Новости за 03.10.2020

Kajal Pandey from Rourkela who recently entered International Book of Records for making fastest elbow strikes by both hands on a punching bag (women), has set her eyes on entering the Guinness Book of Records.

Amid strong protests by the women activists of Samajwadi Party and Congress workers, Union minister Smriti Irani on Saturday said that the Yogi government would ensure justice in the Hathras case, and that those guilty would not be spared once the SIT report arrives.

A group of Congress workers blocked the cavalcade of Union minister Smriti Irani in Varanasi in protest against the alleged gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old woman in Hathras district in UP. The protesters raised raised anti-government slogans and demanded justice for the woman's family. Irani was in Varanasi to address a farmers’ meet at Shahanshahpur area.

A debate is raging in academic circles regarding the Odisha Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2020. A section of academics strongly believe that the move, first promulgated as an ordinance and now planned to be passed as a Bill in the state assembly, is an assault on the basic principles of academic freedom. Others, however, feel it was much needed to prevent the universities from further deteriorating.​

Heavy police deployment has come up on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Noida on Saturday, ahead of a scheduled visit of a Congress delegation that plans to meet the family of a 19-year-old dalit woman in Hathras who died after an alleged gangrape.

The country had witnessed 13 crimes by Maoists, relating to offences against the State and sedition, in 2019. Incidentally, all the 13 offences had occurred in Odisha, the latest data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has revealed.

The state police failed miserably in tracing children, who had gone missing in 2019, if the latest data by national crime records bureau (NCRB) is any indication. The NCRB has placed Odisha at the bottom as far as the recovery percentage of the missing children in the country is concerned.

In a mark of respect to Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary, employees of UPPCL from both, transmission and distribution departments posted in Noida and Greater Noida (under Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd - PVVNL wing) took a one-day break yesterday from their ongoing protest against the proposed privatisation of the power sector, already initiated from Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd.

157 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in GB Nagar on Friday while 147 patients recovered in the past 24 hours.

Sector 19 residents complain of the shoddy repair job of two water supply lines that were damaged for two weeks by petty contractors in a part of the sector leaving a mound of mud and water leakages during supply time.​

On the second day, farmers continued their protest at different sites in Patiala and Sangrur districts at railway tracks, roads, near toll plazas and petrol pumps on Friday.

Although the Centre’s Unlock guidelines allowed inter-state public transport to resume without restrictions or need for e-passes, a farcical situation plays out on the border with Kerala at Talapady near Mangaluru. While bus services are banned between Mangaluru and Kasargod, hundreds of people from either side walk across the border at Talapady every day.

On Thursday, the elephants were accorded a ceremonial welcome when they came to Mysuru from the forest camp, which was followed by more rituals at the palac

The maximum Covid deaths in Odisha were in the age-group of 41 to 60 years, an analysis by the state health department has revealed. Sixteen more died of viral infection, pushing the toll to 875 on Friday. Altogether 3,600 more people tested positive for the virus, raising the virus caseload to 2,26,334.​