Coronavirus

Bolangir: Bolangir district administration Sunday imposed a curfew in Titlagarh town between 9 am and 12 midnight as large number of returning migrant workers are expected to reach Titlagarh station. Sub-collector Sudhakar Nayak has imposed the curfew to facilitate smooth transfer of returnee migrant workers...

Narsinghpur (Madhya Pradesh): Five labourers died and 11 others sustained injuries after the truck they were travelling in overturned in Khap village in Narsinghpur district of Madhya Pradesh in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. According to police, at least 18 people were travelling...

Buguda: Exercising the power of a District Collector Collector, sarpanch of Manitara under Buguda block in Ganjam district declared shutdown in her area fearing a rise in infections, a report said. It is the first panchayat in the state where the sarpanch made use of...

Baripada/Balasore/Bhadrak: As COVID-19 infection cases are on the rise in north Odisha, people and the administration are getting increasingly worried over such cases, a report said. Three new COVID cases were detected in Mayurbhanj, taking the tally to 7. All three are Surat returnees while...

New Delhi: With 3277 new cases and 128 new fatalities, total case count of novel Coronavirus rose to 62,939 and total deaths getting past the 2000 mark, the health ministry said Sunday. The Health Ministry said of the total, 41,472 are active cases, 19,357 people...

Lucknow: A government doctor, UP's first Corona patient to get plasma therapy, died Saturday night due to kidney infection. Dr Sunil Agarwal, the 58-year-old government doctor, was infected in the line of duty. His Corona test report came negative for the second consecutive time Saturday,...

New Delhi: As the restrictions are being gradually eased in some zones to bring the economy back on track, the Centre has issued fresh "guidelines for restarting manufacturing industries after lockdown", advising them not to try to achieve high production targets. In order to minimize...

Washington: More than 40 lakh confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported around the world, according to a data collated by Johns Hopkins University. The global death toll has also risen to above 277,000, the BBC reported citing the data. The US remains the worst-hit...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 58 persons tested positive for COVID-19 Sunday bringing the total number of infections so far in Odisha to 352, official data suggested. The state has so far recorded three deaths to the contagion. While two persons died to the disease from...

Gyan Ranjan Mohapatra, OP Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police has announced 12-hour curfew, from 7pm to 7am, in the city, but its enforcement in letter and spirit has come in for question. Imposition of Section 144 implies that there would be no plying of vehicles or...