Bhubaneswar: Cold conditions continue to grip Odisha with mercury plummeting below 10 degree Celsius in two places in the State in the last 24 hours. As per the latest report by Regional Meteorological Centre, Phulbani...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police on Thursday claimed to have busted two bike lifting gangs and arrested five persons for their alleged involvement in stealing of motorcycles. The Nayapalli Police has also recovered 46 motorbikes and...

Baripada: A mild earthquake measuring 3.9 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Baripada Town of Mayurbhanj district in the wee hours of Friday, informed National Centre for Seismology. As per reports, the jolts of the...

Bhubaneswar: Braving the winter chill as mercury continued to dip in the capital city, nearly 400 auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs) from around 22 districts of Odisha spent the night on the streets on Thursday. The...

Cuttack: The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch on Thursday evening arrested three sandalwood smugglers and seized a huge quantity of the aromatic timber of over Rs 70 lakh from their possession in...

Bhubaneswar: The Covid-19 positive count continued to fall in Odisha with less than 500 daily cases being reported for the past five days. The daily fatalities have also come down significantly since last week. The...

Bhubaneswar: Mercury continued to plummet in Odisha as minimum temperature dropped to 15 degree Celsius and below in 16 places on Friday, informed the Regional Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneswar. Sonepur emerged as the coldest place...

Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday said that the residents on United Stated will not be forced to take Covid-19 vaccination and he is willing to get vaccinated publicly to assuage any concerns about...

Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda on Friday said that the Covid-19 vaccine should be given free to the economically vulnerable sections and at affordable rates to the majority...

Washington: The total number of global COVID-19 cases has surpassed 65.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.51 million, as per the data of Johns Hopkins University. The University’s Center for Systems...

Mumbai: Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has agreed that he had a good time in 2020. Despite the Covid-19 induced lockdown, he stood out with roles in the burgeoning OTT space. In 2020, the phenomenal actor has...

Singapore: Adar Poonawalla, the chief executive of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India, is among the six people named “Asians of the Year” by  The Straits Times, a leading daily newspaper of...

New Delhi: The total cases of Covid-19 in India rose to 96.08 lakh with 36,652 new cases in 24 hours, while 90,58,822 people have recuperated from the disease so far pushing the national recovery rate to...

Haryana: Weeks after getting a shot of Covid vaccine, Haryana Home and Health Minister Anil Vij on Saturday tested positive for coronavirus infection. Conforming the news in a tweet today, Vij said that he has...

Beijing: At least eighteen people have died, while one other person was rescued after an accident due to excessive levels of carbon monoxide at a coal mine in China’s Chongqing, authorities said on Saturday. The...

New Delhi: For the first time in the last two years, the petrol price on Saturday breached the Rs 83 per litre-mark in Delhi after a rally in international oil prices forced a 13th increase...

New York: A team of US-based researchers claimed to have developed an assay that can detect the presence of Covid-19 virus in a nasal swab using a device attached to an smartphone. Although more research...

New Delhi: The total COVID-19 active caseload in India dropped to 4,09,689 on Saturday, the lowest in 136 days, according to the Union health ministry. India’s present active caseload comprises 4.26 per cent of the...

Patna: Super 30 founder and noted mathematician Anand Kumar, who was played by actor Hrithik Roshan, will be the expert at popular quiz show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ (KBC) on Monday’s episode. Kumar will be the...

New Delhi: Hours after Haryana Home and Health Minister Anil Vij, who was administered a dose of Covaxin last month, confirmed that he has been tested positive for coronavirus infection, the Union Health Ministry on...