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Strangers Turn Angel: 3YO Boy With Rare Genetic Disorder Gets World's 'Costliest' Medicine Through C
Strangers Turn Angel: 3YO Boy With Rare Genetic Disorder Gets World's 'Costliest' Medicine Through Crowd-Funding

Zolgensma, labelled as the "world's most expensive drug" and is a single dose intravenous injection, was imported from the US and administered to Ayaansh Gupta on Wednesday at a private hospital in Hyderabad.

Flesh Trade In Silver City
Flesh Trade In Silver City: Commissionerate Police Raids 2 Places In Cuttack, Several Held

In spite of the restrictions enforced in view of Covid-19 pandemic, illegal flesh trade seems to be thriving in the Silver City of Cuttack with the Commissionerate Police busting two such illicit joints on Saturday.

Spurious Drugs Seized In Rourkela
After Cuttack, Spurious Drugs Seized In Rourkela

As many as 300 strips of medicines unsuitable for human use and manufactured by a dubious firm were seized from two stores in the Steel City of Rourkela on Saturday.

Transgenders
Decks Cleared For Recruitment Of Transgenders In Odisha Police, Trans-People Welcome Move

In a major gender reform, decks have been cleared for the recruitment of transgender people in the Odisha Police with the State Police Recruitment Board on Saturday issuing a notification inviting online applications for recruitment to sub-inspectors and constable posts and making transgender candidates eligible to apply for the posts

Odisha Mass Education
Odisha Govt Urges WB To Renovate ‘Unsafe’ Gopabandhu High School In Kolkata

The Odisha government on Friday requested the West Bengal government to take immediate steps for renovation of Gopabandhu High School located within the Kolkata Municipal Corporation limits.

Aerosol Particles Below 3 nm Can Reach Sizes Having Climatic Impact
Aerosol Particles Below 3 nm Can Reach Sizes Having Climatic Impact

The formation of small molecular clusters of sub-3nm size is technically called aerosol nucleation, and subsequent growth of these newly formed clusters to the large sizes is called atmospheric new particle formation (NPF).

'Wet Markets' Selling Live Wild Animals Create Greatest Risk For Human Health: Researchers 
'Wet Markets' Selling Live Wild Animals Create Greatest Risk For Human Health: Researchers 

After finding a link between Covid-19 and a seafood market in China's Wuhan, many governments around the world have pushed for the closing of so-called "wet markets".

Samir Dash
Cyber Fraud: Scamsters Create Odisha Minister’s Fake FB Account To Dupe People

Even as the Covid-19 pandemic has brought the world to a standstill, cyber crimes continue to rise at an alarming rate. 

India Hands Over Medical Equipment Worth Over Rs 18 Crore To Nepali Army As Gesture Of Solidarity
India Hands Over Medical Equipment Worth Over Rs 18 Crore To Nepali Army As Gesture Of Solidarity

Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Ambassador of India to Nepal, handed over medical supplies from the Indian Army to Nepal Army chief Gen Purna Chandra Thapa during a ceremony at the Nepali Army Headquarters in Tundikhel.

Elderly Woman
Jobless Divyang Siblings Abandon Ailing Mother In Locked Down Odisha

In a heart-wrenching incident, two siblings were detained by the police when they were trying to abandon their ailing mother at a secluded place in Odisha’s Ganjam district on Friday.

Manmohan Samal
BJP Slams Odisha Govt Over No Fixed Time Limit For Release Of Cyclone Yaas Financial Assistance

The Odisha unit of the BJP on Friday slammed the State government for not setting a definite time limit to provide financial assistance to compensate the farmers affected by Cyclone Yaas that hit the State on May 26

ARUN SAHOO
Odisha Demands Hike In Paddy MSP To Rs 2930

The Odisha Government on Friday demanded a hike in Minimum Support Price (MSP) of paddy to Rs 2930 which would largely benefit the farmers of the State.

Maoist Killed
Cadre Maoist Killed In Police Encounter In Odisha, Arms & Ammunitions Seized

A cadre Maoist was gunned down during a joint combing operation by SOJ Jawans and Odisha Police at Padampur in the district on Friday

Mangroves
Mangroves, Odisha's Shield Against Nature's Fury Now At The Mercy Of Prawn Mafia

Cyclone Yaas that barreled through coastal Odisha with hostile winds and torrential downpour could have unleashed a destruction of unimaginable proportions if not for the hundreds of mile-long luxuriant mangrove canopy that etches along the State's coastline as a protective barrier against nature's fury

Prof Radhamohan
Padma Shri Prof Radhamohan Passes Away

Noted social worker and retired professor in Economics Padma Shri Radhamohan passed away while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar. He was 78.

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