Новости за 23.08.2021

A 32-year-old man's body has been found with a bullet shot in the head at a flat in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, police said on Monday.

Dilip Kumar Bhanja, UN official and a native of Odisha, who returned from Afghanistan on Sunday, expressed his concern for the Indians staying in the war-ravaged country controlled by Taliban. He told TOI about his experience in Afghanistan during the last few weeks of turmoil.

More than 10,000 devotees thronged the Jagannath Temple in Puri, which reopened for all on Monday, four months after the government had shut the 12th century shrine amid the raging second wave of Covid.

In a first, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his cabinet colleagues, held a marathon meeting for 21 hours over two days with district deputy commissioners at Diphu to draw a targeted work plan for the coming six months to bring faster growth for the state.

The deceased has been identified as Chandru, who was in his mid-20s, and resident of Mysuru taluk, according to police sources.

While Dakshina Kannada has been struggling to rein in a spike in Covid-19 cases, ostensibly fuelled by interstate travellers, Chamarajanagar district, which also shares borders with Kerala besides Tamil Nadu, has brought down daily fresh cases to single digits since August 16.

Water sport operators and homestay and resort owners in Dandeli plan to exert pressure on tourism minister Anand Singh to get the government to allow river rafting. They say the ban is affecting their livelihoods.

Three suspected dacoits were shot dead by police as they had tried to rob a bank in lower Assam’s Kokrajhar district in the wee hours of Sunday, police said.

Tension along the Mizoram-Assam border continued to simmer with charges and countercharges flying thick and fast between the two states.

Floods have affected three districts in Assam, temporarily displacing 15,181 people and forcing 656 to take shelter in relief camps, officials said. While Chirang has witnessed flooding in western Assam, Dhemaji and Dibrugarh have been hit in eastern Assam. Dhemaji is the worst-affected district with 10,764 people reeling under the flood.

The Yuvraj Singh Foundation on Saturday donated 50 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds, the first instalment, to set up a 100-bed pediatric ICU facility at the Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH). The Yuvraj Singh Foundation is a non-profit organisation established by leading Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh that works extensively in the healthcare sector.

Former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal while attending the BJP’s outreach programme “Jan Ashirwad Yatra” in the state during the second day, said the Narendra Modi-led government has been focussing on the development of the northeast since the very beginning, accusing the Congress of neglecting the region.

Amid partially relaxed Covid-19 restrictions across the state, muted celebrations with an emphasis on women’s safety marked Raksha Bandhan on Sunday.

All 15 people, who were arrested from Friday night to Saturday evening for allegedly posting messages on social media platforms in support of Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, were sent to judicial custody after being produced before the courts in their respective districts on Sunday.

Despite the AIUDF trying to wash its hands of the Taliban controversy by suspending its general secretary, Fazlul Karim Qasimi, for allegedly backing Taliban rule in Afghanistan, it has handed over to the BJP and other parties a trump card to corner the party in the upcoming elections.

A number of villages have placed banners at their entrances which announce a ban on the entry of political leaders, but two such hamlets in Budhlada block of Mansa district have gone a step further.

The tussle between the Noida Authority and parking contractors over the payment of licence fees for the lockdown period has left residents confused over the status of bonafide parking lots in the city.