Новости за 23.07.2020

The National School of Drama (NSD) today paid tribute to late Bijay Mohanty, who was an alumnus of the premier institution. The veteran actor passed away on Monday after battling failing health post a heart attack two months ago.

Coronavirus cases tapered a bit from the high of 443 on Wednesday in the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi on Thursday.

A 32-year-old contractual worker at the state-run NTPC in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida on Thursday set his arm on fire, alleging he was not paid his salary due for six months, including the lockdown period, police said.

Ludhiana deputy commissioner Varinder Sharma on Thursday said that under the “Mission Fateh” of the Punjab government, the number of Covid-19 patients getting cured in the district was increasing with each passing day. He said that there are 697 active patients in the district at present.

Mysuru-based N Ranga Rao & Sons (NRRS), India’s largest agarbathi manufacturer and makers of Cycle Pure Agarbathies on Thursday has announced its association with the Assam government for setting up a dedicated project for bamboo for incense sticks.

Jharkhand assembly building was closed on Thursday till July 27 after three MLAs and a few staff tested positive for Covid-19 in recent days.

For India, Covid-19 came too soon and too fast. But it didn’t catch Avaya off guard. Within two weeks of the lockdown being imposed, this tech company focusing on business communications and collaboration, quickly sought to minimise disruption by enabling thousands of contact-centre agents to work remotely, helping them stay in touch with their employees and customers.

While several states in India are experiencing severe flood-like situation, most rivers in Odisha are running dry and a possible drought-like situation is looming large over the state. Nearly 11 coastal districts of the state have, so far, got deficit rainfall, while 18 of them experienced normal rainfall.

While Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has stalled and directed no new enrolment of convalescent plasma treatments (CPT) under its multi-centre (total 53) national trials from July last week, as it will now study the data collected from 452 samples so far, the Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Greater Noida has reported performing CPT in 78 Covid-19 patients including plasma issued to various hospitals in Noida and across Delhi-NCR such as Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and AIIMS Jhajjar.

In the highest single day spike so far, 1078 persons tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday increasing total number of positive cases in state to 19,835. Six more persons died of the viral infection mounting Covid death toll in state to 109.

Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla, during a video-conference with chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said the Covid-19 vaccine is likely to be launched in India by October-November, this year.

Experts say the first phase of the ICMR serological survey in the city — which has found that around 2% of the people tested have formed antibodies against the novel coronavirus — doesn’t give a clear picture on the spread of the infection here.

While Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has stalled and directed no new enrolment of convalescent plasma treatments (CPT) under its multi-centre (total 53) national trials from July last week, as it will now study the data collected from 452 samples so far,

A 72-year-old man was seriously injured in an alleged attack by his two sons over a property dispute at Bhutamundai village, under Paradip Lock police station of Jagatsinghpur district recently. However, the police are reportedly yet to arrest the accused. Balaram Chaudhury suffered serious head injuries and is now battling for life. The 72-year-old has movable and immovable properties worth crores. The family also owns 11 trucks. It is learnt that the night of July 10, his sons, Ajit and Ranjit attacked Balaram with a sharp weapon... Читать дальше...

Union minister Pratap Sarangi on Wednesday wrote to the chief minister Naveen Patnaik and sought a direction to the commissionerate police to assist the government railway police (GRP) in unravelling the mystery behind noted social worker Aditya Dash’s death.

ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) Bhubaneswar has developed a UV sanitized dustbin with the help of a start-up Home Acts to use it in daily life. It has ultraviolet (UV) lights which can neutralize the virus and other pathogens.

In the last five days, Coimbatore recorded 740 cases, making it district with the highest number of Covid-19 active cases in the western region at 1,236.