Новости за 25.09.2020

The lighthouse at Surathkal near Mangaluru will be developed into a tourist destination. The ministry of shipping has proposed to develop it by improving amenities and facilities. The directorate general of lighthouse and lightships has finalised architectural design for the improvement project.

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded one more Covid-19 fatality on Friday that pushed the district's death toll to 51, official data showed.

Assam is currently engaged in clinical trial of Covid-19 treatment with combination of two drugs—baricitinib and remdesivir to reduce recovery time among patients but while number of positive cases are starting to take more time than before to double but there is an increase in number of severe cases.

A day after announcing Police Antarik Suraksha Sewa Padak for 1,709 personnel for serving in Maoist-hit districts for more than two years, director general of police Abhay on Friday asked SPs to launch a special drive to identify more such eligible cops.

A faculty of AIIMS-Delhi would soon be flying in to assess the health condition of former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who was shifted to ICU of Guwahati Medical College and Hospital on Thursday following post-Covid complications resulting into sudden drop in oxygen saturation level in his body.

The authorities, as a one-time measure, has scrapped the mandatory 75% attendance rule for undergraduate (UG/ degree) and postgraduate (PG) students appearing for final semester exams. The decision was taken in light of the lockdown. Also, some students had approached the government stating they were unable to attend offline classes due to Covid-19 restrictions since the third week of March.

Organized Crime Intelligence Unit (OCIU) and Coimbatore city police on Friday arrested three men for stocking around 700 kg of banned tobacco products for sales at a rented house in SIHS Colony near Singanallur in Coimbatore.

A research team led by an Indian-American Saurabh Mehta has won $100,000 prize for developing a quick, non-invasive, mobile phone-based system to detect infectious diseases, inflammation and nutritional deficiencies in saliva. The National Institute of Health (NIH) Technology Accelerator Challenge prize encourages new, non-invasive diagnostic tech important for global health.

The rural police on Friday arrested a 21-year-old man for impregnating a minor girl at Anaimalai near Pollachi.

The rise of China as an economic power in the post-Mao era, Jawaharlal Nehru’s foreign policy, the Ayodhya dispute, Gujarat riots, the 2004 elections and the UPA government are some of the topics that have been deleted from the syllabus of the 2021 boards for Class XII final exams.

Conservative estimates peg the number of heart failure patients in India at 80 lakh to 1 crore, but not many can say the difference between heart failure and heart attack. Worse, 23% of heart failure patients in India die within a year of diagnosis.

The pandemic has not only truncated the 5km-long procession of caparisoned elephants, horses and cultural tropes, it has also impacted popular food festivals and Yuva Dasara events.

Santosh Jena, 32, a bodybuilder and three time Mr Odisha title holder, who was suffering due to lack of funds for his treatment after being infected with tuberculosis, got a respite here after district administration came to his rescue. He has been admitted to Hi-Tech Medical College & Hospital, Rourkela, at the instance of district administration and his treatment is being done there for free. Besides, the administration has also released an amount of Rs 10,000 to his family since the bodybuilder was the only breadwinner of the family.

Bhagbat Prasad Nanda, noted social worker and a member of the Sarvodaya movement, passed away on Thursday evening. He was 83. He was ill for a long time and died at his residence in Budharaja area of the city.

Around 5,000 people residing in 38 hamlets in Sundargarh’s Bargaon block have been living in darkness for a long time because the transformers installed in their area are defunct. And all efforts to move the authorities to repair those have fallen on deaf ears.

Groundwater is found to be contaminated with nitrate in 28 out of the 30 districts while iron is found to be above the prescribed limit in all the districts of the state.