visakhapatnam l sunday l march 24, 2024 l `12.00 l PAGES 24 l late city EDITION cbi raids multiple premises of Moitra in cash-for-query scam The CBI conducted searches at various premises linked to Mahua Moitra, including her parents’ home in Kolkata, in the cash-for-query case trinamool calls the raid vendetta politics The CBI sleuths reached the Trinamool Congress leader’s home in Kolkata and other cities early in the morning and went to her party office in Krishnanagar in the evening. The TMC repeated her for the Lok Sabha poll from Krishnanagar. The party dubbed the raids as vendetta politics and a desperate attempt by the BJP to misuse central agencies ahead of the polls ■ 1st TIME CBI TO FILE REPORT WITHIN SIX MONTHS ■ A FIR was filed this week against Moitra on the directions of Lokpal, which has asked the CBI to file its report within six months Moitra has challenged her expulsion from Lok Sabha in the SC. She was expelled in December 2023 following the recommendation of Ethics Committee for sharing her login, password of NIC portal MAHUA MOITRA BECAME A LOK sABHA mp IN 2019 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 133 killed and counting in Moscow terror attack by IS group’s Afghanistan branch Yes h i se l i @ New Delhi Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Maan at an AAP protest condemning the arrest of his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, in New Delhi on Saturday | PTI HC rejects urgent hearing. Holi-day for Kejri with ED Comment by German foreign office on full legal access to the Delhi CM angers MEA the liquor policy scam. Of the proceed of crimes, `45 crore was used in the Goa polls. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind In a related development, the Kejriwal on Saturday suffered Ministry of External Affairs a fresh setback after the Delhi (MEA) bristled at a comment High Court rejected his appeal on Kejriwal by a spokesperson for urgent listing and hearing of Germany’s foreign office. “Kejriwal is entitled to fair against his remand in the liqand impartial trial. uor scam case. He was This includes that he remanded in the Enmakes use of all availforcement Directoable legal avenues rate’s custody till without restriction. Thursday by a local The presumption of court on Friday . innocence is a central The legal team of element of the rule of Aam Aadmi Party ‘Will come law and must apply to (AAP) national conout soon’ him,” the spokespervenor Kejriwal mentioned the matter be- “I will soon come son said. The MEA reacted out... Whether fore Justice Manmohan, Acting inside or outside, rather shar ply by Chief Justice. The every moment of summoning German envoy Georg Enzweilmy life is judge heard it though er and voicing its disdedicated to it was the court’s off approval. “The Gerserving the day but refused to list , country,” Kejriwal man Deputy Chief of it for urgent hearing. Mission in New Delhi was quoted as Since the Delhi High Court will be closed saying by his wife was summoned and for two days on Mon- Sunita in a video we conveyed India’s strong protest on their day and Tuesday due to the Holi festival, the earliest foreign office spokesperson’s Kejriwal’s plea can be listing comments on our internal affairs. We see it as undermining for hearing is Wednesday . The ED had alleged on Fri- the independence of our judiciday that Kejriwal generated ary,’’ said MEA spokesperson over `100 crore in kickbacks in Randhir Jaiswal. S u c h i t r a K a lya n M o h a n t y a n d Yes h i S e l i @ New Delhi At least 133 people were killed in a terrorist attack on a packed concert hall in western Moscow, Russian authorities said on Saturday. The Islamic State’s Afghanistan branch later claimed responsibility for the attack. Gunmen burst into Crocus City Hall in Moscow’s suburb of Krasnogorsk on Friday and randomly opened fire on people who had arrived to watch a concert by Russian band Picnic that was about to start. The attackers also set off a blaze that took firefighters hours to bring under control. Authorities said the toll could rise as investigators were combing through the charred wreck- Putin rejected warnings about attack, says US Rescuers clear charred wreckage inside Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on Saturday | AP The US Embassy in Moscow said it had warned Russia on March 7 that extremists were planning to target large gatherings in the city. But Russian President Vladimir Putin had called it a “provocative” statement and “outright blackmail... to intimidate and destabilise our society by