Новости за 25.07.2021

The death of gangster Sheikh Hyder in police firing in Balasore on Saturday has triggered a debate whether the encounter was real or stage-managed. Many people, including some retired police officers and senior lawyers, are not ready to buy the story of the commissionerate police that the police gunned down Hyder (60) when he was trying to flee from their custody in Simulia area of Balasore district around 3.20 pm on Saturday.

Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Narendra Modi government has proved the narration in Assam that “only protests yield development”, wrong.

While rain receeded in many districts of north Karnataka, flood situation is raising concerns in Gadag, Bagalkot, Vijayapura and other districts on Sunday.Though there was sunny weather in Hubballi-Dharwad, evening showers made the city wet.

A second-year computer science engineering student from the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), is on a mission to spread awareness regarding fake reviews and ratings, and methods that will help people get their money’s worth when they make purchases online, especially during the pandemic.​

Punjab BJP president Ashwani Sharma while taking a dig at the induction of Navjot Singh Sidhu as Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee head claimed that Congress will not find any benefit by presenting Sidhu like this because public knows everything.

A day after widespread downpour left a vast stretch of Malnad region under water, there was a marked letdown in its intensity on Saturday. Though rainfall across Malnad and the rest of South Karnataka was markedly less, incessant showers in neighbouring Wayanad district of Kerala swelled Kapila river in Mysuru district. Landslides were reported in Kodagu, proving a major hurdle to traffic.

Higher education institutions, including degree colleges, will reopen in the state on Monday and students who have taken at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine can attend on-campus classes if they are scheduled. Officials in Mysuru said more than 80 per cent of the students there had been vaccinated, while Mangalore University (MU) said that 70 per cent of pupils and teachers across colleges affiliated with it had taken the jab.

A mosque's cleric and a temple priest have been arrested for allegedly raping two minor girls in Assam's Hojai and Karbi Anglong district respectively, police said on Saturday.

The heritage Dr John Berry White Medical School in Dibrugarh will get a new lease of life this November when the ongoing project to convert the iconic medical school to a heritage medical museum will take shape.

A recent study by researchers has highlighted the importance of the last fragments of tropical lowland forests in Assam because of the interaction between fruit-eating birds and the plants.

The Assam Congress took out a protest march to the Raj Bhavan here on Saturday, on alleged illegal spying through the Pegasus spyware.

With the improvement in the Covid situation, the government is planning to withdraw curfew from the five total containment districts of Jorhat, Golaghat, Sonitpur, Lakhimpur and Biswanath from Monday.

Fifteen Rohingyas, including three women and six minors, were arrested at Badarpur railway station in Karimganj district on Saturday.

Even though Lok Insaf Party (LIP) MLA Simarjit Singh Bains has failed to get any relief from the Punjab & Haryana high court in the rape case registered against him, the Ludhiana top cop has said that the police would arrest Bains after collecting sufficient evidence against him. On the other hand, advocate Harish Rai Dhanda, who has taken up the case in the court on behalf of the complainant, claimed that they have submitted all evidence, but the police are deliberately delaying the action.

The Mysuru district has recorded 125 mucormycosis cases and 18 fatalities so far, according to the war room data. Officials said that cases of the fungal infection had come down following the decreasing incidence of Covid-19.

Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital’s application for renewal of its certification for admissions to the second batch of its MBBS course has been approved by the National Medical Commission (NMC) and the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB), which falls under NMC.

Wildlife activists fear the proposed septage treatment plant at Palibandh, near the estuary of Rushikulya river in Ganjam might spell disaster for the country's second biggest rookery of endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles.

BJD's Rajya Sabha members, Subhash Chandra Singh and Sasmit Patra, have urged the Centre to expedite the renovation work of Barabati Fort (Gadakhai) in Cuttack assigned to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

The police in Angul on Friday arrested one Pradyumnya Sahu for fraud on the basis of a complaint lodged by Abhishek Pradhan, a representative of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (Amul).

The state agriculture department has decided to promote jackfruit cultivation, its processing and value addition on a mission mode following a discussion at a recent high-level meeting attended by senior officials.

Students of Odisha recorded a pass percentage of 99.98% and 99.83% in the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) or Class X and the Indian School Certificate (ISC) or Class XII board exams, respectively. Their results were announced by the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Saturday.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday launched door-to-door collection of electronic waste (e-waste). Every Saturday it will run the e-waste collection drive.

Following the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) suggestion that primary schools in India should be reopened first, teachers urged the government to allow reopening of primary schools at the earliest. The teachers said as schools have stayed shut for the last 18 months, children are losing out on basic learning abilities.