Новости за 07.04.2021

After the onset of the second wave of Covid-19, people have started discussing about maintaining a healthy body with mind. For this, a balanced diet, antioxidant rich food and proper nutrition are needed.

The step has been taken in view of resurgence of Covid infection in the state. The state government departments have also been asked to strictly implement Covid appropriate behaviours in all offices.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday underlined Odisha’s strategic advantage of long coastline and emphasized on port-led development through industrialization and connectivity as he chaired the first meeting the of state Sagarmala committee.

The Ambala police have registered a case of cheating after a man alleged that he was duped of Rs 10.70 lakh on the pretext a railway job offer to his son.

Customs officials at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on Wednesday busted three separate cases of gold smuggling and seized 2.8 kg of gold worth Rs 1.3 crore from three passengers.

Indian students planning to join universities in the US in the Fall semester of 2021 should celebrate. The US Embassy in Delhi is prioritising student visa applicants to ensure they make it to the United States in time for the start of their semester in August-September.

The tourism industry, which had suffered body blows due to Cyclone Fani in 2019 and Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, is likely to receive yet another jolt in the wake of the Covid’s second wave. While the Puri district administration on Tuesday intensified surveillance on tourists from Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerala and Punjab, the government said some stringent curbs on the arrival of tourists to Odisha may be imposed if Covid situation worsens in the coming days.

As the second wave of coronavirus sweeps the state, Khurda district has re-emerged as a Covid hotspot, leaving behind Sundargarh, which for the past few days had been taking the top spot in terms of daily infection count.

A day after factory roof collapse in Daba claimed four lives and injured seven others, Ludhiana police arrested factory owner Jaswinder Singh on Tuesday. During the day, the Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) also began an internal probe to nail down officials responsible for letting or neglecting illegal use of jacks to lift the roof.

Deputy speaker Aminul Haque Laskar has been quizzed twice and five police personnel attached to him have been suspended after they opened fire on public during second phase of polling, officials said Tuesday.

Uncertainty looms large over the upcoming board exams of classes X and XII following the rise in Covid-19 cases across the state. State board exams for classes X and XII are scheduled to begin from May 3 and May 18, respectively.

The curtain came down on the last phase of polling on Tuesday for the 126-member state assembly ending weeks of high-decibel war of words against political rivals, excitement and anxiety.

Amid the SGPC-RSS spat over the former’s resolution against “making India a Hindu rashtra”, the Punjab BJP has asked the Sikh b0dy to clarify its stand on the Christian “faith healers”.

The last rites of CRPF inspector Dilip Kumar Das from Assam, who was among those martyred in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, were performed on Tuesday with full state honours, as condolences continued to pour in. Das was one of the two CRPF personnel from the state killed in the ambush.

The Odisha Police have decided to move the high court seeking timely and smooth pre-trial disposal of ganja and brown sugar, which have been seized under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Huge quantities of seized drugs are lying in the malkhana of courts and police stations across the state, resulting in acute shortage of storage facilities.

The Jharkhand government on Tuesday ordered the closure of shops, restaurants and clubs after 8 pm until further orders and banned all religious, political, cultural and personal congregations in a bid to check the spiralling Covid-19 cases in the state.

The practical examinations for Classes X and XII conducted by the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) started on Tuesday amid elaborate measures to check the spread of the Covid-19 virus among the examinees and the invigilators. The JAC had also announced that it is planning to hold the matriculation and intermediate examinations from May 4.

For those couch potatoes who didn’t cast their votes, 105-year-old Marappa Gounder and 95-year-old K Pappamal show there can be no excuse to not vote.

The rising Covid-19 cases have become a cause of worry for the Assam health department, as the daily spike in positive cases touched 92 on Tuesday, the highest in many months.

As Guwahati voted in the third and final phase of the Assam assembly elections 2021, advocates of Assamese sub-nationalism insisted that the indigenous communities must always prevail, irrespective of electoral outcomes.

Voters in Achalpara village here, one of the Muslim-majority pockets which went to the polls in the third and last phase of the election on Tuesday, exercised their franchise not for the welfare schemes that the government has rolled out, but to "escape the D voter (doubtful) label" and to exercise their democratic right.

BJP’s strongman in Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma is a first-generation politician but unlike many in the fraternity, he is not keen on seeing his son, Nandil, a first time-voter this election, to follow in his footsteps.