Новости за 04.01.2021

The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth Rs 2.7 crore of a Surat-based BJP leader and a media firm linked to him in connection with a money laundering case against them, the agency said on Monday.

A man from the city who had tested positive for Covid-19 has now been found infected with the new strain of the novel coronavirus that has spread panic in the United Kingdom. The patient is presently undergoing treatment at a government health facility in the city.

Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday inaugurated a migrant worker cell at Surat in Gujarat.

Nobin Mathew, a supervisor for a spare parts company, said he was surprised when the organisers of the Abu Dhabi Big Ticket Draw called him to inform him of his winning, The Gulf News reported. Mathew's ticket number was 254806.

The state municipal administration minister SP Velumani on Monday launched the distribution of special Pongal gift hampers and cash incentive of Rs 2,500 to rice card holders in the district.

A Delhi Metro employee died after his scooter collided with an Uttar Pradesh roadways bus in Greater Noida on Monday morning, police said.

A criminal carrying a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head was arrested by the police on Sunday from Fazilpur Mod in Gurugram following a tip-off, police said on Monday.

BJP’s Assam in-charge, Baijayant Jay Panda, reached the state on a four-day visit on Sunday to take stock of election preparations as Union home minister Amit Shah has instructed the saffron party’s leaders to complete all grassroots-level work by January 15.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a conditional summons to the principal secretary of the home department and the Cuttack SP (CB-CID) for appearing before it in person on March 17 with a detailed report of a case of trafficking and sexual exploitation of poor children in Ganjam, Bhubaneswar and other parts of the state.

The medicine ward of the Sambalpur District Headquarters Hospital (DHH), which had 100 beds with 50 each in the male and female ones, is functioning with only 27 at present.

The higher education department on Sunday issued a notification, saying universities and degree colleges will start physical classes for final-year undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students from January 11. “The state’s public universities, government and non-government degree colleges coming under the ambit of the higher education department are hereby directed to commence physical classroom teaching for students of the 2020-21 final year UG/PG courses from January 11,” said the government notification.

Policemen and farm activists were injured in a clash in Sangrur when cops tried to stop them from moving to the house of BJP Sangrur president R S Deol during the party’s state chief Ashwani Sharma’s visit there. Police also cane-charged the protesters to disperse them.

The city residents have launched an online petition urging the urban local body to expedite the process of forming ward committees in 60 wards of Mangaluru City Corporation.

An alleged scam in the formation of old age/widow/divyang pension under the social security pension scheme has come to the fore in Panipat district. The department has identified 110 ineligible beneficiaries, whose pensions were made by misusing the official ID and password.

2020 was a year of setbacks for the BJP, Congress and JD(S) with the pandemic playing major spoilsport. The unprecedented Covid-19 shutdown briefly interrupted political activities last year, but politics as such did not come to a standstill — and 2021 may be no different.

Governor Ganeshi Lal had to turn back from the Jagannath Temple in Puri on Sunday without stepping inside the premises as he was not carrying a Covid negative test report. He was afforded a darshan of Lord Jagannath from Lion’s Gate or Singhadwar, the outer entrance of the Jagannath Temple, following which he left the area.

In a bid to ensure its students are protected from infection, Shakthi Education Trust serves a variety of ‘kashaya’ to pupils every day. The herbal drink is served during the morning tea break.