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Mangaluru City Corporation on Wednesday exhorted Mangaluru Smart City Ltd (MSCL) to route any new smart city mission projects through its council.

Assam Police on Wednesday arrested a doctor and his son for allegedly using a proxy candidate to write JEE (mains) examination held in September instead, in which the son achieved the top rank among candidates from Assam with a score of 99.8 percentile without sitting for the exam.

The accused have been identified as Omon Benson, who hails from Nigeria, and Johnson Usaro, a native of Kenya, and both of them were currently staying in Greater Noida, the police said.

Achievers in the field of literature (Valerian D’Souza aka Valli Vagga), music (K Lingappa Sherigar Kateel); judiciary (MK Vijaya Kumar); horanadu Kannadiga (Kusumodhar Deranna Shetty Kelthadka); institutions (Dharmothana Trust, Dharmasthala) have made it to this list.

157 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Gautam Buddh Nagar on Wednesday, while 155 patients recovered in the past 24 hours. The total number of confirmed cases in the district on Wednesday reached 17,292.

Bhim Gupta, a nagar panchayat chairman, on Wednesday surrendered before the court of judicial magistrate in Ballia in the case of death by suicide of PCS officer Manimanjari Rai.

Taking strong note of three doctors and 16 paramedical staff of Ghatampur Community Health Centre absent from duty, district magistrate Alok Tiwari ordered chief medical officer Anil Kumar Mishra to stop disbursement of their salary.

Under the aegis of Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC), the progress of civil construction of the Kanpur Metro Project is going on at a brisk pace. Recently, UPMRC set another benchmark by completing the casting of 200 U-girders at Lakhanpur casting yard along with the erection of 114 U-girders under the nine-km-long Priority Corridor which is being constructed from IIT to Motijheel.

Only 22 persons were tested positive for Covid-19 in the city on Tuesday. This was the lowest number of Covid-19 positive cases reported in the district for the first time in past three months including October. The total count of Covid-19 cases has reached to 27,638.

The designated Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act (Pocso court) on Tuesday convicted accused Vinod Kumar for committing an unnatural sexual act with a minor girl and sentenced him to ten years rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs. 30,000.

Divisional commissioner Raj Shekhar, on Tuesday, visited Panki Thermal plant and directed the officials to ensure timely completion of the upgradation work of the thermal plant and make it functional by January 2022. The upgraded plant would have a capacity of 660 MW thermal power production. The project was started in 2018 and was to be completed in 46 months.

Family of a 35-year-old man, Jitendra Rathore of Babupurwa’s Nayapurwa area of the city, has alleged that he has committed suicide after torture by the police following a dispute with locals wherein he had objected to placing of a make-shift ‘paan’ shop in front of his house on Sunday.

The city police on Tuesday arrested a former chief engineer of the Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDA) with regard to road construction scam of 2012. In a case registered against him in 2012, he was accused of getting an amount of Rs 2.11 crore passed against construction of a road between Chakeri and Pali, that was shown on papers by fraudulent means.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has charged the Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) of indulging in nepotism and alleged that all the three have restricted the country, party and development to “family politics”.

Ananya Mishra and Laxmi emerged as winner and runner up in slogan competition organized by Centre for Advocacy and Research with Parivartan, a social organization under the month-long corona awareness programme on Tuesday.