Новости за 22.04.2020

The Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) on Wednesday announced that power tariff will remain unchanged in Odisha for the financial year 2020-21.

The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has developed a bilingual Lockdown Wildlife Tracker (LWT) following several reports on social media platforms about animal sightings in urban areas. With the application, such sightings can be reported on a real time basis.

Jharkhand government has imposed a ban on sale and use of tobacco products like cigarettes, bidi, pan masala, hookah, gutka and electronic cigarettes in the state.

With 17 new positive cases recorded in Surat on Tuesday, the total cases of Covid-19 has risen to 350 in the city.

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday directed the concerned officials in Kokrajhar and Dhubri to strictly screen the truck drivers and their associates entering the region, at Boxirhat and Srirampur gates, for coronavirus symptoms.

Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik is auctioning five of his best sand arts on canvas.

Students across south Karnataka are logging in to make up for lost classes and to prepare for exams during the lockdown. However, in rural and remote areas, children don’t have the gadgets, access to the internet or the bandwidth required for online lessons.

If the drive-by salute for desi Covid warrior Uma Rani Madhusudana of Mysuru in distant USA on Tuesday made Indian’s feel proud, similar honour convoy that Mangaluru cops organised for its entire gamut of health professionals saw this coastal city share a similar heady feeling. Such was the impact of the honour convoy that the professionals too announced their intent to hold a similar gig for the (wo)men in khaki soon.

In eight months pregnancy, any working woman would avail maternity leave. But at this stage, police sub-inspector (SI) Mamata Mishra in Mayurbhanj district chose the dangerous Covid-19 duty, drawing accolades from different quarters, including DGP Abhay.

Three more persons, all from Bhadrak district, tested positive for Covid-19, raising the total number of people infected by the virus to 82, the health department updated on its website on Wednesday.

Even as India fights coronavirus, one of the social evils troubling the country for decades – child marriage – continues to be practiced in some economically and socially backward areas of Karnataka. Taking advantage of lockdown restrictions, villagers in Mysuru district are conducting child marriages in temples. The district has reported ten such complaints this month so far, according to data from Mysuru Childline. Most of these child marriages are stopped after intervention by the authorities.

About 170 students from the state studying at Kota in Rajasthan, can return home if they want to, but they will have to come back on their own, the state government has said. Further, on their return, the students will be required to complete a 14-day quarantine.

With most of the 800-odd tea gardens in the state having resumed work with 50% workforce, the authorities are not taking any chances as far as the health of the workers are concerned amid the Covid-19 threat.

The tourism industry in the state has so far lost Rs 300 crore owing to unprecedented cancellations during the tourist season, which usually ends in April. Up to five lakh people, connected with the industry directly or indirectly, are set to be severely impacted as the lockdown to check the spread of Covid-19 continues, sources in the Assam tourism department said.

Even as multinational companies are rescinding their hiring plans from top technology and management institutes like IITs and IIMs, pushing the placement processes into disarray, IIT Guwahati is still going strong on the placement front amid the global slowdown over the pandemic.

Barely hours after a team of health care providers including accredited social health assistant (Asha) workers were attacked in Padarayanapura in Bengaluru late on Sunday, three men in Aleem Nagar, a residential locality in north Mysuru, abused an Asha after she asked them to wear a mask when out in public. Police have booked the three.

After 28 days of lockdown imposed to check the spread of Covid-19, the offices of the Assam government finally reopened on Tuesday.