Новости за 16.01.2022

The state government on Saturday promoted six senior IAS officers to the additional chief secretary rank.

More than 75% Covid positive samples — 32 out of 42 — analysed in the state on Saturday returned positive for Omicron. Experts said this is a big indication that the new variant is gradually replacing Delta.

Three men have been arrested in Tirupur district for murdering their friend, who was an autorickshaw driver, in a dispute over sharing stolen cash.

The city corporation has decided to take a loan of 84 crore from the Tamil Nadu Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation (Tufidco) to meet its 50% share for the construction of the bus terminal at Vellalore.

The spike in Covid-19 cases has forced the city corporation to close the public recreational places like parks, jogging tracks and leisure spots at waterbodies such as Valankulam and Ukkadam Periyakulam to contain the virus spread.

The Annur police arrested a 50-year-old man on Saturday for murdering his friend in a drunken brawl at Urumandagoundenpudur.

At least 1,732 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the district on Saturday, as the daily caseload increased by 168 from 1,564 on Friday. The active cases have shot up to 7,480, even as 582 people recovered from the infection on the day.

The food safety department is working on to obtain the Blissful Hygiene Offering to God (Bhog) certificate for the remaining six temples in the district.

Five men, who posed as income tax officials, cheated a quarry owner of ₹20 lakh at Kinathukadavu here on Saturday. They also took away an iPhone, a digital video recorder of CCTV camera and six cheque leaves from him.

Much to the delight of hundreds of Covid patients admitted to the Covid care centre at Codissia trade fair complex, the district administration had made arrangements for them to celebrate the Pongal festival on Friday.

The forest department celebrated ‘Elephant Pongal’ at Kozhikamuthi and Varakaliyar elephant camps in the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) on Saturday.All the 24 captive elephants at Kozhikamuthi camp and the three at Varakaliyar camp were decked up for the day by garlanding them.

A team from Democratic Teachers Front’s district unit met additional deputy commissioner (general) Rahul Chaba on Saturday here to seek that the teachers be assigned election duty close to their home or posting stations.Front’s district secretary Daljit Samrala led the delegation.

With the first list of Congress candidates announced on Saturday, those who missed out on the election ticket are dejected because they expected the party to try out more fresh faces.

The livestock production management department of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) organised a three-day training programme on scientific pig farming for the Scheduled Caste farmers of Punjab under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) 12-B scheme.

The Sahodaya Samiti of Gwalior will organise the 27th national conference of Sahodaya School Complexes under the aegis of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday and Tuesday in an online mode.

The police took about two-and-a half years to lodge an FIR into a sexual assault case against a man whose daughter-in-law had lodged a complaint in the matter. The woman had been sexually harassed a few days after her marriage allegedly by the father-in-law in an inebriated condition.

Under fire over distribution of funds under Punjab Nirman scheme, the Ludhiana municipal corporation has started a probe into the matter.

Almost one-and-a-half years after a liquor vend employee was killed by his co-worker in South City, the PAU police arrested the accused on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Subhash Jaiswal, 37, who used to work and live inside the liquor vend.

Traffic came to a halt around Jagraon bridge on Saturday afternoon as about 150 Army aspirants staged a protest for not conducting a recruitment exam. They blocked all the road on the main Jagraon Bridge chowk, which affected the traffic in nearby areas.The protest started at 11.

As many as 604 voters in booth number 174 are baffled as their names are reflecting in the voter list of Ludhiana North constituency instead of Ludhiana Central constituency. They said why will they vote for the persons from some other constituency.

Playing it safe, the Congress has banked on most of winning candidates of last assembly elections while declaring its nominees in nine out of 14 seats for assembly constituencies in Ludhiana district.

The Congress has announced the names of candidates on five seats in the city. Son of former UP governor Motilal Vora and Chhattisgarh MLA Arun Vora has been given the charge of Cantt assembly seat as observer.

BJP workers gheraoed and created a ruckus at the Kidwai Nagar police station on Saturday afternoon after they found a plaque carrying the name of a BJP MLA smeared with black paint.

After Congress made an announcement to give ticket to Asha Singh from Unnao Sadar seat on Thursday, a video of former MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s daughter went viral on social media on Saturday. TOI, however, does not confirm the veracity of the viral video.