Top News of the day: Minority rights, Emergency comes to the fore as Lok Sabha debates on Constitution; South Korea President impeached, and more

Minority rights, Emergency comes to the fore as Lok Sabha debates on Constitution, South Korea President impeached, and more in The Hindu’s top news of December 14, 2024.

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday (December 14, 2024) cited V.D. Savarkar’s remarks that there was nothing Indian about the Constitution and took a jibe at the BJP, saying that by talking of protecting the Constitution, the ruling party is “ridiculing” Savarkar. While India has given equal voting rights to all, some claim that minorities have no rights in the country, Union minister Kiren Rijiju said on Saturday (December 14, 2024) in an apparent jibe at the opposition.

South Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law declaration this month. The National Assembly passed the motion in a 204-85 vote on Saturday, December 14, 2024. Mr. Yoon’s presidential powers and duties will be suspended after copies of the impeachment document are delivered to him and to the Constitutional Court.

Former chief of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) and former Union Minister of State, E.V.K.S. Elangovan, died in Chennai on Saturday morning after a brief illness. He was 73. He would have turned 74 next Saturday (December 21).

Haryana police on Saturday (December 14, 2024) resorted to the use of tear gas and water cannon to disperse farmers and farm-labourers groups after they attempted to enter Haryana at the Shambhu-Ambala interstate boundary of Punjab and Haryana as a part of their Delhi Chalo foot march in support of their demands.

Actor Allu Arjun was freed and moved out of the Chanchalguda jail at 6.35 a.m. on Saturday (December 14, 2024), a few hours after the Telangana High Court granted him bail for four weeks. The actor was arrested in connection with the stampede at Sandhya Theatre, at the premiere of Pushpa-2, which claimed a life.

An IndiGo flight from Delhi to Jeddah was forced to divert to Karachi last night following a medical emergency on board. IndiGo’s 6E 63 departed from Delhi at 8.30 pm, but two hours later deviated from its path to turn towards Karachi.

IndiGo will operate two narrow-body planes to Istanbul to ferry passengers to New Delhi from Turkey after its 500-seater Boeing 777 aircraft developed a technical glitch resulting in cancellations. This is the second cancellation the airline has witnessed this week from Turkey as a Boeing 777 it has leased from Turkish Airlines remains grounded in Istanbul. The airline has two of these aircraft used to fly between Delhi and Istanbul and Mumbai and Istanbul.