Новости за 18.09.2020

Staying at home during the lockdown has prompted gardening enthusiasts to devote more time to grow vegetables. It not only ensured fresh food on the table, it led to the creation of green corners at homes and provided relief to families stuck indoors.

Hours after the CBI's raid in the house of BJD leader and former minister Debi Mishra on Friday, the ruling party apparently threw in its lot behind its leader and questioned the timing of the CBI crackdown.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has been probing chit fund scam by 44 companies in the state since 2014, on Friday raided the houses of senior BJD leader and former minister Debi Prasad Mishra in the capital city and Cuttack district for his alleged complicity in Seashore Group fraud.

A group involved in mining activities attacked Ambala additional deputy commissioner (ADC)-cum-secretary state road transport authority (RTA) Preeti and other officials on Punjab-Haryana border under the limits of Panjokhra police station late on Friday.

Within two months of the miniature saroop of Guru Granth Sahib going missing from Gurdwara Ardaspur Sahib at Kalyan village of Patiala district, the 11-member gurdwara committee, including its president, has resigned.

The Patiala police have arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl after taking her into his house. The police said the statement of the rape survivor has been recorded and a case has been registered on the complaint of the survivor’s mother.

Airfield Police here on Thursday apprehended two minor boys for allegedly killing their mother in their flat in Sundarpada on Wednesday night. The deceased was 40.

To cover rural households with piped water connections, the Punjab government on Thursday decided to accord first priority to providing functional house tap connections (FHTCs) in the remaining 17.59 lakh households to meet its 2022 target of 100% piped water connectivity.

The village sarpanch of Kalba in Mahendergarh district was arrested on Thursday, a day after a forest ranger and his deputy were allegedly thrashed with sticks by a group of men during an inspection of a protected forest area in the Aravalis.

Despite social distancing norms and guidelines to not allow more than three people inside a vehicle, autorickshaws continued to carry 8-10 passengers during the pandemic.

About eight years ago, he ate a sour-sweet fruit and threw the seeds in the corner of his garden. But the pomelo fruit didn’t harbour any bitterness towards this flippancy. On the contrary, the citrus tree is thanking him for the care he took all these years with the sweetest returns today.

The city on Thursday reported 394 fresh cases of Covid-19, taking the tally to 16,724. The health department said that on the same day, 328 people recovered from the virus, bringing the total number of recoveries to 13,851.

At least four persons, including a father-son duo, sustained serious injuries in a clash between two groups from Dalelpur and Yakutpur villages, respectively, over illegal sand mining on Tuesday.

Clarifying that it is not permitting full resumption of academic activities yet, the state government allowed all government and private schools located outside the containment zones to start doubt-clearing lasses for students of classes 9 to 12, who are preparing for their board exams.

An FIR has been filed after some persons chopped around 50 full-grown trees in a green belt near Sector 51’s Mayfield Gardens and created an illegal access road to the sector road.

An accountant of a private hospital was robbed of Rs 35,000 and gold ring after taking a lift from IFFCO Chowk on Wednesday. The accountant was looking for a ride to Civil Hospital in Sector 10 when the accused came in a taxi and offered to drop him to the hospital.

The economic offences wing (EOW) of Gurugram police issued notices to several government departments and civic bodies in the city on Wednesday seeking details of permissions given by them for construction of factories, warehouses and shops on vacant land in Sector 94.