Новости за 21.03.2021

A guard was burnt alive while he was trying to douse a fire in a forest near the Similipal National Park in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district on Sunday, police said.

Noted Kambala jockey Srinivas Gowda,who was termed Usain Bolt of Kambala last year by covering a 125-metre buffalo racing track in 9.55 seconds, has created a new record by completing 100 metres in just 8.96 seconds, organisers said.

The MIT Manipal campus, which has around 5,800 students, was declared as a containment zone on March 17.

A leopard that entered a house in Udupi district in search of prey during the wee hours of Sunday was trapped inside the room of a house, forest department sources said.

Punjabi Lok Virasat Academy will organise an online international symposium and a 'kavi darbar' on Dulla Bhatti’s martyrdom day. The organisers said that thinkers and writers from across USA, Canada and European nations will participate in it.

Under a joint initiative launched by the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) and the Gurugram Traffic Police, fines would be imposed on those caught violating traffic rules through CCTV cameras at 20 intersections in the district.

DMK candidate Karthikeya Sivasenathipathi on Saturday filed a petition before returning officer Senthilarasan at Perur, urging EC officials to reject the nomination of local administration minister S P Velumani for failing to submit documents proving the source of his income and that of his family, and suppressing taxable income and source of his daughter’s amassed wealth.

A speeding truck of Ludhiana Municipal Corporation crushed a 21-year-old woman to death near Manna Singh Chowk on Saturday afternoon. She was returning home on a scooter after attending her IELTS class. The truck driver escaped from the spot.

Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) has requested Northern Regional Load Dispatch Centre (NRLDC) to enhance the total transfer capability/available transfer capability (TTC/ ATC) limits before the beginning of the paddy season so that the state could provide eight hours of uninterrupted power supply to the farm sector.

An assistant professor at the College of Agriculture, Hanumanamatti, affiliated to the University of Agriculture Sciences, Dharwad, has been suspended after he was arrested by Ranebennur police on Thursday.

When then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared Emergency across the country in 1975, a man in his early 20s who was part of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) crisscrossed Bengaluru city in the wee hours of June 26 to alert then Jan Sangh leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani about the announcement.

There have been no Covid-19 deaths in Haveri district in the past 100 days and active infections in the region are also the lowest in the state. This is a marked change from August 2020, when the district reported the highest fatality rate of 3 per cent.

Assam excise department has asked eight district heads to issue showcause notices to 18 retail shops on Saturday where sale of liquor went up by over 30% in the past few days. Sources said the increased sale could be linked to luring voters in the state, which goes to the polls in a week.

The Kamrup district administration has decided to crack the whip on those spotted without masks as Covid-19 protocol went for a toss in the election season with little regard for social distance and use of masks.

With barely a week left for the first phase of election in the state, the saffron party is still battling internal dissent over the choice of candidates in some seats.

Jailed peasants’ activist Akhil Gogoi, who is the president of the newly formed regional party Raijor Dal, on Saturday urged the electorate to vote against BJP candidates in every constituency.

Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi hasn’t been working for the common man, but for two or three richest industrialists in the country and has “handed over” everything to them.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday released the party election manifesto with a promise to thwart the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in the state, but took a leaf out of the ruling BJP’s agenda on issues like sheltering the cow and giving ‘land pattas’ to the landless.