Новости за 21.06.2021

With a vast experience of more than 70 years, Maharana is no less than an asset for the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration. Without his direction and guidance, the chariot will never look complete and elegant, the SJTA believes.

The state government on Monday issued an order for the premature release of 16 convicts, who had been serving life imprisonments for murders, following the recommendations of the Odisha Sentence Review Committee.

​​​The incident occurred when nine workers were constructing an irrigation well in Dulmi village under Rajrappa police station area, Ramgarh sub-divisional Officer Kirthi Shree G said.

The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) on Monday issued a special Covid-19 advisory for the people who will stay in temporary shelters, other than government relief camps, during flood. The guidelines include formation of a committee for each such camp, which will act as a liaison between the affected people and the administration so that they can smoothly get facilities such as Covid-19 testing, vaccination, sanitisation and tents for suspected coronavirus cases.

"A 51-year-old man in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district was administrated two doses of Covid-19 vaccine within only 30 minutes," official sources said. The man identified as Prasanna Kumar Sahu of Raghupur village had visited the temporary vaccination camp at the Satyasai Government High School at Khuntapur for the first dose after booking a slot on Saturday.

New York City Council, the important legislative body that introduces and passes various laws relating to NYC and also approves its budget, may soon have some Indian faces and voices. The primary elections for members of the NYC council, which will be held tomorrow (June 22), has 10 Indian American candidates in the running. The general elections will be held on November 2, 2021.

Deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Monday felicitated a health team for ensuring 100 per cent vaccination of all above the age of 18 in Bhikhi village.​

To further ramp up the vaccination drive in Ludhiana, the administration wants to inoculate 33,000 people daily. Deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Monday asked the local body of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to give at least 100 more health teams to hit the next one-million target in one month before the expected third wave of Covid-19.

The Federation of Noida Residents Welfare Association (FONRWA) held a general body meeting on Sunday where it was decided that elections for their executive committee of 2021-23 will be held on August 1, 2021. For the first time, only elected RWA members will be eligible to cast their vote.

Around 15,000 tribal families engaged in craftwork are staring at a bleak future with no takers for their exquisite dokra creations.

The construction of the proposed Odia University at Satyabadi in Puri is expected to start soon as the Odisha Bridge and Construction Corporation Limited (OBCC), which comes under the state works department, has already prepared the estimated expenditure for the same.

The border dispute between Odisha and Andhra Pradesh surfaced once again after the neighbouring state allegedly started construction of a pond at Champapur under Gajapati district’s Rayagada block.

Following reports of a wedding being conducted on a grand scale in at the Mahathobhara Shree Mangaladevi temple in Mangaluru, in violation of the safety protocol, the Dakshina Kannada district administration has sought a report from the Hindu religious institution and charitable endowment department.

Police on Sunday detained at least 14 people for allegedly murdering a 50-year-old man on suspicion of witchcraft at Ramayapalli village under Ganjam district’s Chamakhandi police station limits.

Allaying fear of students and parents, the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) on Sunday clarified that all students will get marks as per merit.

A major temple in Assam has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with two green NGOs, the Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden and the Kamrup district administration for long-term conservation of the rare freshwater black softshell turtle (Nilssonia nigricans).

Two members of United People’s Revolutionary Front (UPRF), a Kuki militant outfit, were killed in an encounter with the police at Jolen village under the Manja police station in Karbi Anglong district of the state on Sunday.

Black fungus, also known as Mucormycosis, has been detected in a post-Covid-19 patient at the Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH).

In the first three weeks of the monsoon between June 1 and 20, Assam received 255.8 mm rainfall, 22.5 mm below the normal mark, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD). Though ten districts of Assam experienced monsoon deficit, the overall monsoon performance is normal, bringing respite to the agricultural sector.

A day after the state government cancelled the board examinations considering the prevailing Covid-19 situation in the state, a girl student of Class X from Upper Assam's Lakhimpur district committed suicide on Saturday evening allegedly upset with the administration's decision.

Diverse visa norms for different countries has turned out to be a hurdle for students and researchers planning to go abroad during the Covid crisis.

The opposition leaders here on Sunday termed chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s appeal to all the opposition legislators to join BJP as a “threat to democracy”.

About 12% of people became infected with Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated, according to a report released by Tamil Nadu Directorate of Public Health and Preventing Medicine on Sunday. The state had collected 1,159 samples from all districts between December 2020 and March 2021. They were referred to the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (InSTEM), Bengaluru, for Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS).