Новости за 20.12.2022

Fifteen girls fell ill after eating a mid-day meal at a basic government school in Mahoba on Monday. Instead of admitting the girls to the hospital, the school authorities summoned a 'tantrik' (sorcerer) to cure them. This continued for two hours and district officials swung into action when a video purportedly showing this incident went viral on social media.

Income Tax raids continued for the second consecutive day at the residences of two prominent Punjabi singers Ranjit Bawa and Kanwar Grewal on Tuesday.

A day before the election to the executive body of ad-hoc Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (HSGMC), Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami visited Gurdwara Patshahi Chhevin in Kurukshetra on Tuesday.

In view of reduced visibility due to increasing fog, the upper speed limit on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway has now been fixed at 75 km per hour from 100 km per hour, officials said on Tuesday.

The police have busted a big gang of immigration fraudsters after arresting five persons, who allegedly sent people abroad illegally and duped them of money on the pretext of sending them to foreign countries.

During a debate on the border dispute in the legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai himself suggested passing a unanimous resolution in both Houses of the State legislature reiterating and asserting the stand.

Two workers were killed and four others injured in an explosion at a steel factory in Ludhiana on Tuesday morning.

A first information report (FIR) was lodged against Uttar Pradesh Congress leader Ajay Rai Rai for his remarks against the Union minister for women and child development Smriti Irani.

"The Crime Branch will find out the nature of Sahu’s death and the motive," DGP Bansal said. Sources said the prisons directorate too has directed a DIG to conduct an internal inquiry into the UTP’s death and recommend disciplinary action against the jail staff for alleged negligence.

Risking their lives, residents of 138 villages across Koraput, Lamataput and Nandapur blocks use the railway bridge to cross the Kolab reservoir as the state government is yet to construct a bridge over the reservoir.

Disappointed by the low price of vegetables, a farmer of village Ganjiatikra of the Bargarh Block in Bargarh district destroyed standing cabbage ready for harvest of one acre of land by ploughing a tractor over it.

Three practice matches will be played at the Birsa Munda International Hockey stadium in Cuttack to test the ground before the first match of hockey World Cup between India and Spain on January 13.

The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation has expressed concerns over slow pace of the 24/7 drinking water supply project, being implemented by Suez India Private Limited. The civic body had set up 99 district metering areas (DMAs) to monitor and control water supply better. While the firm should have completed work in 21 DMAs, only nine have been covered so far. The work had commenced in 2019 with a stipulated deadline of August 2023.

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren will lead a delegation on Tuesday to meet with governor Ramesh Bais to request two legislations regarding reservation for government jobs and the determination of domicile status be sent to the Centre for inclusion in the ninth schedule of the Constitution.

A man died while around 15 others suffered injuries after a bus carrying around 60 passengers hit a container and fell off the road on Yamuna Expressway on Tuesday morning.

A young girl jumped into the Sursagar lake on Sunday after her boyfriend refused to marry her. The girl was saved by her boyfriend who was present at the spot along with her relatives. The SHE team of police rushed to the spot and counselled the couple.

Strong and self-reliant India, respecting its heritage and abiding by the 'Panch Pran' given by prime minister Narendra Modi in the year of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, will pave the way for a peaceful world by providing a new vision, said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday.

Notably, H-1B visa petitions are subject to a cap and must be filed in the first five days of April to compete for the 65,000 available slots. Once the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fills the 65,000 cap-subject slots, another 20,000 visa petitions are selected in a lottery designated for the graduates of US universities with master's degrees or higher.

The Jalandhar-based investigation wing of the income-tax department on Monday raided the properties of Punjabi singers Ranjit Bawa and Kanwar Grewal in Mohali and elsewhere.

Shivamogga cops opened fire at an accused man charged with assault and arson while in pursuit and nabbed him.

Karnataka will introduce a postgraduate degree in ‘alcohol technology’ from the ensuing academic year, with an aim to emerge as the top ethanol-producing state over the next five years.​

Former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy’s son, Nikhil Kumaraswamy, former minister GT Devegowda’s son, GT Harishgowda, and state JD(S) president CM Ibrahim’s son, CM Fayaz were among a list of 93 candidates released by JD(S) on Monday for next year’s assembly elections.

Two senior professors from the Banaras Hindu University- Prof DS Pandey of the department of Chemistry and Prof RK Srivastava of the department of Geology, have been elected fellows of the Indian National Science Academy.

Researchers of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) have come up with a key finding in heritable priming in crop plants by Trichoderma. The research group led by Prashant Singh of department of Botany has identified Trichoderma as a priming agent.