Новости за 12.08.2020

With an aim to provide better ambience to the patients and their attendants at the public health facilities, the state cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to revise the Nirmal scheme that aims to strengthen ancillary services at public health facilities.

The state cabinet headed by chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday approved the financial bid for implementation of the Gangadhar Meher Lift Canal System, an ambitious project that aims to provide assured irrigation to around 25,600 hectares of chronically drought-hit areas in Bijepur areas in Bargarh district.

With 797 new patients and three deaths from 17 districts, Haryana's Covid-19 tally on Wednesday reached 44,024, which includes 503 deaths. 612 new recoveries took overall recoveries to 36,694 as the state's recovery rate reached 83.35%.

A woman police constable committed suicide at the police quarters in Gujarat's Bharuch district, an official said on Wednesday. Dipika Parmar (25), who was attached to Hansot police station, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room on Tuesday night.

The weekend shutdown imposed in four districts -- Ganjam, Khurda, Cuttack and Gajapati and Rourkela city has been relaxed till 11am on the Independence Day (Saturday) to allow people to unfurl the national flag in their premises.

An additional chief medical officer, who looked after all arrangements at Covid facilities, lost the battle against the epidemic as he died of infection on Tuesday late night.

Noida (UP), Aug 12 () The bodies of a male model and a woman were found at their residences in Uttar Pradesh's Noida in separate incidents suspected to be suicides, police said on Wednesday.

Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) distanced itself from the violence that rocked DG Halli and KG Halli areas of Bengaluru late on Tuesday.

Narayan Chandra Goswami, a leading Sanskit scholar and the satradhikar (head priest) of Natun Kamalabari Satra (Vaishnaviate monastery), passed away at a private hospital in Guwahati on Tuesday. He was 80.

Karnataka home minister Basavaraj Bommai while maintaining that the situation in riot-hit areas of DG Halli and KG Halli police station limits in Bengaluru was completely under control, said the government as a precautionary measure had sought centre’s assistance to deal with the fall out.

A seemingly innocuous tweet by former chief minister Siddaramaiah urging for calm following late night violence at Kaval Byrasandra in Bengaluru saw his opponents go for the Congress leader’s jugular.

A liquor contractor was shot at Nimbri village in Panipat district on Monday evening, allegedly over some old enmity. The police have booked 13 persons of the same village for his murder.

Left midway, the work of English translation of Guru Granth Sahib by late Sikh scholar Prof Gurbhagat Singh will be published soon by an associate professor of General Shivdev Singh Diwan Gurbachan Singh Khalsa College and an assistant professor at Punjabi University, Patiala.

In view of the massive explosion in Beirut on August 4, the state government has sought details of the quantity of inflammable and explosive materials used, handled and stored in different factories of the state. Official sources said the step has been taken to avoid a similar tragedy here.

The hotel and restaurant association of Odisha (HRAO) on Tuesday urged the union tourism ministry to take steps to construct a seawall in Puri to protect the shore from erosion. HRAO said the ministry should consult experts whether a seawall can be constructed by large rocks or geo-synthetic tube.

Already reeling from shortage of manpower, most police stations in the state have been finding it hard to carry out investigations and other basic policing as a large number of personnel have either been infected by Covid or gone into isolation after coming in contact with infected accused persons.

Five days after a landslide in Kodagu’s Brahmagiri Hills destroyed the house of Talacauvery temple’s chief priest, rescue personnel recovered the body of TS Narayanachar, 72, from under the debris 2km away from the spot on Tuesday.

A sordid tale of a 15-year-old girl being kidnapped and pushed into flesh trade came to light in the city after the minor found weeping on a footpath on Vesu Canal Road narrated her ordeal to the police that rescued her.

Odisha's Covid-19 tally crossed 50,000 on Wednesday after 1,876 more tested positive for the virus. With nine more deaths, the Covid-19 death toll in the state rose to 305.

A high-level committee constituted by the Union home ministry to find ways to protect and preserve the identity of Assamese people under the Assam Accord of 1985 has suggested that only those who were residing in Assam on or before January 1, 1951 and their descendants will be eligible for the constitutional safeguards.

During interrogation, Bal Govind confessed to hurling country-made bombs from rooftops and firing at the police team on the night of July 3.As many as eight policemen were killed in the ambush.