cargo for pak n-programme seized The ship was carrying a dual-use Computer Numerical Control machine vessel from China tadepalligudem l sunday l march 03, 2024 l `12.00 l PAGES 24 l city EDITION Customs officials alerted defence authorities about the Maltaflagged merchant ship. The cargo was halted on January 23 for inspection. Investigation showed that it was shipped by Taiyuan Mining Import and Export and was meant for Cosmos Engineering in Pakistan 22,180 kgs is the weight of consignment seized in mumbai 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 summer rush TTD to reduce Break Darshan for 4 months E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Tirumala The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has decided to reduce VIP Break Darshan, SRIVANI tourism quota and virtual Sevas from April to July to tackle the devotee rush, executive officer AV Dharma Reddy said on Saturday . During the ‘Dial Your EO’ programme, he explained that the Srivari temple Trust has taken steps to issue 85% of the total 7,500 rooms available at Tirumala which can accommodate 45,000 people - to common devotees. Further, devotees have also been advised to book their stay in Tirupati. Highlighting the programmes organised by the TTD in the last month, he said Radhasapthami was observed in a grand manner, with lakhs of devotees witnessing Saptha Vahana Sevas and appreciating the distribution of Annaprasadam, milk and water. The EO added, “The TTD has launched Nitya Annaprasadam services from February 29 onwards at Sri Govindaraja Swamy temple in Tirupati on the lines of Tirumala and TiruchP4 anoor.” express read 5 AP students drown at TN beach WITH THIS ISSUE Chennai: Five college students from Andhra Pradesh, who were part of a group of 44 students on a trip to Mahabalipuram, may have drowned in the sea on Saturday, police said. Body of one of the victims has been retrieved | P5 Pay Attention PLUS 12 PAGES Vemireddy, Devarayulu & Modi, Shah in first BJP list of Mylavaram MLA join TDP 195 candidates E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada 4 dropped in Delhi; Sushma daughter gets in; Rajeev Chandrasekhar fielded from T’puram RA J E SH K U MAR THA K U R @ New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh were among the 195 candidates the BJP announced in its first list for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Modi, Shah, and Singh will seek repeat mandates from Varanasi, Gandhinagar and Lucknow, respectively . There was a major shake-up in the Delhi list as the party dropped four of its five sitting MPs. The axe fell on Ramesh Bidhuri, Parvesh Verma, Meenakshi Lekhi and Harsh Vardhan but Manoj Tiwari got to contest from North East Delhi. The party fielded Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of late BJP leader Sushma Swaraj from New Delhi, Kamaljeet Sehrawat from West Delhi, MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri from South Delhi, Praveen Khadelwal from Chandni Chowk. The BJP also dropped Sadhvi Pragya Thakur from Bhopal. The most interesting candidature was of Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala where Shashi Tharoor is the sitting Congress MP. Contrary to speculation, the BJP stayed Narendra Modi and Amit Shah with Smriti Irani from Amethi. The first list has 47 candidates who under 50 years in age besides 28 women. BJP’s national general secretary Vinod Tawade said 57 of the 195 candidates belong to OBCs, while 27 to the SC and 18 to the ST communities. Anil Antony — son of Congress stalwart A K Antony — who joined the BJP from the Congress, has been fielded from Pathanamithitta in Kerala. Union minister V Muraleedharan will enter the fray from Attingal. Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan will enter the fray from Vidisha while Jyotiraditya Scindia will contest from Guna. In all, 34 Union ministers figure on the first list. Bhojpuri singer and actor Pawan Singh has been fielded from Asansol to take on TMC’s sitting MP Shatrughan Sinha. The list included actor-turnedpoliticians Hema Malini, Ravi Kishan and Dinesh Nerahua. YSRC MPs Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy (Rajya Sabha) and Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu (Lok Sabha), and MLA Vasantha Krishna Prasad officially joined the TDP in the presence of party supremo N Chandrababu Naidu. The exit of the three leaders from the ruling party had created a flutter in political circles. Vasanta Krishna Prasad and his followers joined the yellow party at Naidu’s residence in Hyderabad. Vemireddy was inducted into the TDP at a meeting organised in Nellore, while Srikrishna Devarayulu joined the party during a public meeting organised as part of the ‘Raa Kadali Raa’ campaign at Gurazala in Palnadu district. Speaking to reporters after joining the TDP Mylavaram MLA Vasanta Krishna , Prasad emphasised on the need to bal- ance development and welfare in the State. “Industries should establish their units in the State, which will further generate employment. This will be possible only if Chandrababu Naidu is at the helm of affairs.” Further, he expressed that although he had worked hard for the YSRC as a legislator, he was not given due credit. “Development of my constituency was also ignored,” he claimed. Extending a war m welcome to Vemireddy, Naidu announced that the former will contest the Nellore Lok Sabha segment. Lashing out at the Chief Minister, the TDP chief said, “The Jagan Mohan Reddy feels that only he should be the king and all others his slaves.” He appealed to the people to analyse the mindset of Jagan, who got fabricated stories about his own sister published in P4 media. Candidates: Four Indians among many hurt by Canada visa delay S w a r o o p S w a m i n at h a n @ Chennai Prashant to be our guest in Hyderabad today The ace political strategist will participate in an interaction at ITC Kakatiya Hotel in Begumpet from 4 pm to 6 pm FOUR of the five Indian chess players to have qualified for the Candidates event are yet to know about their Canadian visa status. Both R Vaishali and R Praggnandhaa, the brother-sister duo, are among those who are affected by the delay Coach RB Ramesh confirmed the develop. ment saying time is too short. Vidit Gujrathi, D Gukesh and Koneru Humpy are the other Indians to have qualified. The Candidates is an elite eight-player event from where the challenger for the World Championship match is identified. This year (from April 3), Toronto is the host of both Open and Women categories. While India and Canada have had a much publicised falling out of diplomatic relations over the killing of a pro-Khalistan Canadian citizen on its soil last year, players from other countries too have been affected. “We can confirm that players from four countries are impacted by the visa issue, India being one of them,” FIDE told this daily The FIDE has . a Plan B of moving the event to Spain if the visas don’t come through. P11 It’s believed about 40 are still waiting to hear about status.
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