Новости за 05.12.2021

Along with the tusker, a herd of around 70 elephants has come down to the paddy fields from Meghalaya side during this paddy harvesting season. Goalpara is one of the Assam districts which is worst affected by human-elephant conflict where wild elephants trampled nearly 20 villagers this year.

The cyclonic storm is likely to further weaken into a well-marked low-pressure area during next 12 hours, as a result of which several districts of south Bengal may receive heavy rain till Tuesday morning.

After a gap of almost two years, Bennett University alumni were invited back to the campus for the institution’s alumni meet - Manzar.

The police in Haveri district have disallowed bull-taming events because of the Covid-19 restrictions. Superintendent of police Hanumantaraya also said that injuries during the bull-taming game, called Hori Bedarisuva Sparde, were a problem, apart from the crowds of several thousand that these events attracted.

Nearly two years ago, the executive committee of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat (KSP) decided to host the 86th edition of the Kannada Sahitya Sammelana in Haveri. However, the outbreak of Covid-19 a month or so after this decision was taken has resulted in the marquee event of Kannada letters being deferred multiple times.

With the threat of the Omicron variant of coronavirus looming large, people are rushing to take vaccines. They had disregarded the government directions to get vaccinated for months believing that the virus had disappeared.

Finally, the Centre has fulfilled the longstanding demand of people from western part of the state to open a sub-regional office (SRO) of employees’ state insurance corporation (ESIC) at Jharsuguda.

Currently, schools in India are following the hybrid model of education that combines online and offline classes. Teachers use online applications, such as Google Meet and Zoom, and the traditional chalk-and-talk format to engage students at home and in the classroom. So, schools needed to create learning modules, which work within this framework for both teachers and students.

With Cyclone Jawad weakening into a deep depression, shelter homes wore a deserted look as people were reluctant to move in there in the capital. In Cuttack as well, only a handful of people have shifted to shelters.

Covid-19 has seemingly returned to Varanasi and adjoining region after a gap of months. Three persons, including a senior doctor of SSL hospital of Banaras Hindu University, tested positive between Friday and Saturday while four members of a family in Ghazipur have also been found positive. All the persons who have tested positive have travel history.

Altogether 113 out of 305 sanctioned posts of faculty members are lying vacant in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar. Also, 169 senior resident and 83 junior resident posts are lying vacant in the premier hospital, Union minister of state for health and family welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar told the Lok Sabha.

Noted scientist and educationist Trilochan Pradhan passed away here on Saturday due to age-related ailments. He was 93.

As per the data till November 30, around 38 lakh people in Odisha are yet to take their second dose of anti-Covid vaccine, Union minister of state in the ministry of health and family welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar said in Lok Sabha on Saturday.

The state health authorities have failed to track a single foreign returnee out of the 389 names the Centre had provided while their mandatory seven-day quarantine has ended or will end on Sunday.

In the end Jawad proved true to its name, generous, sparing Odisha and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh major damage as it dissipated into the Bay of Bengal on Saturday evening, weakening into a deep depression. However, under the cyclone's influence, many coastal districts received moderate rainfall and may get heavy showers on Sunday, the IMD said.

Amid the threat posed by Omicron, the Union health ministry on Saturday flagged rising Covid infections in six districts of Odisha as well as the prevalent high caseload in Khurda even as daily testing is on the decline.

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday demanded the resignation of Punjab higher education minister Pargat Singh for what he described as the “multi-crore assistant professor recruitment scam”.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national spokesperson Raghav Chadha, along with a few party workers, on Saturday carried out a raid at mining site in Jindapur village of Ropar and claimed that the illegal mining was being carried in the area of Chamkaur Sahib assembly segment represented by Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi.

An "unknown" disease has killed a large number of pigs in Barak Valley's Cachar district in the past few weeks, sources said.

Union minister of ports, shipping and waterways and AYUSH Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday inspected the Inland Waterways of India (IWAI) jetty at the iconic Loktak Lake in Manipur and promised promotion and development of the lake with 100% central support.

The Dibrugarh district administration decided to shut down The Shiksha Valley School for a week on Saturday, following detection of multiple Covid-19 cases in the institution.

A 107-year-old grandmother from the Sonowal Kachari community in upper Assam's Golaghat district has become a role model for others to emulate as the state health department managed to convince her to get inoculated under the Prime Minister's Har Ghar Dastak programme.

Buoyed by the success of its innovative Project RE-HAB (Reducing Elephant-Human Attacks using Bees) in Karnataka, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has now replicated the project at two villages in Goalpara district in Assam where 332 human deaths due to elephant attacks were reported between 2014 and 2019.

On Friday, the two cities had received mild rainfall and the AQIs had improved to 312 in Noida and 262 ('poor') in Greater Noida from a day back, as per the Central Pollution Control Board data.