y k y cm KEEN OBSERVATION SUEZ CANAL BLOCKED HISTORIC FEAT Actor Kirti Kulhari has said that not big names A giant cargo container ship has turned Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar becomes but content matters on OTT platforms to sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt’s youngest Indian ever to win gold at the ISSF World Cup achieve success LEISURE | P2 Suez Canal INTERNATIONAL | P10 SPORTS | P12 VOLUME 10, ISSUE 352 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | THURSDAY, MARCH 25 | 2021 12 PAGES | `4.00 IRREGULAR by MANJUL STATE GOVERNMENT KEPT INFO UNDER WRAPS TO PREVENT PANIC 3 with UK strain in Odisha POST NEWS NETWORK Night curfew now Bhubaneswar, March 24: The UK mutant strain of the COVID-19 virus has in Nabarangpur been found in three persons in Odisha. The genome sequencing of the BHUBANESWAR: Night curfew will be persons was done by the designated imposed in Odisha’s Nabarangpur labs in India. The National Centre for district from March 25 until further CALL FOR BHARAT BANDH Now we know why our friend is Disease Control (NCDC) gave this in- orders in a bid to prevent the spread always angry and tense. His monthly formation Wednesday. It also said that of COVID-19. Odisha reported target is much higher than ours! the UK COVID-19 strain have been Wednesday 170 new COVID-19 infections, the state’s highest spike in detected in 736 persons from 18 states Farmers’ unions the last 45 days. Of the new cases, 99 including Odisha. were reported from quarantine SHORT TAKES The NCDC however, said that so far centres, while the remaining 71 were no strain of South African, Brazilian detected during contact tracing, a ask for support and Japanese strains have been health department official said. The Old tribal woman detected in Odisha. The institute fresh cases included 27 from Nuapada, killed in forest fire informed that these three major strains 23 each from Cuttack and Khurda and were responsible for the sudden rise of People queue up for vaccination at a hospital in Bhubaneswar OP PHOTO 22 from Sundargarh districts. This has COVID-19 cases across India. prompted Nabarangpur district New Delhi: A 73-year-old tribal The information was confirmed by which mainly came from international from England. Health department officials to impose night curfew woman was charred to death in SK Singh, director general of NCDC. travellers and is believed to have caused Additional Secretary Pradipta (8.00pm to 6.00am) from Thursday. a forest fire in Kandhamal “The UK variant was linked to surge a surge in the number of cases of the Mohapatra said the incidents were re- Movement of individuals will be district Wednesday, police said. strictly prohibited during the night. The deceased was identified as in cases in the United Kingdom. Ten labs pandemic. There are evidences of ported in December and was not made Ramabati Pradhan of Bali village in India worked together with ICMR and increase in transmission potential public to prevent panic creeping in. under Raikia police station. She other organisations to conduct the from these three variants,” he added. The Centre in their official briefing ers had crossed 90 per cent. So far it is came in contact with the flames genome sequencing of the infected The Odisha government however on COVID- 19 said that Odisha is not among the top nine states where 80 while collecting ‘Mahua’ flower samples,” Singh stated. said that the strain was detected in among the top 11 states where the sec- per cent vaccination has been com- Wednesday afternoon, said “There were three mutant strains December from patients who returned ond dose vaccination for frontline work- pleted for frontline workers. AGENCIES have been camping at the Tapantaruna Behera, the IIC of Delhi border points --- Singhu, Raikia police station. The victim, New Delhi, March 24: The Tikri and Ghazipur --- for as she went deep into the Samyukta Kisan Morcha over four months, demand- forest, could not come out once Petrol, diesel (SKM), an umbrella body of ing the repeal of farm laws the fire engulfed her. Locals No royalty revision on iron, bauxite prices reduced 40 farmers' unions has called and a legal guarantee on the rushed her to the hospital after for ‘Bharat Bandh’ March 26 minimum support price rescuing her, but she CENTRE ASKS STATES TO PUT MORE MINES ON AUCTION TO EARN REVENUE PRESS TRUST OF INDIA which will mark the com- (MSP) for their crops. succumbed to her injuries while pletion of four months of “We seek your full coop- undergoing treatment. POST NEWS NETWORK panel has proposed the reduction of New Delhi, March 24: In the protests at various borders eration and solidarity to In terms of auction and royalty