Новости за 23.08.2020

While Dakshina Kannada reported 193 fresh cases and five fatalities, Udupi recorded 117 new cases and two deaths. With this, DK’s Covid-19 tally increased to 10,330 and the death toll to 310. All the five patients died in DK on Sunday were suffering from various co-morbidities in addition to the virus infection.

Around 70 people who were stranded near Khuniya Mahadev waterfall in Pavagadh on Sunday afternoon were rescued by local police.

In a major goof-up, the health authorities in the district handed over the body of a man who died of Covid-19 to another family on Sunday.

All India Congress Committee (AICC) has so far not given any instructions to the state unit of the party to explore any possible alliance to fight the coming assembly election scheduled next year.

A 60-year-old woman, whose only son died in Army custody in June this year, has launched an indefinite hunger strike at the Borholla area of Jorhat district, demanding punishment to the guilty Army men.

In protest against extraction of stones from the Diyung river in Dima Hasao district, residents of several villages like Boro-Waphu, Kelolo, Pura, Longma, Borohaflong, N Leikul, Longma II staged a sit-in protest below the Dayang Railway bridge from 11 am to 4 pm on Friday.

The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Saturday announced that it will launch a political party to fight the upcoming Assam elections, and its jailed leader Akhil Gogoi will be the chief ministerial candidate.

In wake of the threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Assam State Primary Teachers’ Association appealed to the state government to sanitise all educational institutions before teachers rejoin their duties on September 1.

The government has already made it mandatory under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 for the combine harvesters to have a super straw management system attached with the harvesters.

Fed up with financial constraints, a married couple of western Assam’s Dhubri district allegedly died by suicide by setting themselves on fire using kerosene. They have left behind a 4-year-old boy.

Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel of NF Railway have recovered several consignments of contraband items from stations and trains of NF Railway zone in the last two days.

In the first week of August, the Kodagu, Chikkamagalur, and Shivamogga, three prominent Malnad districts of Karnataka witnessed floods and landslides claiming over 12 lives. All the major reservoirs of this region reached their full capacity and floodwater was released from the dam.

The Assam health department is mulling paid services for Covid patients in government hospitals of the state as it believes that offering treatment free of cost may not be possible for a long time without central assistance.

With Covid cases on the rise in the twin cities in August, the number of people voluntarily wearing masks has also increased, police sources said.

For every Covid-19 death in the state in the past 24 hours, there were as many as 66 patients who got cured.

Shalini Yadav (21), a resident of Barra in the city, recorded a video after marrying her lover who belongs to another religion. In the video that later went viral on various social media on Friday, she could be seen asking for protection as she went against the will of her family.

A man claiming to be a lieutenant colonel in the Army has been arrested by Fatehgarh Sahib police in various cases of fraud. They have seized illegal weapons, ammunition and Army and Punjab Police uniforms from the accused, who claimed to have served as lance naik in the Army from 2002 to 2013.

With the economy hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis, the state government has failed to clear payment for power subsidies being given to various categories of consumers during the first four months of the current fiscal.

Delhi and its adjoining areas are expected to receive light intensity rain in the next two hours, informed India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday morning.