Telangana
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday put up a
spirited argument with facts and figures before
Krishna River Management Board chairman A.B. Pandya that the Andhra Pradesh
government violated all norms in sharing water with Telangana.
The chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW), Lalitha Kumara mangalam, has advocated legalising sex work to
regulate the trade and ensure better living conditions for women engaged in
commercial sex work. Legalising the trade, she says, will also bring down
trafficking in women and lower the incidence of HIV and other sexually
transmitted diseases.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed on behalf
of Dayalu Ammal, wife of former Tamil
Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, seeking discharge from the Rs. 200 crore money laundering case, registered
by the Enforcement Directorate against Kalaignar TV. A three-judge Bench comprising Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justices
Madan B. Lokur and A.K. Sikri dismissed the petition filed by Selvi, daughter
of Ms. Dayalu Ammal.
Sandeep Saxena, State Agricultural Production Commissioner and Principal
Secretary of the Agriculture Department, has been appointed as new Chief Electoral Officer.
He succeeds Praveen Kumar, who was
holding the post since August 2010. An order to this effect was issued by Chief
Secretary Mohan Verghese Chunkath on Monday. Mr. Praveen Kumar is yet to
be given a posting. An officer of the 1989 batch of the Tamil Nadu cadre, the
48-year-old Saxena is holding the present post since November 2011.
Uttarakhand required Rs.9,222 crore for
rejuvenating the Ganga, Chief Minister
Harish Rawat said at the fourth meeting of the National Ganga River Basin
Authority (NGRBA), held in New Delhi on
Monday.
P.
Sainath, (Al Jazeera English, USA Today and Global Post were among) the winners of the World Media Summit (WMS)
Global Awards for Excellence, 2014. These are the first comprehensive news
awards covering multiple media formats, including press, photo, video and
integrated media to honour “truth, objectivity and excellence” in journalism,
according to a release.
Telecom
giant SoftBank has pledged an investment
of $10 billion (over Rs.60,000 crore) in India’s IT and communications space, one of the biggest investment commitments from a
Japanese firm after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to that country. SoftBank
— one of the major telecom and internet corporations of Japan — will look for
opportunities in telecom and the fast-growing e-commerce sector in India. The
proposed investment was committed by
SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son in a meeting with Telecom Minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad, an official statement said on Monday
Defending champion Mary Ann Gomes and Bhakti Kulkarni carved out clinical victories
with white pieces to emerge as leaders at 2.5 points after three rounds of the National women chess championship here on Monday.
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