Новости за 01.11.2020

Udupi district police in its continuing war on drugs has busted a racket involving a medical student and a non-resident Indian green card holder in this connection on Saturday. A team headed by additional superintendent of police Kumarchandra raided an apartment in Manipal and seized synthetic and hard drugs valued at Rs 3.89 lakh. The haul included 32 grams of hydroid ganja, nine grams of brown sugar and 25 MDMA tablets.

The Embassy of India in Doha, Qatar has heaped appreciation on a Kannadiga expatriate for his major contributions as a Covid warrior in the Arab country.

Nearly two decades after it hosted the state executive committee meeting, the Dakshina Kannada district unit of BJP is gearing up to host top state and national leaders at the same event scheduled to be held at T V Raman Pai convention hall here on November 5. In all, 120 key party leaders including chief minister, union ministers – Pralhad Joshi and D V Sadananda Gowda and national general secretary B L Santhosh will attend.

The Government Lady Goschen Hospital, which was handling an average of 400-450 deliveries a month, has created its own record in October. While the 167-year-old government hospital crossed 800 deliveries in October, its Covid maternity block was successful in admitting and providing treatment to an average of 4 – 5 Covid-19 positive pregnant women everyday.

Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday claimed that people of Baroda had made up their mind to vote for the BJP-JJP candidate and there was no doubt that the alliance would win the by election.

The forest department has a imposed seven-month ‘fishing ban’ from November 1 to May 31 to protect the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles in the Gahirmatha marine sanctuary in Kendrapada district.

IIT Bhubaneswar will start classes of first-year undergraduate (UG) students from November 18.

As part of its Unlock guidelines for November, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has allowed registrations of new bookings in Kalyan Mandaps under the civic body’s management.

Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday paid tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his birth anniversary which is celebrated across the nation as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas.

The Gauhati High Court, while upholding a Supreme Court verdict, observed that the child of a deceased, whose marriage may not be legitimate, would also be entitled to a family’s pension benefits.

Even as schools will formally reopen across Assam with students starting from Class VI having the option to come to campus, many are likely to stay back home and continue attending online classes. But low attendance on campus coupled with the fact that many government school students in Assam still do not have smartphones is going to be a major stumbling block in the path of education.

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday appreciated the people of Assam for celebrating Durga Puja in a responsible way, “just the way the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the state government had appealed”, which helped keep Covid-19 cases under control.

Assam has introduced the transgender option in the gender category in the state civil and allied services examination application form.

For the first time, NEET counselling for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in Assam’s medical colleges will go online. The first round of counselling will be held from November 6 to November 14.

Police on Saturday arrested a 40-year-old woman for allegedly helping a candidate, who had got a percentile of 99.8 in JEE (Mains), use ‘fraudulent means”. She had allegedly helped him go out of the exam centre so that a proxy examinee can come in and appear for the test on his behalf.

The Assam Congress on Saturday slammed the Dibrugarh district administration for denying accommodation to Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora at the circuit house citing occupancy by the chief minister.

For two days from Sunday, chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will lay the foundation of 104 high schools in tea garden areas across Assam. This is the second time in eight years that a state government is setting up schools in these areas since Independence. Prior to that, the British colonial government had set up 10 schools in different tea gardens across Assam.

Union home minister Amit Shah has said resolving the decades-old raging inter-state border disputes in the northeastern region involving Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram is his topmost priority soon after the assembly elections in Assam, cabinet minister Himanta Biswa Sarma informed on Saturday.

Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said the BJP government, once voted back to power, will put Congress MLA Sherman Ali behind bars for his remarks that “blue coloured lungis” will be kept at the “miya” museum, which he demanded to be set up at the Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra. The Kalakshetra is a centre for showcasing Assam’s Vaishnavite culture and heritage.