Новости за 16.09.2022

Governor Ramesh Bais returned yet another bill to the state government, citing anomalies in English and Hindi versions of the draft, soon after chief minister Hemant Soren met him at the Raj Bhavan on Thursday in a surprise move to seek a copy of the letter from the Election Commission (EC) pertaining to his office-of-profit case.

A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by 42-year-old man, who happens to be the maternal uncle of her stepmother in Nanpura area of the city. The accused, who had sexually assaulted the girl on Tuesday night, was arrested after a complaint lodged by her father. The survivor is the man's daughter from his first marriage. He remarried after she died.

A few hours after Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Thursday urged governor Ramesh Bais to provide him with a copy of the Election Commission's (EC) comments on the office-of-profit case complaint against him, he flew out to New Delhi on a chartered flight from Ranchi airport.

Mau's additional district judge (MP-MLA) court on Thursday framed charges on jailed mafia don Mukhtar Ansari and three others in a case of issuance of arms licences on fake addresses. Mukhtar had made the recommendations in the capacity of MLA in 2001. The trial of the accused persons will begin from September 30.

The forest department has launched an operation to nab an elusive tiger that is on a killing spree attacking livestock in South Kodagu. It killed a cow on Wednesday night in Badaga Banangala area near Siddapur, which is the third such incident in four days.

Bilariaganj police in Azamgarh district lodged an FIR on Wednesday against former Rajya Sabha MP Kusum Rai and 10 others in a case of demolishing the wall of a hospital, looting cash and other articles in 2019.

Alert residents nabbed two robbers of a gang who had ambushed a gold merchant to steal jewellery from him. The robbery and the rescue by the people happened around dawn on Thursday at Banaghatta in Pandavapura taluk in Mandya district.

A man was thrashed to death by his brother in Faridabad's Mujeri village on Wednesday after an argument between them over a choked drain near their home, police said. The two brothers accused each other of creating blockage in the drain. The argument snowballed into a spat, following which one of them killed the other.

The civil judge (senior division) court here on Wednesday began hearing in a case filed by a group of Muslims led by Mukhtar Ansari of Lohta to seek rights to hold 'urs', offering 'chadar' and 'fateha' at 'mazars' inside the Gyanvapi mosque compound. The court later fixed October 3 as the next date of hearing.

Standing crops across 300 acres in Davanagere district were washed away after the backwaters of the Anaji Tank in Davanagere taluk rose above the brim. Maize, finger millets (ragi), pumpkin, banana, and areca fields are currently submerged under three to five feet of water in the taluk, leaving the farmers teetering on the brink of despair.

The Haryana wildlife department used a goat as bait to trap a leopard that had been prowling in Palwal's Hodal area for the last one week. The five-year-old male leopard was nabbed late on Wednesday night and released into the Aravalis in Nuh's Jhir on Thursday night after a medical examination.

The five-year-old son of a forest officer on Thursday adopted a leopard on his birthday and handed over Rs 50,000 to the Binkadkatti zoo for the animal's upkeep.

To encourage motorists to switch to electric vehicles (EVs), the state government is planning to impose congestion fee on fuel-driven commercial vehicles as well as levy pollution cess and additional road tax on petrol and diesel vehicles that are older than 15 years.

At the House meeting on Thursday, some councillors attempted to corner the MCG commissioner and other officials.

Bhubaneswar reported 115 dengue cases in a day on Thursday. With this, total number of cases in the capital city from January have crossed 2,100. The BMC said it would start discussions with resident welfare associations and ward committees on cleanliness drive from Friday. The city its neighbouring localities have reported 2,156 till Thursday. In June, only 69 cases were reported from the city

A female teacher has been booked for brutally thrashing a class IV student of a private institution in city's Govind Nagar area after a video of the incident went viral on social media and the girl student's father filed a complaint.

A major mishap was averted near Kanpur Central railway station after a panto of Jhansi Intercity Express train broke and got entangled in the overhead electric (OHE) line on Thursday morning. However, no injuries were reported in the accident.

The police in Dharwad and Gadag have started sending out releases rubbishing rumours of child kidnappers that are circulating in social media that has sparked anxiety and led to harassment of innocent people.

Angered by the state's school rationalisation policy, parents of children studying at a government high school in Pataudi on Thursday locked the gates of the institute to protest against the transfer drive, which they say has only worsened the teacher-student ratio.

MCG councillors on Thursday alleged a scam in the name of rectifying errors in the new property IDs. Raising the issue at the House meeting, the ward members claimed that the changes to the new property IDs were being made by accepting bribes.

A Panipat court awarded rigorous life imprisonment to a 38-year-old man for killing his wife in 2019. According to the police, Raju had strangled his wife Asha to death, locked her inside the house and fled.

The enforcement team of the department of town and country planning (DTCP) on Thursday carried out a major demolition drive in Saraswati Kunj, along Golf Course Road, and razed over 2,000 shanties.

Rural distress due to the erratic monsoon, coupled with tepid consumer demand amidst rising inflation and industries turning more 'labour efficient', has led to a steep rise in the unemployment rate in the state. At 37.3%, the state's unemployment rate for August is nearly four times the national average (8.3%), according to a report by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).

Two girls, who are alleged victims in the Murugha Mutt sexual harassment case, said they do not want to stay in a Bala Mandir women's shelter in Chitradurga, where they were kept according to court directions for their safety and welfare.

The civic officials remained on their toes for preparing the reports to be kept in the meeting of subcommittee formed by local bodies committee of Vidhan Sabha. The meeting is scheduled for Friday where officials will submit the details about ongoing projects.