Новости за 15.03.2021

In a written reply to the state assembly on Monday, Pujari said while 14th Finance Commission had recommended Rs 1,98,412 crore for Odisha during 2015-16 to 2019-20 under state’s share in central taxes and duties, grants for local bodies and disaster management fund, the state has received Rs 1,48, 974 crore during the five year.

About eight water sports enthusiasts participated in a training and acquired surf rescue and lifeguard skills in the weeklong course held at Tannirbhavi beach from March 8 to 14.

A delegation led by RFCA convenor Tejeswar Parida filed this petition. He said this incident, which occurred on March 10 midnight for about three hours up to 3 am in the VIMSAR hostels, was reported by the junior students to the anti-ragging helpline at Delhi.

Under attack from opposition parties over mandi issues, a delegation of BJD MPs met Union food minister Piyush Goyal in Delhi on Monday to place demand for expediting paddy evacuation and to clear pending subsidy of Rs 5,600 crore to the state.

The issue of Indians and people of Indian origin in the United Kingdom facing racism was highlighted in the Upper House of the Indian Parliament on Monday, when the External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar, said that India would take up concerns over racism and cyberbullying with the UK, when required.

A year ago on this day, Odisha’s tryst with Covid-19 began. Its first patient, 33-year-old Debasis Srichandan from Badagada in Bhubaneswar, takes us on the roller-coaster ride that he was in for after he landed in India.

Four police personnel, including a post in-charge, were on Monday shunted out for negligence in responding to the theft of an engineer's car by unidentified miscreants in Greater Noida, officials said.

The BJP on Sunday alleged that the forest department had not involved the community in its work in Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Mayurbhanj district.

Amid chaos in the assembly, speaker Surya Narayan Patro on Sunday said Deogarh BJP MLA Subash Chandra Panigrahi should accept the demand of the treasury bench and apologize for attempting suicide inside the assembly.

Currently third behind Bengaluru and Udupi in administering Covid-19 vaccine doses to senior citizens, Mysuru district has made elaborate arrangements to ramp up inoculations over the next fortnight.

India will champion the fight against discrimination and will take up the matters of racism against Indian students with the UK, said the external affairs minister S Jaishankar in Rajya Sabha on Monday. "We will raise it whenever required and we will always champion the fight against racism and other forms of intolerance," the Minister said.

Odisha’s strategy to fight against Covid-19 was based on five thematic areas, additional chief secretary (health) Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra said, recalling a year of planning to keep the virus in check.

It was not a case of routine monitoring of garbage collection, fixing defunct street lights, removing clogs from drains and solving waterlogging. The city civic body was facing an unlikely and uphill task — tackling a pandemic.

After Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids at his residences in Jalandhar and his native Ramgarh village along with simultaneous raids at residences of his relatives and others on March 9, Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, who was formerly a member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has been summoned to appear by ED on March 17 in Delhi.

Veterinarians were trying to revive the elephant aged around 25 years, forest department officials said.

When Covid-19 cases started rising in the state and rumours flew thick and fast, providing authentic, verified and up-to-date information to the masses was a challenge for the government.

Setting a target of zero infection, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday urged people to follow Covid guidelines rigorously to achieve the goal and to avoid another lockdown, especially in view of the recent surge in cases in different states.

The biggest night in the music industry, Grammy Awards were hosted on Sunday and the event saw several celebrities making heads turn on the red carpet while a few marked their presence virtually. Actress and popular YoutTuber Lilly Singh also walked the red carpet and used the event to express her solidarity with the farmers' protests in India.