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Hyderabad: Secundrabad building gutted in fire being razed at brisk pace

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Hyderabad: Around 10 to 15 percent of the commercial building at Secundrabad that was gutted in fire on January 19, was reportedly brought down with the help of a long breaker hydraulic crane by evening on Friday.
With the demolishing team working at a brisk pace since Thursday, the process is expected to be completed within five to six more days.
The work started from the top floors with around 15 workers employed for the task.
A hydraulic crane with a diamond cutter, equipped with a water sprinkler facility, is being used to demolish the building.
The Deccan Knitwear Sports Accessories complex is being pulled down without much human interference, with a foolproof plan with none from the demolition team stepping afoot the building.
Since the corners and joints of the complex building were gutted completely in the fire mishap, they were the first to be pulled down.
Later, cranes started pulling down columns and beams of the structure.
The main roads which lead to the complex were also closed to traffic, as a precautionary measure.

No person was allowed near the demolition site, and other commercial establishments located nearby have been cordoned off for safety.
Massive fire story
A massive fire broke out on January 19 in the building housing the garment store at Nallagutta on Minister Road in Secunderabad.
Two fire service officers were injured while trying to douse the fire, which raged for almost two days.
Three workers Waseem, Zaheer and Junaid were reported missing after a huge fire broke out in the building. Some survivors said the three persons had gone to collect their belongings but were trapped.
Nearly a week after the fire incident, the rescue workers continued to look for remains of the missing persons in the huge rubble.
The skeletal remains of one person were found on January 21 and the same were preserved at Gandhi Hospital for DNA analysis.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 28, 2023
Shoaib Malik gets emotional as Sania Mirza retires, latter reacts

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Hyderabad: Since the divorce rumours of Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and Indian tennis star Sania Mirza came to the forefront, they have grabbed the attention of the media fraternity. The couple got married in 2010 and are currently rumoured to be co-parenting their son. But this time, the couple made it to headlines after Sania announced retirement from the grand slam and Shoaib Malik tweeted a message for her.
As it is reported that all is not well between the couple but still Shoaib Malik shared an appreciation post for his wife on Twitter. He wrote, “You are the much-needed hope for all the women in sports. Super proud of you for all you have achieved in your career. You’re an inspiration for many, keep going strong. Many congratulations on an unbelievable career…”
– You are the much needed hope for all the women in sports. Super proud of you for all you have achieved in your career. You’re an inspiration for many, keep going strong. Many congratulations on an unbelievable career… pic.twitter.com/N6ziDeUGmV
— Shoaib Malik 🇵🇰 (@realshoaibmalik) January 27, 2023
The cricketer shared the same post on his Instagram too which received a ‘like’ from Sania Mirza. However, she did not comment anything under the post adding more fuel to their divorce rumours.
Sania Mirza announced her retirement with teary eyes. She said, “If I cry, these are happy tears. That’s just a disclaimer. I’m still going to play a couple of more tournaments.” She also added, “Rohan was my first-ever mixed-doubles partner at (aged) 14 and we won the nationals.”
She further said, “It was a long time ago, 22 years ago, and I couldn’t think of a better person — he’s one of my best friends and best partners — to finish my career here and to play the final. There’s no better place for me, or person for me, to finish my Grand Slam career.”
Sania Mirza is a six-time Grand Slam champion, three in doubles and three in mixed.
Well, we hope Shoaib Malik’s tweet will bring the couple closer and they may reunite.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 28, 2023
Pakistan Finance Minister seeks divine intervention to rescue sinking economy

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Islamabad: As the Pakistan government struggles to arrest the worsening economic crisis, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar sought to allay concerns by invoking divine favor, saying that the country was the only country founded in the name of Islam “and Allah Almighty is responsible for its development and prosperity”.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Green Line Train in Islamabad, the Finance Minister said that he had full faith that Pakistan would progress because it was created in the name of Islam, The Express Tribune reported.
He said “if Allah can create Pakistan, then he can also protect, develop, and make it prosper”, adding that under the leadership of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the government was trying its best to lift the country out of the quagmire.
Dar said that the government inherited several problems from the previous government, adding, the government was working day and night.
“The team is trying to improve the situation ahead of the elections.”
The Finance Minister further said that the economy of Pakistan was destroyed in five years, but the government of the coalition parties wants to improve it till the next elections.
He said the country is still suffering due to the “drama” that started five years ago and insisted that the economy was strengthening during Nawaz Sharif’s tenure from 2013-2017, The Express Tribune reported.
The Finance Minister added that Pakistan Stock Exchange was the best-performing capital market in South Asia and ranked fifth in the world during Nawaz’s era and the sights of the world institutions were set on it.

