Новости за 20.02.2022

A woman was killed and three persons, including an elderly woman, suffered injuries after a car in which they were travelling rammed into a bridge on the East-West corridor at Dolu in Borkhola of Cachar district on Friday night.

A man and a woman were found hanging from a tree in Moniyarkhal tea garden in Cachar district on Friday night.The deceased man was identified as Sumit Das (24), a resident of French Nagar in Dholai block of the district. The woman’s name was not available.

BJP national spokesman and in-charge of Manipur Sambit Patra on Saturday tore into Congress at an election rally by accusing the Gandhis of treating Manipur as a “family ATM” and keeping the state “out of the mainstream discourses” when it was in power in the state for 15 years.

The Assam government on Saturday withdrew an earlier public notice proposing to name a newly developed road, leading to Kamakhya temple through Pandu Ghat, as “Swami Muktananda Saraswati Path”, after strong public outcry that questioned the connection of the person to the state, whose name

The students of Centre for Studies in Journalism & Mass Communication, Dibrugarh University, kick-started an awareness initiative, “Drug Abuse amongst Youth”, on Saturday.

Even as the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) has opened its doors for students in a staggered manner, most of the students will join the offline classes next month after their mid-term examinations conclude.

A number of structures like marriage halls, restaurants and a government guest house continue to occupy prime space on the animal corridors of the Kaziranga National Park, a Unesco world heritage site, despite the Supreme Court order three years ago that all illegal constructions should be

For the first time on Saturday in the two years of the pandemic, zero patients were admitted at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) here.

Give the Covid-19 restrictions on the election rallies this time, candidates in even the high-profile assembly segments of Punjab failed to exhaust their enhanced campaigning expenditure limit of Rs 40 lakh. AAP was the top spender.

Punjab has usually remained an outlier to national trends and as it goes to polls on Sunday, it is unique in more ways than one amid unprecedented political fluidity. A state, which had swung between two parties till the 2014 parliamentary elections, is facing multi-cornered contests — mostly three-cornered and some four-cornered.

BJP’s Garhshankar assembly seat candidate, Nimisha Mehta, was on Sunday booked for allegedly offering to distribute liquor or money in a phone conversation with a person. The FIR registered by the police has said that they had gotten the recording of the phone conversation from an informer on the basis of which the case was registered.

Terming it a clear proof of Arvind Kejriwal’s divisive and subversive political agenda, Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday warned the people of the state against supporting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), whose nexus with the banned Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) had now been well and truly exposed.

Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday paid obeisance at Gurdwara Taadi Sahib and later at Gurdwara Katalgarh Sahib in Chamkaur Sahib. Channi, besides paying respect to the elderly, also met the youth of the constituency.

The state unit of Samajwadi Party, led by its president Rabi Behera, on Saturday staged a demonstration in front of the office of the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) against the proposed power tariff hike for 2022-23.

The energy department on Saturday requested the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) not to increase retail power tariff for 2022-23. The commission is now holding its annual revenue requirement (ARR) and tariff hearing.

The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has said it will soon announce the schedule for the second summative test. The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) is also planning to conduct the annual exam by the end of April.

Many pre-primary schools in the city have started calling the tiny tots of nursery and kindergarten classes to get acquainted with the teachers and fellow classmates following the government’s announcement to reopen the schools.

World Food Programme (WFP) country director Bishow Parajuli on Saturday praised efforts by the state to reduce poverty and its disaster management capabilities.

Assembly speaker Surya Narayan Patro on Saturday said the Union law ministry has acknowledged the receipt of two letters written by him and the assembly secretariat regarding the establishment of a legislative council in the state.

A day after chief chief minister Naveen Patnaik dismissed rumours about his ill health, his party slammed the opposition parties for spreading them.

President Ram Nath Kovind arrived in the city on Saturday for his two-day visit to the state.

Security has been tightened in Kandhamal district ahead of the third phase of panchayat election on Sunday in view of the call for poll boycott by Maoists and the recent killing of two persons allegedly by the rebels.

The Ganjam district administration has set up at least 16 temporary polling booths in Dharakote and Patrapur blocks as there was no government building available in these areas to set up voting centres for the three-tier panchayat elections, official sources said.

Altogether 56.53 lakh voters will exercise their franchise in the third phase of the three-tier panchayat election on Sunday. Polling will be held at 18,495 booths of 1,382 GPs across 63 blocks in 29 districts.

CPM MP P R Natarajan on Saturday said the victory of DMK alliance in the urban local body polls has been sealed. “The secular DMK alliance has won the support of people in the urban local body polls.