Новости за 17.03.2022

Students from Malnad region boycotted classes on Wednesday to mark their protest against the Karnataka HC verdict which upheld the government ban on no wearing hijab during classes.

After a gap of two years, CM Yogi Adityanath, this year, will lead both the Holi processions in Gorakhpur - the Holikadahan procession on Thursday evening and Bhagwan Narsingh Holikotsav shobha yatra on Saturday morning.

To continue the monopoly of his family in MLC (local bodies) Varanasi constituency, maintained since 1998, jailed mafia don and MLC Brijesh Singh filed nomination for MLC polls on Wednesday. His wife and former MLC Annapurna Singh also filed papers for the same seat.

After a police encounter on Wednesday, Azamgarh police arrested one Meraj Ahmed for looting people through a gay social network app. The accused suffered bullet injuries and was admitted to the district hospital.

“Yogi ayi gayine ab darr kahe ka, fiza mein udawa gulal ab darr kahe ka” (Yogi has come, why fear now? Throw gulal in the air, why fear now). This was the song that rented the air as Muslim women celebrated the festival of colours at Lamahi village on Wednesday.

Rajiv Gandhi South Campus of Banaras Hindu University at Barkachha in Mirzapur district has become self-reliant for its water needs.

The naturally occurring orange-red flowers of Kesudo, palash or khakhro (the flame of forest) is typically associated with the festival of colours – Holi. In fact, the tree because of its trifoliate leaves has even popularized ‘Dhak ke teen paat’ – a Hindi proverb.

On the first day of Covid-19 vaccination for children between 12 to 14 years of age, 9,368 persons were vaccinated in the city. In areas of the district outside city limits, 8,930 children were vaccinated.

A 56-year-old man jumped to death from the third floor of the district court building on Old Padra Road on Wednesday afternoon. Deceased Praveensinh Mahida was in police custody when he jumped from the court building.

Two rival groups of the Sokhda Swaminarayan sect were involved in sloganeering and scuffles outside the office of the district collector here on Wednesday.

Within hours of the three women fleeing the women’s protection house in Vadodara, the Rajkot railway LCB arrested two of them from the Rajkot city. The third woman is yet to be traced. “The two Bangladeshi women identified as Yasmin Jajmiya and Farzana Sheikh were tracked down in Rajkot.

A special POCSO court here sentenced a 27-year-old man to 20 years imprisonment for raping a seven-year-old girl. The court while convicting Suresh Raval also fined him Rs 5,000 and if he failed to pay it then his sentence would be extended by another six months.

Guwahati, the gateway to the northeast and southeast Asia, is set to step into its “Amrit Kaal moment” with a new-age, world-class integrated business city where the air will be purer, traffic will be decongested and flash floods would be tackled scientifically.

The Assam government on Wednesday informed the assembly that over 1.44 lakh illegal foreigners have been identified in the state till January 31 this year and over 30,000 of them have been deported to their country of origin so far.

Assam Police seized drugs worth Rs 134 crore in international market at Sonapur on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday night and arrested two persons in connection with the case.

The prime accused in the murder case of an 18-year-old girl in Rupaibali in Lakhipur block of Cachar district surrendered at Banskandi police station on Wednesday.

Two rape accused were killed in encounters while allegedly trying to flee from police custody in separate incidents in Guwahati and Udalguri in the wee hours of Wednesday.