Tag: Odisha

The civic body made special arrangements to inoculate the beneficiaries including students who will be traveling to foreign countries to study, work and participate in sports events.

It is this time of the year when unmarried girls don new clothes, makeup, mehendi and take to swings while merrymaking with friends. Raja Parba is a three-day festival to celebrate womanhood. Raja is a mass festival but due to the ongoing second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, people in the State this year have preferred to celebrate at their homes with their dear and near ones. Let's take a tour across Odisha to find out how people are celebrating the festival while keeping with the pandemic protocol.

A 12-year-old girl was rescued from the house of a retired Collector from IRC Village, Bhubaneswar on Monday where she was allegedly engaged as a domestic help. 

To understand the present-day situation of the Puri Jagannath temple administration, one needs to understand how it was originally designed. The recorded history of Srimandir is a long and interesting one.

The sudden surge in Covid-19 death cases can be attributed to the ongoing audit of the unreported fatalities across the country. Senior health expert from Odisha, Dr Niraj Mishra informed this on Sunday when he was asked about the death toll spiraling in last few days.

Odisha has recorded 4,339 new positive cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total case load to 8,56,121.

Once the tourism sector in Odisha revives after the Covid pandemic, a visual treat would greet the tourists when they step into Raghurajpur, the heritage village of Puri. Amidst a raging pandemic that has drawn curtains on the livelihood of the artists, Odisha Lalit Kala Akademi in collaboration with the state culture department came up with an innovative idea and organised a traditional Mural camp (pattachitra) at Raghurajpur from June 9 to 13, 2021. Families of as many as 150 artisans participated in this camp by painting the walls and the front portion of their own houses. The Akademi will provide Rs 10,000 remuneration to each family while five best works would receive awards, informed Akademi president and acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik.

The second wave of Covid-19 has dampened the spirit of Raja festival in Odisha. With the three-day festival starting on Monday, people have no scope to enjoy the festival outdoors as mostly they will be confined inside their houses due to Covid-19 induced lockdown

Odisha is constantly witnessing a downward trend in the single-day Covid-19 infections as daily cases came down to below 4.5k after almost two months. The state recorded 4469 Covid positive cases in the last 24 hours.

The decision of the Odisha Government to allow Rath Yatra only in Puri sans devotees in view of the second wave of the Covid-19 has not gone down well with the servitors of the Baripada Jagannath temple and the residents here

A large part of Odisha including the state capital Bhubaneswar on Saturday experienced heavy rain due to low pressure and advancement of the south-west monsoon in the state, official sources said.

The low pressure area over Northwest Bay of Bengal is likely to become more marked in the next 2-3 days. As per the regional centre of the India Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneswar the system is likely to move west-northwestwards across Odisha, Jharkhand and North Chhattisgarh.

Odisha may see gradual unlocking based on the Test Positivity Rates (TPR) of various districts. This information was shared by the Odisha Health Services Director, Bijay Mohapatra on Saturday (June 12).

Examinations for the Under Graduates (UG) and Post Graduates (PG) students in Odisha is almost likely to be held, informed State Higher Education Minister, Arun Sahoo on Saturday (June 12).

As many as 719 doctors succumbed to Covid-19 in the line of duty during the second wave of the pandemic. The data was shared by the Indian Medical Association in its latest report.