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Ballia police of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday lodged an FIR against four men for thrashing and giving electric shocks to a youth after tying his hands.

A Reserve Police Inspector (RPI) attached to Police Training School (PTS), Mysuru, has been placed under suspension on charges of receiving money from probationary woman constables undergoing basic training at PTS.

Even though six of the seven states in the northeast are experiencing deficit rain since the onset of the monsoon two months ago, the IMD said on Tuesday that heavy to extremely heavy rain would lash the region this week. Tourist hotspot Cherrapunji, is likely to receive the maximum rain, though 27% deficit rainfall has been recorded in Meghalaya since June 1.

Police on Tuesday said it has busted an interstate prostitution racket providing “escort services” at various places, and arrested three people, including a woman, from Assam and Bihar.

A 32-year-old murder accused on the run for 14 years and living under a fake identity has been arrested by the Noida police, officials said on Tuesday.

As many as 20 students of two government schools in Ludhiana tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday.

With Navalgund MLA Shankar Patil Munenakoppa becoming the minister for handlooms and textiles, weavers of the popular Navalgund Dhurries hope to see its revival. The Navalgund Dhurrie, popularly known as Navalgund Jamkhana, is now on the verge of extinction after the pandemic. Hundreds of families engaged in making dhurries were badly hit by the lockdown.

Karkala MLA V Sunil Kumar has amassed over 1,000 books within five days of being inducted into chief minister Basavaraj Bommai cabinet. Kumar, who is the minister for energy, Kannada & Culture, has set an example by requesting his fans to bring books instead of bouquets and garlands.

A day after the health department started Covid-19 sampling in schools, eight students of Government Senior Secondary School, Basti Jodhewal tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday.

The higher education department on Monday clarified that physical classroom teaching will also commence from August 16 for first year students of all two-year courses like BEd and MEd.

The state received 75% deficit rainfall this month till Monday as monsoon stayed subdued over the state for nine consecutive days, the IMD said on Monday.

Frequent seizures of brown sugar in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack have set the alarm bells ringing in the police corridors with the twin cities emerging as a haven for drug smugglers and addicts.

Covid has resulted in an unprecedented drop in the arrival of tourists to Odisha. While the arrival of foreigners went down by over 99% in 2020-21, in case of domestic tourists the drop was 84%, revealed the state tourism department’s annual report.

The Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ACMS), the largest trade union of tea workers in the country, has demanded a tea ministry in Assam saying that it will help revive the state's tea industry which is passing through a sluggish phase. Participating in the 63rd foundation day of the ACMS at its headquarters in Dibrugarh on Monday, ACMS president and former union DoNER minister Paban Singh Ghatowar said that setting up a tea ministry in Assam is a legitimate of the people of Assam as the tea industry has... Читать дальше...

Forest staff of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve arrested a person from Hojai on Sunday for his alleged involvement in rhino horn smuggling in the park.

The Assam government on Monday relaxed curfew by an hour which will now be from 6pm to 5am after an improvement in the Covid-19 positivity rate. Till Sunday, curfew was in force from 5 in the evening.

Two criminals, who killed a cash van security guard in the Singramau area of Jaunpur on Monday afternoon, were eliminated in an encounter with police on Tuesday early morning.

In a big relief to the state health machinery, Odisha’s daily Covid count went down below 1000 for the first time in four months since the second wave hit the state. On Monday, the state reported 886 new infections from 66,063 samples tested, a positivity rate of 1.

The Assam government has finally acquired the land and house of music maestro Bhupen Hazarika at Kuthari near the Kaziranga National Park in Nagaon district. The state cabinet in 2016 had resolved to renovate the house as a memorial.

Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) and Assam police busted a human trafficking racket and rescued 22 people, which include a 4-year-old, from Rangia railway station on Monday.

Tezpur University students have opposed the decision to hike fees in various courses and criticized the authorities for compelling them to pay fees for in-campus services which they didn’t avail as the campus has remained shut due to Covid restrictions.

Police in Guwahati on Monday arrested an excise department employee for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a woman for fixing an appointment with chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.