Новости за 09.07.2021

Vistadome coaches attached to the Mangaluru Junction - Yeshwantpur day train will be inaugurated on Sunday.

The staff of CoF wrote to the registrar, KVAFSU, after the university cited several shortcomings, like human resources, infrastructure, funding and others, in its report to the animal husbandry and fisheries departments on upgrading the college to a university.

The Odisha Lokayukta on Friday gave clean chit to revenue secretary Bishnupada Sethi in a case related to medical reimbursement from Odisha State Cooperative Bank (OSCB).

The Biden administration has formally withdrawn a rule proposed by the erstwhile Trump administration, that sought to limit the duration of visas for international students to four-years and in some instances to two-years. In other words, the ‘duration of status’ concept was to be replaced with ‘duration of stay’.

Cracking the murder of a 23-year-old youth from Begowal, Kapurthala Police has arrested a murder accused after a 1900-km long chase for 20 days across six states.

An illegal firearms manufacturing unit has been busted and one person arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district, police officials said on Friday.

Odisha on Friday reported 61 Covid-19 deaths and 2,806 more cases, a health department official said.

Soumya Ranjan Sahu of the city secured the 83rd position in the final results of the prestigious National Defence Academy (NDA) examination-2020, conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

The recently published Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE+ 2019-20) report has pointed out that government schools have done better compared to private schools in extending medical checkups to students.

Police in Barpeta district arrested nine persons, including the bridegroom, his relatives and uncle of a 15-year-old girl for trying to marry her off, reinforcing the belief that child marriages are still prevalent in many remote villages of the lower Assam districts.

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) has decided to resume tour packages by adhering to Covid protocols. It has announced domestic air packages covering tourist destinations in Kashmir, Gujarat, Goa and Rajasthan.

People from different professions including jatra artists as well as owners of beauty parlours and spas, gyms and coaching centres, whose livelihoods have been affected due to the lockdown, hit the streets on Thursday demanding permission to resume operations as Covid cases are going down in the state. They also demanded special financial packages as their income has been impacted due to Covid for over a year.

The first batch of students to take an international joint MTech degree at IIT Guwahati has finally graduated.

PHE minister Ranjeet Kumar Dass will visit Silchar soon for an inspection in connection with the crisis of pure drinking water in Silchar, which is the second biggest urban sprawl in Assam after Guwahati.

For the first time, a cabinet minister in charge of the railways’ portfolio is from Odisha, a fact that many within the BJP are highlighting to showcase the state’s growing importance in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Besides, there are three ministers from the state at the Centre, up from the two since Modi took charge in 2014, another reason for the BJP leaders to feel happy about.

A severe drinking water crisis has hit a vast area of Gauhati East constituency the only urban constituency in the state, since the past week.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday sought the cooperation of servitors of Jagannath Temple in Puri for timely and smooth completion of rituals during Monday’s Rath Yatra.

Jagatpur police in Cuttack arrested two persons from Kolkata for allegedly cheating a businessman of Rs 39 lakh on the pretext of installing a Jio mobile tower on his land. The accused were identified as Anilesh Anand (23) and Ankit Roy (25).

The Union health ministry has expressed concern over the rising trend in Covid infections in the districts of Khurda, Cuttack, Balasore, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapada and has asked the state to strengthen efforts to curb the spread. Odisha on Thursday reported 2,542 fresh infections with these five districts accounting for 1368 (more than 55%) cases alone.

The Assam government on Thursday cancelled the proposed special board exams that were proposed for students who were unhappy with the evaluation formula presented by the two hi-powered committees for the Class X and XII state board examinees.

The prolonged second wave in the northeast is mainly due to lack of Covid-appropriate behaviour and change in virus strains, health experts said.

In view of the rise in Covid-positive cases in the capital city of Assam again, the Kamrup (Metro) district administration has constituted a task force to ensure strict enforcement of Covid-19 protocols to curb the spread. Deputy commissioner of the district, Biswajit Pegu, told the media that one additional deputy commissioner has been assigned with the force.