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Deputy chief minister Ashwath Narayan C N said that works on the proposed IT park, on approximately five acres, will commence immediately. “Though tenders for setting up the park on the PPP model was called on several occasions in the past, and since there was no response, Smart City and Keonics will now develop the IT park in the city. The state government will provide all possible support. Keonics is considering acquiring another four acres of adjacent land,” he said.

The New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) and various stakeholders and prospective investors signed seven MoUs worth Rs 1,417 core at the Mangaluru Innovation Conclave on Wednesday. M Venkatesh, MD, MRPL and A.V Ramana Chairman, NMPT signed two MoUs including for the construction of a desalination plant in the land already leased out by NMPT at a proposed investment of Rs 637 crore. The other MoU was for the laying of BS-VI HSD pipeline from MRPL refinery premises to NMPT at a proposed cost of Rs 73 crore.

A land surveyor was caught red-handed by the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Tuesday, while taking Rs 16,500 as a bribe.

The lone 17-year-old survivor, who was one of the three girls poisoned by a youth and his accomplice in Asoha village of Unnao last week, has denied sexual assault on them and informed the police that she and her cousins were offered snacks and water laced with some poisonous substance.

The city police registered a theft case after ten sovereign gold ornaments, 200 grams of silver articles and Rs 20,000 was reported missing from a house at Selvapuram in the city on Tuesday.

Ludhiana deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Wednesday directed the various departments to sensitize their staff members to get inoculated under the Covid vaccination drive in Punjab in the war against the pandemic.

All necessary steps will be taken to ensure smooth conduct of the upcoming assembly election in the western zone of the state, assured R Dhinakaran -- a 1988 batch IPS officer, who took charge as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) west zone on Wednesday.

A manager of a private firm was allegedly shot dead late on Tuesday night at the under-construction Delhi-Mumbai Expressway near Sancholi village in Sohna area in Gurugram.

Bibekananda Biswal, the prime accused of the sensational 1999 Baranga gang-rape case who was nabbed by the commissionerate police on Monday after being on the run for 22 years, came under the police scanner for using a fake identity and frequently sending money to his family from a bank account he had opened using forged documents.

The state Hindu religious institutions and charitable endowments department is making all out efforts to make the mass marriage programme Saptapadi in a bid to popularise simple marriages. As per the proposal, even a single pair can enter the wedlock in these marriages on the notified day.

After a long gap, a group of school children attended a heritage walk in Old Town area recently and got to learn about the heritage sites and monuments of this part of the city.

The statement of the 17-year-old Unnao girl who was allegedly poisoned by a man near her agriculture field in Babuhara village under Asoha police station area was recorded on Tuesday.

Veteran Odia singer Trupti Das enthralled the attendees of second khati organised by Cuttack Heritage Walks (CHW) recently. T

The statement of the 17-year-old Unnao girl was recorded before a magistrate on Tuesday in connection with the case wherein she and her two minor relatives —aged 15 and 14—were found in an unconscious state in an agriculture field in Unnao’s Babuhara village under Asoha police station area by the locals on February 17 night.

Finance minister Niranjan Pujari on Tuesday demanded that the Centre should withdraw cess on fuel prices to give relief to consumers feeling the pinch from high cost of petrol and diesel. Responding to an adjournment debate in the assembly, the finance minister said apart from the central excise duty and additional excise duty, the Centre has imposed infrastructure cess of Rs 18 on each litre of petrol and diesel. Similarly, the Centre collects agricultural infrastructure development cess of Rs 2.50... Читать дальше...

The state police headquarters has set up a four-member committee to screen the profiles of police personnel applying for deputation to the economic offences wing (EOW) and the special task force (STF).

The practice of conducting Covid tests on all members of a family in case one of them is found positive will be back in place from Wednesday to isolate those carrying the virus as the government and civic authorities try to contain a possible surge being witnessed in some other states.

The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2021 conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) started in the state at 85 examinations centres set up in 17 select cities and towns. Sources said more than 40,000 candidates appeared for the computer-based examinations to get admission into Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) and Bachelor of Planning (B.Plan) courses.

The regional transport officers (RTOs) have been asked to launch intensive checking of pollution under control (PUC) certificates of vehicles in the state. The drive was affected owing to Covid pandemic last year.

Shooting of Babushaan Mohanty and Sivani Sangita-starrer Odia film, Bidyaran, to resume from the last week of February. The shoot will be held at different places in and Puri and Bhubaneswar.

Women are likely to break the glass ceiling in a sport considered to be a man’s domain. The Kambala Academy is contemplating training women in various aspects of kambala, a buffalo race, and a traditional male-dominant sport of Tulunadu.