Woman trainee pilot dies as pvt aviation academy aircraft crashes in Telangana; Scindia orders probe
Hyderabad/New Delhi, Feb 26: A woman trainee pilot died when an aircraft belonging to a private aviation academy crashed in Nalgonda district of Telangana on Saturday, police said.
Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said he was shocked and an investigation team is reaching the site of accident.
Citing preliminary information, a police official said the ill-fated aircraft, which came from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh side, crashed at a village in the district before noon.
The woman trainee pilot died on the spot and further details were being ascertained, the official said.
Scindia said on Twitter that he was shocked to hear about the tragic crash of a training aircraft in Nalgonda.
"An investigation team has been rushed to the site. Unfortunately, we lost the student pilot," he noted.
The minister expressed his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and loved ones.
A trainee woman pilot dies in a private aviation academy trainee aircraft crash at Pedavoora mandal of Nalgonda district. Aircraft took off from aviation academy in Macharla, Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh #Helicopter #chopper #crash #AndhraPradesh #Telangana pic.twitter.com/owjlrNWXqI
— Sudhakar Udumula (@sudhakarudumula) February 26, 2022
Shocked to hear about the tragic crash of a training aircraft in Nalgonda, Telangana. An investigation team has been rushed to the site.
— Jyotiraditya M. Scindia (@JM_Scindia) February 26, 2022
Unfortunately, we lost the student pilot. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family & loved ones.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
