The decision to grant additional Dearness Allowance installment to central government employees have been under freeze since April 2020. But from July 30, employees likely to draw higher salaries due to additional DA from July...

The GISAID transmission data shows infection spreading from Telangana during the period of mid-April to districts like Nuapada, Balangir and Deogarh. In Nuapada, the weekly positive rate for the week ended on June 24 rose...

The high pass percentage of 97.8 per cent shows that Odisha BSE has chosen the peak performance year of 2017 as the reference year. The pass percentage in the year was highest ever at 85.28%....

Given the dabbling of immunisation with politics in the State, at this explosive juncture, a cursory glance at the data of Harvard University where the progress of vaccination as per parliament constituencies analysed makes an...

For students who have a good scoring in practice tests this year will be going to score big on June 25. But a dampener for one who hopes to take a big 'improvement' leap in...

The prevalence of the Delta plus variant is only 0.08 per cent in India. Still, it has been declared a Variant of Concern by the Union Health Ministry. The reason is the variant has the...

Pandemic in decay state in Odisha. Kalahandi, not Khordha, the worst hit in the State, The district has only 17,126 positive cases and 132 deaths in the second wave vis-a-vis 77k cases and 229 deaths...

Bhubaneswar: Despite instances of suicides by farmers rocking Odisha in a big way, only a little over half of the farmers in the State could avail institutional concessional credit support from the Odisha government to...

Bhubaneswar: Is the highly infectious and ‘immune evasive strain N440K transmission happening in Odisha? What compels the corona watchers to think so is during the last 7-days, despite a drop in testing of samples, the...

From Amravati to Ratnagiri, Maharashtra has been the host of Delta variants. GISAID data shows the variant made its way to Odisha from Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu. Delta plus is now detected in Maharashtra,...

As per data with the NCPCR, during the period of April 1 - June 5, a total of 1,073 children in Odisha have either been abandoned or orphaned or lost at least one parent

The new cases in the 41-60 years age group were 68 per cent of the combined cases in the age group during both waves. The deaths from this age group have been around 52-55 per...

Odisha will be witnessing heavy rain for only 48- hours in the remaining 10-day period of June. Deficient rainfall in Bhadrak and Gajapati till date. A trough line will bring heavy rain from Kalahandi to...

As per experts, a vaccine will be considered a marathoner protector if it is able to produce good spike protein antibodies. A spike protein antibody test can confirm whether claims made by Covisheild and Covaxin...

Following the declaration by PM Narendra Modi to supply vaccines free of cost to all the states, the State has plans to vaccinate over 2 crore people in the next 45-days

As per the Election Atlas released by the Election Commission of India today, with a quantum leap of 29 points, the elector gender ratio in Odisha has moved up to touch 951 from 922 in...

Only a 'neutralising' serosurvey in Odisha can say whether the possible third wave will hit the State. This will also help in identifying the size of the vulnerable population, including children, to the third wave

During the period of 2015-18, job losses in the State colleges were around 7,167, Odisha saw some recruitment in the pre-election and election year. A total of 3,217 had been given an appointment during the...

As per the limited data with Public Health England, 27 of 36 persons infected by Delta-plus belong to the younger age-group. Delta variant with high re-infection and secondary attack rate poses a big concern for...

Data available with the GISAID tracks the transmission line of Delta variant to Odisha. As many as 6 states - Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal - have been the source...