Новости за 20.11.2020

The Indian Railways will run a tourist special train 'Bharat Darshan Tourist Train to South India' for seven nights and eight days. It will leave Bhubaneswar on January 2 at 10pm towards Rameswaram, Madurai and Tirupati.

"The vaccine was administered to two recruits at the Preventive and Therapeutic Clinical Trial Unit (PTCTU) at the hospital, the only institute in Odisha chosen by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) for the human trial of the vaccine," said E Venkata Rao, principal investigator in Covaxin human trial.

Odisha’s cumulative debt stock by September-end is estimated at Rs 97,823 crore, which is 16.4 per cent of the gross state domestic product (GSDP).

The twin custodial deaths in Puri and Sundargarh districts on Thursday generated political heat in the state with opposition BJP and Congress on Friday creating uproar in the assembly and demanding immediate action against the ‘inhumane’ cops.

Odisha finance minister Niranjan Pujari on Friday presented the supplementary budget worth Rs 11,200 crore for the current 2020-21 financial year with focus on state’s Covid response related to health, food and social security, livelihoods and employment generation.

Chief secretary Asit Tripathy on Friday reviewed the progress of the cancer hospital at Bargarh. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik had announced for establishment of this hospital.

The air quality deteriorated to reach "very poor" levels in Ghaziabad and Greater Noida, while it stayed in the "poor" category in Noida, Faridabad and Gurugram in the National Capital Region (NCR) on Thursday, according to a government agency.

The Odisha human rights commission (OHRC) has asked the state government to pay Rs 2 lakh compensation to a man, who was illegally detained by a sub-inspector (SI) at Aska police station in Ganjam district in 2013.

The state government is planning to introduce 10 bills, including three bills to replace ordinances, in the winter session of the assembly starting Friday.

Six state-run universities are set to get new vice-chancellors (VC)s soon. The selection committees have sent three names for each university to governor Ganeshi Lal. He is likely to announce the names of the new VCs within a week.

The deaths of two accused men in police custody in Puri and Sundargarh districts triggered mob fury at both places on Thursday.

Four years after the state police claimed to have gunned down a Maoist in Rayagada district, the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has said he was not associated with any Maoist outfit.

With the state government’s Vidyagama programme indefinitely suspended, hundreds of students from government schools are banking only on classes beamed on a Doordarshan channel.

The city police on Thursday summoned four youths for painting a graffiti of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti adviser Akhil Gogoi and asked them to remove it.

The All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) central committee will propose graduation as the minimum educational qualification required to become a top brass member of its central executive panel.

The Gauhati High Court on Thursday asked the Assam government to file an affidavit by December 3 on its order which had directed private schools to waive off 25% of their fees.

The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), which is contesting in six seats of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) polls, on Thursday, said it will play a “key” role in formation of the new executive committee.

Congress and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) are pinning high hopes from seat sharing in 19 out of 40 Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) seats — a move which may be instrumental in sealing the proposed grand alliance of opposition parties ahead of the 2021 assembly elections early next year.

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre, all states and Union Territories to strictly enforce the Witness Protection Scheme, 2018 to safeguard witnesses in the pending cases against former and sitting MPs and MLAs, which are being put on fast track in designated special courts for trials.