Новости за 16.05.2022

Unusual surge in natural gas price during Covid time has dealt a body blow to Assam’s tea industry, which has already been affected by excess rainfall this year.

The CID have registered an FIR against 414 constable aspirants for allegedly submitting fake computer certificates while applying for jobs, said director general of police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta on Sunday.

Assam Police will soon take up the matter of jihadi activities of Bangladesh-based radical Islamic group Ansar al Islam, which is known to be Bangladesh chapter of al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), in the state with the Interpol.

Due to joint efforts by the Army’s 18 Garhwal regiment, CRPF and police, two cadres of the All Adivasi National Liberation Army (AANLA) laid down their arms in Dibrugarh on Saturday night.

The Indian Air Force on Sunday airlifted 119 senior citizens, women and kids by helicopter, who were among the stranded rail passengers at Ditokcherra in Assam’s Dima Hasao district where landslides brought rail connectivity to a grinding halt on Saturday.

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal demanded a review of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in a post on Twitter on Thursday, but the use of the stringent anti-terror law was not uncommon when Sukhbir himself was the deputy CM of Punjab during the SAD-BJP government’s

All the three major parties are fine-tuning their strategies for the Brajrajnagar byelection scheduled for May 31 as a high-voltage campaigning would start in two days after publication of the final list of contesting candidates.

Sundargarh BJP MP Jual Oram on Sunday waded into the controversy over the Puri heritage corridor project by alleging that chief minister Naveen Patnaik was kept in the dark about the alleged violations in constructions.

The higher education department has asked the state’s teacher education institutions and colleges offering BEd to submit an online application before the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) to obtain approval to run the courses.

At a time when prices of tomato, lemon and other vegetables are burning a hole in pockets, soaring rates of chicken and mutton have added to the financial burden of households.

Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) are aimed at inculcating scientific temper among students and children must use it to innovate and experiment with new things, said Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan after inaugurating an ATL at Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, Kharvela Nagar, here on

The economic offences wing (EOW) of the state crime branch on Sunday arrested the owner of a shell company for his alleged link with the fraud Koko loan app, which allegedly cheated many loan applicants of crores of rupees in the state and outside.

Members of the Odisha Milk Farmers Association (OMFA) on Sunday submitted a memorandum to Union minister of state for fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying, Sanjeev Balyan, here demanding minimum support price (MSP) for milk at Rs 50 per litre.

Following upgradation under the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) initiative, the “slum” tag has been taken off at least 135 run-down neighbourhoods in the city.These localities will be called Biju Adarsha Colony from now on.

At least two persons, including a woman, were seriously injured when a mob attacked them at Gada Humma village in Ganjam district on Sunday on the suspicion that they were practising witchcraft.

All the three major parties are fine-tuning their strategies for the Brajrajnagar byelection scheduled for May 31 as a high-voltage campaigning would start in two days after publication of the final list of contesting candidates.

The state government has planned to take up as many as 1,000 bridge-cum-barrage/check dam projects within the river systems in the next three years to store rainwater.

A 28-year-old man, who attempted self-immolation near the office of the Ganjam SP at Chhatrapur on Saturday, succumbed to his injuries early on Sunday.Badal Sahu of Borigaon village in the district suffered 80% burn injuries and died during treatment at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar.

Sundargarh BJP MP Jual Oram on Sunday waded into the controversy over the Puri heritage corridor project by alleging that chief minister Naveen Patnaik was kept in the dark about the alleged violations in constructions.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is likely to visit Odisha and draw the roadmap for revival of the party’s crumbling support base in the state, Pradesh Congress Committee president Niranjan Patnaik said after attending the three-day Chintan Shivir, which concluded in Udaipur on Sunday.

A 21-year-old man was arrested on Friday evening for attempting to snatch a gold chain weighing five sovereigns from a woman on Zamin Uthukuli-Nallur road on Thursday (May 12).

Srimay Ranjan Jena had completed his diploma in civil engineering and was on the lookout for a job. But instead of finding employment, he found himself behind bars, thanks to his friends who got him hooked on to drugs.

The Selvapuram police arrested a 25-year-old man for attempting to murder his 75-year-old grandmother over a financial dispute at Telungupalayam in the city on Saturday.The arrested person was identified as C Karthik of Vaithiyar Arumuga Udaiyar Street, an electrician.

After a gap of four years, the tourism department is planning to host the summer festival in Valparai to attract tourists.The festival was not hosted after 2017 due to heavy rainfall, model code of conduct and the Covid-19 pandemic.

A 16-year-old boy drowned in a waterbody near Somayampalayam on the city outskirts on Saturday.The deceased was identified as G Sabaressh, of Chinmaya Nagar on Thondamuthur Road at Vadavalli. He was a Class XI student of the government higher secondary school at Kalveerampalayam.