Новости за 08.01.2020

Passengers faced problems due to detention of trains at different railway stations of the state due to rail roko by trade unions as part of Bharat Bandh on Wednesday. Several trains got stuck due to the strike for one to three hours.

Despite the availability of free parking slots, those dropping and picking up passengers are haphazardly parking their vehicles outside the Belagavi Airpot at Sambra, creating congestion in the area. A majority of vehicle users are resorting to parking at non-designated areas, especially on the lanes, much to the inconvenience of disciplined airport users.

The Belagavi airport at Sambra, currently experiencing an increased influx of passenger traffic, will soon get a facility which will enable hassle-free landing of aircraft.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) has revived hopes of recognition for about 24,000 Bangladeshi refugees here, most of whom belong to the Namasudra community - a dominant scheduled caste in Bengal but unlisted in Karnataka.

Per unit cost of houses constructed under various housing schemes in the state is set to increase, post-presentation of state budget. While the government at present sanctions Rs 1.2 lakh as unit cost, this could well be slightly more than double to Rs 2.5 lakh, noted housing minister V Somanna.

This thanks to move by Dilraj Alva, owner of Sri Ganesh Prasad (SGP) buses that operate between State Bank terminus and Mangaladevi in painting one of the SGP buses on 27 route with Tulu vowels and hashtags - #Tuluto8thschedule and #TuluofficiallnKA_K – supporting the campaign.

Even as Mahadayi and border-dispute issues are heating up, the pontiffs from across North-Karnataka region to convene a meeting to discuss a roadmap to resolve the same.

The Hubballi-Dharwad traffic police is cracking down on illegal parking on busy roads by towing away two-wheelers and locking cars but a large number of push carts and vending stands continue to set up shop on either side of the road.

There's always been a demand to make journeys on National Highways (NH) faster and safer. However, in Karnataka, these roads have been death traps. Though they have an 8% share of the network, they've registered 36% of deaths in the past three years. It's 30% at the national level.

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) has featured in the ‘Top-50 young universities in Chemistry’ in 2019, according to Nature Index.

The rift in Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) came out in public once again on Tuesday as former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta was not allowed to hold a meeting at the party’s headquarters in Guwahati. Mahanta was forced to shift his meeting to another venue.

After politicians from the ruling BJP and AGP, who are being greeted with black flags across the Brahmaputra Valley for supporting the CAA, it’s now the turn of members of the artists’ fraternity to face the wrath of anti-Act protesters in upper Assam.

Around 1,000 people, including members of trade unions, government employees and members of parliament PR Natarajan (Coimbatore) and K Subbarayan (Tirupur) were detained on Wednesday morning for staging a protest in front of the district collectorate here. Some protesters resorted to road roko and stopped buses.

Chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday said his government will release a whitepaper soon to present a picture of Jharkhand's current financial health before the state's people.

The president of the state unit of BJP's Anusuchit Jati Morcha, Niraj Paswan, said opposition parties are acting in a pre-meditated manner to spread anarchy across the nation on CAA.

Kurukshetra district court of additional sessions judge (ASJ) Lal Chand on Monday sentenced a Pehowa resident to rigorous imprisonment of 20 years and 10 years under separate sections of law in a rape case of a minor girl. Both the sentences will run concurrently. ​

Fists of fury and sparks will fly at BHU’s Madhuban park, where till now lovebirds would nestle. The BHU administration, vide a notification dated January 6, has designated the park located near faculty of music and performing arts as the new site for protests by students, teaching and non-teaching staff.

A regional manager with a global healthcare firm was found murdered on an unlit stretch near Parthala Chowk in Noida in the wee hours of Tuesday, just 5km from his home in Gaur City.

The four ‘bighas’ that belonged to Phoolan Devi’s mother in her native Jalaun village that triggered the first brawl with her cousin, Maya Din, just days before she turned bandit and picked the gun, is still out of bounds for her family, three decades later.

As the issue of frequent bottlenecks came up during a district grievances committee meeting chaired by minister O P Soni, Jalandhar municipal corporation (MC) and police commissionerate blamed each other for the problem. ​

The Haryana government has termed the proposed strike call by its employees on Wednesday as irrational, while advising the departmental heads to deal with the situation firmly and prepare contingency plans. ​

The Haryana government has decided to extend Sarai Kale Khan-Delhi-Panipat RRTS (Regional Rapid Transit System) corridor up to Karnal.

Holding its Haryana unit responsible for the party’s dismal show in the recent assembly polls, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Tuesday expelled three top state leaders — former state party unit president Prakash Bharti, former state coordinator Naresh Saran and Dr Meghraj Singh.