News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha government making registration mandatory for people stranded outside the state & intending to return after the COVID19 lockdown ends on May 3, as many as 4.86 lakh people have registered themselves on the dedicated website. During the daily press briefing today, Odisha govt spokesperson Subroto Bagchi informed that in the past 48 […]

Puri: While uncertainty looms large over Rath Yatra in Puri this year amid the nationwide lockdown to check the spread of Coronavirus, the highest body of Hindu religious scholars in Puri Srimandir, Mukti Mandap, stated on Monday that there is no harm if the annual Rath Yatra is not held this year in the wake […]

Mumbai: Indian banks have technically written off a staggering amount of Rs 68,607 crore due from 50 top wilful defaulters, including absconding diamantaire Mehul Choksi, as per a reply under RTI from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Prominent RTI activist Saket Gokhale had filed an RTI query with the RBI seeking details of the […]

Samantha Akkineni and Naga Chaitanya have been setting indomitable couple goals with their cute displays of affection. Samantha is one of the most celebrated and bankable actresses in the South film industry. The very lovely Sam is celebrating her 33rd birthday today. Meanwhile, #HappyBirthdaySamantha started trending from late Monday night as her fans began showering […]

New Delhi: Doctors in the US have sounded alarm about people in their 30s and 40s dying of stroke because of coronavirus. The report said doctors sound an alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected. The Washington Post reported that young and middle-aged […]

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has relaxed the Covid-19 lockdown conditions for reopening of shops in the Smart City. However, market complexes, malls, salons, fast food stalls and tea and coffee shops will remain closed.

Kolkata: Restrictions enforced in West Bengal to fight Covid-19 will continue till May 21 with curbs on normal life varying in intensity based on the extent of spread of the viral infection in a particular area, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday. “We want the restrictions to continue till May 21. We have to […]

Washington: US President while addressing a news conference on coronavirus pandemic said his administration has launched “very serious investigations” into China’s response to the novel coronavirus. “And we are not happy with China, we are not happy with that whole situation, because we believe it could have been stopped at the source,” he said. “It […]

New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 934 and the number of cases climbed to 29,435 in the country on Tuesday, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 21,632, while 6,868 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, the ministry said. #COVID19 Updates (April […]

Puri: Barely a week after an inspector-in-charge had stirred a controversy by entering Lord Jagannath temple amid the ongoing restrictions imposed in view of novel-Coronavirus, a contractor and his associate also reportedly entered the 12-century shrine despite strict restrictions. According to sources, the contractor along with another person visited the shrine yesterday for construction of […]

Bhubaneswar: Seven people tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Odisha on Tuesday, taking the total number of cases in the State to 118. Of the seven COVID-19 cases, four were reported from the western district of Sundergarh and three in the coastal district of Bhadrak. While the four cases in Sundergarh include two males […]

Only 5 years and 9 films old, Vijay Deverakonda has already tasted massive success and stardom with an army of loyal fans behind him. And his plans were only getting…

Geneva:  The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has defended its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Ghebreyesus said countries should have listened to the agency after it declared a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” on 30 January, when there were 82 cases outside China and no deaths, the BBC reported […]

New Delhi: The Health Ministry has issued guidelines for home isolation of very mild and pre-symptomatic Covid-19 cases under which a patient can stay at home but will have to be in touch constantly with the District Surveillance Officer, and a hospital and will have to sign an undertaking. The present guidelines are in addition […]

Tokyo: The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic isn’t brought under control by next year, the organising committee’s president said in comments published Tuesday. The pandemic has already forced a year-long delay of the Games, which are now scheduled to open on July 23, 2021, but Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro […]