Новости за 15.08.2021

A 30-year-old woman was allegedly set on fire by parents of a man, booked in a molestation case lodged by the victim, according to police here on Sunday.

Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka celebrated the 75th Independence Day meaningfully without much pomp and gaiety due to the Covid-19 surge.

A major fire broke out in clock manufacturing giant Ajanta Oreva group’s manufacturing facility on Morbi highway on Sunday early morning.

Around 30 schoolchildren in Punjab have tested positive for Covid-19 so far, even as the health department has collected over 40,000 samples from schools in the state. Testing in schools started from the date they opened on August 2.

Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd (KRCL) will restore the services of train numbers 06211/ 06212 Yeshwantpur-Karwar-Yeshwantpur tri-weekly express special, which was partially cancelled between Mangaluru Junction-Karwar-Mangaluru Junction from May 3.

Hubballi airport has now been equipped with an advanced system for smooth and safe operation of flights with the commissioning of the much-awaited New Instrument Landing System (ILS). The new system was made operational on Thursday.

A whopping 98.58% students cleared the higher secondary (Plus II) exam in humanities, the result of which was announced by the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) on Saturday. This was a massive jump of 27.58% compared to last year’s pass percentage of 71.

The state government on Saturday announced the introduction of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in agriculture and horticulture in Tamil medium at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore.

Kuvempu Mobile Library, an initiative of the City Central Library, has come as a boon for readers, especially women, during the lockdown. More than 90% of the new subscribers were women.

The Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) is on a mission to bring tribal youth from remote villages in Naxal-prone areas to the mainstream, by helping them clear competitive exams.

Over two lakh man-days of work were created under the state government’s flagship job scheme — Mukhyamantri Shramik Yojana for urban poor — the state urban development department said on Saturday on the first anniversary of the scheme.

The state government will put out a separate data of the daily Covid infection among the 0-18 age group on its Covid dashboard from Sunday amid predictions of children and adolescents likely to bear the brunt of a possible third wave, reports Riyan

In an unusual report raising legal and moral issues, the Odisha police has informed the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that a headmaster of a government girls’ school, arrested under the POCSO Act for raping a minor tribal student, has started cohabiting with the rape survivor and her girl child after getting bail and that they are "living happily".

Organ donations have come down steadily in Tamil Nadu over the last four years and worsened during the pandemic, but the state continues to make best use of the organs it has received as donations, said state health secretary J Radhakrishnan at a function organised to honour donor

A cop in Patiala was left with broken left foot after he was hit by a car, which had been stopped for a security check ahead of Independence Day, on Saturday.

Following the directions of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, deputy commissioner K V Rajendra held a video conference with officials from the health and other departments on Saturday, to make the Covid-19 management strategy more effective.

The Meerut revolt that took place in 1857 is said to be the first freedom struggle in India. However, a new book speaks of many revolts that were regional in nature prior to the Meerut one.