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  • BJP leads in 34 seats, wins 8 out of 58 across 11 states

    Counting of votes for by-polls held in 58 assembly constituencies across 11 states in the country began at 8 am on Tuesday. This will be carried out along with the vote-counting process in Bihar where the first major electoral exercise was held amid the pandemic.

    The result of 28 assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh will decide the fate of Shivraj Singh Chouhan led-BJP government which requires at least eight more MLAs for a clear majority in the state assembly.

    Apart from this, by-polls on 7 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 2 seats each in Odisha, Nagaland, Karnataka and Jharkhand, and one seat each in Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Haryana were held. The results of the bye-election will be announced today.

  • Chhattisgarh state topped in providing facilities to migrant workers during lockdown

    Chhattisgarh has been the top state in the country in providing facilities to the migrant workers who returned during the lockdown. This conclusion came out in a survey conducted by the Interference Survey Statistics and Research Foundation (ISSRF). It is noteworthy that on the initiative of Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel, rapid steps were taken to provide various kinds of facilities to the migrant workers in the state and many labor-friendly decisions were taken.
        The Interference Survey and Statistics Foundation conducted a survey in six major migrant workers’ returning states of Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Which focused on various basic facilities including livelihood, education, health provided to migrant workers during lockdown.
        Quarantine facility was provided to 100 per cent migrant laborers returned to Chhattisgarh, 97.80 per cent migrant laborers were given free and subsidized ration as per eligibility, similarly LPG connections, cash assistance, agriculture and MNREGA employment and agricultural loans to laborer families. Facilities provided like Chhattisgarh ranks first among surveyed states in providing free LPG connections to workers.
        The survey was conducted in 99 gram panchayats of Bilaspur, Dantewada, Jashpur, Mahasamund and Rajnandgaon. Which includes more than five hundred thousand migrant workers. The survey conducted in Chhattisgarh includes 28 in Bilaspur district, 15 in Dantewada, 20 in Jashpur, 19 in Mahasamund and 17 in Gramnandgaon. These gram panchayats were surveyed from 30 June to 28 July.
        According to the survey, workers in Chhattisgarh can be divided into two categories. Workers engaged in non-agricultural work in the first category, who are 52.98 percent skilled and in the second category iron and welding, 40.43 percent skilled in fabrication work. Chhattisgarh accounts for one third of the skilled workforce. 63.94 percent of construction workers from Chhattisgarh are skilled in construction cutting work.

  • Odisha Police arrive at offices of the channel to search without warrant

    A day after Odisha Police picked up senior OTV journalist Ramesh Rath, today the police surrounded the premises of Odisha TV. The assault on the Odia media house by Odisha police came after OTV had published a report based on RTI replies that questioned the aerial survey of flood hit areas done by CM Naveen Patnaik in August this year.

    According to reports, a team of police has been parked in front pf the premises of OTV since last night. The police arrived for a search operation, but when asked they said that they do not have a warrant for the same. When officials in the media house asked the police if they have a warrant, the Inspector of Keonjhar police station said that Police have powers to enter and search as part of an investigation without warrants.

    The police also said that they leave only after searching the premises.

    Speaking to Republic TV, R Mishra, News Editor of OTV said, “This is not the first time that OTV is being targeted. Ramesh Rath was the journalist who broke the news about the RTI response on CM Naveen Patnaik’s aerial survey. After a day, while he was on his way to the office, Keonjhar police picks him up in a van and they cease his two mobile phones and drags him to the Police station. No one is informed why is he been booked, whether they have an FIR lodged against him. Our anchor informed us about the incident, so we confirmed from the Commissioner of Police.”  He alleged that OTV is being targeted individually. Keonjhar police have said that Ramesh Rath was picked up for questioning in a case related to the circulation of an obscene clip during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, and not due to the OTV story on the CM’s aerial survey. Police said that Rath’s name came up in the probe, alleging that he is the one who provided video details. Police also said that Rath was released within a few hours after questioning.

  • Heavy rains with strong winds in Odisha, 500 people taken to safe places

    After the low pressure area formed in the Bay of Bengal turned into deep depression, the fire has increased in Kakinada between 5 am and 7 am today. According to the information, at this time the wind speed is 55 to 65 km. It was hourly and heavy rains started in various areas along with Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh. According to the information received from the State Meteorological Department, due to the impact of this downfall, there is heavy rain in South Odisha.

    It is being told that along with South Odisha, the capital Bhubaneswar has also started raining with strong wind. Especially heavy rains are reported in Koraput, Malkangiri, Navarangpur Gajapati and Rayagada districts.

    Meanwhile, in Gajapati district, 500 people have been shifted elsewhere by the administration. Due to the effect of low pressure, rain is continuing in various places of the state. People have been relocated and placed in flood shelters. Due to the effect of low pressure, rains have also started in Cuttack, Khurda and Jagatsinghpur districts from this morning.