Новости за 29.06.2021

The police on Monday arrested three men for allegedly dragging a traffic policeman on the bonnet of their car for about 500 metres in the Krishna Gate area of Kurukshetra district in Haryana.

Saheed Nagar police in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday arrested seven persons, including two employees of a private telecom company on charges of illegally acquiring pre-activated SIM cards and supplying them to cyber criminals in other states.

Hundreds of villages scattered along the Brahmaputra and its islands have not been getting basic facilities of healthcare for long because of inaccessibility. The recurrent threats of floods make them even more remote.

The death of 12 Covid patients on Monday at the premier Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) came as a blow to the state health department at a time when the positivity rate in the state had dropped to 2.01%.

The Mangaluru city police arrested nine persons in two separate cases of drug peddling on Monday.

A traffic policeman was dragged for over half a kilometre along with a jeep as the motorist refused to stop at a check post and tried to hit and run past the constable prompting him to jump over the vehicle's bonnet to save his life, police said on Tuesday.

Karnataka has reported 3,222 new Covid-19 cases and 93 related deaths taking the total number of infections to 28,40,428 and toll to 34,929 respectively, the Health department said on Tuesday.

A bright spot during this pandemic was Dakshina Kannada district is witnessing a drastic decline in the number of malaria cases even when Covid-19 was at its peak this year.​

A man was arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly threatening to blow up two police stations, officials said.

The Mangaluru city police, who have continued their investigation into a drug peddling case involving MDMA, have arrested two more Nigerian nationals from Bengaluru.

In the wake of the Election Commission making clear its intention to go ahead with Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) Council elections, there is a perceptible bustle animating the political parties in the twin cities.

'Life of Butterflies', a comprehensive documentary on butterflies, is being well received by conservationists and general public alike. The documentary's creator Sammilan S Shetty is also the founder of Butterfly Park in Belvai of Dakshnia Kannada district. He was planning to screen the documentary at educational institutions, when the pandemic struck, forcing him and his team to screen it to online audience.

Against the backdrop of a decline in the number of Covid-19 cases across twin cities, the Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) has now turned its focus to pressing civic concerns. In addition to fixing roads, the poor condition of which has been exposed in the wake of heavy showers, HDMC is keen on recharging borewells and reviving local waterbodies.

The pandemic has brought to the fore the importance of boosting our immune system, which, in its turn, has turned the spotlight towards traditional and more rooted systems of medicine. While the elderly have always sworn by the efficacy of these age-old systems, it is the traction that ayurveda, homeopathy and naturopathy is garnering among the younger section of the demographic that is surprising.

The state prisons directorate is planning to arrange for telepsychiatry sessions for jail inmates as many of them have developed mental illnesses owing to the uncertainty over the court trials of their cases and the temporary ban on physical meetings (mulaqat) with family members during the Covid-19 pandemic.

​​Hospitals have also been asked to inform the department about plans to upgrade their facilities to treat Covid patients aged up to 18 years if the need arises.

A case was registered under section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (unlawfully or negligently act) and 34 (common intention) of IPC and section of Excise Act and Disaster Management Act.

In order to strengthen the preparedness ahead of the third wave of Covid-19, the state health department will conduct a gap assessment of all private paediatric clinics and hospitals in the state. The assessment is aimed at identifying gaps in resources required for treating Covid-19 patients as per the state government manual.

The camps will be set up in the HSIIDC auditorium in Manesar, HSIIDC office in Udyog Vihar-5 and the community centre in Sector 10A and will administer the vaccine between 9am and 5pm. While 200 slots at each site will be for people seeking their first dose of Covishield, 50 will be for second-dose recipients. No pre-registration is required and anyone above 18 years can get vaccinated at these camps.

Enraged by the non -procurement of paddy, farmers under the Resham Market Yard of Bargarh district on Monday dumped the paddy bags in front of the main gate of the office of Bargarh district collector and at the entrance gate of the chief civil supply officer’s office. They also staged dharna demanding regeneration of tokens that have lapsed and procurement of paddy from the market yards.

Residents will soon be able to fix an appointment to meet the MCG commissioner on the portal developed by the civic body to boost its grievance redress system. The time taken to resolve the complaint will be fixed based on which category it falls in.