Новости за 13.05.2020

Paramjit Kaur and Poonam Kangra, members of the Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes on Wednesday visited the Pasiana village where sarpanch Bhupinder Singh Yogi had been murdered last Tuesday by two convicted persons who were out on bail.

Here is good news for cycle enthusiasts and fitness freaks of the city. The Mo cycle run by Capital Region Urban Transport (Crut) has decided to resume its operation next week after a gap of nearly two months since nationwide lockdown was imposed due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The Dakshina Kannada district administration absolved itself from the allegations that every passenger had to give an undertaking before boarding the flight that they would undergo mandatory institutional quarantine for a minimum period of 14 days upon arrival in India at their own cost and that they were making this journey at their own risk.

It was a mixed bag for Dakshina Kannada on the Covid-19 front on Wednesday with the district recording one positive case, celebrating discharge of another, and mourning the death of the third.

A woman patient (P-204) and Tablighi Jamaat member (P-385), who were admitted at a Covid hospital for 34 days and 26 days respectively, were discharged on Wednesday.

A resident of Garudeshwar taluka in Narmada district was tested positive for Coronavirus on May 11. This is the 13th positive case registered in the district that is home to the world’s tallest statue – Statue of Unity. The district had become coronavirus free on May 5 after all the patients recovered from the virus.

About 1,000 migrant labourers held a chakka jam (road block) on Kandla-Gandhidham Highway in Rajkot on Wednesday afternoon after their train that was supposed to take them to their natives in Uttar Pradesh got cancelled two days ago. The labourers also pelted stones at the cops. The labourers were angry at the fact that their train had been cancelled.

Six more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar, taking the total number of cases to 236 in the district, officials said on Wednesday.

Three persons succumbed to Covid-19 in Surat city on Wednesday taking the death toll due to coronavirus in the city to 42. About 22 new Covid-19 cases were reported on Wednesday in the city while five patients were discharged.

A Zimbabwean student studying at a private university in Vadodara died after he jumped off a moving truck on National Highway-48 on the outskirts of the city in the wee hours of Wednesday.

A 50-year-old woman and her two-year-old granddaughter, besides a 25-year-old man who were heading towards their native homes in Balrampur and Basti districts due to the coronavirus lockdown, were killed while 50 others injured after the DCM in which they were travelling in, crashed into a stationary truck on the Kanpur-Jhansi highway in Kanpur Dehat in the morning hours of Wednesday. The police rushed to the spot and admitted the injured to the district hospital.

After a former college lecturer committed suicide on Monday evening, he husband, who was booked in the case, also committed suicide by jumping before a moving train.

Hundreds of workers employed at Vardhman Group’s Arihant Spinning Mills, Malerkotla, created a ruckus on the factory premises over the issue of wages and even pelted civil administration officials with stones when they tried to control the situation. The mill management on Tuesday issued a statement, saying the workers had been paid accord

St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru has come up with a unique initiative to give clarity about prevailing confusion regarding admissions to engineering through a webinar on engineering education post Covid-scenario on May 16 from 4.30pm. Webinar intends to throw light on the impact of Covid-19 on engineering education which is a major cause for concern among most of the current PU students and their parents.

While the administration is claiming to have made best of arrangements for migrants - from providing them ration to helping them board trains to their hometowns - the agitation of labourers on Tuesday told another story.

The Covid-19 count of Haryana reached 780 on Tuesday as 50 new cases were reported from across the state, including 44 from NCR districts of Gurgaon, Faridabad and Sonipat.

Puri district administration has decided not to offer home quarantine option for returnees from other states, even though the state government has allowed the practice in the urban areas. Puri district collector Balwant Singh said all returnees must undergo institutional quarantine or paid isolation.