Новости за 05.05.2022

While the BJP has geared up to mark one year of the Himanta Biswa Sarma government, state Congress president Bhupen Borah has embarked on a state-wide tour from the easternmost districts of Assam to reach out to party veterans at the grassroots.

The Puri district administration held a preparatory meeting with the officials of different departments on Thursday for smooth conduct of the nine-day annual festival. The administration said they would keep two plans — Rath Yatra with devotees and without devotees — in readiness.

The station house officer arrested on charges of raping a minor girl here was on Thursday sent to 14-day judicial custody.

The Sarv Karmchari Sangh (SKS) staged a protest here on Thursday against a DIG rank officer of Indian Reserve Battalion in Bhondsi for allegedly driving one of their colleagues to attempt suicide.

Kushtagi, a tiny town in the Koppal district, witnessed a small yet significant cultural revolution on Wednesday as 100 youths, including 20 from the Muslim community, worked together to organize a mass wedding to commemorate Basava Jayanti and Ramzan. As many as 32 poor couples got married at the event, demonstrating yet another example of communal harmony in the state.

Citing the Nirbhaya case of Delhi, Surat's Principal Sessions and District Judge V K Vyas said strict punishment is needed to deter people from indulging in such crimes against women.

A retired income tax officer and his wife were stabbed to death by the man’s two acquaintances around 10pm on Wednesday at their house in Block-D of BRS Nagar here.

Police in Rajpura have booked three dealers and a private seed company's manager for allegedly supplying spurious seeds of sunflower to farmers in Punjab.

On the recommendation of the director general of police, the city cops have booked two former deputy inspector generals (DIGs) of Punjab jails, Sukhdev Singh Saggu and Lakhwinder Singh Jakhar, under the NDPS, Excise, and Prevention of Corruption Acts 11 years after they allegedly hushed up 241 matters of drug and mobile phone recovery from the Ferozepur Central Jail during their tenures as prison superintendents.

Sarailakhansi police of Mau district lodged an FIR against jailed mafia don Mukhtar Ansari's lawyer Daroga Singh for allegedly hurling abusive words on the judges fraternity and obstructing the process of government land measurement in Mau's Kinnupur area.

The fugitive rape-accused SHO of a police station in UP’s Lalitpur and five more police officers were arrested, while all 29 personnel posted there were sent to the police lines on Wednesday, following an FIR registered against six of them on Tuesday for the alleged rape of a 13-year-old Dalit girl at the station when she went there to lodge a complaint of gang rape.

Two schoolchildren were injured, with one of them suffering burns, when a bus ferrying students of a local private school overturned due to poor visibility caused by the billowing smoke emanating from burning of crop remnants in the fields of Qila Lal Singh village, near Batala, on Wednesday afternoon. The bus then caught fire.

The police on Wednesday formed a five-member SIT to probe into last week’s clash between two groups near Kali Devi temple in Patiala. So far, six FIRs have been registered and around 25 accused nominated. Led by SP (detective) Mehtab Singh, the SIT would have DSP Ajay Pal Singh, SP K K Panthe, CIA incharge Shaminder Singh and SHO Kotwali Patiala police station Rahul Kaushal as members.

Gujarat has broken its previous records in exports. The state clocked exports of Rs 8.37 lakh crore in the financial year 2021-22 till February, while in the previous year the state's total exports were Rs 4.48 lakh crore. Exporters say when the data for March, which to be is released soon, is taken into account, the figure might cross Rs 10 lakh crore.

The active Covid-19 case tally for Uttar Pradesh touched 1,641 on Wednesday with 199 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours.

Odisha is home to the only white grayheaded swamphen in the world. It is to be found in the Mangalajodi wetland, on the northern edge of the Chilika lagoon.