Новости за 16.06.2021

"A 35-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for raping a woman after giving false assurance to marry her," police said. "The man, who hails from Mau district, was on the run and was arrested after a chase of two and a half years from near Garhwar tri-section here," they said.

The Odia Society UAE celebrated ‘global Raja Parba-2021’ through a virtual platform on Sunday.

But the incessant rains over the previous two days caused mudslide at Ottinene, 110 kms from Mangaluru and 15 kms from Bhatkal town at Paduvari village, Byndoor taluk on Wednesday that caused traffic disruption for an hour on the National Highway 66.

"A total of 25 people have been arrested in Jharkhand's Deoghar district for cyber crime, loot and theft," police said on Wednesday.

The Gurugram health department will start trials of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine within 2-3 days at a private hospital.

Jharkhand reported four new Covid -19 deaths and 184 fresh cases during the last 24 hours, a health department bulletin said on Wednesday. The Covid-19 death toll in the state rose to 5,089 with state capital Ranchi, East Singhbhum, Lohardaga and Khunti district reporting one death each.

Construction of the chariots for July 12 Rath Yatra is likely to be completed ahead of schedule. While the chariots used to be ready around 2 or 3 days before the start of nine-day Rath Yatra, this time it is likely to get over a week before the grand festival.

After delay in conduct of urban local body (ULB) elections for years, uncertainty looms over the three-tier panchayat election scheduled early next year as the state government is yet to finalize the ward delimitation and seat reservation process.

With petrol costing Rs 99.99 per litre in several places across Odisha and diesel close to the three-digit mark on Tuesday, the situation has become difficult for households already reeling under the Covid crisis. The hike in fuel prices comes at a time when essentials like oil, tea and pulses have started pinching pockets. And the worst part is that it comes at a time the majority of people are struggling with financial woes due to Covid-induced job loss and salary cuts.

The state government will decide on the extent of unlocking after a meeting of a core group of senior officers on Wednesday. The ongoing lockdown will end at 5am on Thtusday.

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) researchers have paved the way for better water management policies in India through Virtual Water Analysis (VW)

Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, the two states going to elections early next year are poles apart in size, society and politics—UP being the centre of Hindutva ideology that Punjab defies—but their dissimilar chief ministers, Captain Amarinder Singh and Yogi Adityanath, have similar challenges within their parties.

The Gauhati High Court has directed the state government to file a report in detail in two weeks regarding the measures taken by the government or the measures it proposes to take to ensure the safety of doctors and frontline medical workers.

A law student of Dibrugarh University has filed a PIL before the Gauhati high court, seeking protection of doctors and health workers in hospitals and the health centes across the state.

A fake doctor, who has been serving as a medical officer at Hatiali Tea Estate in Dibrugarh district since 2017, was arrested on Tuesday.

Assam on Tuesday announced unlocking of the seven-week partial lockdown imposed during the ongoing second wave of Covid-19 from Wednesday with reduction in curfew timings by one hour in Guwahati and by four hours in eight districts where the situation is comparatively better.

In a scene straight out of a Bollywood potboiler, a lovelorn youth carrying a country-made pistol took a family of three hostage in Balangir and demanded to see the girl he was in love with, who happens to be the owner's niece and was not present at home when the drama was unfolding. The hostage situation ended after six hours when police finally managed to overpower him after efforts to convince him to drop his weapon failed.

Medical Council of India (MCI) norms state 10 MBBS students should have access to one cadaver to dissect and study, but authorities say the ratio has fallen to one cadaver for every 25 students as body donations have been hit due to the pandemic.