Новости за 22.02.2021

Speaking after inaugurating an integrity convention held as part of the installation ceremony of newly elected office-bearers of the Dakshina Kannada District Congress Minority Cell, here on Monday, Siddaramaiah said the government should ban PFI and SDPI.

The woman, who was gang-raped by three men in Baranga area of Cuttack in January 1999, heaved a sigh of relief following the arrest of main accused Bibekananda Biswal on Monday and demanded that he should be hanged.

With Covid-19 cases rising again across the country, the Assam government may soon review its decision of discontinuing mandatory tests at airports and railway stations from March 1.

A visit by commissioner of police Sudhanshu Sarangi to Choudwar circle jail in Cuttack in November last year as part of a robbery investigation triggered the pursuit for Bibekananda Biswal, who had been evading arrest in connection with the gang rape of a woman in Baranga in January 1999.

The opposition Congress and its grand alliance partners slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday over his silence regarding the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

The Kambala Academy is contemplating training women in various aspects of Kambala- a buffalo race and a traditional male-dominant sport of Tulunadu. The academy after holding discussions with experts is hoping to train women as announcers, flag bearers as well as jockeys.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, who along with his supporters was on his way to meet a minor Unnao girl undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the city, staged a sit-in at the Ganga Barrage after being stopped by the police on Monday evening.

The third phase of Covid vaccination is going to be the most challenging, with over 90 lakh people, aged 50 years and above, estimated to be inoculated in Assam.

The state government has allocated a total of Rs 24,370 crore in the Odisha Budget 2021-22 to strengthen the educational ecosystem in Odisha. Some of the major allocations will ensure transformation in universities, colleges and development of Adarsha Vidyalayas in the state. This amount was Rs 22,631 last year.

Udupi-Chikkamagaluru Member of Parliament Shobha Karandlaje on Monday directed the Udupi district administration to compulsorily check RT-PCR negative reports of travellers coming from Kerala and Maharashtra to Udupi. This she said is important to check the spread of ‘mutated’ coronavirus from spreading in the district. At the same time, the administration should also be ready to tackle a second Covid19 wave, she said.

Total blackout was witnessed and forced upon Greater Noida streets on Monday evening as all the street lights remained switched off. Residents of the city had no clue what had gone wrong.

GNIDA CEO Narendra Bhooshan unveiled the region's first statue and chowk dedicated to corona warriors in the presence of CMO Dr Deepak Ohri.

District health department to start a month-long drive for communicable disease from March 1 to 31 and a door-to-door drive by Asha, Anganwadi and ANM to detect patients of tuberculosis, fever, malnourished children, vector borne disease and collate birth, death data from March 10.

Under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, the Union government has entrusted College of Fisheries here with developing an integrated ultra-modern aquaculture unit on its 25 acre land at Yekkur.

The sensational gang-rape case involving the estranged wife of an IFS officer that led to the resignation of then Odisha chief minister JB Patnaik in 1999 was nabbed from Maharashtra, police said on Monday.

A 24-year-old transporter and dairy owner was shot dead in Firoz Ghandi Nagar of Gurugram on Monday.

That work at the offices of various state government offices, including those of the sub-registrar, tahsildar and the Common Service Centres (CSCs) is being held up owing to a recurring problem with the server of ‘Bhoomi’, the online portal launched by the Karnataka government to compile all land records on an integrated database is ironic given the central government’s push for digital governance.

Petrol bunks across the state are worried over the challenges they may face if the petrol price crosses the Rs 100-per-litre mark. Reason: dispensing units (DUs), which can display a maximum price of Rs 99.99, may stop working.

Notwithstanding the beating that the economy has taken on account of the pandemic-induced crisis, investment continues to pour into Mysuru district.

Tacitly backing demand by Panchamasali Lingayat community for reservations for the community and its inclusion under the Category 2A in the state quota, former chief minister Siddaramaiah however put a rider. Only those (communities) that are eligible as per the Constitution (for reservation) should get it, Siddaramaiah said adding that there is nothing wrong (on part of the community) in seeking reservation.

Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah indicated his ambition to become the chief minister once again, as he declared that on coming back to power he will provide 10 kg rice per head to the poor free of cost.​

A man, who was allegedly involved in kidnapping a 13-year-old boy recently, was held in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida after a gunfight with the police, officials said on Monday.

Finance minister Niranjan Pujari presented the state budget for the financial year 2021-22 on Monday.