Новости за 14.10.2021

Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) President Shivpal Singh Yadav on Thursday said politics is all about possibilities and that his priority will always be to side with the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the run-up to the 2022 assembly polls.

CPI Maoists central committee leader Akkiraju Haragopal alias Ramakrishna alias RK alias Saketh has died in the forests of Chhattisgarh, according to sources. He carried a combined reward of Rs 1 crore on his head.

A youth shot his mother and sister dead on Thursday apparently for not cooking tasty sambar at Kodagodu in Karnataka's Uttara Kannada district.

A team of Crime Branch Sector-10 of Gurugram police has arrested the prime accused who allegedly killed his fellow student studying in SGT University on October 8 in Gurugram, police said on Thursday.

An earthquake of 3.3 magnitude shook Assam on Thursday, a Met official said here. The quake hit at 11.06 am and its epicentre was in Lakhimpur district, the official said.

Along with eight other researchers, Dr Gururaja KV, a batrachologist at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and his wife Dr Priti Gururaja, studied the foot flagging behaviour among frogs in the Western Ghats, a paper on which ‘A Common Endocrine

The IMD forecast on Wednesday said light to moderate rainfall would continue in parts of coastal and adjoining districts for four days from Friday, bringing fears of dampening of the Dussehra mood. The rain would take place under the influence of a cyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal and its neighbourhood and is expected to turn into a low pressure over the same region by Thursday. Thereafter, the weather system would move west- north westwards towards south Odisha and north Andhra Pradesh coast.

The state government has set a target of October-end to sign the lease deeds of the nine mines auctioned recently. Officials in the state steel and mines department said the successful bidders have already deposited an upfront payment of around Rs 250 crore, a pre-requisite for signing the lease deeds.

Khurda district on Wednesday moved to the ‘red zone’ with more than 2,500 active cases, after nearly a month of being in the ‘yellow’ spot (active cases between 1,000 and 2,500). The last time the district, which includes the state capital, was in the danger zone was on September 18 when it had 2,534 active cases. According to the health department dashboard, the cumulative active cases on Wednesday touched the 2,535-mark.

Suprabha Jena and Subhadarshini Jena broke gender inequality and sat on the driver seats of heavy vehicles. Not just the two sisters, but many like them have been turning up at the government-run heavy motor vehicle (HMV) driver training institute at Chhatia in Jajpur district to accelerate their economic empowerment.

The special taskforce of Puri Police on Wednesday busted an inter-district syndicate of brown sugar suppliers and arrested five persons in this connection.

Pandal hopping and eating out has taken a backseat due to night curfew and Covid restrictions but households are making up for it by serving traditional dishes. Social media platforms are flooded with pictures of special delicacies being cooked in Odia households. Many outlets are also selling the traditional dishes too.

The Maha Ashtami puja in all mandaps across the state were held following the state-imposed Covid guidelines on Wednesday.

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Kanimozhi Karunanidhi met chief minister Naveen Patnaik at his residence here on Wednesday seeking support to press the Centre to scrap NEET for undergraduate medical admission.

Sepoy Gajjan Singh, 26, who was killed on Monday in a gunfight in Poonch sector in Kashmir, was on Wednesday cremated at his native village, Pachranda, Nurpur Bedi, of Ropar district with full military honours.

Fissures in the Congress were out in the open as five chairmen, vice-chairmen and office-bearers of various boards and corporations associated with the industry were missing from the industry and trade meet held in Ludhiana, presided over by Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal and industry minister Gurkirat Singh Kotli and food, civil supplies and consumer affairs minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu, on Wednesday.

The stage is set for a business conclave to be organised by the state government here on Thursday. The objective of the meet, the first major in-person summit since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out last year, is to attract investors from Japan.

Police arrested 10 persons in connection with the removal of a student’s skullcap in the district’s Ilkal, a north Karnataka town some 415km from Bengaluru, on Wednesday.

Villagers from Echaluhole carried an ailing 72-year-old woman on their shoulders for 4km before shifting her to a private vehicle to be taken to a hospital in Kalasa in Chikkamagaluru district on Tuesday since the roads are damaged by heavy rain.

A pink vending zone will be established in Noida in the coming days. To promote employment among women, the authority will launch a scheme and earmark space for women to set up kiosks in such zones.

Curtains will come down on the 411th edition of the Mysuru Dasara celebration with the Dasara procession on Friday.

Vaccination centres set up within temple premises in Dakshina Kannada district have become a huge hit with many devotees coming forward to take the shot.

A fisherman of Saiyad Rajpra village near Nava Bandar in Una taluka of Gir Somnath district hit the jackpot on high seas after he netted a huge catch of giant croaker or ghol fish, which are highly valuable for their air bladders. Fisherman Bhikha Puna’s total catch is valued at around Rs1.