Новости за 28.02.2022

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma paid rich tributes to the 15th century saint-reformer Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardeva while speaking at the 91st open annual session of Srimanta Sankardeva Sangha at Naharkatia in Dibrugarh district on Sunday.

The zilla parishad (ZP) election results must have come as a blow to the BJP, which had hoped for a much improved show after it had bagged 297 seats in 2017, a huge jump from the 36 five years earlier.

The ruling party of Odisha had undertaken several course correction measures in the western districts of the state apart from Mayurbhanj and Malkangiri, known to be traditional BJP bastions, after the former’s drubbing there in the 2017 panchayat polls followed by the Lok Sabha election

Police have registered a case against a BJP zilla parishad candidate and one of his supporters for allegedly assaulting a government employee, who was engaged in the counting of votes at Buguda in Ganjam district, on Saturday night.

The BJD has made a clean sweep of the 22 zilla parishad (ZP) seats in Ganjam district whose counting was held on Saturday. The victory margin of 21 out 22 BJD candidates was over 2,000, sources said.

The Crime Branch has asked the superintendents and deputy commissioners of police to ensure that the names of arrested persons are displayed on the notice boards outside police control rooms in every district for the information of the public.

Schools for classes 1 to 7 will open in Odisha on Monday after nearly two years with a week-long rapport building exercise.

Commissionerate police on Sunday circulated photos and other details of fake doctor Ramesh Swain to their counterparts in other states to get information about his crime history.

Five districts of Odisha, namely Bargarh, Deogarh, Dhenkanal, Malkangiri and Nuapada reported not a single Covid infection on Sunday, while five others added just one infection each. The number of fresh cases is significantly low at present across the state.

After making an arduous bus journey of more than five hours from Ukraine’s Ternopil city to the Romanian border, around 20 Odia students are among hundreds of Indians stuck without food since Saturday afternoon.

Despite chief minister Naveen Patnaik not hitting the campaign trail in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and restrictions on gatherings, the ruling BJD is heading for a landslide victory in the panchayat election by smashing all previous records.

It is four days since Russia began its offensive against Ukraine and Odia students stuck in Kharkiv are running out of patience. The students are depending on hostel food, but if that stops, they may face a crisis.

Collector G S Sameeran has appealed to the students hailing from the district, who are stranded in Ukraine, to contact the designated number and e-mail address for assistance.

Sixty-year-old A Ramasamy of Saravanampatti is one of the eight athletes shortlisted to represent India in the World Masters Athletics World Championships in Finland.

Chennai-lad Vishnu Prasad came out on the tops as the LGB Formula 4 season champion at the Kari Motor Speedway on Sunday. This is Vishnu's 14th national title.

The rural cybercrime police are investigating two cases of online financial fraud.Last November, R Senthilkumar, 45, of Salaivembu at Karamadai, received a message from an unknown person, who offered to arrange a 8.50 lakh loan from a private finance company.

On day one of the intensified pulse polio immunization (IPPI) programme on Sunday, the district achieved 90.2% immunisation.Collector G S Sameeran inaugurated the drive at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH).

A 32-year-old software engineer has been arrested in the city for threatening his 27-year-old wife with her obscene photos and demanding a new house as dowry.An investigation officer said the woman was working with a private bank in the city as a junior executive.

A 43-year-old man died after a speeding truck hit him on a link road near Atam Park on Saturday evening.The deceased has been identified as Sham Sundar, a resident of Dr Ambedkar Nagar who collected alms every Saturday.

The Ludhiana unit of Special Task Force (STF) arrested two Ferozepur men with 1.29kg heroin here on Sunday morning. The recovered contraband costs approximately Rs 6.50 crore in international market.

Eleven residents of Ludhiana and four from outside tested positive for Covid here on Sunday. The health department officials said with no Covid death on the day, the district’s toll stood at 2,273 and that of outsiders here was 1,125.To date, 33,12,619 samples have been tested.

Protests against irregular lifting of garbage belie the civic body’s claims that it segregates up to 50% of the city’s waste. One year since all processing at the Tajpur Road landfill stopped, a daily waste of 1,100 tonnes still ends up there without any segregation.

Two days after a hardware trader from Panchkula, Haryana, ended his life at a five-star hotel on Ferozepur Road here by consuming poisonous pills, the police on Sunday booked 14 persons for abetment to suicide.

A scribe claimed three motorcycle-borne men kidnapped him, took him to an isolated place in Jhande village and fired a gunshot at him late Saturday evening. The man was rushed to a private hospital by his son.

The vaccination as well as the booster dose figures have declined as compared with the previous month. The health department officials said steps were being taken to increase immunisation in the district.