Coronavirus

Angul: In a road mishap as many as 15 migrant workers hailing from Keonjhar district sustained injuries as the van in which they were returning collided with a tree near Solapada in Angul district in the wee hours of Thursday. Sources said that the 15...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department Thursday said that 15 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered. “Another 15 patients have recovered from COVID-19 and are being discharged. They are all from Jajpur district. The number of recovered cases of Odisha now...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has allowed an accused in a cheating case, whose bail was set aside by a sessions court, to surrender before jail authorities in Uttar Pradesh if he is unable to reach the national capital in view of the Covid-19...

Toronto: Despite YouTube's efforts to remove pandemic related minsinformation, more than a quarter of the most viewed COVID-19 English-language videos on the platform contains misleading or inaccurate information, reveals a new study. Misleading or inaccurate information in these videos included claims such as pharmaceutical companies...

New Delhi: A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking release of nearly 3,300 members of Tablighi Jamaat who have been sent to various quarantine centres for around 40 days and not released despite reporting negative for COVID-19. The petition, which is...

Sambalpur: Authorities of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Sambalpur has announced to conduct the end term examinations of first-year students using online proctoring systems in the month of June, amid the COVID-19 outbreak. This will be a first-of-its-kind initiative taken by any IIM across the country....

Panna (Madhya Pradesh): Thousands of workers across India are walking to their villages amid the lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the story of a mother in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, specially stands out. Rajkumari, a resident of Majhgawan village in Satna, set off on...

Bhubaneswar: Kendrapara district reported 13 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, collector Samarth Verma said. The fresh cases have taken the district’s tally from nine to 22 and state’s tally from 611 to 624. Verma also informed that all those who tested positive for the virus are...

Washington: Nearly eight years after he was last on the ballot, Barack Obama is emerging as a central figure in the 2020 presidential election. Democrats are eagerly embracing Obama as a political wingman for Joe Biden, who spent two terms by his side as vice...

Bhubaneswar: After getting green signal from BMC, the Lingaraj Temple administration announced Thursday to conduct the Sital Sasthi Yatra of Lord Lingaraj May 27 amidst the coronavirus outbreak. A preparatory meeting was also conducted in this regard in which it was decided that the temple administration...