HYDERABAD  SUNDAY  SEPTEMBER 15, 2024  `12.00  PAGES 24  LATE CITY EDITION INDIA BEAT PAKISTAN, REACH SEMIS OF ASIAN CHAMPIONS TROPHY CAPTAIN HARMANPREET THE STAR AGAIN In a scintillating group match, in-form India captain Harmanpreet Singh once again was the star of the show after Pakistan scored the first goal through Ahmad Nadeem. However, the Olympic bronze medal winners drew level through two penalty corners converted by the India captain. This was Pakistan’s first loss in the tournament India recorded their fifth consecutive win in the six-team round robin league to storm into the semifinal. Pakistan too qualified for the semis INDIA SET TO FACE KOREA CHALLENGE ■ ■ In other matches, Malaysia and South Korea played out a 3-3 draw, while hosts China beat Japan 2-0 The defending champion, India, will take on Korea in one semifinal, while Pakistan will face hosts China in the other semifinal of the ACT hockey tournament 17 THE NUMBER OF MATCHES INDIA HAVE REMAINED UNBEATEN VS PAKISTAN 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 Cabinet to meet on Sept 20, discuss HYDRAA expansion Stalemate on amid high drama Didi visits protest site, calls for talks Docs yield on streaming, accept signing of minutes S U L A G N A S E N G U P TA @ Kolkata I R E D D Y S R I N I V A S R E D D Y @ Hyderabad Ordinance on statuory powers for HYDRAA soon To give statutory backing to the HYDRAA, the government will come out with an ordinance next month, HYDRAA Commissioner A V Ranganath said on Saturday. The powers under Water, Land and Trees (WALTA) Act, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, Irrigation Act etc will be delegated to the HYDRAA, said Ranganath while addressing a CREDAI meet on Saturday | P3 CHIEF Minister A Revanth Reddy will chair a meeting of the state Cabinet at the Secretariat on September 20 and discuss the expansion of HYDRAA to districts and also give it more teeth by according to it statutory status, well-placed sources said. Sources also said that the Cabinet will discuss promulgation of an Ordinance regarding HYDRAA as a precursor to introducing a Bill in the Assembly in the first or second week of October. The Cabinet is also expected to finalise a decision on issuing new ration and health cards and facilitate the state government to make an announcement to this effect. Sources revealed that the state Cabinet will discuss an Ordinance related to the district civil courts before introducing an amendment in the Legislative Assembly in October. In wake of the recent Telangana High Court directions on the BC census, the Cabinet is likely to discuss and make a decision on subclassification of reservations ahead of the local body elections. Also on the agenda of the Cabinet meeting would be the relief measures to those affected by the recent floods, the amount expected by the Centre as flood relief. If the Centre’s flood relief amount is not up to expectations, a high-level delegation is likely to visit Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and others and take up the issue with them. The Cabinet is also expected to discuss the 10-day Praja Palana programme to commence on September 17 as well as the grievances filed by the common public across the state. DYNASTY VS YOUTH IN J&K POLLS: MODI FAYAZ WA N I & HARPRE ET BAJ WA @ Srinagar, Chandigarh IN his first assembly election rally in J&K, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hit out the National Conference, the Congress and the PDP, saying the polls will decide the future of the region where militancy was taking its last breath. “This assembly poll in J&K is historic. It will decide the future of J&K. Since Independence, J&K was targeted by foreign powers. Afterward, pariwarwaad (dynastic rule) started hollowing this beautiful state. The political parties you trusted did not care for your children. Those parties only promoted their own children. Youth of J&K were suffering in terrorism and the parties promoting pariwarwaad were having fun by misleading you. These people never allowed new leaders to emerge anywhere in J&K,” Modi said at the rally . It was the first rally by any PM in Doda district in 42 years. He said parties indulging in pariwarwaad did not allow the local youth to come forward. However, after the local body polls about 30,000 youth joined politics and took the reins of J&K, he added. Modi framed the poll contest as between three families and the youth of J&K. “They were supporting militancy so that their shops worth crores of rupees run. Due to their sins, thousands of youth lost their lives. The Valley is witness to the bloodshed. You should remember the time when at sunset, there used to be an undeclared curfew. All shops and all activities used to come to halt. The situation was such that even the home minister in the Congress government were afraid of visiting Lal Chowk,” he said. