Новости за 04.11.2020

A grocery shop owner and his wife were found murdered in their apartment in Greater Noida on Wednesday, said police. The bodies of the couple, both in their fifties, were found in a pool of blood on their ninth-floor flat in Cherry County society, under Bisrakh police station area, they said.

Mangalore Regional Centre of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute in collaboration with Coastal Security Police, on the occasion of world jellyfish day, released ‘Jelly safe’ kit on Wednesday. Jelly safe is a first aid kit put forward by the institute for treating jellyfish stings.

Union minister for parliamentary affairs Pralhad Joshi on Wednesday thrashed suggestion by former CM Siddaramaiah that the incumbent B S Yediyurappa will be replaced after the bypoll results are announced.

A day after All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) supremo and MP Badruddin Ajmal said that after his grand alliance with Congress comes to power in the state next year, the first cabinet meeting would order reopening of state-run madrassas closed down by present BJP-led government, state minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asked Ajmal to convene his cabinet in either Pakistan or Bangladesh.

The Special Task Force (STF) has arrested three drug smugglers and recovered 28 kg heroin and 6 kg ice drugs from their possession. The recovered drugs cost at around Rs 200 crore in the international market - heroin worth Rs 140 crore and ice worth Rs 6 crore.

Israel government is keen to offer support for collaborations and technology sourcing for establishing manufacturing facility set ups and R&D institutions in Assam with potential investors of Israel, Ambassador of Israel to India Dr Ron Malka said during his visit to the Tech City here on Wednesday.

A 28-year-old woman was allegedly shot at in the head from a close range and critically injured by three unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants while she was travelling in a sport utility vehicle along with her friend who escaped unhurt, police said on Wednesday.

The SM Dev Civil Hospital, Silchar, known to most as Silchar civil hospital, completed 100 years on Monday. The foundation stone of the hospital, which now serves hundreds on a daily basis, was laid on November 2, 1920 by Frederick John Napier, the Viceroy of British India.

A day after a villager from Assam died in custody of Mizoram, Assam chief secretary Jishnu Barua and DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta visited Lailapur along the inter-state border to assess the situation on Tuesday.

Members of the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Tuesday staged a sit-in protest in Dibrugarh against the rising prices of essential commodities and petroleum products. Led by KMSS Dibrugarh district general secretary Hemanta Konwar, the KMSS members raised slogans against the Narendra Modi government.

Several organisations, including All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), staged massive protests over the rising prices of potatoes and onion, which were recently excluded from the list of essential commodities list, and other vegetables.

Aizawl district additional district and sessions judge Dr HTC Lalrinchhana on Tuesday found a 42-year-old man of Republic locality in Aizawl guilty of murdering 5 persons of a family and convicted the latter.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday approved a $132.8-million loan to improve the power quality and upgrade the power distribution network in Meghalaya, with an aim to benefit about 180,000 households.

Diwali is round the corner, but about 30% of the city’s 32,000 streetlights remain non-functional, sources in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) said.

Ahead of the Bodoland Territorial Council polls, Assam BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass is on a four-day visit to BTR which will end on Wednesday. During his visit, he has held a series of executive meetings across the region and appealed to the people to work with more dedication. Dass’s visit is as part of BJP’s statewide 59-day-long campaign programme, which will end on December 26.

Not just onion, the soaring prices of potato, tomato and other vegetables and fruits across the state have left consumers reeling.

A survey carried out by Assam Police and central police forces in October to gauge the level of cybersecurity awareness among people in Assam has revealed that most internet users in the state have faced some form of cyber attack in the last one year.