Новости за 17.12.2020

Ambala district reported 19 fresh positive cases on the day and the total case tally reached 11,152 with 290 active cases, said Dr Kuldeep.

The Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) on Thursday announced formation of its central committee with former All Assam Students’ Union leader Lurinjyoti Gogoi as the party’s new president.

Senior Punjab BJP leader and former minister Manoranjan Kalia has appreciated the farmers unions for keeping their agitation on farm laws non-political.

The average air quality remained 'poor' in Ghaziabad, Noida, Greater Noida, Gurugram and Faridabad in the National Capital Region (NCR), according to a government agency data issued on Thursday.

A strike by workers of Antony Waste Handling Cell (AWHC) has affected garbage collection work in Mangaluru city.

The directorate general of GST intelligence (DGGI) here on Thursday arrested a businessman from Rourkela for allegedly creating fake firms and evading GST to the tune of Rs 40 crore.

Prahlad Singh Patel, minister of state for tourism and culture on Thursday said that tourism industry could benefit a lot from medical tourism in the post Corona period as India has not just proved to be safer vis a vis other places and got a lot of recognition and name in the world for this but is also the most ideal for dealing with post Corona impacts that people may still carry.

The upcoming international airport in Jewar will be formally known as Noida International Green Field Airport. It will have a logo comprising the image of ‘sarus’ (stork) — the state bird of UP.

Another group of farmers reached Noida on Thursday and attempted to move to Delhi to join the bigger stir against the new central farm laws but were prohibited by police deployed in a large number near the Chilla border.

The mahurat of a historical film was held at Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi district recently. Actor Manoj Mishra plays the role of tribal freedom fighter Rendo Majhi, on whose life this film is based.

The state crime branch on Thursday arrested V Sarbeswar Rao, a close aide of Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahy, for his alleged role in cheating several youths on the pretext of giving them jobs in Tata Motors. Panigrahy and suspended Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Abhay Kant Patha’s son Akash were earlier arrested in the high profile scam.

After a brief lull, the Maoists expressed their presence by gunning down a contractor and putting fire to at least three vehicles used in the construction of a road work under the PMGSY in Malkangiri district on Thursday.

Three corporation school students from Coimbatore will represent Tamil Nadu at the annual Kala Utsav organised by the ministry of education.

While Dakshina Kannada district administration is all set for the smooth conduct of polling for 106 gram panchayats in Mangaluru, Moodbidri and Bantwal taluks in the first phase on December 22, arrangements will be made for the Covid-19 positive voters to exercise their franchise in the last one hour.

Minister for ports, fisheries inland transport and religious endowment, Kota Shrinivas Poojari slammed the Congress for the sequence of events as it transpired in the state legislative council on Tuesday. Congress leaders have politicised the issue and are solely responsible for the fracas that erupted in the council prior to the moving of no-confidence motion against the incumbent chairman of the council K Pratapchandra Shetty, he said.

After the recent job fraud and illegal wealth making by a former BJD minister and three-time MLA, the shoddy police probe into alleged rape and murder of a girl who would have turned six on Wednesday, may put the Naveen Patnaik government into further embarrassment.

A major fire broke out at a cardboard factory in Udyog Kunj in Dadanagar area under the limits of Govindnagar police station in Kanpur on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.

The state government has decided to recommend the Centre for compulsory retirement of suspended IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak, who along with his son Akash has been arrested for amassing assets beyond their known sources of income, official sources said.