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addressing a delegation of junior doctors, at her residence in Kolkata on Saturday | PTI CBI ADDS RAPE-MURDER CHARGE AGAINST GHOSH The CBI on Saturday slapped charges of rape and murder against the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh, currently in judicial custody in a corruption case. He has been held responsible for destruction of evidence and delay in lodging the FIR. The agency also arrested Abhijit Mondal, the officer in-charge of Tala Police Station, for alleged involvement in the rape-murder of a medic Centre de-notifies 368 hectares in FAB City SEZ E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Hyderabad THE Union government has de-notified 368.8 hectares of land in FAB City’s Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Raviryala village in Maheshwaram mandal of Rangareddy district. In order to set up a sector specific SEZ for manufacturing and developing semiconductor facilities along with a Free Trade and Warehousing Zone, the central government had approved FAB city in 2007. The Centre notified 120.06 hectares on January 15, 2007, 233.23 hectares on December 13, 2007 and 15.57 hectares on July 10, 2009 in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, totalling 434.86 hectares. Due to reasons not spelt out, the FAB City proposed de-notification of 368.9 hectors from SEZ and the state government had given approval to it on February 8, 2022. Following this, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has recently issued a gazette notification de-notifying SEZ land. After de-notifying 368.8 hectares from FAB City SEZ is now limited to only 66.06 hectares. , Meanwhile, the central government also denotified the entire area of 10.22 hectares in the Bio-technology SEZ at Genome Valley proposed , by the Telangana State Industrial Corporation CONTINUED ON P5 Limited (TGIIC). WITH THIS ISSUE THE GREAT MASALA MESS PLUS 12 PAGES NEW DESTINY Hanuman tale: Girls shine through sport I N D R A N E E L D A S @ Chennai HE was not in Bangaon. He was sitting in the stands at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai, watching his wards at the junior South Asian Athletics Championships here on Friday. Deepika, one of the most talented girls from his village and academy was hurling , the javelin towards a new mark. In second spot was Poonam, ‘another talented girl’, according to Hanuman Singh. One can sift through pages of records in various junior level events in the country and names of javelin athletes from Hanuman’s academy will fea- Hanuman Singh ture in them all. Deepika, his more famed ward, threw the javelin to 54.98m in the junior SAAC here, creating national record. “Girls from my academy are record holders in U14, U18, U20 and even U23,” Hanuman says. For someone who started an academy in a poultry farm way back in 2012, the rise of his wards has been more than just a miracle. It’s been an amalgamation of hard-work, dedication and one ingredient that transcends reason – passion. It was difficult in the early days too. “It was not easy back then - some 12 years ago - to convince parents to allow their girls to take up javelin,” recollects Hanuman, who was a national-level thrower. “It was difficult because girls needed to keep short hair and not wear jewellery during training.” With more throwers doing well, parents are now coming on their own to his ‘My Jump and Throw Academy’. MORE ON P11 NEXT TARGET The coach has acquired some four acres of land and is hoping to set up a proper academy there. He would like to set up a synthetic runup track for the throwers. He hopes he will be able to get funding from sponsors and federations AMID high drama, the stalemate in talks between the agitating doctors and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee continued for the fourth successive day on Saturday. Junior doctors had launched their cease work agitation ever since the horrific rape-murder of a trainee physician at the RG Kar Hospital in the city on August 9. If Mamata seized the initiative in the afternoon by making a surprise visit to the protest site outside Swasthya Bhawan in Salt Lake, the agitating doctors sought to wrest it back at night by sending a delegation to the CM’s house but staying firm on their demand of live telecast of their talks. Later the delegation claimed they “agreed for talks with just signed minutes of the meeting but were asked to leave”. “When we came here, we had demanded video recording or live streaming of the talks. It was not allowed. Then the CM came out and appealed to us to join the talks, promising that we would receive the minutes of the meeting. We discussed among ourselves and agreed to join the talks,” the doctor said. “When we conveyed this to Minister of State for Health Chandrima Bhattacharya, we were told to leave because it was too late and they had been waiting for us for three hours. We were unceremoniously told to leave,” the doctor said. Earlier, Mamata tried to persuade the delegation of doctors to enter her house for talks. “I would request you all to come inside and attend the meeting. As the matter is before the court, we cannot allow live streaming. I will video-record the meeting and provide you with a copy only after permission from the Supreme Court,” she said, while appealing to students to come inside and not to get drenched in rain. “Today, you said that you want a meeting, so I have been waiting. Why are you people insulting me like this? Please don’t insult me like this. Earlier on the three occasions, I have been waiting but you people didn’t come,” she said. At the dharna site, Mamata made an impassioned pitch, assuring she would address all their grievances and not take any action against them. “You all have suffered a lot in this inclement weather. I have come here not as a CM but as your didi. If you give me some time I will study your demands and see what best can be done.” GOVT MAY SIMPLIFY GHMC TAX SYSTEM Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has reportedly instructed the officials concerned to look into simplification of property tax, water bills and others in GHMC limits | P3