Новости за 05.03.2021

The state government has decided to vaccinate prisoners above 60 years and 45-year-plus with comorbidities on the jail premises. Jail superintendents have been asked to facilitate the inoculation drive smoothly.

Around 500 families staying in the Shri Balaji Enclave of old Haibatpur area are up in arms against a mobile tower being erected at a plot in the middle of a dense and thickly populated society.

A software engineer — who lived in Pune by changing his identity — was arrested by the Rajkot Police crime branch after eighteen years.

Responding to the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inculcate the national spirit through the stories of freedom fighters, a group of children from the coastal city have formed a team to eulogize warriors from the coast live by performing skits.

Several motorists continue to drive irresponsibly, with scant regard for both their safety and that of their fellow commuters. Now, in a bid to reduce accidents on the roads of Hubballi-Dharwad, the commissionerate of the twin cities has, since February 22, started using Radar-based speed detection cameras.

Indian-American Naureen Hassan, a 25-year veteran of the financial services industry, has been named as the First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Bank said that the appointment, effective March 15, was approved by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

In a major boost to India’s rice exports potential, the first consignment of ‘red rice’ was flagged off to the US. The Iron-rich 'red rice' is grown in the Brahmaputra Valley without the use of any chemical fertilizers. The local rice variety is called ‘Bao-dhaan’ and is an integral part of Assamese traditional dishes.

A 98-year-old retired police officer Damodar Mohanty on Thursday took the first shot of Covid vaccine at a vaccination centre in the city. The nonagenarian felt amused when his son took him for vaccination like a parent does this for his/her kid.

The commissionerate police has decided to reorganise its security system in Bhubaneswar in the wake of frequent incidents of snatching of mobile phones and chains. Strategies are being drawn to focus on two aspects of policing — better investigation and measures to prevent such incidents.​

In a major boost to Odisha’s industrial landscape, the ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Limited (AMNS India) on Thursday signed an MoU with the state government to set up a 12 mtpa integrated steel complex in Kendrapada district with an investment of Rs 50,000 crore.

“You can tell he’s a fauji. He still has a firm handshake,” the doctor says and smiles. He has just finished giving doses of the Covid-19 vaccine and the recipients are special -- Sqn Ldr Dalip Singh Majithia, the oldest living fighter pilot of the Indian Air Force who will turn 101 in July, and his 99-year-old wife of Australian origin, Joan Majithia.

Haryana deputy CM Dushyant Chautala's Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) has put its foot down on including the term "love jihad" in any legislation proposed by its senior coalition partner BJP to check so-called coercive relationships in which Hindu women are forced to convert before marrying Muslim partners.

The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority has planned to designate two of the five proposed police stations near Jewar airport as women’s police stations. Five police stations and a chowki had been proposed for sectors 25A, 29, 18, 20, 22-D and Dayanantpur. YEIDA CEO Arunvir Singh said that they have planned to make the police stations at sectors 18 and 29 women’s police stations.

The last rites of slain Dalit RTI activisit, Amra Boricha, was performed with Buddhist rituals in this native village Sanodar of Bhavnagar district on Thursday.