Новости за 09.08.2017

An Indian-origin man is among 18 people convicted of child sex offences by a UK court on Wednesday. In a series of four trials at the court, juries found the men guilty of a catalogue of nearly 100 offences - ranging from rape, human trafficking, conspiracy to incite prostitution and drug supply - between 2011 and 2014.

The BJP on Wednesday said it will move court challenging state government’s decision to recover Rs 17,576 crore from mining lessees for illegal mining instead of sticking to its earlier decision of collecting Rs 59,000 crore.

Nawaz Jan-Virmani, who was sentenced to 16 months in jail in February last year, was told by Preston Crown Court in Lancashire, north-west England, on Tuesday that he could spend an additional 15 months in jail unless he pays the money to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) within three months.

Irked over the nonpayment of dues by the municipal corporation Ludhiana the contractors working for department have decided to stop all construction and maintenance works.

The state government on Wednesday claimed 15 per cent growth in collection of revenue by July-end as compared to the amount collected in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year.

A large chunk of the ceiling of the gym at Supertech’s Emerald Court apartments in sector 93A, caved in late Tuesday night.

The health department will distribute deworming tablets to all the children in the age 1-19 on Thursday. The drive is aimed at preventing anemia and to boost immunity among children.

The demand to seek justice for Kavya, the SSLC student who allegedly committed suicide on July 20, grew louder on Wednesday with several organisations and student community taking to the streets in protest.

A 16-year-old girl attempted to jump off the terrace of the four-storey centenary building at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Wednesday after her parents asked her not to speak to her boyfriend.

The Punjab agriculture department has issued notices to six companies manufacturing pesticides and insecticides after some samples failed the quality check.

: Chairperson of state minority commission Munawar Masih visited Ludhiana on Tuesday along with the members of the commission in connection with the high-profile murder case of pastor Sultan Masih.

Two more persons died of influenza A (H1N1) raising the death toll to three in the state so far. Thirteen more tested positive for swine flu, taking the total number of positive cases to 59.

Wooing slum dwellers by promising them houses, which they can call their own, the Naveen Patnaik government seems to have found an effective weapon to counter the BJP's Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), the free cooking gas scheme through which the saffron party had made inroads into the urban slums.

The state government will form an expert group to examine why so many people were falling prey to lightning strikes, special relief commissioner (SRC) Bishnupada Sethi said here on Tuesday.

The forest department's Kodagu district officers recovered 151.03 acres in Koppattimalai near Sampaje, occupied by Daisy Jacob, wife of Jacob Thomas, Kerala's former director general of police, on Tuesday.