Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 tally in Odisha went up to 44,193 on Saturday with 1,643 new positive cases reported in last 24 hours. The fresh cases were reported from 28 districts....

New Delhi: An overnight addition of 61,537 cases took India's COVID-19 tally to 20,88,612 on Saturday. India is emerging as the biggest COVID-19 hotspot in the world in August. A...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the admission for the 2020-21 academic session, the Odisha government will seek opinion of all state-run universities and autonomous colleges in the state. A high-level meeting presided...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will "thoroughly deliberate" on the implementation of the New Education Policy (NEP)-2020 in the state, Higher Education Minister Arun Kumar Sahu said. The minister said that...

Puri: The social stigma of COVID-19 has left the body of a 25-year-old man unattended for 15 hours after death in Konark block of Puri district. As the villagers suspected...

Berhampur: To identify COVID-19 patients, Ganjam district administration began the fifth-phase of health screening in urban areas of the district on Saturday. Informing the media, Ganjam collector Vijay Amruta Kulange...

Bhadrak: The outpatient department (OPD) of the district headquarters hospital in Odisha’s Bhadrak district was closed for 48 hours from Saturday. According to the Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO), the...

Jharsuguda: As the harvest festival of Western Odisha ‘Nuakhai’ is round the corner, it seems the celebration is likely to be low-key amid COVID-19 pandemic. The district administration has denied...

Bhubaneswar: As Odisha continues to report more than 1,000 fresh COVID-19 cases daily since July 21, it seems the spread of the virus is at its peak in the state...

New Delhi: Considering the rising trend of positive COVID-19 cases in India, schools and educational institutes continue to remain closed. But for how long? It’s been learnt that the Central...