in the auctioned mines and to first reduction in rates in over a of Delhi. The farmer unions make the day a success. We New Delhi, March 24: Expressing its also in the overall maintain the same in the non-auc- year, petrol price Wednesday was have also invited trade have been fighting against Junta releases intention against the revision of royalty mineral sector, the tioned mines. cut by 18 paise per litre and diesel unions, transporters and re- the new farm laws peace- journo, students on iron, bauxite and chromite and other Odisha government have done Joshi also praised the Odisha gov- by 17 paise a litre as international tailers associations and other fully, but there have been minerals, the Centre asked Wedneday well. They are earning a very ernment for its work in the mineral sec- oil prices tumbled to the lowest mass organisations to join plenty of occasions when the state governments to put up more good amount of revenue out of tor. “You have also done very well. You are since early February. the strike. we have faced violence and Yangon: In an apparent move to ` placate the protesters, the mines for auction to earn revenue. that from Odisha. Your government has done Petrol price was cut to 90.99 a Farmers have been torture. A large number of In response to a question asked by Biju well. In terms of auction and also in the litre in Delhi from `91.17 per litre, protesting for close to four farmers have also died dur- military junta currently in PRALHAD JOSHI I MINES MINISTER control in Myanmar, released Janata Dal (BJD) MP Ramesh Majhi overall mineral sector, they have done according to a price notification months now over the newly- ing the protests. So we seek Wednesday journalist Thein regarding the revision of royaltyon well and are receiving a very good amount of state-owned fuel retailers. Diesel enacted farm laws. Eleven support from all organisa- Zaw and hundreds of people minerals in the Lok Sabha, Union Coal However, there is no provision in the of revenue out of that,” Joshi said. now comes for `81.30 a litre in the rounds of talks with the tions who are against the imprisoned for demonstrating and Mines Minister Pralhad Joshi said MMDR Act, which mandates the Central Earlier, Manjhi had asked the Joshi as national capital, down from `81.47 Centre have failed to solve newly-enacted farm laws,” against the coup which ousted that mines are the biggest source of government to revise the rates of roy- to when would the government decide previously. the imbroglio. Farmers want the SKM said in a statement elected government of Aung revenue in the entire world. These are alty for major minerals immediately on revision of royalty rates. Majhi had Rates have been reduced across complete repeal of the three released Wednesday. San Suu Kyi. AP journalist getting costly as ‘we are charging 42-45 after completion of three years of last said in the House that the rates were India and vary from state to state laws while the government It should be stated here Zaw was charged with per cent tax on the mines’. revision of rates,” Joshi said. revised last in 2014. “It’s been seven depending on the local taxation is not ready to do so. that farmers’ protests took violating a public order law “The Central Government shall not The Union Minister also said that the years, we have been facing losses due to (VAT). This is the first reduction Thousands of farmers, a new turn on Republic Day that carries a penalty of up to enhance the rates of royalty more than ministry had constituted a study group non-revision of royalty rates,” Majhi in fuel prices in over a year. Prices mostly from Punjab, Haryana when demonstrations three years in prison. P10 once during a period of three years. in this regard. He informed that the said in the house. were last reduced March 16, 2020. and western Uttar Pradesh, turned violent. TTPS STAGE-III PROJECT LAST MINUTE FACELIFT CJI Bobde names Justice Ramana Naveen seeks early execution as his successor AGENCIES pand the capacity of the station PRESS TRUST OF INDIA and install two units of 660 MW Bhubaneswar, March 24: Odisha each. The state-designated agency, New Delhi, March 24: Chief Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik GRIDCO Ltd promptly signed Power Justice of India SA Bobde who is requested Wednesday the Centre to Purchase Agreement (PPA) with set to retire April 23, has recom- address concerns related to closure NTPC in December 2010 for 660 mended senior-most judge Justice of Talcher Thermal Power Station MW, informed the chief minister. NV Ramana as his successor and (TTPS) and take steps for early ex- The chief minister said the the 48th CJI in keeping with con- ecution of the Stage-III project.