Новости за 13.10.2021

The export of agri produces, especially fresh vegetables, from east UP region resumed after a gap of almost eight months on Tuesday with a consignmnet of 2 metric tonnes fresh vegetables including bitter guard, round guard and elephant foot sent to UAE market from Lal Bahadur Shastri

The state is ready to roll out vaccines for children in the 2-18 age group at short notice after the Centre issues guidelines for the same, government authorities said on Tuesday. There are around 1.40 crore children in Odisha in the 2-18 age group.

At least three Maoists, including two women, were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Malkangiri district, in the early hours of Tuesday.

A curious case of four students — three aged 12 and a 21-year-old woman — reported missing from a Bengaluru apartment complex was cracked as the runaways were traced in the city on Tuesday. Police said the four friends wanted to move to a village and stay together as they feared they would have to part ways for studies and work in the city.

While the UP government has directed schools with fewer students to conduct classes in a single shift with Covid-safety protocols in place, the move is yet to be implemented in Gautam Budh Nagar. This is because many schools are holding half-yearly exams for senior classes, while others are shut for the festivals. Big schools are, however, exempted from the directive and continue holding classes in two shifts.

The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) has drawn up an action plan and demarcated eight zones in the city for effective implementation of anti-air pollution norms. Each zone will have a zonal officer, who will monitor measures to curb pollution in the area as per the guidelines of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

Students of SGT University protested on Tuesday to demand the arrest of all accused in the murder of a youth on the campus.

A woman from Sukhrali died by suicide after losing about Rs 5 lakh in a ‘kitty’. She left behind a note blaming members of the ‘kitty committee’, alleging they had refused to return her money and threatened her. Four people, including a former sarpanch and her family members, were booked for abetment on Tuesday.

Doctors have welcomed the recommendation of the expert committee of the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for emergency approval to Covaxin for the 2-18 age group. About 30-35% of the total population in Noida and Ghaziabad falls in this age group.

The Noida Authority will launch a residential scheme comprising 122 plots this week. To take advantage of the improved market sentiments during the Navratri and Diwali festive season, the Authority is planning to launch the scheme on Thursday.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Tuesday wrote to the UP police chief, demanding immediate arrest of the rapists who brutalised a 55-year-old woman in a field in Jewar on Sunday and left her with a ruptured uterus. One of four men named in the FIR has been arrested.

He has been playing garba at United Way, one of the most popular venues in the city, for decades. But Nehal Sutariya swung to the tunes of garba in his neighbourhood for the first time this year as the government has banned commercial Navratri venues amid Covid-19 concerns. And Nehal said that the experience has been thrilling.