Новости за 31.03.2020

On a day that 114-year-old Corporation Bank ceased to remain an independent public sector bank, its managing director and CEO P V Bharati bid adieu to a 37-year-long banking career as well.

As negative impact of the lockdown enforced to contain Covid-19 looms large on the state’s economy, the Naveen Patnaik government on Tuesday announced deferment in the salary of CM, ministers, netas and officers like IAS, IPS and IFS.

At least 14 Bagladeshis and two Indians were taken under custody by Jaunpur police as after attending Tabhligi Jamaat event in Delhi they reached Jaunpur and stayed in a house taken on rent by a cleric in Saraikhwaja area without informing police.

Dakshina Kannada district reported one more coronavirus positive case on Tuesday. A 34-year-old man, who had a travel history to Dubai, tested positive for the highly contagious disease. He had returned to India on March 18.

At least 42 residents of Gujarat's Surat district who returned to India from foreign trips this month have not been found at the residential addresses mentioned in their passports, an official said on Tuesday

Forest officials shot dead a leopard in Assam's Jorhat district on Monday evening after more that 7000 panic-stricken villagers came out of their homes, defying the lockdown.

The sweets shops in Ambala distributed sweets in their stock to the poor and needy on Tuesday after the Covid-19 lockdown. Some shop owners said that the remaining sweets were dumped as no sweet has a shelf life of a month.

Lovely Professional University (LPU) has announced that it has set up a fund of 1 million dollar to for working on technologies to control the spread of Covid-19.

IIT-Guwahati (IIT-G) faculty members have developed a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing machine, which can be used for detecting coronavirus and other complicated viral diseases.

Utpaljit Barman (44), who was heading the anaesthetic team at Pratiksha Hospital, has divulged a shocking truth about the anti-malarial drug, which is also commonly used for treating rheumatoid arthritis.

Assam has issued a high alert across all districts to locate the 299 persons of the state who had gone to Nizamuddin Dargah.

The Ropar deputy commissioner Sonali Giri on Monday quarantined around 22 labourers, including a five-year-old girl of Una district in Himachal Pradesh, while they were crossing the state borders to reach their native place Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh.

The problem of migrant labourers determined to return home continued to vex the Karnataka government on Monday even as harrowing reports of workers from Rajasthan stuck on the Belagavi border and others from North Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu in Dakshina Kannada emerged.

An 8-hour window to purchase essentials starting 6pm on Tuesday after 78-hour lockdown that Dakshina Kannada district administration imposed to control Covid-19 cases in the district saw serpentine queue of people outside grocery stores and vegetable shops. With news of 81-hour lockdown from 3pm already doing rounds, panic buying was order of the day, resulting in price of vegetables literally shoot through the roof.

The number of patients who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Odisha remains three 15 days after the state reported its first positive case.

With 16 new coronavirus positive cases, UP’s tally touched 96 on Monday.

A factory worker from Ludhiana, who had no contact history with a coronavirus (Covid-19) patient, became the third casualty of the killer disease in Punjab on Monday, a day the number of confirmed cases in the state rose to 41.

She wants to dance Bharatnatyam, do yoga, bake and everything she has always been passionate about - but is also taking one day at a time.

Four more employees of Jubilant Pharma in Nanjangud tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, taking the number of infected staffers to 10. While it was believed that one man — Patient 52 — who tested positive on Friday, spread the infection, it has emerged that the firm sources ingredients and receives consignments from several countries, including China.

In a move to stop the exodus of migrant workers, police have sealed the state and district borders. Workers are being diverted to shelter homes set up by government agencies at different places across Gurugram. The authorities so far have set up around 33 shelter homes in the city and industrial area of Manesar.