Новости за 01.12.2020

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded 112 new Covid-19 cases that pushed the district's infection tally to 22,812 on Tuesday, official data showed.

A 21-year-old woman was set afire allegedly by her neighbours in a village here, police said Tuesday.

The new executive body of All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu), headed by president Dipanka Kumar Nath and general secretary Sankar Jyoti Baruah, took charge in a ceremony held at Gauhati University on Monday.

Ward boys and cleanliness workers on Covid duty, who were engaged on a temporary basis when the pandemic reached an alarming situation in the state, have launched protests in Guwahati against the closure of Covid care centres in the state.

Assam health department on Monday announced reopening of elementary schools for students from nursery to Class VII from January 1. Moreover, with the decline in Covid-19 cases, hostel facilities in technical education institutes and residential schools for only final year students are set to be reopened from December 15.

A rape victim was allegedly kidnapped from a village here when she had gone to fields for some work, police said Tuesday.

A man and his sister-in-law who were allegedly having an affair committed suicide at Brahmantara village in Ghazipur area in Fatehpur on Tuesday, police said.

Fifty-two-year-old Angada Sethy of Nilakanthapur village under Bhuban police station limits was arrested and produced in court on Monday for carrying a fake pistol and threatening a bus driver, a two days back.

An 85-year-old man was arrested on Monday for raping a five-year-old girl inside his stationary shop in Kendrapada district on Sunday evening.

Pradeep Panigrahy, former minister and till recently Naveen Patnaik’s go-to man on his home turf in Ganjam district, is the latest in a series of BJD leaders to have been sacked by the regional satrap.

After a deep sea fishing boat was capsized in the Arabian sea on Tuesday morning, six fishermen have gone missing, while 16 rescued themselves with the help of dinghies.​

SUM Hospital in the city has sought volunteers for third-phase clinical trial of Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin. Those above 18 years and never infected with Covid-19 can be a part of the clinical trial process.

The CBI has registered a cheating case against a Rayagada-based company for allegedly defrauding Andhra Bank (now Union Bank of India) to the tune of Rs 20.69 crore between 2013 and 2015.

Unlike previous years, rivers, tanks, ponds and temples across Odisha wore a deserted look on Kartik Purnima on Monday as the state government banned the sailing of miniature boats and religious congregations during the festival.