Coronavirus

Jeypore: With large numbers of people get infected by coronavirus with no medication available, the Jeypore range forester Prashant Samantaray has taken the onus on himself to educate tribal people about the deadly COVID-19 through songs. Samantaray has been creating awareness among uneducated tribals in...

Puri: To ensure smooth conduct of the Snana Yatra, Sri Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) discussed with members of 10 Nijogs of the temple in a meeting Thursday. Addressing a press conference, Chief administrator of SJTA Dr Krishna Kumar said that the servitors will perform the...

Balasore: As many as 40 migrant workers suffered injuries after a bus carrying them overturned on NH-60 near Laxmannath Toll Plaza in Jaleswar area of Balasore district in the wee hours of Thursday. Sources said around 50 migrant workers were travelling from Kerala to Kolkata...

New Delhi: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) to airport operators Thursday for recommencement of domestic flights from May 25 onwards, saying Aarogya Setu app is not mandatory for children below 14 years of age. However, all other departing...

Varanasi: Eminent river engineer and former professor of civil engineering at IIT in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Prof. U.K. Choudhary has said that the judicious use of river technology can help resolve the Coronavirus crisis as well as the plight of Ganga river. Choudhary,...

Washington: Without access to soap and clean water, more than two billion people in low- and middle-income nations have a greater likelihood of acquiring and transmitting the coronavirus than those in wealthy countries, warn researchers. The study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, revealed...

New York: People in New York City's lower-income neighbourhoods and communities of colour were suffering the most due to the coronavirus pandemic, state Governor Andrew Cuomo said citing official data. As shown in preliminary results of antibody tests of 8,000 people in New York City,...

Bhubaneswar: A patient of Odisha’s Ganjam district succumbed to the deadly coronavirus disease, taking the state’s total casualties to seven, official sources said Thursday. Besides one death, 51 persons tested positive for COVID-19, taking the state’s total to 1,103. The fresh cases are from Ganjam...

New Delhi: With ,5609 new novel coronavirus cases and 132 new fatalities in the last 24 hours, the total tally of such infections in India stood at 1,12,359 Thursday the Health Ministry data revealed. The total includes 63,624 active cases, 3,435 fatalities, and 45,300 patients...

Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has increased to nearly 5 million, while the death toll has surged past 328,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. Highlighting its continuing peril around the world even as its spread slows in some areas of Asia...