Coronavirus

Chandigarh: Sporting legend Milkha Singh has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in home isolation. The 88-year-old ‘Flying Sikh’, an Asian Games and Commonwealth Games gold-medallist who missed an Olympic...

Bhubaneswar: With the south-west monsoon set to enter the South Andaman Sea & adjoining Southeast Bay of Bengal during the next 24 hours, there will be a change in weather...

Belagavi: Two months after the first-phase clinical trials of the country's second indigenously-developed COVID-19 vaccine, ZyCoV-D, were conducted on 20 children between the age of 12 and 18 years, none...

New Delhi: A self-use Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) for COVID-19 made by Pune-based startup MyLab Discovery Solutions has been approved in India. Named CoviSelf, the test kit will have testing...

Bhubaneswar: East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to cancel some more MEMU and passenger trains in its jurisdiction. The cancellations are in line with the Odisha government’s guidelines against COVID-19...

Paris: While millions are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 globally, vaccine makers are earning billions thanks to their “monopoly control” on the technology. According to a campaign group, profits from COVID...

New Delhi: In a heartening trend amid the COVID-19 gloom, the country logged 3,69,077 recoveries on Thursday, which far exceeded the new infections (2,76,110) reported in the last 24 hours....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered the highest single-day COVID toll of 25 on Thursday. With the 25 new deaths, Odisha's total toll climbed to 2403. Among the deaths reported from 14 districts,...

Bhubaneswar: The daily COVID-19 count in Odisha went up by around 400 cases on Thursday with 11,498 new cases from 30 districts in the last 24 hours. A day earlier...

Bhubaneswar: Pregnant women in the capital city have started availing of BMC’s facility of collecting swab samples for COVID-19 test from their doorstep in Bhubaneswar. Pushpita Roy, who is a...