Новости за 29.04.2020

As several districts of Haryana have sealed its borders with Delhi, Gurugram has not yet sealed its borders with the national capital.

An expert team headed by Dr Shivkumar Magada, professor and head, department of Aquatic Environment Management, along with Dr Lakshmipathi and Dr Annappaswamy from the College of Fisheries, Mangaluru, undertook a field survey of the Old Port, Bunder on Tuesday.

Three more people tested positive for coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Wednesday, taking the total number of Covid-19 cases in the district to 137, officials said.

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik said on Wednesday said that the current big challenge for Odisha in its Covid-19 fight is taking care of people returning from West Bengal.

Home is where the heart is, in life and in death, too. The 23-year-old Raphael AVL Malchhanhima was a distraught man when his friend Vivian Lalremsanga died of suspected heart attack on April 23 in Chennai.

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Tuesday that the nearly 10 lakh skilled youths returning to the state from various parts of the country in view of the Covid-19 crisis should be considered not a burden but strong manpower assets that can be utilized.

Two persons in quarantine, which includes a16-year-old girl, tested positive for Covid-19 in Assam on Tuesday after being infected through secondary transmission from contacts with Nizamuddin-linked positive persons. The state’s positive cases have now climbed to 37 among which there are nine active cases.

Even as uncertainty looms large over the re-opening of educational institutions amid the persisting threat of Covid-19, the Gauhati University (GU) on Tuesday announced that admissions to degree courses at the undergraduate (UG) level would be completed by July 15. However, the university said this is subject to the declaration of Class XII results.

National Award-winning actor Irrfan, whose films were as brilliant as his personality, passed away in Mumbai after battling a medical complication.

Twenty boys from various districts of Assam, who are stranded in a red zone in South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, are waiting for the state government to facilitate their journey back home. The boys had run out of food stock and amateur ham radio operators on Monday had come to their assistance.

Despite the lockdown imposition two snatching cases have been registered in Ambala district on Tuesday, in which the snatchers targeted two women, including a bank official and a staff nurse.

Police have arrested 30 residents of Chandpura village in Amabala district and booked around 200 others — 54 identified and others unidentified — for allegedly violating lockdown norms and attacking government officials while obstructing the cremation of a suspected Covid-19 patient. While some villagers were rounded-up on Monday, more were detained on Tuesday.

Amid the Covid induced lockdown, a youth from Pauthiya village of Hamirpur district pedalled 100 km on bicycle to get married and bring his bride home.

The agriculture and farmers welfare department has proposed to cultivate maize and urad (black gram) on 4,000 hectares and 1,000 hectares, respectively, in Ambala district in the 2020 kharif (summer sown) season. Department officials said maize was sown over only 900 hectares while urad acreage was nil.

A group of Muslim youths in Punjab’s Malerkotla and a few other social service groups came together to make Ramzan kits for distribution among migrants stuck in the town. The group, One for Humanity, has also been serving cooked food to jobless migrant workers in various parts of Malerkotla since the imposition of curfew in the state.

A day after a controversy broke out over the arrest of a CRPF jawan here for not wearing a mask in public, home minister Basavaraj Bommai ordered DGP Praveen Sood to conduct a probe and submit a report. The directive came as the CRPF shot off a letter to the state police, demanding a fair probe.

Running behind schedule, the Punjab agriculture department finally has started efforts for sowing cotton, the second biggest kharif (summer sown) crop of the state. Water has been released in almost all distributaries (water channels) barring some areas in Fazilka district, and is expected to reach the tail-end villages by Wednesday. The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has been directed to provide uninterrupted power supply and seed companies have been asked to provide inputs to farmers at their doorsteps.

Concerned over some pilgrims having returned from Takht Hazur Sahib in Maharashtra testing positive, the health authorities of Fazilka district were put on duty to check the 2,585 persons having returned to Punjab from Jaisalmer in Rajasthan on Tuesday morning. The screening of the persons was going on till late evening by 25 teams deputed for the purpose.

A 60-year-old man was booked under various sections of Disaster Management Act by Saputara Police of Dang district for entering to Gujarat from Maharashtra.

Bhubaneswar reported the first Covid-19 positive case in 14 days, raising the Odisha total to 119. The number of infected people in Bhubaneswar rose to 47.

Partha Sarathi Ray has appealed to people not to venture outdoors without donning masks. He also requested people to wear masks made at home and avoid using those required by frontline workers.

On the persistent demand of the patients, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak, has resumed its cancer OPDs, which were shut following the imposition of the lockdown in March.