Новости за 22.07.2020

The state government will relook budget allocations of various departments for the 2020-21 fiscal year while giving priority to healthcare expenditure, social security measures, rural employment generation and agriculture and allied sectors.

Mumbai-born street photographer Dimpy Bhalotia who is now based in London on Wednesday won the title of Photographer of the Year at the 2020 iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) for an stunning black and white image showing Varanasi boys in the Indian summer.

City-based APD Foundation has mooted the idea of giving state recognition and compensation for ‘Covid Saviors’, namely healthcare workers and civic officials who die in the line of duty in the war against coronavirus pandemic. Abdullah A Rehman, founder, and CEO, APD Foundation has proposed this in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa.

While most teachers are trying their best to get used to the new normal of virtual classes, a pre-school teacher’s video on online teaching material has gone viral.

A woman, who was aspiring for a government job, allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a well in Alankar village, in the Kadaba police station limits on Wednesday.

The last rites of actor Bijay Mohanty, who breathed his last on Monday, was held at the Satyanagar crematorium on Tuesday afternoon after a guard of honour on the Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya campus. The veteran actor died at a private hospital after following a heart attack two months ago.

A one-day-old elephant calf that had fallen into a drainage in a coffee plantation at Srimangala in Virajpet taluk of Kodagu district coming under Brahmagiri Wildlife Sanctuary was rescued by the foresters.

Three foreign hydrocarbon well blowout experts from Singapore-based firm Alert Disaster Control were injured in a blast while trying to cap a gas well of Oil India Limited at Baghjan in Assam’s Tinsukia district, which has been throwing out jets of gas and fire for almost two months now. The condition of two is said to be serious, an OIL official said.

The Covid-19 pandemic has adversely affected the functioning of several police stations in the state. A number of police stations and outposts were temporarily shut in the state in the last one month after staffers got infected.

With a pass percentage of 86.30% in the Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) Class XII exams, girls have outshone boys with a pass percentage of 75.06%. Overall, of all the students who appeared in the Class XII examinations, 80.34% have cleared it, showing an increase of around 6%. In 2019, the pass percentage was 74.48%.

A youth from Sivasagar district has been arrested for alleged 'theft of identity' because he posed as chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal in a post on social media seeking donation for flood relief in the state.

A plea seeking reservation in the appointments of guest faculty teachers in the Haryana education department has failed to find favour from the Punjab and Haryana high court. The HC has refused to extend the benefits of reservations in engagement of guest faculty teachers.

Assam BJP has accused Congress of playing politics with floods and Covid-19 at a time when the state is going through a very difficult phase.