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Bhubaneswar: Five more persons, including two Surat and two West Bengal returnees, tested positive for COVID-19 in Odisha on Sunday. With this, the total number of COVID-19 cases reached 162 in the State. As per the data of the State Health and Family Welfare Department, two new COVID-19 positive cases were reported from Ganjam (Surat […]

Bhubaneswar: Taking serious note of indiscipline and quarantine norms violation by returnees at quarantine centres, Odisha government today said that such violators will face stern legal action. The State government will not compromise with its ongoing fight against COVID-19 for a few people. The violators will be arrested and kept in quarantine away from their […]

Bhubaneswar: Already grappling with the COVID menace imported from overseas, the country is keenly watching at the development of another danger brewing in the seas this time. And which coincidentally shares the same initial ‘C’  – the ‘Cyclone’ in the Andaman seas. This cyclone seems not in a hurry. Many international Met models predict it […]

Bhubaneswar: Is Odisha going to witness the COVID revolution in May? Well, when the COVID count in Odisha has grown by nearly 3-times (2.66) during the last 14 days, a recent prediction by IIT Delhi on Odisha COVID numbers for the month of May simply sounds scary. The IIT-D prediction is Odisha will see a […]

Bhubaneswar: More thunder and hailstorms are in store for Odisha during the coming 48 hours. The forecast is, wind gusting at 45 Km/hour will pummel places like Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapada on Tuesday (May 5). The prediction made by the country’s ace thunderstorm watch agency, System for Thunderstorm Observation, Prediction and Monitoring, also […]

Balasore: At a time when social distancing has become an urgent norm for humans amid coronavirus outbreak, it seems humanity has fallen to a new low. In one such instance in Balasore, people allegedly refused to assist in the funeral of one Sridhar Dalai of Jamujhadi panchayat under Simulia Police limits of the district fearing […]

Bhubaneswar: COVID toll on Odisha seems big. Unemployment rate in the State has zoomed to a high of 23.8 per cent in April, which means nearly two in every ten in Odisha now have no job at hand. The joblessness rate in March was estimated at 13.1 per cent. The unemployment rate in April is […]

Puri: Amidst uncertainty over organising the annual Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath in Puri, the Srimandir Managing Committee today unanimously decided to commence the construction of chariots of the Holy Trinity from tomorrow for the forthcoming car festival. The decision was taken at a meeting of the temple managing committee which was attended by Puri […]

Bhubaneswar: One more bus carrying around 40 Odia migrants met with an accident today, killing one person and leaving as many as two others injured. As per reports, the bus was en-route to Banki in Khurda from Hyderabad when the mishap occurred on NH-16 near Kuhudi in the district. While the exact cause of the […]

Bhubaneswar: When ‘corona warriors’ in the country are keenly guarding against the COVID onslaught on the country, the ‘cyclone watchers’ are keeping a close tab on the Low Pressure Area (LOPAR) formed over Andaman seas. More worrying is another circulation is being observed over Sri Lanka. ECMRWF model shows Kerala on radar. What makes the […]

Bhubaneswar: In a major development, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has directed the Health Department authorities to increase the COVID-19 testing capacity in Odisha to 15,000 per day. The decision was taken at a review meeting held today to assess the current situation of COVID-19 in the State. Patnaik spoke to officials of different departments through […]

Berhampur: They said they would starve to death if the State government doesn’t facilitate their homecoming. Desperate measures were taken to bring these stranded migrant workers back, and the rest is history. A district which obeyed every rule in the book to stay away from the novel coronavirus (n-CoV), suddenly seems to be on the […]

Bhubaneswar: “Could You Do It To Any Other Woman What You Did It To Her?” These words of rage are still smouldering inside people of Odisha who are now coming forward to express solidarity with the pregnant dog that was brutally killed by a woman and her neighbour in Bhubaneswar last month. From civil societies […]

Rayagada: At a time when the entire government machinery is focussed on battling the COVID-19 ordeal gripping the State, cases of rise in dengue has now evolved as a new challenge. As many as 61 people have been identified positive for dengue pilling up more worries for the administration in Rayagada district. According to sources, […]

Bhubaneswar: In a big development, the low level circulation of cloud clusters over south Andaman sea and adjoining south-east Bay of Bengal (BoB) becomes less marked today. The weakening signs become more apparent today as the cloud top temperature of the low level closely circulated cloud clusters over the south Andaman sea dropped to around […]