Новости за 06.09.2020

The Covid-19 positivity rate in Assam surged to 7.67%, prompting the health department to revise the treatment protocol and prevent severity among those at an early stage of contracting the infection.

The 27-year-old Jharkhand man, who drove over 1,200 km on a scooter with his pregnant wife sitting pillion so that she could appear in an exam for aspiring teachers, got air tickets for their return journey from here.

The recent trend in coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada (DK) and Udupi reporting in excess of 500 new Covid-19 cases continued on Sunday with the two districts cumulatively adding 542 cases.

A 13-year-old was raped at her residence in Bhubaneswar by her mother's colleagues and a policeman among others during the March-April lockdown. The police have launched a manhunt for the accused.

An RWA federation has written to Gautam Buddh Nagar district magistrate over lack of Covid screening camps in Sector 71 and 52 despite official intimation by the administration for the same for August 29 and September 2.

After it was revealed on Saturday actress Varsha Priyadarshini had filed a domestic violence case against her husband MP Anubhav Mohanty in the SDJM Court in Cuttack, it has come to the fore that Anubhav had filed a divorce case against Varsha in a family court in New Delhi in July.

Jharkhand's Covid-19 tally inched towards the 50,000-mark on Sunday with the detection of 1,774 new cases, while seven fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 462, a health bulletin said.

Acting on a tip-off, police caught the two persons, identified as Imtiaz Malek and Mustafa Vana, near Sardar market in Surat's Puna locality on Saturday and recovered 100 gm of the drug from them, he said.

The charred body of a Thai woman was found in a flat in Magdalla area of Surat in Gujarat, police said on Sunday. Neighbours of the woman, identified as Mimmi, found flames emanating from her second floor rented flat in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, an official said.

Covid infection in slums here has dropped by 7.54 per cent. Till the first week of August, slums reported around 20% of total cases. But as cases in other areas kept rising, they saw a decline in slum pockets. Out of 11,853 cases in the city till Thursday, slums now have 1,487 cases, which is about 12.46%.

Odisha has plummeted to the bottom of the Centre’s ‘ease of doing business’ rankings for states from the 14th place it had occupied in the previous edition, published in July 2018. The development comes just days after the NITI Aayog ranked Odisha among the top five export-friendly states in the Export Preparedness Index (EPI), behind Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan.

Amid rising Covid-19 cases, experts are also looking at the new meaning of pain management. For the first time after 1979, the International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) revised the definition of pain, recently. The task force felt that the amended description of pain should convey the nuances and complexities of pain and improve pain assessment and management.

Odisha registered its highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases on Sunday as 3,810 more people tested positive for the infection, while eight fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 546, a health official said.

Kurukshetra police on Saturday arrested a man, who allegedly posed as an aide of Haryana sports and youth affairs minister Sandeep Singh, to defraud people by promising jobs to them or their kin. Mandeep Saini, the accused, hails from Tangoli village in Kurukshetra district. He will be presented in the district court on Sunday, said police.

The exiting students of Punjab universities are facing uncertainty over the terminal examination, as the state government is yet to announce its decision about the exams. Haryana has already announced that it will conduct the terminal exams by September-end and the results will be announced by the end of October. The future of around 78,000 exiting students is at stake. Punjabi University is also awaiting the state government’s announcement after the Supreme Court made it clear that final exams are a must in order to promote students.

A probe has been launched after a police official from Kakadeo police station allegedly harassed a 16-year-old girl, who had come to lodge a molestation complaint.

A car driver who did not make way for an ambulance that was ferrying an 85-year-old man who suffered a heart attack and subsequently died was on Saturday fined Rs11,000 in Mysuru.

MCG awarded Rs 5 lakh each to two RWAs on Saturday for completing property tax collection of more than 80% in their respective areas. Reaching 95% in property tax collection,

Gurugram police exhumed a body of a missing taxi driver from Jind and arrested a person for his murder. The accused was having an extramarital affair with the deceased’s wife.

Vehicles carrying three times more freight than permissible load is damaging the city’s arterial roads, revealed a survey carried out by the School of Planning and Architecture.

Every morning, I sit with my cup of tea, in our little yard. It faces a small garden at the back of the house, beyond which towers a tall brick wall. My company is limited to the chirp of birds and the squeal of an excited squirrel. The stillness of the morning, the view of the plants, the mulberry and banana trees against the wall, is something I never tire of.

The district recorded its highest single-day surge on Saturday, after 213 people tested positive for Covid-19.