Coronavirus

Berhampur: Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Mahendra Nath Pandey has lauded the efforts of the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Berhampur in bringing out an UVC sole sanitiser and an UVC sanitiser to combat Covid-19 pandemic, Tuesday. This was stated here by principal Rajat...

New Delhi: With 22,752 fresh cases of COVID-19 in a day, India's virus caseload increased to 7,42,417 Wednesday, while the death toll climbed to 20,642 with 482 people succumbing to the disease, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The number of recoveries stands at 4,56,830, while there...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Wednesday reported 527 new cases, taking the total tally across the state to 10,624. Six additional deaths take the toll across Odisha to 48. Ganjam district reported three deaths while Khurda, Rayagada and Kendrapada reported one each. Out of the 527 new cases,...

Mumbai: The coronavirus tally in this city rose to 86,132 Tuesday with the addition of 806 new cases. However, this is the lowest single-day figure in nearly two months. The city reported 64 new fatalities which took the death toll near the 5,000-mark, the Brihanmumbai...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) closed the RTO office in Acharya Vihar after four positive coronavirus cases were detected Tuesday. The decision to close down the RTO office was taken to prevent the further spread of the dreaded virus. All the employees who had...

Bhopal: A magisterial inquiry was ordered Tuesday after a 69-year-old COVID-19 victim was dumped on a pavement outside a private hospital here a day earlier, officials said. The man was admitted in Peoples General Hospital in Malviya Nagar here June 23 for a kidney ailment...

Kolkata: West Bengal reported its highest single-day COVID-19 deaths Tuesday with 25 patients succumbing to the disease. This took the total death toll in West Bengal to 807, the health department bulletin said. The bulletin said that 837 more people have tested positive for the...

Kathmandu: Nepal’s Opposition parties lambasted Tuesday the KP Oli government’s ‘immature’ foreign policy. They said the foreign policy is hampering the country’s relations with its neighbours. Prime Minister Oli has been facing intense criticism ever since his government’s move to update Nepal’s political map. The...

Washington/New York: In a move that will adversely impact hundreds of thousands of Indians, the US immigration authority has announced that foreign students will have to leave the country or risk deportation if their universities switch to online-only classes in this fall semester due to...

New Delhi: The country’s second largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has decided to reward over 80,000 of its frontline employees. It will do so with a salary hike of up to eight per cent, sources said Tuesday. These employees form over 80 per cent...