Новости за 12.08.2021

Police on Wednesday held the son-in-law and his elder brother for the murder of a woman dhaba owner, Basanti Meher, who was shot dead by two armed miscreants a month ago at Duajhar in Nuapada district.

A report prepared by by the US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) suggests that the port town of Paradip, in Jagatsinghpur district, will be among the places which may submerge into the Bay of Bengal by the end of this century.

The Congress, which has been trying to regain its lost turf for a while but has only been facing erosion in the shape of leaders leaving the party, has now managed to inject some fresh hope into the party with the induction of several top Bodo leaders.

The state government has extended the deadline for the submission of applications to claim compensations in connection with hit-and-run accident cases from six months to a year. The move aims to give adequate time to beneficiaries to avail themselves of the compensation.

Two videos of a man pulling his motorcycle down from a towing crane and attacking cops went viral in the city on Thursday.

In a heartening gesture, SP Jaunpur Ajay Sahani on Thursday presented a cheque for Rs 1 lakh to the widow of the cash van security guard Ramawadh Chaubey, who was shot dead by two looters after he foiled their loot bid on August 9.

The economic offences wing (EOW) of the state Crime Branch on Thursday arrested a retired official of the state higher education department in connection with a scholarship scam involving Rs 36 lakh.

A 45-year-old man was paraded through the streets, as his minor daughter accompanied him, assaulted by a mob accusing him of religious conversion in Barra area of Kanpur on Wednesday. He was later handed over to police which said that the allegation of conversion against him appeared to be unfounded. Police have booked 12 persons for rioting on the complaint of the victim, Afsar.

Bargarh MP Suresh Pujari, who was in the delegation, said they discussed about pending railway projects in the state and delay in handing over of land for new line projects. Railway Board chairman and other railway officers have also paid heed to our requests for development of railway sector in Odisha.

Chairing a review meeting on the Covid-19 situation on Thursday, the CM directed the district administration to reduce the number of home isolation cases, and instead shift patients to Covid care centres (CCC). “I don’t want to impose a lockdown again and trouble people. Instead, I believe that prevention is better than cure.

Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai said that there will be no guard of honour by the police, during the CM’s visits to districts in the future.

Four members of a gang that robbed people in Delhi-NCR after offering them lift in their car have been arrested in Noida following a gunfight with the police in which two of the criminals got injured, officials said on Thursday.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a murder case in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, police said on Thursday.

The Association of Indian Americans in North America (AIANA) and Knowledge Plus Foundation honoured 28 eminent Gujaratis from different fields at an event in Ahmedabad.

Ever since they reopened in June after the COVID second wave, restaurants and bars in Noida have been struggling to revive businesses due to the weekend curfew in the city and time restrictions (at present they can remain open till 10pm).

Farmers took out a tractor parade in a rehearsal of their August 15 proposed tractor parade, in Uchana Kalan block of Haryana’s Jind district on Wednesday. Notably, farmers have announced to take out tractor parades in all the towns of Jind district on Independence Day to press for their demand of repealing three farm laws.

Former chief minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said BJP leader Rama Jois filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court challenging reservation to backward classes, Dalits and women in local bodies. RSS leaders are against reservation and their hidden agenda is to change the Indian Constitution, he said.

Places in Odisha with low vaccine coverage (both doses) has been seeing lesser number of daily infections. The reason, people in those areas have been apparently adhering to Covid-appropriate behaviour fearing virus spread. On the contrary, places like Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri and other coastal areas, having considerably better vaccine coverage, are witnessing huge caseload daily.

The state’s Covid helpline number, 104, continues to be flooded with prank calls of obscene nature made by unknown callers. Ziqitza Healthcare Limited (ZHL), which operates the health help desk, recently lodged a fresh complaint with the Saheed Nagar police here, seeking action against the pranksters.

Keeping his promise, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday handed over cash awards of Rs 2.5 crore each to Tokyo Olympics bronze medal winning hockey players Birendra Lakra and Amit Rohidas, less than 24 hours after their return to the state. The chief minister also gave cash awards of Rs 50 lakh each to women’s hockey team members Deep Grace Ekka and Namita Toppo for their best-ever fourth-place finish at the Olympics.

The closure of schools, which crippled learning, has forced parents to find an alternative mode to educate their wards—home tuitions. Off late, many parents have been sending their children for tuition classes.

It can solve Punjab’s biggest environmental problem of managing crop residue, yet IIT-Ropar’s idea of turning paddy stubble into furniture plywood has no takers, even when the scientists are ready to transfer this technology for free.

In a horrific case of human sacrifice, a four-year-old girl was killed by her father at tea garden in upper Assam’s Charaideo district on August 8. Police arrested the victim’s father Anta Munda (54) — a worker of Safrai Tea Estate — on Wednesday alongwith a local tantrik, Bogadhar Munda, after they confessed to killing the child.