Новости за 17.02.2021

The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) has started a pilot project to install facial recognition cameras in the city at two locations – Sheetla Mata Mandir and the bus stand. The project is aimed at identifying and catching wanted criminals, officials said.

A 30-year-old worker allegedly died after getting stuck in a tanning drum at a tannery unit in Jajmau area under the limits of Chakeri police station in the early hours of Tuesday.

Frontline workers in the state are likely to get a holiday on the day of their vaccination.

Laptops, headphones or CCTV cameras may be a far cry in remote hamlets of tribal-dominated Chhota Udepur district. But, in the upcoming panchayat elections, candidates have armed themselves with all the modern gadgets. Not literally, but as their election symbols!

Phase III trials of Indian pharma major Zydus Cadila’s Covid-19 vaccine at a Ghaziabad hospital ran into controversy on Tuesday when an unrecognised private laboratory at Dadri in Greater Noida that had an understanding with the hospital was found to be administering the shots.

They have braved the chilly winds. Now, they are preparing to face the sultry summer.

For the first time since the pandemic began, the city on Tuesday achieved a 99% recovery rate. With this, it joined four other districts in Haryana that have a similar recovery rate or above — Mahendergarh (99.6%), Sonipat (99.3%), Rewari (99.3%) and Palwal (99.1%). In comparison, the state’s average recovery rate is 98.5%.