Новости за 26.05.2020

Long snarls were witnessed during peak hours at the Delhi-Noida Direct (DND) Flyway on Tuesday due to heavy traffic flow and commuters queuing up at the toll plaza where cops resorted to strict checking of e-passes even as they used three out of the eight lanes on Delhi-Noida side for the commuters.

Driven by the homecoming of thousands, Assam’s Covid-19 count reached 643 following addition of 95 cases on Tuesday.

Twelve cops from Gurugram Police tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. Police is doing contact tracing and so far samples of around 35 policemen have been collected, all from Udyog Vihar police station. All the policemen were on duty at Kapashera Delhi-Gurugram border.

Deputy commissioner Pradeep Kumar Agrawal on Tuesday informed that two new Covid-19 cases have been reported in district Ludhiana in last 24 hours. He said that till date, a total of 6,143 samples have been taken, out of which report of 5,968 has been received, report of 5,701 samples is negative while report of 175 samples is pending.

The state government on Tuesday sent 500 tonnes of polythene sheets to cyclone-ravaged West Bengal, which will be used to cover the roofs of the damaged houses in the affected areas.

Assam cabinet on Tuesday approved ruthless implementation of quarantine protocol and no one arriving from outside the state by air, land or train will be allowed to go home without completing the quarantine period.

A truck caught fire Keshod-Junagadh highway on Monday. According to fire department, the cause of fire could not be ascertained, but nobody was hurt in the incident.

Nearly two lakh people in Assam have been hit and nearly 9000 of them have been forced to take shelter in relief camps as the situation due to the first wave of flood worsened on Tuesday. More than 220 villages in seven affected districts have been inundated.

The Ayurvedic department of Jamnagar district administration has distributed Ayurvedic herbal portion among 1,64,683 people since the beginning of the coronavirus-induced lockdown period so far.

On May 17, the men, all rickshaw pullers in this Haryana town abutting Delhi, gave up hope that they could get seats on a Shramik Special train that would take them home.

The first child of Raj Kumar (27) and Rekha (25) was born in a private hospital located in Swarn Nagari, Greater Noida around 11pm on Monday. The duo stays on rent in sector 36 in Greater Noida and had shifted to the city in search of employment from Mahoba over a decade back.

Amid Covid-19 scare, a 32-year-old woman died in Greater Noida a day after delivering twins, according to the government hospital where she was admitted. She had tested positive for Covid-19 at a private lab but was found negative at a government lab in Greater Noida, the hospital said.

The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Centre to clarify its stand on a plea which has raised the issue of alleged restriction on movement for permissible activities in the national capital region (NCR) owing to sealing of borders due to Covid-19 pandemic.

One Azimuth, a company into the food-trucks manufacturing business, handed over a Covid-19 mobile testing unit to the Noida administration on Tuesday.

Transport Minister Laxman Savadi has clearly said that there is no plan of increasing bus fares though all the four state road transport corporations together have suffered a loss of Rs 1,800 crore so far.

Orthopaedic oncology team of city’s Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute surgically removed entire arm bone and shoulder and destroyed the tumor cells outside the body using liquid nitrogen at -194ºC to freeze the bone and kill tumor cells completely (Cryotherapy) before reattaching it back to the patient.

In first graft case of Gujarat amid lockdown, four government officers were caught accepting a bribe of Rs 90,000 on Tuesday. The accused officers demanded the bribe to release trucks of a transporter that were seized.

The district administration on Monday changed rules again on allowing entry of people into the city, this time saying that those travelling to Gurgaon from the airport or railway stations will not require movement passes.

The Haryana government has decided to set up the Haryana Organic Certification Agency (HOCA) at Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU), Hisar.

Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh)After destroying crops in Rajasthan, a large swarm of locusts has now reached Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday called for re-strategizing response to Covid-19 based on the learning in past two months with a focus on care of the elderly and vulnerable population.

The Kamrup (Metropolitan) district administration on Monday requisitioned all six hostels of the Cotton University (CU) and two private schools in the city for accommodating inter-state passengers,

Silchar Police arrested two persons who jumped quarantine in the district late on Sunday, a senior official said.