Новости за 26.06.2021

The state Congress has shifted its focus on Majuli, with speculation gaining ground that the former chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, who represents this riverine constituency, is likely to be inducted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet in the expected expansion on June 30.

In the last 15 days, out of the 66 samples tested for the new variant, about 70% were found positive with the delta virus. The rest were detected to be the lesser virulent Kappa variant. Health minister Keshab Mahanta urged people to exercise restraint, even as the state government is set to adopt stricter restrictions in several districts that have been tagged 'Red' due to the continuous spread of the virus.

After the CM expressed serious concern for population control, particularly among immigrant Muslims in the state, the National Health Mission Assam is rolling out slew of measures for the upcoming World Population Day on July 11, including home delivery of contraceptives and of higher incentives for male and female sterilization in eight select districts.

A 50-year-old ailing woman died on way to hospital when her car was stopped before a flyover in the city when the special train carrying Ramnath Kovind and his entourage was passing through it on way to Kanpur Central railway station on Friday evening.

On ‘International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking’ observed on June 26 every year, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma honoured and rewarded a home guard, Borsing Bey, with an appointment as a constable in Assam Police for display of honesty when he refused bribe from drug dealers and seized a consignment of methamphetamine drugs valued at Rs 12 crore from a bus in Karbi Anglong.

Three members of a family were killed and three others suffered injuries after a wild bear attacked them in Jharkhand's Garhwa district, officials said on Saturday. The incident took place at Barkol Khurd village under Bhandaria police station when the group was returning home around 8pm on Friday, they said.

In her latest telephone call to a supporter in Theni, the home turf of AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam, Sasikala hit out at the party leadership for being self-centred.

Speaking on the sidelines of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on Saturday, the police commissioner said that the drugs that have been seized are being disposed of as per the directions of DGP and IGP Praveen Sood.

The evaluation criteria were announced based on the report submitted by a 10-member committee.

The additional spillway project, that will increase floodwater discharge from the Hirakud dam, is hanging fire. The project has not seen any progress after the Tata Projects and AGE Group, Turkey, which had been entrusted to carry out the construction work, backed out from the project midway.

BJP Krushak Morcha leaders on Friday staged a dharna in front of the Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation (OSCSC) office here protesting against the alleged mismanagement in mandis. They also accused the government of not procuring Rabi paddy from farmers.

Odisha’s plan to administer at least three lakh doses per day may be shortlived with the Centre having promised just over 40 lakh doses of Covid vaccines to the state in July.

Covid cases in the capital city remained consistent with daily infection load around 300 for the past 15 days, the period when most of the state’s rural and urban pockets recorded significant drop in cases.

The pass percentage in Class X state board exam reached a new high with 97.89% students clearing it. The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha, declared the results on Friday on the basis of alternative assessment for the first time. The board exam had to be cancelled due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

A news channel staffer allegedly impersonated as the personal assistant for personal secretary of Prime Minister to get a job in a Noida-based private news channel.

Chandini Majhi, the daughter of Dana Majhi who carried his wife's corpse on his shoulders for 10 km after allegedly being denied a hearse by the government hospital in Odisha's Kalahandi district, was among the 2,81,658 girls who cleared the class 10 state board examinations, the results of which were declared on Friday.

Three persons, including a retired armyman, were arrested along with drugs from a hotel in Silchar.

A special court in Assam on Friday granted permission for re-examination of the answer sheets of the combined competitive exams (CCE) conducted by the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) in 2013.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Assam government and Oil India Limited to file counter affidavits in relation to the petition challenging the environment clearance granted to OIL allegedly in violation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006.

A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Guwahati has granted permission to Raijor Dal MLA from Sivasagar legislative constituency Akhil Gogoi, who is currently in judicial custody, to meet his family members in upper Assam's Jorhat district.

Assam on Friday declared total lockdown in three districts — Biswanath, Marigaon and Goalpara — and one subdivision (Bokakhat) of Golaghat district for a week from Monday as these places have 247 hotspot areas that have reported more than 10 new Covid-19 cases each every day in the last seven days.

A nesting hub of egrets in Tangla town in northern Assam’s Udalguri district has been destroyed by the local administration in the breeding season, citing a complaint based on an ‘apprehension theory’ that bird droppings spread Covid-19. Hundreds of egret chicks were killed when the trees were axed.

The Tinsukia district administration has clamped prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC which bans gathering of five or more people at one place. The order, issued with an aim to contain the spread of Covid-19, also prohibits taking out any procession, dharna, rally without permission of the authorities.

The Gauhati High Court has directed the state government to reconsider the rates fixed by it for the treatment of Covid-19 patients in private hospitals, including the rates of single cabins, after hearing a petition filed by the Advocates' Association of Indigenous Rights of Assamese (AAIRA).