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1 ! " # # $ % ! & ' ( ) " ! ! * % " # $ % ! ! ! ! !+ ,+ - . ! ! % & ' ( / ! 0 ,12 + ! 3 14 %+ " '$ ( " 56 7 * ! ! 18 % 9 + :;/The relationship betweenPrime Minister Modi andTelangana Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao hit an all-time time low on didn t visitHyderabad airport for extend-ing a customary welcome to thePrime Minister when he land-ed there. He also skippedprescheduled events withModi, including the inaugura-tion of the 216-feet tall Statueof Equality by Modi com-memorating the 11th-centuryBhakti Saint absence of the CM atthe airport provoked the saf-fron party which said Raofailed to follow the protocol and insulted the Prime Minister .Governor TamilisaiSoundararajan, Union MinisterG Kishan Reddy and TelanganaMinister Talasani SrinivasYadav received Modi at the air-port.))

2 Sources at Pragati Bhavan,Rao s official residence saidthe CM was not well as he issuffering from fever .Telangana BJP presidentBandi Sanjay Kumar tookstrong exception to Rao sabsence at the airport, saying itwas shameful on the part ofthe CM for playing truant toModi s trip by citing lameexcuses. KCR, is this your culture?You claim to have read 80,000books. Is it what you havelearned from them? CM had earlierremarked that Modi dressesfor elections and hisBudget exemplifies style butno substance .Inaugurating the statueof the 11th century SaintRamanujacharya, Modi saidthe revered saint worked forthe equality of all and workedfor dalits and those exploitedin (1017 1137 AD) was anphilosopher, Hindu theolo-gian, social reformer, and oneof the most important expo-nents of the Vaishnavism tra-dition within PM said ours is acountry where dualism cancoexist with non-dualism and referred toRamanujacharya s ativishist-wad which he said is allinspiring to all of us.

3 Modi said, The Statue ofEquality will inspire manyfuture generations and wouldremind us of his values. Hesaid Ramanujacharya taughtthat all kinds of lives areequal and lived throughVe d a n t a S u t r a .Modi said though born inthe South, Ramanujacharyawas respected by all greatsaints across the country. If hewrote in Sanskrit, he wrote inTamil too, he said. ) 9 + :;/In its draft working papersubmitted to five associatemembers, the Jammu &Kashmir DelimitationCommission has sought toredraw boundaries of five LokSabha constituencies of Jammuand Kashmir to make it twoand half seats in both commission has putaside objections filed by FarooqAbdullah-led J&K NationalConference (JKNC) againstthe move to give six newAssembly seats to Jammuregion as against just one to theKashmir division.

4 The com-mission has asked the associatemembers to submit their objec-tions/suggestions by February14, after which the reportwould be put in the , taking toTwitter, the JKNC announcedthat it has rejected the draftpaper. JKNC summarilyREJECTS draft working papermade available by DelimitationCommission to associate mem-bers. A detailed response willfollow after the party has hadtime to discuss the implicationsof what has been proposed, theparty said at its Twitter sources said that thedraft paper was sent to the fiveassociate members FarooqAbdullah, Hasnain Masoodi,Akbar Lone (Lok Sabha MPsfrom the National Conference),Jitendra Singh and JugalKishore (BJP MPs) onFriday evening for their view-points /comments by February14.

5 The report has rejected theobjections filed by the NationalConference on December 31last year opposing the propos-al to increase six Assembly seatsin the Jammu region as againstjust one in the Kashmir divi-sion. Once the delimitationexercise is completed, thenumber of Assembly seats inJ&K will go up from 83 to 24 seats of the Assemblycontinue to remain vacant asthey fall under Pakistan-occu-pied Kashmir (PoK).According to sources, thecommission has divided 20districts of J&K into three cat-egories A with predomi-nantly hill and difficult areas; B with hill and flat areas; and C with predominantly flatareas giving a margin ofminus or plus 10 per cent ofaverage population perAssembly constituency(1,36,304), while proposing anallocation of into account thisaverage, census population,area, and population density,the panel has proposed 11seats for Jammu; eight seats forSrinagar; seven seats each forBaramulla and Anantnag; sixseats each for Kupwara andKathua; five seats each forBudgam and Rajouri; four seatseach for Pulwama andUdhampur.

