Новости за 18.06.2021

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “We had a meeting with NESAC and it was decided to prepare an action plan for the use of satellite data in various fields which will include flood and erosion images, land encroachment in border areas, outbreak of malaria and Japanese Encephalitis among others.”

After more than a month, Dakshina Kannada district recorded more than 1,000 daily cases of Covid-19 on Friday. The district reported 1,006 fresh cases and recorded 15 fatalities, which is the highest daily Covid-19 death toll of the year.

Former Karnataka minister K Abhayachandra Jain announced that he will register himself as an organ donor as a tribute to actor Sanchari Vijay, who died recently.

A male Royal Bengal Tiger has died after reportedly being hit by a stray bullet fired by forest guards to prevent it from entering human habitations adjacent to the Kaziranga National Park in Assam's Golaghat district, a senior forest official said.

The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Punjab unit co-incharge Raghav Chadha said on Friday that his party's struggle would continue till the roll numbers of two lakh Dalit students were “released”.

A major fire broke out at the corporate office of the Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) located in the Ganga Shopping Complex in Sector 29 on Friday afternoon, prompting evacuation of scores of people from the building, officials said.

A day after arresting a 22-year-old youth on charges of killing a 6-year-old girl at a village in Nayagarh district, the police on Thursday said she was raped before she was murdered. The accused, Sagar Dalai, was produced in Nayagarh court on Thursday and sent to judicial custody following rejection of his bail plea.

State government employees, who have been fully vaccinated, will now have to attend office even as various administrative departments and sub-ordinate offices will continue to function with 50% staff strength till June-end.

All Assam Minorities Students’ Union (AAMSU), while meeting the Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, submitted a memorandum seeking rejection orders for those excluded from the NRC and for improving the educational and health infrastructure of the minority dominated areas for checking the population growth.

In a joint operation conducted by the police and the CRPF in Karbi Anglong district along the Assam-Nagaland border, two inter-state drug smugglers, including a woman, were arrested on Thursday. Over 2 kg heroin were seized from them.

The Assam government may cancel the Class X and XII board exams at the last minute, official sources said, informing that there is a 90% possibility of the announcement of the cancellation of the exams on Friday.

At least two lakh Covid test results are yet to be uploaded on the ICMR portal. Though the exercise has no direct impact on patient care, the Union ministry of health and family welfare uses the data to formulate its dynamic testing strategy for states. The laboratories upload the data on https://cvanalytics.icmr.org.in, the ICMRs Covid-19 analytics portal.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced a Covid-19 package worth Rs 1,690 crore that would benefit the landless farmers, construction workers, the urban poor, food security beneficiaries, MGNREGS workers and the primitive tribes of the state.

The commissionerate police has developed two web-based applications — Kundli and Sandhan — to create a database of criminals involved in property-related offences and trace the real owners of the recovered booties.

After launching YouTube classes for students of Class IX and X, the state government on Thursday launched e-Pathsala and e-Mulyankan facilities keeping in mind disruption of classes during the ongoing pandemic. These online platforms will benefit students, teachers and district education officers (DEOs).

Despite holding several meetings, the 14-member expert committee formed to decide the alternative assessment of higher secondary (Class XII) marks is yet to decide on the final scheme of things or assessment.

The proposed Sri Jagannath International Airport in Puri may soon become a reality with a team of officials from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) conducting a pre-feasibility study in the temple town on Thursday.

At least 150 people, stranded in the middle of the Gandak river on a boat in Kushinagar on Thursday night, were successfully rescued by NDRF in an overnight operation.

The simmering discontent in the state BJP came to the fore on the second day of BJP general secretary's Arun Singh's visit as some legislators publicly aired their views about leadership change. "It's better to replace Yediyurappa with another Lingayat chief," said MLC H Vishwanath firing the first salvo, moments after Karnataka in-charge Singh initiated one-on-one meeting with MLAs.