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INDORE : Directorateof Revenue Intelligence(DRI) officials have seizedmore than 2,000 kg ganja(Cannabis) valued at Rs 3.1crore in the internationalmarket from four persons intwo different operations inChhattisgarh.

On the basis of specificintelligence, the DRI Raipurand Indore intercepted oneseptic tank cleaning truck,

one SUV and a trailer truck,an official release said hereon Wednesday. Ganja weigh-ing 1,230 kg was being car-ried on septic tank cleaningtruck and 838 kg Ganja washidden on trailer truck. Itslocal market value is approx-imately Rs 3.1 crore, it said.

One person was arrestedwith the septic tank truckand three with the trailertruck escorted by an SUV.

They were booked underNarcotic Drugs andPsychotropic SubstancesAct. In recent times, it hasbeen noticed that drug smug-glers are finding new waysof transporting ganja, therelease said, adding, thebanned drug ganja(Cannabis) is addictive, andit causes both short term andlong term adverse effects onhealth.

DRI seizes cannabis worthRs 3.1 cr in Chhattisgarh

A die-hard fan ofUnited States PresidentDonald Trump, BussaKrishna, has put forth anappeal to the Centralgovernment to fulfill hiswish of meeting his idolduring his upcomingIndia visit.

"I want India-America relations toremain strong. EveryFriday I fast for Trump’slong life. I also carry hispicture and pray to himbefore commencing anywork. I wish to meet him,I request the governmentto make my dream cometrue," Bussa told here.Bussa, however, is notjust any fan but considershimself to be a devotee ofthe POTUS. He has eveninstalled a 6-feet statueof the US President nearhis house and offersprayers daily.

"I also carry his(Trump’s) picture andbefore any work, I pray

to him. He is like a Godto me that is the reason Ihad his statue built. Ittook almost a month and15 labourers to build thisstatue," he said.

His friends told thatthe villagers have startedreferring to him affec-tionately as ’Trump’Krishna, due to his devo-tion to the POTUS.

"Although his realname is Bussa Krishnaafter he started praying toTrump all villagers start-ed calling him TrumpKrishna. Krishna’s resi-

dence is known as TrumpHouse here. The villagersnever objected to it butappreciated his devo-tion," Ramesh Reddy,Bussa’s friend said.

The village head ofKonnay, in which Bussalives, Venkat Goud tooapproved of his beliefsand urged the govern-ment to fulfill his dreamof meeting the POTUS.

Accompanied by firstlady Melania Trump, theUS President will arriveon a two-day visit toIndia on February 24.

Telangana man fasts for Trump'slong life, worships his idol

Hyderabad: Less thantwo months after busi-nessman Kalvak-untlaKrishna Milan Rao�soverspeeding car flew ofthe newly inaugurated BioDiversity flyover, killinga bystander underneath,the city witnessed a repeaton Tuesday, when a 27-year-old man was killedwhile his five friends suf-fered injuries when thecar they were travellingfell down from theBharatnagar flyover inSanathnagar under theCyberabad police com-missionerate during thewee hours.

The injured personswere shifted to the GandhiHospital for treatment.

According to police, theincident took place whensix friends, includingMohd Sohel, were return-ing to Borabanda afterconsuming tea at a hotel.Mr Sohel, a resident ofPandit Nehru Nagar inBoarabanda, runs a hotelalong with his father Md.Shafi. On Monday, ataround 10.30 pm, Sohel,along with his friendsIrfan, Ashfaq, Ghouse andSohail, all residents Boar-abanda area, and driverSunil, went to Balanagarin a car (AP11 R9189).

At around 2 am, theywere driving towards Bor-abanda with Sunil beingbehind the wheels of thecar. At around 2.15 am,the overspeeding car,while going towardsErragadda, rammed intothe cement barriers of theBharatna-gar flyover andfell on the ground from atleast 25 feet height, andlanded in an upside-downposition.

Another car falls off flyoverB e n g a l u r u :

Bengaluru�s tribe of greenactivists have launched aSave BannerghattaNational Park after thestate government movedto nibble away at its eco-sensitive zone (ESZ).

As always, develop-ment is the ruse cited byKarnataka chief ministerB S Yediyurappa in hisletter to Union environ-ment minister PrakashJavadekar asking toreduce the ESZ of thepark by no less than 100sq km. And as ever, theBJP government hasproved to be no moreenvironment-fr iendlythan any of its predeces-sors, although the rulingparty�s MPs, P C Mohanand Tejasvi Surya, hadexpressed ardent support

to saving what is a cruciallung space of Bengaluru.

The previous dispensa-tion of the Congress andnow the BJP havebetrayed the citizens,�said Vijay Nishanth,founder of ProjectVruksha.

E n v i r o n m e n t a l i s t shave always wanted theoriginal 268 km ESZ ofBannerghatta maintained.However, which govern-ment has ever not given into �development� in pref-erence to environmentalniceties? The nationalpark�s inevitable fate wasonly stoppered by theKarnataka High Court,which on January 21restrained commercialand developmental activi-ties within a 10 km radiusof the national park.

