Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 tally in Odisha touched 14898 on Wednesday with 618 new cases being reported from 22 districts in the last 24 hours. Among the new cases, 411 have...

Phulbani: The Kandhamal administration has announced a four-day shutdown in Phulbani Municipality and Baliguda NAC areas from July 17 as a precautionary measure in view of rising COVID-19 cases. Informing...

Rourkela: To fight COVID-19, Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) established a 780-bed COVID Care Centre here. The RMC also formed one dedicated Covid Registration Centre in the Multi Purpose Building premises at...

Kendrapara: A female health workers’ team was in for a rude shock at Patrapur village under Aul block of Kendrapara district when a youth attacked them on Tuesday. The team...

Mumbai: Bollywood actors Sanjay Dutt and Suniel Shetty have joined hands with Aslam Shaikh, Cabinet Minister for Textiles, Port, Fisheries & Guardian-Mumbai City to feed the pandemic affected families of Mumbai's...

Bhubaneswar: Amid spiralling COVID-19 cases in Ganjam, the Odisha government on Tuesday posted 130 doctors to the worst-hit district. The notification issued by the Health and Family Welfare Department said...

When there was a deluge of coronavirus related messages on social media in the early months of the pandemic, a video message recorded in early May, by a Nobel Prize-winning...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has slapped closure notice on two hotels at Kharvela Nagar in the Odisha capital on Tuesday. These two hotels behind the BDA office were...

Berhampur: The Ganjam administration has restricted entry of public to all government offices till July 31. Though the tweet gives no reasons for this decision, sources said that several officials...

Geneva: As COVID-19 cases crossed 13 million globally, the World Health Organization's (WHO) head Tedros Ghebreyesus on Tuesday warned that a return to the 'old normal' is not possible for...