Новости за 23.01.2020

Two unidentified masked men shot dead a businessman at a doctor’s clinic in Jawahar Camp area in Punjab's Ludhiana on Thursday late evening.

The Allahabad high court on Thursday granted parole for two days to Atul Rai, who won last year's Lok Sabha election from Ghosi parliamentary constituency in Mau, Uttar Pradesh, for taking oath as member of parliament in New Delhi.

The district administration on Thursday organised a workshop for expectant mothers at village Kila Raipur of district Ludhiana.

Deputy chief minister CN Ashwath Narayan, who holds the higher education portfolio, is likely to make a decision in this regard in the next couple of days, sources said.

A whopping Rs 800 crore will be spent by the state government for the ambitious heritage corridor project around the Jagannath Temple in Puri, draft architectural plan for which has already been unveiled.

Tezpur University (TU) on Tuesday celebrated its 27th foundation day on Tuesday. The event started with a flag-hoisting ceremony by TU vice-chancellor Vinod Kumar Jain.

For the first time, an Anganwadi centre is coming up in a village in Majuli with environment-friendly plastic brick bottles instead of clay bricks.

Sam Stafford, a 17-year-old student who died in police firing during the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests last month, was shot twice, through his chin and from behind by police, a post-mortem report has revealed.

The perception of Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) being an under-developed and disturbed area has completely changed and long-pending demands of the Bodos would soon be fulfilled, said chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal.

Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh has called an all-party meeting on Thursday to discuss the water crisis faced by the state due to rapid depletion of groundwater, but data noted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in a January 10 order shows the state government has not been able to properly manage its treated sewage water.

Punjabi University, Patiala, on Wednesday gave its consent to government instructions over pay-cut policy on its non-teaching employees, who were being given secretariat allowance since 1970.

Two Asiatic lions returning to Chotila in Surendranagar after preying on a pig near Aji dam about 20km from Rajkot city, has left the forest officials scratching their head as to why the lions that travelled all the way to Gondal and Rajkot were returning back.

The Jharkhand government has declared January 23 as a public holiday to mark the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, five years after it was dropped from the list of holidays in the state.

Noida police, now empowered to take independent decisions as a commissionerate, has expanded the role of digital volunteers from checking fake news online to now sharing information about any person "living suspiciously".

Call it an after effect of meeting in New Delhi, an officer of the rank of a superintendent of police (SP) of the crime investigation department (CID) gave input to Haryana home minister Anil Vij at his residence in Ambala on Tuesday evening. Sources said it happened for the first time after Vij took over as the Haryana home minister.

A day after two senior functionaries of the BJP — a deputy chief minister and a political secretary to the chief minister — made provocative speeches against a minority community, Nalin Kumar Kateel, state president of the saffron party, on Wednesday issued a gag order, banning functionaries from talking on issues without the party’s approval.

A temple built in the name of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will be inaugurated in Varanasi on Thursday which also happens to be the 123rd birth anniversary of the iconic freedom fighter.