Новости за 24.11.2020

The state assembly on Tuesday passed the Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (amendment) Bill, 2020 (OIIDC) to provide legal support to state government agency—Idco, to take up “social infrastructure” projects like power supply, sewerage and effluent treatment.

The width of the road over the bridge-cum-saltwater exclusion dam (SWED), which is being built across the Nethravati river connecting Kannur and Harekala villages, will be increased by three metres, said J C Madhuswamy, minister for law and parliamentary affairs and minor irrigation.

The state government on Tuesday banned congregation at river ghats and near other water bodies to take bath and sail miniature boats on the occasion of Kartik Purnima on November 30 in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The commissionerate police on Tuesday solved last week’s sensational crime involving the robbery of gold and cash worth nearly Rs 20 crore from IIFL, a non-banking financial company, in Cuttack.

At least six persons, including three women, were killed after being run over by a speeding truck near Sarankul area of Odisha's Nayagarh district on Tuesday, police said.

The agriculture and farmers’ welfare department of Haryana and Ambala police on Monday arrested two men with 200 bags of urea allegedly, which was being illegally transported to Punjab in a tractor-trolley and a truck.

Minor irrigation department has drawn up a master plan to construct 1,348 vented dams in the coastal districts of Uttara Kannada, Udupi and Dakshina Kannada.

A fire broke out in a building of a defund private company in Noida on Tuesday, officials said. The blaze was reported around 2 pm from the site in Sector 1 of the city, the officials added.

A man was arrested for allegedly throwing his three minor children into a canal following a heated argument with his wife, police said on Tuesday.

Former chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who did not know how to mince words, was journalists’ delight. He was easily accessible and never shied away from answering any question.

I am distraught at the demise of our esteemed leader, Tarun Gogoi sir, who was the only person to become chief minister of Assam for three successive terms. Gogoi sir was an outspoken leader, a veritable Bhishma Pitamaha for Congress workers of Assam. His death has left us grief-stricken and rudderless. He had become an institution in himself during his lifetime and his demise has left a vacuum, not only in Assam, but in India as a whole.

Former CM Tarun Gogoi’s untimely demise has come as massive blow to the people of Assam. We have lost a tall leader in our most respected Tarun Gogoi da. It’s the end of an era in Assam’s public life. He was so vibrant and full of life until a few days ago, couldn’t believe this sad news.

In order to find a cure for Covid-19, the ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) has granted a sum of Rs 6 lakh to a research project being undertaken by three doctors from the state. The research is aimed at exploring the role of three Unani formulations — Tiryaq Wabai, Arque-e-Ajeeb and Habb-e-Loban — in the management of Covid-19 patients.

If all goes well, Jharkhand may soon be able to grow avocado in a few years as the state’s premier agriculture institute — Birsa Agriculture University (BAU) — has laid the ground work for setting up a small orchard at its campus in Kanke for growing the nutrient-rich fruit on a pilot basis.

Election authorities in Assam will be creating over 6,000 additional polling booths for the 2021 assembly election to prevent overcrowding and to adhere to all Covid-19 protocols.

While some businesses failed to weather the lockdown, a slew of enterprises found opportunity in troubled waters. In just 45 days post-Unlock, at least 21 companies have received allotments worth Rs 815 crore in Greater Noida’s Ecotech industrial areas to set up businesses. Over the year, GNIDA claims that allotments worth Rs 10,000 crore are likely to be achieved, officials have said.

A man brutally murdered four of his family members at Mayur Vihar under the Punjab Agriculture University police station area in the district headquarters of Ludhiana in Punjab on Tuesday morning.

A 35-year-old mother of two died in an accident as her husband, who was riding the bike, got onto a video call and the vehicle jumped over a pipeline jutting out of the road in Bagalkot. The call was most likely from their children, to check when they would reach home, the victim’s father said.

An elderly man, who was rescued from the debris of a building that had collapsed and was being treated at the Lala Lajpat Rai hospital here, succumbed to his injuries in the early hours of Tuesday

What’s in a name? For 60-year-old Mitha Bai Kumbh Phaley, it is a matter of eight months and 1,400 km away from home in a strange land. The Marathi woman was finally reunited with her son, Pandurang Baburao Kumbh Phaley, on Sunday at Latehar district where she was taking refuge since March this year.

In Tarun Gogoi's death on Monday, Congress may have lost not just its guardian in Assam but also the glue that binds the anti-BJP coalition it is trying to cobble together for the assembly elections next year.