Новости за 07.01.2022

Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday inaugurated and laid foundation stones of several projects in Cuttack and Balasore districts of the state. He also flagged off a MEMU train between Balasore and Bhubaneswar.

Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Ludhiana as on Friday 345 persons, 324 from the district including 11 international travellers, tested positive for the infection. There was no death reported due to coronavirus.

A stretch of around 4. 5km that two railway lines cover Madukkarai forest range in Coimbatore has become infamous as death traps of wild elephants. So far 22 elephants have been killed by trains in the region since 2002, and more than 66% of deaths have been along the train line connecting Kottekad in Kerala and Madukkarai in Tamil Nadu. The other line was laid by the British between Madukkarai and Palakkad railway stations.

A father worried about his daughter's education has moved court, seeking its intervention to appoint regular teachers at the local Government Middle School for Girls. Unavailability of teachers, the petitioner said, was affecting the education of his 13-year-old daughter and 129 students enrolled at the school.

Since the start of 2017-18 till the beginning of the current fiscal year, more than 4.5 lakh people have applied for ration cards in Karnataka. Although officials have cleared nearly 60% of the applications - 2.7 lakh - none has been issued yet, infuriating applicants.

Pompei College, at Aikala, about 30km from the city, has said that students must come to college in the prescribed uniform. This comes after pictures and videos of a section of students wearing saffron shawls on campus went viral on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "life threat" gimmick was aimed at toppling the democratically elected government in the state, Punjab chief minister Charanjit Channi said in Tanda while addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone of development works worth Rs 18 crore in the constituency on Thursday.

Tamil Nadu is yet to officially announce the start of the third wave of Covid-19, but public health experts and doctors say there are enough strands of scientific and statistical evidence to show that the epidemic curve has set in.

The user of an Instagram account has been booked for allegedly sending rape threats to a 16-year-old girl who had posted a few pictures on the photo blogging site. The user, whose identity police are trying to ascertain, wrote the threats in the comments section of the posts in November.

At least six people died and 23 others had to be hospitalized after hazardous gas spread in the industrial area of Sachin GIDC during early hours on Thursday. Among the 23 injured, seven are on ventilators and are critical. Those who fell sick due to inhalation of toxic gas were admitted to New Civil Hospital in the city.

Reaching May 2021 levels, number of positive cases took a huge leap to reach 1,105 on Thursday. On May 5, 1,168 cases were reported by the health authorities in the city. After eight months, this could probably be the steepest rise in the number of Covid infections.

As Covid cases are on the spike once again, Ayurvedic items too have witnessed a surge in demand. According to chemists, with fall in cases after the killer second wave, demand and sale of such herbal curatives and health boosters nosedived including those over-the-counter (OTC) items that do not require doctor’s prescription.