Новости за 17.01.2021

On Sunday night, Radha Chowdhury (47) got a call from her senior in the health department. She rushed to her husband and informed him with a glee — the next morning, Radha was to be the first in whole of Gurgaon district to get the Covid vaccine.

Mangaluru police have arrested a person, who allegedly set fire to make-shift beef stalls in Olapete, Thokottu, last week.

The Covid-19 vaccination drive in Gurugram and other districts hit a hurdle on the first day as health officials faced difficulties in operating the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) application developed by the centre to monitor and track the inoculation process.

The first day of the Covid-19 vaccinations saw scores of frontline workers queuing up at inoculation centres across the city to get shots of the serum that will help them take the first step back towards normalcy.

The district education department has pulled up the Kunskapsskolan school management over a number of complaints filed by parents, alleging that the institute has been demanding charges other than tuition fees amid the Covid pandemic and resorting to punitive action against their wards.

Two men who allegedly duped a driver-helper duo of an Agra-based trader by posing as cops and took a silver bar as a “bribe” in exchange for letting them go without any action were actually home guards attached to two police stations in Noida, police said.

Police have apprehended two more persons in connection with the alleged Rs 200 crore fraud orchestrated by Freedom Rs 251 mobile phone seller Mohit Goyal and his six accomplices, taking the total number of arrests in the case to four.

The Prime Minister’s address had just ended and the local MLA had cut the ribbon for the vaccination programme to start.

The first day of Covid-19 vaccinations in the city received a mixed response. While many were excited and felt privileged to be getting the shot, there were others who had apprehensions about possible side-effects of the vaccine, their anxieties fed by hearsay, rumours and misinformation.

Long snarls were witnessed on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway when two vehicles collided with each other near Noida’s Sakipur village on Saturday evening. The jam extended up to Pari Chowk.

Only 50 health care workers (HCWs) were vaccinated at Sharda Hospital in Greater Noida till 5 pm, the lowest in the district. Around 48 HCWs either did not turn up or were not available. They will now be vaccinated in the last lot of the drive. Rest other five centres from GB Nagar reported a better turnout.

Industrial unit ISGEC Heavy Engineering suffered a fraud of about Rs 1.05 crore after some unidentified persons hacked its communication with raw material suppliers based in France and Germany.

With miscreants making it their haven, the Sayajigunj citybus stand seems to have become a menace at night. On Friday night too, two men, dressed as women, were arrested after they seen making obscene gestures at male passers-by. Police said that during patrolling near the city bus stand the two cross-dressers, identified as Jaanhar alias Bipasa Parmar and Pravin alias Vidya Thakor, were found standing outside a public toilet at the bus stand. They were passing lewd remarks and making obscene gestures at the men, cops said.

As the vaccine drive began across the country on Saturday, many health workers including senior doctors took the jab in Saurashtra region. Every person who took the vaccine were given special badges to appeal and encourage others too.

UP’s two biggest NCR cities began the first day of vaccinations similarly but ended on different notes as Ghaziabad managed to inoculate nearly all recipients, but only around two-thirds of the frontline workers scheduled to get the Covishield shots turned up in Noida.

Kevadiya on Sunday will be a platform for eminent personalities from across diverse fields including political, social and religious to Padma awardees, industrialists and educationists when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually flag off eight trains from different locations to Kevadiya, home to world’s tallest statue – the Statue of Unity (SoU).

The rapid response (RR) cell of Rajkot range police arrested a truck driver at Wankaner boundary on Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway for ferrying Indian-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) worth Rs 24.6 lakh on Friday night.

Savita (34), an anganwadi worker, stepped out of the session site at Chauma and took a few selfies with other healthcare workers. She had just taken a shot of the Covid vaccine and was feeling hale and hearty.

An 11-foot-long crocodile was rescued by volunteers from the Asoj village near the city on Saturday morning. The crocodile was spotted while work was being conducted on a storm water drain.