Новости за 14.10.2020

The district police slapped charges of murder, rioting, and criminal conspiracy against Bharatiya Kisan Union's (BKU) Ambala district president Malkiat Singh Sahibpura and six farmers, after a supporter of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) died during its tractor yatra near Naraingarh town on Wednesday.

Assam's strategy to test, trace and isolate the virus seemed to have really paid off as the state’s positivity rate has dipped to less than 2%. The state has crossed the 3 lakh-mark for Covid tests in three days on Wednesday — a feat that they have achieved twice in 15 days.

Accusing the police of falsely implicating her son in a wrong case and demanding bribe, a woman climbed atop an overhead water tank at Amloh Road in Khanna on Wednesday morning.

The residents of Mangaluru's Kottara area woke up to waterlogged compounds and streets on Wednesday after heavy rainfall.

Though rainfall petered out in the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi on Wednesday, there was widespread heavy rainfall in Uttara Kannada district in the past 24 hours disrupting normal life, especially traffic on the Mumbai-Karwar National Highway.

Rifts have started appearing in All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) over forming a political party by “using its platform”.

Chief electoral officer Sanjiv Kumar and IFS officer Manoj Rajan will receive PhD at the 100th convocation of University of Mysore (UoM) scheduled for October 19.

The Konkan Railway in coordination with Western Railway will run train 09578/ 09577 Jamnagar-Tirunelveli-Jamnagar bi-weekly special express from November 6.

"Our preparations for running operations are very solid and we have been preparing for it over the last seven months.

A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her father in the heart of Guwahati, police said. Police have arrested the accused.

Former DIG Prasanta Kumar Dutta, the prime accused in the question paper leak case in sub-inspector recruitment exam held on September 20, has been sent to 14-day judicial custody by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup Metro, on Tuesday.

Notorious gangster Azharuddin Sindhi alias Ajju Kaniyo was murdered by a fellow inmate inside the Vadodara Central Jail on Wednesday morning.

Meghalaya on Tuesday recorded four more deaths due to Covid-19, taking the toll in the state to 68, health officials said.

Officials in the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) confirmed that the number of such requests had gone up several times in the period between July and September.

A 24-year-old woman from Kurugovinakoppa, a village in Nargund taluk of Gadag district, has been featured in New Realities Virtual Reality film series by Lenovo.

With the Delhi police making the second arrest in the alleged fraud case of Rs 250 crore by the promoters of the “Hello Taxi” scheme, investigators are looking for three officials of the companies including two directors who invested around Rs. 3.5 crores of money for purchasing as many as 60 new Hyundai cars from a Noida showroom.

Four persons, including a woman, died of Covid-19 at different hospitals in Imphal in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll in the state to 97.

The Meghalaya government has said it would examine the demand for an independent inquiry to probe allegations of leakage of ‘radiation’ from a concrete tank containing radioactive remnants of a uranium mining at Nongbah Jynrin village in the state’s South West Khasi Hills district bordering Bangladesh.

At least 220 more people, including five security personnel and two health workers, have tested positive for Covid-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the tally to 12,367, an official said on Tuesday.

The audit report on the accounts of the state health and family welfare department by a special team of Mizoram’s chief controller of accounts has found a host of irregularities.

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said the Centre has asked the state to prepare for the first Covid-19 vaccination anytime between January and July next year.

Movie theatres are set to reopen in most parts of India on October 15 in accordance with the central government directive. But in Odisha, the theatre shutdown has been extended till October 31, prolonging the woes of the exhibitors.

Saying that it is left with no option but to “act tough” as peace talks remain deadlocked, NSCN (IM) on Tuesday said a separate flag and constitution for the Naga people are “non-negotiable” and it will not accept any solution without them.