Новости за 11.05.2020

After a gap of one day, two more persons tested Covid-19 positive in the state on Monday, taking the tally of positive cases to 64, but the active case count came down to 23 after five people were discharged from hospital.

An 11-year-old girl of Dhanani village in Ladwa block of Kurukshetra district tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, said district civil surgeon Dr Sukhbir Singh.

Senior Akali leader of Shiromani Akali Dal and former member of Parliament, Prem Singh Chandumajra has demanded Punjab governor VP Badnore to immediately intervene in the ongoing constitutional crisis in Punjab that ensued after open rift among Punjab cabinet ministers and state chief secretary Karan Avtar Singh.

Reeling under liquidity crunch triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, Assam tea industry on Monday sought the state government’s intervention in getting banks to raise adhoc working capital limits, grant one-year moratorium on loan repayment interest subvention on working capital and term loans at the rate of 5% besides seeking reduction in GST from 5% to 2.5% or 3%.

Fearing that they would be put under quarantine, some 38 people from Karnataka, who had been to Rajasthan’s Ajmer on a pilgrimage before the lockdown was announced, waited near Belagavi for a day and trekked nearly 38km in neighbouring Solapur of Maharashtra before slipping into their home state in the first week of May.

Covid-19 has robbed marriages of their sheen, even forcing many couples to put off their wedding plans. For two couples, however, the low-key weddings have given them the chance to contribute to the needy.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s appeal to house owners to waive or defer the rents of tenants for three months does not seem to have not gone down well with Manmohan Pradhan of Unit-1 area here. Pradhan, a house owner, on Sunday allegedly threatened Mangaraj Sahoo, his tenant, to pay more rent or vacate the house.

The state government has asked the police to intercept Odisha-bound pedestrians and cyclists at border checkpoints during the lockdown and inform the concerned district administrations. Though the government currently has a detailed standard operating procedure (SOP) for people returning by vehicles at the border checkpoints, there is no such clear policy for pedestrians and cyclists.

Around 85 students pursuing their bachelor in education (BEd) in the Central Sanskrit University's Ekalavya Campus at Agartala in Tripura urged the Odisha government to help them to return home.

Around 85 students pursuing their bachelor in education (BEd) in the Central Sanskrit University's Ekalavya Campus at Agartala in Tripura urged Odisha government to help them to return home.

Alarmed over the Covid-19 situation in high-burden districts of Agra, Meerut and Kanpur, the state government has asked senior officers to camp and review the prevention and management protocols.

A postgraduate student of the gynaecology and obstetrics department had his ear bitten off by a person whom he refused to grant entry into the labour room at MKCG Medical College and Hospital here on Sunday.