POLITICS
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Feb- 2025 -5 February
Man gets 20 yrs for raping minor in Telangana’s Jagtial
The court also ordered a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the victim. Hyderabad: A 21-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) by Jagtial court for raping a minor The accused has been identified as Sunkala Srinivas. The case was registered at Jagtial town police station under the POCSO Act and SC/ST (POA) Amendment Act. The public prosecutor along with court duty officers presented the evidence before Additional Principal District and Sessions Judge who found the accused guilty and pronounced the verdict. The court also ordered a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the victim. Earlier, a 32-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a five-year-old girl at his residence…
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5 February
Woman SI, biker die in accident in Telangana’s Jagtial
Swetha, who was deployed at the Jagtial Crime Records Bureau, earlier worked in Korutla, Velgatur, Kathalapur and Peddapalli stations. Hyderabad: Two persons including a woman sub-inspector of police died in an accident in Telangana’s Jagtial district on Tuesday, February 4. The accident occurred at Shilvakodur, Golapalli mandal, when the car in which she was travelling and a motorcycle collided. The woman police officer and the motorcyclist were killed on the spot. The car went off the road and crashed into a roadside tree. Swetha died on the spot. Swetha, who was deployed at the Jagtial Crime Records Bureau, earlier worked in Korutla, Velgatur, Kathalapur and Peddapalli stations. She was placed under suspension after an accused in a case she investigated, died by suicide…
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5 February
Telangana: Congress MLC burns caste survey statement of CM Revanth
Congress MLC Chinthapandu Naveen has alleged that the survey was a conspiracy to increase EWS reservations and cut-down BC quota. Hyderabad: Congress MLC Chinthapandu Naveen alias Teenmaar Mallanna has burnt chief minister A Revanth Reddy’s statement on the comprehensive socio-economic, political, caste, education and employment survey that was tabled in the assembly on Tuesday, February 4. He asked the people from the backward classes to pour urine and burn the statement, as he claimed that Congress has insulted the people of Telangana. Live-telecasting the burning of the statement, he alleged that the survey data was manipulated to protect the reservations of economically weaker sections (EWS), while bringing down the reservation of the backward classes (BC). “This is a conspiracy to show…
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5 February
Akbaruddin Owaisi demands 50 pc quota for BCs in local bodies
AIMIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi raised the discrepancies in the population of Telangana in different surveys and government agencies. Hyderabad: AIMIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi has urged the state government to increase the reservation for the backward classes (BC) in the local bodies to 50%. As the 50% ceiling on reservations has been breached by implementing 54% in local bodies, he felt it wouldn’t be a problem. Speaking in the assembly during a special session on tabling the statement of the BC census on Tuesday, February 4, Owaisi drew various discrepancies between the data with regard to the population of various communities in the state. While appreciating the state government for conducting the comprehensive socio-economic, political, educational and employment survey, he…
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5 February
Scheduled Castes in Telangana to be sub-classified into three groups
The chief minister stated in his statement in Assembly that the movement for sub-categorization of SCs had been going on for three decades. Hyderabad: The one-member Judicial Commission headed by retired High Court judge Justice Shameem Akhtar has recommended sub-classification of Scheduled Castes (SCs) in Telangana into three sub-categories for equitable implementation of 15 per cent reservation. According to the report tabled by chief minister A. Revanth Reddy in Assembly during special session on Tuesday, 59 SC communities have been divided into three groups. The Group I comprises 15 socially, economically and educationally most backward SC communities. As per the 2011 census, they constitute 3.288 per cent of the SC population. The Commission has recommended one per cent reservation for them.…
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5 February
First military flight lands in Guantanamo Bay with migrants deported from US
President Donald Trump has eyed the facility as a holding center and said it has the capacity to hold as many as 30,000. Washington: The first US military flight deporting migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay landed in Cuba on Tuesday evening, according to a US official. It was the first step in an expected surge in the number of migrants sent to the US naval base, which for decades was primarily used to detain foreigners associated with the September 11, 2001, attacks. President Donald Trump has eyed the facility as a holding center and said it has the capacity to hold as many as 30,000. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was assigned to Guantanamo Bay when he was…
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5 February
Trump, Netanyahu meeting focuses on hostages, Saudi relations, Iran threats
The Saudis, the biggest Arab power in the Middle East, have said they would only agree to such a deal if the war ends and there is a credible pathway to a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. Washington: President Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are set to meet Tuesday as the Israeli prime minister faces competing pressure from his right-wing coalition to end a temporary truce against Hamas militants in Gaza and from war-weary Israelis who want the remaining hostages home and the 15-month conflict to end. Trump is guarded about the long-term prospects for the truce, even as he takes credit for pressuring Hamas and Israel into the hostage and ceasefire agreement that went into effect the…
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5 February
At least 19 killed mostly women in a car bomb explosion in northern Syria
Manbij in northeastern Aleppo province continues to witness violence even after the downfall of President Bashar Assad in December. A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city on Monday, February 3, killing at least 19 people, all but one of them women, and leaving more than a dozen wounded, hospital workers said. The car detonated next to a vehicle carrying mostly female agricultural workers on the outskirts of the city of Manbij. The dead included 18 women and one man, a nurse at the hospital, Mohammad Ahmad, told The Associated Press. Another 15 women were wounded, some of them in critical condition, according to the local Syrian civil defence. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the…
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5 February
Israeli hostages freed from Gaza rarely saw sunlight, families say
American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, 65, who was released from captivity Saturday, spent long periods alone, rarely saw sunlight and was given very little food, causing him to lose a drastic amount of weight. The families of hostages freed from Gaza over the weekend, the latest release in the ceasefire deal, described difficult conditions — including rarely seeing the sun — during their captivity. The six-week first phase of the truce calls for the release of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 prisoners, as well as the return of Palestinians to northern Gaza and an increase in humanitarian aid to the devastated territory. Israel and Hamas are beginning to negotiate a second phase of the ceasefire, which calls for releasing the remaining…
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5 February
UAE: Kerala security guard wins Dh 25 million in Big Ticket draw
Big Ticket lottery is back, ticket buyers who purchase two or more tickets between February 1 and 23 will have the chance to attend the live draw on March 3 where they can win guaranteed cash prizes ranging from Dh 20,000 to Dh 1,50,000. A 38-year-old Indian expat working as a security guard in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) finally struck luck after a decade of hope and persistence. Ashik Patinharath, a native of Kerala state, won a staggering grand prize of Dh 25 million (approximately Rs 5,92,719) in the latest Big Ticket draw, making his dream a reality. Patinharath, who has lived away from his family in Sharjah for the past 19 years, has been purchasing the Big Ticket…
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