Новости за 18.06.2020

As many as 14 railway stations of the East Coast Railway (ECoR) have been awarded with ISO 14001:2015 certification for environmental management system and providing facilities to the passengers in a clean and green environment.

BJP high command’s choice of a former president of its Dakshina Kannada district unit Pratap Simha Nayak for the biennial elections to Karnataka state legislative council has further buoyed the spirits of the party in its stronghold. In the elevation of this soft-spoken and affable 60-year-old advocate from Belthangady, BJP has also given representation to a person from a community that has steadfastly stood with the BJP over the years.

Heart wrenching scenes were witnessed as the 11-year-old son of the martyr naib subedar Mandeep Singh consigned his mortal remains to flames at his native Sheel village in Patiala district. He was accorded full military and state honors.

While the enforcement directorate has started its probe into the illicit liquor manufacturing unit that was busted by the authorities at Gandian Village on May 13, the ED investigators are yet to receive the case records.

A 65-year- old female resident of Dolowal village of Malerkotla in Sangrur, who was admitted at a hospital in Ludhiana, had succumbed to Covid-19 infection in the wee hours on Thursday. The toll has reached five in the district.

Manipur leader of opposition and three-time former chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh on Thursday wrote to governor to convene a special session of assembly for a floor test for chief minister Biren Singh and staked claim to form the government by newly formed Secular Progressive Front (SPF) under his leadership.

Three organizations are currently carrying out assessments of the impact on the environment and ecology, air quality and noise level and tremors from the blowout of a hydrocarbon well of Oil India Limited at Baghjan in Assam’s Tinsukia district on May 27 and its subsequent explosion on June 9.

A 48-year-old health worker has become the first Covid-19 patient in the city to have recovered with plasma therapy at Faridabad’s ESIC Medical College and Hospital. He is likely to be discharged on Thursday.

Though the monsoon has just arrived in Gujarat, the water level of the Sardar Sarovar Dam over Narmada river is rising fast and has reached 127.46 metres, just 11 metres short of its maximum capacity, officials said on Thursday.

The gas well blowout at Baghjan in upper Assam's Tinsukia district has evolved into a major humanitarian crisis as over 11,000 people have been displaced from the area. Staying in relief camps since the incident, all of them want the same thing - to go back home as soon as possible.

Guwahati has become safer since the lockdown kicked in as the city has seen an almost 50% drop in crimes, police commissioner Munna Prasad Gupta said on Wednesday.

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said a fresh lockdown to counter Covid-19 in the state may not be economically feasible at the moment.

Viral transport media (VTM) kits developed by IIT-Guwahati, which are the first stop source used to collect nasal and oral swab specimens from an individual and send it to the laboratory safely for culture and testing, have been put to use from Wednesday.

Bodies of three persons and a boy with serious head injuries were found on the Ambala-Delhi railway track near DRM office overbridge, about 2 km away from the Ambala Cantonment railway station, in the early hours of Wednesday. Government Railway Police (GRP) officials said the deceased were unidentified and suspected to be migrants from another state, which included a woman (40), a girl (9) and a boy (3), while another boy (7) had received serious head injury.

Three persons were arrested for smuggling 45 kg ganja under Aska police limits in Ganjam district on Tuesday night. Police seized a pickup van, motorcycle and Rs 3,010 in cash from their possession.

Captain James Antony Adimai, a native of a village near Colachel in Kanyakumari district, may not easily forget the past five days that easily. The days have been like a wait for eternity even for someone like Antony, who spends a large part of his life steering ships on high seas for months.