India’s 1st home-grown semiconductor chip Vikram-32-bit chip built by Isro was presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inauguration of the Semicon India 2025 conference on Tuesday. Officially known as VIKRAM3201, Vikram-32 is India’s first fully indigenous 32-bit processor chip designed to operate in the harsh environmental conditions of launch vehicles | P10 HYDERABAD l wednesday l september 03, 2025 l `9.00 l PAGES 16 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 Modi: Bihar won’t KCR suspends Kavitha from BRS forgive RJD, Cong for abusing mom M a n d a R a v i n d er R e d d y @ Hyderabad NDA gets opportunity to play the women card, announces 5-hour Bihar bandh on Thu R A J E S H K U M A R T H A K U R a n d R amasha n kar @ New Delhi/Patna In his first response to the recent abuse of his late mother from an Opposition platform in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said people will never forgive the RJD and the Congress for the slur. Expletives were hurled at the prime minister’s mother during the Voter Adhikar Yatra spearheaded by Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav in Darbhanga. Speaking to women of the poll-bound state via video conference from Delhi during the launch of a new cooperative, ‘Bihar Rajya Jeevika Saakh Sahkari Sangh’, Modi described the abuse as an insult to all mothers, sisters and daughters. He accused the RJD-Congress alliance in the state of dragging his late mother into politics though she had nothing to do with it. “I may forgive RJD-Congress, but people of Bihar will never pardon them. Hurling abuses at my mother is nothing for those who insult ‘Mother India’; such people must be punished,” he said. Modi alleged that the RJD was seeking revenge, as its government was ousted by women voted against it. Shortly after Modi’s response, the ruing NDA gave a five-hour bandh call in Bihar on Thursday to protest against abusive remarks. Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal said the bandh on September 4 will be from 7 am to 12 noon, adding that railways and emergency services will be out of its ambit. JD(U) state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha said such abuse from a public platform was against democratic norms. “One may differ on political ideologies, but it does mean that family should be dragged into it,” he said. He expressed surprise over the silence of senior Congress-RJD leaders on the matter. People who hurl abuses at mothers have the mindset that women are weak. Abusing my mother was an insult to the daughters and sisters of Bihar BJP playing emotional card: Cong Bihar Congress president Rajesh Kumar said the BJP was trying to divert people’s attention by playing the emotional card before the assembly polls. “They did a similar thing in Karnataka. Now they are trying an encore in Bihar,” he said at a press conference BRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday suspended his daughter and MLC K Kavitha from the party for “antiparty activities”. BRS general secretaries Soma Bharat Kumar and T Ravinder Rao issued a statement announcing KCR’s decision. “Recent activities of Kavitha are causing damage to the party With this, party . chief K Chandrasekhar Rao has decided to suspend Kavitha from the party with immediate effect,” the statement said. Kavitha has called a press conference on Wednesday where 2020 DELHI RIOTS No bail to Umar, Sharjeel, 7 others I F R A H M U F T I @ New Delhi THE Delhi High Court Tuesday dismissed the bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and seven others in the 2020 Delhi riots case, which left 53 dead and over 700 injured. A bench of justices Naveen Chawla and Shalinder Kaur rejected the challenges to earlier trial court orders denying bail to the accused — Khalid, Imam, Athar Khan, Khalid Saifi, Mohd Saleem Khan, Shifa ur Rehman, Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima, and Shadab Ahmed. All of them were booked under the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Arrested in 2020, the accused have been jail for over five years now. sources said she is likely to announce her resignation as MLC and as a member of the BRS. During the course of the day it , was clear that the BRS had shored up its ranks with KCR and i t s l e a d e r s avo i d i n g Kavitha. A handful of her supporters gathered at the Telangana Jagruthi office where they specifically shouted slogans against former minister T Harish Rao. Meanwhile, the state presidents of both the Congress and BJP made it clear that there are no open doors for Kavitha. They described the goings-on in the BRS as an “internal family squabble over distribution of loot from corruption”. Kavitha has been at odds with the party leadership for months. Following the state government’s decision to order a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram project, Kavitha accused Harish Rao and former MP J Santosh Kumar of indulging in massive corruption, which she claimed damaged KCR’s image. The fact that Kavitha attacked Harish Rao at the time he was leading the BRS defence against the Congress attack and rebutting allegations of corruption in Kaleshwaram was seen as the last straw by the BRS.  continued on P4 Revanth vows to revive Tummidihatti project E x p ress Ne w s S er v i c e @ Hyderabad Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday announced that the government would revive the long-pending project at Tummidihatti. Speaking at the YS Rajasekhara Reddy Memorial Awards ceremony in Hyderabad, Revanth said: “The intention of YSR (former chief minister of undivided AP YS Rajasekhara Reddy) was to provide Godavari water up to Tandur by constructing the project at Tummidihatti. This plan was INSIDE neglected by the previous government. But now I am announcing that my government will build the project again at Tummidihatti and provide Godavari water to Vikarabad, Rangareddy, Parigi, Tandur and Kodangal.” He alleged that the decision of the BRS regime to redesign the Pranahita-Chevella Irrigation Project meant that water did not reach the Chevella region. Revanth added he and other leaders would not rest until YSR’s “last wish”, to see Rahul Gandhi become the PM, was fulfilled. continued on P4 What’s next for Kavitha after life in the brs? I P4 State govt formally asks CBI to probe KLIS irregularities E x p ress Ne w s S er v i c e @ Hyderabad Following Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s announcement in the Assembly the state , government has formally asked the CBI to investigate the alleged irregularities in the construction of the Kaleshwaram project. On Tuesday, Special Chief Secretary (Home) Ravi Gupta issued orders to this effect. The orders stated that given the complexities of the case, including the participation of Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) in the project’s Local body polls likely after bihar elections I P5 design and execution, it was deemed appropriate to entrust the probe to the CBI. “In view of the NDSA report, the findings of the Commission of Inquiry, the Assembly’s decision on the construction of the Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages of the Kaleshwaram project, and the sinking of piers resulting in huge financial loss to the state exchequer, the government has decided to entrust the investigation to the CBI under Section 6 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946,” the orders read. continued on P4 Maratha leader calls off fast over quota I P7