News from Nabarangpur

A team of surgeons led by Dr Bibhusan Nayak, Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery, carried out the reconstructive surgery for several hours to heal the wounds on the patient’s hand.

With no means to arrange funds for the little girl’s treatment, the hapless family has sought financial assistance from several quarters.

Around 40 tribal families residing in a forest on Kalahandi-Nabarangpur border were allegedly beaten up and looted by a group of people from the neighbouring village in the district.

Opposition parties alleged that there are many irregularities between the Covid fatalities data furnished by Nabarangpur district Collector and Odisha Government’s Covid dashboard

Light to moderate rain or thundershower is also likely to occur at a few places over the districts of Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar.

The vacillating trend of the daily Covid cases in Odisha for the past several days saw a big drop on Tuesday with the State recording 2,640 positives, its record low in over last two months. The new cases have taken the State's cumulative virus count tally to 9,06,429.

Transparency in the job scheme seems to have become a herculean task for the governments to ensure as such instances of embezzlement of funds are being reported on a regular basis.

An alleged video of the festival which has gone viral on social media clearly shows that the attendees flouted all norms and many were seeing roaming around without masks and face cover.

Taking a serious note of the rising trend in the daily Covid-19 cases in Nabarangpur and Koraput districts, Odisha Chief Scretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra and additional chief secretary of Health department Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra today visited the tribal dominated districts and took stock of the situation.

Nabarangpur district administration on Monday placed a senior woman employee of Dabugaon Tehsil office under suspension for allegedly embezzling huge amount of money from the office account

The Tehsildar of Dabugaon under Nabarangpur district has brought financial irregularities charges to the tune of Rs 63.62 lakh against a Senior Revenue Assistant of the same office.

Odisha touched a new height in daily cases of fatalities due to Covid-19 since the onset of pandemic with 35 more patients succumbing to the deadly virus in last 24 hours even as the single-day spike once again crossed 11,000 mark during the period.

As many as 11,059 new Covid-19 cases and 32 fatalities have been reported in Odisha in last 24 hours. The caseload in the State went up to 7,03,441 while Covid related death toll climbed to 2,516.

Along with the lockdown, the weekend shutdown will be remain in force in the weekends starting from 6 pm of Fridays to 5 am on Mondays in Odisha.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's active Covid cases continue to remain above 1 lakh due a steady surge in fresh infections despite a healthy recovery rate.