Bengaluru greens growl at government moveto nibble at margins of Bannerghatta

HYDERABAD: Theformation of new dis-tricts in Andhra Pradeshmay take place only in2021. AP Chief MinisterY.S. Jagan MohanReddy, during his PrajaSankalpa Yatra beforethe Assembly electionslast year, had promisedthat the number of dis-tricts will be increasedfrom 13 to 25 for decen-tralisation, better admin-istration and taking gov-ernance to doorsteps ofthe people. In its electionmanifesto, the YSRCongress promised toturn every Lok Sabhaconstituency into a dis-trict.

Taking forward thispromise, Mr Reddy hastaken up the exercise for

formation of new dis-tricts. However, theUnion home ministryhas directed all states notto make any jurisdiction-al changes from January1, 2020, to March 31,2021. This is in view ofhouse listing operation(HLO) being taken up,along with updating ofNational PopulationRegister (NPR), as partof Census of India-2021.

Consequently, the stategovernment is not in aposition to form new dis-tricts till the census iscompleted.

The state administra-tion and the ChiefMinister had earlierthought that delimitationof Assembly constituen-cies will be completed ina year. They decided toform new districts afterthat. But the Centre

instead decided to takeup delimitation exercisein the two Telugu statesalong with that of otherstates �after the firstCensus after 2026�.Because of this, the stategovernment decided totake up the exercise offorming new districts.

At a recent mediaconference inVisakhapatnam, a closeassociate of Mr JaganMohan Reddy, Mr V.Vijayasai Reddy, MP,asserted that the stategovernment will formnew districts soon.Incidentally, theTelangana state govern-ment has already formednew districts, increasingthe number from 10 to34.

New Andhra Pradesh districtsto come up in 2021

A large number of anti-CAA protesters, majority ofthem Muslims, held a mas-sive protest against theamended Citizenship Act atChepauk here, even as agita-tions were held across TamilNadu on Wednesday.

The protest here was heldunder the aegis of the TamilNadu Islamia IyakkangalMatrum ArasiyalKatchigalin Koottamaippu,a federation of state Muslimoutfits and political parties.

Representatives fromDMK and other politicalparties also took part in theprotest. Meanwhile, as thedemonstration was beingheld at Chepauk, ChiefMinister K Palaniswami inthe Assembly located inside

the Secretariat a few kmsaway, announced welfaremeasures for the Muslimcommunity, including pen-sion hike for ’Ulema’(Islamic scholars).

Earlier, in a massiveshow of strength, agitatorscame in swathes and con-verged at Chepauk, beforetaking out a brief march

along the Wallajah road aspart of their original plan toproceed to the the stateSecretariat and lay siege tothe Assembly. However, theMadras High Court had onTuesday restrained theMuslim outfits from goingahead with their seigeprotest. The outfits havebeen demanding that the

state Assembly, dominatedby the AIADMK, adopt aresolution against theCitizenship Amendment Actin the ongoing sessionwhich concludes tomorrow.Agitators were seen carryingplacards against CAA, NRCand NPR, besides the Indianflag and raised slogansagainst the amended citizen-ship law. Scores of Muslimwomen, many of themburqa-clad, joined the agita-tion here.

The protest resulted intraffic snarls at key pointsalong the arterial AnnaSalai, even as police had setup roadblocks and sealed offroads leading to theSecretariat as part of beefedup security measures.

Shaheen Bagh in Chennai: Anti-CAAprotesters take to streets near Chepauk

Bengaluru: A poetand a journalist have beenarrested in connectionwith recital of a poemagainst CAA and NRC ata government sponsoredfunction in Koppal dis-trict of Karnataka lastmonth, police said onWednesday.

The arrests were madebased on a complaintfrom a BJP functionaryalleging that SirajBisaralli, a poet had recit-ed an anti-CAA poem at’Anegundi Utsava’ inGangavathi town ofKoppal district in Januaryand Rajabaxi, editor of anonline news portaluploaded it on social

media. Police had regis-tered a case against themunder section 505 of IPC(statements conducing topublic mischief).

On Tuesday, Bisaralliand Rajabaxi surrenderedbefore a court in that dis-trict, which rejected theirbail plea and remanded

them to police custody forinvestigation into the mat-ter.

"Siraj had recited thepoem and Rajabaxi hadshared it on the socialmedia. Based on a com-plaint by a BJP leader thecase was registered undersection 505 of the IPC.

They went abscondingafter that and surrenderedbefore the court onTuesday," a police officertold PTI. The duo soughtan interim bail, which thepublic prosecutor object-ed to and sought policecustody to conductinquiry.

The court granted sentBisaralli and Rajabaxi topolice custody tillWednesday afternoon."We may not seek furtherextension of their custodyuntil some fresh evi-dences surface. We haveseized their mobilephones to ascertain whomthey had shared thedetails with," police said.

Poet, journalist arrested forreciting anti-CAA poem

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Devotees take part in a procession on Shivaji Maharaj Jayanti, at Limbay in Surat.

Police detain aspirants staging a protest, demanding either a CBI inquiry into thealleged leak of question papers of the Bihar police sub-inspector (SI) recruitmentexamination or a cancellation of the test, in Patna.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi stops at a snacks stall at'Hunar Haat' at Rajpath in New Delhi. During a surprise visit

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