Новости за 18.12.2021

Struggling to pay his bank loan, a 33-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide after strangling his wife in Etawah district on Saturday, police said.

To promote the start-up ecosystem in the state, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday inaugurated O-hub, the incubation centre to support start-up formation and subsequent scale-up activated.

Dakshina Kannada on Saturday reported five cases of Omicron variant of Covid-19.

Headmistress of a government high school in Tirupur district was placed under suspension on Saturday for abusing students from scheduled caste by using their caste name and making them clean school toilets.

As per the complaint, a person who identified himself as Aman working in the army, called the woman on her phone and conveyed his interest in purchasing 'maida' from the flour mill where her husband is employed.

The state tourism department on Wednesday, the day when all the seven sites were inaugurated by chief minister Naveen Patnaik, served a notice on the private firm engaged to set up, operate and manage the project at Koraput and at Pati Sonapur (Ganjam) for delay and substandard works.

"27 arrested in 3 police station limits in Belagavi for attacking the Sangolli Rayanna statue," said K Tyagarajan, commissioner of police, Belagavi.

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) announced an honorary golden bus pass for Olympic gold winner Neeraj Chopra and landed itself in a spot as netizens questioned why a similar gesture was not extended to Padma awardees, some of whom are financially poor.

The night temperature on Friday dropped below 10 degrees Celsius at eight places as the mercury continued to dip across the state. The temperature was hovering below 15 degrees Celsius at most other places.

Contractual teachers, under the aegis of the 2015-batch Odisha Junior Teachers' Association on Friday, staged a demonstration here demanding the regularisation of their services. Though the state government had assured them of doing so on the completion of six years in service, the decision is yet to be materialised.

A high-level committee chaired by chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday cleared Arcelor Mittal/Nippon Steel's (AM/NS) proposal to set up a 24 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) integrated steel plant at Mahakalpada block in Kendrapada district at an investment of Rs 1.02 lakh crore.

Though bereft of industries, Guwahati and Agartala have been listed at the top of air pollution index among northeastern cities followed by Kohima and Aizawl by the report of Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released on Friday.

A police officer was arrested in Patharkandi of Karimganj district on Friday after a video purportedly showing him taking bribe from a man surfaced on social media.

The Gauhati High Court, by an interim order on Tuesday, stayed eviction notices issued by Dheikiajuli circle officer to 243 families of No. 1 Basasimalu village in Assam's Sonitpur district without disposing their plea for allotment of said land in their names.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson Justice Arun Mishra, while making a statement on Friday on the alleged fake encounters by the Assam Police in the state since May, said there should be no room for fake encounters. He was addressing a media briefing here after holding a two-day 'Camp Sitting and Public Open Hearing' for human rights violation cases.

The self-styled chairman of newly formed insurgent outfit, Karbi Democratic Liberation Front (KDLF), Jackson Ronghang, was killed in an encounter with the police in Assam's Karbi Anglong district on Friday.

Chartered accountants (CAs) and tax professionals from the city met Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday to demand abolition of professional tax from the state.

At a GNIDA meeting, discussions have also been held on the possibility of setting up facilities such as toilets and tea kiosks at the labour chowks. There were also talks about setting up a training centre.

These substations are expected to meet the electricity requirement of Greater Noida for the next 10 years.

The 100-year-old St Agnes College, the first women's college on the west coast of India as well as the first Catholic women's college in the country, will open its door to boys from the next academic year.

The illegal mining action committee formed by the villagers of around 13 villages in Ropar district to curb the menace in their area has now decided to write and appeal to the Punjab State Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities, and higher officials in Punjab to get action done in the case of attack on mining officials.

Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday accused the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leadership of selling the party to SAD after it (BSP) decided to field Akali leaders from its strongholds. Channi, who inducted dissident BSP leaders from different constituencies during a state level function, said the Mayawati-led party no longer represented the ideology of Babu Kanshi Ram, who aimed at empowering Scheduled Castes.

Syed Mohamed Peeran Syed Ameer Hamza, who circumvented the MOM blacklist by using his business associate's identity to hire an Indonesian domestic worker, was jailed 36 weeks or about eight months. The 41-year-old Singaporean pleaded guilty midway through a trial.