News from Odisha

New Delhi: Indian business events discovery platform 10Times on Tuesday announced the launch of “Floor”, a virtual event solution designed to provide digital real-time correspondence between singular and multiple parties. Built on the company’s software-as-a-service platform oDASH, this virtual solution enables one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many interactions, the company said. Also Read: Zoom App Not Safe, […]

Bhubaneswar: While Odisha govt has put its entire machinery on ground 24/7 to combat COVID-19, super spreaders are undermining such efforts triggering sharp rise in the number of positive cases of late. After Satyanagar and Bomikhal in Bhubaneswar, the recent spike in COVID-19 positive cases in Balasore and Sundergarh is attributed to two patients, among […]

New Delhi: The government has extended the relaxed connectivity norms for ‘work from home’, applicable on IT and BPO companies, till July 31, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The deadline for the easier norms was to end on April 30. Industry body Nasscom said the decision to extend the timelines on relaxed norms for other service […]

New Delhi: New Delhi on Tuesday lost hosting rights for the 2021 men’s boxing World Championships after the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) failed to pay the host fee. The International Boxing Association (AIBA) said that additionally, the BFI will now have to pay a cancellation fee of $500. “After New Delhi didn’t fulfill its […]

Mumbai: Spelling huge relief for lakhs of Covid-19 patients, the government has slashed the prices of the ‘life-saver’ Remdesivir injection by nearly 50 per cent, to MRP Rs 2,450 per…

Bhubaneswar: The nation-wide lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic has shattered thousands of marriage plans. Not only couples, their families are also a worried lot as uncertainty looms. The family of Somesh Mishra of Jeypore in Koraput were looking forward for his marriage with Shivani which was scheduled to be held on May 5. […]

Bhubaneswar: With suspense building up, fans are expecting a major twist in the popular TV soap Anupamaa. Rupali Ganguli, who plays the female lead in the serial, has only two-days…

New Delhi: Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday doubled the number of participants in a video or voice call from four to eight people at a time on its platform. To access the new limit on WhatsApp calls, all participants in a call need to update to the latest version of WhatsApp available on iPhone or Android. […]

Helsinki/New Delhi: In a bid to strengthen its 4G network and enhance 5G capabilities in India, Bharti Airtel has inked a $1 billion (nearly Rs 7,636 crore), multi-year deal with Nokia to deploy the Finnish majors 5G-ready solutions across nine circles in the country. Nokia, which is the largest 4G vendor in Airtel network, will […]

Kolkata: The CSIR-CMERI in Durgapur has developed a low-cost robotic device that can be used for collecting samples of people having symptoms of coronavirus, besides treating COVID-19 patients. The ”Hospital Care Assistive Robotic Device” will be very helpful for the frontline healthcare workers who are treating COVID-19 patients, said professor Harish Hirani, director of CSIR-CMERI […]

New Delhi: There is consistent, strong evidence to prove that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, is predominantly transmitted through the air, according to a new assessment published in the…

New Delhi: The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country climbed to 31,332 on Wednesday morning, the Union Health Ministry said. Of the total cases, 22,629 are active, 7,695 people have recovered, and 1007 people have succumbed to the disease. As many as 73 deaths & 1897 new cases have been reported in India […]

Washington: The number of people infected by the coronavirus in the United States crossed one million and the fatalities jumped to nearly 59,000, but several states initiated the process to reopen their economies amidst signs of decline in both new cases and deaths. We continue to pray for the victims as well as for those […]

An official of the Odisha government on Wednesday informed that looking at COVID-19 positivity rate in the State, Coronavirus spread is not as high as compared to other states.

Beijing: Men and women are equally likely to contract the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19), but men are more than twice as likely to die from the disease as compared to women, warn researchers. The results, published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, suggest that additional care may be required for older men or those with […]