Новости за 19.10.2020

A 22-year-old man was apprehended by the CISF on Monday for allegedly carrying a bullet inside a metro station, officials said. They said Sagar Chauhan, a resident of Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh, was intercepted by its personnel while entering the Noida sector-62 station at 2.30pm.

The Gurugram police say they've arrested two key accused including a wanted criminal in connection with the murder case of a liquor contractor which took place on September 2.

Restaurateurs point out that Noida outlets are losing out on major business (since they reopened after lockdown) because of a time restriction of 10pm, while those in Delhi and Gurgaon can remain open till midnight.

Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) patriarch Om Prakash Chautala on Monday claimed that the circumstances are in their favour in Haryana and that his party candidate will win in Baroda by-election.

As many as 26 festival special trains will originate from the stations of the East Coast Railway (ECoR) from Tuesday onwards. Besides, eight special trains will pass through ECoR jurisdiction.

According to Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019, riding without helmets attracts a Rs 1,000 fine and a three-month suspension of licence. However, the state government had reduced the fine amount to Rs 500 after a public outcry while the three-month suspension rule was never put into force.

Haryana’s Covid-19 count on Monday reached 1,51,234 cases and 1,649 deaths as 1,201 new cases and eight deaths were reported from all the 22 districts of the state. 1,160 recoveries have pushed Haryana’s overall recoveries to 1,39,511, while pushing the recovery rate to 92.25%.

"Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve will be opened for the current tourist season on 21st October 2020. The opening ceremony will commence from 11am onwards. Hon'ble chief minister of Assam will grace the occasion," KNP said on its Facebook page.

A fake tobacco manufacturing unit was busted and three persons were arrested for making duplicate zarda products at a village in Odisha's Jajpur district on Monday, police said.

A video went viral which showed a PPE-clad doctor in Assam grooving to the steps of a Bollywood song to cheer up the Covid-19 patients.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda on Monday reportedly expressed his displeasure over BJP’s Bairia (Ballia) MLA Surendra Singh’s remarks in defence of the Ballia shooting accused Dhirendra Singh.

Traffic came to a stand still on the busy Vadodara-Ahmedabad highway on Monday afternoon when a man fired six to seven rounds from his revolver at a mob.

Bantwal MLA Rajesh Naik welcomed the demand by former minister B Ramanath Rai for probe into the alleged illegal red bauxite mining that is being carried out in Mudipu, Innoli and Balepuni villages in Dakshina Kannada district.

Police and forest staffers of Kaziranga National Park have reportedly identified the masterminds involved in the rhino horn smuggling racket in Kaziranga and have launched a combing operation to nab the culprits.

The model is trained on the data set of 7,084 chest X-ray images of patients infected with Covid-19 and pneumonia. According to Ahmed, the tool has proved to be 93% accurate during both training and testing. It took five days for Ehraz Ahmed to develop the web application.

Sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted raids at premises and residences of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Vinay Shankar Tiwari on Monday in connection with a bank loan fraud amounting to Rs 754.24 crore.

Anika Chebrolu, an eighth grader from Frisco in Texas, won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, regarded as the US' premier middle school science competition, for her work using in-silico methodology for drug discovery to find a molecule that can selectively bind to the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus in an attempt to find a cure for the coronavirus pandemic, according to the 3M Challenge website.

In a belated move, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Sunday announced names of new presidents of district Congress committees (DCCs) recommended by the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik. Of the 33 organisational districts, the party has appointed new chiefs in 17 districts.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday spoke to NEET-2020 all India topper Soyeb Aftab and congratulated him for the astounding success. Aftab has secured perfect score 720 out of total 720 marks in the entrance test.

The scheduled tribe (ST) and scheduled caste (SC) development department has decided to take up the assessment of hostels run by it in 10 districts under the state’s Mission Suvidya.