614 number of runs Bairstow has scored in eight innings under the captainship of Stokes 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 Twitter drags govt to HC over take-down fiat Over 47L pupils receive Vidya Kanuka kits worth `931 crore E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Adoni (Kurnool) Describes it as abuse of power by officials E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e ers’ protest, blocked. On June 26, acting on the government’s request, Twitter blocked over Social media platform Twit- 80 accounts. ter on Tuesday moved the KarTwitter has been subjected to nataka High Court against the police investigation. Last year, Centre’s order last week to take some Central government mindown content under Section isters moved to Koo, a social 69A of the Information Tech- media platform, holding Twitnology Act, alleging abuse of ter responsible for not complypower by the officials. ing with domestic Indian laws. Twitter’s response comes in While news agency Reuters the wake of a government reported that MeitY did not warning that it had failed comment on Twitter’s deto comply with two take cision to move court, ofdown orders from the ficials told PTI that the Ministry of Electronsocial media platform ics and Information has complied with the Technology (MeitY), isJune 27 notice as it did sued on June 6 and 9. not want to lose liabilIn its warning of ‘No advance ity exemptions availalast week, the governble as a content host. notice’ ment pointed out that In its plea, Twitter In its plea before argued that some reTwitter could lose its protection as an inter- the court, Twitter moval orders were not argued that mediary under the in accordance with the some of the new IT regulations if procedural requiregovernment it continued to be in ments of the IT Act. orders did not violation of the rules. The ministry has give advance It had set a deadline of been considering some July 4 for Twitter to notice to authors amendments to the IT of the content comply with its order. law, including setting said to be The IT Act empowers up a government-run objectionable. the gover nment to appeals panel that Twitter has an block public access to would have the power content in the interest estimated 24 mn to reverse the content users in India of national security, moderation decisions. besides other reasons. These measures, it arThe confrontation came to a gued, were needed because the head last year when the govern- firms violated the rights of ment wanted several Twitter many Indians. handles, including internationFor the record, industry al advocacy group Freedom transparency reports have House, politicians, journalists pointed out that Indian governand many individuals who ment requests for content take were supportive of the farm- downs are among the highest. @ New Delhi It is only with education, one can come out of the yoke of poverty and secure a better future for the generations to come, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said after he distributed schools kits worth `931 crore under the Jagananna Vidya Kanuka scheme at Adoni in Kurnool district on Tuesday . A total of 47,40,421 government school students of classes 1 to 10 received the kit costing `2,000 each. Addressing a gathering, Jagan reiterated that education is the most valuable asset that can be offered to children. “Only education can change the fate of children and give them the confidence to live anywhere and compete at a global level,” the CM remarked. He said Vidya Kanuka was being implemented for the past three years even though its cost of implementation was increasing with the rise in number of beneficiaries. “In 2020-21, each kit was valued at `1,530 and was distributed to over 42 lakh students at an expenditure of `650 crore. In 2021-22, the cost increased to `1,726 per kit and was given to over 45 lakh students at a cost of `790 crore. For 2022-23, each kit costing `1,964 was distributed to 47 lakh students with `931 crore.” The kit, comprising three pairs of uniform, bilingual textbooks, workbooks, notebooks, a schoolbag, shoes, belt, two pairs of socks and an Oxford Dictionary was given to the newly admitted students and to those who had lost their P4 previous one.  Andhra ranks third in implementing NFSA among general category states E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada Mumbai mess A school girl with her guardian wades through a flooded street following heavy monsoon rains, in Mumbai on Tuesday | PTI Andhra Pradesh has secured the third rank in the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) with a score of 0.794 among the general category states. While Odisha—with a score of 0.836—bagged the first place, Uttar Pradesh followed with a score of 0.797. Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal released the first edition of ‘State Rank- express read YSRC MLA protests in open drain against official apathy TDP shared people’s data for political gains: Panel Nellore: YSRC MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy sat in an open drain at Ummareddygunta in Nellore Rural on Tuesday, protesting against the official apathy in covering the drain despite repeated complaints. He withdrew his protest after getting a written assurance from officials that the issue will be resolved at the earliest | P4 Vijayawada: The panel probing the alleged purchase of the controversial Pegasus spyware by the previous TDP regime, met under on Tuesday, The panel chairman Bhumana Karunakar Reddy said they almost concluded that the previous government intentionally resorted to sharing people’s data with private agencies for political gains | P4 SpiceJet planes involved in two more incidents Cyberabad police book rebel YSRC MP, relative for ‘confining, assaulting’ cop E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada SpiceJet was involved in two incidents on Tuesday as the airline’s Delhi-Dubai flight made an emergency landing in Karachi due to a malfunctioning fuel indicator, and its KandlaMumbai flight did a priority landing after the outer pane of one of its windshields developed cracks mid-flight. The total number of technical glitches on SpiceJet aircraft cimbed up to seven in the past 17 days. The DGCA has ordered an inquiry. On the first incident, SpiceAir said aircraft made a normal landing and the passengers would be taken to Dubai on a replacement flight. The Cyberabad Police in Telangana registered a case against YSRC rebel MP K Raghurama Krishna Raju, his family member, a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable and an assistant sub-inspector rank official, among others for allegedly assaulting a constable attached with the intelligence wing of Andhra Pradesh on Monday . According to the police, intelligence sleuths were drawn from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State Police, as per the guidelines of Special Protection Group (SPG), during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Hyderabad and Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh. @ New Delhi On receiving specific intelligence inputs that some organisations from Andhra Pradesh might stage protests during the PM’s visit to the Telugu States, some personnel from AP intelligence wing were drawn as ‘spotters’ to identify the movement of protestors and suspects. On Monday, a day before Modi was scheduled to visit Bhimavaram, the AP intelligence wing con- stable, Farooq Basha, was deputed as a spotter at an ISB Gate in Gachibowli to identify trouble mongers. Based on a complaint by Farooq Basha, the Gachibowli police registered a case against Raghurama Krishna Raju as the accused no. 1, Bharat as accused no 2. They were booked under various Sections of IPC, including Section 365 (kidnap), Section 384 (extortion), Section 342 (wrongful confinement), Section 506 (criminal intimidation). Taking a serious view of the involvement of its personnel, the CRPF 221 Battalion Commandant Mahesh Kumar issued orders suspending Sandip Sadhu and Ganga Ram till ‘finalisation of inP5 quiry’.  IAF record Dad, daughter fly fighter planes in formation M AYA N K SI N G H @ New Delhi The Indian Air Force has just broken new ground with a father and his daughter flying in formation on a combat proficiency mission. Air Commodore Sanjay Sharma and Flying Officer Ananya Sharma created the record on May 30, when they flew in the same formation of Hawk-132s at the Air Force Station in Bidar, where Ananya is undergoing training. IAF spokesperson Wing Commander Ashish Moghe said, “There has not been any previous instance in the IAF where a father and his daughter were part of the same fighter formation for a mis- Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy receives a bouquet from a student after the distribution of Jagananna Vidya Kanuka kits in Adoni on Tuesday | Express Flying Officer Ananya Sharma (L) and Air Commodore Sanjay Sharma | IAF sion.” Since a very early age, Ananya wanted to be a fighter pilot. But, at that time the stream was not open for women. Whenever she would bug her dad about it, he would reassure, “Don’t worry you will be one.” “Ananya after getting commissioned as fighter pilot came and saluted me. It made me really proud,” beamed Air Commodore Sharma. “It was the biggest day of my life when I flew with Ananya,” he added in a video put out by the IAF. Air Commodore Sharma was commissioned in the fighter stream in 1989. He has had an extensive experience of fighter operations, having commanded a MiG-21 squadron as well as a frontline fighter station. When the first women fighter pilots of the IAF entered service in 2016, Ananya saw her dream was now achievable. Having completed her B Tech in Electronics and Communication, she was selected for training. She was commissioned as a fighter pilot in December 2021. Her mother Sonal Sharma said, “I am extremely happy and proud. The feelings I experienced when both Sanjay and Ananya had got airborne in the same formation cannot be expressed in words. It was a feeling way beyond any happiness I have experienced till now.” ing Index for NFSA-2022’ during the conference of food ministers of States/UTs held in New Delhi on Tuesday . Speaking to TNIE, State Civil Supplies Minister Karumuri Nageswara Rao expressed happiness and said, “Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has laid more focus on the common man, as evident from the effective implementation of the Public Distribution System in the State. During the pandemic, the government ensured that food reached the people in time so that they do not suffer.” On being pointed out that the CM in his recent memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought amendments to the NFSA, the minister maintained that any proposal was only meant for improving the effectiveness of the Act and bringing more benefits to the people. The current version of the Index aims to measure the effectiveness of NFSA implementation through operations and initiatives under the Targeted Public Distribution System P5 (TPDS).