However, he regretted that the country was today paying the price for the “Panama drama”, the ouster of the PML-N government, and other issues it faced over the last five years.
“Pakistan was on the growth track during Nawaz’s tenure, but it was derailed,” he added.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 28, 2023
I work all day, then go home & play work simulator: Musk

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San Francisco: Describing his daily routine, Twitter boss Elon Musk on Saturday said that he works all day, then goes home and plays the work simulator.
“I work all day, then go home & play work simulator,” he tweeted.
Musk is known for working long hours to run his five companies — Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, Neuralink, and the Boring Company.
His tweet so far has garnered over 8.8 million views, 127.8k likes, and 7,803 retweets.
However, his tweet was flooded with hundreds of comments, with some advising him to take a break from work, and some taking a dig at him.
One user commented: “I tweet all day, then stay home & play tweet simulator.”
Another user wrote: “I work all day and then do different work to relax from the all-day work.”
Earlier this week, Musk changed his name to “Mr. Tweet” on the micro-blogging platform and now he cannot reverse it.

Musk revealed that he got stuck with his new name as Twitter is not letting him change it back.
“Changed my name to Mr. Tweet, now Twitter won’t let me change it back,” he tweeted accompanied by a laughing emoji.
It is well-known that the billionaire owner makes out-of-the-blue decisions and tweets at times.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 28, 2023
Pak actor Adnan Siddiqui slams ‘Mission Majnu’: Hire some good researchers

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Mumbai: Pakistani actor Adnan Siddiqui has slammed ‘Mission Majnu’ starring Sidharth Malhotra for ‘misrepresentation’ of Pakistanis in the movie, which he tagged as ‘distasteful’ and ‘factually incorrect’ and slammed it for ‘poor story, poorer execution, poorest research’.
Adnan took to Instagram to share his thought. The actor, who has worked in the Hindi film ‘Mom’ starring late actress Sridevi, wrote: “How much misrepresentation is too much misrepresentation? Bollywood has the answer. I mean come on, yaar with all the money you have, hire some good researchers to do homework on us. Or allow me to help.”
He shared Pakistanis “don’t wear skull caps, surma and tawiz”, which Sidharth was seen donning to play his character Tariq in the film directed by Shantanu Bagchi.
Siddiqui wrote: “Make sure to take notes – no, we don’t wear skull caps, surma, tawiz; no, we don’t ask janab about their mijaz; no, we don’t go around throwing adaab.”
He added: “There’s so much in #MissionMajnu that’s distasteful & factually incorrect. The hero’s saviour complex would’ve accentuated more if the villain was shown at par. A weak antagonist embellishes even weaker protagonist.”
He said “Poor story, poorer execution, poorest research. Next time, come and visit us. We are good hosts. Will show you how we look like, dress up and live.”
The film, which released on Netflix, follows Amandeep Singh IPS, a RAW field operative who heads to Pakistan on an undercover mission to investigate about Pakistan’s involvement in creating nuclear weapons.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 28, 2023
Iranian FM condemns deadly attack on Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran

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Tehran: The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned an armed attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran, in which one person was killed and two others injured.
The Ministry’s spokesman Nasser Kanaani expressed “deep” sympathy to the assassinated embassy member’s family as well as the Azerbaijani government, according to a statement published on the Ministry’s website.
He added the assailant has been arrested by police and security forces and is being interrogated, Xinhua news agency reported.
Kanaani gave the assurance that at the order of the Iranian political and security authorities, the attack is under investigation with high priority and sensitivity.
Mohammad Shahriari, the caretaker Chairman of Tehran Province’s criminal court, said initial investigations showed that personal issues have been behind the attack, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Shahriari said the attacker claimed that his wife went to the embassy in April 2022 and had never returned home, and the assailant had gone to the embassy on numerous occasions looking for his wife but had never received any response.
Shahriari added the attacker said he had believed that his wife was in the embassy, but did not want to meet him.
On Friday morning, the assailant went to the embassy with a Kalashnikov rifle and started shooting, killing one employee and injuring two others, according to Tehran police Chief Hossein Rahimi.

The assailant had entered the embassy with his two young children, he added.
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry identified the victim as a guard, who had served as the head of security at the embassy, saying the Friday attack also wounded two people.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 28, 2023
US, India to hold diplomatic consultations: State Dept

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New York: The US diplomat in charge of political affairs is visiting India for consultations with the External Affairs Ministry in New Delhi, according to the State Department.
During her visit, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland will lead the US delegation to the annual foreign office consultations “which cover the full range of bilateral, regional, and global issues”, the Department said on Friday.
She is also scheduled to meet young tech leaders, it added.
Her visit to India will be a part of a week-long swing through Asia that starts on Saturday and take her also to Nepal, Sri Lanka and Qatar.
During her visit to Sri Lanka which will mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between that country and the US, she will convey Washington’s “support for Sri Lanka’s efforts to stabilize the economy, protect human rights, and promote reconciliation”, the Department said.
In Nepal, Nuland will engage with the new government of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who took office last month on the broad agenda of the partnership between the two countries.
Qatar, which plays a pivotal role in international diplomacy relating to the Taliban regime, represents US interests in Afghanistan as Washington has not recognized the regime.
The Department said that there Nuland will discuss “our bilateral arrangement on the protection of US interests in Afghanistan”.

