Новости за 01.08.2020

Analysis of Odisha samples conducted by Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) Bhubaneswar and ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) Bhubaneswar showed the presence of all five reported clades- 19A, 19B, 20A, 20B and 20C of Covid-19 genome.

The state government has recorded over 13 per cent growth in collection of state GST (SGST) in July despite the state government has imposed a two-week lockdown in major cities to contain spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The usual festive mood was missing, but Assam did not miss out of Eid.

Flood situation in Assam remained unchanged in the last 24 hours, even as the number of flood-affected people has marginally reduced to 10.62 lakh in 20 districts on Saturday.

All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) — two leading forces of the anti-CAA movement — have finalised their plans to float political parties to contest the 2021 assembly polls.

The owner of an under-construction building in Noida was arrested on Saturday, a day after two people were killed after a portion of the structure collapsed. Five workers were rescued from the debris after the front portion of the three-storey building located in F Block of Sector 11 collapsed on them around 7.30 pm on Friday.

With 793 new patients and seven deaths, Haryana’s Covid count on Saturday rose to 35,758 and toll to 428. The recovery rate reached another high of 81.32 per cent as 853 patients have been discharged, taking overall recoveries to 29,080.

Former MLC Ivan D’Souza’s Facebook post on Saturday confirming his Covid-19 positive status along with his wife has literally set the cat among the pigeons in Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) ranks.

A dozen Covid-19 related deaths in Dakshina Kannada (DK) and Udupi on Saturday dampened spirits on a day that Covid cases slipped below the 300 mark. Both districts accounted for six deaths each on Saturday, taking the tally in DK to 159 and 35 in Udupi. Out of the 275 cases reported in the two districts, DK accounted for 139 and Udupi 136, taking the total active cases to 3,008 and 1,811, respectively.

A Punjab Police constable allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service revolver in his car here in early hours on Saturday, an official said.

Assam education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday announced that for the time since Independence, a government in the state will be setting up high schools in tea gardens of the state.

Haryana cabinet minister Anil Vij inaugurated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan facility built at a cost of about Rs 6 crore on public-private partnership (PPP) mode at the civil hospital, Ambala Cantonment on Saturday.

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded one more fatality linked to Covid-19 on Saturday, pushing the toll due to the disease in the district to 43, official data showed.

Chief minister Vijay Rupani will visit Surat city to review the Covid-19 situation on Sunday (2 August) and will hold meeting with officials of Surat Municipal Corporation and collectorate.

Dr Malwinder Mala, senior medical officer of Mother Child Hospital (MCH), in Punjab's Ludhhiana district on Saturday said that 17 Covid positive pregnant women successfully have given birth to babies.

A 27-year-old man transporting buffalo meat was waylaid by a group of men and thrashed publicly before the police came to his rescue in Haryana's Gurgaon district, officials said on Saturday.

With Covid-19 threat looming large over Ludhiana district, Muslim community members offered Bakrid prayers by maintaining social distancing and wearing masks in mosques of the district including at historic Jama Masjid in Ludhiana on Saturday. However, a sizeable number of community members including Elderly and Children offered Eid prayers at home only.

Teachers on Friday were happy that the National Education Policy (NEP) has a provision of not engaging them in electioneering, cooking of mid-day meals and other strenuous administrative tasks.

Even as stray cattle cause problems in Punjab, cow cess being collected through electricity bills is not being deposited with civic bodies.