Новости за 01.08.2021

With daily Covid cases coming down below 1,000 and positivity rate under 1 per cent in the state, the second wave of Covid-19 may die down by the end of August, said health experts.

As Puri gears up to welcome tourists following the fresh Covid unlock guidelines, the district police have identified 15 hotspots, including the beach areas, which have been opened for visitors, to conduct awareness and enforcement drives.

In the weeks running up and in the immediate aftermath of BS Yediyurappa’s resignation, several prominent leaders of the Congress had been issuing statements about the saffron party being a divided house.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who has been charged with criminal conspiracy and attempt to murder by Mizoram Police after the clash at the inter-state border, said he is ready to report to Mizoram Police if summoned and faced arrest but will not allow state government officials whose name appeared in the FIR along with his to face any probe by the neighbouring state.

Haryana Saraswati Heritage Development Board (HSHDB) will be preserving about centuries old Baoli (well with steps leading down to water level) of Lakhi Shah Vanjara at Ishargarh village just 200 metres away from national highway (NH) 44 (GT Road) in Kurukshetra district.

The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC), after going through the applications it received for the appointment of ward committees in 60 wards, has prepared a draft list.

A top Maoist leader, who was carrying Rs 4 lakh reward on his head and involved in many offences, surrendered before the police in Balangir district on Sunday. He was identified as Aitu Korsa (23), an area committee member (ACM) in CPI (Maoist).

Six days after a violent clash between police forces of Assam and Mizoram claimed seven lives and injured over 50 people, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said such incidents along the inter-state border are "unacceptable" to people of both the states and advocated a resolution through talks.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday sought intervention of Union chemicals and fertilizers minister Mansukh Mandaviya over short supply of fertilizers to Odisha.

Not content with attracting investments in mining and metallurgical sectors, the state government is now shifting focus on diversification of industries to accelerate economic growth and employment generation.

The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) on Saturday announced the annual higher secondary results of the science and commerce stream students for the academic year 2020-21. Breaking all past records, 95.15% students passed in science and 94.96% students passed in the commerce stream. Last year, the pass percentage was 70.21% and 74.95% for science and commerce, respectively.

The Jharkhand government on Saturday said only 2% or about 603 of the targetted 30,171 beneficiary took their second dose of the Covid vaccine on Saturday.

The state government on Saturday said malls, theatres and parks can reopen from Sunday, while leaving it to the district administrations and shrine authorities to take a decision on allowing visitors to places of worship. Temples and other religious places have been shut for devotees since July 5.

Congress national secretary and Mahagama MLA Deepika Pandey Singh has said police should focus on improving the state's law and order to save the Jharkhand government's image given the spate of murders, including judicial officials, rather than spending their resources to probe the alleged horse-trading controversy surrounding her party.

Afghanis living in Punjab are a worried lot these days. The way things are unfolding in their country, they said, are giving them sleepless nights. Ever since the United States of America withdrew its troops from the war-torn country, the possibility of Taliban taking over the reins of the country is getting pronounced, they fear.

In a rare search and rescue operation, more than 1,000 people from over 20 villages in Ludhiana came together to save a 6-year-old boy from the clutches of his kidnapper and accomplished the task on Saturday morning after a 36-hour operation. The villagers, along with 300 cops, combed the jungle along the Satluj river without a break to get to the boy, Amandeep Singh.

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday visited the memorial of Udham Singh at Rauza Sharif in Sirhind, Fatehgarh Sahib, and paid obeisance to the martyr.

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: Two sisters were caught on camera thrashing a man in his twenties after he allegedly shared an obscene video of himself with one of the girls on Instagram. The girl and her elder sister beat the man up after she found out that the youth, belonging to a different community, had been messaging her on Instagram posing as a woman and using a fake name for the past two-three months, police said.