Новости за 29.01.2022

Assam BJP president Bhabesh Kalita, after taking stock of the organizational strength in several minority-inhabited lower Assam districts on Saturday, said the AGP and the BJP will fight the upcoming municipal polls together but left it to the district committees of the two parties to resolve the tussle for seats.

The Assam Agricultural University (AAU), with technical support from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), has successfully tested four cropping systems by cultivating green pea, mustard, potato and lentil after sali (kharif) rice in six districts.

Two labourers died and one other suffered serious burns after being electrocuted while they were doing some renovation work and painting the external walls of a private company building in this district on Saturday, police said.

In view of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections 2022 scheduled for February 20, a total of 36 persons filed nomination papers in Ludhiana district on Saturday.

Three members of a marriage party, including the groom's father and brother, were killed and another three injured when the bus in which they were travelling collided with a truck on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway in Kannauj district on Saturday morning.

The Crime Branch (CB) of Odisha Police arrested three members of a gang of cyber criminals who had contacted 4.38 lakh people from their operating centre in Bhubaneswar, a rented building, in past around a month to defraud them by obtaining their bank details on the pretext of updating their KYC (Know Your Customer) details.

Deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Saturday warned of strict action against people who have willfully missed the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine.

In what could mean trouble for candidates and political parties contesting the elections, a central control room has been set up a CGST commissionerate Ludhiana to keep a vigil on GST evasion by them and also to curb the movement and use of smuggled, contraband goods, illicit articles and distribution of non-monetary articles (like garments of any kinds, white goods, kitchen, electronic items, cash etc) to lure voters during the election process.

Genome sequencing analysis by the state has revealed that 67. 5% of Covid-19 cases have been triggered by the Omicron variant and 26% by Delta strains.

More than 10 crore adults in Uttar Pradesh are now fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 pandemic.Data from the Cowin portal released on Friday showed that 10.04 crore people in the state have taken both the doses of the vaccine.

The DRI sleuths arrested three drug smugglers were arrested with a haul of ganja worth over Rs one crore near Dafi Toll Plaza in Lanka area on Thursday. A total of 590 kg ganja concealed beneath sacks of rice bran in a truck was recovered. The arrested persons were sent to jail.

The Congress accused the Narendra Modi government of hurting the interests of armed forces. The national spokesperson of Congress Supriya Shrinet and boxer Vijender Singh, on Friday, released a booklet in support of the allegation.

With the rise in recovery rate in Covid-19 cases, the intensity of Covid infection has lowered in Varanasi district. While new cases of coronavirus infection continue surface in the district, the number of cured patients has increased.

It will not be a smooth sail for rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Dara Singh Chauhan, who joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) camp just ahead of the assembly elections, at Ghosi seat as the SP had won this seat only once in 2012.

The familiar story of unvaccinated people getting messages of vaccination and even being able to generate vaccination certificates is being told again. Those eligible for the third preventive dose get such messages whenever they are due to take the shot.

The office of Dabhoi MLA Shailesh Mehta was burgled sometime on Thursday night. Blank letterheads were stolen from the office.While Mehta is a resident of Vadodara, the heavyweight politician has been elected from Dabhoi on a BJP ticket.

The city and district registered four more deaths due to Covid-19 on Friday. This is the largest number of deaths in a day in the third wave of the pandemic. The third wave of Covid-19 in the city has seen 17 deaths so far taking the total toll to 640.

The Akhil Bharatiya Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh (ABRSM), a right-wing teachers' body, has submitted a charter of demands to state education minister Jitu Waghani.

MS University will organize its 70th annual convocation ceremony on February 5. Lieutenant General Asit Mistry will be the chief guest during the convocation ceremony that will be held virtually.