Новости за 15.12.2021

After 12 chief ministers and their deputies of the BJP-ruled states left Varanasi on Wednesday following the inauguration of Kashi Vishwanath Dham (KVD), mayors from over 100 cities of the country will start congregating in the city from Thursday for a the All-India Mayors’ Conference to be held on Friday as part of the series of post-inauguration events.

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced the creation of a special crime investigation branch under the commissionerate police to prevent crimes in ever-growing Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.

DGP Abhay on Wednesday entrusted the crime branch with the investigation of the alleged murder of Chittaranjan Palei, the personal assistant of the State Planning Board’s deputy chairman Sanjay Dasburma, in Puri.

Within days of the grand opening of Kashi Vishwanath Dam by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, the agency involved for executing this mega project has re-intensified the work proposed in the phase-II with full vigour.

Under Phase II of the scheme for provision of ‘Mobile Services in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) Affected Areas’, work has been awarded for installation of 2,542 mobile towers including 483 towers in Odisha.

A 20-year-old man was allegedly thrashed to death in Gujarat's Valsad district after he refused to marry his fiancée with whom he had been maintaining live-in relationship.

Punjab industries and commerce minister Gurkirat Singh Kotli on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of Markfed’s advance plant for vanaspati and refined oil and this plant will be built with an estimated cost of Rs 23 crore.

The demolition of a 156-year-old heritage school building at Nellikatte in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district has kicked up a controversy, after which the DK deputy commissioner K V Rajendra has sought a report from the education department.

A sex racket being run at a hotel in the upscale sector 49 locality in Gurugram was busted and two women from Uzbekistan living here illegally were arrested, police said on Wednesday.

The ministry of Railways has accorded in principle approval to Bansapani-Barbil rail line project for taking up pre-investment activities subject to 100 per cent funding of the project by the Odisha government.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday demanded “special dispensation” from the Centre to catch up with frontline states of the country as NITI Aayog said it’s keen to partner with Odisha for developing a state specific development blueprint.

Investigation wing of the income tax department on Wednesday conducted raids on two leading foreign exchange (FOREX) traders of Jalandhar in Punjab on Wednesday.

The Odisha government on Wednesday appointed 1987 batch IPS officer Sunil Kumar Bansal the next director general of police (DGP).

Complaints about the overflowing garbage dumps and irregular door-to-door collection could eventually be a thing of the past in Greater Noida.

A man had a narrow escape after the car in which he was travelling caught fire at South City road on Wednesday morning.

With the Centre and the state government having locked horns over the allocation of houses to Odisha under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G), the BJD MPs on Tuesday took up the issue afresh with Union rural development minister Giriraj Singh.

The state government on Tuesday sanctioned the establishment of 14 new cybercrime police stations at different places, including one each in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. At present, the state has only four cyber police stations, one each in Cuttack, Berhampur, Rourkela and Sambalpur.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has validated 1260 deaths due to Covid and has handed over certificates to the next of kin to avail ex gratia of Rs 50,000 each.

Police officers, who are not well conversant in English, will now have the option of submitting case diaries, final forms and other investigation-related papers in Odia, to the courts. Until now, the investigating officers were allowed to send case diaries written only in English.

Police have filed challans against senior Akali leaders, including SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, for blocking traffic in different parts of the state in December 2017. SAD had blocked roads against the alleged high handedness of Congress government in Punjab during the municipal elections. Former ministers, former and sitting MLAs were also booked at different police stations across the state.

In a first in a long time, an event organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Punjab went on smoothly, without any interruption or protest. The BJP organised a state council meeting of its workers on Tuesday in which it inducted about 25 members into the party — including former IAS officer SR Ladhar and former Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Mohan Lal Banga.

Following the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Noida International Airport at Jewar last month, officials said there has been an increase in interest for residential, commercial and industrial plots in the region. In view of this, the YEIDA has begun preparations to launch a residential plot scheme.

A 156-year-old school in Puttur town that once hosted plays, cultural and Yakshagana activities by Jnanpith awardee Kota Shivaram Karanth has been razed.

A man was allegedly murdered by his wife and her lover at Mulamuttal village in Dharwad taluk on Tuesday.