Новости за 20.05.2019

Residents, aged between 3 and 65, collected more than 200kg of waste, which included plastic, in 30 minutes.

What started as a WhatsApp group for cat breeders has now become a full-fledged physical club.

A farmers’ association has appealed to the Tamil Nadu government to ensure that the police accept a complaint filed against the forest ranger, if a wild animal in his beat injures, attacks or kills anyone.

Legendary cricketer-turned-golfer Kapil Dev launched a new format for the game of Golf – The Express Golf at Gurgaon on Saturday.

If the exit poll results are any indication, Odisha may throw up major surprises on Thursday. Going by the predictions of various survey agencies, the state appears to be heading towards a split verdict — Naveen Patnaik’s BJD returning to power for a fifth time with a smaller margin, and BJP winning more Lok Sabha seats than the regional ruling party.

Five juvenile inmates managed to escape from the government juvenile home in Baudh Nagar area of Naubasta in the city on late Sunday night.

The seventh and last leg of Lok Sabha election passed off peacefully with average voting percentage inching up by 2% in 13 parliamentary seats which went to poll on Sunday. The average poll percentage recorded this year was 56.84% as against 54.96% recorded in 2014.

Police here have booked two persons for assaulting a man and snatching his wallet on Sunday.

A resident of Kalkunike village in the taluk was allegedly cheated of more than Rs 90,000 by an individual, who posed as a soldier of the Indian Army.

It is not only BJP which has invoked Jawaharlal Nehru’s name during campaign, SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal too has included India’s first Prime Minister in every election speech this poll season.

Even as the enthusiasm of Punjabi NRIs seemed to have waned during this election, Parmod Kumar and his wife Aashu Walia, settled in Russia, especially came to their home town Kartarpur, Jalandhar, to cast their votes.

The polling staff at booths 61, 62, 63 and 64 at the Grammar Senior Secondary School in Ferozepur Cantonment, waited a whole day to greet even a single voter. The area falls under Ferozepur (Urban) constituency with over 4,800 voters but the majority of them are Army personnel but a unit had recently shifted to some other station and could be the reason for no turnout.

While nearly 300 residents of the slum have been busy picking up the pieces post-cyclone, the school is very unlikely to start again.

The tourism sector in Puri is gradually limping back to normalcy after Cyclone Fani ripped through coastal Odisha on May 3, causing massive damage to hotels and other infrastructure in the district.

The people of Tendva Bishambharpur village set an example on Sunday by coming out to vote in large numbers despite the death of a village elderly. More than 63% of voters exercised their franchise-well above the district average of 62%.