Новости за 09.11.2020

Commuting in private buses – city and service – in this city has become a tad costly. With the regional transport authority (RTA) notifying the revised rates effective October 13 on Friday, people commuting in city buses now have to pay higher fare from the second stage itself.

Four armed men on Monday looted 6.6 kilograms of gold worth Rs 3.29 crore from a gold finance firm's branch in Ankleshwar in Gujarat's Bharuch district, police said.

The weekly average of cases in NCR districts of UP, comprising Gautam Budh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Meerut and Baghpat, has gone up by about 28%. The corresponding figure for New Delhi is 32% and that for NCR, Haryana is 36%.

Villagers attacked the car of a general manager of the Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) on Monday forcing his bodyguard to fire in the air, after the official stopped them from stealing coal from a mine in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district, police said.

Three people accused of selling illegal firecrackers have been arrested in separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh's Noida within a 24-hour period, police said on Monday. Accused Govind Kumar was held on Monday while selling firecrackers near Sadarpur village which comes under the jurisdiction of Sector 39 police station, they said.

The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has loaded 104 million tonne (MT) of freight till October end despite lockdown and Covid crisis. It is the first zone in the Indian Railways to touch 100MT loading by end of October this financial year. This is about 50 per cent of last year’s freight loading in ECoR.

Movement of vehicles between Mizoram and Assam resumed on Monday with the blockade on National Highway-306 being lifted after 12 days as the border tension between the two Northeastern states eased, officials said.

Concentration of major air pollutants PM 2.5 and PM 10 remained high in the five satellite cities of Delhi, according to the air quality index (AQI) maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

Miscreants targeted an 85-year-old man in Ambala Cantonment, allegedly drugged him with some sedatives and fled away with his cash and gold ring. On Sunday, Dr Amritpal Singh of Tara Nagar, Rambagh Road, Ambala Cantt, son of the victim man lodged a complaint alleging that some unknown persons have stolen cash and a gold ring of his father Pritam Singh.

Former minister and senior Congress leader Vinay Kulkarni sent to 14 days of judicial custody by the second additional District and Sessions court in Dharwad on Monday.

The state government is planning to close the Covid-19 hospital of Sambalpur, which has been set up at the District Headquarter Hospital (DHH), and make the DHH functional at its original place again.

Gifting projects of over Rs 600 crore for his parliamentary constituency ahead of the festival of Diwali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to people to buy local products this Diwali.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an action-taken report (ATR) from the state government regarding its preparedness to meet any emergency situation in Bhubaneswar. It issued this order in view of the petrol pump explosion that occurred on October 7 near the governor’s house here.

Altogether 1,434 fresh cases in the last 24 hours took the Covid caseload in the state to 3,01,574 on Sunday. With 15 more patients dying of Covid, the death toll went up to 1,425.

The total Covid tests in the state is inching towards the 50 lakh-mark, covering 12.34 per cent of Odisha’s population. The government, however, said it aimed to intensify testing in densely populated urban areas.

Nearly two months after recovering from Covid-19 infection, Anukul Maity, a prime accused in the I-Core Group chit fund scam, died of a heart attack on Saturday evening.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday withdrew an earlier notice informing changes in the post-matric scholarship for scheduled tribe (ST) and scheduled caste (SC) students, and said the students would get the scholarships they have been getting so far.

Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine used for treatment of tuberculosis helps as a preventive for Covid infection, as it acts as a controlling agent, a study titled “Role of BCG Vaccination in Prevention of Covid 19 Infection Among Healthcare Workers” has said.

The youth wing of the newly-floated regional political party, Assam Jatiya Parishad, slammed the ruling BJP over its failure to control the prices of onions, potatoes and other vegetables.

An Oil India Limited (OIL) team led by CMD Sushil Chandra Mishra met chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal in Dispur on Saturday and discussed the efforts that are being put in to control the blowout well at Baghjan.