Новости за 03.06.2021

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic situation, the state has witnessed record collection of Odisha Goods and Services Tax (OGST).

The district administration in Ludhiana will organise 176 free Covid-19 vaccination camps on Friday for people above 45 years.

Three alleged drug traffickers have been arrested after 100 kg of cannabis estimated worth Rs 10 lakh was recovered from their possession in Uttar Pradesh's Noida, police said on Thursday.

An Indian national awaiting capital punishment in a prison in Abu Dhabi has got a second lease of life. Becks Krishnan, 45, was sentenced to death by the UAE Supreme Court for killing a Sudanese boy. Krishnan’s family approached MA Yusuffali, chairman of Lulu Group who helped secure, and also paid the Rs 1 cr, compensation agreement to the victim’s family for Krishnan's pardon.

City-based CHD Group, with the help of progressive friends from South East Asia, procured 50 oxygen concentrators from China and donated it to Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

In a fine gesture, the government immersed unclaimed ashes of 1,200 Covid-19 victims in the river Cauvery at Belakavadi in Mandya district on Wednesday, conducting the final rites as per Hindu tradition.

Incessant rain and subsequent floods due to Yaas has severely damaged large tracts of ready-to-harvest green gram, black gram, vegetables, banana, betel and other crops in Kendrapada district's Aul, Rajkanika and Rajkanika blocks.

The state government faced loss of Rs 610 crore due to Cyclone Yaas which hit the state on May 26, it was informed in a review meeting attended by chief minister Naveen Patnaik through video-conference. Naveen had asked his officers for proper documentation of the damage before and after the cyclone.

The special squad of the commissionerate police on Wednesday arrested a youth on charges of attacking a woman with a knife near CRPF Square here on Monday. The accused was identified as Amar Digal, a resident of Rental Colony.

alth experts have warned against mindless and uncalculated use of injectable steroid for Covid patients admitted to hospital. Steroid is being used for patients on oxygen support.

The Shree Purushottam Bhakta Niwas will soon be added to the chain of hotels belonging to the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) in Puri as the shrine body plans to open the new hotel for devotees from the holy month of Kartika in November.

Despite the gradual decrease in positivity rate, the state government has pulled up some of the districts as well as the state capital to ramp up RT-PCR as well as rapid antigen tests

After a series of meetings, discussions and brainstorming sessions, the state government has not been able to take a final call on holding the Class XII board exams. Following the CBSE and CICSE cancelling the Class XII exams and a number of state boards doing the same, speculation was rife that Odisha, too, would follow suit.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday urged his counterparts to keep differences aside as he sought to build a consensus on the Centre procuring Covid vaccines and distributing them among states. He also sought flexibility for states in vaccine distribution to carry out the goal of universal inoculation.

The Kohima Bench of the Gauhati High Court, while taking into account the economic status of the population of Nagaland, directed the state government to make sure that Covid-19 patients being advised home isolation have sufficient number of rooms and other facilities.

Doctors on Wednesday boycotted OPD services, as healthcare in the testing time of Covid suffered a major jolt with widespread protests against the assault of a doctor in Hojai. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) Assam chapter has further threatened to boycott Covid duty from Thursday if the state government fails to deploy armed police in Covid care facilities and assure fast-track trial of the culprits in three months.

One-third decline in fresh Covid cases in Assam has come as a major relief although health experts have expressed caution with 90% of the cases being detected outside the state capital.