Новости за 16.06.2022

A controversy has erupted in Assam’s Rabindranath Tagore University (RTU) over the use of a Tagore song as its anthem in the Bengali language. Ethno-regional organizations have demanded that this practice be stopped immediately.

Four chain snatchers have landed in the police net after two of them were arrested on suspicion. Their arrests have helped city police in uncovering seven cases of chain snatching in Mysuru city in the last few months.

The Billava community and other sections of society in the coastal districts are all set to launch a united front, to demand inclusion of a chapter on social reformer Sri Narayana Guru in the class X social science textbook in Karnataka.

The Kanpur Development Authority (KDA) has pasted a notice at the 40-room three-storey hostel of the alleged mastermind and main accused of June 3 violence Hayat Zafar Hashmi’s stepmother Shahida Zafar located in Kakadeo Coaching Mandi.

As many as 11 districts got new collectors while the municipal corporations of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Berhampur also got new commissioners as the state government on Thursday effected a major reshuffle among the IAS officers’ level.

A month-long e-waste collection drive, which started earlier this month, is ongoing in Sectors 14 and 17 and e-waste collection boxes have been placed at different collection centres.

Doctors at a private hospital in Noida last month performed a complicated angioplasty procedure with the help of a heart pump to treat a 62-year-old man who was diagnosed with four major blockages in his arteries.

"The accused, identified as Dheeraj Rathod, is a native of Haryana and provided bank account to Ivory Coast national Ndafirmi, 26, who transferred the fraudulently made money into these accounts," Noida Cyber police station in-charge Reeta Yadav said.

Three months after Karnataka high court ruled that Muslim girl students should abide by the decisions of the college development committees (CDCs) and wear prescribed uniforms without hijab, 19 students of government first grade college at Haleyangadi here have been skipping classes.

The Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) conducted draw for the flats to be constructed under Atal Apartments scheme on Thursday at Nehru Sidhant Kendra.

Hundreds of young people on Thursday took to the streets in Haryana's Gurugram, Rewari and Palwal against the Agnipath scheme for recruitment to defence services, with protesters blocking highways. A police vehicle was damaged in stone pelting in Palwal and the Agra Chowk on National Highway 19 was blocked.

Hundreds of young people on Thursday took to the streets in Bilaspur and Sidhrawali areas of Gurugram and Rewari, some 50 km away, against the 'Agnipath' scheme unveiled by the Centre earlier this week to recruit soldiers largely on a short-term contractual basis. The scheme involves recruitment of the jawans into the army, the navy and the air force for a four-year-period followed by compulsory retirement for most without gratuity and pension benefits.

Khade told TOI that he came up with the idea of a lecture series of high achievers, hailing from the district, and presented by various professionals like scientists, engineers, doctors, sportsmen, writers, artists, and others.

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha representatives - MP Vijay Kumar Hansdak and minister in Hemant Soren cabinet Hafizul Hassan - attended the opposition parties' meet over the Presidential election convened by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the Constitution Club in New Delhi on Wednesday.Both the leaders were nominated by the party to represent JMM and the state government as chief minister Hemant Soren had expressed inability to attend the meeting in the wake of "unforeseen developments" in the state.

ver 30 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines allocated to Jharkhand is at the risk of getting expired by December due to non-utilisation. The health department officials said some beneficiaries are refusing to take the jab leading to slow coverage during special drive.

After being on the run for over two decades, a 42-year-old man, allegedly involved in at least 13 crime cases, was arrested from his native village under Ganjam's Khallikote police station limits on Tuesday.

RANCHI: The principal secretary (home, prison and disaster management), Rajiv Arun Ekka, on Wednesday night issued a show-cause notice to Ranchi SSP Surindra Kumar Jha, seeking an explanation as to why the photographs of people, allegedly associated with causing violence in the city on Friday, were pasted in the form of posters at the city’s main squares. He has been given two days to file his reply.

Six-year-old Antara (name changed) from Kanpur who lost both her parents to Covid-19 had little hopes of getting education. But luck turned by her side when an RTE office employee registered her name on the portal.

After abstaining from work for a day, the Junior Doctors Association (JDA) of Medical College Baroda on Wednesday withdrew its indefinite strike.

The number of active Covid-19 cases in the city and district went down with discharges on Wednesday exceeding the number of new cases detected. This also led to a decrease in the number of hospitalised persons.