UPA Govt in minority, say Seemandhra MPs
Hyderabad: Five Congress MPs from Seemandhra, who recently moved a no-confidence motion in Parliament against their own party-led Government, Sunday told President Pranab Mukherjee that the UPA Government had been reduced to a minority. The MPs met the president, who is on his southern sojourn here, and demanded that he stall the process for the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. Member of Parliament l. Rajagopal said they told President Mukherjee that the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) Government was reduced to a minority as it has the support of only 229 MPs. “Any decision by the minority Government is unconstitutional,” he said. Rajagopal said though 70 MPs supported their no-confidence motion, the Parliament session ended abruptly two days before the scheduled date. The Seemandhra MPs said the Central Government was not following the due process to carve out Telangana State.
Over 22 TN fishermen held by lankan navy
Rameswaram: Amidst stepped up pressure to secure the release of over 220 Tamil Nadu fishermen detained in Sri lanka, 22 more were arrested by the island navy early on Sunday while fishing in the Palk Strait. The fishermen from Jagadapattinam in Pudukottai district were arrested by Sri lankan naval personnel on Sunday morning for allegedly fishing in their country’s territorial waters and taken to Kangesanthurai Port along with their six boats, officials said quoting information received by them. The Sri lankan navalmen also chased away another group of fishermen from here when they were fishing near Katchatheevu after allegedly snapping their fishing nets.
Old man’s murder sparks tension in UP
lucknow: Tension prevailed in Maharajganj district on Sunday following the murder of an old man, his son and his daughter-in-law. The victim identified as Ram Samajh (60) lived with his son lohar (27) and his son’s wife Sunita (24) in Madhukapur village. They were found murdered in their house under Puranderpur police station area on Sunday. As the news broke, the villagers assembled the scene. They apprehended a rival group to have hand in the murder of the victims and went into rage. The police though maintained that reason behind the killing was yet to be known.
leh records season’s lowest temperature
Srinagar: Cold tightened its grip on Jammu & Kashmir as the night temperature plummeted to season’s lowest of minus 17.3 degrees Celsius in leh in ladakh region, with the MeT Department predicting snowfall on New Year’s eve. leh recorded the coldest night of the winter season so far as the minimum temperature dropped to minus 17.3 degrees Celsius, compared to minus 14.9 degrees Celsius the previous night, an official of the MeT Department here said on Sunday. It was the coldest recorded place followed by the nearby Kargil town which recorded a minimum of minus 16.4 degrees Celsius.