Новости за 16.02.2021

Odia celebs wished their fans on the occasion of Saraswati Puja. They shared messages on social media and wished for happiness, health and knowledge for all on this occasion.

Gurudatta Hegde, commissioner of Mysuru City Corporation, on Monday approached police complaining that an imposter has created a fake Facebook account in his name and posted a message seeking help.

A teenager has been detained on charges of attempting to commit bestiality and cruelty to a stray dog in west Mysuru after rescuing the dog.

Four members of a family were killed and one other suffered injuries after the vehicle in which they were travelling overturned at Karampur on Etawah-Agra highway on Tuesday morning.

The special task force (STF) of the Crime Branch arrested two persons in Nuapada and seized a leopard skin from them.

The state wing of Congress on Monday resorted to a six-hour ‘Odisha bandh’ to press the Centre and the state government to bring down fuel prices. Stray incidents of violence were reported in some places but the bandh was, by and large, peaceful.

Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday laid the foundation of the Assam Skill University (ASU) at Mangaldoi in Darrang district — a first-of-its-kind institute in the northeast.

Home minister Amit Shah will be addressing a political rally on February 25 at Batadraba in Nagaon district — the birthplace of 15th century Vaishnavite saint Srimanta Sankardeva. It is from here that the saffron party will launch its battle for “protecting Assamese culture and identity”.

Like several other festivals, Saraswati Puja scheduled on Tuesday will also be celebrated in a low-key manner across the state due to the Covid pandemic. The markets are missing the usual buzz, bringing no relief to idol-makers or shopkeepers.

A week after the Assam cabinet announced free power upto 30 units till March, the state’s electricity tariff regulatory body on Monday approved reduction of energy charges by 15 to 20 paise per KWh for both domestic and commercial connections from April 1.

Gitanjali Batmanabane, the director of AIIMS Bhubaneswar, who was among the frontline healthcare workers to receive the second shot of the vaccine on Monday, vouched for its safety and urged everyone to come forward and take it.

Distraught over their families’ rejection of their relationship, two lovers ended their lives on Valentine’s Day at Hanchinal village of Savadatti taluk.

Pig menace has returned to haunt the residents of Hubballi yet again. The HDMC used to conduct pig catching drives six to eight times in a month that had helped restrict the number of pigs roaming on the city streets. But the drives are not being conducted regularly for quite some time now and the strays are back on the streets.

With the Union government making FASTag mandatory across the nation from February 15 midnight, statistics from four toll plazas in Talapady, Brahmarakotlu, Surathkal, Hejmady and Sasthan show compliance in nearly 70% of the vehicles.

At a mass wedding in Coimbatore, where 123 couples tied the knot, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Monday said the AIADMK government has provided 6,085kg gold to brides under the ‘Thalikku Thangam’ scheme launched by J Jayalalithaa in 2011.

Electronics giant Samsung has been given a Rs 4.3 crore waiver on stamp duty for a piece of land in Sector 81 where it is setting up a display unit.

A 38-year-old man allegedly slit his wrist after killing his wife in Sector 5 of Vaishali. The incident came to light after neighbours found the man lying unconscious in an empty plot adjacent to their house and informed cops. The man was taken to a nearby hospital and his condition is critical. Police also found a suicide note from his pocket.