SpaceX launches mission to bring back Sunita williams Falcon 9 rocket carrying Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov on board, leaving two seats empty for Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. The spacecraft will return with all four in February 2025. By then, Williams and Wilmore will have logged over eight months in space | AFP hyderabad l Monday l September 30, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l 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 ‘Would have given Pak more money than IMF...’ disbursement. “I am saying to my Pakistani defence Minister Rajnath friends, why are you keeping disSingh on Sunday said that India tance from us. You are our neighcould have given a larger bailout bouring country. Our beloved package to Pakistan than what it leader and former Prime Minisis begging from the IMF, had Is- ter Atal Bihari Vajpayee used to lamabad maintained say that you can change the friendly relations with friends but not the neighNew Delhi. bours,” Singh said. “The money that PaThe defence minister kistan is begging from said that whatever monIMF, our government ey the central governhas spent more money ment spends in J&K, it than that in Jammu and Rajnath Singh is for the region’s develKashmir,” Singh said opment and to improve while addressing an election ral- the living standard of people. ly in border area of Gurez, close “In contrast, Pakistan has to the Line of Control in Jammu been misusing the financial and Kashmir on Sunday . assistance granted to it by othThe IMF recently approved $7 er countries. After taking billion to Pakistan under a 37- money, Pakistan is running a month loan programme, with $1 f a c t o r y o f t e r r o r i s m , ” billion earmarked for immediate he said. F AYA Z W A N I @ Srinagar J&K polls Campaigning ends for final phase PARTIES IN The FRAY BJP 40 seats up for grabs Voting on: Oct 1 415 no. of candidates MAJOR ISSUES Statehood Congress Article 370 NC Jobs PDP Power tariff Results: October 4 Won’t die till Modi is removed: Kharge Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, 83, on Sunday fell unwell while addressing a poll rally in Kathua. After receiving medical attention, he said he is fine and won’t die till Prime Minister Narendra Modi is removed from power. Metro P-II DPRs to be ready After Nasrallah, soon for state govt’s approval Qaouk killed in E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e Miyapur The detailed project reports (DPRs) for the Hyderabad Metro Rail second phase will be finalised in the next few weeks for approval of the state government. Once the government accepts them, the DPRs will be forwarded for the approval of the Central government. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy reviewed the progress of preparation of Metro Rail phase two DPRs with senior officials of the municipal administration department a few days ago. Hyderabad Airport Metro Limited (HAML) MD NVS Reddy made a detailed presentation, explaining the alignment, salient features, station locations etc., of the Metro second phase corridors. He informed the CM that DPRs for all the corridors were being given final touches and that HAML was awaiting the traffic study report of the Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP) being prepared for the Hyderabad Metropolitan Area by HMDA. The traffic projections for Metro corridors have to be cross-checked with CMP, as a mandatory requirement for submission of DPRs for the approval of the Central government. NVS Reddy also mentioned that as decided in an earlier review meeting held by the CM, the airport Metro alignment is now being finalised Inside Israeli airstrike Patancheru @ Hyderabad vii I Raidurg Ameerpet Jubilee Bus station III ii HYDERABAD Kokapet Neopolis V vi M.G. Bus station Nagole LB N Falaknuma iV phase i (commissioned) a ga r VIII Hayat Nagar Corridor I: Miyapur- LB Nagar 29 km; 27 stns Corridor II: Jubilee Bus station- LB Nagar- MGBS 11 km; 10 stns Corridor III: Nagole- Raidurg 29 km; 23 stns RGIA Proposed P-II Corridors Corridor iv: Nagole- Chandrayangutta-RGIA 36.6 km; 24 stns Corridor V: Raidurg- Kokapet Neopolis 11.6 km; 10 stns Corridor VI: MGBS- Chandrayangutta 7.5 km; 6 stns Metro Rail Interchange Corridor VII: Miyapur- Patancheru 13.4 km; 10 stns Corridor VIII: LB Nagar- Hayat Nagar 7.1 km; 6 stns RGIA-Fourth City (Skill University) 40 km; 9 stns via Aramghar and the New High Court location on National Highway 44 (Bengaluru Highway) to reach Rajiv Gandhi Inter national Airport, Shamshabad. Metro connectivity is also being planned from the airport to the Fourth City via Mansanpally Rd, and the ORR stretch between Pedda Golconda exit and Raviryal exit. This line will have a length of about 40 km from Shamshabad airport to the Skill University location in Fourth City. This will have about two km of underground portion within the airport area; elevated portion of about 20 km; and ‘ t Grade’ (road level) A portion of about 18 km. The ‘ t A Grade’ portion of 18 km from govt aim is to uplift poor, not Tomato pricees shoot up `100 demolishto s | P2 dueege them: sridhar | P4 Reckless demolitions `100 Tomato pricees shoot upin hyderabad must stop | P6 dueege to s | P2 Stunning blow to Hezbollah’s command structure as 7th high-profile leader eliminated Skill University ORR Raviryal exit to Skill University will be designed as a part of the new greenfield 300 ft road. As per the special emphasis being laid by the CM, the DPR is being prepared for the Fourth City Metro connectivity line in an innovative way and will be submitted to the Central government for its approval separately after a few months. The entire phase II project is expected to cost about `32,237 crore including around `8,000 crore for the Fourth City Metro connectivity (` 24,237 crore + `8,000 crore). The project is proposed to be implemented as a joint venture of the state and Central governments like most other Metro rail projects in other cities in the country . continued on p3 case against activist who got k’taka cm in trouble | P5 Israel and its citizens,” Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a Two days after Hezbollah suf- post on X. In the post announcfered its biggest blow in recent ing his death, IDF warned that times in the loss of its long- it will continue to strike and time chief Hassan eliminate the HezbolNasrallah, another lah commanders. high-profile leader of Hezbollah also conthe Lebanese group firmed on Sunday that was killed in an Israeli another senior comair strike on Sunday . mander Ali Karaki Nabil Qaouk, the was among those deputy head of Hezkilled along with Nasbollah’s Central Counrallah in Friday’s atcil was the seventh Sheik Nabil Qaouk tack. Among other senior Hezbollah leadsenior figures killed Iran seeks er to be killed in Israerecently are Nasralli attacks in a little UNSC meet lah’s right-hand man over a week. HezbolFuad Shukr, head of Iran on lah has confir med Sunday sought a the elite Radwan Force Qaouk’s death. He was Ibrahim Aqil. meeting of the killed in a targeted United Nations Israel has stepped strike on Beirut on Security Council up its attacks on LebaSunday . non in recent days, to discuss the Qaouk was one of carrying out a number killing of the earliest members Hezbollah leader of air strikes on tarof Hezbollah and led gets in southern LebaHassan the force against Isranon and other parts of Nasrallah and el in the 2006 war. Israel’s ongoing the country . Since 2020, he was unRe por ts quoting attacks on der US sanctions for Lebanon’s health minLebanon his involvement in istry said 50 people Hezbollah’s activities. were killed on Sunday “Qaouk was close to Hezbol- in Israeli raids in Baalbek-Herlah’s senior commanders and mel. Israel said it hit over 120 was directly engaged in terror- Hezbollah targets in the latest ist attacks against the State of attacks. P9 A g en c i e s
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