Новости за 14.04.2022

State rural affairs minister Alamgir Alam on Wednesday faced protests from the residents whose land were acquired for the commissioning of Bokaro Steel Plant several decades ago.

A special POCSO court in Ranchi on Wednesday sentenced three persons to 20 years’ imprisonment each under section 376 IPC in connection with gang rape of a minor near Shalimar Bazaar under Dhurwa police station area.The convicts are Shankar Mahto, Anand Kumar Sahu and Sunil Aind.

Tribals celebrated Manda Puja, an age old annual ritual to appease gods for good rainfall and bumper crops, on Wednesday after a gap of two years due to Covid.

As many as three persons were arrested in connection with the murder of a railway contractor named Bablu Singh, who was gunned down near Phoos Bangla railway crossing under Jorapokhar police station on April 2, police said on Wednesday.

The residents of Mango area, unable to bear the extended power cuts when temperature is touching 42 degrees Celcius, gheraoed the executive engineer’s office on Tuesday midnight.

The Bokaro Chamber of Commerce and Industries on Wednesday said it will write an open letter to CM Hemant Soren and seek his urgent intervention in restoring the electricity supply in the district for the sake of the industrial units and the citizens.

The Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) will press 20 extra tankers into service to tackle the acute water crisis in the state. RMC officials confirmed that an e-tender has been invited to hire 20 tankers which will be delivering water in different areas.

The state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday announced that it will orchestrate a slew of protests in Ranchi and across Jharkhand against the Hemant Soren-led coalition government between April 21 and April 30.

An investigation is yet to begin even after four days of the ropeway accident on Trikut Hills in Deoghar district which claimed three lives and injured more than two dozen tourists.

Chief minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday spoke to Panna Panjiyay, the local rescue operator working with Damodar Ropeway Infra Limited (DRIL), and praised him for successfully evacuating 11 people stuck in the cable cars at Trikut parvat.

On Friday morning, Bengaluru woke up to 16 schools receiving anonymous email threats stating bombs had been planted on their premises. Soon, bomb disposal squads were pressed into action, which eventually confirmed it was a hoax.

With over 32 students turning Covid-positive in Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad in the last 48 hours, district health officials are now planning to increase the number of vaccination centres for the 12-14 and 15-17 age groups from Monday.

Aqua Line metro trains will be available every 7.30 minutes during rush hour and every 10th minute during non-rush hours on weekdays from April 18, the Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) said on Wednesday.

A 32-year-old man died and six others, including his wife and their three-year-old son, suffered injuries when a cab rammed into a bike, a car and an ice cream cart near the Parthala roundabout in Noida late on Tuesday night.

Three members of a family were injured and a fourth was critical after some 7-8 people allegedly pelted stones and bricks at them over an altercation in Unchi village of Greater Noida on Tuesday night.

Aqua Line metro trains will be available every 7.5 minutes during rush hour and every 10th minute during non-rush hours on weekdays from April 18, the Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) said on Wednesday.

The city’s civic body said on Wednesday it will construct a busway – a separate parking area for public transport vehicles – near Pari Chowk to help decongest the traffic-heavy area.

Several residents of French Apartments were left without electricity since Tuesday midnight after a fire broke out in the basement of the Greater Noida (west) housing society, completely gutting a power panel installed there. The society is home to around a thousand families.

From now on, more than 12,600 parking slots in the city can be booked before one steps out of the house with just a few clicks.

Traffic police organised an awareness programme at Sharda University on Wednesday. As part of the programme, Jai Hind Kumar, district legal service authority (DLSA) secretary Gautam Buddh Nagar, informed the students about road safety.

The health department confirmed 12 more Covid cases from schools in Noida and Ghaziabad on Wednesday, taking the total number of students and teachers who have tested positive in the last 72 hours to at least 35 in the two NCR districts.

With over 32 students turning Covid-positive in Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad in the last 48 hours, district health officials are now planning to increase the number of vaccination centres for the 12-14 and 15-17 age groups from Monday.

A retired commercial pilot fell to his death by accident from the balcony of his fourth-floor flat in The Laburnum housing society in Sushant Lok-1 on Wednesday.

The health department has asked private hospitals in Gurgaon to change the timing of vaccination sessions and set up camps in housing societies to ensure the fast delivery of booster shots amid rising mercury levels discouraging people from venturing outside their homes.

Police have issued directions to private schools to remain vigilant about the transportation of kids and not drop them off on roads if their guardians are not present there.