Новости за 25.12.2018

A prime accused and his brother, allegedly involved in sensational gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old girl in Pipili of Puri district in 2011-12, were acquitted by a court here on Monday. The first additional sessions court acquitted Prashant Pradhan, the key accused, and his younger brother Sukant for want of evidence.

In a brazen incident, two Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders - Gurdeep Gosha and Meetpal Singh Dugri - on Tuesday vandalised the statue of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, installed near Salem Tabri here.

Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik created a giant Santa Claus out of sand on Puri beach on Monday and decorated it with more than 10,000 plastic bottles. Besides extending festive greetings to beach-goers through his work, Patnaik has tried to sensitize the people to the ill-effects of plastic on the environment.

Congress legislator and former minister Mazel Ampareen Lyngdoh said on Monday that had the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government in the state not been in a denial mode, the tragic incident of 15 miners getting trapped in the Ksan area of the East Jaintia Hills, would not have occurred. The December 13 incident when 15 workers in a rat-hole mine went missing, has once again turned the spotlight on the question of illegal mining in the state and its impact on the ecology.

The district authorities have set up six temporary helipads — three each on the south bank (Dibrugarh side) and north bank (Dhemaji side) — in view of the PM’s visit. Three public galleries, apart from the main canopy, have been erected for the PM’s public meeting at Kareng Bali chapori on the north bank of the Brahmaputra in Dhemaji district. An estimated 2 lakh people from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh are expected to attend the PM’s rally.

Amid resentment among locals in upper Assam over attempts to privatize Tengakhat and Jorajan oilfields, the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Monday announced a ‘resistance movement’ to save the oilfields of Assam.

Security has been beefed up in the two upper Assam districts of Dibrugarh and Dhemaji on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to inaugurate the Bogibeel Bridge. The PM will first land at the Dibrugarh airport at 1.

BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kick off the party’s Lok Sabha poll campaign from the state on January 4.

Twenty-two-year-old Shilpa (name changed) was shocked to see her private pictures circulating on WhatsApp recently. She almost knew that it was her ‘male friend’ who had circulated the images to take revenge on her.

The Kamrup (Metro) district administration has decided to restrict picnicking on the banks of the Brahmaputra. This move has come following ‘total chaos’ at the popular picnic spot of Hatisila on the outskirts of the city on Sunday due to a mad rush of picnickers.

Airports Authority of India (AAI), in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has embarked on a resilience-building mission for communities living in the vicinity of Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) airport.

An employee of the Nagaon Paper Mill, an unit of the state-owned Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited, identified as Kathsingh Bordoloi, on Monday attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a mobile tower at Jagiroad in Morigaon district.

The speed post facility under the department of posts has come to a standstill across Barak Valley for more than a week. People visiting post offices to send documents via speed post have had to return confused over the last week.

At a time when concerns revolving around the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and National Register of Citizens (NRC) update process are prevailing in the state, believers will pray for lasting peace during Christmas service on Tuesday morning.

Police on Monday arrested three persons, who posed as doctors and duped a man of Rs 32,520 on the premises of Sambalpur district headquarters hospital (DHH).

The dropping temperature and holiday season are setting the right tone for various cultural activities in the city. While an array of events has been lined up for people during the Mysuru Winter Festival, theatre enthusiasts are not to be disappointed.

Odisha Police have been caught in the wrong foot executing the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act, 1988 in the state.

A rowdy sheeter was hacked to death on the outskirts of Shivamogga city on Sunday night.

To raise greater awareness on HIV-AIDS, the Odisha State AIDS Control Society (OSACS) has started partnering with several state government agencies and Union ministries.

A family in Rammanahalli on the outskirts of Mysuru city has been ostracized for nearly a fortnight following allegations by villagers that a member of the family is practising black magic.

In a bid to send a strong message to those encroaching government properties, the district administration on Monday initiated a campaign to recover land rightfully belonging to the state. The authorities concerned started the drive at the most prime of locations – a tract of land stretching to seven acres, opposite Lalitha Mahal Palace grounds, and worth a king’s ransom was recovered on Monday.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday started enumeration of traders in the city to bring them under the ambit of trade licence fee, which is an important component of revenue.

Come New Year, the traders in Silk City, who have stocked banned plastic and polythene items, have to pay a fine up to Rs 50,000. The Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) has decided ten-fold hike in fine to enforce the plastic ban effectively.

BJD president and chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday wrote to all office-bearers, MPs and MLAs of the party ahead of BJD’s 21st Foundation Day urging them to donate one-month salary for the party fund.

A prime accused and his brother, allegedly involved in the sensational gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old girl at Pipili in Puri district in 2011-12, were acquitted by a court here on Monday.