New Delhi: A single-day spike of 19,459 COVID-19 cases took India's tally to 5,48,318 Monday, while the death toll climbed to 16,475 with 380 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data. This is the sixth consecutive day that coronavirus infections have increased by...
Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has increased to over 10.1 million, while the deaths have soared to more than 500,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Monday morning, the total number of cases increased to 10,115,912, while the fatalities stood...
Bhubaneswar: The capital city is fast turning into one of the COVID-19 hotspots in the state thanks to slum areas where the police are allegedly not enforcing proper COVID-19 restrictions. While the COVID-19 tally in the city is 292, hospital employees and slum area people...
Mumbai: Sadak 2, the much-anticipated film directed by veteran filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, will be heading for a digital release. The new was confirmed Sunday by producer Mukesh Bhatt. The Mahesh Bhatt directed film features Alia Bhatt, Aditya Roy Kapur, Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt in...
Chhatrapur: Four more personnel of Ganjam police have tested positive for COVID-19, informed district’s SP Brijesh Kumar Rai Sunday Rai tweeted, “In the line of duty, another more four COVID-19 warriors of Ganjam police tested positive. They are under treatment. Wishing them speedy recovery.” It...
Washington: The overall number of global COVID-19 cases crossed the 10 million mark Sunday, while the deaths were nearing 500,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. Currently, the total number of cases increased to 10,001,527, while the fatalities increased to 499,124, the University's Centre for...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Sunday said that 137 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 137 persons, 33 are from Ganjam, 29 from Khurdha, 22 from Cuttack, 13 from Balasore, nine from Jajpur, six from Kalahandi,...
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Sunday said that six more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city in past 24 hours. While three of them are home quarantine cases, remaining three are local contact ones. Of the three local contacts, a 24-year-old female...
London: A summit that included a star-studded virtual concert hosted by Dwayne Johnson has raised nearly USD 7 billion in cash and loan guarantees to assist the poor around the globe whose lives have been upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Global Citizen said its summit...
Sambalpur: At a time when scientists across the globe are working day in day out on projects to find out ways to win the battle against coronavirus, students of Robotics Society of Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) have manufactured a contactless UV Disinfectant....
Banning books by governments does not surprise much since this has been going on across the world since long. But...
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