Новости за 01.12.2021

Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Lok Sabha on Wednesday that a survey for construction of a new line between Puri and Konark (33km) has been completed and the cost of the project has been assessed as Rs 725.78 crore.

Mangaluru city police have arrested a man for allegedly sexually assaulting his daughter in an area under the Kadri police station here.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik here on Wednesday asked officials to ensure everyone takes the possible spread of new strain of Covid virus ‘Omicron’ seriously and adhere to protocol to check its possible spread.

A 36-year-old man immolated himself and his two children ,aged five and seven years, in the GIDA area of the city on Wednesday over alleged marital discord.

The Post Graduate Institute of Child Health (PGICH) in Noida has become the first government facility in GB Nagar to offer a molecular screening of blood donated for HIV and Hepatitis B and C patients in addition to serology testing for antigens and antibodies for the ailments. The institute has tied up with Aligarh’s Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) laboratory, which caters to samples from Agra and Kanpur medical colleges.

Two foreigners - one from Togo and the other from Sri Lanka - who have arrived in the city to take part in the international sand art festival have been kept in a quarantine facility, here on Tuesday, and their swab samples sent for RT-PCR test amid the threat of Omicron which has been detected in some countries.

The murder of Kalahandi school teacher Mamita Meher is likely to dominate the winter session of the assembly starting from Wednesday.

The Board of Secondary Education, Odisha, on Tuesday rescheduled the summative examination date for Class X students to January 5 from December 27.

The state Crime Branch has registered a murder case against four police officers for their alleged involvement in the custodial death of a person in Koraput district in 2017.

Odisha is bracing for another cyclone, the second this year on the Bay of Bengal, which could trigger heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in the state's coastal areas with wind speed above 100km per hour.

Former CM Amarinder Singh’s loyal Sanjeev Sharma Bittu has filed a petition in the Punjab and Haryana high court against his suspension and the general House proceedings of the Municipal Corporation, where he allegedly lost his vote of confidence.

Ten days after registering a case, police in Ropar are et to arrest illegal miners who allegedly assaulted a mining officer and threatened to kill him if he continued to take action against him.

The third Metro train set arrived in the industrial city on Tuesday. The train set comprising three coaches arrived from Savli in Gujarat. Soon, the fourth train set will also come.

The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has given a go-ahead to the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) to contest the upcoming municipal polls alone.

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) is collaborating with the Australia India Water Centre and the Western Sydney University to support water management reforms in India.

Cattle smuggling has come down by one-fifth under the Guwahati Frontier of the BSF this year.

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday directed the police to file the chargesheet against the perpetrators involved in lynching All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) leader Animesh Bhuyan to death on Monday afternoon in Jorhat district within one month and asked special DGP GP Singh to personally supervise the probe. The CM added that the "culprits involved in the incident would be tried in a fast-track court to hand them exemplary punishment".

Even as World AIDS Day this year is observed under the theme 'End inequalities End AIDS', Dakshina Kannada district has a reason to cheer. The number of HIV infections declined steadily from 607 in 2014-15 to 264 in 2020-21. In 2021-22, the district has recorded only 149 cases till October. While 60 pregnant women had tested positive for HIV infection in 2007-08, the number has come down to only two this year, till October.

The number of HIV cases has come down sharply in Dharwad and other districts of North Karnataka. A decade ago, several districts in the region were HIV hotspots.

Though the full-fledged campaigning for the legislative council polls from local bodies in Uttara Kannada is going on, dissidence and dissatisfaction among leaders and cadre is affecting both BJP and Congress here.

The tourism sector is on a strong recovery path with the number of visitors to Mysore Palace crossing the 1-lakh mark each in October and November for the first time since the outbreak of Covid in March 2020, though fears over Omicron variant could hurt the pace of revival in the coming weeks.