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The Puri Jagannath Temple administration plans to conduct a yajna as part of a ceremonial start to the ambitious Shree Mandir Parikrama Yojana on November 24.

A 45-year-old farmer was shot dead on Monday by two unidentified assailants at Nangal Farid village, about 30 km from here, said police.

A 22-year-old married woman, who went out of her home to attend nature's call in Puri district, was allegedly gang-raped by four persons on Saturday night. Puri police arrested the four on Sunday.

In a bid to prevent illegal activities allegedly being carried out in city spas, unisex parlours and salons, the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) on Sunday issued several strict guidelines, including ban on cross-gender therapy or massage as well as procurement of trade licences.

Odisha's daily new Covid infection figure dropped below 200 mark after a gap of nine days as the state logged 185 new cases on Monday taking the tally to 10,45,656 while two fresh fatalities pushed the coronavirus death toll to 8,379, a health department official said.

The race for being the director general of police (DGP) is on at full steam in Odisha with incumbent top cop Abhay set to retire on December 31, ahead of the Panchayat elections that are likely to be held in February.

Mizoram's former chief minister Lal Thanhawla said he would not continue as president of Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) after his current term ends next year and would not contest the state assembly elections in 2023.

Dehradun police, who reached Guwahati while investigating an illegal human organ trade case registered in 2017, on Sunday took the mastermind, Akshay Santosh Rawat, who was allegedly working in a private hospital in Guwahati as a doctor using fake identity, on transit remand after he was produced in a local court.

The Congress launched Jan Jagaran Yatra in Assam at the call of the AICC, targeting the BJP government for price rise of essential commodities.

The banned United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (Ulfa-I) on Sunday extended its unilateral ceasfire by another three months, thereby rekindling hopes of a permanent solution to the four-decade-old militancy problem in the state that has claimed thousands of lives.

Majuli, the ancient seat of vaishnaviate culture, is gearing up to host one of its biggest festival, "Raas", from November 18. Besides the satras (Vaishnaviate monasteries), several organisations and institutions will celebrate the three-day festival at over 55 places in Majuli.

National Commission for Minorities chairman Iqbal Singh Lalpura in a recent post on Facebook claimed that during the census of 1961, which also took into account regional languages, government enumerators would write Hindi in the mother tongue column for a Hindu person even when they would mention Punjabi.

The state cabinet's decision to bifurcate Dharwad Milk Union (DMU) by creating a separate milk union for Haveri district will cause shortage of milk in Dharwad, Gadag and Uttara Kannada districts.

During the pandemic, several officers and health workers have remained motivated and continued to deliver their mandated responsibility despite the risks and challenges involved. Heading a district is certainly not easy, especially when Covid-19 cases are rising and the country is amidst a medical oxygen crisis. The erratic work schedule will certainly have an impact on personal life. TOI spoke to four women deputy commissioners to find out what entailed the battle against the pandemic in their lives... Читать дальше...

Two more Zika virus cases were reported on Sunday taking the tally to 125. The report of the samples received from the microbiology department's lab of KGMU, Lucknow, e confirmed two positive Zika virus cases.

The head of a 40-member joint family from Kanumalacherlu in Pavagada town of Tumakuru district alleged that municipal authorities have stopped water supply to their house, citing that they haven’t taken even a single dose of Covid-19 vaccine.

In a bid to make the II PUC mid-term examination foolproof, the Pre University Education (PUE) department has proposed several changes to the examinations set to begin later this month. One of the major changes proposed by the department is with regard to the answer scripts - they will be evaluated by lecturers from other colleges. The answer scripts will be distributed among colleges through randomization at the nodal centres which will act as a point centre for all the examination related works.

Puri police on Sunday inaugurated a library for its personnel, their children and family members on Children's Day.

The British government started work on a legislation for the management of gurdwaras in 1921, but this was not without hiccups and it took over four years before it agreed to give complete control of gurdwaras to Sikhs.

Activists from the city have launched an online petition to protect Chamundi Hills from landslides, and have said that banning unscientific development works holds the key in achieving this. Till Monday morning 21,140 persons signed this petition. Scion of Mysuru royal family

A worker at a jewellery production factory in IMT Mnesar has been arrested for allegedly swallowing 1.6 gram of gold on Saturday.

The health department has proposed three containment zones in the city as Covid cases have started to rise again. There has also been a marginal increase in positivity rate — from 0.2% to 0.5% — in the past one month. In the first 14 days of November, Gurgaon has added 120 fresh Covid cases, 77 of which are active at present.

Ten plot owners in DLF-1 have been served notices by the enforcement wing of the town and country planning department (DTCP) for violations of National Green Tribunal (NGT) norms and not following due process to keep a check on pollution during construction.

A group of senior citizens met the chief minister on Sunday and sought his intervention in preparing a health insurance scheme for the elderly who are not covered otherwise.