New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court is set to hear on Friday a plea by Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan challenging the rejection of her nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha election from Madhya Pradesh.A vacation Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Atul S. Chandurkar on Thursday assured an early hearing on Friday after senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Natarajan, sought urgent listing of the matter.During the mentioning, Singhvi contended that Thursday was…
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Hyderabad, June 11 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Thursday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and sought the Centre’s support for several key infrastructure projects in the state. He urged the Centre to facilitate discussions with the Maharashtra government to ensure the efficient utilisation of Godavari waters for irrigation and drinking water needs, emphasising that the use of Godavari water is crucial for Telangana’s future requirements.According to the Chief…
Hyderabad, June 11 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Thursday sought a task force for six metropolitan cities in the country, with an investment of Rs 1 lakh crore per city to develop them to global standards. Addressing the 11th governing council of NITI Aayog in New Delhi, he stated that New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru are true engines of the economy, yet they lag behind the world’s great cities.While seeking an M6 Cities Task Force, he mentione…
Mumbai, June 11 (IANS) Leaders of the Congress and Shiv Sena-UBT on Thursday criticised the rejection of Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s Rajya Sabha nomination, describing the move as undemocratic and raising questions about the fairness of the electoral process. Speaking to IANS, Shiv Sena-UBT spokesperson Anand Dubey said: “Only God knows when the Supreme Court will deliver its decisions. Many cases related to our party have also been pending for a long time. The rejection of Meenakshi…
Hyderabad, June 11 (IANS) Telangana’s Drugs Control Administration (DCA) has raided a medical shop at a village in Karimnagar district, which was operating illegally without a drug license, an official statement said on Thursday.Medicinal drugs worth Rs. 5.51 lakh, stocked for sale at the unlicensed premises, were seized during the raid, a DCA release said.Officials of the DCA, acting on credible information regarding the illegal sale of medicines, raided the medical shop in Choppadandi village,…
Vijayawada, June 11 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested Kesireddy Rajasekhara Reddy, aka Raj Kesireddy, the main accused in the multi-crore liquor scam in Andhra Pradesh.The arrest was made after the Central agency conducted searches at multiple locations in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as part of the investigation into the liquor transportation scam linked to the alleged liquor scam during YSR Congress Party rule. The ED officials conducted searches at premises linked t…
Chennai, June 11 (IANS) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rainfall accompanied by strong winds in 11 districts of Tamil Nadu over the next two days, with the prevailing weather system expected to trigger widespread rain across the state and neighbouring Union Territories for at least a week. According to the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), a low-pressure area extending from the central Bay of Bengal to coastal Karnataka remains active, passing through parts of An…
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Congress has approached the Supreme Court to contest the dismissal of its Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination from Madhya Pradesh and is expected to bring the issue up early in the morning for an urgent hearing before the court’s vacation bench on Thursday.This legal action follows the Returning Officer’s rejection of Natarajan’s nomination papers due to objections raised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The ruling party claimed that the Congress …
Bhopal/New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh BJP President Hemant Khandelwal on Wednesday said the BJP had no role in the rejection of Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s Rajya Sabha nomination and asked the Congress to look at its own issues. “If there is a lack of consensus or internal conflict within the Congress, what can the BJP do about it? The BJP is not in power in Telangana; who provided the documents from there? Now you claim the BJP did something wrong… we did nothing wrong…
Hyderabad, June 10 (IANS) Amid row over rejection of nomination of Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan for Rajya Sabha in Madhya Pradesh, Congress MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday lodged a police complaint against certain social media accounts for spreading what he called “malicious propaganda” against Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy. In the complaint filed with the Central Crime Station, he named ‘Telugu Scribe’ and other social media accounts for propagating on social media …