In a glaring incident, two miscreants on a motorcycle kidnapped a six-year-old boy on Thursday morning after throwing chilli powder in the eyes of his mother, who accompanied him to the school bus stop near their house in the Morar area of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh.
The businesspersons have alleged that if any fraudster buys garments from their shops and makes payment into their bank account online or through UPI by the money duped through the fraud, the police and investigating agencies freeze the entire account of the shopkeeper.
Poush Mela used to be jointly organised by the Santiniketan Trust and Visva-Bharati University. Last time the Poush Mela was held at the Purba Pally Ground was in 2019.
Large scale incidents of hoarding of stocks of tur and urad dal by millers and traders in their warehouses to avoid stock declaration, have been discovered by the government.
The traders are making hefty profits at a time when the death toll from the relentless monsoon rains has exceeded the 1,100 mark and inflicting $10 billion loss on the country's economy.
The fresh restrictions say that the weekend lockdown shall now onwards come into force from 9 pm on Friday to 6 am on Monday.
Apart from Diwali, the traders, on the day of Dhanteras, are also expecting big business.
Injured Santosh Kumar and Santosh were admitted to government-run hospital in Karimnagar.
A marginal decline in the number of Covid-19 cases in the country and a slight drop in the overall case fatality rate may have led the residents of north Bengal to plan for more than a low-key festivity, but the festive season may still turn out to be a damp squib for businesses.
Around 220 persons have tested positive for the virus in North Dinajpur district so far. A 46-year-old Toto driver, a resident of Dakhin Birnagar in Ward 23, was tested positive yesterday.
