News from Odisha

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan is one of the most active social media users. Recently, he took to Twitter to tell his fans that how a bat entered his residence Jalsa. He further ‘joked’ how the coronavirus is trailing him. He wrote: “T 3510 – Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury .. news of the hour .. […]

Bhopal: Doctors treating COVID-19 cases in Indore say a more virulent strain may be wreaking havoc in the city, which has emerged as the coronavirus hotspot in Madhya Pradesh. They say samples from Indore, where COVID-19 has killed 57 people, will be sent to the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) to confirm their apprehensions […]

New Delhi: Instant messaging app Telegram has announced that it is developing a group video calling service that is due to be launched later this year. “Video calls in 2020 are much like messaging in 2013. There are apps that are either secure or usable, but not both. We’d like to fix that,” Telegram said […]

Mumbai: After signing a massive $5.7 billion deal with Facebook, Reliance Industries latest venture to expand into the retail market, JioMart, has reportedly gone live with its official WhatsApp number. According to media reports, JioMart is currently available in the suburban Mumbai areas of Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan currently. However, the service is expected […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when the coronavirus pandemic has emerged as the biggest threat to mankind, a leading numismatist from Odisha has decided to auction his rare collection of coins to generate funds for the fight against COVID-19. A resident of Bhubaneswar, Debi Prasad Mangaraj has been collecting coins with the help of his father […]

Bhubaneswar: A significant weather observation has been observed in the month of April this year, especially when Odisha is battling with the growing  COVID-19 count. The COVID-19 crossed the century mark in Odisha on April 25. Moreover, when higher temperature is scientifically proven as a barrier to speedier transmission of virus, the big emerging fact […]

London: Social isolation is linked to a heightened risk of hospital admission for respiratory disease among older adults, say researchers, adding that this risk is independent of other potentially influential factors, such as general health and lifestyle. According to the study, published in the journal Thorax, social isolation and loneliness are associated with admission to […]

Bhubaneswar: In a major relief for migrant workers, the Odisha government today decided to bring back the workers of the State who are now stranded in different parts of Gujarat due to coronavirus lockdown. Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik today held discussions with his Gujarat counterpart Vijay Rupani through video conferencing about the issues pertaining to […]

Bhubaneswar: Noted lyricist and screenwriter of Odisha, Bijay Mishra passed away at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar. He was 83. A pioneer of modern theatre movement and playwright in Odia Film industry, Mishra was recipient of many accolades in the state as well as national level. He won the Kendriya Sahitya Akademi award for his […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha transport minister Padmanabha Behera on Sunday ordered a probe into the return of several labourers including fishermen to the State from Tamil Nadu in violation of nation-wide lockdown clamped in the wake of SARS n-CoV pandemic. “Apparently the labourers were desperate to return home fearing the current lockdown situation and purchased a boat […]

Bhubaneswar: Future tense for Odisha? Looks very likely. The trend of annual rainfall over a period of 30-years (1989-2018) in Odisha reveals big. Annual dry days in Odisha hovered at around 250-280 days; annual rainy days at only around 43-70 days. The IMD in its recent study on rainfall variability in Odisha documents a declining […]

New Delhi: In a major reshuffle in top bureaucracy of the Narendra Modi government, senior IAS officers A.K. Sharma and Tarun Bajaj were on Sunday moved out of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Bajaj, a 1988-batch Haryana cadre officer, has been appointed as Secretary, Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance and will take over […]

Bhubaneswar: As COVID-19 cases crossed 100-mark in Odisha, the State government on Sunday came out with a department-wise list of senior IAS officers assigning them with specific responsibilities to effectively manage the novel-Coronavirus outbreak situation in the State. The government has also entrusted some senior officials to take charge as observers to handle the COVID […]

New Delhi: Industry body FICCI has written to Chief Ministers of 25 states urging them to avoid imposing partial or total lockdown in the wake of fresh surge in Covid…

Srinagar: Four terrorists were killed and an army officer injured in a fierce gunfight between security forces and holed up terrorists on Sunday in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kulgam district. Police said four terrorists have been killed in the encounter between holed up terrorists and the security forces in Guddar village of Kulgam district. “An army […]