News from Odisha

New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Friday extended till May 3 the consular service to foreigners stranded in India due to the travel restrictions in place across the country in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The government has granted consular service on a gratis basis to foreign nationals. Consular assistance is the […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the explosive run of the second wave in the Capital City of Odisha continues, the big worry to fore is around 2-4 per cent of new infections…

New Delhi: At least 21 Indian Navy personnel serving at the Western Naval Command in Mumbai have tested positive for coronavirus, triggering concerns among the top military brass. It is the first such case of a sizeable number of military personnel being treated for COVID-19. The Indian Army has reported eight cases of the deadly […]

San Francisco: After seeing the success of Apple credit card, Google is now reportedly working on its own physical and virtual smart debit cards that will allow customers to buy things online as well as in retail stores. According to a report in TechCrunch, the Google smart debit card will connect to a Google app […]

Bhubaneswar: With Bhubaneswar turning into a Covid-19 hotspot, efforts have now been stepped up for testing of samples from affected pockets. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) today constituted 13 special teams for the collections of samples for COVID-19 tests in different places in the capital city. As per reports, the teams comprising doctors, teachers, police personnel […]

New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 480 and the number of cases to 14,378 in the country on Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 11,906, as many as 1,991 people have been cured and discharged, and one had migrated, it said. […]

New York: Contrary to what governments and a school of scientists claim (including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk), the number of children infected with the coronavirus is far more extensive than what is currently reported — a hidden detail that could vastly underestimate the demand on health care systems and pediatric intensive care units […]

New Delhi: The central drug regulator has given its go-ahead to a proposal by the Indian Council of Medical Research for the clinical trial of convalescent plasma in COVID-19 patients, as per the protocol developed by ICMR. The Drug Controller General of India said ICMR has submitted a list of institutes, which have shown an […]

Mumbai: Cricket is a religion in India and the BCCI is keeping no stones unturned to ensure that it joins hands with the government to fight the coronavirus outbreak. With the government requesting every individual to wear a mask when going out of the house for emergency purposes, BCCI has created a new video promoting […]

Bhubaneswar: The impact of novel coronavirus seems big on Odisha. Even as the month of March had seen only around 10-days of COVID-19 lockdown, the impact looks colossal as the unemployment rate in the State zoomed to a 4-year high. Odisha has the highest unemployment rate of 12.6 per cent in March 2016. As per […]

Bengaluru: Retail giant Flipkart and the Walmart Foundation on Saturday extended their support to India’s fight against COVID-19 by announcing to provide Rs 46 crore worth help that will focus on personal protective equipment (PPEs) including N95 masks and medical gowns for medical staff, and other necessities for vulnerable communities. Walmart and eCommerce player Flipkart […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Pratap Sarangi urged Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to ensure consultations with Puri Shankaracharya, Gajapati Maharaja and others before the nature and scale of the annual Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath is decided in view of the coronavirus outbreak. In a letter to the chief minister, Sarangi appreciated the efforts of the […]

If you have ever gone gaga over your favourite personality or role model in the present times, you would probably not want to miss their throwback pictures when they were maybe much younger, stronger, beautiful and bolder. In fact, a prolonged COVID-19 lockdown has brought up many ideas on to the social media platforms, the […]

Bollywood has come to a standstill due to lockdown. Big producers like Karim Morani and actors like Purab Kohli have already faced the COVID19 and are slowly recovering. Since coronavirus is so contagious when the government lifts lockdown and the work in most of the sectors comes to normalcy things will have to be planned […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the state government today started active community surveillance in the State’s only COVID-19 hotspot – Bhubaneswar, State’s capital city, the State Health Department today released data that showed Bhubaneswar having tested more Covid-19 samples than other hotspots like Mumbai, Thane, Delhi and Pune. As per the released numbers, Bhubaneswar with 189.8 samples […]