3rd canopy collapse in three days at airport A video of the canopy collapsing at Rajkot airport went viral on social media. Airport Director Digant Bahora said, “The canopy collapsed due to waterlogging caused by rain outside the temporary terminal.” The first canopy collapse was at Jabalpur airport on Thursday. It damaged a car. The second was on Friday when it killed a cabbie in Delhi HYDERABAD SUNDAY JUNE 30, 2024 `12.00 PAGES 24 LATE CITY EDITION 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 BHARATANATYAM AT BARBADOS Fourth World Cup won by India, second in T20 S W A R O O P S W A M I N AT H A N @ Chennai BRIEF SCORES India 176/7 in 20 ovs (Kohli 76, Axar 47, Shivam 27, Maharaj 2/23, Nortje 2/26) bt South Africa 169/8 (De Kock 39, Stubbs 31, Klaasen 52, Arshdeep 2/20, Bumrah 2/18, Hardik 3/20) | MORE ON P11 Fire breaks out at Bhadradri power station T-72 tank swept away in Ladakh, 5 jawans killed M AYA N K S I N G H @ New Delhi E N S @ Khammam A major fire was reported at the Bhadradri Thermal Power Station (BTPS) in Manugur of Bhadradri Kothagudem district on Saturday. Efforts are on to douse the flames, said sources, adding that no casualties or injuries have been reported yet. Power plant authorities noticed flames emanating from a transformer and alerted the fire department. Eyewitnesses claimed that lightning struck the transformer. Meanwhile, official sources said 270 MW of power generation was halted at Unit 1 due to the fire. Operations at Units 1 and 2 have been stopped as a precautionary measure, they added. Comic cancels Hyd show after MLA’s threat E N S @ Hyderabad A standup comedian cancelled his show scheduled at a cafe in Jubilee Hills here on Saturday after a threat from BJP MLA Raja Singh over the former’s remarks on the Jain community . The Goshamahal MLA released a video in which he warned Daniel Fernandes, a stand-up comedian from Mumbai, not to go ahead with the show or face a thrashing. He also urged police to intervene and cancel the show and said if it was still on, it would turn into a lesson to anyone who cracked jokes on the Hindu and Jain commuCONTINUED ON P3 nities. INSIDE FORMER PCC CHIEF D SRINIVAS DIES I P4 DECKS CLEARED FOR GHMC-CANTT MERGER I P3 3 MURDERS IN 24 HRS IN HYDERABAD I P3 WITH THIS ISSUE THE SKY PEOPLE PLUS 12 PAGES FIVE soldiers, including a junior commissioned office, who were operationally deployed towards the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh lost lives on Saturday as their T-72 tank was swept away in flash floods. The incident happened around 1 am, while de-inducting the jawans from a military training activity the Army said. , In a social media message, the Army’s Fire and Fury Corps said, “an Army tank got struck in the Shyok River, near Saser Brangsa, Eastern Ladakh due to sudden increase in the water level.” Rescue teams rushed to the location but due to high current in the swollen river following flash floods, the mission didn’t succeed and the tank crew lost their lives. Two T-72 tanks were trying to cross Shyok but one of them got stuck, officials said, adding the melting of snow resulted in the increase in the water levels. The deceased personnel were identified as M R K Reddy, Subhan Khan, Bhupendra Ne gi, E Teibam and Sadarbonia Nagaraju. This is the second biggest incident in which soldiers were killed during operational deployment. The Leh-based Fire and Fury 14 Corps is to undergo change of command from July 1, with Lt Gen H Bhalla replacing Lt Gen Rashim Bali. Corps Commander 14 Corps leads the Senior Highest Military Commander Level (SHMCL) talks between India and China to resolve issues pertaining to the stand-off in Eastern Ladakh. The Corps handles some of the most sensitive battlefields in the world. The areas of the Western and Eastern Ladakh also come under its responsibility . ELEVEN years later, a cricket-obsessed, trophy-starved nation will no longer need to look at 1983, 2007 or 2011 to sate themselves. On a sun-kissed Saturday, a new cricketing red-letter day was carved out at the iconic Kensington Oval in Barbados. As Rohit Sharma lifted the World Cup for the fourth time in their history a sense of , euphoria swept across the country which had become familiar with the sound of disappointment and agony in big games. They were not going to be denied. For a period of time, when Heinrich Klassen tore into Axar Patel with astonishing ease, a nation forgot to breathe. But when there’s Jasprit Bumrah, there’s a way, more often than not. After Hardik Pandya dismissed Klaasen against the run of play, Bumrah delivered two peerless overs. To watch your team lift a World Cup is a privilege not many fans will experience. That includes players too, 13 of whom have never (Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have won it) before had the sweet taste of global glory. This success will mean a lot to them, including Kohli and Sharma because of all the agonising misses and heart-breaks. `626 cr jump in W’gal hosp cost: CM orders probe E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Hyderabad Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy inspects the Warangal super speciality hospital on Saturday EXPRESSING anger over the escalation in the estimated cost of construction of the Warangal super specialty hospital, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy ordered a forensic audit on Saturday . Revanth questioned officials over the surge in the cost of construction of the 24-storey hospital to `1,726 crore from `1,100 crore without any approval. “How will you increase the estimated cost by `626 crore with just oral orders?” he asked officials. He ordered L&T, the firm that bagged the contract, to complete construction by the March 2025 deadline. During his Warangal visit, the CM also instructed officials to develop the city on par with Hyderabad and asked them to prepare a ‘Master Plan 2050’. CONTINUED ON P4
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