Kyiy targets moscow with 34 drones Russia said it downed 34 Ukrainian attack drones targeting Moscow, the largest attempted attack on the capital since 2022. It forced the temporary closure of three airports. The picture on the left shows a car damaged in the attack. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched 145 drones at Ukraine overnight | AFP | p9 tirupati l monday l november 11, 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 express read PK flags axing of trees during ex-CM’s outings Vijayawada: Taking exception to several trees being felled in the State before the scheduled visits of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, when he was Chief Minister, Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan said action will be taken under WALTA Act against those who axed trees | P4 Justice Sanjiv Khanna to take over as CJI today Justice Khanna will succeed Justice D Y Chandrachud, who retired on Sunday. He will be the 51st Chief Justice of India and his tenure will end on May 13, 2025 | P7 Govt to table budget for last quarter of FY25 today S G u r u S r i k a n t h @ Vijayawada The State government is set to table the budget for the last four months of the financial year 2024-25 (DecemberMarch) in the Legislative Assembly on Monday The Busi. ness Advisory Committee (BAC) will decide the duration of the Assembly session. After getting approval from the State Cabinet on Monday , the Minister of Finance Pay yav u l a Ke s h av w i l l present the budget in the Assembly According to sources, . the outlay of the full-fledged budget is expected to be between `2.7 lakh crore and `2.9 lakh crore, with a focus on covering expenditures for the last quarter of the current fiscal year. Allocations for welfare programmes and promises made in the election manifesto, in- cluding the Super Six guarantees, are likely to be announced. Budgetary provisions will also be made for Deepam 2.0 scheme, which was launched on Diwali day (October 31). Additionally, significant allocations are expected for Amaravati, Polavaram, and other crucial infrastructure projects. Ahead of the elections, the previous government, led by YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, had introduced a vote-on-account with an outlay of `2.86 lakh crore. A sum of `1,09,052 crore was approved for the period from April to July . An ordinance was promulgated on July 31, allowing the TDP-led NDA government to allocate funds for four months from August 1 to November 30. With an outlay of `1.29 lakh crore, the Andhra Pradesh Appropriation (Voteon-Account No. 2) Ordinance, 2024 covered grants allocated to 40 gover nment departments. Besides the budget, key bills, including Land Grabbing Act (Prohibition) 1982 Repeal Bill, AP Judicial Preview Act Repeal Bill, new Land Grabbing (Prohibition) 2024 Bill, are likely to be tabled during the Assembly P4 session.  Army officer killed during encounter in Jammu F AYA Z W ANI @ Srinagar A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Indian Army was killed in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu’s Kishtwar district on Sunday . “Based on specific intelligence input regarding the presence of terrorists, a joint operation was launched by security forces in Bhart Ridge, Kishtwar. Contact was established and fight ensued,” the Army’s Jammu-based White Knight Corps said in a post on X. During the gunfight, JCO Rakesh Kumar of 2 Para (SF) was killed and three para commandos were injured, Army officials said. “A group of three to four militants are trapped in the area. It is the same group that had abducted and killed two village defence guards in Kishtwar two days ago,” an official said. More troops have been rushed to the area to strengthen the siege. Forces are using drones and other surveillance equipment to track down the terrorists hiding in the dense forest. In all, three encounters took place in Jammu and Kashmir since Saturday night. In another incident, security forces and terrorists exchanged fire in the forest area of Zabar- wan in Ishber Nishat in Srinagar. The gunfight erupted after terrorists fired indiscriminately at a search party comprising police, CRPF and Army personnel, an official said. The security agencies suspect two or three terrorists are hiding in the forest area of Zabarwan. Earlier, a terrorist was killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in the Rajpora area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Nijjar’s aide Arsh Dalla arrested by Canadian police Dalla, designated as a terrorist by India, nabbed over a shooting incident in Ontario Police. Incidentally, the Punjab Police confirmed they have arCanadian police have de- rested two members of Dalla’s tained Arshdeep Singh Gill ali- Canada-based gang in Mohali as Arsh Dalla, a close aide of for their alleged involvement in slain Khalistani terrorist Hard- the murder of a Sikh activist eep Singh Nijjar, in connection last month. with a shootout case, sources The Delhi Police had said last said on Sunday. The Union year that Dalla has links with home ministry had designated inter national terror outfit Dalla as a terrorist Lashkar-e-Taiba and Wanted under the Unlawful Pakistan’s Inter-Servin India Activities Prevention ices Intelligence Act (UAPA) last year. The Punjab Police (ISI). Government sourcHe is a key member said preliminary es said New Delhi of extremist groups investigations would not seek his ex- revealed Arsh Dalla Khalistan Tiger Force tradition as ties with (KTF) and the Intertasked Navjot Canada are cold after Singh alias Neetu, national Sikh Youth the latter’s accusation Federation (ISYF). He a resident of of India’s involve- Kharar, Punjab, to lives in Surrey in ment in the killing of Canada’s British Cotarget Gurpreet Nijjar. “Extradition is lumbia province with Singh Hari Nau, going to be tough, as his wife and a minor who runs a under the present sitdaughter. YouTube channel uation it is going to be under the name of In a Facebook post, almost impossible. Dalla had taken reHari Nau Talks And also, the Canadisponsibility for the an authorities have not arrest- murder of an electrician, Paraed him so far, only detained mjeet Singh, from Punjab’s Jahim,” an official said. graon. His associates had shot According to intelligence of- dead Manohar Lal, a Dera Sacha ficials, information related to Sauda follower in November Dalla’s detention in Ontario 2020. He was also involved in came shortly after reports of hatching a conspiracy to kidhis involvement in a shootout nap and kill Shakti Singh, anon October 28. He was detained other Dera Sacha Sauda on Sunday by Halton Regional follower. M UKE S H RAN J AN @ New Delhi Trump wins all seven US swing states, bags 312 electors in all Ag e n c i e s US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday added Arizona to the list of states he won. With that, the Republican has beaten his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in all seven battleground states. The seven battle g round states in this election cycle were Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. The victory in Arizona took Trump’s electoral college tally to 312 against 226 of Vice President Harris. Arizona holds 11 electoral college votes. In 2020, President Joe Biden became the first Democrat to win Arizona since Bill Clinton in 1996. Trump has now flipped it back. Arizona is the sixth state Trump has flipped from Biden’s Electoral College victory in 2020. He campaigned heavily on border security, immigration and crime committed by illegal immigrants on the trail, all issues that resonated in the state with a record influx of migrants last year. Trump pledged mass deportations, promoted hiring an additional 10,000 border agents to patrol the US-Mexico border and promised to use some of the military budget for border funding.