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Ganjam: As many as 217 Odia migrants who were stuck in Gujarat’s Surat amid the nationwide lockdown following COVID-19 outbreak have finally arrived in Ganjam today after a journey of over 60 hours. As per reports, the first lot of stranded migrants from Surat boarded in four buses on Monday and reached Seragad and Dharakot […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Wednesday claimed that the state has the lowest rate of COVID-19 positivity in the country as it has registered only 0.4 per cent per 100 corona tests. National Health Mission, Odisha director Shalini Pandit during a media briefing here said, “We have only 0.4 per cent COVID-19 positivity against India’s average […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the University Grants Commission (UGC) chalked out new guideline allowing Universities to chart out their own plan of action for conducting exams which were put on hold due to COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent nationwide lockdown, Odisha government today informed that the State might conduct exams any moment post lockdown after duly […]

Bhubaneswar: Sensing a near-normalcy in the COVID-19 hub, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) after reviewing the situation on April 28 came up with a few relaxations in the lockdown norms that were earlier in place. Even though considerable relaxations have been made, the traders in the capital city seem to be hesitant to pull up […]

Bhubaneswar: Apprehensions are being raised over Odisha government’s preparedness to tackle the influx of nearly 7 to 8 lakh people who are now stranded in different parts of the country due to the lockdown. Senior BJP leader Bijoy Mohapatra on Thursday questioned the adequacy of quarantine facilities for nearly 10 lakh people who may return […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as uncertainty prevails whether the nation-wide lockdown will end on May 3 or get extended, Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar is preparing itself for resumption of operations after getting necessary approvals from the Centre. Bhubaneswar Airport Director V V Rao today informed that the resumption of flight services (domestic and international) is […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Centre extending the nationwide lockdown for two more weeks, relaxations will be granted to districts based on their risk profile. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare today came up with a fresh list of COVID-19 hot pockets, distinctly categorising them as Red, Orange and Green Zones for a focused management of […]

Bhubaneswar: In the COVID chart, Odisha seems going the Kerala way. It seems the novel coronavirus is apparently scoring briskly in the State. Like, Kerala, which took 56 days to touch 100 mark and grew faster thereafter, after taking nearly 40-days to score a century in Odisha, COVID now is scoring faster in the State. […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday extended the COVID-19 lockdown by two more weeks across the country. As per the notification issued by the MHA, the lockdown has been further extended for a period of two weeks beyond May 4, 2020. The government decided to extend the lockdown after a comprehensive […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government now faces a daunting task to quarantine the migrant workers and students who are returning from different States. As per reports, the first batch of students from Odisha who were stranded in Kota of Rajasthan reached Rourkela by road on Saturday. Sources said 114 students from Landmark City and Mahavir Nagar of […]

Bhubaneswar: During the forty days lockdown, India’s COVID map has gone through a change. In the last 10-days, new states are emerging as the COVID magnet in country. States with large migrant worker population have risen over the COVID horizon. Odisha now occupies the 4th slot with 96 per cent rise in active nCoV cases. […]

Bhubaneswar: The emergence of Jajpur as the new COVID hotspot in Odisha is giving enough Goosebumps to the State Health department. The reason is, unlike Bhubaneswar, the first COVID hotspot in Odisha, the positive rate in the new hotspot has risen to 3.3 per cent. More worry is, the reproduction number or R0 value, which […]

Bhubaneswar: A sudden spike on Saturday saw Jajpur emerging as the worst affected COVID-19 district in Odisha with the total number of coronavirus positive cases reaching 48 in the district. While so far only one patient has recovered, rest 47 are active cases at the hospital. With this, Jajpur has surpassed Khurda (47) district in […]

Maharashtra: As many as five persons were injured after the bus ferrying migrants from Surat to Odisha’s Ganjam district overturned near Karanja on Nagpur-Amravati National Highway (NH) in Maharashtra on Sunday. All the injured including two bus staff and three migrants have been admitted to the nearby Karanja hospital in Maharashtra, said sources. The bus […]

Bhubaneswar: One year has now passed since the extremely severe cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ ravaged several parts of coastal Odisha on May 3, 2019. The memory of devastation caused by Fani is still fresh in the minds of people of Krushnaprasad and Brahmagiri blocks of Puri district as government help still eludes the villagers and they […]