Новости за 29.09.2020

Karnataka Cultural Foundation (KCF), a charitable organisation of Kannadigas in the Gulf region, Malaysia and London, have successfully repatriated Najam Khan from Punjab, who was bedridden in a hospital in Dammam for nearly a year.

A 66-year-old woman of Moti Nagar died of Covid-19 on Tuesday, increasing the district's coronavirus toll to 92. Civil surgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh said the deceased was suffering from diabetes, hypertension and thyroid.

Gujarat added 1,381 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours ending at 5pm on Tuesday, taking the state's coronavirus tally to 1.36 lakh. After five days, the state’s daily tally dipped below 1,400-plus cases. In the past 11 days, the state has recorded below 1,400 cases only twice.

The Noida Police on Tuesday busted a company manufacturing fake test kits for Covid-19 and arrested a person, officials said. Nearly four lakh fake rapid test kits were recovered from the company located in Sector 7, under the Sector 20 police station area, they said. Rajesh Prasad, who runs this fake company, has been arrested.

A 54-year old cook was arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly sodomising an eight-year-old boy at Athipalayam in the city. The man, who works in a mess, took the boy, his neighbour, to the first floor of his house yesterday when his parents were away and indulged in the act, police said.

Jharkhand Police on Tuesday arrested two members of the banned extremist outfit People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) under the limits of the Bero police station area of Ranchi district.

An unidentified miscreant held three staff of Bank of India’s Barimund branch in Mancheswar area in Bhubaneswar hostage at gunpoint and robbed nearly Rs 9.5 lakh on Monday.

Wary about going to hospital for the odd sniffle, headache or cough? With your next-door general physician too staying away from consultation due to the global pandemic, help is on hand with the e-Sanjeevani OPD app of the ministry of health and family welfare. The app lets a patient consult a panel of doctors across the state that not just gives a medical opinion based on symptoms but also generates an e-prescription as well.

More than a week after the lid was blown off a mega government job racket in the state, police have found that there could be at least two groups at work — one allegedly led by former DIG PK Dutta and the other led by a BJP leader Diban Deka — each having their own modus operandi.

Almost 3.17 lakh people were affected in 13 districts as Assam was hit by the third wave of floods.

A federation of Dravidian forums on Tuesday condemned setting up of a 16-member committee by the Centre to study the ancient Indian culture. It demanded that the Centre dissolve the committee as it did not reflect the diversity of the country.

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.

Dozens of theatre actors joined the BJP in Assam on Monday with the hope to revive their industry which has been severely hit by the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns caused by it.

Arunachal Pradesh, one of the most picturesque states and a favourite destination of domestic and international tourists, is planning to roll out the red carpet for visitors after October.

BJP state vice-president P Kanagasabapathi, who was nominated for the second time to the syndicate of the Bharathiar University, has resigned from the post.

A day after five people were arrested for black marketing of remdesivir injections in the city, the detection of crime branch (DCB) and state Food and Drugs Control Administration (FDCA) busted a similar racket involving a local pharmaceutical company and a medical representative who were procuring this crucial drug in large quantities on forged bills of hospitals.