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The Telangana Legislative Assembly on Saturday witnessed a stormy debate on the Motion of Thanks to the Governor's address with the ruling Congress and the opposition BRS indulging in a war of words over the track record of the two parties while in power, alleging 'family rule' and others. BRS Working President K T Rama Rao, who alleged that the Governor's address was full of untruths and that he is "shameful as a member" to listen to such a speech, attacked the Congress that its rule in undivided Andhra Pradesh was marked by parched lands, hunger deaths and suicides. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy led the Congress defence, citing the alleged family rule, non-completion of irrigation projects, ignoring the families of those who sacrificed their lives for the cause of Telangana statehood, leak of question papers and other failures during the 10 years of BRS rule. "... our government broke the iron gates of Pragati Bhavan (former CM KCR's camp office...

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday pitched for a "structured mechanism" of interaction among the heads of the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary, saying it will not help if the heads of these institutions start sharing their thoughts from public platforms. He also said Indian democracy thrives and blossoms only when its three wings act in tandem. Addressing an event here to launch a poetry collection 'Roses without thorns' penned by Attorney General (AG) R Venkataramani, Dhankhar said that "there will always be issues" but there must be a structured mechanism of interaction. "We cannot go ahead in the country without someone telling all concerned that we must respect the doctrine of separation of powers," the vice president said. He felt the attorney general is imminently suited to ensure that the doctrine of separation of powers evoke deference from all the three organs. Dhankhar urged him (Venkataramani) to pen down his refl...

केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडल ने शुक्रवार को सूरत हवाई अड्डे को अंतरराष्ट्रीय हवाई अड्डा घोषित करने के प्रस्ताव को मंजूरी दे दी. एक आधिकारिक बयान में कहा गया, ''यह रणनीतिक कदम अभूतपूर्व आर्थिक क्षमता को उजागर करने के लिए है, जिससे सूरत अंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानन परिदृश्य में एक प्रमुख केंद्र बन जाएगा और क्षेत्र में समृद्धि के एक नए युग को बढ़ावा मिलेगा.'' यह फैसला प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी की अध्यक्षता में मंत्रिमंडल ने लिया. बयान में कहा गया कि सूरत हवाई अड्डे को अंतरराष्ट्रीय दर्जा देने से आर्थिक वृद्धि में तेजी लाने, विदेशी निवेश आकर्षित करने और राजनयिक संबंधों को मजबूत करने में मदद मिलेगी. डीजीसीए ने अयोध्या हवाई अड्डे के लिए एयरोड्रम लाइसेंस जारी किया दूसरी ओर, विमानन नियामक डीजीसीए ने अयोध्या हवाई अड्डे के लिए ‘एयरोड्रम' लाइसेंस जारी किया है. इस हवाई अड्डे को भारतीय विमानपत्तन प्राधिकरण (एएआई) लगभग 350 करोड़ रुपये की लागत से विकसित कर रहा है. एएआई के चेयरमैन संजीव कुमार को डीजीसीए (नागरिक उड्डयन महानिदेशालय) के प्रमुख विक्रम देव दत्त ने लाइसेंस दिया. एएआई ने कहा कि अयोध...

A court in Maharashtra's Jalna has sentenced six persons, including four women, to life imprisonment for killing a 35-year-old pregnant woman over a property dispute in 2020. District and sessions court judge V M Mohite passed the order on Wednesday. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on each convict. The victim, Heena Khan, was six months pregnant when she was murdered in Kazi Pura locality of Jalna city. The court convicted Nilofar Zafar Khan (23), Nasima Zafar Khan (55), Arbaz Khan Zafar Khan (20), Ismail Ahmed Shah (38), Halima Bi (60) and Shabana Shah (30) and sentenced them to life imprisonment. According to government pleader Bharat Khandekar, the convicts are relatives of Heena Khan's first husband. They had a dispute with Heena over some property. On August 9, 2020, the six convicts forced their way into the residence of Heena Khan's second husband Sayyed Majid Tamboli. They attacked Heena with rods, due to which she died on the spot. Tamboli also suffe...

A metropolitan court here on Wednesday rejected Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh's applications seeking adjournment in proceedings in a defamation case filed against them over their remarks regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's educational degree. The court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate SJ Panchal rejected the adjournment applications moved by the lawyers representing the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders. The court also reserved its order for Thursday on Kejriwal's plea stating that he cannot be prosecuted without sanction under section 197 of CrPC (Code of Criminal Procedure) because he is a public servant. The two leaders are facing a criminal defamation case filed by the Gujarat University (GU) over their "sarcastic" and "derogatory" statements in connection with PM Modi's degree. Kejriwal and Singh moved pleas seeking adjournment of the case on the grounds that their petitions challenging t...

More than 2,000 children have been adopted by Indians in the financial year 2023-24 so far while 224 children have been adopted by foreigners, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani informed the Parliament on Wednesday. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Ms Irani said the Women and Child Development Ministry had notified Adoption Regulations, 2022, which have been framed in line with the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (as amended in 2021), on September 23 last year. The Adoption Regulations were framed keeping in mind the issues and challenges faced by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) and other stakeholders, including the Adoption Agencies and Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs), she said. According to the data shared by the minister, 3,142 children were adopted by Indians and 417 by foreigners in 2020-21, 2,991 by Indians and 414 by foreigners in 2021-22, and 3,010 by Indians and 431 by foreigners in 2022-23. In ...

A pilot working with IndiGo, a private airline, has approached the Bombay High Court seeking a direction to the Union government to allow him to carry a 'kirpan' while flying. Kirpan is a short knife with a curved blade, worn, sometimes in miniature form, as one of the five distinguishing signs of the Sikh Khalsa. Angad Singh, a pilot with InterGlobe Aviation which operates IndiGo, claimed in the petition filed before the Nagpur bench of the high court that he has the right to carry a kirpan as part of the freedom of religion guaranteed under Article 25 of the Indian Constitution. A division bench of Justices Nitin Sambre and Abhay Mantri on Monday issued a notice to the Union government and the airline, seeking their replies. The bench posted the matter for further hearing on January 29, 2024. Mr Singh's lawyer advocate Saahil Shyam Dewani said the restrictions imposed by the Ministry of Civil Aviation are required to be amended as on March 12, 2022, the government iss...