Hamas nod for truce proposal to halt war Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Monday informed Qatar and Egypt that his group accepts their proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza. Details of the proposal were not immediately released. But Egyptian and Hamas officials have said the ceasefire would take place in stages and Hamas would release hostages in exchange for Israel troop pullout from Gaza. There was no immediate reaction from Israel, which did not send a delegation to Cairo tirupati l tuesday l may 07, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 54 l anantapur EDITION Modi guarantees development in AP CM says YSRC fulfilled 99% promises E x press re a d ECI appoints Harish Kumar Gupta as new DGP, transfers Anantapur range DIG Vijayawada: A day after Director General of Police (DGP) Kasireddy Rajendranath Reddy was transferred, the Election Commission of India (ECI) appointed the 1992 batch IPS officer Harish Kumar Gupta as the new State police chief on Monday. The poll panel also issued orders to transfer Anantapur range deputy inspector general of police (DIG) RN Ammi Reddy | P4 TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu & Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Prajagalam public meeting in Rajupalem, Anakapalle | Express Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy greeting the public during an election rally at Repalle in Bapatla district on Monday | Express ECI defers proposals to disburse aid for farmers and Vidya Deevena scheme PM accuses CM: Seeds of YSRC & Cong development of corruption will bear fruits Vijayawada: The Election Commission of India (ECI) issued instructions to the Revenue Department to defer depositing `847.22 crore towards input subsidy for farmers, whose crops were damaged due to drought during 2023 Kharif season. Similarly, the poll panel also deferred the proposal to disburse `610.79 crore aid to students under Vidya Deevena scheme | P4 E x p ress Ne w s S er v i c e @ Rajamahendravaram/Anakapalle E x p ress Ne w s S er v i c e @ Vijayawada Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a scathing attack on the YSRC and Congress, accusing them of indulging in rampant corruption. Speaking at NDA’s election rallies at Vemagiri in Rajamahendravaram and Rajupalem in Anakapalle on Monday Modi , said both parties are cut from the same cloth. Citing the seizure of ‘mountains of cash’ at the house of a servant of the personal secretary of Jharkhand Rural Development minister and Congress leader Alamgir Alam, the Prime YSRC had a chance Minister wondered why such persons to prove its mettle were “close to the Congress first fam- during the 5 years, ily He further quipped, “They (Con- but it wasted time .” gress) have turned the worker’s house and let the State’s potential go to a godown of corruption.” waste. There was Pointing out that this is not the zero development, first time such a huge cash haul has and 100% been reported, Modi recalled, “Earcorruption lier also a big sum of cash was seized Narendra Modi, PM at an MP’s residence in Jharkhand. The catch was so huge, even machines were tired of counting.” Demanding to know if the money was stacked in the godown to supply it, he said, “The country wants to know from Congress Shehzada (referring to Rahul Gandhi), if the party’s first family has established P6 warehouses of black money .” Asserting that May 13 will decide the fate of Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday appealed to the people to think about what the TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu “had not done” for them and the State when he served as chief minister for 14 years and what he (Jagan) had done in the last 59 months. He said: “If you believe in Naidu, it will be like awakening Chandramukhi to suck your blood. It will be like putting your head in the mouth I have doubts about the fair of Anaconda.” conduct of polls. Addressing election rallies at Delivery of welfare Repalle in Bapatla district, Machschemes is being erla in Palnadu district, and Machilobstructed and ipatnam in Krishna district, he said officials are being a vote for TDP in the next week’s transferred. All of election will put a full stop to the this seems aimed plethora of welfare schemes, while at me choosing YSRC will help continue YS Jagan, CM the saga. Elucidating that he planted saplings of happiness in every household, took care of their welfare, and development of the State five years ago, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy asserted that they will grow into most remarkable trees and bear fruits in the next 10 to 15 years, elevating the lives P4 of the poor on a very big scale. Lieutenant Governor of Delhi V K Saxena on Monday recommended a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, citing an allegation that his Aam Aadmi Party received funding from the banned pro-Khalistan group, Sikhs for Justice. Stakes high for Kharge, BSY, NCP in Phase 3 of polls RAJESH KUMAR THAKUR and Devaraj B Hirehalli @ New Delhi/ Bengaluru The electoral fate of half-a-dozen Union ministers and two former chief ministers will be sealed on Wednesday in the third phase of the general elections is 93 constituencies in 11 states and Union territories. The BJP sees the third phase as one of consolidation as compared to the first two phases. Prominent among the heavyweight candidates in this phase are Union home minister Amit Shah in Gandhinagar, Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya (Porbandar), civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia (Guna), former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh (Rajgarh), NCP (Sharadchan- dra Pawar)’s Supriya Sule (Baramati) and Adhir Ranjan Choudhary (Berhampur). In Karnataka, the last of the 14 seats will go to polls in what is being seen as a high-stakes battle for Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. For, most of the seats are in North Karnataka, regarded as his home turf. The elections are also crucial for former chief minister B S Yediyurappa, whose son Vijayendra is the state BJP president. Prominent among those in the fray are former CMs Basavaraj Bommai (Haveri) and Jagadish Shettar (Belgaum), Union ministers Pralhad Joshi (Dharwad) and Bhagwant Khuba (Bidar), Yediyurappa’s son Raghavendra (Shivamogga) and Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishna Doddamani (Gulbarga SC). L 30 crore and counting ED officials counting cash to the tune of over `30 crore recovered from the premises of Jahangir Alam, the domestic help of Jharkhand minister Alamgir Alam’s secretary Sanjiv Lal, in Ranchi | pti India’s medical support for Paris Olympics S w ar o o p s w am i n atha n @ Mumbai THE Indian Olympic Association (IOA) have made elaborate plans to take a battery of support staff including a sleep therapist and a small army of physiotherapists to help the Indian contingent at the Paris Games. Unlike in the previous Games, they will also get a fullfledged recovery room. The advantages include cryotherapy chambers and ice baths to help athletes recover faster in their quest for Olympic glory . “This year,” Dinshaw Pardiwala, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the delegation, said, “the IOA took the decision to have a proper medical team like some of the bigclusive ger squads (Germany, US and Japan). What used to happen is our physiotherapists used to be there, we did have a physician who would help with services but we didn’t have a full (medical) team. Whenever somebody had an injury, they would do an MRI and contact me here. But it’s difficult to do it online.” The well-equipped recovery room will be a first-of-its-kind for Indian athletes. “When you are doing high-level sports, you require a full support system,” Pardiwala, who has mended the bones of almost every medal-winning Indian Olympian in the 21st century said. , Additional 40 pages with this edition Delhi L-G calls for NIA probe against Kejri A sh i sh sr i v asta v a @ New Delhi The L-G’s recommendation comes amid the Supreme Court’s indication that it may consider giving bail to Kejriwal in view of the Lok Sabha polls. In a letter written to the Union home ministry, the L-G said his recommendation is based on a complaint he received about the AAP receiving $16 million from Khalistani groups for facilitating the release of Devendra Pal Bhullar, who was convicted for his role in the 1993 blast in Delhi. The complaint mentioned by the L-G was filed by Ashoo Mongia, the national general secretary of the World Hindu Federation, referring to a video in which Khalistani leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun mentioned that the AAP took money from pro-Khalistani groups between 2014 and 2022.
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