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  • 4 people died in bus accident

    4 people died in bus accident

    Four people hailing from Bihar were killed and 28 injured when their bus overturned on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Barsoo, Pulwama, on Saturday. Twenty-three of the injured have been admitted to different hospitals.

    Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Manoj Sinha expressed grief and directed the administration to provide all necessary assistance to the affected people.

    Bihar CM Nitish Kumar also expressed grief. In a statement, the CM’s office issued instructions for payment of Rs 2 lakh as ex gratia to the next of the kin of each deceased.

  • Packets of e-cigarettes, puffs seized in Gurugram

    Packets of e-cigarettes, puffs seized in Gurugram

    The CM’s flying squad raided a shop in Sushant Lok, Phase I, Gurugram, and seized 172 boxes of foreign cigarettes and 77 packets of e-cigarettes. The shop belonged to Rajesh, a resident of Delhi. The raid was conducted on March 16.

    During the raid, the CM’s flying squad also seized 6,000 packets of puffs used in e-cigarettes. The seized stuff is worth Rs 20 lakh.

    A case under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and Prohibtion of Electronic Cigarettes Act 2019, was registered in this regard.

    The CM’s flying squad recently registered 13 cases of the sale of foreign cigarettes and e-cigarettes. Youngsters are targeted for e-cigarettes and it costs around Rs 1,500 to Rs 5,000. It is made available online too. The Gurugram’s Drug Control Department and the intelligence wing also participated in the raid.

  • Congress MLAs praised the budget

    Congress MLAs praised the budget

    Congress MLAs, including Chairman of the Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation RS Bali and Shahpur MLA Kewal Singh Pathania, have lauded the Budget presented by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu yesterday.

    In a press note issued here today, RS Bali said, “The historic Budget realises and emphasises the vision of a green state. I congratulate the CM for the announcements made to promote tourism in the state.”

    Kewal Singh Pathania said the previous BJP government had ignored the Kangra district and major projects were shifted from there to other areas of the state. “The Congress government is concentrating on allotting major projects to Kangra district so that it turns into a tourism hub,” he said.

  • First case of H3N2 detected in Jharkhand

    First case of H3N2 detected in Jharkhand

    Jharkhand witnessed its first case of H3N2 influenza on Friday midnight, with a 68-year-old woman testing positive for the virus in Jamshedpur under East Singhbhum district.

    East Singhbhum civil surgeon Dr Jujhar Majhi claimed that the patient’s condition was stable.

    “She had been admitted to Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur with influenza-like symptoms and had no travel history. Her sample was sent to the nearest ICMR’s Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratories in MGM Medical College and Hospital and was confirmed positive on Friday midnight. She has already been kept in the isolation ward of Tata Main Hospital,” Dr Majhi said.

    East Singhbhum epidemiologist Dr Mohammed Asad said the family members of the infected patient had been kept under surveillance.

    “We will keep them under surveillance for a week for any influenza-related symptoms. However, none of the family members has any symptoms so far,” Dr Asad said.

    There has been a surge in influenza and flu-like cases in different districts of Jharkhand in the last one month.

    Several samples have been tested at ICMR’s Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratories housed at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi and MGM Medical College and Hospital in Jamshedpur. But this was the first sample to test positive.

    The Jharkhand health department had on March 12 issued an advisory for all district surveillance units and health centres across the state to be on alert for H3N2 influenza cases and to ensure that people followed Covid-appropriate behaviour like covering mouth while coughing or sneezing,  wearing masks, using sanitisers and maintaining social distance in crowded places, practise hand hygiene and drinking plenty of fluids.

    The advisory also mandates district health officials to conduct proper screening, monitoring and reporting of district-wise influenza-like cases and severe respiratory illness in all health facilities and upload the data on the health surveillance portal.

    The advisory directed the district hospitals to be prepared in terms of oxygen-supported beds, drugs, medical oxygen and other equipment.

    H3N2 is a non-human influenza virus that normally circulates in pigs and has infected humans, according to the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

    Symptoms are similar to those of seasonal flu and can include fever and respiratory symptoms such as cough and runny nose, body ache, nausea, vomiting or diarrhoea.

    According to data shared by the Union health ministry on March 10, 451 cases of the H3N2 virus have been reported in the country between January 2 and March 5.

  • Heavy loss to potato growers of Punjab due to low prices, sought help from the government

    Heavy loss to potato growers of Punjab due to low prices, sought help from the government

    Potato growers of Punjab are staring at heavy losses on account of very low prices they are fetching for their produce and urged the state government to extend help in this tough time.

    According to growers, they are getting Rs 4-4.50 per kg for the produce as against Rs 17 to 18 per kg received last year.

