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A court here in Guwahati granted bail to Congress MLA from Assam's Baghbar constituency Sherman Ali Ahmed, who was arrested on October 2 on charges of making disrespectful remarks against the martyrs of the Assam agitation (1979-1985). Ali got bail after the police failed to submit the chargesheet within 60 days. He is being released after two months.

The resident doctors of the Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH) on Monday boycott all academic work and routine services, including out-patient department (OPD), elective operating theater (OT) and ward services, as part of the countrywide protest.

The Contractual Workers' Union of the Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) staged a sit-in demonstration to demand wage hike at Lepetkata here on Monday.

In an apparent attack on prime minister Narendra Modi, Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel termed the Gujarat model of development as a failure and said, “Chhattisgarh’s development model is being discussed everywhere today as even the landless people have become capable of flying in planes with the earnings from selling cow dung.”

Irked over the apathetic attitude of government, the residents from colonies adjoining Balloke staged a protest on Tuesday and also blocked the traffic.

Special court for Protection of Children for Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act awarded death penalty on Tuesday to the convict Guddu Yadav (35) for rape and murder of a two-year-old minor girl in Pandesara area.

The BJP on Monday recalled the over two-decades-old Barang gang rape case to target the BJD over the murder of Kalahandi schoolteacher Mamita Meher and the alleged involvement of junior home minister Dibya Shankar Mishra.

The mineral-rich Keonjhar continues to lag behind in education owing to the acute shortage of teachers in primary schools with 19 of them running without any and 380 schools managed by a single teacher each in the 13 blocks of the district.

The BJD on Monday reiterated its demand for grant of first war of independence tag on the 1817 Paika Bidroha, terming the Centre's refusal to do so is an insult to the rich history and culture of the state and massive damage to Odia self-esteem.

The DNA report on Monday confirmed that the pieces of bones retrieved from the pit were that of Mamita Meher, former principal of Sunshine English Medium School in Kalahandi, who was killed and then the body was set on fire before it was buried to destroy evidence. The body parts matched the blood samples of her parents.

Frequent travellers to the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack may have to shelve their plans or find an alternative mode of travel with as many as 26 trains set to be cancelled from Tuesday (December 7) until next Wednesday (December 15) for the doubling of tracks on the Sambalpur-Hirakud stretch and for modernisation work between the Belpahar and Himgir stations. Besides, the usually packed Bhubaneswar-Balangir Express will be short-terminated from Wednesday until next Tuesday (December 14).

The state government has asked the district collectors to make a proper assessment of the large-scale damage to crops caused by the incessant heavy rainfall since Friday, under the influence of Cyclone Jawad, which made landfall near Puri around noon on Sunday.

The Centre has urged the Odisha government to provide five acres of land to set up an ESI Hospital at Choudwar in Cuttack district.

At least six foreign returnees, who arrived in the state between November 29 and December 5, have tested positive for Covid-19 out of the 246 samples sent to the INSACOG laboratory of the Institute of Life Sciences for genome sequencing, the ILS said on Monday.

There is a decline in the number of HIV positive cases in Mysuru district when compared to previous years.

The flattening Covid-19 curve in Dakshina Kannada has hit a bump after a para-medical college on the outskirts of Mangaluru was declared a 'containment zone' - this is the first area to be declared a containment zone in more than a month - after nine students tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Dakshina Kannada deputy commissioner KV Rajendra confirmed that the college had been identified as a Covid Cluster.

For the second year in a row, the Kukke Subrahmanya temple in Dakshina Kannada district has decided to not hold 'ede snana' - a ritual of devotees rolling over the prasadam offered to the presiding deity - due to Covid-19 restrictions and detection of Omicron variant of the virus in the state.

At least 80% of students in government and aided schools in seven Kalyana-Karnataka and Vijayapura districts prefer boiled eggs during midday meals. This was the key finding of an informal survey conducted by school principals on November 26 and 27 to elicit the views of students on the choice of food during lunch.

The ancient Kashi Vishwanath Temple, which was demolished by invaders and rebuilt several times in between 1194 and 1777, is now coming up in a new form of ‘Kashi Vishwanath Dham’, a religious conglomeration of over 40 other ancient temples of artistic marvel with the temple of Lord Vishwanath at the nucleus.

The number of Covid-19 cases at a central government-run school in Narasimharajapura taluk in Chikkamagaluru district crossed the 100-mark on Monday, with 35 more students and three staffers testing positive on Monday.

The air quality index (AQI) of Noida again slipped to the ‘very poor’ category on Monday at 317 due to light rain. It stood at 286 (poor) the day before. Ghaziabad and Greater Noida, however, continued to have ‘poor’ air, the same as on Sunday.