6 Three seats each forBandipora, Kulgam, Kishtwar,Doda, Reasi, Samba andPoonch; and two seats each forGanderbal, Shopian andRamban. New Delhi: Ice on a glaciernear the summit of MountEverest that took millennia toform has shrunk dramaticallyin the last three decades due toclimate change, a new study South Col formationmay already have lost around55 metres (180 feet) of thick-ness in the last 25 years, accord-ing to research led by theUniversity of Maine and pub-lished this week by dating showed thetop layer of ice was around2,000 years old, suggesting thatthe glacier was thinning morethan 80 times faster than thetime it took to form, the that rate, South Colwas probably going to disap-pear within very few decades ,lead scientist Paul Mayewskitold National Geographic.

7 It squite a remarkable transition, he South Col glacier isaround 7,900 metres (26,000feet) above sea level and akilometre below the peak of theworld s highest researchers haveshown that Himalayan glaciersare melting at an acceleratingrate. As the glaciers shrink,hundreds of lakes have formedin the foothills of Himalayanmountains that could burstand unleash climber Kami RitaSherpa, who has climbedEverest a record 25 times since1994, ) 9 + :;/Around 23,000 fraudulenttransactions were record-ed at empanelled hospitalsunder the Modi Government sambitious flagship AyushmanBharat-Pradhan Mantri JanArogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY)across the country during thefiscal year topped thelist of fraudulent transactionsreporting 6,785 confirmed casesfollowed by Punjab with 5,487and Jharkhand with 2, , Tripura andUnion Territory Puducherryrecorded the lowest cases withone each.

8 The Northeast Stateslike Mizoram and Assamreported two cases to the data avail-able from the Union HealthMinistry, a total 22, 874 fraud-ulent transactions were record-ed at empanelled healthcareproviders as of January 31, other States whichrecorded cases of fraudulenttransactions were Bihar (50cases), Gujarat (16), Haryana(1,403), Himachal Pradesh(22), Jammu & Kashmir(1,011), Kerala (904), MadhyaPradesh (2,627), Meghalaya(96), Mizoram (2), Nagaland(38), Uttarakhand (128) andUttar Pradesh (1,518).The private hospitals underAB-PMJAY are empanelled byStates/UTs based on well-defined criteria laid down byNational Health Authority(NHA), including minimumin-patient bed strength andspecialty-wise infrastructurefacilities like equipment and theaverage bed strength of hospi-tals empanelled under thescheme is of January 28, 2022,about lakh hospital admis-sions were authorised for thetreatment of Covid-19 underthe scheme.

9 A senior officialfrom the Ministry said thatduring 2021, at least 3,27,104patients were treated at variousempanelled hospitals in 2020-21. The number of patientsincreased to 5,20,368 in 2021-22 during the Covid-19 the AB-PMJAY,cashless health services arebeing provided to a large sec-tion of the population in select-ed Government and privatehospitals, said the scheme was kicked offby the Central Government in2018 with an aim to providefree health services to eco-nomically weaker sections ofthe country. It provides healthinsurance cover of 5 lakh perfamily per year to all the resi-dents at empanelled scheme covers up to threedays of pre-hospitalisation andfifteen days post-hospitaliza-tion expenses, including diag-nostics and medicines.

10 !" # $ ## % # " .<. /In a major cause for concernfor Bollywood and hercountless fans and well-wishersacross the country, legendarysinger Lata Mangeshkar shealth deteriorated at theBreach Candy hospital inSouth Mumbai, where she wasput on ventilator on Lata,who had been taken off ven-tilator on January 27 after sherecovered from pneumoniaand Covid-19 was put onventilator support once again,after her condition deterio-rated. The condition of singerLata has deteriorated againand she is on a ventilator is under aggres-sive therapy. We are continu-ously monitoring her. She con-tinues to be under observationat the ICU, Dr PratitSamdhani who has beenattending to the iconic singerever since she was admitted tothe Breach Candy Hospitalnearly a month ago may be recalled that astatement put out on January27 on her official Twitter han-dle had read, Lata didi con-tinues to be in ICU at BreachCandy hospital , Mumbaiunder treatment.