y k y cm MYRIAD MOODS RHEA APPEARS BEFORE ED LANDSLIDE WIN Actor Janhvi Kapoor shares various moods Actor Rhea Chakraborty, accused of abetting Rajapaksa will be sworn in as Lanka's PM for while promoting her upcoming flick suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput, appeared 4th time Sunday after his party won a landslide victory Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl LEISURE | P2 before the ED Friday TWO STATES | P7 INTERNATIONAL | P10 VOLUME 10, ISSUE 128 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 | 2020 12 PAGES | `4.00 IRREGULAR by MANJUL KERALA PLANE CRASH KILLS 11 AGENCIES An Air India Express flight with passengers on board New Delhi/Kozhikode, August 7: en route from Dubai skidded An Air India Express aircraft skidded off the runway while landing off the runway while landing in in Kozhikode, Friday PTI PHOTO Kozhikode and plunged into the deep valley below. At least 11 people have re- portedly died in the accident, includ- Record 1-day Covid Don’t you give any frequent flier ing the pilot of the flight, DV Sathe. benefits? I’ve been flying with you The incident occurred at 7.41 pm since my childhood! Friday when the flight from Dubai to spike in India, state Kozhikode skidded off the runway after landing at the 'table-top' airport. AGENCIES & PNN The aircraft with 190 persons on- Treatment at SHORT TAKES board, including six crew members, New Delhi/Bhubaneswar, pvt hosps soon battled heavy rains while landing. August 7: Registering over According to the Directorate General 60,000 cases in 24 hours for BHUBANESWAR: With the Kerala landslide of Civil Aviation, Air India Express the first time, India's COVID- spike in Covid-19 cases, the AXB1344, a B737 aircraft, with 191 peo- 19 tally galloped past 20 lakh state government Friday kills 15; 60 missing ple onboard, landed on Runway 10 on Friday, while the number allowed private hospitals amid visibility of 2,000 metres in heavy of recoveries surged to 13.78 having 30 or more beds to Thiruvananthapuram: Heavy rain, but continued running till the lakh, according to Union open Covid-19 units. In view rain followed by a landslide at of the pandemic, a large end of runway, fell down in the valley health ministry data. The Rajamalai in Idukki district number of cases of different Thursday night has left at least and broke into two pieces. coronavirus infection tally severities like mildly symp- 15 persons dead, including a As per the Ministry of Civil Aviation, had crossed 19 lakh just two tomatic, very mildly sympto- child, and more than 60 others rescue operations are going on and days ago. matic, moderate and severe are reported missing, a police the injured have been moved to the It took 110 days for COVID- are being detected. P3 official said Friday. The latest hospital. After landing at runway 10, 19 cases in the country to reports indicate that there were the flight continued running to end of reach one lakh and 59 days district, under which nearly 100 people in the locality, the runway and fell down in the valley way. Malappuram SP Abdul Kareem to information received here, the pas- Vijayan said police and fire force per- more to cross the 10-lakh Bhubaneswar falls, reported most of whom had returned to and broke into two portions, the state- said there could be more casualties. sengers sitting in the front row have been sonnel have been directed to take all mark. Thereafter it took the highest number of new the area following the pandemic. ment said. At least 170 passengers About 40 ambulances have reached seriously injured. measures for rescue and relief opera- just 21 days more to go past cases at 298. The landslide occurred after have been rescued. the accident spot and are taking the pas- Rescue operations are progressing. tions. Further details were not im- 20 lakh. This was the ninth According to the health heavy rains over the last few An airline spokesperson said the sengers to various hospitals in It had been raining heavily at the time mediately known. Air India Express has day in a row that the tally in- ministry data, 62,538 cases days in the area mostly inhabited aircraft apparently overshot the run- Kozhikode and Malappuram. According of the accident. Chief Minister Pinarayi only Boeing 737 planes in its fleet. creased by more than 50,000. were added in the country by tea estate workers. P9 Odisha registered its high- in a day taking the total est single-day spike in coronavirus caseload to COVID-19 cases Friday as 20,27,074. The toll climbed to India to host T20 Hockey skipper tests Covid +ve 1,833 more people tested pos- 41,585 with 886 people suc- COP STRENGTH AT itive for the infection, a cumbing to the infection in World