Новости за 10.06.2020

While taking a serious note of increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the district, deputy commissioner Pradeep Kumar Agrawal has appealed to the residents not to take the disease lightly.

Shorter masses, brief homilies, increased number of Sunday masses, suspension of catechism classes, use of TV screens outside and in halls adjacent to the Cchurch, live streaming of masses, formation of Covid-19 safety committee at parish levels to implement and monitor safety measures, thermal screening, suspension of altar servers are some of the guidelines given to parishes by Peter Paul Saldanha, Bishop of Mangaluru, for reopening of churches for religious services in the Diocese of Mangaluru from June 13.

Department of public instruction (DPI) on Wednesday banned educational institutions in Karnataka from conducting online classes for students of kindergarten and primary students up to fifth standard. DPI at the same time set up a high-powered expert committee comprising educationists, health experts in child psychology and academicians who will discuss the modalities of ushering in online education in the state.

A female leopard, which fell into a well in Runvad village of Chhota Udepur district earlier on Wednesday, was rescued.

Doomed over the decision of state health department allegedly compelling AYUSH doctors to collect the samples of Covid-19 suspects for testing, the Punjab Ayurvedic Medical Services Association (PAMSA) has decided to raise the matter with the Punjab Chief Minister and the central government as well to get this task cancelled maintaining that it was not their technical field.

Two staffers of the Oil India Ltd (OIL) have been suspended for alleged negligence of duty in the gas well blowout at Baghjan in Assam's Tinsukia district, a company official said on Wednesday.

Haryana Police have apprehended five members of a gang in Panipat which was involved in executing over one-and-half dozen of loot and snatching incidents in three districts of Panipat, Sonipat and Jind.

Private schools in Mysuru, which hope to gradually restart academic activities on campus after a prolonged closure over Covid-19, have suggested splitting every class into two batches and seating only one student per bench. The classes can be held thrice a week.

Haryana home, health and urban local bodies minister Anil Vij, 67, fractured his leg after a fall at his residence in Ambala Cantonment on Tuesday afternoon. He was scheduled to be operated upon at a private hospital in Mohali.

The GB Nagar wing of UP Bharat Scouts & Guides will now monitor people who have recovered from Covid-19 and are in home-quarantine in the district. A team of 15 scouts will make daily calls to a list of such people provided by the administration to record their health updates, and provide any information they ask for.

Due to the labour shortage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, several farmers in Punjab have resorted to direct seeding of rice instead of going for the conventional way. They have also started propagating their experiments.

Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said the state government had not banned paddy cultivation, but was encouraging farmers to grow other crops that consume less water.

Dabanng-fame actor Sonu Sood on Tuesday sent home 180 residents of Assam's Barak Valley in an AirAsia flight that landed at the Silchar airport at 12.10 pm on Tuesday. The plane flew back to Mumbai after the disembarking of the passengers.

Public health groups, along with doctors and economists have urged the GST Council, in its June 12 meeting, to consider a special Covid-19 cess on tobacco products to raise additional tax revenue for a special stimulus package.

How hepatitis A virus manages to enter into human liver cells and cause infection has remained a mystery for 50 years until now. A breakthrough seems to have been achieved by a research team that comprises, among others, Anshuman Das (33) from Odisha.

Ambala civil surgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh said the 42-year-old woman of Chhoti Sabzi Mandi area in Ambala City came from Delhi on May 29 in a car and was told to quarantine herself.

IIT-Guwahati (IIT-G) will allow its students, who are currently residing in green zone areas, to return to the campus from next week.

With sales of saris, their main product, yet to pick up despite restrictions being lifted, power loom weavers in Belagavi district are reeling under distress triggered by the lockdown. Many are resorting to taking their lives.