Новости за 20.08.2022

The Gurgaon excise department which generates maximum revenue from liquor for Haryana has come under the scanner for alleged misuse of power.

Vlogger Bobby Kataria, whose videos showed him lighting up on a plane and drinking in the middle of a road, was booked on Friday for allegedly abusing a woman and making death threats on social media. Ten others were also booked.

The All India Democratic Women Association (AIDWA) on Friday protested against the early release of convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and demanded that the decision should be revoked.

On the lines of the Super-100 programme for the engineering and medical entrance exams, the state education department has started free-of-cost coaching for the aspirants of defence services.

The Haryana Backward Classes Commission on Friday held a public hearing for three districts falling in Gurgaon division — Gurgaon, Rewari and Mahendragarh — to get feedback and suggestions for giving reservation to backward-class people in Panchayati Raj institutions.

The city may see one or two spells of rain with partly cloudy skies on Saturday and over the next two days, the Met department has forecast. Gurgaon witnessed a sunny Friday, with maximum temperature at 36.4 degrees Celsius and minimum at 24.6 degrees Celsius.

At least seven students of a primary school in Deogarh district were critically injured after a bolt of lightning struck a tree and caused the wall and floor of a classroom to collapse on Friday. The injured students of Kuturaposhi Government Primary School are undergoing treatment at the Deogarh district headquarters hospital (DHH).

The state government has deployed health teams to flood-affected areas to help people prevent or tackle the outbreak of water-borne diseases.

Odisha is among the top five performing states where maximum number of villages have been declared open defecation free (ODF)-Plus. Other top performing states are Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. Odisha has 10,861 ODF Plus villages till Friday.

Xavier Institute of Management (XIM) Bhubaneswar will conduct a TEDx event on Sunday. It will take place in offline mode after two years.

Wildlife enthusiasts on Friday expressed disappointment over the forest department's hastiness in ruling out bullet wound in the case of an injured tusker roaming around Narasinghpur in Athgarh forest division.

The commissionerate police is planning to organise a hackathon to find digital solutions to major policing problems in the state capital. It has partnered with the state electronics and information technology (E&IT) department and software technology parks of India (STPI) to launch the maiden hackathon in the next few weeks.

Veer Savarkar was in jail for 11 years and faced Kala Pani Saja; no one among the current fake Gandhians have faced or gone through such situations, said Union minister Pralhad Joshi.

A WhatsApp (WA) group of Yakshagana patrons are gearing up to host the fifth edition of Bhramari Yakshavaibhava. At the event to be held on August 27, senior Yakshagana artist Peruvadi Narayan Bhat, 95, will be honoured with the Bhramari Yakshamani award for his contribution to the art. Two other supporting artists Gopal Pujari and Bokkasa Jagannath Rao will be honoured with the Bhramari Yakshaseva Puraskar.

A senior citizen who had received compensation for land acquisition was duped of Rs 3.7 crore by a couple in the name of selling an industrial plot in Manesar. The land for which the amount was taken from the victim was allegedly mortgaged with the bank against a loan of more than Rs 9 crore.

Three vehicles - an Ertiga and two Renault Duster - were completely charred after a transformer allegedly caught fire and exploded in the open area of a commercial complex in Sikanderpur on Friday. Fortunately, no casualties were reported.

uthorities on Friday sounded a flood alert after a low pressure turned into a deep depression, triggering heavy showers in north Odisha districts.

The city reported 473 new Covid cases on Friday, a 15% dip compared to the previous day (557 cases). It has 1,849 active cases at present, of whom 77 patients are hospitalised. The daily positivity rate too reported a marginal dip from 11.5% the day before to 11.4% on Thursday.

The chairman of the monitoring committee of environment management plan (EMP) has fixed December 31 as the deadline to achieve 100% segregated waste at source and also for setting up an electronic waste collection site in Gurgaon. This decision was taken during a review meeting of the district EMP panel in the city on Friday.

Invoking great revolutionaries Chittu Pandey and Mangal Pandey, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said that the Ballia district jail should be shifted to the city outskirts and a grand memorial to the freedom fighters be built in its place. He also directed to establish a medical college in Ballia.

Police arrested five people, including two minors, on Friday after a video, in which they were seen assaulting and stripping a 20-year-old girl in Hamirpur, went viral. As per the confession of the accused, the incident took place on August 16 when the girl had gone to a local forest area along with her boyfriend. They allegedly assaulted the duo, stripped the girl and made a video for blackmailing them. They later made it viral on social media.

The Maoists on Thursday night killed a man on suspicion of him being a police informer. The incident took place at Dhekunpani village, located inside Sunabeda wildlife sanctuary in Nuapada district.

Five thieves have been arrested for stealing electronic gadgets like laptops. Last month, two thefts were reported from IT companies in which around 26 laptops were stolen. Police recovered 22 laptops from their possession on Thursday.

The Noida Authority will hire a consultant for Swachh Survekshan 2023 to help implement viable sanitation and waste management projects. The consultant will also help Noida improve open defecation-free and garbage-free ratings. Noida has issued a request for proposal (RFP) document in this regard.

Officially, residents of Supertech Emerald Court and ATS Village can return to their houses less than two hours after the twin towers are demolished on August 28, but they are worried that it may not be safe to do so because of the dust cloud the implosion will generate.