Новости за 08.12.2021

Continuing the drive against economic empire of jailed mafia don and MLA Mukhtar Ansari, the Ghazipur police attached a plot of Ansari’s wife Afsha Ansari worth Rs 9.44 crore and two plots of close aide Shahjama worth Rs 3 crore in Ghazipur on Wednesday.

About 301kg ganja worth more than Rs 3 crore in the international market was seized in the district on Tuesday. Four persons, including two Uttar Pradesh residents and a Haryana native, were arrested in this connection.

The state health authorities on Tuesday said they would take the help of panchayat members to track and trace foreign returnees in view of the new Covid variant, Omicron, being detected in the country.

Residents of Taraura Kalan village of Patiala district, with support from farmer union Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKUEkta Ugrahan), have been protesting for over a month against the acquisition of a piece of village land meant to be acquired for an upcoming state open university.

The IAF Mi-17V5 chopper left Sulur air force station around 11.50am and the mishap happened within the next 30 minutes. The chopper crashed into a gorge in the jungle close to a small tribal settlement near Kattery, around seven km away from Coonoor and ten km away from the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington.

The BJP in Assam, which fielded just seven women candidates in the legislative assembly elections held earlier this year, has now focused on increasing the number in the 126-member house in 2026.

Gauhati High Court in a recent judgment said the benefits, which the legislature extends to a dependent unmarried daughter, may be extended to a divorced dependent daughter. The court also viewed that “there will not be a major difference between an unmarried or a divorced daughter as the pivotal ground is the ground of dependency”.

Mizoram home minister Lalchamliana on Tuesday reiterated that the state government and people chose to settle the long-standing interstate border dispute with Assam through dialogue by sharing a negotiating table.

The Gauhati High Court quashed a customs case pending in a lower court in Assam’s Golaghat district against three persons after the court found the animals and birds seized from the accused are not “prohibitory goods under any law as provided in section 2(33) of the Customs Act 1962”.

Four members of a family were found dead in their house located at Morgans Gate area on Wednesday.

Celebrated poet from Assam, Nilmani Phookan, has been named for the country's highest literary award, Jnanpith, for his contribution to literature.

The commissionerate police have decided to conduct a safety audit of banks and ATMs to prevent robbery at those premises in the capital city. Commissioner of police Saumendra Priyadarshi has issued an order to his deputy Uma Shankar Dash to ensure completion of the inspection at the earliest.

Jamnagar police booked eight people, including six candidates, for creating bogus Aadhar cards and domicile certificates to take part in Naval recruitment at INS Valsura.

District health officials are going all out to vaccinate the remaining targeted population who are eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine.

kansha Puranik is 17 but knows to play the harmonium, tabla, keyboard, tamboori, sitar, guitar and dholak.

The city corporation authorities demolished the compound wall of CSI Yesu Karunalaya on St Mary's Road near Ambedkar Circle on Tuesday. A strong police posse was deployed as a precaution.

Unidentified miscreants allegedly poisoned a school overhead tank at Sunticoppa. Fortunately, no casualties were reported.

Ballari deputy commissioner Pavan Kumar Malpati may file a complaint against Amaresh, a resident of Taluru in Shiraguppa taluk, for allegedly threatening him by sending WhatsApp messages.

In a bid to get maximum likes and massive fan following on social media, a youth got his video shot wherein he could be seen doing lip sync and driving and swaying to a popular Bollywood song on his two-wheeler on the city streets without a helmet. However, the youth's dramatic act proved costly to him when the city's traffic police sent a challan of Rs 9,000 to him. However, TOI does not confirm the veracity of any such viral video.

In a bid to check the spread of Covid-19, especially Omicron, the variant of concern, the state government is planning to increase the number of genome sequencing labs across the state.

A five-year-old NRG boy, suffering from a rare genetic disorder, has successfully undergone stem cell transplant in London, capping two years of sustained global campaign launched by his parents who have their family roots in Jamnagar.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, the city-based Central Institute for Indian Languages (CIIL) and Koo app, a microblogging site, has collaborated to promote fair use of language through the creation of a corpus of words and phrases considered offensive.

When it comes to premium liquor vends, the twin towns of Noida and Greater Noida have raised a toast.

The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) will soon initiate work to desilt and strengthen the master sewer line along Golf Course Road and Prakash Puri Chowk.