Новости за 08.03.2023

​​​​In view of the two festivals, security arrangements were increased in the twin-cities of Gautam Buddh Nagar, adjoining Delhi, with top ranking officers also patrolling their areas amid heightened vigilance, they said.

An aspiring medical student was duped of Rs 22.5 lakh by a suspected gang on pretext of securing a seat in a Mangaluru-based college.

A girl drowned in a pond in Soro area of Balasore district. Similarly, a man drowned while bathing in the village pond in Kandhapalli in Sadar police area of Bolangir.

Former chief minister and BJP parliamentary board member BS Yediyurappa took U-turn from his statement that four-six sitting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs would lose the party tickets in the coming assembly elections in the state.

Fortunately, all four are safe and out of danger, as the DC office staff shifted them to the Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS) hospital, immediately after the woman and children started vomiting.

The census was carried out in 20 trail spots in seven forest ranges, including Coimbatore, Periyanaickenpalayam, Madukkarai, Boluvampatti, Karamadai, Mettupalayam and Sirumugai.

​​​​The apprehensions have taken the total number of arrests of cybercriminals in the district to 38 in the last three months.

On his birth anniversary today, the city remembers legendary poet Sahir Ludhianvi, and how his pen was governed by where he lived and studied, his interactions with his family and society, and the circumstances he faced in life. All of which are reflected in his poetry.

The good news is that women's participation in state assembly elections has seen a significant increase in the past 30 years and it seems to have made a difference to their share in MLAs too, which has more than doubled from 4.4% three decades ago to 8.9% in the last cycle. Similarly, in the Lok Sabha, the proportion of female MPs has gone up from roughly 5.5% in 1989 to 14% in 2019. The bad news is that even at this level, the improvement is disappointingly small when compared to other countries.

Holi the festival of colour was celebrated with much gaiety in Uttara Kannada except in Yellapur where Devi Jatra concluded last week. People splashed each other in colours in different parts of the district. The festival went on smoothly, without incidents.

The academic and administrative activities at the University of Mysuru (UoM) have lost track in the absence of a regular vice-chancellor, say experts and stakeholders.

While a colourless Holi seems to be a paradox, in these tribal areas communities celebrate the festival with equal fervour, however, without use of colours. The gulal or the colours have been included as part of the tradition only some decades back.

After celebrating Diwali with his young sister and parents, eight-year-old Om was all elevated. The next day he didn’t have to attend school. But little did he know what the future held for him. He started vomiting and suffering from pain in the abdomen after which he was admitted to the city-based Kashiba Children's Hospital (KCH).

She had no idea how the milk business works. But now she heads India’s first and the oldest dairy cooperative society (DCS). Meet 44-year-old Gayatri Patel, who plunged into the animal husbandry business with just five calves in 2016. Besides owning Vansh Dairy Farm which has 80 animals including 40 cows and 40 calves, Gayatri is the first woman to head the Ajarpura Milk Producers Co-operative Society Limited, the country’s first DCS.

After Bandipur officials successfully saved the life of an elephant that was electrocuted in Bandipur Tiger Reserve in the second week of February, Kodagu foresters comprising the Elephant Task Force personnel have saved a tusker by treating it inside the forest.

A 14-year girl died after an electricity pole fell on her in the Timbi village of Halol taluka in Panchmahal district on Monday night. The incident took place due to heavy winds in the region on Monday accompanied with rains at some places. According to sources, the incident took place outside a dwelling in Timbi where Raman Nayak and his daughter Sonal Nayak (14) were visiting a relative. The family was preparing dinner outside the hutment when two poles collapsed.

Instead of encouraging her when she played with boys and hit the ball out of the park, all she would hear was: “Ye cricket khel kar kya kar legi. Paise kyo waste karna?” The neighbours’ hurtful remarks, however, didn’t stop her father Naseer Khan, an auto-driver, from getting his daughter, Baroda cricketer Tarannum Pathan, admitted to a cricket club at the age of 13. The barbs couldn’t destroy Pathan’s passion and she grew to become highest wicket taker in senior women’s cricket in the state.

The city police have formed a special team to nab a young woman, who has been posting videos with deadly weapons on her Instagram page “frnds_call_me_Thamanna” and promoting gang rivalry.

The Kuniyamuthur police arrested a 29-year-old man on Tuesday for hurling a petrol bomb at the house of an RSS functionary on Vinayakar Kovil Street at Kovaipudur here on September 22, 2022.

A gangster on Tuesday opened fire on a police inspector, forcing a sub-inspector of police to shoot him in retaliation in the left knee.