Новости за 03.07.2021

A woman employee of a child care centre in Odisha's Kendrapara district was arrested on Saturday in an alleged sexual exploitation case, police said.

Five members of a family were killed in a lightning strike in Jharkhand's Khunti district on Saturday evening, officials said.

In a rare distinction, Ludhiana district has secured the top position in the state in mega vaccination drive by administering highest ever (82,677) Covid-19 vaccine doses to eligible beneficiaries.

The high court of Jharkhand has reprimanded the SIT formed to probe black marketing of remdesivir, an anti-viral drug used in the treatment of Covid-19, for keeping it in the dark in making the Ranchi Rural superintendent of police a government witness in the case.

Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has served show cause notice to the contractor who manages city corporation’s sewage treatment plant (STP) at Moodushedde in Pachanady for letting untreated underground drainage (UGD) water flow to the stormwater drain.

Two fire incidents kept the firefighters on toes in the district headquarters town of Ludhiana in Punjab on Saturday morning.

A 50-year-old man has allegedly hanged himself after hacking his wife and daughter to death in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district, police said on Saturday.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a training programme for doctors on paediatric care as there is high probability of children being affected during the possible third wave.

Rajya Sabha member Ashwini Vaishnaw is likely to get a ministerial berth after the next rejig of the council of ministers by Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon, BJP insiders said.

The special task force (STF) of the state Crime Branch, which is probing the spurious drug trade in Odisha, would soon bring the cases mastermind Sudeep Mukherjee from Mumbai on remand. Mukherjee, whose Noida-based Max Relief Healthcare had manufactured and supplied spurious Favipiravir to different states including Odisha, was arrested by Mumbai police last month.

Odisha on Friday pointed out that the state has been at an unfair disadvantage because private hospitals were unable to lift the vaccines meant for them. The state asked the Centre to re-allot the unused share of the private hospitals to the government.

Deaths due to road accidents in Odisha increased by 8.87% in the first three months of 2021 as compared to the corresponding period last year. Total number of accidents also went up by nearly 12 % in the first three months this year as against the same period last year.

After around a week of sluggish vaccination, the state government plans to intensify the drive to cover at least two lakh people a day from Saturday as it received around 9.43 lakh doses of Covishield on Friday. The government has also decided to introduce Covaxin in Ganjam, which was so far used only in Bhubaneswar.

A team of Dibrugarh Police led by DSP (Headquarters) Aoicharjya Jibon Baruah on Thursday night raided the house of Miraz Khan, a notorious drug dealer, located in the Panchali area of the town and seized a rhino horn, one elephant tusk and 19 grams of brown sugar.

Only 16.18% of government schools in Odisha have computer facilities, which is much less compared to the national average of 30.03%. This was revealed by the report of the United Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2019-20 for school education in India released by the Union ministry of education.

Sibsagar legislator Akhil Gogoi, who spent 18 months in captivity from December 2019 - when the movement against Citizenship Amendment Act was in its prime - on Friday said the agitation against the CAA will be started again as he will fight the implementation of the Act.

Police arrested three drug smugglers at Laharijan in Karbi Anglong district, along the Assam-Nagaland border, on Friday. The trio wuere carrying 658 grams of heroin.

Gymkhana Palm Heights, a residential complex in ward number 22, was on Friday declared a micro-containment zone after the detection of more than 80 Covid positive cases there. The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said no one will be allowed to enter the premises and none can come out without its permission.

The Tea Board of India, in the first quarter of the financial year 2021-22, has extended Rs 9.19 crore as financial assistance to the stakeholders of the tea industry, including the organised sector, small tea growers and wards of tea garden workers in the northeast to help partially ease the distress faced by the industry arising out of the pandemic.

Assam's health authorities and those who are eligible for Covid-19 vaccination are currently at the mercy of an erratic supply of vaccines to the state by the central government.

The high Covid fatalities among tea plantation workers continue to be a cause of concern in the upper Assam tea belt with 77.14 per cent of the total deaths among the workforce coming from 7 of the 9 districts in the area.

Assam’s Covid-19 positivity rate dipped to 1.5% on Friday — the lowest since mid-April — indicating that the infection was probably getting arrested gradually. The highest positivity rate thus far of 10% was recorded on May 2.

The All Assam Students' Union (Aasu), an influential student body, on Friday demanded the scrapping of a clause in the evaluation criteria formulated by the expert committees for High School Leaving Certificate (Class X) and Higher Secondary (Class XII) examinations.