Новости за 03.09.2021

The civic polls are the first direct elections which the ruling BJP is facing under the new chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, who will be banking on a good outing for the saffron party to send a message to his detractors over his leadership.

A driver of a religious institute has been arrested on the charges of raping a student-inmate and assaulting her in Narasimharaja police limits on Friday.

The EOW of state Crime Branch arrested a Balasore-based businessman on Friday for allegedly embezzling government subsidies to the tune of nearly Rs 6 crore on the pretext of selling agricultural machinery and equipment to farmers.

For the first time, NMPT has witnessed the arrival of MV Minoan Grace to load 22,825 MT of steel cargo of JSW to different ports, including Damietta in Egypt and Marghera in Italy and Sagunto in Spain.

After a class 10 student of a government school in Namakkal district tested positive for Covid -19, swab samples were taken from all the 300-odd students and teachers in the institution and sent for testing.

The health department has ordered educational institutions in Dakshina Kannada to step up safety measures, after it was found that some institutions were not strictly enforcing Covid-19 protocols on the campus. Recently, three institutions were served notices for not following SOP.

In a major infrastructure push to Odisha, the Centre on Thursday approved of construction of the six-lane Kaliagura-Baunsaguar section of National Highway-130 under the Raipur-Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor, to be built at an estimated cost of Rs 1,539 crore.

Issuing guidelines for the Ganesh Puja in the city, to be held on September 10, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) had refused public participation during the celebrations.

Pandemonium gripped the state assembly on Thursday as the opposition BJP and Congress MLAs stalled the proceedings over the Mahanga double-murder case and farmers’ issues resulting in repeated adjournments.

Odisha will have a University of Health Sciences with the assembly on Thursday giving nod to a bill amid uproar from opposition benches. As the existing medical and paramedical institutions in the state are affiliated to different universities for grant of degree, diploma or training certificates, the state government plans to bring all medical and paramedical colleges under one institution.

Residents of northeastern states could add more than four years to the average life expectancy if the PM2.5 concentration in the air was reduced to meet the WHO guidelines and up to 1.

Voting is under way for the city corporation elections of Belagavi, Hubballi-Dharwad and Kalaburagi, along with bypolls to a few other urban local bodies, poll officials said on Friday. The elections are being held strictly adhering to Covid-19 protocols and guidelines, they said.

The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) on Thursday fined Rs 3 lakh on four companies for violating NGT pollution norms with a warning of doubling the amount for repeating mistakes.

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Bhubaneswar, a deemed to be university, and National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela have been ranked in the 801-1000 category in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings announced on Thursday.

Police on Thursday arrested Manas Das, a BJD worker and owner of NGO Manababad Sangathan, for his alleged involvement in the murder of a 45-year-old farmer in Khurda on August 1. His son, Manoranjan, has also been arrested on charges of brutally attacking a man and his son in Begunia area recently. The incident had come to light after a video had gone viral.

With the footfall of tourists picking up owing to the relaxation of curbs amid the falling Covid cases in the state, the Puri police have started imparting tourist-friendly etiquette lessons to their personnel. Experts from different domains on Thursday sensitised the police to their roles and responsibilities at a seminar on tourist-friendly policing, responsible tourist behaviour and soft skill training. SP Kanwar Vishal Singh inaugurated the seminar.

The state health department has completed the audit of the deaths suspected to be caused by Covid, the authorities said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the state reported six more Covid deaths, taking the total fatalities to 8,028.