Новости за 03.12.2020

The district on Thursday reported 43 new Covid-19 cases, taking its coronavirus tally to 10,524, including with 476 active cases, said civil surgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh.

Three days after the ruling BJD expelled its Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahy from the party for his alleged links with suspended Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Abhay Kant Pathak and his son Akash, the state Crime Branch on Thursday arrested the legislator for allegedly conspiring with Akash and running a fake job recruitment drive in the name of Tata Motors.

Six persons were killed while three others were critically injured in a collision between a UPSRTC bus and a tempo in Banda district on Thursday evening. The accident took place at around 7pm near Jamalpur village on Banda-Chilla road.

Five children suffered serious burns in Ganga Darvaza locality under Kayamganj Kotwali area here on Thursday while playing with the explosive powder extracted from crackers, said police. The children in the five to eight years of the age group were playing with firecrackers collected from an old deserted building near their house, said police.

The Bundelkhand Kisan Union on Thursday supported farmers' demand for convening a special session of Parliament to repeal the Centre's three farm laws and warned the government of intensifying their stir.

“We have not discussed imposing a night curfew in the state during new year celebrations. However, our advisors have suggested that large gatherings should be avoided during celebrations. Hence, the government will take necessary measures in this direction soon,” Bommai said.

The district on Thursday reported 102 new coronavirus patients, taking the infection tally to 26,460, including 918 active cases, deputy commissioner Varinder Sharma said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested Gopal Oraon, a key accused of a human trafficking case, from Ranchi. He was a close associate of arrested accused Panna Lal Mahto and was actively involved in a human trafficking racket, the agency claimed.

Karnataka home minister Basavaraj Bommai has expressed confidence in bringing out a legislation to prohibit forcible interfaith conversion or religious conversion for the sake of marriage in the state soon.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has come up with an "unique humanitarian initiative" to extend financial aid to the aggrieved families of those who fall victims to during the ongoing farmers agitation.

The farmer from Jhammat village in Ludhiana, who had died on Tuesday in a road accident near Kurukshetra in Haryana while returning from the farmers’ protest at Delhi, will be given martyr’s status by the village.

Leading business communities in seven Nagaland districts, while threatening to find an alternative means of doing business by looking beyond Jorhat and upper Assam, on Wednesday appealed to the Assam government to intervene and to lift the economic blockade imposed by Mariani-based organisations in Jorhat district.

Assam Congress chief Ripun Bora and AIUDF president Badruddin Ajmal, in a show of unity on Wednesday, started off their first joint campaign in support of the alliance candidates for the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) polls on Wednesday.

Five college students were killed in a road accident in Assam’s Cachar district on Wednesday afternoon when the car in which they were returning home collided with a truck.

In view of Covid-19, IIT Bhubaneswar will hold its 9th annual convocation on Friday in hybrid mode where students can either participate physically or online. Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will grace the occasion through video-conference as chief guest and address the convocation.

Nearly 60 per cent male students and 35 per cent female students in the final year in government first-grade colleges are attending neither online nor offline classes, triggering fears of large-scale dropouts amid the pandemic. Academicians say many have quit studies to find jobs to make ends meet since they come from poor families while girls have been married off.