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Bhubaneswar: With the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) going to turn favourable during the period of May 14 -18, the weathermen are seemingly on the tenterhooks over the persisting cyclonic circulation over south Andaman sea and adjoining Sumatra coast. They have assigned the area the status of ‘invest’ – means on watch list. The big development […]

Bhubaneswar: The migrant influx from the n-CoV hotbeds, particularly Gujarat (Surat), West Bengal, Kerala, TN and Karnataka, seems to have unsettled the COVID management by the State administration to a large extent. Reportedly, the first lot of Odia migrants from Surat reached Ganjam district on April 30. As on May 2, Odisha’s recovery rate was […]

Bhubaneswar: COVID-19 is fast spreading its tentacles in Odisha as 20 districts of the State have reported confirmed cases of coronavirus so far. The State reported 58 COVID-19 cases with Angul district reporting its maiden confirmed cases on Sunday. As many as 13 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Angul district on Sunday. The total […]

Berhampur: At a time when the entire medical fraternity is working 24/7 and providing emergency services to people during the COVID-19 pandemic, a patient’s attendant allegedly bit off a doctor’s ear in Odisha. The incident has been reported from MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur. As per reports, the accused Tarani Prasad Mohapatra reached […]

Bhubaneswar: The COVID numbers in Odisha surge everyday like a tide. Is it an indication of future tense? Not at all. The upping of the COVID heat on Odisha in May seems not to be a new normal in the State’s fight against the novel coronavirus till date. Look at this vital number. The COVID […]

Bhubaneswar: In this decisive battle against COVID-19, quarantine is the main battle tank to smoke out the COVID attack on Odisha. But any fault in operating this main attack weapon has the potential to backfire. It is exactly this that is giving nightmares to State health administration, as a massive 4,411 quarantine norm violations have […]

Angul: At a time when migrants are being brought to Odisha in special trains from different parts of the country, some of them jumped off a train allegedly after pulling the emergency chain near Majhika on the outskirts of Angul town last evening. While seven migrants have been caught by the police, efforts are on […]

Berhampur: In view of increasing trend of COVID-19 positives cases in Ganjam, the district administration has set up four more COVID Care Centres (CCC) with a total bed capacity of 470. The Care Centres will be exclusively used for management of COVID-19 patients by isolating them from community, district collector Vijay Amruta Kulange said in […]

Bhubaneswar: As the day broke this morning, a sight that shocked many in Cuttack was that of around 15 passengers, reportedly migrants from COVID-red state Tamil Nadu, getting off a bus and walking towards some unknown destination. Sources said, three to four of them walked towards Jagatsinghpur and the rest are stay put in Cuttack. […]

Bhubaneswar: Amidst the gripping COVID crisis in the country, the Bay of Bengal has been seemingly brewing up another horror tale. The birth of season’s first pre-monsoon cyclone Amphan looks very much a possibility with some certain impact on Indian coasts (Andhra-Odisha). A major development which IMD today confirmed is the birth process of Cyclone […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha High Court on Tuesday asked the State government to ensure completion of the chariot construction work for Puri Rath Yatra by June 22-2020 thereby allaying further apprehensions on the possibility of conduct of the annual festival amid Covid pandemic. The grand festival of Lord Jagannath and his siblings will be celebrated on June […]

Bhubaneswar: Despite the COVID heat on Odisha in May, the cool fact for the State is in the indicator of confirmed cases per day, Odisha still doesn’t figure in the top-10 states that record large number of corona cases in the country. An analysis of the confirmed COVID cases in major states during the period […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bay of Bengal’s first pre-monsoon cyclone Amphan has been playing a waiting game for long. But the time is up for the game now. All the lead Met agencies world over have today agreed that cyclone Amphan will make landfall on May 19-20, and the veil over cyclone Amphan’s track has also been […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered a whopping 101 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest single-day spike in the State till date, taking the total positive count to 538. With this, Odisha has pipped Kerala to be at the 16th spot in country’s tally. Of the new cases, Ganjam district reported maximum number of 52 cases today followed […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday issued a bulletin forecasting intensification of a presently developing low-pressure system into a cyclone by May 16 evening. “A low-pressure area has formed over South-East Bay of Bengal and adjoining South Andaman Sea in the morning of today, May 13. It is very likely to concentrate […]