Новости за 15.07.2018

Late undergraduate admission has cost Cotton University (CU) this year as the cut-off percentage has declined in the most sought-after subjects in BSc major.

City police have denied permission to Pravin Togadia - a prominent critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and president of newly floated Antarashtriya Hindu Parishad (AHP) - to hold a public meeting in Guwahati on July 18, citing law and order problems.

"Since 2012, nearly 100 people of the 400-strong extended family of my late uncle have been issued foreigners' notice.All of them are descendants of my late uncle's five brothers," said Habikul Islam, Amiruddin's nephew.

"It is for the first time that I am going to perform haj and I am glad to be a member of the first batch," said Mohammad Aqeel, a resident of Rajajipuram in Lucknow who departed with his wife Shahnaz Bano on Saturday on the first flight of haj to Saudi Arabia.

The state government has been compelled to call for fresh bids for its ambitious 'One District One Product' scheme after it received just a single bid in the first tender.

Villagers of Thoul hamlet and Murki village in Aurad taluk, Bidar district, about 730km from Bengaluru, beat a person to death and injured two others with sticks and stones on Friday evening as they suspected them to be child-lifters. Azam, 27, died on the way to hospital in Aurad.

With fish markets closed on Saturday for Rath Yatra, the state government is planning to widen crackdown on traders from Sunday onwards to find out use of hazardous chemicals like formalin for preservation.

At Goshaninuagaon in the town, a unique tradition has been developing in recent times. The chariot of goddess Subhadra is pulled by women alone. No men are allowed to come near the wheels. Those of the male gods - Jagannath and Balabhadra - are pulled by men.

With the safety and security of pilgrims being of paramount importance, the police on Saturday kept devotees at arms length while they themselves pulled the chariots of Lord Jagannath and his siblings - Balabhadra and Subhadra - during the Rath Yatra in Puri on Saturday.

Heavy rain failed to dampen the devotion of thousands who turned up for a glimpse of the chariots of Lord Jagannath and his siblings - Balabhadra and Subhadra - as the annual Rath Yatra rolled down Puri's Grand Road, through a sea of people who flowed from the Jagannath Temple to the Gundicha Temple, three kilometres away.

Karnataka Vidyavardhaka Sangha president Patil Puttappa has taken serious exception to chief minister H D Kumaraswamy’s move to introduce English as medium of instruction from first standard in government primary schools.