Новости за 06.12.2020

IMA Assam chapter will join a protest demonstration against the move on December 8, whereas doctors practising modern medicine will withdraw from non-Covid and non-essential duties non-Covid services from 6 am to 6 pm following a call by the doctors’ association at the all-India level on December 11, in protest against the “mixing up of medical systems”.

Sandeep Shukla (45), a spokesperson of the BJP's Delhi unit, and his wife Anita (42) died in a road accident while five others, including their three minor children, suffered injuries on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway near Thatia area in Kannauj district during early hours of Sunday.

The farmers of 11 Patran-block villages want the government to suspend the acquisition of their land for Delhi-Katra Expressway until the agri-marketing issue is resolved.

More than six months since a proposal for a library complex at Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR), Burla, was sent to the government, there is yet to be any headway regarding the project.

The BJP’s Ganjam district unit on Saturday demanded the resignation of the forest and environment minister, Bikram Keshari Arukh, following the arrest of senior IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak for amassing disproportionate assets.

Fifty-five farmers were taken into custody by police in Bargarh and Sambalpur districts while staging a road blockade under the banner of Paschim Odisha Krushak Sangathan Samanway Samiti (POKSSS).

The special investigation team (SIT) on Saturday questioned Babuli Nayak, the ‘prime suspect’ in the Nayagarh girl’s murder, as well as his son and one of their drivers, Bijay Behera, police sources said.

A woman panchayat executive officer (PEO) of Gumma in Gajapati district was on Saturday booked for alleged embezzlement of more than 4,05,000 from the panchayat funds.

The twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack are grappling with the menace of food adulteration. Starting from spices to kerosene, adulteration of food and non-food items has become a cause of concern for residents as well as the administration.

The state’s Covid-19 caseload mounted to 3,20,803 on Saturday after 409 people tested positive for the virus, while five more fatalities pushing the death toll to 1,765, a health department official said.

Though Covid has taken a toll on artists around the world, they are trying to think of new ways to keep their art alive.

The CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT), Bhubaneswar, on Saturday organised a virtual curtain-raiser outreach programme for the India International Science Festival (IISF), 2020, jointly with Vigyan Bharati. The IISF-2020 will be held online from December 22 to 25.

The Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) MLA from Narnaund constituency in Hisar district, Ram Kumar Gautam has announced his support to the ongoing farmers' agitation against new agriculture laws.

After students of medical colleges, those in first year of Plus II could be the ones to start physical classes this month. According to a school and mass education department directive, physical classes might start in the third week of December. The department has issued direction to higher secondary schools across the state to sanitize the campus.

The transport department will strictly implement helmet rules for pillion riders too from now on. The State Transport Authority (STA) on Saturday said driving licence will be suspended if both the rider and the one riding pillion are found without helmets.

Police on Saturday arrested four suspected drug peddlers from railway gate numbers 2 and 3 in the Lakhtokia area of Guwahati and recovered 23 grams of brown sugar from their possession.

The Gol Gumbaz mausoleum, which wore a deserted look even after Unlock 2.0, is now getting 2,000 visitors per day. The numbers have been solid for the past two months.

As foggy mornings make way for hazy afternoons, the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Morigaon district is agog with the chirping of migratory birds from across continents. Over 15,000 birds are believed to have travelled over 22,000 km from Siberia and North America to reach Assam.