Новости за 14.12.2020

Rajaram Singh (85), the main witness of the 1981 Behmai massacre and the plaintiff in the case, died after prolonged illness at his native village Behmai in Kanpur Dehat district on Sunday. He was suffering from chronic liver disease.

A full-fledged surgical block of 1.30 lakh sqft will be ready at Government Wenlock District Hospital in Mangaluru in two years.

The Charuni faction of the Bharatiya Kisan Union's (BKU) Haryana unit staged demonstrations in Ambala, Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar districts on Monday against the newly-enacted farm laws.

A special court for Tamil Nadu Protection of Interests of Depositors (in financial establishment) Act on Monday sentenced three people, including a woman, to 10 years of imprisonment for cheating 374 depositors of Rs 5.62 crores.

Devotees will not be allowed to take part in Champa Shashti rituals at Kukke Sri Subrahmanya temple between December 17 and 20. A decision to this effect was taken as a precaution to check Covid-19 spread.

Claiming that investors’ sentiment towards Odisha is extremely encouraging, chief minister Naveen Patnaik said on Saturday the state is set to achieve its cherished goal of becoming a world-class industrial destination.

A total of 74 patients — 65 from Ludhiana and nine from other states/districts — have tested positive for Covid-19 during the last 24 hours time, deputy commissioner Varinder Sharma said on Monday.

Unable to cope with the increase in price of raw materials, small-scale foundries in the district have decided to go on an indefinite strike starting Wednesday.

A wreath-laying ceremony was held at Mini Secretariat in Ludhaiana on Monday to pay tributes to the Param Vir Chakra recipient flying officer Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon on his martyrdom day.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now switched to an online grievance redressal system as the manual practice has been discontinued since the outbreak of the pandemic.

The BJD has decided to observe its 24th foundation day on December 26 across 147 assembly constituencies in compliance with Covid-19 protocols.

A day after former deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal launched an attack on Twitter against Punjab chief minister (CM) Amarinder Singh, Congress MP from Ludhiana Ravneet Singh Bittu defended the CM on Sunday, describing him as the hero of farmers’ agitation.

Three northeastern states — Tripura, Meghalaya and Assam — feature among the top five states having the highest infant mortality rate (IMR), the 5th National Family Health Survey (NFHS) revealed.

A three-member team of the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) will visit the Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve, where an elephant calf died in the Joypur range due to anthrax, whose source remains unknown.

A new study published in ‘Science’, one of the world’s top academic journals, conducted by researchers, two of whom are from Assam, has found that nearly half of the droughts that occurred during monsoon in the past century may have been driven by atmospheric disturbances from the North Atlantic region.

Around 6,000 app cab drivers in the city have decided to shut all services and organise a strike on Tuesday in protest against the “exploitation and loot” by the companies.

Two rhino poachers were arrested in Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve on Sunday.

Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) chief Hagrama Mohilary, in a last-ditch effort to stay in power, appealed to BJP, its alliance partner in the Assam government, to extend support to his party to form the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), following a fractured mandate in the council elections. BJP, however, turned down the request.

With the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) chief Pramod Boro set to swear in as chief of Bodoland Territorial Council, the state has witnessed the rise of yet another politician who started out as a student leader and then rose through the ranks. He will be following in the hallowed footsteps of former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, incumbent CM Sarbananda Sonowal and cabinet minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, all of who began as student leaders and then broke into electoral politics.

Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who led BJP’s charge in the BTC election, said it was like a dream to improve the tally to 9 seats from 1 in 2015.

Police registered a case against a man from Punjab for allegedly raping his aunt in a hotel when she went to Hisar for her husband’s treatment.

The Surat district and sessions court ordered release of muddamal (seized property used in crime or in possession of the accused), in this case a motorcycle, which was seized from the accused in an attempt to murder case, observing that it was not reasonable to keep the vehicle without proper care and maintenance for a longer period.

For the second time within a month, thick layers of yellow-white foam, visibly toxic, started floating on the surface of Mahisagar river on the outskirts of the city raising serious concerns on Sunday.​