Новости за 12.09.2021

Out of power in Bihar for nearly four years, RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav is now looking to revive his party’s base in neighbouring Jharkhand.

Former minister and Mangaluru MLA U T Khader demanded an inquiry after he alleged that substandard kits were distributed by the labour department.

​​​The Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) has asked all district collectors to closely monitor the situation and remain prepared to meet waterlogging, localised flood in urban areas and landslides in hilly areas.

There was good reception for the mass Covid-19 vaccination drive planned on Sunday in Coimbatore district as 1.25 lakh vaccine doses were administered by 5pm.

An alleged dacoit wanted in several cases has been killed in a police encounter in Assam's Dhubri district, police said on Sunday.

Hori Habba, or bull-taming, is a popular competition in the rural pockets of Haveri and nearby districts. In the pre-Covid times, there used to be a huge demand for trained bulls, which were sold for amounts going up to Rs 10 lakh. ​​​The events are not being held because of the pandemic and this has caused a section of enthusiasts to lose interest in the activity.

Fewer women are seeking cervical cancer screening in the wake of the pandemic as the growing demands of their family and professional life leave them with little time for self-care or preventive check-ups.

Krishnaraja MLA SA Ramadas on Saturday said on account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday, Modi Yug Utsav will be celebrated in his constituency between September 17 and October 6.

The scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US have conceptualised a portable optical sensing device that would be able to detect the nitrogen content in the plants and thus may help in optimizing the use of chemical fertilizers.

If everything goes as planned, the capital city will soon have all-woman police patrolling units to respond to complaints from women in distress. Plans of forming ‘She’ teams in police stations are also on the anvil.

The body of an 11-year-old boy, a Dibrugarh town resident who had gone missing on September 9, was fished out by a team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel from Buridehing river on Saturday, after a 36-hour extensive

Assam agriculture minister Atul Bora on Saturday launched the Bodoland Pig Mission in Kokrajhar to turn the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) into a piggery hub.

The administration is facing a massive challenge of conducting NEET and the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) examinations with all Covid protocols in place in greater Guwahati on Sunday.

In a setback to efforts to check stubble burning, the two additional biomass power plants that were to come up in Punjab this year have been delayed. The two biomass power projects, including the 10 MW project in Fatehgarh Sahib and 4 MW project in Nakodar, were to be completed by this June. Now, the projects will probably be operational by next year.

The stalemate between farmer groups sitting on an indefinite dharna at the Karnal mini-secretariat and the Haryana government ended on Saturday after the state ordered a judicial probe into last month’s clash between protesting farmers and police, promised jobs to two family members of a deceased farmer and sent the IAS officer at the centre of the row on leave.

With several scrub typhus cases being recorded in the past few days, doctors have warned people against staying in damp places for prolonged periods of time.

Four people, including three women, were booked on Saturday for abetment to suicide by Gurugram police after a private company executive allegedly committed suicide. A case was registered at Farrukhnagar police station on the complaint of the executive’s father, who alleged his daughter-in-law and her family were responsible for his son’s death.