Новости за 10.02.2021

The Jagannath Temple in Puri will no longer remain closed on Sundays for sanitisation. The shrine administration on Wednesday announced that devotees can now have a darshan of the deities throughout the week. It has also decided to resume the practice of allowing the devotees to partake of the Mahaprasad in Ananda Bazar.

Various services at the regional transport offices (RTOs) in Odisha are just a click away as chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday rolled out nine online services of state transport authority under the government’s 5T initiative. Prominent among the online services is UMANG, a mobile App, to apply for leaner’s licence (LL).

The police have registered a case of cheating after a man who was planning to purchase an air conditioner through an e-commerce platform was duped of Rs 21,400 in Ambala district of Haryana.

Officers of the investigation wing of Punjab state GST on Wednesday arrested a man for creating and operating bogus firms across various states including Punjab, Delhi and Rajasthan and availing and passing on fraudulent ITC to the tune of Rs 8.95 crore to various firms without due payment of tax to the government.

Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella forum of farmer outfits, has decided to hold Krushak Adhikar Yatra across Odisha next month to sensitise farmers about their rights and unite them against the farm laws.

Indian-Americans' policy views are more liberal on issues affecting the United States and more conservative on issues affecting India, said the Indian American Attitudes Survey (IAAS). Issues such as the equal protection of religious minorities, immigration, and affirmative action, Indian-Americans hold relatively more conservative views of Indian policies than of US policies.

The number of those missing from Jharkhand in the glacier burst tragedy in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli escalated to 21 with reports of 10 others being stranded coming in, according to figures compiled by the state control room helpline on Tuesday evening.

‘Kapi Cheshte’ by motorists passing through the picturesque Agumbe Ghat will burn a mini-hole in their pockets henceforth. This is thanks to a novel campaign by the Someshwar wildlife range office, that has initiated steps to impose fines on motorists for a slew of offences, including feeding monkeys and discarding plastic waste along the 10 km ghat section, and entering forest areas without permission, ranging from Rs 50 to Rs 200 (see box).

Postal ballot facility will be extended to Covid-19 patients in upcoming bypolls in the state, Sanjiv Kumar, state Chief Electoral Officer, said in Belagavi on Tuesday. He said patients wishing to use the facility will have to register their names within the stipulated time.

Soon, vending zones will become a reality in the twin cities. The HDMC has initiated measures to identify places for vending zones, and ordered officials to submit within a week.

In a bid to avoid accidents on the Hubballi-Dharwad bypass, authorities are now planning to make a provision, so that vehicles can overtake safely at a stretch of every 2-3 km. It is a temporary arrangement till the road is developed into six lanes.

The state cabinet gave its nod for tabling the ordinance on “forced” or “fraudulent” religious conversions — which was promulgated by the UP government in November last year — in the upcoming Budget session of UP assembly beginning February 18. This would allow the state government to push a bill and turn the ordinance into a law passed by the state legislature.

After BJP MLA Alka Rai, another victim one Mau resident Ashok Singh, whose contractor brother was killed allegedly by mafia donturned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari’s men for not paying extortion, has sent a stinging letter to former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra questioning why Congress-ruled states are shielding the don.