Новости за 23.12.2021

The higher education department has decided to introduce ‘Juba Sanskaar’ programme in colleges across the state for character building of the students.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday laid foundation stone for 55 bus stands in 22 districts of the state in virtual mode. It will provide a major boost to rural connectivity.

Hoping that Punjab Police and other security agencies will closely coordinate with each other in investigating the blast, the former chief minister regretted the diversionary tactics by the Punjab government, particularly the chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi.

Contending that there are some anti-Punjab forces who want to disrupt the peace of the state, he also asked why all "beadbis" (sacrilege) and blasts are happening just after Majithia was booked. "We are also probing this angle to the recent dastardly acts that have been perpetrated", said the chief minister adding just a single case has forced Majithia to go incognito and if the Akali leader has done nothing wrong then he should come forward to face the law.

The Congress on Thursday faced some embarrassing moments in the legislative assembly during the debate on the contentious anti-conversion bill as leader of opposition Siddaramaiah caught off guard when the BJP asserted that the bill was in fact drafted by his government in 2016.

A fire broke out at a shop in a Greater Noida market on Thursday afternoon, officials said.

According to an official release issued by the chief minister's office, Odisha is the "first state in the country to offer Covid-19 assistance for newspaper hawkers".

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) researchers have developed cost-effective, highly efficient perovskite solar cells (PSCs) to produce electricity from sunlight that can have over 21% power conversion efficiency — about 5% more than conventional solar panels.

The city has geared up to celebrate Christmas amid rising fears over the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

The Bhubaneswar railway station has received ‘Eat Right Station’ certificate for providing good and nutritious food to passengers. The certificate was handed over to Khurda Road divisional railway manager Rinkesh Roy by state commissioner of food safety Yamini Sarangi on Thursday.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 on the Richter scale hit Chikkaballapura in Karnataka on Thursday.

Two minor returnees from Nigeria on Thursday tested positive for the Omicron strain of Covid-19 in Odisha, taking the state's tally to four, a health official said.

Ludhiana Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar informed that the explosion was heard near the Record Room on the second floor of the Ludhiana Court complex. The blast was so powerful that one of the walls in the complex got damaged and the windows of some vehicles parked in the premises were shattered, the police was quoted as saying.

A group of farmers on Wednesday started a dharna at Hisar’s Ramayan toll plaza demanding free travel for them and vehicles of neighbouring villages. The farmers have declared that “they will no longer tolerate the hooliganism of toll workers.”

The police busted a fake ayurvedic medicine and chyawanprash manufacturing unit in Naubasta's Keshav Nagar, area of the city on Wednesday and arrested two women.

Mysuru reported its first case of Omicron variant of Covid-19 on Thursday.

The OSPCB has asked the Visa plant to reply within 15 days of the receipt of the notice, failing which legal action shall be initiated against it without any further information.

Phulbani recorded 3.6 degrees Celsius, the day's lowest in the state, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) report said. It added that in 15 more places, the mercury stood below 10 degrees Celsius.

The Directorate Factories and Boilers on Tuesday issued a notice to the gutkha manufacturing unit to stop operation after officials found that the unit was running without hydrant pipelines, a mandatory for factories that work with hazardous materials and chemicals.

hey also requested Goyal to direct the Odisha government to follow the suggestions/recommendations of the fact-finding team of the Centre's department of food and public distribution (DFPD) for timely procurement of the farm produce.

A government officer said the state will go ahead with the panchayat elections without OBC quota by reworking the ward-wise and post-wise reservations by January 7.