Новости за 25.11.2020

Calling former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi his “guru”, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday paid his final tributes to the mortal remains of the veteran leader at the Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra here.

An Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer’s frequent travels by chartered flights during the lockdown and alleged accumulation of ill-gotten assets have prompted the Odisha government to launch a vigilance inquiry against him.

Gautam Buddh Nagar on Wednesday reported 223 new cases of coronavirus while 140 patients also recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total number of confirmed cases in the district to 22,022. Also, the total number of deceased were 80 or 0.36% people dead due to the pandemic.

Alliance Air, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India, will commence direct flight operations from Mysuru to Mangaluru and back effective December 11. The flight will operate on four days a week - Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The state government has urged the Centre for setting up of second AIIMS in Odisha for the benefit of Western Odisha people. According to the proposal, the national institution can be established in Sundargarh.

The farmers of several northern districts of Haryana broke two police barricades laid by the district administrations of Ambala and Kurukshetra on the national highway (NH) 44 (GT Road) on Wednesday to stop their movement towards Delhi following ‘Dilli Chalo’ call of the AIKSCC.

The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with government enterprise Engineering Projects (India) Limited (EPIL) for construction of seven road over bridges (ROBs)

A day after a couple from Odisha's Nayagarh district attempted self-immolation outside the assembly premises in protest against police inaction over alleged abduction and murder of their 5-year-old daughter in July, the state government on Wednesday ordered Crime Branch probe into the minor killing case.

A 17-year-old boy was ripped into pieces after an explosive material used to kill wild boars blew off in an accident at Khanapur in Karnataka's Belagavi.

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called Tarun Gogoi as one of his dearest friends from Assam and said the country had lost one of its tallest leaders who always worked for the betterment of the poor and downtrodden.

Activists fondly remember Congress veteran and former CM Tarun Gogoi as a man who never tried to curb freedom of expression even when the joke was on him and his government.

Haren Basumatary, who has worked as a cook for Tarun Gogoi since 1995, said the former chief minister was not just a larger-than-life political figure for him but also a tutor who taught him important lessons of life.

Senior Congress leader Paban Singh Ghatowar on Tuesday said three-time chief minister Tarun Gogoi was a “modern-day Lachit” who rescued Assam from the grips of militancy and political killings just like the17th century Ahom dynasty army general Lachit Borphukan had thwarted a drawn-out attempt by the Mughal forces to capture Kamrup (present-day Guwahati).

The constituents of Titabor, the assembly seat held by former three-time chief minister Tarun Gogoi, will not be able to see their beloved leader for the last time, as his mortal remains will not be brought to the town.

The makers of an upcoming Odia film felicitated around 20 film and television artistes of the state at a city park recently.

The annual Kannada literary meet will be held from February 26 to 28 in Haveri. This will be the 86th edition of the Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana.

Manoj Mishra and Anu Choudhury have teamed up for an Odia film.

Six members of a gang, arrested for robbery at a jewellery shop in Roshanpura area, had taken a month-long training from hardened criminals in UP, from where they learnt the tricks of the trade — identification of the target, extensive survey before crime, way to commit robbery, planning of exit routes, how to dodged the CCTV camera and hideout after committing a crime .

Officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) are slated to meet on Thursday to discuss the issue of shifting a few gates of the Sirhaul toll plaza for the construction of the Ambience Mall underpass U-turn. The gates fall in the line of the alignment of the underpass and have held up the remaining 20% of the construction, officials said.