Новости за 29.08.2020

Assam’s cumulative Covid-19 count crossed the one lakh mark on Friday, five months after the first case was reported in Silchar. While 80% of them have already recovered, the number of active patients slipping into critical condition requiring oxygen support has increased over the period.

The desire to own a concrete house under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin (PMAYG) has compelled hundreds of people to throng Aadhaar enrollment centres in the state, risking their lives amid an ongoing pandemic.

Ludhiana witnessed the highest number of Covid-19 deaths as seventeen persons from district lost their lives due to disease even as twenty deaths, including those of outer districts, were reported from the district on Saturday. In the meanwhile, reports of samples of two hundred eighty.

The ministry of home affairs in its guidelines of unlock 4.0 issued on Saturday, has said that “schools and colleges, educational and coaching institutes will continue to remain closed for students and regular class activity up to September 30.”

Ninety-eight people tested positive for Covid-19 in Ambala, increasing the case tally to 3,608 in the district on Saturday, with 440 active cases.

The Yamunanagar traffic police on Saturday acted tough against the commuters who parked their vehicles in ‘no parking’ zones in busy market areas and fined over 70 vehicles through e-challan system.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday said Odisha has become a major centre of sports activities in the last few years while the state is now globally known as a hub of hockey.

Maharaj, who was returning to Dhanbad by road to take a train to Delhi, was intercepted by the district administration near Pirtand police station and sent on quarantine at Shanti Bhawan ashram, where he had gone to take part in a programme, deputy commissioner Rahul Kumar Sinha said.

Two people, who could not give their swab samples due to a long queue at a hospital here, "tested positive" for Covid-19, while a BJP functionary was administered treatment for coronavirus at a government health facility for 10 days, only to discover that he had tested negative, a senior official said.

Three peopledied while nine escaped with minor injuries in a road mishap at Palasa in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday. The deceased were identified as workers of a private port in Visakhapatnam city, according to the Andhra Pradesh police.

The final hearing as part of the magisterial inquiry into the firing on anti-CAA protestors on December 19 last year will be held here on September 1, inquiry officer and Udupi deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha said in a release Saturday.

While the Haryana Excise and Taxation department has now allowed restaurants and hotels to serve liquor at tables, it will take some time, say Gurgaon restaurants, before they can actually start serving alcohol to the customers.

Two paper mill unions on Friday slammed the BJP government, accusing it of betraying the trust of the people of Assam by neither reviving the mills nor paying the dues and salaries of the employees.

The Cachar district committee of the All India Democratic Students’ Organisation sent a memorandum to the vice chancellor of Assam University, Dilip Chandra Nath, seeking postponement of the final semester examinations scheduled for September owing to the Covid-19 situation of Assam.

The Assam government on Friday partially relaxed lockdown restrictions on working Saturdays across the state to allow movement of employees of all central and state government departments, PSUs, banks and essential services to attend office.

Flooding in the riverside villages under Dasarathpur and Binjharpur blocks of Jajpur district and Aul, Pattamundai and Rajkanika blocks of Kendrapada district near Bhitarkanika national park has brought uninvited guests out in the open.

Around 407 kg of ganja worth Rs 35 lakh was seized in Jeypore on Thursday night. Four persons, including three from Madhya Pradesh, were arrested for smuggling the contraband.

mid the rising Covid-19 cases, the state government on Friday made it mandatory for private hospitals to admit Covid patients and put a cap on the prices they charge. Earlier on August 7, the government had advised them to admit Covid patients, but had not made it compulsory then.

They had packed up their old books and were looking forward to the road ahead. A few got jobs, others were getting ready to take admission in higher education or preparing for competitive exams.

The flood-related death toll in the state increased to 12 on Friday with four more deaths even as heavy rain in the upper catchment of Mahanadi in the past 24 hours has aggravated the situation for a medium-range flood in the river system.