tadepalligudem l saturday l march 02, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l city EDITION Google removes popular apps from play store over fee row Ten companies avoided paying fees The search giant on Friday started removing a few Indian apps from its Play Store for not paying platform fees. Google did not name them Dark day for net, says matrimony.com Google said many well-established Indian companies avoided paying fees despite benefiting from the platform. It wants companies using its Play Store to use its billing facility and remove other third party payment services. Google charges between 11%-26% as fee. Earlier a few companies protested, went to the Supreme Court, but did not get interim relief | P10 ■ ■ Matrimony.com founder Murugavel Janakiraman said the move was a ‘dark day’ for Internet in India. Kuku FM co-founder Vinod Kumar Meena said that Google was behaving like a ‘monopoly’ Internet and Mobile Association of India said as the case is pending before the Supreme Court, Google should not take coercive action 2,00,000 indian developers use Google’s play store 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 YSRC 9th list out Indiranagar Vijayasai named coordinator of Nellore LS seat Hoodi Doddanekundi BENGALURU E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada Brookefield bomb explosion site The Rameswaram Cafe in Bengaluru moments after it was rocked by a low-intensity bomb explosion on Friday, as captured in CCTV | PTI Bomb explosion in popular B’luru cafe leaves 10 injured Low-intensity ied used suspect dropped bomb-laden bag in cafe and left multiple teams formed to catch the culprit P r av een K u m a r @ Bengaluru it crowd ping his bag and leaving. Alok Mohan, Director General & Inspector General of Police of Karnataka, said Central agencies including the National Investigation Agency and Intelligence Bureau have been roped in for the investigation. The explosion site was filled with nuts and bolts and blood stains as several were injured. The roof of the restaurant was completely damaged. Smoke was visible for 500 metres. A woman sustained severe burns in the blast. Two senior citizens sustained injuries after broken glass pieces of the restaurant hit them. A restaurant worker also sustained injuries. All the injured are undergoing treatment in nearby private hospitals. Ramesh, a security guard at the restaurant, told TNIE that the explosion was so loud that he lost hearing for some time. “The sound was unbearable. I saw people running helter-skelter. The blast happened near the wash basin area, behind P5 the hotel.” TEN persons were injured as a low-intensity improvised explosive device (IED) went off at The Rameshwaram Cafe, a popular restaurant located in Kundalahalli on the ITPL Main Road in Bengaluru, on Friday at around 1 pm. There were no fatalities, but an injured woman has sustained 40% burns. According to police, a person came to the restaurant carrying an IED-laden bag and dropped it there. The explosion happened an hour later. The device is said to have been kept in a tiffin carrier inside a bag. The suspect took the token from the cashier and ate in the restaurant. He, then, placed the bag near the wash basin area and left. An hour later, it exploded, leaving 10 people, including customers and restaurant staff, injured. Panic gripped Green Avenue opposite Kundalahalli Colony, where the restaurant is located, as people ran helter-skelter. The CCTV footage showed two explosions within a few seconds apart. Initially it was sus, pected to be a blast due to a leaking LPG cylinder. However, after a thorough examination of the blast site, experts from the Bomb Detection & Disposal Squad and the Forensic Science Laboratory declared it a bomb blast as all the LPG cylinders were intact. Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, who visited the spot with Home Minister G Paramaeshwara, said the suspect, aged 30-35 years, came in a bus. He ordered a plate of Rava Idli and ate it, before drop- Expect warmer summer this year, says IMD Didi insensitive to atrocities on Sandeshkhali women: PM On Friday, there was a smaller crowd at the restaurant compared to Saturdays and Sundays. Most customers were IT professionals who had come for lunch. The 46-year-old woman who got 40% burns, Swarnamba, is an employee of an IT firm in the city —D K Shivakumar, deputy CM No gas leak: Cafe Ruling out gas leak, the cafe’s MD Divya Raghavendra Rao said the cylinders are kept inside the kitchen. She said there was no lapse in security measures P r a n a b M o n d a l @ Kolkata j i t en d r a c h o u b e y @ New Delhi Most parts of the country are likely to witness a warmer start to the summer this year because of El Niño, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted on Friday . The country may witness above normal maximum and minimum temperatures in most parts between March and May, IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said. Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, parts of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Odisha may witness more heatwaves and higher temperatures than normal. But heatwave conditions are not expected over north and central India in March, he said. El Niño refers to the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean. In India, El Niño is known for weaker monsoon. However, IMD expects a transition to neutral conditions from El Niño by the beginning of the monsoon season, which may bring more rains during the southwest monsoon. March will be hotter and is likely to receive above normal rainfall due to western disturbances. That could be a boon for the rabi wheat crop. A total of eight western disturbances—cyclonic storms originating in the Mediterranean region—brought rain and snow to the western Himalayan states for three days in the winter. We have clues about the suspect and 7-8 Crime Branch teams have been formed. The culprit will be nabbed soon Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a public rally at Arambagh in Hooghly district on Friday | PTI looters will have to refund: PM Highlighting the alleged recruitment scam and distribution in food grain, Modi assured that the looters would have to pay back. “Looters will have to refund, otherwise Modi will not spare them,” he warned In a scathing attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress and its chief Mamata Banerjee at a rally on Friday Prime Minister Narendra Modi , alleged that they were insensitive to the atrocities and sexual assault on women in Sandeshkhali. “The entire nation is in dismay in an, ger over what happened with our mothers and sisters in Sandeshkhali,” he said. Without naming TMC strongman Shahjahan Sheikh, who was arrested on Thursday, Modi indicated that the Sandeshkhali stir by the local women will be the BJP’s key poll plank for the Lok Sabha elections. Urging the women electorate across the state to respond decisively against the heinous acts by TMC leaders in the North 24 Parganas island, Modi said, “Every injury inflicted by TMC leaders in Sandeshkhali must be replied with a vote.” In his rally at Arambagh in Hooghly, Modi gave credit for Sheikh’s arrest to the BJP’s functionaries in the state, saying they kept up pressure on the Bengal police. “For Didi (Mamata), political allegiance of certain individuals is more important than addressing the atrocities against women in Sandeshkhali,” he charged. Later in the day Mamata met Modi at Raj Bha, van. “I met the PM as part of protocol and courtesy she maintained. ,” express read Viveka’s daughter urges public not to vote for Jagan & YSRC MoD seals `39K crore deal to boost combat capabilities Vijayawada: Narreddy Suneetha Reddy, daughter of slain former minister YS Vivekananda Reddy, on Friday urged the people not to vote for her brother and YSRC chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in the ensuing elections. She minced no words and pointed fingers at Jagan for supporting Kadapa MP Avinash Reddy, one of the accused in her father’s murder case | P4 New Delhi: India sealed five key defence acquisition contracts worth `39,125 crore for procurement of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, radars, weapon systems, and aero-engines for MiG-29 jets, are aimed at enhancing the combat capabilities of the armed forces. These contracts align with the Centre’s policy to promote domestic manufacturing | P7 In a surprise move, the YSRC on Friday appointed its Rajya Sabha member V Vijayasai Reddy as the coordinator for the Nellore Parliamentary seat. In its ninth list, the ruling party also announced the appointment of Murugudu Lavanya as the coordinator for Mangalagiri constituency and retired IAS officer A Md Imtiaz for Kurnool Assembly segment. A native of Tallapudi in Nellore district and a chartered accountant by profession, Vijayasai Reddy has been associated with Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy for a long time. If no further changes are made, the ensuing elections could be the first time Vijayasai Reddy would enter the ballot battle. The ruling YSRC had nominated him to the Rajya Sabha in 2016. He secured an extension for second term in 2023. YSRC’s Adala Prabhakar Reddy won the Nellore MP seat in 2019. However, the party appointed him as the in-charge for Nellore Rural seat. For the Mangalagiri Assembly constituency, the party had earlier appointed Ganji Chiranjeevi as its coordinator. Subsequently , sitting MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy resigned from the YSRC, but later returned after being pacified. Chiranjeevi hails from the Padmashali community which has a strong P4 presence in the constituency . ‘Naidu creating class divide in education’ E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada Asserting that the education reforms brought by the government have tangible results, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday said he is the only Chief Minister to have gone through the details of school and college curriculum in a bid to take steps to introduce modern and emerging courses like artificial intelligence, verticals like risk management, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, investment banking and management, robotics, virtual building designs, professional communication, risk return and supply-chain management. Jagan was speaking at a programme held at Pamarru in Krishna district to disburse financial assistance of `708.68 crore to 9,44,666 beneficiaries under Jag ananna Vidya Deevena towards total fee reimbursement for the quarter ending December-2023. Lambasting TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu and JSP chief Pawan Kalyan for opposing the initiatives introduced in the education sector, Jagan alleged that there was a class divide in the education sector as well. “Naidu and his supporters want their kids to learn English and have tabs, but they don’t want poor kids to have the same opportunities,” he quipped. Jagan claimed that he was taking four steps forward in reforming education and other sectors, but the TDP chief and his supporters were trying to pull him back by eight P4 steps. Harirama Jogaiah’s son quits JSP, joins YSRC JSP Achanta Assembly in-charge Chegondi Surya Prakash quit the party and joined the YSRC in the presence of CM Jagan on Friday. He is the son of Kapu patriarch Ch Harirama Jogaiah. He accused JSP chief Pawan Kalyan of working to make Chandrababu Naidu the CM
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