Coronavirus

Abu Dhabi: Her exotic bikini pictures have always had the hearts beating faster and the pulses racing quicker when they have gone viral. Actor Mouni Roy these days must be wearing bikini a lot these days. No there is no particular reason for it. It’s...

Rio de Janeiro: The coronavirus death toll in Brazil surpassed 20,000 Thursday, after a record number of fatalities in a 24-hour period, the country’s health ministry said. Brazil has been in under lockdown for more than two months to prevent the spread of the disease....

Mumbai: Singer Sona Mohapatra is set to release a music video inspired by the paintings of artist Asit Kumar Patnaik. The video features Sona donning red hair like Patnaik’s semi-clad muse does in his works across a two-decade career. The video captures complex emotions of...

Bhubaneswar: There will be nine passenger trains running through Odisha once the services resume June 1. Other than the ‘Shramik’ trains and the Rajdhani  ‘specials’, services have remained suspended since March 25 when lockdown was first imposed. The resumption of the passenger train services will...

Bhubaneswar: With Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) providing further relaxations in lockdown, saloons and beauty parlours here saw large footfall despite shop owners allowing fewer customers to enforce social distancing and operating with limited manpower. Issuing fresh guidelines, the BMC, May 19, allowed operation of other...

New Delhi: Global airlines’ grouping International Air Transport Association (IATA) criticised the government’s decision to regulate airfares as a ‘step backwards’. IATA said carriers need to have the freedom to make their commercial decisions, including pricing of air tickets. The comments came hours after the...

Chennai: The DMK urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to waive customs duty on newsprint, take steps to pay government’s advertising dues to newspapers and hike advertisement rates by 100 per cent. The DMK said that the media industry has taken a severe hit owing to...

New Delhi: India has become the world's second largest manufacturer of personal protective equipment (PPE) body coveralls within a short time span of two months, the government said Thursday. China is the world’s leading producer of PPE body coveralls, crucial to safeguard against the COVID-19 pandemic. However,...

New Delhi: Transporters are reeling under severe financial stress. If the government fails to intervene, the transporters will be left with no other option than to stop running the vehicles. This was announced Thursday by industry body All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC). The AIMTC...

Bhubaneswar: The state government has claimed that it has successfully sent close to 26,000 migrants from other states stuck in Odisha due to the lockdown. The I&PR department Thursday said that a total of 26,621 stranded migrants of other states have been sent to their...