Новости за 18.10.2020

Three men, including Nishad party MLA Vijay Mishra and his son, were booked on Sunday for allegedly raping a 25-year-old singer, police said. Nishad party is an ally of the ruling BJP.

Two youths hailing from Tumakuru and residing in Hesaraghatta drowned at the Kaup beach in Udupi on Sunday. The deceased have been identified as Rupesh, 21 and Karthik, 23.

Jignesh Raninga was held with 5,644 FICN pieces with a face value of Rs 2,82,200 after a tip off was received about a man traveling from Surat to Ankleshwar to make purchases at a local market, the Bharuch Special Operations Group said in a release.

A Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped at gunpoint by two men, including a former village head, in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Sunday.

An elderly priest was allegedly beaten to death by a man who was in an inebriated condition after the octogenarian refused to give him money to buy liquor, police said on Sunday.

The railway board has granted approval for conversion of three pairs of trains operated by Southern Railways from passenger trains to express trains. Similarly, the board has approved for the conversion of one pair to a superfast train from express train.

Simmering tension prevailed on the Assam-Mizoram border after a violent clash took place between the people of the two states, injuring several, a police officer in Aizawl said.

In a joint operation, officials of the Excise Intelligence Bureau of Assam and jawans of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), Rangiya Division, busted two illegal liquor godowns at a village in the Nagrijuli-Tamulpur area of Baksa district near the India-Bhutan border on Friday night.

Lifeguards saved the lives of three tourists over the weekend including two on Sunday at Panambur beach.

Five persons were killed when a truck loaded with shredded bamboo, which was proceeding from Mawrungkneng towards Guwahati, hit five roadside vegetable vendors, including four women, on the Shillong bypass road at around 8 am on Saturday.

The People’s Conference Party (PCP) has urged the Mizoram government to speak to the Centre for arranging tripartite talks to settle the decades-old border dispute with Assam.

Rajib Parashar, who has been allegedly extorting money from several candidates for various public service recruitment examinations, was sent to three days of judicial custody on Saturday.

Bank accounts will now be mandatory for all children up to Class XII studying in government or provincialized educational institutions in Assam.

Newly-inducted education minister S Rajen Singh warned state government teachers and professors against contractual work and said the department will take serious action against those found guilty.

A day after deputy chief minister and National People’s Party (NPP) leader Prestone Tynsong remarked that the BJP, which has been making serious allegations of corruption against the very government of which it was a part was free to leave the NPP-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA), the saffron party retorted by saying NPP could not ask it to leave the ruling coalition as “MDA exists because of BJP”.

Screams could be heard in Karbi Anglong’s Rohimapur village on the night of September 30 as Ramawati Halua (50) and Bijoy Gour (28) were burnt to death by a mob. Their only crime was that they had been held guilty by a kangaroo court for indulging in witchcraft. Evidence didn’t matter here as the court said the duo caused diseases and brought misfortune to the village by their witchcraft.

The Cachar district administration has made mandatory for all committees and individuals organising Durga Puja to obtain necessary permission and time slots for immersion to prevent mass gatherings.

The state government on Saturday urged priests in the state to get themselves tested for Covid-19 before the Durga Puja to ensure that devotees are not infected with the virus.