Новости за 20.08.2022

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday announced that the state will soon petition for withdrawal of over 80,000 cases lodged by it and which are punishable by up to less than three years in jail.

Assam logged 119 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, 55 less than the previous day, a National Health Mission (NHM), Assam, bulletin said on Friday.The overall caseload of patients testing positive for coronavirus in the state thus far has increased to 7,43,341, it added.

The hi-tech Integrated Traffic Management System (ITMS) to monitor and control vehicular movement through signal lights and CCTV cameras, which was supposed to begin in parts of the capital city ahead of Independence Day, has got delayed due to incompletion of the software part work and is

Janmashtami is being celebrated across Assam with religious zeal and fervour on Friday.

Eight cadres of Kuki Tribal Union (KTU) surrendered to Colonel Ashok Bhandari at the 11 Assam Rifles base camp at Sarkari Bagan in Dima Hasao district’s Haflong on Friday.

A 10-year-old boy drowned in the Brahmaputra river in Poolbagan area of Dibrugarh on Friday. The minor was identified as Kanai Basfor, a resident of Santipara ward 12 of Dibrugarh town. An SDRF team has been enaged to locate the missing boy.

Police arrested two “fake” CBI officers in Karimganj district for their alleged bid to extort money. The duo — Rashid Ahmed (35) and Dilowar Hussain (30) — was on Friday produced before a court that sent them to judicial custody.

The economic offences wing (EOW) of the state Crime Branch has sought assistance of the bureau of immigration (BOI) to arrest Delhi-based Nisha Kashyap for her alleged involvement in duping 166 jobless people of nearly Rs 1.91 crore.

The new Government Medical College (GMC), Sundargarh, has received approval from the National Medical Commission (NMC) to start admission to 100 MBBS seats from the 2022-23 academic session.

Berhampur University signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Industrial Training Institute (ITI) here on Friday for scientific and educational cooperation. The MoU was signed between vice-chancellor Geetanjali Dash and ITI principal Rajat Kumar Panigrahy on the university campus.

The written examination for assistant section officers (ASO) is likely to be held in the first week of September. Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) has written to district collectors to clarify on the availability of examination centres by August 25.

The state government has exempted the user fee for treatment and vaccination of livestock for 15 days in view of the flood situation.

The state government has started the process of updating various policies meant to woo investors ahead of the third edition of Make in Odisha conclave, scheduled towards the end of this year.

The Peelamedu police seized 1.2kg of ganja from five students of a private college on Thursday.

Researchers of Central University of Odisha (CUO), Koraput, who carried out DNA profiling of varieties of wild yams available in the tribal-dominated district, said these could be an alternative food source to alleviate hunger and malnutrition.

The Southern India Spinners Association (Sispa) has urged the Union government to control the abnormal cotton price by removing the commodity from the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited (MCX) platform.

Members of various industrial associations submitted a memorandum of representation to the parliamentary standing committee on railways seeking better rail infrastructure for Coimbatore.

Electricity minister V Senthil Balaji on Friday held a meeting with the DMK councillors of the city corporation, municipalities and town panchayats in the district to prepare for chief minister M K Stalin’s visit to the city next week.

The city police arrested a constable attached to the Tamil Nadu Special Police (TSP) IVth battalion at Kovaipudur here on Thursday for attacking a shop owner at Gandhipuram. The arrested constable was identified as K Mohamed Ashik, 24, a native of Sivaganga district.

Fatal accidents have claimed 1,106 lives in rural parts of the district in the past 19 months and 15 days. G Shashank Sai, district superintendent of police, said they had identified black spots in every rural police station limits and taken necessary steps to reduce the fatal accidents.

The municipal corporation is exploring the feasibility of establishing parking lots at Race Course, where the model road project is in progress under the smart cities mission.

The city police are all set to renovate the children’s traffic park on the premises of the Police Recruits School on Dr Balasundaram Road and launch an orientation programme for the people visiting the central regional transport office to obtain driving licence.

Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) president Anbumani Ramadoss began a three-day march to various villages in the district from Hogenakkal on Friday, demanding the state government to implement a project to harness surplus water from the Cauvery for the benefit of Dharmapuri.

Greater Noida’s Arjun Sharma fired a determined three-under 69 in round three to move into the sole lead at 11-under 205 at the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship 2022 presented by KGiSL, a Rs. 50 lakh event, being played at the Coimbatore Golf Club.

To monitor the movement of a sick male elephant, the forest department installed four camera traps at Anaikatti in Periyanaickenpalayam forest range on Friday. The tusker was spotted on the banks of Kodunthurai Pallam stream near Anaikatti north beat on August 16.