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Khammam comes to a halt as lockdown begins
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Senior police officials personally monitored the enforcement of lockdown
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Commissioner of Police Vishnu S Warrier questioning a couple who ventured out during the Lockdown in Khammam on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Rao G N
Senior police officials personally monitored the enforcement of lockdown
A ten-day lockdown, to check the COVID-19 spread, came into force at 10 a.m. on Wednesday across the old undivided Khammam district bringing normal life to a virtual halt with people remaining indoors, and shops and markets remained shuttered.
The 20-hour-a-day lockdown began amid heavy police deployment with senior police officials personally monitoring the enforcement of lockdown to break the chain of coronavirus infections. Essential service providers and other government and private employees of certain categories, notified in the lockdown circular, were exempted from the curbs.
Gemini virus hits chilli farmers in Khammam
Updated Feb 15, 2021, 6:29 am IST
The virus is transmitted by whitefly, causes infections like leaf-curling, leaf-rolling, wrinkling and scorching of intravenous areas
Gemini virus (Bobbarategulu) affects chilli plants and results in dropping of pods (DC Image)
KHAMMAM: The dreaded Gemini virus (Bobbarategulu) has dashed the hopes of chilli farmers in five mandals, including Madhira, Enkoor, Konigerla, Kamepalli and Tirumalayapalem in Khammam district.
The impact of the virus is so damaging that farmers lose out on precious revenue because almost three to five quintals of the produce is lost per acre. A farmer invests around Rs 1.10 lakh to Rs 1.25 lakh per acre to raise chilli. They can earn some surplus only if they can produce over and above ten quintals per acre.
too many kidnaps and tomorrow bombs. stories drip out that paint a picture of a country in chaos. we spoke to a commander from a u.s.-backed group. he said at the moment they re fighting on all sides. isis was created by assad after excessive force. iran, which is a terrorist country, hezbollah which is a terrorist group and isis too. he went on to say under the obama administration, there was a lack of policy here. but with trump, they re optimistic. they re worried if things are not backed up, it might slip and assad might up the game and continue to attack his people. on that note, we re learning that assad just today has been dropping barrel bombs again on his people in the hamma
ambadassador. robert ford went to hamma. he drove right along side the crowds of protesters demanding serioer syrian authoritarian government step down. he met them with olive branchs. not the metaphor but actual olive branchs. the ambadassador had to leave syria and come back to the united states for consultations. things got too dangerous there. they are still dangerous. the united nations estimates that 4,000 people have been killed in syria just since march. then just today, a human rights group reported that 34 bodies were found dumped in a town square in western syria. also in syria today, the ambadassador, robert ford is back in syria as of this