Новости за 20.08.2020

It was for the fourth straight day that the state recorded a big spike in cases.On Tuesday, the state had registered 896 cases and on Monday 887 infections were reported.

As part of the Odisha government’s expenditure rationalization measures, the state works department on Thursday decided that there will be no new tender for execution of any works for the current financial year.

Perur police officials on Wednesday evening booked four men under Prohibition of Child Marriage Act for solemnising the wedding for a 19-year-old youth and woman in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu.

The ongoing police investigation into the alleged hoax call that Vasanth - a 33-year-old agricultural labourer, resident of Mudradi in Karkala taluk of Udupi district - made about bomb being planted at Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) in Karnataka will cover all possible angles, city police chief Vikash Kumar said on Thursday.

The district on Thursday reported 92 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking its coronavirus tally to 2,863 with 382 active cases, said civil surgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh.

Wild oscillations in fresh Covid-19 cases reported in the coastal districts - Udupi and Dakshina Kannada - of Karnataka continued on Thursday. After a record combined high of 700 cases on Tuesday and 609 cases on Wednesday, the districts tallied 526 cases on Thursday with Udupi accounting for 349 of these cases. The Covid-19 related toll continued to rise with the districts reporting eight deaths including six in Dakshina Kannada alone.

In the annual Swachh Survekshan, the Ambala Municipal Corporation gained 26 places nationally in the category of civic bodies with 1-10 lakh population as it ranked 120th with a score of 3095.96 this year. Last year, the city was at 146th spot.

The city managed to improve its all-India Swachh Survekshan ranking by leap and bounds this time post being on the sidelines in 2018 and 2019. The city stood at number phone position in Uttar Pradesh.

Heavy rain for the second consecutive day on Thursday in Delhi and its adjoining cities like Gurugram, Noida and Faridabad led to waterlogging in several areas and heavy traffic snarls at several places.

A four-storey building in Gurugram district of Haryana was vacated on Thursday after it bent on one side due to heavy downpour in the region, the police said.

Two motorcycle-borne persons had a narrow escape in the Kalesar National Park area when an elephant obstructed their way on Tuesday. The duo had to flee on foot leaving their bike behind to save themselves.

MicroDegree, a city-based Edu-tech platform that upskills students on emerging technologies will soon be launching data science and machine learning courses in Kannada.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has signed an agreement with OYO guesthouses and hotels to treat them as paid isolation facilities in the city to house Aysmptomatic Covid positive persons.

Gaurav Gartia (33) and his wife Sunita Sahu (27) are both software engineers working for two different companies in Hyderabad. They recently returned to their native village Tura in Bargarh district and have been working from home.

Municipal councillors and local leaders of Congress, Shiromani Akali Dal and BJP have come together against a local Congress councillor alleging that he tried to give caste turn to issue of bill of a Covid-19 patient to settle his scores with hospital owner. They have said that the councillor levelled these allegations about use of casteist words as a pressure tactic as the owner of the hospital has pursued criminal case of rioting against him and his associates for their role during May 2009 violence... Читать дальше...