tirupati l sunday l july 21, 2024 l `12.00 l PAGES 24 l late city EDITION Oly Prep: ministry spends `470 crore in 16 sports disciplines India have qualified to participate at the Paris Olympics Archery Athletics Badminton Boxing funding TopS core group: 5 Development group: 10 funding TopS core group: 23 Development group: 13 funding TopS core group: 10 Development group: 15 funding TopS core group: 9 Development group: 20 J39.18 cr J96.08 cr J72.03 cr J60.93 cr Equestrian J95L funding TopS c ore group: 2 Golf J1.74 cr funding TopS c ore group: 4 Development group: 2 Hockey J41.30 cr Judo J6.33 cr Rowing J3.89 cr funding funding funding TopS core group: 33 TopS core group: 9 TopS core group: 3 Note: Elite athletes in TOPS core group; rest in development Sailing Swimming Table Tennis funding TopS core group: 2 funding TopS core group: 1 Development group: 1 funding TopS core group: 5 Development group: 10 J3.78 cr J3.90 cr J12.92 cr Tennis Weightlifting funding TopS core group: 3 funding TopS core group: 2 Development group: 6 J1.67 cr J27 cr Shooting Wrestling funding TopS core group: 25 Development group: 20 funding TopS core group: 10 Development group: 15 J60.42 cr J37.80 cr 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 As Godavari swells, high alert sounded in nearby districts City-wise result of NEET-UG declared by NTA E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Rajamahendravaram E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ New Delhi The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday released the the centre and city-wise results for NEET-UG, following a Supreme Court order to do so. Interestingly, data from a retest centre at Hardayal Public School in Haryana showed significant score drops, indicating stricter controls in the re-exam process. The highest score in the retest was 682, compared to multiple perfect scores previously Only 13 can. didates of the centre in Haryana’s Jhajjar managed to score more than 600 marks. As many as 67 students across the country had scored a perfect 720, unprecedented in the testing agency’s history, with six from the centre in Haryana figuring in the list. It raised suspicions about irregularities at the centre. The servers of the result website crashed on Saturday in the afternoon due to heavy traffic but recovered later. A few complaints were received from students and parents about missing exam results at centres where they had appeared for the exam. Meanwhile, the CBI on Saturday made three more arrests in the paper leak case, including two MBBS students from a medical college in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur and one B Tech (Electrical) graduate from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, officials said. The CBI has so far arrested 21 accused in six cases related to the alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG exam. express read State govt transfers 62 IAS officers Vijayawada: In a major reshuffle, the State government on Saturday transferred and allotted posts to as many as 62 IAS officers. The orders were issued by Chief Secretary Neerabh Kumar Prasad | P4 CPM wants to ease stance on faith? T’Puram: After its poll debacle, the CPM in Kerala is set to take a more liberal stance on matters of faith and beliefs. Marking a major shift from its position, it plans to offer support and legitimacy to its members who are believers | P5 WITH THIS ISSUE Beauty and the Best PLUS 12 PAGES MID SEA fire Smoke billows after a fire broke out on a merchant vessel off the Goa coast. The fire was put out after more than 24 hours. One crew member is missing. The Coast Guard carried out fire-fighting operations on the Maersk Frankfurt vessel, which was carrying hazardous materials such as benzene and sodium cyanate | PTI Shoot-at-sight fiat out in Bangladesh Entire country under curfew with army patrolling cities A g en c i e s @ Dhaka Police imposed a strict curfew with shoot-at-sight orders across Bangladesh as military forces patrolled parts of the capital on Saturday after scores were killed and hundreds injured in clashes over reservation of government jobs. The curfew began at midnight and was relaxed from noon to 2 pm for people to run essential errands, and is expected to last until 10 am on Sunday. The demonstrations started weeks ago to protest a quota system that reserves up to 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971. Violence erupted on Tuesday , with the Daily Prothom Alo newspaper reporting the death of at least 103 people. Friday was the deadliest day so far with Somoy TV reported 43 killed, while an Associated Press reporter saw 23 bodies at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. Local media also reported that some 800 inmates fled from a prison in Narsingdi, a district north of Dhaka, after protesters stormed the facility and set it on fire on Friday . Hundreds of thousands of people had battled police across the capital on Friday, police spokesman Faruk Hossain said. “At least 150 police officers were admitted to hospital. Another 150 were given first aid treatment,” he said, adding two officers were beaten to death. “The protesters torched many police booths... Many gover nment of fices were torched and vandalised.” The army has been deployed nationwide to control the law and order situation — Shahdat Hossain, armed forces spokesman Exodus continues, over 950 students cross over to India E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Guwahati The exodus of Indian, Nepalese and Bhutanese students from strife-torn Bangladesh continues with