Tag: Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded 1215 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total positive tally to 28107, informed State health department. Of the fresh cases, 753 have been detected from various quarantine centres while 462 are local contact cases. #CoronaWatch Total #Covid19 tally in #Odisha crosses 28K mark with 1215 new positives today. […]

Bhubaneswar: For the second consecutive day, Odisha recorded seven deaths due to Covid-19, pushing the death toll to 154. The list of deceased includes a five-year-old boy from Bhubaneswar. Three deaths were reported from Ganjam district, Rayagada reported two deaths while Cuttack and Bhubaneswar registered one death each. The State also witnessed death of a […]

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police has ruled out honour killing angle in the death of a minor girl in Dumuduma Phase-II of Khandagiri area and claimed that she might have committed suicide. The girl, a Class 10 student, was found hanging to a tree with her hands tied and mouth gagged in the backyard of her […]

Cuttack: Results of the Odisha Annual Matric Examination 2020 have been declared by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE). State School and Mass Education Minister Samir Dash announced the results at the board office. A total of 4, 21,256 students have passed in the annual Class 10 exams 2020. The pass percentage stands at 78.76%: […]

Bhubaneswar: The spread of coronavirus infection continues unabated in Odisha with the State registering 1068 new cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the total case tally to 29175. The State also recorded five more Covid-19 related deaths, taking the total number of fatalities to 159. The deaths were reported one each from Balasore, Puri, […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday blamed Odisha Health Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) for creating a fuss around vaccine shortage in the State. Pradhan clarified that out of 11…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has released as many as 16,789 prisoners from various jails across the State in a period of over four months in the wake of novel coronavirus pandemic. A total of 16639 undertrial prisoners (UTPs) and 150 convicts have been released between March 20 and July 28 as part of decongestion measures […]

Paradip: Maintenance work began by following COVID-19 preventive measures at the Paradip Refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) during shutdown of its running units, a senior official said on Wednesday. The refinery will be shut down till August 15. Inaugurating the three-tier Safety Surveillance System, TDVS Gopalakrishna, Executive Director and Refinery Head, emphasised […]

Nayagarh: Odisha Police has come under harsh criticism as all the efforts to nab the accused behind the alleged kidnapping and brutal murder of a minor girl in Jadupur village of Nayagarh district have not yet yielded results even after 14 days of the incident. As per reports, frantic search and raids by police in […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said the State government will make available to the people the best possible treatment, accessible anywhere in the world, free of cost to cure them of COVID-19. Patnaik assured the state legislators while addressing them for the first time in a video conference workshop on sensitisation of […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 1203 new cases of coronavirus infection and ten more deaths due to the disease in the last 24 hours. As per State I&PR Department, Covid-19 tally in Odisha rose to 30378 while the death toll increased to 169. Active cases have surged to 11235 while recoveries remain at 18938. Among the fresh cases […]

Dhenkanal: A minor girl in Odisha ended her life by suicide after police allegedly did not take any action on the complaint filed against a youth who was repeatedly harassing her. The shocking incident has been reported from Bhapur area in Dhenkanal district. The family of the victim alleged that the youth from the village […]

Bhubaneswar: Even though there has been a sharp increase in positive cases since July 1, the COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) in Odisha is the third lowest in the country. As per the Health Ministry, India’s case fatality rate has been falling and from 3.33% in June it has now dipped to 2.21%. 24 States […]

Berhampur: In a gruesome incident, a beheaded body of a man was found from a paddy field in Ekalpur village in Surada block of Ganjam District on Thursday. According to sources, the severed head was recovered by police at a distance from the body. As per reports, the body has been identified to be of […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha prison authority has asked the State police to conduct RT-PCR test to detect Coronavirus infection in accused before sending them to judicial custody, an official said on Thursday. According to sources in the state prison directorate, 96 inmates of 10 prisons in the state were found to have been infected by the […]