Новости за 27.03.2021

The state health department’s contention of erratic vaccine supply took a political turn on Saturday after Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan pointed out there was no shortage.

The Gurugram district on Saturday recorded 245 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours taking the total tally to 61,972 while one death was also reported taking the total death toll to 364, the official daily health bulletin said.

Power will be costlier in the state from April 4. The Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) on Saturday announced a revised tariff for the year 2021-22 increasing an average 30 paise per unit. This amounts only to a 5.6 per cent rise in overall retail supply tariff.

DOCTORS HAVE SUGGESTED A SLEW OF HEALTH TIPS FOR VOTERS WHO WILL EXERCISE THEIR FRANCHISE IN THE FIRST PHASE OF ELECTIONS ON SATURDAY AMID the Covid pandemic.

Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday said the next BJP government in the state will enact laws to confront the “menace of love jihad and land jihad” to strengthen Assamese culture and civilization.

Police arrested a 23-year-your old youth from Faridabad in Haryana for duping a Sambalpur-based businessman of Rs 28 lakh by promising to supply him face masks. Police have also seized a mobile phone, more than 10 SIM cards, ATM cards of different banks and Rs 10 lakh from the possession of the accused.

Even as the state government has signed an MoU with ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel (AMNS) India Ltd for establishment of a 12 MTPA steel plant in Kendrapada, details of employment, land and water requirements for the plant will be known from the detailed project report, said industries minister Dibyashanker Mishra.

Assam’s only region, which is wholly dominated by ethnic voters and very little migrants, will go to polls in the first phase on Saturday under a new normal induced by Covid-19 where wearing of mask is as much mandatory as carrying the voter identity card.

In his 36 years, Ram Sirka has seen several ups and downs, the flip side more often. Born to labourer parents, who migrated to Jamshedpur in neighbouring Jharkhand from Khanta Gaon village, under Bijatala block of Mayurbhanj district, in search of jobs, Sirka would have shared a similar fate, had it not been for his determination to do something better with his life.

In a major boost to the public healthcare system, 52 health centres in Ganjam district won the Kayakalpa award-2020-21.

In a noble gesture aimed at helping the poor and needy who can not afford medical treatment, city based textile giant Vardhman Group on Friday made a financial contribution of Rs. 25 lakh to the poor patient fund of Dayanand Medical College & Hospital (DMCH).

The premier Utkal University has finalised names of five noted personalities to confer honorary degree (honoris causa DLitt) on them at the convocation ceremony to be held on April 3. Vice-president Venkaiah Naidu is scheduled to attend it.

Around 118 sea-erosion hit families of Satabhaya gram panchayat in Kendrapada district will be rehabilitated soon in the rehabilitation colony at Bagapatia 12 km off coast.

The IMD on Friday, for the first time during the season, issued heatwave warning for three coastal districts for two days from Saturday The districts are Khurda (Bhubaneswar is a part), Cuttack and Nayagarh.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will dedicate the Shaheed Ashfaqullah Khan zoo in Gorkahpur to the public on Saturday evening. It will be the first zoo of eastern UP.

The important budget discussion of the home and general administration departments could not be taken up in the assembly on Friday as the Congress MLAs created ruckus in the house supporting the farmers agitation across the country.

The BJD on Friday named late MLA Pradeep Maharathy’s son, Rudra Pratap, as its candidate for the Pipili byelection on April 17. Maharathy’s death in October last year has made the bypoll necessary.

Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh released a video message on Friday in which he asked the people of Assam to overcome the “setback” they have received in the last five years. Speaking as “one of the voters”, he asked the people to vote wisely this time.

Despite Covid-induced lockdowns and shutdowns in 2020, the overall crimes increased by nearly 10% in the state last year as against 2019, according to the White Paper tabled in the assembly on Friday.