Новости за 02.06.2020

Three persons including a pregnant woman and an Anganwadi-worker had tested positive of the coronavirus on Tuesday taking the tally to 105 cases so far in the Sangrur district.

A 30-year-old man was shot at five times by some robbers who snatched his car in broad daylight on Tuesday in Patiala. The injured man has been admitted at Government Rajindra Hospital. However, the police are yet to identify and nab the accused in this case.

Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) and Hospital has claimed to have succeeded in plasma therapy on a sexagenarian Covid-19 patient in Hubballi.

An expert team from Singapore will reach Assam on Wednesday to lend its expertise to contain an oil well blowout at a well of Oil India Limited at Baghjan in Tinsukia district, which has remained uncontrolled since Wednesday and the continuous gushing out of oil and gas is damaging the environment.

The researchers at Lovely Professional University (LPU) have developed a multipurpose algae-based ‘respirator’ to help ‘masks’ wearing people breathe easily. They have claimed that the algae in the respirator conduct photosynthesis and remove carbon dioxide and other air pollutants, while producing beneficial oxygen.

Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee (DCC) has asked chief minister B S Yediyurappa and district minister Kota Shrinivas Poojari to make all necessary arrangements for the transportation of over 50,000 Kannadigas stranded in Maharashtra and other states.

Even as the average cost of power for the years 2020-21 has come down by 18 paise a unit, the state’s subsidy bill for the current fiscal has risen to 53 % of the Annual Revenue Requirement of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) and now stands at Rs 16,400.26 crore.

The state government has decided to invoke prohibitory order under section 144 of CrPC around the Jagannath temple to prevent congregation of devotees on Grand Road, facing the shrine, on Debasnan Purnima festival on Friday.

With assembly polls slated to be held in Assam next year, BJP in Assam is going to connect to its workers digitally through six virtual rallies in the coming months.

Assam recorded 102 new Covid-19 cases on Monday of which 30 are returnees from Kuwait who had arrived here on a repatriation flight on Friday. The day also saw 92 patients getting discharged — the highest so far — at one go.

An Assam government-sponsored study to assess and understand the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic on the state’s economy has predicted that nearly half of the state’s population may be pushed into poverty if the present crisis pushes up the state’s unemployment rate of 8% by more than two folds. According to NSSO estimate (2011-12), poverty head count ratio in the state stands at 32%.

At least 20 people, including women and children, were buried alive after massive landslides, triggered by incessant rain, hit three districts in southern Assam’s Barak Valley early on Tuesday morning. Nine other injured people are battling for their lives in different hospitals. First landslide occure in Kaliganj area and the second at Kolapur village where seven died.

The state government's announcement that all schools and colleges will be shut till July 31 has upset the undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) examination schedule.

The impact of the pandemic on the economy has been staggering, with many businesses being forced to close. The hospitality and tourism sectors, perhaps, have borne the brunt, but gyms and fitness centres have been badly hit too.

Of 35,000 Wish Town flats, Jaypee Infratech Limited (JIL) claims to have just 19,000 flats left to be constructed.Surprisingly, JIL completed 10,000 flats during the insolvency resolution period from 2017-2019.

When 108 ambulance driver Umesh Hadagali died of a heart attack on May 27, after some two months of non-stop duty as Covid warrior, his wife had to pawn her mangalsutra to conduct his final rites. Her video on social media, seeking help for her sons, aged 12 and 7, triggered a call from the chief minister.

Chief minister Hemant Soren on Monday thanked a 12-year old girl from Noida for "breaking her piggy bank" and donating Rs 48,000 to fund the return of three migrants to their homes in Jharkhand.

The state government's decision on Monday to extend the ban on religious congregations and keep the places of worship shut till June 30 strongly indicates that this year's Rath Yatra in Puri scheduled on June 23 is likely to be observed without the participation of devotees.