Новости за 17.09.2020

Odia celebrities wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi a long and healthy life on his 70th birthday today.

Actor Akash Dasnayak celebrated his birthday today by interacting online with fans and the inmates of an orphanage and an old-age home. The actor, who is also a politician, turned 39 today.

MSMEs catering to the automobile sector were starting to see an increase in orders, and so did those who cater to government orders, said industrialists.

Her age may have posed a challenge but 100-year-old Mai Handique's battle against Covid-19 was won by her positivity, doctors said on Thursday.

As the three-day deadline set by the journalists to withdraw his comments against the media ended, Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb has said he didn't threaten anybody but wanted to alert people against “propaganda and conspiracies” as part of which “monkeys are often turned into tigers or tigers are turned into monkeys.”

Union minister of state for home G Kishan Reddy’s statement on Wednesday to the Rajya Sabha that the Centre has not yet received the report of MHA’s high-level committee on implementation of Clause 6 of the Assam Accord evoked sharp reaction from the opposition, including the All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu), which blamed the Sarbananda Sonowal government of “intentionally delaying the process”.

Union civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday said 50% of domestic flight operations have started in September.

Mopungchuket in Nagaland is widely recognised as the land of Romeo and Juliet of the northeast — Jina and Etiben of the Ao Nagas tribe — and is very famous for its community-based rural tourism. The cleanest village of Nagaland, however, is feeling the pinch of the country’s contracting economy and the ever-spreading novel coronavirus as most people in the village are slowly shifting from tourism-based jobs to other professions to sustain themselves.

Tripura tribal welfare and forest minister Mevar Kumar Jamatia on Wednesday tested positive for Covid-19, becoming the first minister in the state to contract the virus. The minister told TOI on Wednesday that he was undergoing treatment and was currently in home isolation.

Chief minister Sarbanands Sonowal on Wednesday handed over cheques as government subsidy to entrepreneurs for building new movie theatres and reopening or renovation of closed and old ones across the state.

On a day when Meghalaya recorded 159 fresh Covid-19 cases taking the state’s total to 4,195, the opposition Congress slammed the National People’s Party-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance government over its failure to deal with the crisis and said it has no clear roadmap to tackle the pandemic.

The Assam government on Wednesday issued guidelines to clamp restrictions on Vishwakarma and Durga Puja celebrations in view of the Covid-19 situation.

The Assam government on Wednesday declared the SOP for reopening of schools and colleges in the state from September 21, adhering to Covid-19 protocols.

Legislators, as well as assembly staff, will wear face shields and masks in the house to protect themselves from Covid-19 during the monsoon session, which will start from September 29 and end on October 7.