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1 FOR INCOME TAX RETURNS,EXTENDED DEADLINE IS IMPORTANTT axpayers who have not e-verified their ITRs for 2019-20fiscal can complete the verification process by February28, 2022, as the Income Tax department has given a one-time relaxation to assessees. As per law, an income tax return(ITR), filed electronically without a digital signature, has to beverified electronically through Aadhaar OTP, or net-banking, orcode sent through demat account, pre-validated bank accountand ATM within 120 days of filing the return. Alternatively,taxpayers can send a physical copy of the ITR filed to theCentralised Processing Centre (CPC) office in Bengaluru. PM'S NEW MAYBACH COST MUCHLESS, ROUTINE REPLACEMENTAcar for Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led to widespeculations about its hefty price tag, said to be ? 12 crore. PMModi's newest car is a Mercedes-Maybach S 650 Guard. Earlier,he used a Range Rover Vogue, Toyota Land Cruiser and a BMW replacement car, however, costs much less than what is beingreported in the media, sources have said, adding the actual cost isabout one-third of the price doing the rounds on social media.

2 Twosuch cars were bought for the Prime Minister. The new cars are notan upgrade but a routine replacement after BMW stopped makingthe model that was used previously, sources OKAS QUESTIONING OF JAWANSFOR DEATHS OF 14 NAGALAND CIVILIANSThe army has agreed to give access to Nagaland's SpecialInvestigation Team, or SIT, to examine and record thestatements of officers and jawans who were involved in anambush that went horribly wrong on December 4, which claimed thelives of 14 civilians, police sources have said. A soldier died in asubsequent attack by villagers, who surrounded the jawans in Nagaland SIT is likely to complete recording the statements ofthe 21 Para Special Forces soldiers this week, top police sourcessaid. It's not yet clear if the soldiers will be interrogated by the SIT orthey will only submit prepared VIDEO PURPORTEDLY SHOWSAYYAPPA IDOL OPENING EYESA video purportedly showing an idol of Lord Ayyappaopening and shutting His eyes during a consecration hasgone viral.

3 This reportedly took place at ManikandaswamiTemple here on Saturday, when over 3,000 Ayyappa devoteesgathered for the 40th annual pooja. With special floraldecoration of the idol, the elderly devotees poured ghee on it aswas the practice and those videographing it noticed that theeyes opening and closing. This happened more than four timesand the people in the area thronged the temple to witness thereported miracle after the video went No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 Published From HYDERABAD DELHILUCKNOWBHOPALRAIPUR CHANDIGARHBHUBANESWAR RANCHIDEHRADUNVIJAYAWADA*LATE CITY VOL. 4 ISSUE 81*Air Surcharge Extra if us on:} I LIKE TELUGU, SANSKRIT TITLESVERY MUCH Page 11{ ECONOMIC FOREBODINGS IN 2022 MONEY 8 RBI WARNS OF BAD LOAN SPIKE, PENCILS NPAS AT BY SEPSPORTS12 INDIA SNIFF AT BIG WIN AS SA DEPEND ON ELGAR, RAINHYDERABAD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2021; PAGES 12 `3 HHYYDDRRAABBAADDWWEEAATTHHEERRU pdated DECEMBER 29, 2021 5:00 PM FFoorreeccaasstt::MOSTLY SUNNYTT eemmpp:: 27ocHHuummiiddiittyy:: 58%SSuunnrriissee:: 6:45 AMSS uunnsseett:: 5:51 PMAALLMMAANNAACC TTOODDAAYYM onth & Paksham:Margashirsha & Krishna PakshaTithi :Ekadashi 13:40 Nakshatram: Vishakha 24:34 Rahukalam :1:41 pm - 3:03 pmYamagandam :6:49 am - 8:11 amVarjyam :7:45 am - 9:13 am, 12:00 am - 5:35 amGulika :9:34 am - 10:56 amAmritakalam :4:31 pm - 5:59 pmAbhijit Muhurtham : 11:56 am - 12:40 pmIndia to see huge surge of cases within days: Cambridge varsityPNS nNEW DELHII ndia may see a spurt in theCovid-19 growth rate within daysand head into an intense butshort-lived virus wave as the high-ly-infectious omicron variantmoves through the crowded nationof almost billion.

