Новости за 23.07.2021

Health condition of former Union minister and Rajya Sabha member Oscar Fernandes continues to be critical, though stable, according to a press release issued by Yenepoya Speciality Hospital.Medical director Dr Muhammed Thahir said that Oscar Fernandes is presently being treated in the ICU.

Torrential rain has left several villages in Haveri district marooned, with 15 roads connecting many rural boroughs with towns getting washed away, and leaving 84 houses in the district partially damaged.

A major fire that broke out at SAIL's Bokaro Steel Plant Friday morning could be controlled without any casualty, a SAIL official said. The fire broke out at about 8.40 am, due to a leakage in the Torpedo Ladle in Blast Furnace 2, a Steel Authority of India Ltd. spokesperson said.

A Nepalese national was awarded twenty-five years of imprisonment in addition to imprisonment for life for rape and murder of an 84-years-old woman.

A total of 42 children from Assam have been rescued in Sikkim and brought back to the state on Friday, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The parents of the children, hailing from four villages of Chirang district along the Indo-Bhutan border, were lured by two persons who assured that their education would be taken care of, but they ended up as domestic helps, Sarma told reporters here.

Piped water for all in rural areas by 2024 looks like a distant dream.

Trainee teachers in Ganjam district are helping primary students in different villages facing difficulties in learning through the digital mode. As many as 174 students of Government Elementary Teacher Education Institute (ETEI), Bhanjanagar, are teaching around 1,730 students of Class II to VIII in 135 villages in 15 districts, said principal of the institute Bamadeb Tripathy. Each student is teaching 10 students on an average.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday inaugurated a tea packaging unit of Tata Consumer Products Limited at Gopalpur industrial park in Ganjam district through video conference. The Rs 100-crore plant commissioned in 18 months will create employment opportunities for over 900 people.

Another 1948 people tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday even as Puri saw a quantum jump in its test positivity rate (TPR) to 8.67% on the day compared to a weekly average of 3.28 % from July 15 to July 21. As many as 83 tested positive in Puri from among 957 samples tested.

The BJP on Thursday alleged irregularities, discrepancies and unethical practices in the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) — the centrally-sponsored scheme meant to ensure food security for the disadvantaged sections of society amid the Covid-19 pandemic — in Odisha.

The state government on Thursday said they have identified a 2.5-acre land on the premises of Biju Patnaik International Airport to place the iconic Dakota flown by former chief minister Biju Patnaik and sought an NOC from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for the same.

A suspected overground operative of Ulfa (Independent) was shot in the leg by police while he was on his way to collect extortion money from a tea factory in the Naharkatia area of Dibrugarh district on Thursday morning.

A day after the sibling deities of Puri Jagannath Temple dazzled in their golden attire on the occasion of Suna Besha, they were offered Adhara Pana, a sweet drink, as they remain on their chariots.

The vacancies in various teaching and non-teaching posts of the Central University of Odisha (CUO), Koraput, are among the worst in the around 45 central universities across the country. The CUO has only 17 regular teachers for its 14 departments with a total student strength of 950.

The Assam cabinet on Thursday relaxed landholding norms for small and marginal farmers of the state to make them eligible for the Centre’s PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme after the agriculture ministry flagged the state with the highest number of ineligible farmers who received the pay-outs.

Residents of Silchar, the southern Assam town, exasperated by the perennial flooding during the monsoon, have demanded immediate measures to address the problem.

A special judge’s court in Guwahati on Thursday granted bail to Rakesh Paul, the prime accused in the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) cash-for-job scam, in connection with a case registered with the criminal investigation department (CID) of Assam police.

College students, teaching and non-teaching faculties continued to show good response to the ongoing vaccination drives, which are expected to help universities start on-campus classes at the earliest.

A total of 23 members of National Liberation Front of Bodoland (NLFB), including its chief M Batha alias Binod Mushahary, surrendered in northern Assam’s Udalguri district on Thursday.

Malnad districts of the state -- Chikkamagalur, Shivamogga, and Kodagu -- are witnessing a heavy rainfall.

The number of people vaccinated against Covid-19 crossed the 2-crore mark on Thursday. Of these, health minister Ma Subramanian said, 1,11,026 are differently abled, 79,585 pregnant women and 73,726 lactating mothers.

One person was arrested and a minor detained in connection with the death of a 15-year-old boy who went missing from his house in Rabupura on Friday. The child’s body was found in a canal in Aligarh the next day. Mudit Bhati was a student of Class 10.