Новости за 05.02.2022

After almost two years of the Covid pandemic, upgrade of health infrastructure has emerged as the major election issue in villages with a substantial NRI population. Typically, NRIs have helped build up infrastructure, including schools, roads, drainage system and passenger sheds, besides conducting tree plantation in these villages.

Jailed mafia don Brijesh Singh is taking the same route this time also which had helped him reach the state assembly as a member of the legislative council (MLC).

Union minister of petroleum and natural gas and minister of housing and urban affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri campaigned for the BJP candidate from Ludhiana West, Bikram Singh Sidhu, on Saturday during his city visit. He called upon the people in various areas including Rishi Nagar to vote for advocate Sidhu.

Congress Pindra candidate Ajay Rai was booked under sedition charge on Saturday for allegedly fanning hatred against prime minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath and provoking people against them while addressing a gathering on January 31.

The district on Saturday reported 230 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths, taking its tally to 1,23,520 and toll to 3,354.

A private company in Gurugram was allegedly duped of Rs over 22 lakh by a cyber fraudster, police said on Saturday. The fraudster, posing as the company director, sent fabricated mails to the chief financial officer of the enterprise asking him to transfer money to several bank accounts, they said.

Police arrested four persons on Saturday for allegedly flogging four teenage boys in an industrial unit in Vapi GIDC. Around 16-year-old boys were in their underwear and flogged over suspicion of theft of copper scrap.

Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Sada) Umakant Tiwari said no cattle had died in the district as per the information obtained from the villagers and the cow sheds.

A journalist died in an IED (improvised explosive device) blast in Kalahandi district around noon on Saturday while trying to take photograph of a Maoist poster, which appealed people to boycott the upcoming panchayat elections in Odisha. Such Maoists posters have surfaced in several southern and western Odisha districts in past some days ahead of the rural polls scheduled from February 16.

Empty rake of Sambalpur-Jammu Tawi Express train got derailed at Sambalpur junction station on Friday night. The wheels of two bogies of the empty train skidded off the track while the train was entering the yard's washing line at the station.

Padma Shri awardee social activist and spiritual thinker Ibrahim Sutar passed away at Mahalingapur in Karnataka's Bagalkot district on Saturday morning after suffering a massive cardiac arrest.

AIADMK MLAs from Coimbatore district have alleged that their party candidates for urban local body polls are being harassed by election officials.

The hijab controversy and saffron shawl issue surfaced at two more colleges in Karnataka, one in Udupi district and another in Belagavi, on Friday.

The Enforcement Directorate's (ED) zonal office-Jalandhar arrested the nephew of Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday night in the illegal sand mining case. He was produced before a court in Jalandhar on Friday and remanded to ED's custody till February 8.

The coronavirus pandemic situation is gradually improving in Varanasi district with more recoveries and reducing number of active cases of Covid-19.

On the occasion of its 107th Foundation Day, the Banaras Hindu University launched a fundraising campaign - Pratidana: Mahamana Annual Fund, which will be a living tribute to its founders and their glorious tradition of soliciting philanthropy.

After a team of Wuhan researchers claimed finding a new kind of coronavirus, NeoCov, predicting that it may pose a threat to humans in future, there is a lot of concern about this virus in public.

A 21-year-old female patient from Madhya Pradesh (MP), who was diagnosed with an atrial septal defect, became Vadodara’s first patient to be operated on by a mini thoracotomy approach.

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) has inked a MoU with the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, for collaboration in the field of education, research and training in the domain of agriculture.

A sarpanch of a village in Sanand taluka of Ahmedabad may land in trouble in connection with case of animal cruelty and illegal transport of cattle.

Five more deaths of persons who had tested positive for Covid-19 were confirmed by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC). The number is the highest in a day in the third wave even as the number of new cases reported in the city too has risen.