POLITICS
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May- 2025 -5 May
Sitting judge of Telangana High Court passes away at 61
Last rites will be performed on May 5 at Mahaprasthanam, Jubilee Hills Hyderabad: Telangana High Court’s sitting judge Justice Maturi Girija Priyadarsini passed away here on Sunday following a brief illness. She was 61. The judge breathed her last in the morning. The mortal remains have been kept at her residence in Hafeezpet. The last rites will be performed on Monday at Mahaprasthanam, Jubilee Hills. Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul, other judges of the High Court and lawyers have condoled the death of Justice Priyadarsini. She took over as the judge of the Telangana High Court in 2022. She was 16th in seniority and was set to retire next year. She was born to Maturi Appa Rao, a Commercial Tax Officer…
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5 May
Transmedia Entertainment City in Amaravati to create jobs, attract FDI: CM Chandrababu Naidu
Naidu said that India’s first Transmedia Entertainment City to be launched here will create 25,000 jobs and attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said on Sunday that India’s first Transmedia Entertainment City to be launched here will create 25,000 jobs and attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The Chief Minister posted on ‘X’ that the State government has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Creative Land Asia (CLA). “Delighted to announce that GoAP has entered into a historic MoU with Creativeland Asia to launch Creatorland, India’s first Transmedia Entertainment City, in the people’s capital, Amaravati,” read his post. “With an aim to create 25,000 jobs, the project is set to attract FDI, bring…
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5 May
Andhra Pradesh: Five killed, eight injured in series of freak accidents
Five killed, eight injured in multiple vehicle accidents on NH16 near Ongole. A truck with a flat tire triggered a chain reaction, causing a traffic jam and subsequent crashes. Negligent driving and poor road conditions are suspected Ongole (Andhra Pradesh): Five people were killed, and eight others sustained serious injuries in a series of freak road accidents involving multiple vehicles on National Highway16 near Ongole on Sunday morning, police said. The first accident occurred around 4:50 AM near Ongole East Bypass, where a truck parked on Lane 1 due to flat tyre was hit from behind by a poultry vehicle, killing a driver and two cleaners, they added. The crash led to a traffic jam stretching over a kilometre. Shortly after,…
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5 May
Heavy rains lash Andhra Pradesh, two killed by lightning in Bapatla
Heavy rains and gusty winds lashed Vijayawada, killing two in lightning strikes in Bapatla. Flooded roads, uprooted trees, and crop losses disrupted life. IMD forecasts storms until May 7. Officials are clearing debris and assessing damage Vijayawada: Two persons were killed as heavy rains, accompanied by gusty winds, lashed parts of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, affecting normal life and causing widespread damage to crops. Two people were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in the Bapatla district. Low-lying areas and roads were inundated while trees and electricity poles were uprooted due to heavy downpour and strong winds. Vijayawada received heavy rains, throwing normal life out of gear. Roads in several areas in the city were inundated, affecting the movement of vehicular traffic. The rains…
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5 May
Crucial meeting on May 7 on Krishna river water sharing
Meeting of Irrigation Ministers from Krishna basin States to put in place stable water-sharing framework for next two-and-half decades Hyderabad: The Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal-II award, delivered way back in December 2010, has fuelled intense legal battles, rather than bringing resolution to the complex inter-State water sharing disputes. The meeting of Irrigation Ministers from the Krishna basin States convened by the Ministry of Jal Shakti on May 7 is intended to facilitate gazette publication of the award and putting in place a stable water-sharing framework for the next two-and-half decades. But the conflict situation is unlikely to fade if the demand for an equitable share of water is not fulfilled. Following the formation of Telangana in 2014, the Tribunal’s scope expanded…
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5 May
India blocks X accounts of Imran Khan, Bilawal Bhutto
The official X handles of both have been withheld following their anti-India and malicious content regarding the current tense situation. India has already blocked the official X handle of the Government of Pakistan and also the X account of the country’s Defence Minister Khwaja Asif New Delhi The Indian government on Sunday blocked the X accounts of Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and former Pakistan Prime Minister and PTI founder Imran Khan. The official X handles of both have been withheld following their anti-India and malicious content regarding the current tense situation. India has already blocked the official X handle of the Government of Pakistan and also the X account of the country’s Defence Minister Khwaja Asif. The X account of Pakistan Information…
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5 May
TN Congress to launch 40-day ‘Save the Constitution’ campaign from today
The campaign is aimed at opposing the Union government’s alleged undermining of constitutional values. All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary in charge of Tamil Nadu, Girish Chodankar, and senior leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram are slated to participate in the launch event Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) will kick off its 40-day campaign, titled ‘Save the Constitution’, on Sunday at 4 p.m. in Teynampet, Chennai. The campaign is aimed at opposing the Union government’s alleged undermining of constitutional values. All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary in charge of Tamil Nadu, Girish Chodankar, and senior leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram are slated to participate in the launch event. This initiative is part of a nationwide campaign mandated by…
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5 May
MP: Journalists claim they were assaulted in Bhind SP’s office
Pritam Singh Rajawat who runs a YouTube channel, Shashikant Goyal who runs a news portal and Amarkant Chouhan who works for a news channel alleged in a complaint submitted to the district collector that they were assaulted on May 1 Bhind: Three journalists in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind district alleged on Saturday that they were beaten up or manhandled inside the office of Superintendent of Police, an allegation he denied.SP Asit Yadav suggested that someone was instigating the journalists. Pritam Singh Rajawat who runs a YouTube channel, Shashikant Goyal who runs a news portal and Amarkant Chouhan who works for a news channel alleged in a complaint submitted to the district collector that they were assaulted on May 1. According to Rajawat,…
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5 May
Jharkhand: Maoists attack mining survey site in Latehar, torch eight vehicles and machines
In Latehar, Jharkhand, Maoists attacked a CMPDI mining survey site, torching eight vehicles, including drilling rigs, in Torisat village. No injuries were reported. Police suspect active Maoist factions and have launched search operations to apprehend the attackers Latehar (Jharkhand): In a fresh incident of Maoist violence, an armed squad targeted a mining survey site of Coal India’s associate company, the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI), in Jharkhand’s Latehar district. The Maoists set fire to eight vehicles and machines, including two drilling rigs, causing extensive damage, officials said. The attack took place late Saturday night in a remote forested area of Torisat village, under Chakla Panchayat in the Chandwa police station limits. According to preliminary reports, the Maoists opened fire to create…
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5 May
Namami Gange boosts Ganga water quality; Gaps remain in India’s waste disposal targets, says Govt report
The Namami Gange programme has improved Ganga’s water quality, meeting bathing standards except in two Uttar Pradesh stretches. No fish mortality reported since 2017. EPR targets lag: battery waste achieved 53,755 of 3.35 lakh metric tonnes; plastic waste 19 of 34 lakh New Delhi: The Namami Gange programme has led to the entire stretch of the Ganga, except two areas in Uttar Pradesh, meeting bathing water standards on three criteria, with no incidence of fish mortality reported in the river’s main stem since 2017, an official report has said. The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, in a note on water pollution to a parliamentary committee, has also highlighted a considerable gap in the Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) — a comprehensive policy…
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