Odishatv Bureau

New Delhi: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Balram Bhargava has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after he tested positive for Covid-19. The 59-year-old ICMR chief was...

A head nurse at CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, caused a brief scare on Thursday when she fainted shortly after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to reports. Tiffany Dover, a head nurse at...

New York: The United States on Friday authorised a second Covid-19 vaccine in a single week’s time, green lighting a shot developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health for emergency use in...

Cuttack: The ongoing marital discord between actor-turned-MP Anubhav Mohanty and his celebrity wife Varsha Priyadarshini has hit the headlines again after the latter filed a fresh complaint with the police alleging that attempts are being...

Moscow: Russia has successfully launched its Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, delivering 36 satellites from the UK-based OneWeb company into space. The rocket blasted off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the country’s Far East at 3.26 p.m....

New Delhi: Extramarital dating app Gleeden on Tuesday said that it has crossed 13 lakh subscribers in India during the Covid-19 period. The dating app added that its subscription rate skyrocketed over the past three...

New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) will reopen for PhD scholars from Monday in its fourth phase of reopening the campus after being closed for over seven months in view of the COVID-19 pandemic....

Gandhinagar: Suspected to be a fungal infection triggered by Covid, the incidence of mucormycosis in Gujarat in the past two months has been above average. The Ahmedabad Civil hospital has seen 25 such cases, while...

New York: US President-elect Joe Biden has appointed Vedant Patel, a former communications aide to House of Representatives member Pramila Jayapal, as his assistant press secretary. His appointment announced on Friday makes him one of...

New Delhi: The Government has proposed to free both power producers and consumers from continuing with contracted obligation once the tenure of a power purchase agreement expires. The move is expected to provide flexibility to...

Guwahati: The state-owned Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) in Assam has undertaken an ambitious Rs 949 crore plan to augment its capacity and lay 2,200 km of crude oil pipeline from the Paradip port in Odisha...

Ayodhya: The proposed mosque in Dhannipur village in Ayodhya will not adhere to the traditional style of mosque. It will be futuristic, modern and the structure will be round-shaped. The Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) trust,...

New Delhi: With just six to seven months left for the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and Assam, the Election Commission (EC) has begun a mammoth drive for the scrutiny of...

Here is a guide to the week ahead for you. This is your forecast for December 21-27: ARIES In the first part of the week, you are likely to spend money on luxuries which can...

Adelaide: Right-arm India fast bowler Mohammed Shami is likely to miss the remaining three Tests of the ongoing four-match series against Australia after scans on his bowling hand revealed hairline fracture, it has been learnt....

London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a new Tier Four of coronavirus restrictions for London and other parts of England to combat an alarming surge in new coronavirus cases linked to a new...

Mumbai: You might hate her or love her, but you certainly cannot ignore Rakhi Sawant. Controversy’s favourite child is back in the news again, this time as a challenger on the ongoing season 14 of...

New Delhi: During the nationwide lockdown in India, the Covid-19 pandemic has led to increased interaction between adults and their teenage wards and has allowed parents more time to monitor them, the experts said on...

New Delhi: Indian boxers won three gold medals, besides two silver and four bronze, at the recently concluded Cologne Boxing World Cup held in Koln, Germany. “Our Indian boys and girls have won nine medals...

Washington: An astronomer has spotted a little tiny speck flying past the Sun which is a recently discovered rare comet, as the world witnessed the total solar eclipse this month. This comet was first spotted...