Новости за 25.03.2021

Two women in Patiala district had allegedly faced snatching on a gunpoint at separate places in the city following which police had initiated a probe in the matter.

PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday made a whirlwind tour of two constituencies of the state where he said while Assam under the NDA has been peaceful in the last five years, violence is a regular affair in neighbouring West Bengal.

Tea workers’ body Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangh (ACMS) on Wednesday rejected the interim decision taken by the Indian Tea Association to enhance daily wages of workers by Rs 26 and said it would not accept an interim enhancement of less than Rs 50.

A woman constable of Badagada police station here on Wednesday lodged a complaint against her husband, who is also a constable posted in Kendrapada district, for allegedly marrying another woman.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik has urged the Centre to direct the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) to address concerns related to closure of Talcher Thermal Power Station (TTPS) and take steps for early execution of stage-III expansion of the project.

Private hospitals in the city are gearing up for vaccinating those above 45 years from April 1. Some hospitals are planning to open additional counters to tackle the rush during the vaccination drive while a few hospitals are readying to engage additional manpower.

Three persons from Odisha were among 736 in the country who were found with UK variant of Covid-19 virus, said S K Singh, the director of National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Following a spurt in Covid cases in the state and some parts of the country, schools in the city are thinking of shifting back to online classes.

Coimbatore South has turned into a closely watched assembly constituency, thanks to MNM chief Kamal Haasan’s foray. BJP national women’s wing president Vanathi Srinivasan , who is taking on Kamal, says the actor-politician is no match for her. “Neither is Congress’s Mayura Jayakumar,” Vanathi Srinivasan said in an interview with V Mayilvaganan

Karnataka is expected to oppose the proposal to bring petrol and diesel within the ambit of goods and services tax (GST), arguing that such a move will lead to substantial revenue loss for states. It will share its opinion at the forthcoming GST Council meeting.

Once a green district after reporting its first case of Covid-19 in March last year, Kodagu district is now battling a sizeable increase in positive cases.

The driver of a container truck was charred to death, on Wednesday, after the vehicle he was driving hit a private bus on the Mangaluru- Bengaluru highway.

A plastic bag with material resembling paper wrapped inside and weighing about 10kg was retrieved from a reef cod fish at a shop in Attavar here early this week.

A 32-year-old priest suffered burn injuries when he tripped over hot coal while observing a 'fire-walk' ritual in Amruteshwaranahalli village of Malavalli taluk on Wednesday.

The surge in Covid-19 cases in the city and Mohali is raising concern, the Central government said on Wednesday.

With Haryana home minister Anil Vij announcing (tweeting) a ban on Holi festival celebrations in public places across the state, the district administration on Wednesday said that it’s waiting for the state’s standard operating procedure (SOPs) to implement the order in Gurugram.

In Gautam Budh Nagar, the positivity rate for RT-PCR samples has shown a spike in the past fortnight. In fact the numbers have doubled — from 0.5% in February to more than 1% in the past 10 days. Although no clusters have been identified as of now, the district has ramped up testing and sampling drives.

Following the assurance given by the Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari to Lok Sabha about the removal of physical toll booths from the entire country in the next one year, officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Wednesday announced their plans to make the Delhi-Jaipur national highway (NH-8) toll plaza free in the first phase.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested for sodomising a 10-year-old boy living in his neighbourhood on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.

The excise department in the city has managed to find takers for 523 of 525 liquor vends so far despite the slowdown caused by the pandemic.

Keeping an eye on the fresh surge in Covid-1 cases, the health department has mapped five areas that have turned into hotspots this month with the maximum number of active cases.