over 950 students entering India through the Meghalaya and Tripura borders so far. “In the past three days, a total of 856 people from India, Nepal and Bhutan, mostly students, have crossed over to the country from Bangladesh through Dawki, an India-Bangladesh border town in the West Jaintia Hills district,” a senior home department official said. Besides, around 100 students returned to India through two integrated checkposts in Tripura. Thomas Gamaliyen, a security officer at the Dawki Land Port, told this newspaper the Meghalaya government provided a bus to drop the students at the Inter State Bus Terminus at Mawpat on the outskirts of Shillong but not many availed the service which is available once a day “They . are coming to Dawki in groups on Bangladeshi taxis and buses. Immediately thereafter, they hire cars to go to Shillong or Guwahati. We help them in hiring the vehicles,” Gamaliyen said. Suspect in Nandyal rape case ‘jumps to death’ E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Kurnool IN a fresh twist to the case pertaining to the alleged rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Muchumarri of Nandyal district, a 35-year-old man, who was nabbed by the police for questioning, died while being shifted to a police station on Saturday . The deceased, identified as Hussain, was a native of Muchumarri and residing in Nandikotkur town. He was the uncle of one of the three minor boys, who allegedly had confessed to the police of committing the crime and pushing the girl’s body into a canal in the village. Nandyal Superintend- ent of Police (SP) Adhiraj Singh Rana told this newspaper that Hussain, who was suffering from a heart ailment, was being taken to the police station for questioning. “Hussain attempted to escape from the police. In the process, he fell from the jeep,” the SP said. Hussain was shifted to the Nandyal Government General Hospital, where he succumbed while undergoing treatment. Police suspect Hussain’s involvement in concealing the body of the victim after the minors allegedly killed her. Midthur Police registered a case over the death of Hussain and launched an inquiry . Earlier in the day they were , reports that it was a case of lockup death. However, the police have denied the same. Meanwhile, search for the minor’s body continued in the River Krishna. The girl had gone missing on July 7. Three days later, police took the three minor boys into custody for allegedly raping and killing the girl. The trio told investigators that they disposed the body in the River Krishna. A search operation to trace the girl’s body was launched on July 10. However, the police are yet to achieve any breakthrough in the case. Not a case of lockup death: SP Earlier, they were reports that it was a case of lockup death. But the police have denied the same. “Hussain attempted to escape from the police. In the process, he fell from the jeep,” the SP said. Hussain died at the Nandyal govt hospital Water level in the River Godavari continued to rise following heavy inflows from the upper catchment areas in Odisha, Telang ana and Maharashtra, prompting officials to sound an alert in Eluru, Alluri Sitarama Raju, East and West Godavari disticts. As a result of the incessant rainfall and subsequent flooding, several villages in the Godavari districts have reported crop damage. The water level at the Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage reached 10.8 ft on Saturday with about 4.09 lakhs cusecs water being discharged into the sea. The inflows are likely to cross 5 lakhs cusecs on Sunday Officials said . the first warning will be issued at the barrage, once it receives inflows at the rate of 10 lakh cusecs. They added that it will take four to five days for the inflows to touch 10 lakh cusecs, if the heavy rains continue in the upper catchment areas. In Alluri Sitarama Raju district, Collector AS Dinesh Kumar has warned of potential flooding in Chintur division due to the downpour and surge in inflows from upstream catchment areas. A high alert was also sounded in Yetapaka, VR Puram, Velerupadu, Kukkunuru and Devipatnam mandals as they are prone to floods. Officials have been instructed to remain vigilant in flood-affected regions and implement relief and rehabilitaP3 tion measures. situation reviewed Minister for Home and Disaster Response Management Vangalapudi Anitha directed Collectors to carry out rehabilitation measures in rain hit areas to avoid untoward incidents Get funds from Centre, Naidu tells MPs E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada TDP supremo and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu asked his party MPs to strive for getting support for the State from the Centre rather than focussing on ‘irrelevant’ issues like YSRC president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s proposed protest in N ew D e l h i s ch e d u l e d o n Wednesday . Naidu chaired the Telugu Desam Parliamentary Par ty (TDPP) meeting at his residence in Undavalli on Saturday Inter. estingly he also , invited his Cabinet colleagues to the TDPP meeting and attached each MP to a Minister of the State government so that they can work in tandem to resolve issues in their departments concerned at the Central government level. “I will review your performance in terms of how much funds you have secured, the projects and approvals received from the Centre once every three months,” Naidu told the P4 MPs. Jagan’s invite YSRC chief YS Jagan has invited all political parties to join his protest in New Delhi
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