Новости за 20.03.2021

A total of 2,490 people, including 11 teachers and 10 students, were tested positive for Covid-19, while 38 succumbed to the virus in Punjab on Friday.

A special Pocso and children court here on Friday sentenced three minors to life imprisonment for the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in the Sukhedeonagar police station area on November 25, 2018.

Legislators who were flouting Covid-19 protocols by not wearing face masks should be imposed financial penalties, Ranchi MLA C P Singh said in the Jharkhand Assembly on Friday.

Chief minister Hemant Soren on Friday said his government will write to the Supreme Court and suggest raising the 50% reservation cap on jobs.

City-based RTI activist Rajesh Mishra was released on conditional bail by a court here after a police officer pleaded that the activist was arrested on false charges of peddling drugs.

Ranchi Police arrested two men on Thursday night, hours after they shot at sub-inspector Subhash Chandra Lakra in Chutia area in the district. Lakra was shot at when he caught the two during an anti-snatching drive in Ranchi.

Months after discontinuing the Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) to detect Covid-19 infections doubting the efficacy of the test kits, the state government is now planning to procure fresh consignments of the kits for mass screening of people ahead of the upcoming festivals and other events.

alamu civil surgeon Dr John F Kennedy distributed face masks to passengers on board the Barkakana-Dehri-on-Sone passenger train and at the Daltonganj railway station on Friday. Kennedy travelled for 20 kms till Rajhara railway station and spoke to passengers of two coaches.

In a rare feat, doctors of the cardiology department of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) conducted percutaneous device closure on a three-year-old child suffering from Patent Ductus Arteriosus, an opening between the two major blood vessels leading to the heart on Friday.

After almost two months since January 20 this year, the single-day spike in fresh Covid-19 cases breached the 100-mark on Friday as the state recorded 105 new cases of the infection.