    With the farmers being unable to recover their input cost due to low prices, they are storing it in cold storage in anticipation of prices rising in the coming months.

    Punjab this season brought 1.14 lakh hectares of area under the tuber crop and registered a bumper output of 31.50 lakh metric tonnes.

    Punjab is the largest producer of seed potatoes and supplies the crop to many states including West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Bihar, Assam, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.

    According to farmers, prices have crashed due to a bumper crop in other potato-growing states.

    “Rates of potatoes crashed at the start of this season. It is because of bumper crop in potato growing states in the country,” rued potato grower Harbans Singh Walia. Walia grows potatoes over 25 to 30 acres of land in Mansoorwal village in Kapurthala district.

    He also said there was less demand for potatoes in other states like West Bengal and Gujarat this season. Walia is waiting for traders to buy his crop and till then he has kept it in cold storage.

    Potato growers said they are the main sufferers because of the drastic drop in prices and demanded from the state government to fix a minimum price of crop in mandis so the crop should not be sold below that rate which will help growers to recover at least their input cost.

    It is the middlemen who are making money, said Jalandhar-based farmer Raghubir Singh.

    According to growers, a farmer incurs Rs 7 to 8 per kg as input cost on potato crop. They lamented that with the prevailing rates, they were not unable to recover their input cost.

    “Our input cost is Rs 7-8 per kg and we are facing 50 per cent losses,” said another Jalandhar-based grower J S Sangha.

    Facing heavy losses in the wake of low prices, potato growers urged the state government to come forward and extend assistance to them.

    Kapurthala-based farmer Harbans Walia said, “The state government should offer freight subsidy so growers can sell it in other states. There should be a subsidy on electricity consumed in cold storages.” Punjab’s Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Nawanshahr are major potato-growing districts in the state.

    Early table variety potato crop is harvested in November and December. The harvesting of table and seed potatoes also takes place in February and March in Punjab.

    Punjab’s Pukhraj, Kufri Jyoti and some other varieties of seed potatoes are quite in demand in other states.

  • Himachal Pradesh Registers Minor Decrease In Number Of Unemployed Youths

    Himachal Pradesh Registers Minor Decrease In Number Of Unemployed Youths

    The number of unemployed people in Himachal Pradesh was still considerably high at 8.73 lakh, despite a decrease in comparison to the previous fiscal year, according to the data from employment exchange.

    The number of such people registered in all employment exchanges in the state in December 2022 stood at 8.21 lakh compared to 8.73 lakh in December 2021.

    As many as 1.41 lakh persons registered themselves in employment exchanges till December 2022 during the current financial year compared to 1.68 lakh the previous year.

    Kangra district with 1,66,325 registered unemployed persons topped the list, followed by Mandi 1,61,085, Shimla 71,316, Una 64,384,Chamba 62,436 and Hamirpur 61,989, while tribal districts of Lahaul and Spiti and Kinnaur were at the bottom with 5,226 and 8,300 unemployed youths.

    Out of 4,75,156 employed persons, 2,79,365 persons were employed in the government sector in 4,417 establishments, while 1,95,791 people were employed in the private sector in 1,824 establishments as on March 31, 2021, as per the Economic Survey.

    As the job avenues in the public sector are shrinking and the private sector keen only on hiring skilled and highly skilled workers, the government has started several skill development programmes, introducing emerging trades in technical institutions and updating vocational courses to enhance the employability of workers.

    The Himachal Pradesh Kaushal Vikas Nigam (HPKVN) has launched several programmes in this direction, enrolling 57,781 people so far under its various skilled development programmes. Out of them, 31,770 have been certified.

    The HP Skill Development Programme was started in 2018 with an outlay of Rs 827 crore, out of which, Rs 661 crore contributed by Asian Development Bank.

    The government is also giving an allowance of Rs 1,000 per month for skill development courses to each aspirant, and Rs 1,500 to people with more than 50 per cent permanent disability.

    Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu who presented the budget for 2023-24 on Friday told media that the government had set a target to generate 90,000 jobs in the public and private sector this year.

  • Law Minister Kiren Rijiju Vs Women’s Table Tennis Champion Sreeja Akula: Guess Who Won?

    Law Minister Kiren Rijiju Vs Women’s Table Tennis Champion Sreeja Akula: Guess Who Won?

    Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju tried his hands at playing table tennis with Sreeja Akula, the reigning national champion in Women’s singles and doubles table tennis.

    Notably, the former Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju can be seen playing a range of shots – both front hand, and back hand and even at times, taking the defending national champion Akula by surprise.

