News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: With the extension of COVID-19 lockdown period, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to promote use of TickMe mobile App so that citizens can place online orders for pickup and delivery with grocery stores, medical shops, restaurants etc nearby in the capital city. The App can also notify the buyers when the orders […]

New Delhi: India has received the much-awaited five lakh rapid COVID-19 testing kits from China and these are not meant for early diagnosis of the disease rather for monitoring whether coronavirus hotspots in India are increasing or showing a declining trend, the government said on Thursday. Addressing a daily briefing on COVID-19 situation in the […]

Wuhan: China’s coronavirus death toll mounted to 4,632 on Friday as the country revised figures in its epicentre Wuhan with 1,290 additional fatalities amid international criticism of under-reporting of COVID-19 data. The Wuhan municipal headquarters on Friday revised the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths due to the disease, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. […]

New Delhi: While Coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep the world shutting down economies, the Reserve Bank of India on Friday announced a slew of measures to help the country fight the economic blues resulting from the impact of the lockdown. The RBI also cut reverse repo rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%, while keeping […]

Bhubaneswar: The second wave has been quite cracking in Odisha, unlike the marathon steady rise in the first wave. In just 26-days, the contagious virus has accomplished over 70 per…

New Delhi: The Indian Railways turned 167 years old on Thursday and for the first time ever, its trains did not carry any passengers on its birthday and instead stood idle in the yards waiting for the nationwide lockdown to end. On this day 167 years ago, the wheels of the first passenger train in […]

Kolkata: At least 78.36 per cent voter turnout was registered till 5 pm on Saturday across 45 assembly constituencies of West Bengal where voting was held for the fifth phase,…

Mumbai: To mitigate the impact of economic fallout on financial liquidity due to COVID-19 pandemic, the Reserve Bank of India on Friday announced a set of new measures including a reduction in reverse repo rate. Accordingly, the rate now stands at 3.75 per cent of Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF). The reverse repo is an important […]

Bhubaneswar: As Khurda district has emerged as a potential hotspot for COVID-19, the planning too seems to have gotten bigger as Odisha government has now decided to ramp up the sample testing in the capital city Bhubaneswar where maximum cases have been reported. Addressing a presser today, State Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy said with 46 […]

Bengaluru: The wedding of former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Gowda with Revathi at a farmhouse near Bidadi in Karnataka’s Ramangara district on Friday sparked a row over alleged violation of lockdown norms. Taking objection to non-observance of social distancing by the attendees who didn’t wear face masks, Deputy Chief Minister C.N. Ashwath Narayan […]

Colombo: Sri Lanka has offered to host the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) which has now been indefinitely suspended by the BCCI due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The 2020 IPL edition was slated to start from March 29 but with the coronavirus outbreak it was first deferred till April 15 and […]

Puri: In a welcome move for the cash starved servitors of Puri Srimandir who are reeling under the lockdown enforced in the wake of Coronavirus outbreak in the country, the top managing body of the shrine, Shree Jagannath Temple Administration on Friday announced an incentive package of Rs 5000 to each servitor of the temple. […]

London: Using paper towels to dry your hands is substantially more effective than hand dryers for removing viruses including the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), according to a new study. According to the researchers, hand drying is important to minimise the spread of dangerous microbes – including the novel coronavirus – since failure to remove them increases […]

San Francisco: Google on Friday said it saw 18 million daily malware and phishing emails related to COVID-19 last week, revealing how the bad actors are working overtime to target people working from home and facing other restrictions due the pandemic. This is in addition to more than 240 million COVID-related daily spam messages, Google […]

Bhubaneswar: Union minister Pratap Sarangi and senior BJP leader Pradipta Naik have urged the Odisha government to take immediate steps during the lockdown to provide foodgrains to needy people who do not have ration cards. Help should also be extended to those who are not covered under any food security scheme, Naik said. In separate […]