Tag: Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Covid-19 cases continued to show a declining trend in Odisha with 2546 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. This is State’s lowest number of fresh infections in over last month and a half. New Corona cases stood at 2239 on August 17, the lowest as compared to the latest figures of fresh cases […]

Gajapti: It was nightmare to remember for a lifetime for many in Odisha when on this very day in 2018, relled through the southern parts of Odisha causing enormous devastation. Two years on, memories of the nightmarish encounter with the nature’s raw fury may have taken a back seat in the minds of people but […]

Bhubaneswar: The BJP on Sunday declared its party candidates for the forthcoming by-elections to Balasore Sadar and Tirtol Assembly seats to be held on November 3. Manas Dutta, son of deceased BJP MLA Madan Mohan Dutta will contest from Balasore Sadar while Rajkishore Behera is chosen as candidate for Tirtol. “I thank Union ministers Dharmendra […]

Bhubaneswar: Think twice before you send a friend request to someone or chat with some celebrity, politician or even a senior police official on social media platforms as such accounts may be fake. A case in point is today’s (October 11) incident when DIG Intelligence Anup Sahoo warned people not to accept friend request from […]

New Delhi: The BJP’s Central Election Committee has cleared a total of 16 names for the upcoming bypolls in Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Manipur and Odisha. The candidates were finalised at its meeting on Saturday night which attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President J.P. Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Road […]

Bhadrak: Two persons have been arrested on the charges of attacking a working journalist in Dhamnagar area of Bhadrak district, police informed on Sunday. The accused have been identified as Devendra Mohapatra and Mahendra Mohapatra. As per reports, the duo allegedly attacked one Sanjiv Mohanty, a journalist of a daily newspaper when the latter was […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 3342 patients were cured of COVID-19 in Odisha on Sunday, taking the total number of recoveries to 22,7615. The maximum number of 511 patients recovered from Khordha, 511 from Khordha, 366 from Cuttack, 362 from Mayurbhanj, 288 from Anugul, 155 from Jajapur, 131 from Kendrapara, 104 from Bargarh, 103 from Puri, […]

Cuttack: In what could be a positive sign in the battle against COVID19, only 51 new positive cases were reported in Cuttack city on Monday, the lowest daily new infections recorded since the last two months. The latest data released by the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) revealed that out of the 134 new COVID19 positive […]

Bhubaneswar: Fishermen along the Odisha coast have been asked not to venture into deep sea for the next few days as the weatherman on Sunday forecast squally weather conditions with wind speed likely reaching 45-55 kmph in south Odisha, officials said. A low-pressure area over the west-central Bay of Bengal has intensified into a depression […]

Keonjhar: An Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) jawan allegedly hacked his father to death over some family dispute at Madanpur village under Ramachandrapur police limits of Keonjhar district on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Pramod Ojha while the jawan has been identified as Ranjan Kumar Ojha. He is posted in Arunachal Pradesh and […]

Bhubaneswar: True, age is just a number. Amid grim circumstances of a pandemic, Basanti Patra, a 93-year-old woman from Balasore has successfully defeated the lethal coronavirus, bringing cheers to the medical fraternity of the SUM Covid hospital in Bhubaneswar. After being diagnosed with COVID-19 on October 2, the nonagenarian was admitted to the hospital three […]

Bhubaneswar: The Common PG Entrance Test (CPET)-2020 will commence from today and conclude on October 22. Around 62,200 candidates will appear the CPET-2020 which will be held at 26 centres across Odisha. This is for the first time that a single entrance examination is being held for admissions into 14,700 post-graduate (PG) seats in different […]

Balasore: A minor argument over blockade of road led to a brutal attack on a garment shop owner in Bhogarai block of Balasore district on Sunday. The incident captured on CCTV installed at the store reveals the involvement of one Rajendra Jena and his brother Jitendra in the attack on the businessman. As per sources, […]

Bhubaneswar: The depression over west-central Bay of Bengal lay is very likely to intensify into a deep depression during next 12 hours and cross north Andhra Pradesh coast close to Kakinada during morning hours of October 13, 2020. It is very likely to move west-NWwards and cross north Andhra Pradesh coast between Narsapur and Vishakhapatnam […]

Bhubaneswar: With the daily coronavirus cases starting to show a declining trend since last few days, the focus seems to have now shifted to the decline in the number of tests. Odisha reported 2423 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, pushing the virus tally to 254662 on Monday. Of the new cases, 1417 patients […]