Новости за 28.09.2020

Patients in Assam can be sent home for home isolation if they test Covid positive in a private hospital only after their health status is recorded and the district administration gives its nod.

Assam Congress on Monday staged a protest march to Raj Bhawan in Guwahati against the farm bills.

The district on Monday recorded 587 fresh cases of covid-19, taking the number of active cases past the 5,000-mark.

Mangaluru city south MLA D Vedavyas Kamath is all set to revive a nine-month old idea to set up school zones in the city. While the initial timeline for implementation, when he mooted the idea in January, was May, the global pandemic has pushed back the same to May 2021.

Earthquakes measuring 4.2 and 5.5 on the Richter scale have jolted two districts of Mizoram more than 100 times in the past three months. Experts fear this might just be a prelude to a major disaster in the state.

A 21-year-old man was beaten to death allegedly by the family members of a woman with whom he was in a relationship in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district, police said on Monday.

Tracking the location of kidnappers through mobile phone number was a job only half done for the Gautam Buddh Nagar police, which safely rescued a scientist held hostage in a hotel room in Noida in an operation that lasted less than five hours.

The special task force (STF) of the state Crime Branch on Sunday arrested two persons from Tapanga area in Khurda for allegedly smuggling narcotic drugs. The STF personnel seized 262 grams of brown sugar worth about Rs 2.62 lakh from Sheikh Talim and Sheikh Asif, the accused.

Higher education minister Arun Kumar Sahoo on Sunday finally spoke on the amendment of the Odisha Universities Act, 1989. He clarified that the amended Act would not curtail the autonomy of the universities. He also discussed the different points of amendment in a webinar.

Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, the Smart City has seen 640 social functions (marriage, thread ceremony, birth day and last rites) being organized in a low-key manner, as against 1,400 such functions during the same period last year.

Pinaki Mishra, the BJD parliamentary party leader in Lok Sabha, on Sunday appreciated the decision of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), one of the oldest allies of the BJP, to walk out of the NDA over the contentious farm bills.

As many as 136 of the total 757 samples collected from MLAs, employees of the assembly, personal security officers and mediapersons at a special camp have tested positive for Covid-19.

Last week’s fire in a Covid hospital in Cuttack has prompted the state fire services directorate to launch a safety audit in all Covid facilities in districts once every fortnight. Director general of police (fire services, home guards and civil defence) Satyajit Mohanty has issued a circular to all range fire officers to comply with the order.

A couple of days ahead of the monsoon session of assembly, BJD MLA Umakanta Samantaray said the opposition parties are ‘not totally wrong’ in their allegations regarding Covid mismanagement in Odisha, a point which has given the BJP and the Congress the arsenal to take on the government in the House.

Former Minister and Gadag MLA H K Patil tested positive for the novel Coronavirus infection, the MLA himself declared his health status on micro blogging site Twitter on Monday

The mushrooming of regional political parties will pose no threat to BJP in the upcoming assembly elections to be held in Assam next year, state BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass said on Sunday.

Two forest staffers of Kaziranga National Park and three social workers associated with various wildlife protection and conservation activities in the national park, who had been arrested earlier, have now confessed to their involvement in rhino horn smuggling. Sources said that according to their confession they have been involved with the illegal trade since 2018.

Chairman of state-level police recruitment board (SLPRB) and retired IPS officer Pradeep Kumar resigned on Sunday even as five more persons were arrested in the Assam police recruitment question paper leak case.