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  • Amit Shah to chair conclave of southern States on Nov 14

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI:  Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a meeting of southern zonal council on November 14 with chief ministers of all southern states to enhance cooperation and improve coordination among the states to resolve pending inter-state issues. The meeting will be held in Tirupati, officials said on Wednesday.

    Shah will preside over the much-awaited conclave of dignitaries of southern states that include the participation of Chief Ministers from states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

    Lieutenant Governors of Andaman and Nicobar and Puducherry are also likely to attend the meeting. AP is likely to raise the issue of Special Category Status (SCS) at the Southern Zonal Council (SZC) meeting. Apart from the SCS issue, the State will also raise issues pertaining to pending dues from the Centre and from neighbouring States.

    The issue of bringing the Jurala project on Krishna in neighbouring Telangana under the purview of Krishna River Management Board along with a discussion on the Centre’s proposal of interlinking rivers are other topics likely to be discussed.

  • Rest of India must emulate South: Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu

    By Express News Service

    CHENNAI: Vice-President of India M Venkaiah Naidu said the six states of South India are a powerhouses that the rest of the country should emulate as most of these states rank amongst the top in terms of ‘Ease of Doing Business’ ranking.

    Delivering his inaugural address at  CII Mystic South – Global Linkages Summit organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) with the theme — South India’s journey towards the $1.5 trillion economy by 2025 — the Vice-President said South India combines manufacturing with services, culture with modern values, education and skills, and the strength lies on maritime sector, urbanisation, tourism, quality of life and its culture, which is one of its biggest strengths. These should be used as a soft power, he added.

    Stating that building competitiveness is a key component of the Southern India’s  progression, he said each State will need to find its champion sector to propel growth.

    “India is at a decisive point in its journey towards prosperity, we need to create global hubs that would serve India and the world in the space of manufacturing, agricultural exports and digital services,” Naidu said.

    He further stated the revenue contribution of large firms’ to GDP in 2018, was 48 per cent, and India has potential to achieve 70 per cent by 2030, in line with outperforming economies. 

    “Improving access to capital and easing other barriers to business would help the best-performing firms of all sizes climb the ladder of scale and global competitiveness” he added.

  • South India staring at second Covid wave?

    By Express News Service
    CHENNAI/BENGALURU/HYDERABAD/VIJAYAWADA: In a worrying development, most southern states have been witnessing a significant surge in Covid-19 cases over the past few days.

    Karnataka has added up to 1,488 fresh infections to its Covid tally, taking the total cases to 9.65 lakh. The toll rose to 12,415 with eight related fatalities, the Health department said on Thursday. This is for the third consecutive day that the state is reporting over 1,000 new cases. Out of the 1,488 fresh cases reported on Thursday, 925 were from Bengaluru Urban alone. Bengaluru accounts for over 72 per cent of the total active cases in the state at present.

    ALSO READ | Adhere to Covid norms to curb surge in cases: Andhra government

    As of March 18 evening, cumulatively 9,65,102 positive cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes 12,415 deaths, the Health Department said in its bulletin. Given the situation, Karnataka has shifted gears and is reintroducing measures taken during the peak of the pandemic last year to prevent a possible second wave and mitigate its impact. For the next 50 days, doctors, healthcare workers and officials will work in mission mode to take preventive measures as well as to ramp up the vaccination drive.

    “If we vaccinate senior citizens and those aged above 45 with comorbidities, we can mitigate the second wave,” Health and Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar said on Thursday after taking stock of the situation at a meeting with the heads of government hospitals in Bengaluru.

    ALSO READ | Covid situation alarming, focus on educational institutions: HC to Telangana

    The government has set an ambitious target of vaccinating three lakh people per day. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu reported as many as 989 new cases and nine deaths were recorded on the day, taking the State’s tally to 8,63,363 and the toll to 12,573. Chennai alone reported 394 cases. With this, the active case count in the State have gone up to 6,222. Despite this, the urban community health centres (UCHC) and primary health centres (PHC) offering Covid vaccines said they were low on stock on Covishield, and that only Covaxin was available, as on Thursday.

    A UCHC staff in Perungudi said the available doses of Covishield was being reserved for those who would return for their second jab. The cumulative Covid cases in Andhra Pradesh increased to 8,92,740 with the addition of 218 in the 24 hours ending 9am on Thursday. The latest bulletin said 117 patients had recovered from the infection, taking the total to 8,83,759.

