News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Locals tied a man into a pole and thrashed him following a complaint of misbehavior made by a woman passenger inside an auto rickshaw in Palaspalli area of the capital city on Wednesday. Later the alleged molester was handed over to the police. According to sources, the woman was traveling in an auto rickshaw […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Centre has framed rules on drugs clinical trial and there is also an approval on the use of Remdesivir and Favipiravir as medicines to treat Covid-19. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde and comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, citing the […]

New Delhi: Union Minister of of Road Transport and Highways, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said that he has tested positive for Covid-19 and has self-isolated himself. Gadkari took to Twitter and said, “Yesterday, I was feeling weak and consulted my Doctor. During the course of my check up, I have […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday asked district magistrates to properly implement livelihood programmes of the government to protect rural people from the adverse impact of the economic slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at a meeting with the district magistrates and collectors, he said implementation of the MGNREGS and other livelihood […]

Bhubaneswar: A six-member Central team, which arrived in Odisha on a two-day visit yesterday, will visit flood-affected Jajpur and Puri district on Thursday to assess the damages. According to sources, the team led by Union Home Ministry joint secretary Praveen Vashista will discuss with the farmers and district collectors about the loss incurred by the […]

New York: A 57 page “playbook” just in from the US government outlines a comprehensive plan to make the COVID-19 vaccine available free to all Americans once it is proven safe and effective. The shot wouldn’t be broadly available to most of the US population until the summer or fall of 2021, the Director of […]

New Delhi: Ten states — Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan have shown a steep rise in the daily COVID-19 cases accounting…

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called upon India and Pakistan to move in a positive way to resolve their differences. He sidestepped a question by a Pakistani reporter at a news conference on Wednesday about what the journalist asserted were demographic changes India was making to Kashmir, and instead referred to a statement […]

New Delhi: Construction major Tata Projects has won the bid to erect the federal Parliament’s new building in place of the colonial-era structure here in the national capital. As per the available information, Tata Projects bid an amount of Rs 861.9 crore. According to a company spokesperson: “We have emerged as the ‘L1’ in the […]

Srinagar: Three militants and a civilian woman were killed, while two CRPF personnel, including an officer, sustained injuries in a predawn gunbattle on Thursday in Batamaloo area of the city, officials said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Firdousabad locality in Batamaloo area at around 2.30 am following information about the presence of […]

New Delhi: A record single-day increase of 97,894 infections pushed India’s COVID-19 tally to over 51 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 40 lakh on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 51,18,253, while the death toll climbed to 83,198 with […]

Angul: Panic gripped in the area after people found the severed head of a new-born baby lying on the road little ahead of the Mishrapada junction on Wednesday morning. According to sources, the baby’s head was spotted by some passersby and morning walkers. The head was lying near a dustbin. The gender or the identity […]

Bhubaneswar: With Covid-19 cases surging, the authorities of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now decided to resume its pay and use quarantine facilities in different parts of the Capital City.…

New Delhi: Wishing Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday, top BJP leaders on Thursday said India’s stature rose on the world stage under his leadership and his life dedicated to the welfare of nation is an inspiration for them. In a series of tweets, BJP president JP Nadda wished Modi, saying that under his […]

Bhubaneswar: Covid-19 related fatalities continue to rise in Odisha with 13 more persons succumbing to the infections in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 669. On the other hand, the State reported 4,241 new positive cases, pushing the tally to 1,67,161. Of the new cases reported from across 30 districts, 2,502 were […]