Новости за 24.03.2022

The bidding for the Rs 100 crore bonds issued by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) will be held on Thursday morning on the BSE electronic bidding platform. VMCexpects the issue to get a good response from bidders.

The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) is looking to come up with a policy to redevelop housing blocks that came up around two decades back for the urban poor. The residents of these housing schemes will be rehabilitated at the same location after redevelopment at the existing site.

Seventeen shops and five residential buildings were damaged in a fire that broke out in New Market in the heart of this town early on Wednesday. According to locals, the fire started at an optician’s shop at around 3 am before spreading to other shops.

The Assam cabinet on Wednesday approved a draft notification for an integrated eco-sensitive zone (ECZ) of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve and its adjoining seven protected areas and 11 reserve forests for recommending it to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

The Assam cabinet on Wednesday sanctioned Rs 375 crore for participating in the bidding to take over assets of the closed units of the two paper mills of central PSU Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited (HPCL) located at Nagaon and Cachar and the company’s leasehold land at Haflong.

The contractual workers’ union of Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) observed a hunger strike to demand wage hike at Lepetkata here on Wednesday.

The Assam state disaster management authority (ASDMA) will install sanitary pad vending and disposal machines at flood shelters during the flood season in Assam for which it has launched a crowdfunding initiative.

The storm in the tea cup is only growing bigger.

Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary located in Assam’s Morigaon, which has the highest density of rhinos in the world, has recorded an increase of the one-horned species from 102 in 2018 to 107 now.The sanctuary, spread over 38.

Currently, Puri-bound trains from south India or those headed that way from Puri have to change their engine (engine reversal) at Khurda Road junction, a process that is time consuming. But not any more. A 3 km Khurda Road bypass line will soon resolve this issue.

Six more government officers, including one chief engineer, three executive engineers and two block education officers (BEOs), have been given compulsory retirement on Wednesday on the grounds of “inefficiency” and “corruption”.

More than 72,000 anganwadi centres (AWCs) across the state will reopen from March 28, after almost a year. They have been shut since last April 19 owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.

After a year of seeking higher compensation for their land being acquired for National Highway Authority of India’s Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressway project, the farmers will now go to Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann.

Environmentalists have appealed to different political parties and candidates to use only eco-friendly campaign materials like boards, cut-outs, banners and flags, which can be recycled.

Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday said Odisha seems to be going the West Bengal way as far as political violence is concerned.

The slum dwellers, who make up about 30% of the total voters in the Silk City, will play a decisive role in the ensuing election for the post of Berhampur Municipal Corporation’s (BeMC)’s mayor. The candidates of all major political parties are trying hard to woo them.

The state government has submitted a proposal to the Centre for establishment of a textile park under the PM Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) scheme that aims for holistic development of the sector.

Elections for posts of vice-chairpersons in 314 blocks across the state were held on Wednesday with the BJD claiming to win 90% of the seats.

The Silk City is riddled with bad roads, poor sewerage system, traffic jams on major roads and water-logging during the rainy season. But these basic civic issues seem to have taken a backseat in the elections for Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) on Thursday.

The Odisha government has drawn a set of guidelines for the welfare of children of incarcerated parents.

The state is set to hold the much delayed urban local body polls on Thursday, after a gap of 10 years. About 40.55 lakh voters of 109 towns, governed by an equal number of civic bodies, will decide the fate of more than 6,400 candidates in the fray.

Over a dozen human skulls and several skeletons were found dumped underneath a culvert at Kalarahanga under the Mancheswar police limits here on Wednesday.These were first spotted by local residents, who immediately informed police.

Elections for posts of vice-chairpersons in 314 blocks across the state were held on Wednesday with the BJD claiming to win 90% of the seats.

The district police on Tuesday night thwarted plans by a seven-member gang to commit robberies in Karamadai.Police had received information about the gang roaming in Kannarpalayam, Karamadai, in suspicious circumstances.

About 60% of the polling booths in the Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) area have been identified as sensitive and hypersensitive ones. As many as 250 booths have been set up in all 42 wards of the municipal corporation, which will go to the polls on Thursday.