Shanghai: A citizen journalist in China has been sent to jail for four years for her reporting on the coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan. Zhang Zhan, a lawyer-turned-citizen journalist, had been...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government, which has taken expeditious steps to conduct RT-PCR test and genome sequencing of the people who have recently returned from the United Kingdom, is concerned over...
Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 positive tally in Odisha went up to 3,28,738 on Monday with 234 new cases reported overnight. Of the new cases reported from 24 districts, 136 are in...
New Delhi: Banks will be closed for 56 days in the coming year, according to the holiday list for 2021 released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The RBI...
Indore: A police constable, Sanjay Sanwre, has donned the teacher’s hat for some 40 slum children here who failed to attend school or online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sanwre,...
Bhubaneswar: While an intense cold wave continues to grip Odisha, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a moderate fog warning for 18 districts. The IMD said there will...
Patna: Hours after stepping down from JD(U) president’s post and handing over reins to party leader Ramchandra Prasad Singh, known as RCP Singh, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar claimed he...
London: Twenty-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer won’t be taking part in the Australian Open this year as he still needs to recover from two rounds of knee surgery, the...
Geneva: Director General of World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has expressed concern over poor spending to prevent outbreak of epidemics. He warned that COVID-19 will not be the...
Mumbai: The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine being made at the Serum Institute in Pune will "protect 95 per cent of patients" and is "as effective as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines", Pascal...