HYDERABAD THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024 `9.00 PAGES 16 LATE CITY EDITION MAN WHO MADE INDIA FALL IN LOVE WITH THE RADIO TAKES FINAL BOW 21 DECEMBER 1932 - 20 FEBRUARY 2024 AMEEN SAYANI’S LAST RITES TO BE HELD TODAY His last rites will be held today. He is still remembered for his greeting at the start his programme: “Namaste behno aur bhaiyo, main aapka dost Ameen Sayani bol raha hoon.” He anchored the show every Wednesday from 1952 to 1988. In 1999, he moved to AIR’s Vividh Bharati and continued there till 1994. Besides the show, he did voice over and compering on radio Ameen Sayani, the famous host of Binaca Geetmala in Radio Ceylon for 42 years, died of heart attack in Mumbai on Tuesday. He was 91 HE HAD A SPECIAL BOND WITH LISTENERS ■ ■ Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, his “golden voice on the airwaves had a charm and warmth that endeared him to people across generations... he nurtured a very special bond with his listeners.” Sayani was born on December 21, 1932. He was neither a singer nor an orator but a presenter who rose to dizzy heights of popularity 19,000 jingles FOR WHICH AMEEN SAYANI LENT HIS VOICE DURING HIS 42 YEARS IN RADIO 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 1 killed, 25 injured in 2 more guarantees in a week: CM farmer-police clash, Delhi march put off E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Hyderabad 12 Haryana police personnel hurt; farmers to decide future course of action on Friday SOUNDING the poll bugle from Kodangal constituency which he represents in the Assembly Chief , Minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday announced that his government will implement its promises of supplying LPG cylinder refills at `500 each and up to 200 units of free electricity for all holders of white ration cards within a week. Revanth also announced that AICC secretary Ch Vamshi Chand Reddy will be contesting from the Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha constituency and urged the people to elect him with a majority of not less than 50,000 votes. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy addresses a public meeting at Kosgi in Kodangal Assembly constituency on Wednesday He also set a target of winning at least 14 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana in the upcom- CBI summons Kavitha for questioning in Delhi liquor scam Protesters run for cover as a tear gas canister fired by Haryana police explodes near the Shambhu border point between Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday | PTI Cong seeks FIR against Haryana home minister Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said he has written to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to register a case against Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij and the Ambala SP, holding them responsible for the death of the young farmer at the Khanauri border Distressed UP farmer attempts self-immolation A farmer tried to set himself on fire near a dharna site in Muzaffarnagar in UP on Wednesday. The fire was doused in time by others. City Magistrate Vikash Kashyap said the farmer, Brijpal, had a loan-related issue, which would be addressed soon. The farmer is out of danger H A R P R E E T B A J WA @ Chandigarh AGITATING Punjab farmers on Wednesday put on hold their Dilli Chalo march for two days after a 21-year-old protester was killed and 25 others were injured in clashes with Haryana police personnel at Khanauri on the PunjabHaryana border. Haryana police said 12 of their officials were also injured when the protesters attacked them with sticks and stones. Dr H S Rekhi, the medical superintendent of Rajindra Hospital at Patiala, said three persons were brought to the hospital. One of them was brought dead, with an injury on his head. The post-mortem report is awaited. The other two are stable, Rekhi said. The farmers had resumed their agitation in the morning at Khanauri and Shambhu after a two-day lull, after four rounds of talks with the Centre remained inconclusive. The police fired rubber bullets and dropped tear gas shells on the protesting farmers at the Shambhu and Khanauri borders when they tried to breach the barricades. The protesters were seen holding iron shields, distributing salt, and wearing gas masks to protect themselves from assault. The situation at both the protest sites remained tense after the death of the farmer. Sixteen farmers suffered injuries at the Khanauri border while nine were hurt in clashes at the Shambhu point. All of them had minor injuries. Meanwhile, the Centre offered to hold the fifth round of talks in an attempt to break the deadlock. The farmer leaders are yet to respond. Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, said they will take a call on Friday Bharatiya Kisan Union . leader Rakesh Tikait said the protest will continue. In its reply to the Union home ministry’s letter flagging large gatherings along the Punjab-Haryana border, the Punjab government on Wednesday said at least 160 people from the state have been injured due to firing of tear gas shells and rubber bullets by Haryana police. E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Hyderabad THE CBI has summoned K Kavitha, BRS MLC and daughter of former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, for questioning as part of its investigation into the Delhi liquor scam. The CBI issued notices to Kavitha on Wednesday, asking her to appear before it on February 26. This is the first time that the CBI has summoned Kavitha after its sleuths questioned the MLC at her residence in Hyderabad on December 11, 2022. Stating that the Supreme Court was hearing a case that women should be questioned at their residence, Kavitha skipped the ED summons for questioning in January