Новости за 20.06.2020

Pollution Control Board, Assam has issued a closure notice to Oil India Limited (OIL) directing it to ‘close down’ all its production, including drilling operations at Baghjan oil field in Assam’s Tinsukia district and to take all necessary measures for ‘extinguishing’ the fire from the well, which has been continuing since the explosion on June 9 following a blowout.

Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of the Coal India Limited, has laid out an investment plan of about Rs 60,000 crore in Odisha by 2023-24 of which Rs 31,000 crore will be spent for development of mines and social infrastructure.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday brought slum locality Subash Nagar in Dumduma area of the capital city under containment zone after six persons tested positive for Covid-19 as the city fresh cases reported on Saturday stood at 19.

Police booked three unidentified persons in Umra police station for allegedly kidnapping a businessman on Saturday. The victim was kidnapped from outside his office complex. Preliminary police investigation revealed that the kidnapping was done for ransom.

Demand for Puri Rath Yatra grew shriller from different quarters on Saturday as the ball is back in the Supreme Court with multiple petitions flooding the apex court since Friday to modify its Thursday’s order, which stalled the famous festival this year in view of Covid-19 pandemic. The apex court’s order has since triggered a statewide public outcry.

Odia singer, Amrita Bharati Panda, who is currently stuck in Mumbai, has released a new Hindi original song, Tu Hi Bata.

A five-year-old male leopard died due to infighting in Chhota Udepur district on Saturday. The leopard had injured a farmer before it succumbed to his injuries.

Ex-Bahujan Samaj Party leader Pintu Sengar, who had shot into limelight when he gifted UP chief minister Mayawati a 3-acre of plot on the moon on her birthday, in the year 2010, was sprayed with bullets by four unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants in JK Ashiyana colony area under the limits of Chakeri police station in the city on Saturday afternoon.

Mahuva town of Bhavnagar will observe a complete bandh to protest the assault on Ram Kathakar and spiritual preacher Morari Bapu by former BJP MLA Pabubha Manek in Dwarka town.

The National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Jalandhar has developed a cost effective reusable face mask for community use and has transferred the technology to two companies for mass production. The 'breathable face mask' developed by NIT's Professor Vinay Midha and Prof A Mukhopadhyay of the department of textile technology, is made from super-soft fabric using cotton and polyester fibres.

Patriotic sentiments ran high as the mortal remains of martyr Gurbinder Singh, who laid down his life fighting the Chinese troops at Galwan Valley, were consigned to flames at his native village Tolewal with full military and state honours.

As many 26 novel coronavirus cases were detected on Friday, in the biggest single-day spike. The total count has reached 263 now. At the same time, the detection of Covid-19 in a woman employee at Punjab National Bank (PNB) main branch in Sadar Bazar, Ambala Cantt, forced the authorities to shut the branch till June 22.

A day after the Supreme Court stalled the June 23 Rath Yatra amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Puri king and chairman of the Jagannath Temple managing committee Dibyasingha Deb on Friday advocated for reforms in the shrine's record of rights so that an alternative way of observing the festival could be found. The ROR is a rulebook for conducting the festivals and rituals in the temple.

Three accused arrested in the murder case of a runaway couple from Farmana village of Rohtak district were produced in a local court on Friday and sent to three-day police remand.