Tag: Coronavirus Lockdown

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COVID-19: Odisha To Stamp Every Person Under Quarantine

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government today issued fresh guidelines for registration and quarantine arrangements for the people, who are stranded in other States and intend to return after the lockdown ends on May 3. In a letter to principal secretaries of Panchayati Raj and Housing & Urban Development departments, Additional Secretary and Special Relief Commissioner, Pradeep Jena […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
2900 West Bengal returnees traced in Odisha through mobile tracking
COVID-19 Challenge: Odisha To Register Around 5 Lakh Returnees In 10 Days

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government now faces an uphill task for effective management of COVID19 with the lockdown ending on May 3, keeping in view the return of nearly 5 lakh people, who are now stranded in other States. In a bid to ensure, that the wave of returnees from outside do not trigger an outbreak, Odisha […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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Column: The Real Challenge Will Begin After May 3

By Sandeep Sahu So far, so good. We have got a great measure of success in arresting the spread of the deadly virus, ‘flattening the curve’, doubling the ‘doubling rate’, holding back the crucial – and dangerous – third phase of community transmission, setting up exclusive COVID-19 hospitals, significantly augmenting testing facilities and limiting the […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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Coronavirus Live Updates: Odisha Govt Appoints Senior IAS Officers To Effectively Manage COVID Situation In State

Odisha Government today released names of senior IAS officers who have been entrusted with various specific responsibilities to effectively manage COVID-19 situation in the State.

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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Coronavirus Lockdown: Odisha allows intra-state movement of stranded workers

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today decided that stranded labourers, who wish to travel within the State for work, will be allowed to do so in an organised manner. The State Revenue and Disaster Management Department said stranded labourers, both from the state and outside, who have already completed 14-day quarantine period would be allowed to […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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From Breaking Lockdown To Shooting & Staying With Each Other: Here's What Ranbir Kapoor & Alia Bhatt Are Doing Currently

Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt have been constantly making the headlines in the last couple of months and mostly because of their relationship. Earlier when Ranbir was absent on the birthday of Alia there was a hue and cry about their breakup. But later on, news about Ranbir baking a cake for his girlfriend became […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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Odisha Govt Orders Probe Into Return Of Migrants From Chennai Via Sea Route During Lockdown

Bhubaneswar: Odisha transport minister Padmanabha Behera on Sunday ordered a probe into the return of several labourers including fishermen to the State from Tamil Nadu in violation of nation-wide lockdown clamped in the wake of SARS n-CoV pandemic. “Apparently the labourers were desperate to return home fearing the current lockdown situation and purchased a boat […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
HRD Minister Nishank Ramesh Pokhriyal
Big Announcement By HRD Ministry On Forthcoming Entrance Exams

New Delhi: The Human Resource Development Ministry on Monday announced that the entrance exams to different technical education courses that were postponed amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the imposed lockdown to prevent transmission, will now be held after the lockdown ends. However, no dates have yet been announced for conducting entrance tests for different courses […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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After IIC, Contractor’s Entry Into Puri Srimandir Despite Ban Sparks Fresh Row

Puri: Barely a week after an inspector-in-charge had stirred a controversy by entering Lord Jagannath temple amid the ongoing restrictions imposed in view of novel-Coronavirus, a contractor and his associate also reportedly entered the 12-century shrine despite strict restrictions. According to sources, the contractor along with another person visited the shrine yesterday for construction of […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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Govt extends 'work from home' connectivity norms for IT, BPO firms till Jul 31

New Delhi: The government has extended the relaxed connectivity norms for ‘work from home’, applicable on IT and BPO companies, till July 31, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The deadline for the easier norms was to end on April 30. Industry body Nasscom said the decision to extend the timelines on relaxed norms for other service […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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Orissa HC Serves Notice To Centre, State After PIL On School, College Fee Exemption

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Centre and the State government seeking response on why all government as well as private educational institutions should not waive off monthly tuition fees and transportation charges of students in view of the lockdown necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic. The HC served the notices […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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Centre Gives Broad Hints Of Extending COVID-19 Lockdown Beyond May 3 But With 'Considerable Relaxations'

New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday gave clear indications that the ongoing nationwide lockdown will be extended beyond May 3 but with “considerable relaxations” to people and services in “many districts”. The Ministry of Home Affairs, however, said there was a need to maintain a strict lockdown till May 3 so that the gains are […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
Garima Kothari
'Master Chef: India' Finalist, Husband Dead In 'Murder-Suicide': US Prosecutor

New York: A “Master Chef: India” finalist Garima Kothari, whose restaurant had closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and her husband have died “in an apparent murder-suicide,” according to a prosecutor in New Jersey. Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said that police found Garima, 35, who was five-months pregnant, dead in her residence in Jersey […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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Lockdown 3.0: Odisha Identifies 12 Border Checkpoints For Returning Migrants

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has identified 12 border checkpoints through which its migrants left stranded in other states due to the nationwide lockdown can enter their native state by road, an official said on Saturday. The returnees and those passing through are required to enter the state only from these points. Officials at these checkpoints, […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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Bus Carrying Migrants From Surat To Odisha Overturns In Maharashtra, 5 Injured

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 […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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