Cup in 2021 AGENCIES virus while travelling health official said. The 24 hours, the data showed. New Delhi: The International from their hometowns to state's COVID-19 death toll At the same time, the Cricket Council (ICC) has PSes TO BE RAISED Bangalore, August 7: Indian national SAI, Bangalore. soared to 247 as 12 more pa- number of patients who re- decided that India will host the men’s hockey team skipper Manpreet All four tested nega- tients succumbed to the in- cuperated from the disease 2021 edition of the T20 World Singh, along with three of his teammates, tive in the rapid test. fection, he said. surged to 13,78,105 on Friday Cup while the postponed 2020 POST NEWS NETWORK the release said. has tested positive for coronavirus after However, since Manpreet The new infections re- taking the recovery rate to edition will now be played in Director General of Police Abhay, reporting to the national camp in Sports and Surender began to ported from 29 of 30 dis- 67.98 per cent. There are Australia in 2022. India is also Bhubaneswar, August 7: Chief through his official twitter han- Authority of India’s National Centre of display virus symptoms tricts have pushed the state's 6,07,384 active coronavirus set to host the 50-over World Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday dle, thanked the Chief Minister Excellence here. This was revealed since later, they along with other 10 athletes coronavirus caseload to cases in the country Cup in India in 2023. The ICC gave his go-ahead to a plan for ra- for sanctioning 905 new posts at as a proactive step, SAI made it mandatory who had travelled together were given 42,550. As many as 1,118 new presently which comprise had announced the tionalisation of 905 posts in Odisha 220 police stations across the state. for all athletes, who reported back to the the Quantitative RT-PCR test Thursday, and cases were reported from 29.96 per cent of the total postponement of the 2020 Police and creation of six police sta- Meanwhile, Commissioner of camp to take a rapid COVID-19 test upon the four have been found to be positive. quarantine centres, while caseload. Case fatality rate edition of the World T20 July 20 tions in various districts, a release Police Sudhanshu Sarangi, in a arrival. Since all the athletes who tested due to the coronavirus Though the test results have still not been 715 people tested positive has further dropped to 2.07 pandemic, but did not mention from CMO said. press briefing, expressed his grat- positive had travelled together, there is a handed over to SAI, the state government for the infection during con- per cent, the Union health the venue for the 2021 edition The state government’s decision itude to the CM for formally giving high likelihood that they contracted the has informed the test results to the SAI. tact tracing, he said. Khurda ministry said. More P4 and the 2022 edition. They had to increase the staff strength at his approval for establishment of only said that the 2023 50-over police stations will enable PSes to a police station at Bharatpur and World Cup will be played in deliver efficient citizen-centric increase the cops’ strength at 16 n ROAD SAFETY TO BE October-November in India. P12 services and control crime effi- police stations and one outpost in INCLUDED IN CLASS-X Rlys to end Raj era ciently. the Commissionerate Police. Road safety classes in SYLLABUS FROM NEXT A significant de- The new police station YEAR Khalasi system; cline in Maoist at Bharatpur, carved out MARKET WATCH n ROAD SAFETY DAY TO menace due to of Khandagiri police sta- BE OBSERVED ONCE IN security force’s tion, will have six sub in- no fresh hiring INDEX VARIATION schools from this year A WEEK IN SCHOOLS response and spectors, three assistant developmental sub-inspectors, 21 constables along POST NEWS NETWORK Day in schools once in a week. This ment also planned to set up trauma AGENCIES SENSEX 38040.57 15.12 activities in the infested areas has with an inspector in-charge. day will feature painting, quiz and care centres (TCCs) in each of 30 dis- enabled the state police to rede- Locals in Khandagiri area have Bhubaneswar, August 7: With debate competitions on road safety tricts. So far eight have been made New Delhi, August 7: The BOURSES NIFTY 11214.00 13.80 ploy manpower in police stations been demanding upgradation of an aim to curb fatalities on roads among students. functional. Railways is set to end a colonial- DOLLAR 75.13 `0.02 in other areas. the outpost at Bharatpur into a by creating awareness among school “We have included road safety in Fatalities on roads have not era practise of appointing khala- The CM had recently directed the full-fledged police station.