Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday started distributing three-month advance ration to the Public Distribution System (PDS) beneficiaries at 108 PDS centres, including designated schools and colleges. The beneficiaries...

Jajpur: The district administration on Wednesday traced a person from Bidyadharpur block of Jajpur, who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi earlier last month. Speaking to...

Andrew Jack of 'Star Wars' fame succumbed to coronavirus at a hospital in Surrey, UK, on Tuesday. He was 76. His wife, Gabrielle Rogers, is quarantined in Australia. She confirmed the...

Bhubaneswar: A day after detection of the fourth coronavirus case in Odisha, the state government on Wednesday said that the State Police have begun a search operation to trace those...

Kendrapara: The district authorities have identified one person, who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi earlier last month. "He has been put in hospital isolation...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu reported 57 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday. 50 of these reportedly have direct links to Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi's Nizamuddin. The number of cases in Tamil...

A report in the Times of India has revealed that wet markets, where animals are butchered in front of shoppers while still alive, have started functioning again in China. One...

If you think the Pacific islands have been insulated from COVID-19, you are wrong. Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Guam and French Polynesia have all reported positive cases. Guam is the...

Bhubaneswar: In view of the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday postponed the JEE Main 2020 examinations to the last week of May. “Exact date of...

Balasore: As young children are forced to stay indoors during the lockdown, an institution of arts and culture ‘Nach’ has launched a new initiative online to keep children occupied when...