Новости за 16.04.2021

To ensure the farmers, labourers, and others adhere to Covid protocols, the district administration has initiated a drive to constantly sensitize them through the public address system in the grain markets.

Rajkot police arrested two people on Friday for allegedly selling Remdesivir injections in black market. ​The crime branch sleuths also recovered four such injections which they intend to sell for Rs 10,000 each.

An Indian-origin man has said his niece was among those who were injured in a mass shooting incident at the FedEx facility in the US city of Indianapolis that left 8 people dead, according to a media report.

Two children including an infant and their mother were rescued by Rajkot fire brigade from a top floor of a four-storey apartment on Thursday evening. 80 per cent of the flat was gutted in fire, the woman locked herself with her two children in a bathroom from where the fire brigade rescued them.

The state government has asked commissionerate police to revive the pink auto service, which has been non-operational for the past three years here.

Convict Sheikh Hyder, who had escaped from SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack during treatment on April 10, has been recaptured by commissionerate police in Telangana on Thursday. Hyder was intercepted in Sangareddy district while he was moving in a bike in the evening.

The high-decibel campaign for the Pipili assembly constituency fell silent a day after Congress candidate, Ajit Mangaraj, died of Covid-19 leading to the adjournment of the April 17 byelection.

Despite the unprecedented rise in Covid-19 cases in the state, people are often found without wearing masks or flouting the social distance rule when outside. Though there was strict enforcement of preventive measures for a few days following the sudden spike in cases, people have now become careless.

With children increasingly contracting Covid-19 in the second wave of the pandemic, experts and paediatricians have asked parents to exercise greater caution.

Despite the surge in Covid-19 cases in many districts, the state government is likely to go ahead with its plan to conduct a survey of the social and educational conditions of people belonging to the backward classes.

With a surge in coronavirus cases, the state government on Thursday appointed senior IAS officers as Covid observers of various districts.

Ending all speculations, the Odisha government on Thursday postponed the Class X (matric) and Class XII (Plus II) boards owing to a steady rise in Covid-19 cases in the state. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik said the exams have been postponed keeping the safety of the students in mind.

At a Surat crematorium on Wednesday night, five bodies were cremated on a single makeshift pyre built to speed up the disposal of a rush of corpses

A green card holder who has been outside the US, for more than 180 days but less than one year, has to prove that he or she has not abandoned permanent residence in the US. For those who have spent more than a year outside the US, it is tougher – it results in automatic loss of legal permanent residence (LPR) status, unless steps were taken prior to departure to prevent this loss of status.

Three persons were arrested by the crime branch for allegedly making extortion calls by using the customer care number of a financial company. The company had issued some numbers to its employees for making loan recovery calls.