this year. She also skipped the ED summons thrice last year, stating that she has filed a case in the Supreme Court. In March 2023, Kavitha appeared before the ED in Delhi and was questioned under the provisions of the PMLA. The Supreme Court recently extended Kavitha’s protection from arrest by the ED and barred the agency from summoning her till February 16. It will take up Kavitha’s case again on February 28. The CBI and ED are simultaneously probing the Delhi liquor scam case. EXPRESS READ ASIP & APACT form JV, eye Telangana for `890 crore semiconductor facility Hyderabad: Representatives of Advanced System in Package Technologies (ASIP) and APACT met IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu here on Wednesday and expressed interest in setting up an Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility in the state with an investment of `890 crore | P3 Owaisi asks MEA to rescue 9 Indians forced to fight in Russia-Ukraine war Hyderabad: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has appealed to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to come to the rescue of nine Indians, including two from Telangana, who are reportedly trapped in Russia and forced to fight in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war | P2 MEDARAM JATARA STARTS | P2 FALI NARIMAN End of an era in India’s legal history helped shape modern India, including the Kesavanand Bharati case in which the Supreme Court ONE of India’s foremost constitutional experts, laid down the basic structure doctrine. Fali S Nariman passed away in Delhi in the Ethics was at the heart of his most consequenearly hours of Wednesday He was 95. . tial decisions. He resigned as additional solicitor Born in Rangoon, now Yangon, on Janu- general as soon as Emergency was declared in ary 10, 1929, his family fled to India during 1975. As a senior Supreme Court advocate, he the Japanese invasion when dedicated the next few decades in he was 12. Nariman was one strengthening various facets of law, CHISELLED MIND of the last legal luminaries including establishing judicial reVery few lawyers like who honed their skills in the view of constitutional amendments, Nariman have enriched chambers of Jamshedji Bethe collegium system, and minority the Court with their hramji Kanga in Mumbai, alumrights in educational institutions. He skills and their moral ni that included Soli Sorabjee and admitted later that he wasn’t right in stature, writes senior Nani Palkhivala. appearing for Union Carbide in the advocate Kapil Sibal The departure of the Bhishma Bhopal gas leak case. | Edit page pitamah of jurists signalled the In the assets case against former end of an era. While Prime MinisTamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalater Narendra Modi in his tribute lithaa, he represented her in 2014 and said Nariman was among the most out- got her bail. In the inter-state Cauvery water disstanding legal minds, Chief Justice of pute case, he represented Karnataka. India D Y Chandrachud remembered Nariman was prolific as an author, writing him as a g reat giant of an more than a dozen books and penning numerous intellectual. columns, including for this newspaper. He is surNariman was part of several vived by his son, former SC justice Rohinton Narlandmark verdicts that iman, daughter-in-law and daughter. S U C H I T R A K A LYA N M O H A N T Y @ New Delhi 10 JANUARY 1929 - 21 FEBRUARY 2024 ing General Elections. Revanth also made it clear that input subsidy to farmers — Rythu Bharosa — will be credited to farmers’ bank accounts by March 15. The chief minister was addressing a public meeting at Kosgi of Kodangal Assembly constituency along with his Cabinet colleagues N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, Damodar Rajanarasimha and Jupally Krishna Rao and Speaker Gaddam Prasad after laying foundation stones for a slew of developmental projects worth over `4,369 crore. These projects include setting up medical, engineering, physiotherapy and nursing colleges in the constituency CONTINUED ON P4 . SP, Cong clinch deal for seats in UP, MP Priyanka brokers truce Priyanka brokered the truce between the two allies by first discussing the issue with brother Rahul, followed by a phone call to Akhilesh. She convinced Congress to drop the demand for Moradabad N A M I TA B A J PA I @ Lucknow AFTER seven years, UP Ke Ladke (boys of UP), a 2017 slogan, are together again as the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress clinched their seat-sharing deal in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday for the Lok Sabha elections. Of the total 80 seats in UP , the SP allotted 17 to the Congress. While the SP could accommodate a few other small allies, the Nagina seat may be spared for Bhim Army chief Chandrasekhar Azad. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav at a press conference in Moradabad | PTI The deal went beyond UP as the Congress let Akhilesh’s party contest from Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh. In UP the Congress was al, loted its pocketboroughs of Raebareli and Amethi besides Varanasi. The other seats included Kanpur (Nagar), Fatehpur Sikri, Bansgaon, Saharanpur, Prayagraj, Maharajganj, Amroha, Jhansi, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Mathura, Sitapur, Barabanki and Deoria. The Congress first pitched for 25 seats, scaled it down to 21 before settling for 17. Congress leaders said Akhilesh may now join Rahul’s yatra as per his convenience.
Express Network Private Limited publishes thirty three E-paper editions of The New Indian Express newspaper , thirty two E-paper editions of Dinamani, one E-paper edition of The Morning Standard, one E-paper edition of Malayalam Vaarika magazine and one E-paper edition of the Indulge - The Morning Standard, Kolkatta.