Новости за 04.08.2022

Deputy commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav on Wednesday ordered a committee to probe alleged safety lapses that led to the deaths of four workers at a construction site in Sector 77 a day before, and said directions will be issued to ensure such accidents aren’t repeated in the city.

The department of town and country planning ((DTCP) along with district administration has finalised the panel of four agencies for carrying out structural audits of 18 residential societies where residents allege serious flaws in construction quality.

A committee led by the deputy commissioner Nishant Yadav visited the Bandhwari landfill site on Tuesday and sought information on waste processing, legacy waste management, fire incidents and requirement of additional land for waste processing.

Nabin Tiwari (22) was looking for another job. Heights scared him but the welding jobs he got in the city often meant working in highrises under construction, scaling facades in construction lifts and telling himself not to look down.

The enforcement teams of MCG on Wednesday penalised vendors and wholesalers in Khandsa mandi - one of the biggest vegetable markets in the city - for using, stocking and selling goods in single-use plastic (SUP) items, including polythene bags and plastic cutlery among others. They issued 40 challans and seized 300kg of SUP.

The city recorded 361 new Covid cases on Wednesday, a 69% rise from the previous day (213 cases). The health department is expecting a further spike in the coming days. There are 986 active cases in Gurgaon at present, of which 20 patients are hospitalised while the rest are in home isolation. The positivity rate has risen to 7.9% from 5.2% on Tuesday. The health department conducted 4,572 tests on Wednesday, while 4,080 tests were carried out the day before.

Nabin Tiwari (22) was looking for another job. Heights scared him but the welding jobs he got in the city often meant working in highrises under construction, scaling facades in construction lifts and telling himself not to look down. An ITI diploma holder, Tiwari was among the four construction workers who fell to death from a tower crane on the 17th floor of a building at Emaar Palm Hills on Tuesday. All four of them belonged to Bihar.

The higher education department on Wednesday directed colleges and universities to take preventive measures against ragging on campuses as per the University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations.

The fifth edition of India International Hospitality Expo (IHE), 2022 began on Wednesday at the India Expo Centre and Mart in Greater Noida. A B2B event, the hospitality fair is expected to host leading players from the hospitality and food and beverages industries till August 6.

A huge chunk of lime plaster peeled off the roof of the Jagannath Temple's sanctum sanctorum (garbha gruha) where the sibling deities - Lord Jagannath and Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra are worshipped - sparking concerns about the 12th century shrine's structural safety

A 25-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly demanding dowry and divorcing his wife using triple talaq, which is banned, in the Jewar area of Greater Noida on Wednesday. A resident of Faridabad, the accused, identified as Ramees Raza was arrested from the Nagla Shareef Chowk area in Jewar. An FIR was lodged against Raza at Jewar police station by the woman's father, Taiyyub on July 5.

Why aren't electricity lines underground in Noida? You could call it a case of tunnel vision. The city's outage-prone power distribution network is a product of the lack of foresight in the decades the foundations for its growth as the economic engine of Uttar Pradesh were laid and a coherent strategy for modernisation once planners realised those shortcomings.

The Greater Noida Authority on Wednesday demolished the pillars of an under-construction crematorium in Rauni village near Sector Ecotech 8 after the quality of construction was found to be substandard. The Authority also blacklisted the contractor and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000, following an inspection in the wake of complaints from local residents.

An elderly couple were stranded in a lift for 10 minutes on Tuesday night in Tower A2 in the Panchsheel Greens 2 society in Sector 16B, Noida Extension. According to residents, security guards and some other people in the society manually opened the lift door from outside and rescued them.

Police have issued a no-objection certificate (NOC) for the demolition of the Supertech twin towers, with a final go-ahead from the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) now the last frontier for the 'charging' process to begin. The twin towers, Apex and Ceyane, in Sector 93A are doomed to be demolished on August 21.

The Noida traffic police has identified as many as 15 vulnerable stretches under the jurisdiction of just two of its several police stations - Noida Expressway (8) and Sector 24 (7) - where frequent accidents have been reported in the past three years. Of the eight accident spots in the Expressway police station area, three are on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway itself, while the other five are on internal roads.

he city on Wednesday again crossed the 300 daily Covid tally, recording 320 cases, taking the active cases to 2,209. In Gujarat, the daily tally was 1,059 and the active cases reached 6,407. The number of patients on ventilators reduced to four from 12. There was no death for the second consecutive day.

Top Army officers (both serving and retired) and experts on China will be coming together at the 4th Corps headquarters at Tezpur on Thursday and Friday to stay up-to-date with the "evolving threat on the northern borders."

Three undertrial prisoners, who were kept in isolation after testing positive for Covid-19, fled from the district jail located at Diphu in Assam's Karbi Anglong, taking dvantage of security lapse and heavy rain on Tuesday night.

For Surat diamond units, Botswana has emerged as the biggest destination outside India to set up their production centres. Though small, around 20, including all the 12 DTC sight holders in Surat, have set up their polishing and manufacturing units in the southern African country.

The state reported one death due to Covid-19 on Wednesday when fresh cases continued to fall.

A 26-year-old woman, an IT professional, was found dead in a hotel room in Sector 70 on Tuesday afternoon. While police said it was prima facie a suicide, a probe has been initiated into the father’s allegations that she was raped and murdered and later hung from the hotel room’s ceiling fan to make it look like suicide.