scaring Russian citizens” age of the hall for more victims. Over 100 people have been injured and the condition of 44 of them is said to be serious. The Russian interior ministry said all four suspected gunmen were foreign nationals. Sources with links to the security services said they were from Tajikistan. One of the detained suspects reportedly told Russian investi- BJP MP Ramesh accused no. 1 in `450-crore forgery case E x p r ess Ne w s S e r v i c e @ Hyderabad BJP MP and industrialist from Andhra Pradesh, CM Ramesh, has been named accused number 1 in a forgery case involving a reported loss of `450 crore to actor Venu’s PCL Joint Venture company . The case came to light after Kavuri Bhaskar Rao, son of former Union minister Sambasiva Rao, appeared before the Central Crime Station here on Saturday to record his statement in relation to the incident. According to Venu’s complaint, which was originally registered at the Jubilee Hills police station in 2023, the PCL- Intertech Lenhydro Consortium Joint Venture had appointed Bhaskar Rao as its representative vide General Power of Attorney (GPA) in January 2002. Thereafter, the company entered into a contract with Tehri Hydro Development Corporation Limited (THDC) for execution of civil works at Te- hri Dam in Uttarakhand. As the GPA holder, Bhaskar Rao is the authorised signatory for all works related to the completion of the hydro project. However, Venu alleged that 10 months later, in November 2002, CM Ramesh, who is the authorised signatory of Rithwik Swathi Joint Venture (alleged to be a bogus company), forged the signatures of Bhaskar Rao in what is said to be a fabricated agreement. Meanwhile, Bhaskar Rao approached a forensics lab to verify if there was a forgery involved. The test reports allegedly showed that the signatures on the document in question were P4 indeed forged. G satyanarayana express read BJP finalises candidates for LS segments in AP? ‘India will ramp up assets to secure IOR’ Vijayawada: BJP has reportedly finalised the candidates who will contest the Lok Sabha segments in Andhra Pradesh, during the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting held in New Delhi on Saturday. The party is contesting the polls in the State in alliance with TDP & JSP | P4 New Delhi: With piracy rising in the Indian Ocean Region, the Indian Navy has enhanced its asset deployment and will continue to take “affirmative action” to secure the region, Navy chief Admiral R Hari Kumar said. As many as 35 pirates have been apprehended | P7 Crew of the USS Somerset explain features of the ship during the US-India Tri-Service exercise, Tiger Triumph, in the Port City The ship has been named in honour of the victims of 9/11 after a hijacked flight crashed in Stoneycreek Township, Somerset Chennai link to data analysis in IPL WHEN Gujarat Titans won the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the first time of asking in 2022, one person came in for special praise. Sandeep Raju, somebody who had played zero games for the franchise. But the role he played helped Hardik Pandya & Co. win the league. “I basically help the team with performance analytics,” he had said in an in-house video the franchise uploaded. “I help them look at data and come up with performance and strategies and I also help with recruiting talent.” Of course, none of this is new. All sports teams — franchise, clubs, countries across a Kasibugga range forest officials inspecting the spot where the farmers were killed in Vajrapukotturu mandal of Srikakulam district on Saturday I express Sloth bear mauls 2 ryots to death in Srikakulam E x p r ess Ne w s S e r v i c e @ Srikakulam Two farmers were killed and another was injured in a bear attack on the outskirts of Anakapalle village in Vajrapukotturu mandal in the district on Saturday. The deceased have been identified as Appikonda Kurma Rao (50) and Sidipalli Lokanatham (45). The injured farmer, Sidipalli Savitri, was shifted to Palasa Hospital. Forest Range Officer (FRO) A Murali Krishna Naidu said Lokanatham and his wife Savitri were working in their cashew orchard when the bear suddenly appeared and attacked them. Kurma Rao, who was working in the nearby farm, reached the spot on his tractor after hearing the couple’s cry for help. The bear dragged Rao from the driving seat and attacked him, too. aboard the uss somerset number crunching S wa r o o p S wa m i n at h a n @ Chennai gators he was recruited through Telegram and offered 5,00,000 rubles (`4.5 lakh) for his role. In his statement on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said 11 people have been detained. He also sought to link the attack to Ukraine, saying they were trying to escape to Ukraine through a ‘window’ prepared for them on the Ukrainian side of the border. But Ukraine denied any role in the carnage. Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined others in condemning the attack. “We strongly condemned the heinous terrorist attack.... India stands in solidarity with the government and the people of the Russian Federation in this hour of grief,” he P9 posted on X. the other analysts currently Sankar Rajagopal (former Punemployed by various IPL teams jab Kings, now with Jio) are is the city they call home? Chen- other names. Why is this the case? There nai (or a place in Tamil Nadu). Mumbai Indians have in their are multiple reasons but the most common answer is ranks Varun Narasimhan. that the ‘companies that Rajasthan Royals have Krishnan SeshadrinathSunday provide data analysts are headquartered in an. Sunrisers Hyderabad Special Chennai’, both within a have Gaurav SundararaRepresentational image 10km radius (SportsMeman. Lakshmi Naraywide variety of sport — employ anan has been associated chanics and Kadamba). In data analysts to give them that with Chennai Super Kings. a way this is what’s happening , extra one per cent. What, Shrinivas Chandrasekaran to the IPL teams. Because some though, links Raju with most of (Lucknow Super Giants) and teams still do not have separate data wings, what they essentially do is hire employees of Big team players these two companies for a fixed Even the Indian men’s cricket team have on their roster somebody who period every season. is associated with Chennai-based company Sports Mechanics (Hari This year alone, there are at Mohan, who hails from Coimbatore). Seshadrinathan was at StatDNA, least seven Tamil-speaking anArsenal’s analytics company when Arsene Wenger was the manager. alysts in IPL. The two-phase exercise focuses on humanitarian assistance, disaster relief readiness & enhancing interoperability | P3 WITH THIS ISSUE On hearing the commotion, locals in the village also reached the cashew orchard and attacked the bear with sticks and stones. They rescued Savitri after the bear fled. Unfortunately, Rao and Lokanatham died due to severe blood loss. Subsequently, Palasa-Kasibugga Range forest officials reached the spot and sounded a high alert in Anakapalli and neighbouring villages on receiving information about the bear attack. Forest officials handed over the bodies to their families after completing the post-mortem. Later, the bereaved family members and residents of Anakapalli staged a dharna, accusing the forest officials of “not taking any measures despite the frequent incursions of wild bears into human habP4 itations”. Packing a Punch PLUS 12 PAGES TTD EO to visit Sri Lanka on Mar 29 to finalise site for Srivari temple B M u r a l i @ Tirumala Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) executive officer (EO) AV Dharma Reddy is set to visit Sri Lanka to finalise the site where a temple of Lord Venkateswara Swamy will be built. He will leave for the island nation on March 29 and is expected to stay there for four to five days. He will also establish a permanent setup of the temple administration. According to senior TTD officials, a Sri Lanka-based Trust had approached the Union government through the Government of Sri Lanka, seeking help in the construction of a massive Hindu temple of Lord Ve n k a t e s w a r a i n t h e i r country . The TTD was apprised of the matter. Subsequently the Tem, ple Trust approved the construction of the temple in Colombo in a ste p towards disseminating Hindu dharma. Dharma Reddy was scheduled to leave for Sri Lanka on March 2, but it was postponed to March 26 and later to March 29, due to some administrative reasons. End of the financial year is often hectic for the Srivari Trust. According to TTD sources, once the site for the proposed temple is finalised and designs are prepared, the idols for the main temple and sub-temples will be provided by the TTD. They will be sculpted at the TTD-run Sri Venkateswara College of Traditional Sculpture and Architecture in Tirupati. The Trust will also provide temple motifs and other paraphernalia associated with the temple’s structure, administration, and rituals. Focus will reportedly be on creating an administrative set up for the proposed temple in the island country on the lines of the Srivari Temple Trust in Tirumala.
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