Новости за 17.07.2021

The rising demand for Udupi saris has inspired women to experiment with them. Udupi sarees, hand-woven by artisans of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi has embraced the Aari embroidery of Kashmir.

Drinking water projects worth Rs 1,550 crore for various rural and urban areas in Sundargarh, Keonjhar and Cuttack district approved by the state cabinet as part of its effort to provide piped water supply to all rural households by March 2024.

For the first time in east UP, the transplantation of fully grown trees has begun to ensure that none of them get chopped for the ground+18 floor twin buildings of the proposed integrated commissioner complex (ICC).

​​​A person called Gowda over the mobile phone number, issued the threat, used abusive words and said he would teach the racer the history of Kambala, which is an annual buffalo race.

The anti-vehicle theft cell of Ambala police on Friday night arrested two fraudsters with 55 bundles of Rs 100 notes, who tricked the people by keeping blank papers inside the notes.

The Odisha Police on Saturday arrested four persons and seized 'brown sugar' worth more than Rs 1 crore from their possession, among other valuables in Bhadrak district.

The Assam government will provide a one-time financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh to families of people who have died of Covid-19, state Finance Minister Ajanta Neog has said.

Scores of leaders of Samajwadi Party have been booked for violation of section 144 of the CrPC for the protest against rising inflation and violence witnessed in Uttar Pradesh during panchayat and block head polls.

After the hike in prices of fuel, LPG cylinder and kitchen essentials, the price of milk went up by Rs 3 per litre in the capital city from Friday.

Scores of trees become casualty to road-widening projects. However, the forest department, keen on mitigating the damage to the environment that such projects cause, has decided to translate 52 of the 334 trees being axed for the widening of National Highway-367 at Gajendragad. The 52 trees along the side of the road will be shifted to a new home, near a lake, where a tree park has been proposed.

The first state budget of the new BJP-led government under Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma evoked contrasting reactions, with the ruling party leaders and cabinet ministers hailing it as “people-centric” but Opposition parties calling it “visionless and anti-poor”.

Three persons tested positive for Covid-19, while eight patients were declared cured in Varanasi district on Friday. No fatality due to Covid infection was reported in district in last 24 hour's.

The state budget, presented by finance minister Ajanta Neog, came as a big relief to borrowers of microfinance loans, for whom the state government has proposed a budgetary allocation of Rs 7,500 crore.

Altogether 15 people were killed and 19 shot at and injured in police firing ever since the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government took charge in Assam two months ago. Of the 15 killed, 10 were militants.

Though the government has lifted the restrictions on the movement of buses across the state, the private operators may take some more days to resume their services in 10 districts, including Khurda and Cuttack. Meanwhile, the city bus services in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack will start from Monday.

The GST enforcement wing in the state on Friday claimed to have busted a financial fraud involving loss of revenue amounting to Rs 115.10 crore through the use of fake bills as high as Rs 641crore to claim input tax credit.

Forty years after he left home following the birth of a stillborn baby, Simanchal Rana (76) was reunited with his family in Ganjam district on Friday, thanks to the efforts of India Cares, an online platform which helps people in distress.

Even though the Union health ministry has cautioned the states to be prepared for a third wave of Covid-19, about 70% of the population in the state is still waiting to get immunized. This was informed by state health minister Keshab Mahanta in a reply to Congress MLA and leader of the Opposition, Debabrata Saikia, on Friday.

To strengthen the security systems in jails and streamline their management, the state government has decided to provide body cameras to prison officials and procure latest gadgets, including deep search metal detectors, to trace hidden mobile phones in the cells of inmates.

Raising concern about the anticipated third wave of Covid-19 and its impact on children, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to roll out vaccines for the 12-18 age group as soon as possible.

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has termed the state budget 2021-22 as a welfare-oriented budget, which will benefit the middle class to a large extent.

Rebuked by her mother for her affair with a neighbouring youth, a 16-year-old girl allegedly called her lover to her home and got her mother killed by him on Wednesday night in Unnao district.

Assam on Thursday withdrew its earlier order exempting mandatory Covid-19 testing for air and train passengers who have received both doses of the vaccine after cases of persons testing positive for Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated were detected.

Assam’s first woman finance minister Ajanta Neog on Friday tabled a Rs 566.20-crore deficit budget in the assembly with a range of bold initiatives like financial help of Rs 1 lakh to each family that has lost their members to Covid-19 and smartphones to about eight lakh Class IX and X students of government schools to bridge the digital divide created by the pandemic.