Gold price to hit `80,650 per 10 gms Gold price on Monday surged `750 to hit `80,650 per 10 grams (99.5% purity), while silver zoomed `5,000 to `99,500 per kg in the national capital. Bullion traders attributed the jump in gold prices to pick-up in buying by local jewellers to meet rising demand in the festive and wedding season. Experts tracking the commodities market said the price escalation is also driven by the rising tensions in West Asia tirupati l tuesday l october 22, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l late city EDITION 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 Amaravati Drone Summit to begin today Express News Service ChinA karakoraM Pass Siachin Glacier AKSAI CHIN Y JunCtion, Depsang daulat BeG oldi Both sides arrive at patrolling deal on LAC Y e s h i S e l i a n d M aya n k S i n g h @ New Delhi @ Vijayawada Amaravati Drone Summit should establish proper guidelines for the development of the drone sector in the State, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu remarked during a meeting at the Secretariat on Monday . He reviewed arrangements for the two-day drone summit with Investments and Infrastructure Development Minister BC Janardhan Reddy Secre, t a r y ( I nve s t m e n t s a n d Infrastructure) S Suresh Kumar and AP Drone Corporation Managing Director Dinesh Kumar. He asked officials to ensure that more youngsters participate in the summit. He instructed them to make arrangements for students from various colleges and schools to attend the exhibition, organised as part of the drone summit, at CK Convention in Mangalagiri. Naidu directed the officials to compile takeaways from discussions and key presentations to outline how they can contribute towards making Andhra Pradesh the drone capital. “If necessary, form a committee with senior officials from departments that primarily have opportunities to use drones to study the themes further,” he told them. Earlier, Suresh Kumar and Dinesh Kumar addressed a press conference and pointed out that 6,929 registrations were received for the drone P4 summit. India, China iron out wrinkles INDIA (LADAKH) Demchok The fine print The pre-2020 situation was that the Army was patrolling till its line of perception in Demchok and Depsang. “Whether we can return to those areas will be clear in the fine print,” sources said Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s primary briefing on Monday was about the upcoming 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, but what was casually mentioned became the story of the day — that India and China have arrived at a patrolling agreement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. The jaw-dropping announcement of the thaw in eastern Ladakh came in response to a question from this reporter on the buzz on the possibility of Prime Minister Narendra Modi having a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jingping Chances brighten for Modi-Xi talks Sources indicated that there is a strong likelihood “There are areas which for various reasons after 2020, they blocked us, we of the Modi-Xi bilateral. The blocked them. We have now reached an understanding which will allow prime minister will also patrolling as we did till 2020... It is a positive development and I would say have bilateral meetings with it is a product of very patient, very persevering diplomacy,” Jaishankar said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President on the sidelines of the BRICS ties became frigid ever since. Dr Masoud Pezeshkian. Summit. “Over the last several weeks, The announcement came At a different event later in Indian and Chinese diplomatic days after the US law enforcethe day foreign minister S Jais- and military negotiators have ment department unsealed the , hankar indicated that both been in close contact with each second indictment in the alsides had effectively gone back other in a variety of forums. As leged murder-for-hire attempt to the pre-2020 situation. “With a result of these discussions, against Khalistani radical Gurthat we can say the disengage- an agreement has been made patwant Singh Pannun on ment with China has been com- for patrolling arrangements American soil, in which a pleted. Details will come out in along the LAC leading to disen- former RAW officer was named due course,” he said. gagement and a resolution of and shamed. It was in 2020 that 20 Indian the issues that had arisen in Two sticking points on the jawans died after a brawl with these areas in 2020. We will be LAC that had defied resolution PLA soldiers in the Galwan val- taking the next steps on this,’’ for this long are at Depsang and P7 ley along the LAC. Bilateral Misri said. Demchok. Product of patient diplomacy: jaishankar `11k cr HUDCO loan for Amaravati EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Vijayawada Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) has sanctioned a loan of `11,000 crore to the State government for carrying out works in the Amaravati capital city . The decision was announced following a meeting between Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) Minister P Narayana and HUDCO chairman and managing d i r e c t o r ( C M D ) S a n j ay Kulshrestha in New Delhi on Monday . Narayana elaborated on the State government’s action plan on developing Amaravati and requested the loan. Impressed by the plan, Sanjay agreed to sanction the loan. Speaking on the occasion, the MAUD Minister explained that the estimated cost for constructing buildings, roads, drainage, and setting up drinking water facilities in the capital city is around `50,000 crore. Of the total, a sum of `26,000 crore is needed for phase one works. Highlighting that the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have agreed to jointly provide `15,000 crore, he said HUDCO is extending the remaining amount. Special Chief Secretary Anil Singhal, HUDCO Vijayawada Regional Chief BSN Murthy and others were also present during the meeting. honouring the brave Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu pays tributes at a martyrs’ memorial on Police Commemoration Day at IGMC Stadium in Vijayawada on Monday | Prasant Madugula ‘Secularism core part of Constitution’ S u c h i t r a K a lya n M o h a n t y @ New Delhi The Supreme Court on Monday said secularism had always been held to be part of the basic structure of the Constitution. A two-judge bench, comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjay Kumar, made the observation while hearing a batch of petitions filed by former Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy , advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain and others, challenging the insertion of the words “socialist” and “secular” in the Preamble of the Constitution. The addition came through the 42nd constitutional amendment moved by the Indira Gandhi government in 1976. “This court has in a number of judgments held that secularism was always part of the basic structure of the Constitution. If one looks at the right to equality and the word ‘fraternity’ used in the Constitution, there is a clear indication that secularism has been held as the core feature of the Constitution,” the bench said. “When secularism was debated, there was only the French model. The Supreme Court has struck down statutes that go against secularism. You may look at Article 25. For socialism, we have not followed the Western concept and we are happy about it,” Justice Khanna said. He said there were different meanings of socialism and one should not take the meaning adopted in Western countries.
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