Coronavirus

Berhampur: Seven persons were injured when two groups clashed at Sana Ramachandrapur village under Rambha police limits in Ganjam district, Tuesday. Sources said that the fight between the groups was over the complete shutdown in the village which had been implemented due to two new...

New Delhi: Two crore building and other construction workers (BOCW) have received cash assistance of Rs 4,957 crores during the COVID-19 induced lockdown. This information was given Tuesday by the Ministry of Labour & Employment. “In a significant move, the state governments, in response to the...

Mumbai: ‘Vaccine king’ Cyrus Poonawalla’s wealth grew the fastest among Indian billionaires and fifth fastest in the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is because of the strong business potential of his company, ‘Serum Institute of India’. This information has been provided by a report...

Los Angeles: Producer Brian Grazer is developing an anthology series based on Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller Outliers. The first season of the series will have White House infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci in focus. According to Variety, the series, set at ‘HBO Max’, will be...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court granted bail Tuesday to Safoora Zargar, the pregnant Jamia university student. Safoora Zargar was arrested under anti-terror law UAPA in a case related to communal violence in northeast Delhi. It happened during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)....

Patna: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) suffered a massive jolt Tuesday in Bihar. Five of RJD’s eight-member of the legislative council in Bihar quit the opposition party. They joined Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (U). This move came even as Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, one...

Puri: Puri Gajapati Dibya Singha Dev said Tuesday that he can’t express his ‘chhera pahara’ (sweeping of the chariots) experience in words. When asked about his experience of Rath Yatra sans devotees he said, “It is very difficult for Lord Jagannath to celebrate his grand...

Bhubaneswar: Two new COVID-19 positive cases surfaced Tuesday in the state capital, the BMC said in a Tweet. Of the two, one is a 39-year-old resident of Jayadev Vihar area near Mayfair Hotel. He had travel history to Mumbai. The other one is from Saranapalli...

Ganjam: As a tribute to the service rendered by the cooks of a quarantine centre in Buguda block of Ganjam district, migrant returnees of Tikarpada Primary School quarantine centre distributed sarees to the three cooks of the centre, Tuesday. The migrant workers who had returned...

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has announced that due to the coronavirus pandemic, only a ‘very limited number’ of people will be allowed to take part in this year's Haj pilgrimage to Mecca. "In light of the persistence of this pandemic, the severity of the outbreak of...