Новости за 20.02.2021

The per-capita income (PCI) of Odisha in 2020-21 is expected to decline by 2.30 per cent while the size of the state’s economy is also expected to contract by 4.92 per cent in the current financial year because of the devastating impact of Covid-19 pandemic.

The Haryana Police's Ambala Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) arrested a man after recovering 3.60kg opium from him near Santauli village in Naraingarh town on Friday.

The government has reviewed the situation at the highest level and decided to allow people from Kerala into Karnataka through select roads. There are at least 16 entry points from Kerala to Karnataka and people will be allowed into the state only through important roads.

Ever seen a man on the Mangaluru-Kochi National Highway, near the Nethravathi Bridge, every day standing for more than three hours, waving a placard? It has a purpose—he is pleading with people, not to dump waste into the river.

He was live for a 14 minutes on his Facebook page. Lakha Sidhana is wanted by Delhi Police for happenings on Republic Day during farmer's tractor parade. The police have announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh to anyone providing information about Lakha.

In a move aimed at addressing pendency of cases, the state government will adopt the litigation management policy approved by the state cabinet. Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka, chief justice, Karnataka High Court will unveil this policy in Bengaluru on February 27.

In a major breakthrough, 21 improvised explosive devices (IED) were recovered near Goilkera in a joint operation by Jharkhand Police, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Jharkhand Jaguar unit on Friday.

Udupi district that took the lead in implementing the revenue department’s much-touted Jilladikarigale Hallige Nadiyiri programme has suggested to the government to bring in a few procedural changes that will make it more people-friendly.

Karnataka state police will see a slew of changes in its administration as well as efficiency once the director-general of police Praveen Sood submits the police reforms report to the home department.

The vigilance sleuths on Friday arrested an overseer of horticulture at Buguda in Ganjam district for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 26,000 from a person to submit the field inspection report of 13 farmers, including the complainant, to avail of government subsidy.

With states like Maharashtra reporting a spurt in Covid-19 cases and the detection of Brazilian and African strains of the virus in the country putting states in a tizzy, the Odisha government has decided to make people follow Covid-appropriate behaviour more stringently.

Activists of the All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) staged a protest against the rise in prices of essential commodities in the upper Assam districts of Jorhat, Golaghat, Sivasagar, Majuli and Charaideo on Friday.

On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on his third visit in one month to poll-bound Assam when he arrives at Dhemaji. His visit has been labelled as one that gives a push for developing a ‘modern Assam’ when he dedicates three projects of petroleum ministry worth over Rs 3,000 crore to the nation.

The BJP and Congress legislators on Friday stalled assembly proceedings over mandi mismanagement and irregularities in paddy procurement, leading to repeated adjournments throughout the day.

Thousands of passengers, who travel daily by local trains in the state, have been hit badly as only one passenger train, Manas Rhino, is plying. The train runs between Guwahati and New Bongaigaon.

In the wake of the surge in Covid-19 infections in Maharashtra, the higher education department and the school and mass education department have adopted a a wait and watch policy as the cases are fast declining in Odisha.

Two youths were killed in a clash between two groups in Nawabganj area of Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district, police said on Saturday.

Sitesh Patel, the former vice-president of S K Laboratories, was sentenced on Friday by a federal court in Texas, announced Acting US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah and Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton of the Department of Justice's Civil Division.

The Assam government, which had decided to discontinue mandatory Covid testing for all flight and train passengers from March 1, has not changed its plan even as new variants of the novel coronavirus have emerged across the country.

When train services resumed after pandemic-induced restrictions were lifted in October last year, commuters on the Mysuru-Bengaluru line heaved a sigh of relief. But with railways yet to resume monthly passes, passengers are dejected since travel is burning a hole in their budgets.

Noida on Friday reported five new cases of Covid-19, taking its caseload to 25,474, out of which 62 are active. A total of six patients also recovered in the past 24 hours, bringing the number of recoveries to 25, 316.