    The overall toll remained at 7,186 as no fresh deaths were reported in a day, it said. The state now has 1,795 active cases. Various districts in Telangana too saw a sharp spike in cases on the day. The state reported 278 new cases. Three deaths were also reported, taking the total toll so far to 1,662.

  • Today, Mattu Pongal considers the birth day of famous Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar of Kabir of South India

    Thiruvalluvar is an eminent Tamil poet, whose birthday is celebrated on the third day of the Pongal festival. This day is known as Mattu Pongal. He created Thirukural, a policy-based work in Tamil literature. Not only this, Thiruvalluvar is also called Kabir of South India. A 133-foot tall statue of Saint Thiruvalluvar has been erected at the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent (Kanyakumari) where the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean meet. His knowledge and teachings now exist in the form of a book, known as ‘Thirukural’. It has a total of 133 chapters and each chapter has 10 couplets.

  • Editorial :- Captain CM of Panjab VS Rahul Caption of Congress

    Rahul Gandhi’s Right Hand  Navjot Sidhu had said on October 13, 2018 (Sidhu) that the visit of Pakistan to him is better than the journey of South India. That means Pakistan is more important to them than South India.The said statement has also become true from his visit to Pakistan twice.

    During the first visit to Pakistan, Hugging with the Pakistan Army chief Bajwa and in the second visit, Khalistan terrorist Gopal Chawla has photographed  with Siddhu and That photograph is broadcast by Chawla in the social media?

    Congress leader and cabinet minister in the Punjab government, Navjot Singh Sidhu said in Hyderabad on Friday that party president Rahul Gandhi had told him to go to Pakistan. Siddhu is here to campaign for Congress election in Telangana.

    In Telangana during the election campaign in Hyderabad Targeting  Telangana Chief Minister C. Rao, he said that he would be a bright color changeer than chameleon. Siddhu forgot that Debaladalu Sidhu himself is the color changer like most chameleons.

    Sidhu said that leaders like Harish Rawat, Shashi Tharoor and Surajwala congratulated on returning from Pakistan.Definitely congratulating that he would have given Sidhu in the hymns of Bajwa and in the celebration of photographing his own photograph with Khalistan supporter Gopal Chawla.

    Navjot Singh Sidhu said that Congress President Rahul Gandhi had told him to go to Pakistan.Congress and Rahul Gandhi are finding it difficult to accept that Sidhu’s visit to Pakistan and that was not the approval of the Congress’s highest leadership for his satanic trickery. OPIndia had earlier told that a special aircraft proposed  was arranged  by Rahul Gandhi  a few days before leaving for Pakistan.

    Now, talking to the ANI, Sidhu has repeatedly said that his visit to Pakistan was with the central leadership of Congress. However, it is contrary to the Congress Party’s claim that Siddhu went to participate in the ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor as his personal visit, on the basis of his personal friendship with the Prime Minister Imran Khan.

    Congress had earlier claimed that Sidhu had gone to Pakistan in his ‘personal capacity’.>>> : Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh expressed his displeasure on the visit of Sidhu. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said, “I asked him to reconsider his decision to go to Pakistan but he still went.”CM Captain Amarinder Singh said, “My captain is Rahul Gandhi, he is also the captain of the captain.Blaming Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism in India, Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh said, “I will not allow the increase in terrorism in Punjab.

    For the first time, some terrorists from Kashmir were trying to establish a logistic base in Punjab. Pakistan is using these terrorists to execute its disgusting plans, but we will not allow it. “It is clear from the above review that on the one hand where Capt Amarinder Singh does not want to see the rise of terrorism in Khalistan again in Punjab. But the stand of Congress high leadership Rahul Gandhi.

    It must be remembered that for the vote bank politics, Indira Gandhi promoted the Khalistani movement via Bhindranwale. Walking on Indira Gandhi’s food print, Rahul Gandhi now wants to revive the Khalistani movement again in India with the help of Pakistan through Siddhu and Gopal Chawla for vote bank politics.

    They are doing this dangerous betrayer game in dreaming to be Prime Minister. Rahul Gandhi secretly met the Chinese ambassador twice during the Doklan controversy for this same intention.

    Rahul Gandhi should understand that for the sake of greedy power they will not push the Congress towards the country’s betrayer.