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Agra: India is on alert in the wake of a sharp surge in COVID-positive cases in China and other countries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioned that the pandemic is not...

Mumbai: Dr Anahita Pandole, who was driving the Mercedes involved in an accident that led to the death of former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry and her brother-in-law Jehangir Pundole,...

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack: Come winter and picnics are on the mind. Somehow, despite the host of new attractions available nowadays, picnics have never gone out of fashion. The joy of packing food,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s Kandhamal district continued to remain the coldest for the fourth consecutive day with the mercury dropping further to 6°C at G Udayagiri, India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed on...

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha having reported the BF.7 variant of Omicron, believed to be driving the recent surge of cases in China, the state government will be holding a crucial meeting...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s tableau may not be a part of the upcoming Republic Day parade at New Delhi for the third year in a row. According to sources, the Ministry of Defence...

Bhubaneswar: Amid a spurt in COVID cases in several countries and the detection of the new variant BF.7 in Odisha, the state government on Wednesday geared up for disease surveillance...

London: Patrick Thelwell, a 23-year-old man from northern England, was on Monday charged with “threatening behaviour” after eggs were thrown towards King Charles III and Queen Consort during a visit...

Bhubaneswar: At least three cases of Omicron subvariant BF.7, apparently the strain driving China's current surge of Covid cases, have been detected so far in India, including one in Odisha,...

The Health Ministry has also written to the states to ramp up the whole genome sequencing of positive cases to track the new Covid variant.