5 states account for 72% of direct tax Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, and Gujarat accounted for 72% of direct taxes and 53% of CGST collected by Centre, the govt said Top 5 five states southern contributed `14.2 lakh cr of the total `19.62 lakh cr collected in direct taxes hyderabad l Tuesday l march 11, 2025 l `9.00 l PAGES 16 l late city EDITION states — TN, Karnataka, T’gana, AP, Kerala — contributed 25% to direct taxes and 27% to Central GST The five southern states mentioned above received 15% from the Centre’s divisible tax pool | P14 Per capita income of six states Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh — exceed the national average of `1,88,892* UP, Bihar and MP got 36% of tax that Centre shares with states. They contributed 5% to total direct tax colllected by the Centre * Source: Economic Survey of Maharashtra 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 Fiery Day One as language Death to A-2 in Pranay ‘honour’ killing row explodes in Lok Sabha posed his daughter Amrutha’s inter-caste marriage to Pranay and orchestrated the murder, according to the prosecution. He had paid Asghar Ali, also an accused in the Hiren Pandya murder case, to carry out the killing. C h i t h a l u r i R e va n t h / A S e s h a c h a r y u l u @ Hyderabad/Nalgonda “suddenly some super CM appeared and they took a U-Turn”. THE three-language row hit ParThe minister said there is still liament proceedings on Monday time for the Tamil Nadu governas Opposition parties and the ment to sign the MoU on PM government clashed over the al- SHRI. “Today is March 10. We leged imposition of the ‘Hindi’ have still 20 days left in the month language through the National of March,” he said. Education Policy (NEP). Responding sharply to the House proceedings were ad- minister’s remarks, DMK MPs journed for half an hour walked into the Well of after DMK members the House and raised staged protests over Unslogans. Congress MPs, ion Education Minister too, stood up in solidarDharmendra Pradhan’s ity, though they didn’t remarks that the Tamil go to the Well of the Nadu government was House. Notably, mem‘dishonest’ on the issue bers from RJD, TMC and of implementing the PM SP did not join the DMK Schools for Rising India in their protests. Privilege (PM SHRI) scheme. Lok Sabha Speaker motion Replying to a quesOm Birla adjourned the tion, Pradhan said the House till 12 noon. As DMK MP TN government took a the House reconvened, Kanimozhi on U-turn on implementing DMK MP Kanimozhi Monday the centrally-sponsored said she was “very submitted a scheme, which envis- privilege motion pained” by a word Pradaged strengthening the against Pradhan, han used. “We have isschools managed by cen- accusing him of sues with the NEP The ... tral, state or local bod- ‘misleading the three-language formula ies. The minister said is not acceptable to House’ by that the state govern- making factually Tamil Nadu,” she said. ment had agreed to PM incorrect claims In his response, PradSHRI scheme and sevhan said he should not eral (DMK) MPs, who came to see have used a word for the memhim, conveyed this to him. bers of Tamil Nadu, the state “But when they went back, government, and its people. “I they made a U-turn. They are do- withdraw my word if it has hurt ing mischief with the life of the anyone,” he said. Following this, students. They are misleading the Speaker said the word will be the people and doing injustice to expunged from the records. students of Tamil Nadu. They Later, Kanimozhi said Pradare undemocratic,” he alleged. han’s claim, that the TN governPradhan said Tamil Nadu ment had agreed to sign the MoU Chief Minister M K Stalin had for the PM SHRI scheme but later also agreed initially but then took a U-turn, was incorrect. P r e e t h a N a i r @ New Delhi The II Additional District and Sessions Judge and Special Judge for SC/ST (POA) Act cases, N Roja Ramani, on Monday sentenced Subhash Sharma (Accused No. 2) to death for the murder of Perumalla Pranay in Miryalaguda on September 14, 2018. The court ruled that Sharma be hanged until death under Section 302 of the IPC, Section 3 (2) (v) of the SC/ST (POA) Act, and Section 27 (3) of the Indian Arms Act. Six other accused — Md Asghar Ali, Md Abdul Bari, Md Abdul Kareem, Thirunagaru Sravan Kumar, Samudrala Shiva and Md Case background File photo of P Pranay and Amrutha Nizam — were sentenced to life imprisonment. The prime accused, businessman Maruthi Rao (A-1), had died by suicide in March 2020, leading to the abatement of charges against him. Maruthi Rao had op- Amrutha, who was pregnant at the time, visited a hospital with her husband Pranay on September 14, 2018, when hired assailants attacked and killed Pranay with an 18-inch butcher knife. Following a complaint by Pranay’s father P Balaswamy the po, lice arrested the eight accused under the SC/ST Act and on murder charges.  Continued on P5 Govt directs IPL to ban ads Suspecting tax evasion, I-T teams raid Sri Chaitanya office, colleges promoting tobacco, alcohol Under the lens K a v i ta B a j e l i - D at t @ New Delhi I r e d d y S r i n i v a s R e d d y @ Hyderabad Income Tax officials on Monday carried out searches at the corporate office and branches of the Sri Chaitanya Group of educational institutions simultaneously in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Chennai, Bengaluru and Mumbai. As many as 30 teams of I-T sleuths descended on the group’s Madhapur corporate office and its branches in Hyderabad and went through the fee collection system, including the logbooks and accounts, cross-checking them with the Income Tax Returns filed by Sri Chaitanya for the last two years. I-T sources disclosed that the institution is suspected to have violated various rules regarding fee collection across all its branches. The I-T sleuths reportedly found that the group was collecting a major portion of the fee in cash using specialised software for internal purposes — this software programme allowed it to track fee collections and pending payments.  Continued on P5 Inside Hyd cops detain migrants, NIA books trafficking case | P3 Centre releasing only 30% of TG share of tax devolution: CM | P4 The Centre has urged the Indian Premier League (IPL) to ban all tobacco and alcohol advertisements, including surrogate promot i o n s, w i t h i n t h e stadium premises during matches as well as telecast sessions on the national television. In a letter to IPL Chairperson Arun Singh Dhumal, the Director General of Health Services (DGHS), Prof (Dr) Atul Goel said, “IPL should strictly implement the regulations banning all forms of tobacco/ alcohol advertising, includ- ing surrogate advertisements, within the stadium premises where IPL games are held”. He added it is their social and moral obligation to promote public health. “Cricket players are role models for youngsters for promoting a healthy, active lifestyle. IPL, being the largest sports platform in the country, has a social and moral obligation to promote public health and support health initiatives of the government,” Goel wrote in the letter dated March 5, which was also addressed to B CC I P r e s i d e n t Ro g e r Binny . Express Read Group-I Mains results available on TGPSC site Hyderabad: The Telangana Public Service Commission on Monday announced the Group-I Mains results. The provisional paper-wise marks for all the seven papers were released on the official website by TGPSC chairman B Venkatesham in commission’s office | P2 Canada PM-elect to reset ties with India New Delhi: In a big push to ties that had deteriorated during Justin Trudeau’s leadership, Mark Carney, set to become Canada’s next prime minister, has said he would work towards rebuilding his country’s ties with India. Carney emerged victorious in the race to succeed Trudeau as Canada’s next PM | P8