Loudspeakers installed at intersections to educate public on SOPs
Islamabad
May 13, 2021
Rawalpindi : The local administration, Rawalpindi has installed loudspeakers at different intersections of the city to educate citizens to follow standard operating procedures (SOPs) and insisted them to stay at homes during Eid holidays.
The law enforcement agencies have been called to enforce the SOPs to check further spread of COVID-19. The loudspeakers have been installed at Kutcherry Chowk, Mareer Chowk, Fawara Chowk, Saddar near Metro Bus Station, Qasim Market Chowk, Seham Chowk, Peshawar Morr Chowk, Rawal Road, Sixth Road Chowk, Jhanda Chowk, Faizabad, Commercial Market, and Adiala Road. The officials of the district administration were also installing loudspeakers in more places.
Concerned over the spurt in Covid cases, the East Singhbhum district administration launched a mega drive on Monday by taking out a flag march to drill into people the necessity of following lockdown rules and other safety protocols.
The flagmarch, which was taken out from Sakchi police station, had more than 20 vehicles and was led by senior SP Tamil M Vanan.
It went around various places covering the Sakchi roundabout, Shitla Mandir area, Jhanda Chowk and Straight Mike Road.
The senior SP, accompanied by ADM (law and order) N. K. Lal and other senior police officers, reprimanded several shop owners at Sakchi for not adhering to lockdown orders.
Hazaribag: Defying a ban imposed by the state government on public gatherings and religious processions in the state, a few akharas in Hazaribag on Tuesday took out the first mangalwari julus (pre-Ramnavami processions held on Tuesdays) ahead of Ramnavami on April 21.
On being informed, the police team under SDO (sadar) Vidya Bhushan Kumar and SDPO (headquarters) Mahesh Prajapati visited the busy Jhanda Chowk where the congregation of akharas took place for taking out a procession. Traditionally, the procession marks beginning of Ramnavami from the traditional Bara Akhara Mandir in the Boddom Bazar locality. On seeing police, the crowd shouted slogans and protested for stopping their procession.
Republic Day Tractor Rally: Tear Gas, Lathicharge At Singhu Border As Farmers Break Barricades
Police used tear gas on groups of farmers as they tried to break barricades with tractors at Delhi s Mukarba Chowk. PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-26T07:13:45+05:30 Republic Day Tractor Rally: Tear Gas, Lathicharge At Singhu Border As Farmers Break Barricades outlookindia.com 2021-01-26T13:43:36+05:30
Police on Tuesday used tear gas on groups of farmers when they tried to break past barricades and cemented barriers with tractors at Delhi s Mukarba Chowk.
On Tuesday morning, groups of protesting farmers camping at Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur border points of the national capital broke police barricades to force their way into the city, before the time allotted by the Delhi Police for their tractor parade.
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Red Fort breached, violence galore: How farmers tractor parade turned into a chaotic affair
A tractor march meant to highlight farmers demands dissolved into anarchy on the streets of New Delhi on Tuesday, as hordes of rampaging protesters broke through barriers, fought with police, overturned vehicles and delivered a national insult hoisting a religious flag from the rampart of Red Fort, a privilege reserved for Indiaâs tricolour.
Tens of thousands of protesters clashed with police in multiple places, leading to chaos in well-known landmarks of Delhi and suburbs, amid waves of violence that ebbed and flowed through the day, leaving the farmers two-month peaceful movement in tatters. In a Republic Day like no other, farmers atop tractors, on motorcycles and some on horses, broke barricades to enter the city at least two hours before they were supposed to start the tractor march at noon sanctioned by authorities. Steel and concrete barriers were br