Новости за 02.02.2022

District election officer-cum-deputy commissioner Ludhiana Varinder Kumar Sharma on Wednesday said that as many as 198 candidates were in fray in Ludhiana after scrutiny of nomination papers for the upcoming Vidhan Sabha elections.

Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has arrested an assistant lineman (ALM) of Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) and a police official for allegedly accepting bribe of Rs 5,000 and Rs 1,000 respectively.

All 14 election observers for Ludhiana district of Punjab, deputed by the Election Commission of India, held a meeting on Wednesday with representatives of political parties and senior district administration officials at Pal Auditorium of Punjab Agricultural University, regarding Vidhan Sabha elections.

The Ambala district of Haryana reported 122 positive cases of Covid-19 and 286 patients were discharged on Wednesday, said civil surgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh.

While the row over wearing 'hijab' (head-scarf) at a government pre-university college in Udupi, 56km from Mangaluru, continues with a student moving court on the issue, another similar controversy erupted at a college 40.8km away at Kundapur.

A day after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the union budget for 2022-23 in parliament, Assam cabinet on Wednesday approved setting up a high level task force to oversee the “proper implementation of PM Gati Shakti plan," which is a transformative approach for economic growth and sustainable development.

The Varanasi field unit of the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday unearthed a manufacturing unit of fake Covid-19 vaccine and testing kits in Rohit Nagar of Lanka area.

The investigation wing of the Income Tax Department on Wednesday raided 10 premises in Jalandhar and Amritsar belonging to two business groups.

The proposal in Union budget 2022-2023 to increase customs duty on import of raw materials will adversely affect Rajkot's imitation jewellery business, fear industry experts. The industry imports 60% raw material from China, which will now become dearer.

The increase in capital procurement budget to 68% for domestic industry in the defence sector is expected to increase output from Rajkot, the hub of engineering units, many of whom are engaged in making parts for defence equipment. There are at least 300 small and big units making parts for defence equipment, according to industry sources in Rajkot.

A 19-year-old boy was attacked by his 65-year-old neighbour for playing a mobile game too loudly in his house at Paraikadu in Murugampalayam here on Sunday.

Four persons died when the roof of an illegal mine collapsed in the Gopinathpur colliery of the ECL on Tuesday, police said. Former MLA and CITU leader Arup Chatterjee, however, said at least 15 people have died in three such incidents — two at ECL mines and one at a BCCL mine —on Tuesday.

From the ambitious Kaladan Road project linking Sittwe seaport in Myanmar to Mizoram, Trans-Arunachal Highway, ramping up India's Act East policy to increased provisions for drinking water and sanitation projects, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has raised the allocation for the northeast to a new high of over Rs 76,000 crore in the 2022-23 budget proposals - a jump of over Rs 7,500 crore from the current FY.

Mizoram logged 2,531 Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which has been the highest-ever single-day spike till date, and also reported the highest daily caseload among the eight northeastern states.

In a major relief to the diamantaires in the diamond polishing hub of Surat, basic customs duty on cut and polished diamonds (CPD) was reduced to 5% from 7.5% as part of the Union Budget announcement on Tuesday. While this will not just make diamond jewellery cheaper, it will also give a major boost to exports in the diamond polishing and manufacturing industry.

It was a day of suspense and surprises in Congress as well as the Bahujan Samaj Party in the Doaba region on Tuesday. Former Punjab Congress president Mohinder Singh Kaypee was at the receiving end of the surprise at Adampur as the party made its final decision on its candidate for the constituency just 10 minutes before 3 pm, the closing time of filing of nomination.

On Tuesday, 177 persons tested positive for Covid-19 in Varanasi district, while 438 patients in home isolation were declared cured.According to the daily medical bulletin, a 49-year-old woman suffering from carcinoma stomach with metastasis with Covid pneumonia died in BHU hospital.

Union Budget 2022 was termed as a vision for long term development instead of a budget prepared in view of assembly polls by many while the industrialists, especially in micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME), felt that no attention was paid on making provision of subsidies for land

Huge recoveries of illegal arms were made by the police of Azamgarh, Ballia and Jaunpur district by unearthing manufacturing units as well as busting the gangs of smugglers and arms dealers.

Gujarat Congress working president and the party’s star campaigner Hardik Patel, former minister and Congress candidate from Pindra Ajay Rai and Basant Patel of Ratanpur village in Badagaon area were issued notices for violation of model code of conduct promulgated in view of assembly