Новости за 05.03.2023

Police said the accused had allegedly been sexually assaulting the girl for a long time and had been blackmailing her by threatening to post her obscene photographs and videos on social media.

The process has been initiated for cancellation of the drug license of pharmaceutical firm Marion Biotech, which is allegedly linked with the death of 18 children in Uzbekistan who consumed their cough syrup in December 2022, officials here said on Sunday.

Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai had unveiled the 36-ft-tall statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj atop the Rajahansgad fort, 20km away from the city, on March 2. The Congress party put a new precedence on Sunday, by unveiling the same statue privately.

In yet another case of cyber fraudsters duping city residents, an elderly businessman was duped of Rs 3.66 lakh by cyber fraudsters, who told him that they would discontinue his life insurance policy. Then they got more money from him on the lure of more profit. Police lodged an FIR at Sarabha Nagar police station on Saturday.

A massive fire broke out in a private chemical company in Padra taluka, about 20 kilometres from Vadodara, in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

Investigation of the case is in progress, said the official sources.

Chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said he had informed the party central leadership on the Lokayukta raid on BJP MLA Madal Virupakshappa.

Four workers sustained serious injuries on Saturday night after a newly installed boiler exploded during its practical testing in the Nandi Cooperative Sugar Factory in Babaleshwar town of Karnataka's Vijayapur district, the police said.

A spurious drugs racket, first detected in Bargarh and Jharsuguda districts of Odisha in January, is spread across Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Telangana, investigators have found. Following the arrest of a Bulandshahr native by UP police on Thursday, it has come to light that the fake medicines were being manufactured mainly in Baddi area of Solan district in Himachal Pradesh and were supplied to other parts of the country.

Somabhai Bariya was struggling to maintain the cattle pen he had opened to give shelter to abandoned bovine or those impounded while being taken for slaughtering. However, that was until Bariya struck gold with ‘gaukashta’ or cow dung logs. Today, he provides employment to around 65 persons in the shelter.

There seems to be no end to Congress’s city unit’s woes even after the assembly election debacle. Two prominent office bearers resigned in quick succession from the party within a week.