Новости за 24.09.2020

The district on Thursday reported 231 new cases of coronavirus infection and seven deaths.

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday distributed financial assistance of Rs 40,000 to each of 587 newly wed brides to purchase one tola of gold under the BJP-led state government’s innovative scheme to help poor parents to fulfill their dream of giving the auspicious metal as gift to their daughters on their marriage.

Days after chief minister Prem Singh Tamang's wife Krishna and some other family members tested positive for Covid-19, their son and SKM MLA Aditya has been diagnosed with the disease, state health secretary Pema T Bhutia said on Thursday.

The authorities of the Gangadhar Meher University (GMU) recently conducted a survey and carried out the zoning work on the land, which has been allotted to it for the construction of a second campus at Badsinghari near Basantpur on the outskirts of the city.

The commissionerate police here on Wednesday arrested two persons on charges of peddling brown sugar in the capital city and seized the narcotic substance worth nearly Rs 13 lakh from them.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to hire specialist doctors (private) to provide consultancy to the Covid patients in home isolation.

An 18-month-old girl child with severe congenital heart disease has undergone TAPVC repair at Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute. The treatment was successfully performed in the last week of July.

Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh are among 14 states and Union Territories that have responded better than other states to Covid-19 pandemic with higher tests per million and commensurate positivity rate lower than the national average, said the Union health ministry.

Farmers in Punjab on Thursday began their three-day 'rail roko' agitation to protest against the three farm bills while the Ferozepur Railway division suspended the operation of special trains due to the stir. Railway authorities said 14 pairs of special trains will remain suspended from September 24 till 26.

Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to enhance the Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness package to Rs 3,000 crore to strengthen healthcare infrastructure. The state has received only Rs 512 crore under the package. He requested an ad hoc grant of Rs 1,000 crore as well from NDRF immediately to fight the pandemic as TN had exhausted the state disaster response mitigation fund, the CM said.

Mahendran Selvarajoo, staff sergeant with the Singapore police force, pleaded guilty to the charges, including to the two other offences under the Computer Misuse Act for copying data - sexually explicit videos – on his own devices.

Patiala SSP Vikram Jeet Duggal on Wednesday ordered transfer of 99 police personnel, who had been posted in various police stations in Samana and Patran sub-divisions for a long time, on an administrative basis.

Two sons were videographed dragging their 65-year-old father on the Dhanuari road in Dankaur area, attracting criticism on social media.

Kashi girl and Rafale squadron’s first woman fighter pilot Shivangi Singh is set to make history by flying the multi-role air dominance aircraft amid escalating border tensions with China.

Stopped from entering Delhi by the Delhi police cops who were deployed at the Noida-Delhi border near the Noida entry gate, scores of farmers who wanted to protest against the farm bills took to protest near the Noida entry gate on Wednesday.

A Sector 66 resident was killed after his motorcycle was hit by a car on Golf Course Road near DLF-2 on Monday. His friend, who was riding pillion, also suffered injuries. An FIR has been registered against the car driver, who hasn’t been identified yet.

The Haryana Police on Wednesday used a water cannon after Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) workers, who were taking out a bike rally in protest against the agriculture marketing bills from Ludhiana to Delhi, tried to jump over the barricades put up on the interstate border near Shambhu village on NH 44 (GT Road) near Ambala.