News from Odisha

New Delhi: The Tabligh-e-Jamaat’s Markaz in Nizamuddin West, which is among the major COVID-19 hotspots in the country, has been cleared after the evacuation of 2,361 people in the past 36 hours, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Wednesday. Taking to Twitter, Sisodia said that out of the 2,361 people, 617 have been […]

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India has announced new measures to ease the compliance burden on sectors of the Indian economy most affected by the coronavirus scare. Accordingly, it has extended realisation period of export proceeds to give more time to exporters to comply with regulations. Presently, the value of goods or software exports […]

Bhubaneswar: Union minister of state for MSME, fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying, Pratap Sarangi has shot off a letter to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik while urging him to take steps to resume normal milk procurement by Odisha State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (OMFED) or create a monetary compensation system for dairy farmers who are […]

Seoul: Working from home? Read this carefully. Researchers have found that adults who work long hours are more likely to have hypothyroidism, which is an underactive thyroid. Hypothyroidism can cause tiredness, depression, feeling cold, and weight gain. The study, published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society, found a higher risk of hypothyroidism with long working […]

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has set a new record during 2019-20 financial year by loading 200.85 million tonne of freight from its jurisdiction which is 4.73% more than the previous financial year. In 2018-19 financial year, this Railway had loaded 191.76 million tonne of freight. With this, the ECoR has achieved the No […]

The lockdown in India imposed due to Coronavirus (COVID19 ) has brought the entire nation to a standstill. Now that everyone has been forced to stay at home, it is a big problem for the lovers to stay apart for such a long duration. That is why some of the B-town couples have been smart […]

Washington: Astronomers have found the best evidence for a black hole of an elusive class known as “intermediate-mass” by using the combined power of two X-ray observatories and the keen vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Weighing in at about 50,000 times the mass of our Sun, the black hole is smaller than the supermassive […]

New Delhi: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Treasurer Arun Dhumal on Wednesday clarified that there is no thought process for asking the Indian cricket team to take pay cuts due to coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country. Speaking to IANS, Dhumal made it clear that there have been no such discussions and […]

Chennai: Ordinary performance by SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) middle-order batsmen consigned them to their third successive loss in this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) as Mumbai Indians (MI) put up a…

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that Rs 1 crore will be given to the family of a health care professional if he or she died while dealing with coronavirus (COVID-19) patients. Arvind Kejriwal made the announcement while addressing the concerns of city doctors through videoconferencing and lauded them by saying […]

Bhubaneswar: In a major development, the State Health & Family Welfare department said that the second COVID-19 case has recovered completely and tested negative for coronavirus. The 20-year-old patient who had returned from the UK is being discharged from AIIMS Bhubaneswar. With this, the number of active COVID-19 cases in the State has come down […]

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct class 10 and 12 examinations for only 29 main subjects which are crucial for promotion and admission to higher educational institutions, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ announced on Wednesday. “Have advised CBSE to conduct board exams only for 29 main subjects that are […]

New Delhi: Unlike the public sector banks, customers of private banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) would continue to pay EMIs on their term- loans unless a specific instruction is issued, as per the Covid-19 RBI package. Several private banks and NBFCs informed their customers on Wednesday that auto debit facility for loan instalment won’t […]

Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor are having the best days of their lives living in isolation just with each other. With shootings on hold due to COVID-19 (coronavirus) lockdown, the couple has immense time at hand to understand each other well enough and decide about their future. More importantly, both Alia and Ranbir are very […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has traced 22 persons including seven foreigners associated with the Nizamuddin Markaz gathering in Delhi, informed Health and Family Welfare department. All the 22 persons are presently in government quarantine. As per latest reports, out of the samples of 20 persons, 15 samples tested negative for Coronavirus while results of five samples […]