Kyiv targets moscow with 34 drones Russia said it downed 34 Ukrainian attack drones targeting Moscow, the largest attempted attack on the capital since 2022. It forced the temporary closure of three airports. The picture on the left shows a car damaged in the attack. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched 145 drones at Ukraine overnight | AFP | p9 visakhapatnam l monday l november 11, 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 express read PK flags axing of trees during ex-CM’s outings Vijayawada: Taking exception to several trees being felled in the State before the scheduled visits of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, when he was Chief Minister, Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan said action will be taken under WALTA Act against those who axed trees | P4 Justice Sanjiv Khanna to take over as CJI today Justice Khanna will succeed Justice D Y Chandrachud, who retired on Sunday. He will be the 51st Chief Justice of India and his tenure will end on May 13, 2025 | P7 Govt to table budget for last quarter of FY25 today S G u r u S r i k a n t h @ Vijayawada The State government is set to table the budget for the last four months of the financial year 2024-25 (DecemberMarch) in the Legislative Assembly on Monday The Busi. ness Advisory Committee (BAC) will decide the duration of the Assembly session. After getting approval from the State Cabinet on Monday , Minister of Finance Payyavula Keshav will present the budget in the Assembly. According to sources, the outlay of the full-fledged budget is expected to be between `2.7 lakh crore and `2.9 lakh crore, with a focus on covering expenditures for the last quarter of the current fiscal year. Allocations for welfare programmes and promises made in the election manifesto, in- cluding the Super Six guarantees, are likely to be announced. Budgetary provisions will also be made for Deepam 2.0 scheme, which was launched on Diwali day (October 31). Additionally, significant allocations are expected for Amaravati, Polavaram, and other crucial infrastructure projects. Ahead of the elections, the previous government, led by YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, had introduced a vote-on-account with an outlay of `2.86 lakh crore. A sum of `1,09,052 crore was approved for the period from April to July . An ordinance was promulgated on July 31, allowing the TDP-led NDA government to allocate funds for four months from August 1 to November 30. With an outlay of `1.29 lakh crore, the Andhra Pradesh Appropriation (Voteon-Account No. 2) Ordinance, 2024 covered grants allocated to 40 gover nment departments. Besides the budget, key bills, including Land Grabbing Act (Prohibition) 1982 Repeal Bill, AP Judicial Preview Act Repeal Bill, new Land Grabbing (Prohibition) 2024 Bill, are likely to be tabled during the Assembly P4 session. Army officer killed during encounter in Jammu F AYA Z W ANI @ Srinagar A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Indian Army was killed during an encounter with terrorists in Jammu’s Kishtwar district on Sunday . “Based on specific intelligence input regarding the presence of terrorists, a joint operation was launched by security forces in Bhart Ridge, Kishtwar. Contact was established and fight ensued,” the Army’s Jammu-based White Knight Corps said in a post on X. During the gunfight, JCO Rakesh Kumar of 2 Para (SF) was killed and three para commandos were injured, Army officials said. “A group of three to four militants are trapped in the area. It is the same group that had abducted and killed two village defence guards in Kishtwar two days ago,” an official said. More troops have been rushed to the area to strengthen the siege. Forces are using drones and other surveillance equipment to track down the terrorists hiding in the dense forest. In all, three encounters took place in Jammu and Kashmir since Saturday night. In another incident, security forces and terrorists exchanged fire in the forest area of Zabar- wan in Ishber Nishat in Srinagar. The gunfight erupted after terrorists fired indiscriminately at a search party comprising police, CRPF and Army personnel, an official said. The security agencies suspect two or three terrorists are hiding in the forest area of Zabarwan. Earlier, a terrorist was killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in the Rajpora area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Nijjar’s aide Arsh Dalla arrested by Canadian police Dalla, designated as a terrorist by India, nabbed over a shooting incident in Ontario by Halton Regional Police, along with another person. Canadian police have deMeanwhile, the Punjab Police tained Arshdeep Singh Gill ali- said on Sunday that they have as Arsh Dalla, a close aide of arrested two members of Dalslain Khalistani terrorist Hard- la’s Canada-based gang in Moeep Singh Nijjar, in connection hali for their alleged involvewith a shootout case, sources ment in the murder of a Sikh said on Sunday. The Union activist last month. home ministry had designated The Delhi Police had said last Dalla as a terrorist year that Dalla had Wanted under the Unlawful links with internain India Activities Prevention tional terror outfit Act last year. The Punjab Police Lashkar-e-Taiba and Government sourcPakistan’s Inter-Servsaid preliminary es said New Delhi ices Intelligence. He investigations would not seek his ex- revealed Arsh Dalla was a key member of tradition as ties with e x t re m i s t g ro u p s tasked Navjot Canada are cold after Singh alias Neetu, Khalistan Tiger Force the latter’s accusation and the International a resident of of India’s involve- Kharar, Punjab, to Sikh Youth Federament in the killing of tion. Sources said he target Gurpreet Nijjar, who was shot lives in Surrey in Singh Hari Nau, dead last June. “ExCanada’s British Cowho runs a tradition is going to YouTube channel lumbia province with be tough, as under the under the name of his wife and a minor present situation it is daughter. Hari Nau Talks going to be almost imIn a Facebook post, possible. And also, the Canadi- Dalla had taken responsibility an authorities have not arrested for the murder of an electrihim so far, only detained him,” cian, Paramjeet Singh, from an official said. Punjab’s Jagraon. His associAccording to intelligence of- ates had shot dead Manohar ficials, information related to Lal, a Dera Sacha Sauda followDalla’s detention in Ontario er in November 2020. He was came shortly after reports of also involved in hatching a conhis involvement in a shootout spiracy to kidnap and kill one on October 28. He was detained Shakti Singh. M UKE S H RAN J AN @ New Delhi Trump wins all seven US swing states, bags 312 electors in all Ag e n c i e s US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday added Arizona to the list of states he won. With that, the Republican has beaten his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in all seven battleground states. The seven battle g round states in this election cycle were Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. The victory in Arizona took Trump’s electoral college tally to 312 against 226 of Vice President Harris. Arizona holds 11 electoral college votes. In 2020, President Joe Biden became the first Democrat to win Arizona since Bill Clinton in 1996. Trump has now flipped it back. Arizona is the sixth state Trump has flipped from Biden’s Electoral College victory in 2020. He campaigned heavily on border security, immigration and crime committed by illegal immigrants on the trail, all issues that resonated in the state with a record influx of migrants last year. Trump pledged mass deportations, promoted hiring an additional 10,000 border agents to patrol the US-Mexico border and promised to use some of the military budget for border funding.