Новости за 10.07.2021

The forest department has plans to place high-definition 360° cameras inside core forest areas across Karnataka, to capture wildlife visuals live, and show them to tourists at audio-visual centres outside the forest, and thereby promote eco-tourism.

Activists on Wednesday urged the state government to procure a tree transplanting machine in the state to transplant trees instead of cutting it for developmental projects.

Mangrove, which is found in Bhitarkanika and some other parts of Odisha, besides Sundarbans in West Bengal and marshy intertidal estuarine regions of the country, can survive a high degree of salinity. ​​​Amazed by this adaptive mechanism, scientists have conducted a thorough study on a mangrove species and found that its genes can help in developing drought and salinity-tolerant crops in future.

Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s ‘samdhin’ (daughter’s mother-in-law) Mridula Yadav has been elected unopposed as the head of Saifai block in the ongoing panchayat elections in the state.

The police have registered a case against owners of two rice mills allegedly for misappropriation of 3,293 metric tonnes (MT) of custom-milled paddy worth about Rs 8.32 crore.

Hundreds of farmers from Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Haryana (Charuni), on Saturday held a strong protest against the Haryana transport minister Mool Chand Sharma in Jagadhri town of Yamunanagar district.

To further curb the spread of Covid-19 ahead of the upcoming festivals, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to implement tough measures such as imposing Section 144 in Gautam Budh Nagar district from July 10 till August 30.

At least two personnel of Odisha Police's elite Special Operation Group (SOG) were on Saturday injured in an ongoing gun-battle with Maoists in forests bordering Boudh and Kandhamal districts, director general of police Abhay said.

Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Saturday announced extension of the lockdown by one week till 6am on July 19.

The state government has withdrawn its June 2020 order that halted recruitment for vacant posts of teachers and lectures in private aided schools and PU colleges. The order had resulted from the financial crisis caused by Covid-19.

As if Covid was not enough, the capital city reported six new dengue cases on Friday. With this, the total dengue cases in the city touched 39 this season. The health department has started creating awareness among people regarding the cause and prevention of dengue.

A dalit man was allegedly beaten up and tied to a tree by family members of a woman for being in love with the latter, for hours at a village in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh.

The Lower Suktel irrigation project in Balangir district is expected to be completed by 2023-24 as the state government has expedited its implementation.

With cost of petrol hitting Rs 100 mark in several places in the state, people in the middle and low-income group are worried about the rise in prices of essential commodities affecting family budget, savings and spending on non-essential items.

A former manager of a nationalised bank in Kendrapada was arrested on Friday on charges of Rs 1.50 crore loan fraud case. The accused, Manmohan Mohanty, was working as manager of Canara Bank branch at Kakat under Kendrapada Town police station.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik has reason to be happy with Ashwini Vaishnaw getting a cabinet berth, that too the crucial railway ministry, besides communications and information technology.

While serpentine queues in front of private schools was a common sight during admissions earlier, it is different this year.

A day after chief minister Naveen Patnaik stressed on timely completion of rituals on Rath Yatra on July 12, the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) on Friday said all rituals will be conducted ahead of schedule. Like last year, Rath Yatra will be celebrated only in Puri without the participation of devotees in view of the Covid-19 crisis.

The capital city continues to be the single biggest cause of headache for the state government as it has not been showing any sign of a let-up in the daily Covid cases. It has been reporting more than 300 cases a day for the past three weeks. Since the number of recoveries in a day is almost on a par with the new infections, the active cases are also falling very slowly.

Odisha on Friday confirmed 61 Covid deaths, the highest in a single day so far, apart from 2,806 new cases. The infections rose by around 250 from the day before. The state registered a 3.57% test positivity rate (TPR) as the number of samples tested went beyond 78,000.

In another move, Bhartiya Kisan Sangathan’s (BKS) Noida wing has demanded from Noida authority that sector 50’s JJ colony slum dwellers be shifted to the shramik kunj in Sector 122 or alternate arrangements be made for them. Sangathan

Hardly were the restrictions lifted that people, in droves, started thronging the local office of the department of civil supplies to ascertain the status of their application for procuring a ration card.

Tamil Nadu registered 3,039 new cases of Covid-19 and 69 deaths on Friday taking the total number of cases to 25.13 lakh and cumulative death toll to 33,322. After discharging 3,411 cases from the state registry, TN had 33,224 patients under treatment.

Police in central Assam's Nagaon district, acting on specific information, busted a prostitution racket on Friday and detained 10 people in connection with the case.

The re-opening of schools seeming more and more a distant prospect in the present scenario, students, parents and teachers appear to have resigned themselves to the fact that online classes will, at least for the foreseeable future, remain the norm.