Virus Scare

London: A 100-year-old man in UK who had served as an engineer during the World War II in India wishes to re-visit India post the lockdown period. The man celebrated...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday announced extension of COVID-19 lockdown till May 31. "The calibrated phase-wise relaxation/lifting of lockdown orders will be notified in due course," an...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Sunday informed that the second death reported from Ganjam district the previous day was a suspected COVID-19 patient and his swab samples subsequently tested negative...

Berhampur: An OAS officer's relentless fight against coronavirus has won the hearts of the people in Ganjam district. Tanmay Patra, the Block Development Officer (BDO) of Buguda, has set an...

New Delhi: The Centre will soon launch PM eVIDYA programme to improve the accessibility to education through technology amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the flagship initiative, the focus will be...

Cuttack: Police here booked 326 people in 24 hours for violating various lockdown guidelines such as the mandatory use of masks and maintaining social distance, police said on Sunday. The...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 91 new corona positive cases in the last 24 hours, taking the affected tally to 828 on Sunday. Among these, the highest 28 cases were detected in...

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday announced that the government will allocate an additional Rs 40,000 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA)...

Bhubaneswar: With the number of COVID-19 cases rising in Odisha, the three districts of Ganjam, Jajpur and Balasore alonr account for more than hundred cases. In the last 24 hours, the...

New Delhi: Mathematical modelling studies suggest containing the deadly coronavirus might be possible. However, its success “cannot be guaranteed” since there is efficient human to human transmission, the Union Health...