Новости за 18.04.2016

Sukhdev Singh Sirsa was elected the president of Punjabi Sahit Akademy for a second consecutive term on Sunday, defeating his opponent Kashmiri Lal Chawla by 455 votes.

Police here have booked the councillor of Ward 40, Jasbir Singh, and his two sons among others for allegedly assaulting a resident of CMC area, his brother-in-law, and 14-year-old son.

Under fire for its failure to check growing crime against minors, Ludhiana police, in association with the district administration, has proposed to set up crèches for migrants' children, whose parents leave them alone at home when going to work.

The practice of using soap while bathing and washing clothes in Ganga continues and the violators do not face action from Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC).

Rohania police on Monday nabbed dreaded robber Vishnu of Chitrakoot district.

A training workshop on total sanitation campaign was organized under the 'Clean UP, Green UP' initiative at the commissioners' office on Monday.

With soaring mercury, the hospitals have been witnessing an increase in patients suffering from ailments related to summer.

Police in Naxal-infested Chandauli district have succeeded in exposing the modus operandi of smugglers of explosives from licensed dealers in Sonebhadra and Mirzapur to Naxal groups and those engaged in illegal mining.

Several neighborhoods and localities across the city are being supplied soiled and contaminated water, unfit for consumption, for past several days.

While Monday was being marked as World Heritage Day everywhere, the walls of the fabled ghats along Ganga continue to be defaced with graffiti and crude advertisements.

The Delhi-Gurgaon expressway concessionaire has written to Huda to oppose the plan to construct an alternate road between Gurgaon and Manesar to bypass Kherki Daula toll plaza. At present, Gurgaon is connected to Manesar by NH-8 alone.

In a year when the women's professional golf tour marks a decade, there's more female talent coming through at the grass-roots than at any time in the past.According to Gurgaon girls Gaurika Bishnoi and Tvesa Malik, scores are improving year on year.

Some commuters had even started online petitions against surge pricing. One such petition had 56,505 signatures by Monday evening.

The out-patient department in Civil Hospital will stay open till late evening, though the exact number of working hours have not been decided yet. Until now, the OPD used to open at 8am and close at 2pm.

The first working day of the second phase of Delhi's odd-even scheme was anticlimactic for cab, bike and carpool apps, who expected brisk business. Rapid Metro and auto drivers, too, reported no significant rise in ridership, especially compared to the first phase in January.

The second phase of the odd-even scheme in Delhi has had little effect on the pollution levels in Gurgaon, shows an analysis of data released by the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) and a non-profit organisation measuring pollution levels in the city.

Residents of New Palam Vihar, who will be displaced by the Dwarka expressway, held a protest outside the Huda office on Monday and threatened to block construction of the road if they are not given a concrete plan for allotment of plots within the next two days.

A 34-year-old man allegedly shot himself dead in Ghaziabad on Sunday night after he was assaulted and intimidated for failing to pay up a loan earlier in the afternoon. Seven people have been booked for abetment to suicide of the man.

The National Capital Region continued to sweat under 40+ temperatures for the fourth straight day as the predicted rain relief eluded the capital on Monday. This is the first time since 2010 that the city has seen four consecutive 40-degree days in April.

More than 1,600 employees of Noida Authority have threatened to go an on indefinite strike from May 1 over delay in promotions and annual performance reviews.

Residents of sectors 26 and 27 raised issues of law and order, encroachment, dirty drinking water, back flow of sewer, stray dog menace and unkept parks to MLA Vimla Batham during her weekly Vidhayak Apke Dwar (MLA at your doorstep) program on Sunday.

The hearing of the bail plea of BSP Rajya Sabha MP Narendra Kashyap, was deferred till April 21 by a CBI court in Ghaziabad on Monday.

Senior UP IAS officer Rajiv Kumar was sent to judicial custody after he surrendered before a CBI court in Ghaziabad on Monday.

On the first Monday of the second phase of Delhi's odd-even drive, traffic movement at the Delhi-Noida border was smooth. The sole bottleneck, at the Sector 37 crossing, was due to ongoing Metro work.

After Amrapali, real estate major Gaursons is now facing protest from residents of its Gaur City township in Noida Extension over maintenance-related issues.