    ‘Showed only those shots which I won’
    Rijiju shared his short paddler moment on Twitter saying, “After long time I managed sometime to play Table Tennis shots with defending Indian Women’s Table Tennis Champion Sreeja Akula.”

    Sreeja Akula replying to Kiren Rijiju’s tweet said, “It was an honour to play table tennis with you sir!,” to which Rijiju replied, “Edited the video to show only those shots which I won.”

    As a former Sports Minister, Rijiju earned laurels for enhancing the sports infrastructure of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) facilities in the country and also launching the Fit India movement. Rijiju also increased the prize amount for various sports awards and also the government help provided to the serving and former sportspersons in the country.

    In 2016, he played a football match in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh alongside Chief Minister Pema Khandu and Indian football sensation Bhaichung Bhutia. He said, “Itanagar ended with a football match of CM XI vs YLC. I scored a goal! Tried my best with CM Pema Khandu, Bhaichung Bhutia & colleagues.”

  • Bus accident in Bangladesh, 17 killed, 30 injured

    Bus accident in Bangladesh, 17 killed, 30 injured

    Dhaka: At least 17 people were killed and more than 26 others injured when a passenger bus veered off the road and fell into a ditch in Bangladesh’s central Madaripur district, nearly 63 km south of the capital Dhaka on Sunday.

    Abdullahel Baki, a local Shibchar Highway Police official, told reporters that “the passenger bus felt into a roadside ditch, leaving 14 passengers dead on the spot and about 25-26 were injured”.

    He said three of the injured died on the way to local hospitals, Xinhua news agency reported.

    The accident occurred as its driver lost control over the vehicle and plunged the bus into a ditch on an expressway at about 7:30 a.m. local time.

    Bangladesh has one of the highest fatality rates for road accidents in the world mainly due to shoddy highways, poorly maintained vehicles, violation of traffic rules by inept drivers and lack of monitoring of the traffic department.

  • Powerful earthquake kills 14 in Ecuador and Peru

    Powerful earthquake kills 14 in Ecuador and Peru

    Ecuador: At least 14 people were killed after a strong earthquake struck Southern Ecuador and Northern Peru on Saturday. The powerful quake has damaged many homes and buildings, said reports. Many people are trepped inside the rubble of collapsed buildings. Rescue operations are ongoing amid the debris and fallen power lines.

    An earthquake measuring 6.7 magnitude in the ritcher scale hit Ecuador’s coastal Guayas region, reported US Geological Survey. Its centre was about 50 miles (80 kilometres) south of Guayaquil, which has a metropolitan area of more than 3 million people.

    The Ecuadorian president, Guillermo Lasso, in a televised address said the earthquake killed 12 people. In a tweet, he also asked people to remain calm.

    As per reports, 11 of the victims in the country died in the coastal state of El Oro and one in the highlands state of Azuay.

    A report from Ecuador’s adverse events monitoring directorate said there is no tsunami alert.

    The earthquake was also felt in Peru, from its northern border with Ecuador to the central Pacific coast.

  • Nepali filmmaker Pratap Subba no more

    Nepali filmmaker Pratap Subba no more

    The Nepali film world mourned the death of Pratap Subba, veteran filmmaker from Darjeeling. He was 76.

    Subba breathed his last at Siliguri on Thursday after a long spell of illness. On Saturday, hundreds paid their tribute to him at the Gorkha Dukha Niwarak Sammelan Ground in Darjeeling where his body was kept before being taken to the crematorium.

    Subba made his debut as a feature film director with Paralko Aago in 1978, after which he made films such as Bachna Chahane Haru in 1982, Mashal in 1985, Kahi Andhyaro Kahi Ujyalo in 1988, Didi in 1992, Chatyang in 1994 and Bhisma Pratigy in 1995.

    Bollywood actor Danny Denzongpa made his Nepali film debut in Subba’s Mashal.

    Paralko Aago made Subba a household name not just in and around Darjeeling but also in Nepal. The female lead in the film was Nepal’s Basundhara Bhusal.

    Subba’s work courted controversy during the politically volatile Darjeeling and the premiere of Kahi Andhyaro Kahi Ujyalo had to be scaled down in 1988. “Subba then went to Kathmandu, and though his base remained Darjeeling, he spent a lot of time in Nepal,” said a family source.

    In Nepal, popular actor Nir Shah asked him to foray into TV serials. Subba made telefilms like Kanchk Chura and Sapana Shakti, among others, in Nepal. Nir Shah had taken part in a documentary, Sahish Keta, which Subba had directed before his feature film debut. Subba’s other documentary Deuraliko Maya was dubbed both in Bengali and English.

    Lalit Golay, one of the most talented actors from Darjeeling hills, said: “I learnt the ABC of cinema from him.”