Новости за 19.07.2020

Plasma therapy has started showing encouraging results on Covid-19 patients in Odisha, official sources said. Four of the six patients, who underwent the therapy, are showing improvement in their health condition, and will be discharged soon. Doctors said the condition of the other two is also stable.

The coastal districts continued to wilt under sheer number of Covid-19 positive cases that were reported in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi on Sunday. Combining for a total of 419 cases, including 285 in DK alone, the districts are now perched second and fifth respectively with 3,596 and 2,223 total positive cases recorded till date out of the 30 districts in Karnataka and Bengaluru Urban topping the dubious list with 31,777 cases.

A day after the video of a herd of pigs roaming inside the premises of a Covid-19 hospital in Kalaburagi went viral, DC B Sharath visited the hospital on Saturday and instructed its administration to maintain hygiene inside the premises.

The National Institute of Technology, Karnataka (NIT-K), leading technological institution in the country has proven expertise in the area of 3D printing of lightweight composites. A collaborative project of NIT-K with New York University (NYU) has received an International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant from the United States National Science of Foundation (NSF).

In view of the severity of the coronavirus epidemic, BJP's Ludhiana unit has postponed all the party programs till July 31, unit chief Pushpendra Singal said on Sunday.

Police on Sunday arrested the man who set tyres on fire in front of four temples in the district – three in the city and one on the outskirts - in the early hours of Saturday.

It is more than eight months, the newly elected corporators of Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) have no luck to participate in their first council meeting.

Ambala police on Saturday arrested a man after recovering 2,656 narcotic capsules and tablets from his possession under limits of Mahesh Nagar police station.

A 25-year-old man was shot dead allegedly by two bike-borne miscreants at Khanpur Brahmnana village under limits of Panjokhra police station in the Ambala district on Sunday.

Noida (UP), July 19 () Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Sunday recorded one more coronavirus-related fatality, while 125 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in the district, official data showed.

The Railways has started Time Tabled parcel trains as a new concept after regular coaching train operations were suspended during lockdown. The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has loaded 7,000 tonnes of parcel that include 6,160 tonnes of essential commodities through Special Parcel Express Trains between April and June (first quarter of this financial year).

The Odisha Police seized brown sugar worth over Rs 3 crore in Mayurbhanj district on Sunday and arrested a drug peddler in this connection, a senior officer said.

O P Dhankar, who was a cabinet minister in the BJP government in Haryana, was on Sunday appointed the president of the party's state unit.

Denied a receipt for Rs 150 he had paid towards repair of his gas stove, a 38-year-old Mangaluru man approached a consumer cour

Two Covid-positive prisoners in Guwahati Central Jail - who have been charged with kidnapping and theft cases - escaped from the Sonapur Covid care centre on the outskirts of city on Thursday.

Youth Akali Dal (YAD) president Parmbans Singh Romana has claimed that the Punjab Police filed a cancellation report in the blasphemy case of May 2007 against the Sirsa Dera chief on a technical ground and he was not discharged in the case.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned or heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh over the next three days.

In a rally where Covid-19 protocols were thrown to the wind, representatives of several khap panchayats on Saturday asked the BJP government in Haryana to reinstate 19,000 physical training instructors (PTIs) whose appointments had been qushed on orders of the Supreme Court in April this year or face a boycott during the Baroda assembly seat bypoll.

Two days after the murder of a village head from Scheduled Caste (SC) community of Chidi village in the district, the police on Saturday managed to arrest two persons of the same village, who had reportedly shot the former dead.