Новости за 04.06.2021

As part of the Odisha government’s 5-T initiative, the finance department on Friday launched a website for duped chit fund investors to claim their refunds online.

Health experts have said there is no need to go for an antibody test after taking both doses of Covid-19 vaccine.

The police have registered a case against a 48-year-old man in Yamunanagar district of Haryana for allegedly sexually assaulting and impregnating a 12-year-old girl.

This tiny village, with a population of about 4,200 people, is perhaps the first village in the state to get all its senior citizens administered the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Superintendent of police, Jaunpur, Raj Karan Nayyar, said that the situation was under control and heavy force was deployed and prisoners were pacified and counselled not to create lawlessness further.

In a joint operation, the city crime branch and Konaje policeon Friday arrested three people and seized 170 gm of MDMA crystals worth Rs 10 lakh from their possession.

Jharkhand reported 10 more Covid-19 fatalities pushing the death toll to 5,021 while the coronavirus tally climbed to 3,39,930 as 427 more people tested positive for the infection, a health department bulletin said on Friday.

Even as the second Covid-19 wave is ebbing, the state government is preparing to deal with a possible third wave of the disease, by upgrading healthcare infrastructure and strengthening medical supplies.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed Assam chief secretary and the state police chief to enquire into alleged brutal attack on a junior doctor and vandalism by a mob at a Covid care centre in Assam’s Hojai district on Tuesday, to take “needful preventive and punitive action” and submit an action-taken report in four weeks.

Assam’s number of active cases continued to decline for the fifth consecutive day and the number of fatalities also came below 50 after 25 days on Thursday. According to the health department, 4,309 new cases were detected after testing 1,07,075 people across the state on Thursday, while 4790 patients were discharged from Covid hospitals and care centers after recovery, leaving 51,878 active cases undergoing treatment or in home isolation

The Ganjam district administration has decided to close two out of the five dedicated Covid health centres in Berhampur from Monday. The decision was taken due to fall in number of Covid patients.

An eight-member team comprising an ANM worker and officials from the Odisha PVTG (particularly vulnerable tribal group) empowerment and livelihood improvement programme (OPELIP) trudged at least four kilometers to reach the remote and inaccessible Hingabadi village on the Niyamgiri hills under Bissamkatak block on Wednesday to vaccinate the Dongria Kondhs.

Odisha has improved its overall rank in NITI Aayog's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Index 2020 that was released on Thursday. From 15th place in the last edition, the state now ranks 12th among states. Odisha's overall score also improved from 58 last year to 61 this time.

A crackdown on sale of illicit liquor during the lockdown turned violent with vendors assaulting some excise personnel and damaging their vehicle in Bharatpur area here on Thursday. The incident, which left at least five excise personnel injured, occurred barely 200 metres from Bharatpur police station.

It has been some days since the national boards announced cancellation of Class XII exams. But the Odisha government is yet to take a call on the higher secondary exam. School and mass education minister Samir Ranjan Dash tells Minati Singha why

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will start the vaccination drive for inmates of shelters for the urban homeless (SUH) from the centre located at Chandrasekharpur here Friday. The city has eight SUHs under BMC jurisdiction.

Naveen Patnaik on Thursday sanctioned Rs 67.52 lakh from chief minister's relief fund (CMRF) to feed stray animals in urban areas during the extended lockdown period. The BMC will spend Rs 20,000 per day, while Cuttack, Berhampur, Rourkela and Sambalpur municipal corporations each can spend Rs 10,000 per day.

Keeping in mind the acute short supply of Covaxin, the state government is planning to use both Covaxin and Covishield to vaccinate people in the 18-44 age group in Bhubaneswar. So far, Covaxin was being only used in the state capital while Covishield was being used in rest of the state across age groups.

The state on Thursday confirmed 42 more deaths due to Covid-19, the highest reported in a single day so far, taking the toll to 2,873. Another 8,839 more tested positive for the virus from among 70,178 samples tested, a positivity rate of 12.5%.

The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) in Puri has proposed to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct 3D laser scanning of the 12th-century shrine.

LUDHIANA: Four persons were injured after the roof of an under-construction building near Sanauri Adda collapsed in Patiala city on Thursday. The building was being constructed illegally opposite the new Rehri market.

The discontent brewing between Mysuru deputy commissioner Rohini Sindhuri and city corporation (MCC) commissioner Shilpa Nag over Covid-19 management came to the fore on Thursday after the latter resigned from IAS, alleging “harassment” by the former.

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said the Centre and the state government are trying to find a "middle path" to carry forward dialogue with Ulfa (I) led by Paresh Baruah, which wants talks on its sovereignty demand. He, however, added that the whole process will take time.