4 "It is likely that India will see aperiod of explosive growth indaily cases and that the intensegrowth phase will be relativelyshort," Paul Kattuman, professor atthe Judge Business School at theUniversity of Cambridge which hasdeveloped a Covid-19 India track-er, wrote in an email. "New infec-tions will begin to rise in a fewdays, possibly within this week," hesaid, adding that it was hard to pre-dict how high the daily casescould and his team ofresearchers, developers of the IndiaCovid tracker, are seeing a sharprise in infection rates across tracker spotlighted six statesas a "significant concern" in a note, with adjusted growthrate of new cases exceeding 5%.This had expanded to 11 Indianstates by Dec. 26, according to thetracker, which corrects for "day ofthe week effects" and other added 9,195 Covid casesWednesday --the highest new dailycases in three weeks -- pushing thetotal confirmed tally to mil-lion infections.

5 The total numberof fatalities so far is 480,592 country is already gearing upto prevent another massive out-break even though only 781 casesof the highly-mutated omicronhave been identified so week, it allowed boostershots and included teenagers aged15 to 18 in the inoculation pro-gram. Two more vaccines as wellas antiviral pill molnupiravir,developed by Merck & Co. withpartner Ridgeback BiotherapeuticsLP, were approved by the localdrug regulator Delhi closed cinemas,schools and gyms and intro-duced restrictions on public gath-ering on Tuesday -- a day after itreported the most new cases inmore than four months. Nightcurfew kicks in from 10 to and bars, restaurants aswell as offices will have 50%occupancy. Mumbai, the coun-try's financial capital, also report-ed a surge in new cases to 1,377on policy decisions under-score hard lessons India learnedafter a deadly delta-led viruswave in April and May thatpushed infections to a record-beating 400,000-plus each day.

6 Itoverwhelmed the country's hos-pitals and crematoriums and leftits citizens pleading for oxygenand other medical resources onsocial-media rising afterchanging form, says Amit ShahGANDHINAGAR:Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesdaysaid the coronavirus pandemic cannot be controlled until themasses become aware and follow the guidelines issued bythe government. He also appealed to those in the 15-18 agegroup to get themselves vaccinated at the earliest whentheir turn begins from January 3. Addressing a gatheringthrough video conferencing after dedicating and layingfoundation stones for various developmental works wortharound Rs 50 crore in his Lok Sabha constituency ofGandhinagar, Shah also asked the administration to remainalert about the rising cases of coronavirus. "Coronavirus is onceagain rising after changing form. This time, all of us, be it municipalcorporations, municipalities, district panchayats or state governments,will have to remain alert," the Union Home Minister said.

7 WHO: Global Covidcases up 11% last week,Omicron risk highBERLIN:The World HealthOrganization says the number ofCOVID-19 cases recordedworldwide increased by 11% lastweek compared with the previousweek, with the biggest increase inthe Americas. The gain followed agradual increase since health agency said in itsweekly epidemiological reportreleased late Tuesday that therewere nearly million newlyreported cases around the worldfrom December visit of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to UAE,expected to take place inthe first week of January,has been postponed amid aspike in Omicron cases, sources toldnews agency ANI. The sources said thePM Modi was scheduled to visit UAEfrom January 6 on his first foreign visitin the new year. India and UAE areholding talks for ComprehensiveEconomic Partnership Agreement(CEPA) and there were reports that theagreement could be announcedduring the Prime Minister's visit. Rs 25 per litre relief in price ofpetrol for 2 wheelers in J'KhandPNS nRANCHIJ harkhand Chief Minister HemantSoren Wednesday announced con-cession of Rs 25 per litre on petroland diesel prices for two wheelersowned by the poor in the statefrom Republic Day next made the announcementon it on the completion of twoyears of the JMM-led coalitiongovernment in the concession will be given for10 litres of petrol for every month,a statement by the state govern-ment said later.

