Новости за 05.01.2022

The Board of Secondary Education, Odisha, is all set to conduct the summative exam-1 for class X students in 3,093 centres across the state on Wednesday amid the rise in Covid cases. As many as 5.76 lakh students will appear for the examination following strict Covid rules.

Odisha on Tuesday reported 680 fresh cases, the biggest jump in Covid infections in over three months, prompting chief minister Naveen Patnaik to hold an urgent review meeting during which he gave officials 10 days to ready health infrastructure in government and private hospitals,

Narcotic drug-related cases will now be monitored at a higher level in the Odisha Police. Offences with seizure of commercial quantities of brown sugar (250 grams and above) and ganja (20kg and above) will be treated as “special report” (SR) cases.

CPI national general secretary D Raja on Tuesday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi to explain to the country about reports of increase in Chinese military presence in Galwan Valley.

The Coimbatore rural cybercrime police on Tuesday arrested a woman Youtuber and her friend in Madurai on charges of outraging the modesty of a city-based woman on their YouTube channel.

The district, which has confirmed an Omicron case recently, is awaiting results of another 18 samples that were sent for genome sequencing at the State Public Health Laboratory in Chennai.

The city police on Tuesday arrested Kerala-based Congress functionary K S B A Thangal for illegal possession of a revolver with seven live rounds. He was produced before a judicial magistrate and remanded in judicial custody.

The district administration is working on a war footing to put in place necessary health infrastructure to face a possible spike in Covid-19, especially Omicron, cases.

The health department is all set to go ahead with the plans to administer the booster (third) dose of vaccine on the frontline workers and senior citizens from January 10.

Forty-one students and a staff member of a nursing college at Malakpur Bet in Ludhiana have tested positive for Covid. Civil surgeon Dr S P Singh said, “Of the 64 students of the nursing college of DMCH who were tested, 41 have tested positive for Covid.

Upset over his relatives and a friend not returning the money borrowed from him, a man committed suicide by consuming a poisonous substance in Jain Nagar, Shivpuri, on Monday. The police have registered a case against four accused, including a woman, for abetment to suicide.

Cold wave conditions prevailed as showers drenched the city and the temperatures dipped further. The meteorological department says weather disturbance will continue in the coming days.The department recorded 1 millimetre of rainfall between 8.30am and 5.30pm on Tuesday.

The Division 3 police, on Tuesday, arrested a conman, who impersonated as the officer on special duty (OSD) to chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi and duped people.

As many as 103 residents of Ludhiana and 49 persons from outside the district tested positive for Covid-19 here on Tuesday. The day also saw a Barnala patient succumbing to the disease at a hospital here.The district’s toll tally stands at 2,119 and that of outsiders here is 1,062.

Despite increase in Covid cases, the testing is low in the district. Experts say the cases are likely to be more than reported.According to the state health department report, tests per million population of Ludhiana were, on an average, 590 per day in the week ending January 2.

Four members of a family were found dead in a room at their house at government quarters near Railway Lines in Mullanpur, about 20 kilometres from here, on Tuesday morning.

A man was found dead at a vacant plot in Shadi Lal Colony, Tibba, on Tuesday.Police say the preliminary probe suggests that the man, who is yet to be identified and appears to be in his thirties, was murdered and his body covered with debris at the plot.

In the case of a 60-year-old woman, who was held captive by two persons, thrashed and robbed, from Mundiyan Khurd area of Jamalpur, the police have reportedly changed the statement of the woman and also lodged a theft FIR, rather than registering a case of robbery.

Amidst rising cases of coronavirus, an oxygen plant has been installed at city’s Shri Krishna Charitable Hospital that will make the hospital self sufficient in producing oxygen gas for medical use.

A day after Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Navjot Singh Sidhu promised a monthly cash of Rs 2,000 and eight LPG cylinders for women in Punjab as electoral promise, a tweet by Congress councillor Mamta Ashu criticising such freebies has created flutter in political

The extraordinary general body meeting (EGM) of city’s Lodhi Club was held on Monday evening at club premises. The meeting was presided over by club president-cum-deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma and Dr. Neeru Katyal Gupta, PCS, was also present on the occasion.

Bike-borne three masked assailants opened fire at a house in Baba Colony of Jodhewal area on Tuesday evening. No one was injured in the incident. The accused had fired at least five times.

A common effluent treatment plant (CETP) of 40 millions of litres per day (MLD) capacity for dyeing clusters of Focal Point, Ludhiana, was inaugurated by industries minister Gurkirat Singh Kotli on Monday. This CETP has been built at the total cost of Rs. 84.

Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) has appointed its former player Mohd Kaif as chairman of the Cricket Talent Committee. The six-member committee will identify the talent in the state and pick them to nurture them by specialists.