“Global issues under the framework of the US-Qatar Strategic Dialogue and that country’s critical support for the relocation of Afghans with ties to the US,” will also figure in her discussions with leaders there, it noted.
The foreign office consultations are an annual affair to review the entire range of cooperation between the two countries under the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership, including political, economic, commercial, regional, and international cooperation.
The last such consultation was in March last year.
Although the US and India have been drawing closer together, New Delhi’s apparent neutrality in the Ukraine war and its continued purchase of oil from Russia remains a sticking point, although Washington’s diplomats gloss over it.
(Arul Louis can be contacted at arul.l@ians.in and followed at @arulouis)
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 28, 2023
Startup 20 group to hold two-day inception meeting in Hyderabad starting today

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Hyderabad: Hyderabad will host a two-day inception meeting of the Startup 20 Engagement Group, set up under India’s G20 presidency, from Saturday.
G20 is a grouping of developed and developing nations. India is holding its presidency for this year.
Startup 20 is an important engagement group and Hyderabad has a culture of innovation, G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant told reporters on Friday.
Startup20 has three different tracks, namely, foundation and alliance, finance and inclusivity, and sustainability, said Anurag Jain, Secretary, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.
Startup20 aspires to create a global narrative for supporting startups and enabling synergies between startups, corporates, investors, innovation agencies and other key ecosystem stakeholders, an official release said.
The purpose of this group is to provide a common platform for startups from G20 member countries to come together to develop actionable guidance in the form of building enabler capacities, identification of funding gaps, enhancement of employment opportunities, achievement of SDG targets and climate resilience, and growth of an inclusive ecosystem, it said.
The Startup20 activities will span over five events. The Inception Meet of Startup20 will be held in Hyderabad on Saturday and Sunday (January 28 and 29).
The summit event will take place in July in Gurugram with three intervening events planned in different parts of the country.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 28, 2023
NASA’s mega Moon rocket now ready for crewed mission

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Washington: NASA’s mega moon rocket has cleared all performance tests and engineers are now taking a closer look at the Space Launch System (SLS) performance to prepare for the first crewed Artemis missions.
NASA continues to evaluate data and learn more about the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s debut performance during the agency’s Artemis I launch on November 16 this year.
“NASA’s Space Launch System rocket has laid the foundation for the Artemis Generation and the future of spaceflight in deep space,” said John Honeycutt, SLS Programme manager.
“There is engineering and an art to successfully building and launching a rocket, and the analysis on the SLS rocket’s inaugural flight puts NASA and its partners in a good position to power missions for Artemis II and beyond,” he said.
The preliminary post-flight data indicated that all SLS systems performed exceptionally and that the designs are ready to support a crewed flight on Artemis II.
The core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has more than 1,000 sensors and 45 miles of cabling.
The Artemis I flight test was the only way to gather real data on how the rocket performed during events like booster separation.
“The data we got back from Artemis I is critical in building confidence in this rocket to send humanity back to the Moon,” said John Blevins, SLS chief engineer.

The SLS team will use what we learn from this flight test to improve future flights of the rocket, and we are already taking what we’ve learned about operations and assembly and applying it to streamline future missions, he added.
Cameras and sensors also allowed teams to monitor how the rocket performed during its in-space manoeuvres.
Engineers also monitored the extreme temperatures and sounds the rocket experienced just after liftoff.
Througha-Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of colour on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a stepping stone for astronauts on the way to Mars.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 28, 2023
UK mulls allowing foreign students to work for longer hours

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London: International students, including Indians, in the UK, are likely to be allowed to work for longer hours and take up more part-time jobs to plug labor shortages in various sectors across the country, according to a report.
Presently, foreign students in the UK, who number around 6,80,000, are allowed to work for a maximum of 20 hours a week during term time.
However, discussions have begun within the government to raise this cap to 30 hours or remove it entirely in a bid to boost its economy, The Times reported.
International students made up 476,000 of the 1.1 million migrants who arrived in the country last year.
Of these, India became the largest source of students with 161,000 students, including 33,240 dependents, coming to the UK last year.
There are 1.3 million empty posts, almost half a million more than before the pandemic, and according to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, “businesses are crying out for workers”.
Government sources told The Times that lifting the cap on foreign students’ hours was “part of a swathe of ideas being considered”, adding that the idea is at a nascent stage.
But what could put a spanner in the works is Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s plans to reduce the number of foreign students coming to the country.

With the net migration numbers rising to an estimated record of 504,000 last year, Braverman has drawn up proposals to reduce the number, which includes shortening the duration foreign students can stay in Britain post their course.
Curbs are also being considered on the number of dependents allowed into the UK and restricting foreign students from attending “low-quality” courses.
However, according to the Department of Education, the restrictions will bankrupt UK universities, which depend on foreign students for money.
According to UK-based New Way Consultancy, foreign students and their dependents contributed to the UK economy not just through fees of 10,000 pounds to 26,000 pounds but also via an NHS surcharge of 400 pounds a year for the student and 600 pounds for a dependent.
It warned that curbs on graduate work visas will force Indian students to shift to countries like Australia and Canada, ultimately leading to the end of the student market in the UK.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 28, 2023