Новости за 31.12.2020

Officials of district child protection unit acting on a tip off prevented the marriage of a 17-year-old girl with a 28-year-old youth at Talluru Guddeyanagadi in Kundapur taluk on Thursday.

East Coast Railway (ECoR) will run six more inter-state special trains to clear rush during winter season.

Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday urged Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik to provide reservation for other backward caste (OBC) and socially and educationally backward classes (SEBC) category in the field of public employment and during admission in educational institutions.

The district on Thursday reported 47 new Covid-19 cases, taking it's coronavirus tally to 28,471 while three more fatalities pushed the death toll to 1,411, deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma said.

The average air quality remained 'very poor' in NCR cities of Ghaziabad, Noida, Greater Noida, Faridabad and Gurgaon also on the last day of 2020, according to a 24-hour data issued by a government agency on Thursday.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday set January 1st, 2024 date for inauguration of the renovated SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, which the state government has planned to develop as a 'AIIMS Plus institute' with an objective to facilitate world-class healthcare facilities in Odisha.

The officers of customs have arrested two passengers who had arrived from Dubai at Mangaluru airport and seized 1.26kg of gold concealed in their rectum.

The year 2020 has witnessed the world fight an invisible enemy on unequal terms. But grit, adaptability and determination to survive helped people sail through the pandemic.

A day before the new year, two first year fashion apparel students from NIFT-TEA put up an art installation in one of their campus classrooms to symbolically say 'Bye Bye 2020'.

Udupi, once part of erstwhile undivided Dakshina Kannada district, regarded as the cradle of banking is facing a peculiar financial problem endemic to coastal districts.

Several city folk are hosting New Year party for their friends and family members on New Year's eve

The representation of women in Odisha police was 10.1% last year despite the state having the provision of 33% reservation of vacancies for women's employment in the force.

Amid the pandemic the New Year party scene will be dull in the city

The Odisha government has imposed a night curfew from 10pm on Thursday to avoid large gatherings during New Year celebrations in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, an official said.​

AGP president Atul Bora on Wednesday said though it is in alliance with BJP, the regional character of the party is not to be diluted and that the alliance is for the interest of Assam.

Hostels in Cotton University (CU) will reopen in a phased manner and classes for third and fifth semester undergraduate, fifth semester post graduate and higher secondary second year students will resume from January 4, a notification issued by the institute on Wednesday said.

The Assam government on Wednesday capped RT-PCR and Rapid Antigen Test rates at Rs 1200 and Rs 500 respectively in view of a sharp fall in prices of testing equipment which are readily available in the market now.

Prohibitory orders failed to dampen the jubilation of victors and their scores of supporters, who ignored safety guidelines, to celebrate their triumph in the gram panchayat elections, results to which were announced on Wednesday. Candidates and their supporters flocked to counting centres, where the atmosphere turned festive as the day progressed.

All the schools must adhere to Covid-19 protocols and ensure safety of the children once schools reopen from January 1, said K V Rajendra, deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada.