Tag: Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Congress on Thursday alleged that the State government has failed to manage the issues in agriculture and education in the critical times of COVID-19. Former Congress MLA Debashis Patnaik said that though the Odisha government is making tall claims that all arrangements have been made to teach students online, lack of network connectivity […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered the highest single-day spike of 1833 COVID-19 cases pushing the virus tally to 42550, as per the data shared by I&PR Department. Of the fresh cases reported from 29 districts of the State, 1118 cases were detected from quarantine centres while 715 are local contact cases. The maximum 298 cases were reported […]

Nabarangpur: The Nabarangpur administration on Friday has imposed a three-day shutdown in the district starting tomorrow (August 8) morning in view of a rise in COVID-19 cases. The district has so far recorded 356 positive cases of which 270 patients have already been discharged. One person has succumbed to the disease while the active caseload […]

Bhubaneswar: A few days after directing the Odisha DGP to make more personnel available in police stations across the State, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday approved rationalisation of 905 posts in Odisha police department. Apart from this, the Chief Minister has approved the creation of six new police stations in various districts of the […]

Angul: Talcher Police arrested a girl from Cuttack for allegedly duping lakhs of rupees by posing as a finance company agent from a retired homoeopathy doctor in Angul district. The girl reportedly met the doctor Bijay Pradhan (a native of Parjang area in Dhenkanal district) who is staying in Angul with his brother, in an […]

Bhubaneswar: Test, trace, treat. While the health authorities have been executing this strategy for efficient management of the pandemic, the State government is optimistic of a COVID-free situation in next 2-3 months, stated Ajay Parida, Director, Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) in Bhubaneshwar. However, he said the government can only regulate norms or impose restrictions, […]

Sambalpur: BJP’s Sambalpur MLA, Jaya Narayan Mishra has urged Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to postpone/pre-pone COVID-19 shutdown on account of Nua Khai festival. In a letter, the Sambalpur MLA along with his Rengali counterpart, Nauri Nayak has requested Odisha government to change the shutdown dates either by postponing or enforcing it couple of days […]

Bhubaneswar: The hearing on the case pertaining to alleged irregularities in COVID-19 PPE kit procurement, which was scheduled to held at the office of the Odisha Lokayukta today, was postponed. Official sources said that the hearing was rescheduled as Hemant Sharma, the then chairman of the COVID-19 procurement committee, failed to depose before the Lokayukta […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha on Friday reported its highest single-day COVID-19 recovery with a record 1810 positive patients recuperating from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours. As per Health and Family Welfare Department, a maximum of 700 COVID-19 positives recovered from Ganjam district, followed by 202 from Khordha, Cuttack (147), Gajapati (136), Dhenkanal (116) and Sundergarh […]

Bhubaneswar: With another low pressure brewing over the Bay of Bengal, India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday issued heavy rainfall alert for Odisha for the next 24 hours. As per the latest weather bulletin, light to moderate rainfall is likely to occur in several districts including Southern Odisha in the next 24 hours. Yellow warning […]

Konark: The body of a 25-year old man lay at his home in a village at Konark for more than 15 hours as relatives and villagers stayed away suspecting that he had been infected with COVID-19, officials said on Friday. The man had died on Wednesday at Mankaragoradi village and his family was forced to […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after witnessing a record surge of over 1800 positive cases, Odisha reported 1643 new COVID-19 cases and 12 deaths in the last 24 hours. The positive tally has risen to 44193 while the death toll in the State jumped to 259 on Saturday. #BREAKING#Odisha reports 1643 new #COVID19 cases in the last […]

Bhubaneswar: The Regional Meteorological Department here has issued a yellow warning for several districts of Odisha, forecasting spells of rainfall accompanied by thunderstorm and lightning. SRC stated that a few places over the districts of Dhenkanal, Koraput, Angul, Keonjhar would witness thunderstorm with lightning and light to moderate rainfall with one or two spells of […]

Bhubaneswar: While the national Case Fatality Rate (CFR) is progressively declining, the Centre’s focus is now on 13 districts concentrated in eight States and Union Territories with a high caseload and CFR higher than the national average. Ganjam district in Odisha is among these 13 districts which account for about 14 per cent of the […]

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 graph in Odisha continues with its upward trend since the beginning of August. After registering 1600-plus cases in the last three days, Odisha reported 1734 new cases and 13 more COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the COVID-19 tally in Odisha reached 45927 on Sunday. Of the new cases […]