Новости за 22.06.2021

The Puri police on Tuesday finalised the security arrangements for Thursday’s Debasnan Purnima in Jagannath temple. The police have divided Puri into six zones and at least 35 platoons will be on guard for smooth conduct of the festival before Rath Yatra.

Puri king Gajapati Dibyasingha Deb (67), who had abstained from performing his hereditary Chhera Pahanra service (sweeping of the floor) on Debasnan Purnima in Jagannath temple in the middle of Covid-19 last year, is unlikely to discharge his traditional duty on Thursday.

The police on Tuesday arrested a squadron leader of the Indian Air Force after his wife, a lieutenant allegedly committed suicide at her Ambala residence.

Karnataka principal secretary (revenue department), N Manjunatha Prasad, had stated in an order on Tuesday that all shops, except those with air-conditioning, will be allowed to function in Dakshina Kannada district between 6am and 1pm until July 5.

A 'pathi' (who recites Gurbani in Gurdwaras) was thrashed and paraded with his face blackened by some locals in Burhanpur village in Naggal area of Haryana's Ambala district.

Former MLC Ivan D’Souza said the government's promise of offering free anti-coronavirus vaccines to all is a blatant lie.

"Gurugram police have arrested four persons for allegedly thrashing a 19-year-old college student to death over his relationship with a girl," the police said on Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday approved the renaming of Noida stadium shooting range after the acclaimed national sharpshooter, late Chandro Tomar.

Manipal Academy of Higher Education’s (MAHE) Formula Manipal, which is one of MAHE’s most accomplished and well-known student projects, is partnering with professional non-profit alliance Swasth Foundation to set an ambitious goal to raise enough funds required to procure approximately eight high flow oxygen concentrators.

On Day One of the unlock in the city after the lockdown forced by the second Covid-19 wave, transport department buses hit the roads and almost all commercial establishments except malls and others remained open. People started venturing out in the city since morning — several of them visited grocery shops, stationery shops and among others to purchase provisions and study materials.

Even as those protesting in Haryana in support of Vishal Jood, arrested in Australia over two months ago, are claiming that he is in an Australian jail for “saving the Indian flag from Khalistanis”, a statement issued by New South Wales (NSW) police on June 16 had said he had been arrested for a series of attacks in which baseball bats and sticks were used.

All shops in Dakshina Karnataka's Kannada district will be allowed to open till 2pm from Wednesday, said district minister Kota Shrinivas Poojari.

A 10-month-old baby girl was rescued on Monday and lodged at a government-run Child Care Institute (CRI) at Kora village in Kendrapada district, after her mother sold her off for Rs 5,000 on Sunday due to poverty.

BJP workers on Monday staged protests at vaccination centres In different parts of the state over the display of chief minister Naveen Patnaik's posters and handing over of slips with Naveen"s photographs to vaccinated people. They demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's poster's as well outside these centres.

The state government on Monday denied the administration of two doses of Covid-19 vaccine, Covishield, to a 51-year-old man in Mayurbhanj district within a gap of five minutes, contrary to his allegation.

The state's test positivity rate (TPR) on Monday dropped below 5% for the first time in more than two months since April 10. The day's TPR dipped further to 4.97% from 5.38% on Sunday as 3.031 tested positive from among the 61,000 samples tested. The government confirmed 43 more deaths raising the Covid death toll to 3,633.

Cybercrime police have held a 24-year-old man from Surat for duping unemployed people by luring them with the promise of good incomes from data entry work. The targets were told they could earn while working from home.

The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has condemned the Assam government's proposed population policy and labeled it not only "discriminatory" but also "anti-secular and unconstitutional".

Assam joined the rest of the country in celebrating the 7th International Day of Yoga on Monday with great enthusiasm. Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took part in a yoga session on the NHPC campus at Gerukamukh in upper Assam's Dhemaji district.

Assam power minister Bimal Borah on Monday said the government will strongly deal with power theft.

In an effort to check the possible spread of Covid-19 infections in the flood relief camps across Assam, the state government has issued a set of new guidelines to be followed by the authorities concerned for inmates living in these relief camps.

Odisha crossed the landmark of administering one crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines following the highest one-day inoculation using more than 3.32 lakh doses on Monday.