Новости за 01.09.2021

For the first time, political parties facing elections for the city corporation have appointed observers to keep a close watch on their respective party activities and chalk out strategies.

The district administration has made elaborate arrangements for free-and-fair HDMC elections to be held on Friday. After delimitation of wards, the number of wards has increased to 82 from 67, making HDMC the second biggest corporation after BBMP in the state.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest elections on all 403 assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh during polls next year and will not enter into an alliance with any outfit, party leader Sanjay Singh said on Wednesday.

Having missed the deadline for the second dose of Covid vaccine in the state, some healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) are now reluctant to go for the second shot during the government’s renewed drive for cent per cent vaccination in the districts.

Peasant leader and Raijor Dal (RD) president Akhil Gogoi, who was strongly against the AIUDF in the opposition Mahajot to take on the BJP and was even blamed for weakening the alliance because of his stubborn resistance to any whiff of Badruddin Ajmal in the grand alliance, may not stand to benefit hugely from the proposed split with the AIUDF as the Congress is till scouting for like-minded friends to fill up the gap.

Aabhijeet Sharma, whose petition in 2009 prompted the Supreme Court to order the updating of the NRC of 1951, reiterated his demanded for reverification exactly two years after the final version of the National Register of Citizens was published on August 31 containing names of 3.11 crore people, who were considered Indian citizens living in Assam, but leaving out nearly 19 lakh names.

The state government on Wednesday issued new Covid-19 directives in order to contain the spread of Covid-19.

Despite hesitancy and acute short supply of doses, the entire eligible population in 17 villages in Haveri district — chief minister Basavaraj Bommai’s home district — has received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

A minor boy’s bravery helped foil a major bank loot in Balianta area on Bhubaneswar outskirts on Tuesday.

The death toll in the ongoing wave of floods in Assam went up to three, all being children, in the last 24 hours. The number of affected people also climbed to 5.7 lakh of which over 1.4 lakh are children on Tuesday as the situation worsened to “above normal and severe” at many places of the state.

For the first time, a sitting MLA from Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) quit the party on Tuesday. Phanidhar Talukdar, MLA from Bhabanipur legislative constituency, is likely to join the BJP on Wednesday in Guwahati in the presence of chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

K V Sayan, a prime accused as well as a key link in the Kodanad murder and burglary case, has sought police protection, saying he feared for his life. Though the request was submitted to the Nilgiris superintendent of police there has been no response so far, said Sayan’s counsel Senthilkumar.

Several parts of the city received moderate showers on Tuesday, bringing respite from sultry weather.

A 500 square yard plot in Sector 52, whose market value runs into several crores, was sold by fraudsters with the help of forged signatures and documents. The plot is owned by an 86-year-old woman, whose son is an inspector general of Haryana Police.

Treated water from the sewage treatment plant (STP) in Kasna would address the needs of industries in the 750-acre integrated industrial township in Greater Noida, which is being touted as the first city in the state to take this step so as to address the rapidly falling groundwater levels in the city.