Coronavirus

Rourkela: Cases of migrant workers playing truant has been a headache for the Odisha government. The problems compounded in Sundargarh district Monday with four migrant workers escaping from the Sola School quarantine centre under Gurundia block. The four are returnees from Kerala and Maharashtra. They...

Boinda: The traditional ‘pala’ artistes residing in Athmallik sub-division in Angul district have been rendered jobless since the imposition of the lockdown March 25. The pandemic coronavirus has affected their livelihood and they are facing tremendous hardships. ‘Pala’ is one of the ancient art forms...

Puri: Odisha DGP Abhay visited Puri district Monday to review the situation during the fourth phase lockdown. Restrictions have been eased to a great extent during Lockdown 4.0. Hence the top cop wanted to see whether norms like social distancing and wearing of masks are...

Mumbai: Coronavirus continued to target the Maharashtra Police force, claiming the lives of 18 police personnel and infecting another 1,809 in the state, as per latest data released Monday. The infected include 194 officers and 1,615 personnel of whom a total of 1,113 are described...

Beijing: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has accused the US of spreading 'conspiracies and lies' about the coronavirus pandemic, ratcheting up tensions between the two nations, it was reported. Speaking at an annual news conference during China's parliamentary session Sunday, Wang said that "some political...

Bhubaneswar: There seems to be no respite from COVID-19 as 103 fresh positive cases were reported in Odisha Monday. Out of the 103 cases, 22 were reported from Deogarh district.  Among them, 16 are Tamil Nadu returnees while three are from Andhra Pradesh. All except...

New Delhi: With around 7,000 new cases in a day, India's tally of novel coronavirus cases surpassed that of Iran's as it recorded 1,38,845 till Monday. With this, India entered the Top 10 worst-hit countries by the coronavirus pandemic. The other nine countries ahead of...

Bolangir: At least 300 migrant workers were detained by staffs of Kantabanji railway station while trying to flee from a Shramik Special Train to avoid 28-day quarantine Monday. All the unruly migrant workers are from Bargarh and Nuapada, sources said. According to sources, a Shramik...

Jagannathprasad: Exercising his collector’s power, the sarpanch of Jagannathprasad panchayat in Ganjam district clamped a 24-hour complete shutdown in the whole panchayat, starting Monday 9am. Sarpanch Debi Prasad Mohapatra said the shutdown was to check the spread of the infection as two male health workers...

Soro: The Block Development Officer (BDO), Soro played Good Samaritan by taking an ailing quarantined woman to a COVID-19 Care Centre after she complained of severe stomach ache late Sunday night. With no 108 ambulance to ferry the woman, the timely help of the BDO...