News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The recent resurgence in Covid-19 cases has now made the Odisha government augment all its resources and come up with special measures to contain the further spread of the…

New Delhi: A Mumbai-based health-tech start-up has launched an application for Indian citizens to book an appointment with the nearest doctor or the vaccination clinic to get themselves vaccinated. This comes at a time when the country is waiting for the coronavirus vaccine with bated breath. WONDRx is a made-in-India health-tech start-up working on Digital India […]

Bhubaneswar: The opposition parties on Wednesday came down heavily on the Odisha government alleging that the ruling-BJD has completely failed in managing the COVID-19 pandemic in the State. Taking a jibe at the State government for closing down COVID Care Centres and Temporary Medical Centres in the State, Congress MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati said, “Odisha […]

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central government employees are likely to get a hike in their salary soon. As per the recommendation of 7th Pay Commission, the government employees’ may soon get Dearness Allowance (DA) for the January-June 2020 period from July 2021 onwards. The central government employees are presently getting 17 per cent DA […]

Bhubaneswar: In a tragic incident, the body of a man who died due to Covid-19 infection lay unattained for over 8 hours at his village in Indira Nagar Pada in Bolangir district as no one came forward to give shoulder to carry the corpse to the crematorium, ostensibly for fear of getting infected. The incident […]

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 […]