Новости за 26.09.2020

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded 120 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday that pushed the district's infection tally to 12,373, official data showed.

Two patients died due to COVID-19 in Ambala on Saturday, increasing the death toll to 88, said civil surgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh.

Mangaluru City police nabbed three youths accused of theft within 105 minutes of the crime being reported on Saturday. Relying on technical intelligence, police zeroed in on the thieves – all residents of Kasba Bengre in the city and seized 11 phones they had stolen from labourers fast asleep at an under-construction site at Karangalpady.

According to CMO, there was a demand from several social and political organisations to investigate the killing of Murmu by the CBI.

JSS hospital achieved a rare feast in the country's fight against Covid-19 with three clinical trials of promising vaccine candidates for the disease.

The tension prevails in Kutch following murder of a Dalit advocate on Friday evening. The Dalit community did not accept the dead body demanding to arrest the accused in this case. The members of the community blocked various roads on Friday night to express their anger.

After Kutch bloomed with its ‘kamalam’ success, paving the way for cultivation of dragon fruits in Gujarat, the interest in the exotic fruit soon caught on with Morbi farmers too.

Seven rhino horn smugglers were arrested at Kaziranga National Park in two separate incidents on Friday. Forest staff said the arrested persons were infamous smugglers in the state and were involved with the illegal trade since 2016.

The election to the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), which has been put on hold due to Covid-19, is likely to be held only after the State Election Commission (SEC) has a first-hand ground experience of how the EC conducts the three-phase assembly election in Bihar between October 28 and November 7 under the pandemic condition.

Assam will be the first state in the country to allow Covid-recovered persons to enter the state without undergoing a second test on arrival.

Members of different farmer bodies, Left parties, trade unions and Congress party staged demonstrations in the capital city and other parts of the state on Friday demanding rollback of the farm bills passed in both the houses of the Parliament recently.

The Karnataka government has provided former prime minister and JD(S) national president HD Deve Gowda a swanky new SUV costing Rs 60 lakh, following his election to the Rajya Sabha.

A labour welfare outfit in GB Nagar on Friday wrote to UP CM Yogi Adityanath, demanding an inquiry into the death of a worker — who was allegedly killed by a factory guard in Ecotech 3 after being mistaken for a thief on September 6.

Continuing its drive against illegal farmhouses and other construction, the enforcement team of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) demolished eight illegal structures in Bandhwari on Friday. These include four farmhouses, two five-storeyed buildings and two under-construction buildings in the area.

Accepting a long-pending demand of real estate developers, the department of town and country planning (DTCP) has finally decided to allow construction in stilt parking areas. But the permission comes with two conditions — the additional construction will be included in the floor area ratio and that parking norms be fulfilled.

As a part of #MySociety-Pride, TOI organised a virtual townhall on Friday in which GNIDA additional CEO, Deep Chandra interacted with the residents of Greater Noida and Noida Extension on civic plans.

With winter approaching, the state government has initiated steps to reduce air pollution stemming from stubble burning in its NCR districts. Apart from making it mandatory to attach super straw management systems with combine harvesters, the agriculture department has provided a list of over a dozen tools to farmers to prevent stubble burning this year. Violators will be fined up to Rs 15,000, officials said.

Residents of Park Serene in Sector 37D, who have been facing a tough time owing to falling balconies, faulty lifts and damaged internal roads, have approached the district town planner seeking a strict action against the developer. They said if the developer fails to carry out the work, a police complaint will be filed against them.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has permitted partial resumption of work on the 22-km-long Sohna elevated road which was halted for nearly a month.

Police on Friday claimed to have busted a gang of cyber criminals, with the arrest of four persons who had allegedly hacked the website of a bulk SMS provider and duped some 30 lakh people of over Rs 100 crore. Ankti Ramola, Harshit Ramola, Aakash Bansal and Akash Kansal were nabbed by a team of cyber cell and local police in Sector 100 on Thursday.

Around 70% of the Covid-19 tests in the city so far have been conducted in laboratories and testing centres set up by the government. A total of 808 camps have been set up for testing in Gurugram, said Dr Veena Singh, director of the state health department, who conducted an inspection of Civil hospital in Sector 10 and the Covid hospital in Sector 9 on Friday.

MCG will begin the conversion of the main street of Sadar Bazar into a walkway and make it vehicle-free by the end of October or the first week of November.

Two men were shot at while another man was injured in a scuffle over garbage collection near Bandhwari waste treatment plant on Friday morning.