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Puri: After being closed to devotees for nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jagannath temple here will reopen in the third week of December, the shrine administration announced...

New Delhi: India will be deploying its vast election machinery to administer 60 crore doses in the next 6 to 8 months using standard cold chain systems. The reason for...

Washington: Hours after approving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, the US government placed an order to secure 100 million more doses from Moderna. Earlier, the US had decided...

Bhubaneswar: Four more persons died of coronavirus in Odisha in the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 1,802 on Saturday. The four news deaths include two from Sundergarh district...

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday issued a two-day yellow warning for dense fog in 12 districts of Odisha. In its morning bulletin, the IMD predicted dense fog...

Cuttack: After much delay, elections to all bar associations affiliated to the Odisha State Bar Council (OSBC) got underway with all COVID-19 restrictions in place on Saturday. The elections are...

Bhubaneswar/Mumbai: Dr Sasmita Kar of Odisha on Friday took to the hot seat of Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) opposite megastar and host Amitabh Bachchan after beating two other contestants in the...

Singapore: A new COVID-19 testing kit from Advanced MedTech Holdings has been approved and will be used at Changi International Airport. The test requires saliva to be collected from deep...

London: British pharma giant AstraZeneca is contemplating combining its COVID-19 vaccine with Russian Sputnik V vaccine in a bid to increase efficacy. AstraZeneca said on Friday it will be assessing...

New York: US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are TIME magazine’s 2020 ‘Person of the Year.’ Biden and Harris combined for a historic victory over incumbent Donald...