Новости за 25.10.2020

In a controversial remark, BJP's Uttar Pradesh chief Swatantra Dev Singh said prime minister Narendra Modi has “decided” when the country would be at war with Pakistan and China. His remarks on Friday came amid tension at the Line of Actual Control between India and China, where the two countries have massed troops over recent months.

Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)Even as the rest of India prepares to burn effigies of Ravan as a symbolic victory of good over evil, devotees are quietly lining up outside a nondescript temple in Kanpur.

State BJP chief Nalin Kumar Kateel is expected to showcase his organisational prowess at the special executive committee meeting of the party scheduled to be held in his home town here on November 5. This will be the first such meet that the Dakshina Kannada district unit of BJP will host in its stronghold, nearly a year after Nalin was appointed as state BJP president and within three months of him revamping the state team.

Three persons were injured after a blast in a garment-dyeing factory in the Geeta colony of Tajpur road in Ludhiana on Sunday, said Punjab police.

A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a teenage boy in a village in the Khaga area of this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Sunday.

Fifty-eight more people, including 15 students of two private schools in Aizawl, have tested positive for Covid-19 in Mizoram, taking the northeastern state's caseload to 2,447 on Sunday, a health official said.

The Durga Puja festivities have not affected the high-voltage electioneering in Balasore and Tirtol assembly constituencies, both of which are heading to byelections on November 3.

The Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) authorities will verify documents of students online during counselling for BTech, BArch and Integrated MSc courses. Students don’t have to visit any nodal centre for document verification because of the Covid-19 situation.

Biranchi Narayan Puhan, 79, former vice-chancellor of North Odisha University (NOU), Baripada, passed away here on Saturday. He is survived by his wife, daughter and son.

The redevelopment of Puri Swargadwar should be completed by March 2021, 5T secretary V K Pandian, who visited Puri to review the work, has instructed the officials concerned.

The byelections in Tirtol and Balasore have challenged both BJD and BJP to retain their respective seats. For both parties, failure to win the seat held by them will be a setback, although the outcome will in no way alter the parties’ positions in the assembly.

Durga Puja organising committees in the capital brought the Ashtami rituals to devotees on their screens by live-streaming them. On Saturday, puja mandaps shrunk to the size of mobile phones and laptops as people caught a glimpse of the goddess and took part in rituals virtually.

Back in the days when child marriages were normal, dolls used to given to brides by their mothers to help them relive their childhood by showcasing them in Gombe Habba (doll festival) during Dasara.

In an attempt to showcase his creativity, an artist from Assam's Dubri has created a Durga idol with strips of expired tablets, capsules and injection vials to express solidarity with everyone fighting the COVID-19 menace.

To prevent patients with tuberculosis from being exposed to the coronavirus infection, the district health department has started a door-to-door screeneing campoign on Friday to identify people displaying symptoms of TB which are similar to those of Covid

In a bid to check stubble burning, Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB), along with an NGO, has initiated a trial to decompose paddy residue faster after it is incorporated in agricultural fields.

It has been 28 days since the start of paddy procurement and more than 50% paddy has already been procured, but many farmers are claiming that they have not yet been paid for their crop, because of which they are falling short of money to celebrate in the festive season and sow the next crop.

MCG has issued as many as 99 challans since the implementation of the graded response action plan (GRAP) in the city on October 15. The highest number of challans have been issued to construction sites for keeping building material uncovered.

With air pollution expected to rise further in coming days, the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has directed all deputy commissioners in NCR districts of Haryana to ensure strict implementation of the graded response action plan (GRAP).

A fire broke out at a slum near Bhangel Market here in Noida on late Saturday night, police said.

The ambitious Gurugram metro and the Faridabad-Gurugram metro projects could get delayed as the detailed project reports (DPR) for these two corridors are unlikely to be approved by the Union government in the absence of a comprehensive mobility plan

Jag Mohan Singh’s father set up a jalebi shop in Sadar around seventy years ago. Hidden behind a tree in the middle of the market, its crispy, juicy jalebis attracted people even from far off localities in the national capital region, including celebrities.

The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram(MCG) started a survey using drones on Saturday to identify panchayat land in 39 villages it plans to take over. The villages, meanwhile, continue to oppose the decision to bring them under MCG’s jurisdiction.v

In a big relief to pedestrians, construction of foot overbridges (FOBs) on the Golf Course Road is likely to start soon. DLF along with the GMDA has selected five points on the expressway where the FOBs will come up.