REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE HYDERABAD  MONDAY  JANUARY 22, 2024  `9.00  PAGES 14  LATE CITY EDITION FOUR OF SIX ABOARD PRIVATE JET SURVIVE CRASH IN AFGHANISTAN Four persons survived the plane crash while the condition of two others on board was not clear, Russia’s aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said PLANE STOPPED IN GAYA FOR REFUELLING AIR AMBULANCE WAS CARRYING A PATIENT The jet was operating as a charter air ambulance and was en route from Thailand to Russia. It had a technical stopover at Gaya in Bihar for refuelling and was headed to Uzbekistan when it crashed in the mountainous Badakhshan province, which borders China, Tajikistan, and Pakistan. There were four crew members and two passengers on board the plane — all Russian ■ ■ “Of the six people, tentatively, four are alive. The fate of two people is being clarified,” Russian transport agency Rosaviatsia said. The crash site is eight hours by road from provincial capital Fayzabad One of the two passengers was seriously ill. She was accompanied by her husband. Some reports said the plane had an engine malfunction Falcon 10 THE TWO-ENGINE PLANE WAS BUILT BY FRANCE’S DASSAULT IN 1978 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 LEADERS HECKLED DHARANI LIKELY TO BE HANDED OVER TO NIC Assam Cong chief injured in Rahul’s yatra B K A R T H E E K @ Hyderabad P R A S A N TA M A Z U M D A R @ Guwahati DRAMATIC scenes unfolded in Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on Sunday as Assam Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah was assaulted and left with a bleeding nose. W h e n t h e yat r a bu s reached Jamugurihat in Sonitpur district, about 60 people gheraoed the bus, according to the Congress party. When Borah got down from the bus, he was beaten up. Those who tried to save the state Congress chief were also thrashed, party leaders claimed. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh criticised Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for the yatra’s troubles in the state. He said the CM became nervous from the day a group of women left the venue of a “government programme” to meet Gandhi and take photos with him. On January 18 when the yatra entered Ass a m ’ s Nakachari from Nagaland, dozens of women, who g athered to collect forms for a government scheme, left their queues to greet Gandhi. Congress leaders alleged Gandhi and other party leaders were heckled on Monday by a crowd who gathered near the yatra bus and chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Modi, Modi’ slogans. Speaking at a public meeting later, Gandhi said, “Around 20-25 BJP workers carrying sticks came in front of our bus; when I came out from the bus, they ran away .” On Monday Gandhi was to , visit a Vaishnavite monastery betwen 8-9 am, but was denied per mission. The monastery asked Gandhi to reach there only after 3 pm, saying his visit in the morning would disturb the programmes being planned in connection with the Ram temple consecration. 3 DAys TO gO PrEsENTs THINKEDU CONCLAVE EXPRESS READ Shabbir is advisor to govt on minority welfare Hyderabad: The Congress has appointed Dr Mallu Ravi as special representative of the TS government at Delhi and Mohd Ali Shabbir as advisor to the govt on public affairs, SC, ST, BC, and minority welfare | P6 Sharmila targets YSRC in 1st act as APCC chief YS Sharmila on Sunday took oath as APCC president and immediately after, launched a scathing attack on the ruling YSRC led by her brother and Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, and the TDP | P7 Seating arrangements being given final touches at the Ram temple for the consecration ceremony | PTI Ayodhya set for Lord Ram’s homecoming Consecration ceremony to be attended by thousands N A M I TA B A J PA I @ Lucknow AYODHYA is all set for the Ram temple consecration on Monday in a grand ceremony that will be attended by thousands and watched live by crores of people worldwide. Most of the guests are already in Ayodhya, which is on the cusp of becoming one of the most prominent spiritual destinations on the global map. Decorated with some 3,000 kg flowers, confetti and fluttering saffron flags emblazoned with the symbols of Treta Yug, the holy city has spread its arms to welcome some 7,000 distinguished guests led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Monday dawn will be marked by ‘Mangal Dhwani’ made through 50 musical instruments of different states. It will continue for two hours from 10 am till the commencement of the consecration ritual. Modi will land at Ayodhya airport at 10:25 am and reach the temple by 11 am. Till noon, the PM will take part in various events and will start the puja at 12.05 pm till 12.55 pm. He will spend about 3.5 hours in the temple town till 2:10 pm. Accompanied by 15 other Yajmans from different sections of society the PM will take the week, long rituals to culminate in final ritual — Chakshu Unmilan (opening of eyes) — of the deity . After entering the sanctum sanctorum, the PM will remove the blindfold from the idol from behind and will apply ‘kajal’ on the eyes of the deity with a small gold stick. He will then show a mirror to Ram Lalla followed by a Mahaarti by illuminating 108 diyas to conclude consecration of Ram Lalla. The performance of the final ritual has been given a window of just 84 seconds of the most auspicious ‘Mool Muhurt’ – between 12.29.08 pm P9, 10 and 12.30.32 pm. AI drones deployed More than 10,000 CCTV cameras and drones equipped with artificial intelligence technology have been deployed in Ayodhya ahead of Monday’s ceremony 3,000 kg of flowers Over 3,000 kg of rich fragrancebearing flowers brought from Chennai will be used for decorating the sanctum santorum of the temple in Ayodhya THE state government is likely to hand over the integrated land revenue records management system, the Dharani portal, to the National Informatics Centre (NIC) as the tenure of the contract of the private agency that is now maintaining the land records ended recently . NIC provides infrastructure related to IT consultancy and services to the Union and state governments. The five-member committee appointed by the state government to look into the issues related to Dharani arrived at this decision. “We will be recommending that the state government hand over the Dharani portal to NIC,” one of the committee members told TNIE. Before coming to power, the Congress raised apprehensions over private companies maintaining sensitive public data. Before assuming power, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy alleged that the private agency had given a subcontract to another foreign company He also expressed serious concerns about . land records being only in digital format. In its 2023 Assembly election manifesto, the Congress promised to bring an advanced version of the land records system, named “Bhumata”. The party said that this was because the Dharani portal was plagued with issues and lacked a redressal mechanism. It is learnt that the committee on Dharani is likely to recommend that the state government repeal the power of collectors to update land records. Notably a majority of applications received dur, ing the bi-weekly grievance day “Prajavani” are land-related. The government is planning to evolve a grievance registration system in the integrated land records management system so that the public is not forced to run from pillar to post. Heroin worth `41 cr seized at RGIA Hyderabad: Customs officials at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad seized 5.92 kg of heroin worth `41.4 crore in the international market from a South African national on Saturday. According to an official release on Sunday, this is one of the biggest seizures of heroin at the RGIA in the past two years. Based on passenger profiling and surveillance, the officers intercepted the woman travelling from Lusaka in Zambia to Hyderabad via Singapore. Upon questioning her, officials sensed something was amiss and screened her baggage. The baggage was noticed to be unusually heavy. A physical examination revealed that the passenger had concealed the contraband in her hand baggage, within the inner layer and a black document folder, sources said. The officers seized the heroin and arrested the passenger under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.