Новости за 19.08.2020

On a day Karnataka clocked record spurt of 8642 new Covid-19 cases, the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi made a 7% contribution of their own with a combined tally of 609 cases.

Normal life was thrown out of gear in Yamunanagar on Tuesday due to incessant rain in Bilaspur and Chhachhrauli blocks.

With the growing popularity for Udupi sarees, hand-woven by artisans of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, many weavers who had given up weaving have returned to the profession.

Responding to the Assam government’s request, over 40 personnel of Gajraj Corps of Indian Army who have recently recovered from Covid-19 donated their blood plasma at Tezpur Medical College for treatment of other patients.

The law department of the state government has extended the terms of district government pleader (DGP) of Vadodara and 15 other assistant government pleaders (AGP) and additional public prosecutors (APP) for two years.

A good 21 years after it first pioneered the concept of ‘Roll On-Roll Off’ (RoRo) service in India with service between Kolad and Verna, Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd (KRCL) on Wednesday strove to extend this service that presently ends at Surathkal, down South.

Following the heavy rain in Delhi-NCR on Wednesday morning, some of the key roads of Gurugram submerged. The waterlogging also caused disruption of traffic in the millennium city.

Line capacity on the Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road Ghat section under Mysuru division of South Western Railway (SWR) is all set to increase. The division with funds made available by the Hassan-Mangalore Rail Development Corporation (HMRDC) that technically owns this line, has taken up work on the state of the art signalling in the Ghat region at a cost of Rs 5.3 crore and this work is expected to be completed by September this year.

Hansi police on Tuesday arrested one accused in the case of social boycott of Dalits in Bhatla village of Hisar district. Accused Jai Bhagwan was produced before the Hansi judicial magistrate first class, who sent him to judicial custody.

Heavy rainfall very likely to occur in some areas of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack city area in Odisha on Wednesday and Thursday, the India Meteorological Department said.

Deaths in road accidents dropped by nearly 31.5 % in the state in the first half of 2020 as compared to the corresponding period in 2019. While a total of 3013 persons had died in road accidents between January and June 2019, the casualties stood at 2062 during the same period this year.

A 500MVA substation in Noida Sector 148 caught fire early on Wednesday. The substation was a new, additional facility energised in October last year which fed power to the 220 Kv substation in Sector 129.

A labourer killed his pregnant wife, allegedly gang-raped by two men on August 15, and committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling on Tuesday. The man left behind a suicide note, accusing two youths, both minors, of raping his wife.

Unveiling two flagship programmes in the poll-bound state, Assam education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday announced to give scooties to 22,000 girl students who secured first division marks in this year’s Class 12 state board examinations and opened up recruitment for posts of over 14,000 high, ME and LP school teachers along with provincilastion of nearly 4,000 existing teachers.

The district town planner of Gurugram was manhandled and threatened by two property developers as locals shouted abuses during a demolition drive in Sector 72A in the Khandsa area on Tuesday. The entire incident has been caught on camera. However, no FIR has been lodged yet.