Новости за 17.06.2022

Even as some sectors like 30, 51, 92, 19, 40 and 22 in Noida report long to short power cuts, especially following Thursday night showers, residents demand concrete action on the ground.

Indian Railways on Friday cancelled 16 trains passing through Bhubaneswar and other major stations of Odisha over the next six days as a precautionary measure in view of the agitation against Centre’s Agnipath scheme. It also partially cancelled 13 trains, while eight trains will bypass Visakhapatnam.

East Coast Railway (ECoR) general manager in-charge Sharad Kumar Srivastav on Friday appealed to the innovators and entrepreneurs of the region to take benefit of the Indian Railways innovation policy- ‘Start Ups for Railways’.

Amid the row and protests against the Agnipath Scheme for recruitment in the Indian Army, the Haryana home minister Anil Vij on Friday said that anybody involved in arson or damage to public or private property will not be spared.

Amid the raging protests against the Centre’s Agnipath Scheme, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced on Friday that every ‘Agniveer’ who is a permanent resident of the state will be directly absorbed in the state police at the end of their four-year term in the army.

One person of Ludhiana died of Covid-19 and 34 tested positive for disease on Friday.

Protests against the Centre's Agnipath scheme continued on Friday as scores of youngsters descended on Yamuna Expressway and blocked traffic movement briefly, officials said.

The Gurugram district administration has imposed Section 144 as a precautionary measure even though no fresh protest was reported here on Friday against the Centre's Agnipath scheme to recruit soldiers.

Earth’s second wettest place, Cherrapunjee in East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya has logged a whopping 972mm rainfall between 8.30am of Thursday and 8.30am of Friday, the IMD stated.

​​The police forces were deployed at the railway stations and other places to disperse the gatherings and restore law and order. The North Eastern Railway (NER) cancelled 20 trains in view of the violent protest.

The number of daily corona positive cases in Tamil Nadu crossed the 500-mark after 112 days. On Thursday, 552 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the state, which now has 2,313 active cases. It was less than 650 at the start of this month.

Chinese national Xue Fei, 36, who also goes by the name Kelay, and his Indian partner Petekhrinuo, 22, were arrested earlier this week after interrogation of two Chinese nationals held in Bihar's Sitamarhi - Yung Hai Lung, 34, and Lo Lung, 28 - by the Sashastra Seema Bal revealed they had stayed for 15 days at the rented apartment Xue Fei and Petekhrinuo shared in Greater Noida's Jaypee Greens.

A week after being scorched by violent protests against a nowsidelined BJP duo’s controversial remarks on the Prophet, UP on Thursday added drones to its surveillance drill for Friday prayers across 53 districts, 24 of which have been flagged as “hypersensitive”.Besides additional state and central paramilitary forces, 200 companies of the Provincial Armed Constabulary and 50 RAF units have been deployed.

Sachin, 23, who had spent two years preparing for the Army, committed suicide on Thursday at his paying guest accommodation in Rohtak's Dev Colony.

Dactylology, a language of fingers, is a quicker and more efficient input technique, as compared to Braille, claims a study conducted by the joint research team of Banaras Hindu University, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) and Case Western Reserve University, United States.