8 "To provide relief to the poorand middle class families of thestate who are impacted by theincreased fuel prices, TS farmers celebrate as Rythu Bandhu creditedML MELLY MAITREYI nHYDERABADWith the state government begin-ning to credit the Rythu Bhandhuinvestment assistance to farmers'bank accounts for the Yasangi sea-son, farmers across the state haveheaved a sigh of relief and are ina celebratory was speculation in somequarters that the Rythu Bandhuassistance may not be released tofarmers who had taken up paddycultivation during Yasangi, con-sidering the suggestions made bysome officials and party represen-tatives following the Centre'sdecision not to procure Rabipaddy. However, Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao has scotchedall such his instructions, disburse-ments of investment assistancestarted on Tuesday. On Wednesday, farmers, alongwith TRS party leaders and cadre,anointed portraits of KCR ('pal-abhishekam') at various places toshow their happiness, distributedsweets to one another and evenburst firecrackers.

9 Amul to invest Rs 500 cr for plant in TSPNS nHYDERABADIn a significant development reflect-ing the growing stature of Telanganaas an investment destination, Amul,Gujarat-based prominent dairycooperative society, on Wednesdayannounced the setting up of itslargest southern state-of-the-art plantat Wargal in Gajwel. An MoU to thiseffect was signed in the presence ofIT Minister K T Rama Rao inHyderabad on Wednesday. TS Principal Secretary JayeshRanjan and Amul's largest milkcooperative, Sabarkantha DistrictCooperative Milk Producers UnionLtd - Sabar Dairy MD Babubhai MPatel signed the MoU. The plant will come up in a spe-cial food processing zone inTelangana with an investment ofabout Rs 300 cr in Phase 1 & Rs 200cr in Phase-2. The plant is expectedto provide direct employment tomore than 500 persons, apart fromopportunities to several has selected Telangana to setup its largest plant in southern Indiawith capacity to process 5 lakh litresper day of milk expandable to 10 LLPD to manufacture packed milkand value-added dairy productssuch as curd, buttermilk, lassi, yogurt,paneer, sweets IT Minister K T Rama Rao with Sabar Dairy MD Babubhai M Patelduring the signing of the MoU on affordability in Hyd at decadal bestAffordability ratio improvedfrom 53% in 2012 to 29% in 2021 NAVEENA GHANATE nHYDERABADH yderabad residential market isat its decadal best in terms ofhousing affordability.

10 KnightFrank India, an internationalproperty consultancy, in its latestrelease Affordability Index 2021has highlighted that the afford-ability ratio in Hyderabadimproved from 53% in 2012 to29% in 2021. All markets, exceptMumbai, recorded well belowthe threshold of affordability setat 50% ratio in India. Ahmedabad has emerged as themost affordable housing marketin the country, with an affordabil-ity ratio of 20%; followed byPune and Chennai at 24% and25% respectively, in 2021. At53%, Mumbai was the only onethat recorded higher than thresh-old affordability ratio. However,it has improved the most since2011. Knight Frank's proprietaryAffordability Index, which tracksthe EMI (Equated MonthlyInstallment) to total income ratiofor an average household, hasshown a meaningful improve-ment in affordability since 2010. Chilly NewYear's Eve likelyin HyderabadPNS nHYDERABADH yderabadis can expect a chillyNew Year's Eve as temperatures arelikely to drop to 11 Degree Celsiusin Hyderabad and below 10 DegreeCelsius in the State from temperature may drop to8 C in North, West Telanganaand up to 11 C in Hyderabad fromDec.