Новости за 09.07.2020

In the biggest spike in a single day, 34 people tested positive for Covid-19 including 20 from cloth market, Ambala City and a woman police official, while 25 patients got discharged after they reported negative for the virus in Ambala district on Thursday said district civil surgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh.

Mahila police here on Thursday arrested state Ayush director Bibhu Prasad Sarangi, a senior Odisha administrative service (OAS) officer, for allegedly harassing a female colleague and sending obscene messages to her phone.

India on Thursday said it was closely following developments relating to the proposed expat quota bill by Kuwait that could severely impact the Indian community as it seeks to significantly slash the number of foreign workers in the Gulf country. According to reports, some 8 lakh Indians could be forced to leave Kuwait if the proposed legislation is given legal status.

An ASHA worker who was assaulted with a log on Thursday in Halepaddi Moondottu village in Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada district yanked the spotlight yet again on the danger that the foot soldiers in the state’s battle against Covid-19 are exposed to.

In a continued spike, 81 new patients tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday from GB Nagar, crossing the 3000 marks where the total number of positive patients so far include 3010.

Forty MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers who worked on the beautification of the Iqbalpur pond site at Farrukhnagar in the Gurugram district of Haryana have planted 400 saplings in an area of 2.5 acres.

In a relief for Indians who need to return to UAE, India and UAE have allowed their airlines to carry people authorised to travel between the two countries. Air India on Thursday said: “ICA approved UAE residents (returning to UAE from India)” can travel on Vande Bharat Mission flights operated by it and AI Express on India-UAE sector from July 12 to 26."

Prisoners housed in 31 jails across Assam seem to be relatively safer than those outside for now as there have been only six Covid-19 cases among inmates of four jails of the state so far even as the state count has crossed the 12000-mark already.

The number of Covid cases in Guwahati may start showing a gradual decline only from the third week of July, health experts said on Wednesday.​

Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has decided that doctors doing their duty in Covid hospitals across the state will be working for 7 days and be in quarantine for the next 7, the Junior Doctors Association of Guwahati Medical College said.

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal has directed the fisheries department to create employment opportunities under a central government scheme for youths returning to the state due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

Assam floods claimed one more life on Wednesday, taking the overall death toll to 40 in the state.

Assam Police CID has been roped in to probe the alleged murder of a 53-year-old woman teacher whose body was recovered from a private school, nearly 1.5 km from her residence, at Kalaigaon in Udalguri district of Assam.

In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Assam government will carry out social audit of the relief provided to flood victims this year in order to eliminate corruption and bring transparency in the process.

With rising Covid-19 cases across Assam, the Tezpur University cancelled its entrance examination on Wednesday. The university said it will admit students on the basis of their performance in the last qualifying examination.

A 90-year-old woman died at General Hospital, Sector 6, Panchkula on Monday night, the fifth Covid-19 fatality in Ambala.

Dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey’s voice was silenced by a tight slap he received on the back of his head from a policeman when he glared at people watching his arrest and growled: "I am Vikas Dubey, Kanpur Wala". Dubey was being escorted to a police jeep when onlookers gathered to catch a glimpse of the police action near Mahakaal temple in Ujjain when he shouted at them.

Former chief minister and leader of opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state government, stating that Haryana has the highest unemployment rate in the country.

The state government on Wednesday asked its employees commuting from places other than the municipal limits of Khurda and Cuttack,