Coronavirus

Jharsuguda: The Jharsuguda district administration has declared several localities in the Brajarajnagar municipality area as ‘containment and buffer zones’ Wednesday night. The decision was taken after a positive coronavirus case emerged Budhijam area which falls within the Brajarajnagar municipality. In a notification vide letter No-4939/19.04.20,...

New Delhi: The Delhi Police has granted permission to Riddhima Sahni, daughter of actor Rishi Kapoor to travel to Mumbai for the latter’s last rites. Riddhima will drive more than 1,400 kilometres to be besides her father who passed Thursday morning. The police amid the...

New Delhi: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly had made it clear soon after taking over the post that improving the income of domestic players was on the top of his mind. And now with the coronavirus outbreak, the fate...

Abu Dhabi: A senior teacher of the Abu Dhabi Indian School has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, her husband told the media Thursday. The teacher, Princy Roy Mathew hailing from the Indian state of Kerala, is survived by her husband Roy Mathew Samuel and...

Imphal: A doctor from Manipur has been conferred the ‘Order of Rising Sun’ by the Japan government for promoting a better understanding of Japan in India and deepening ties between the two countries, a release said. The ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ is conferred on...

Firozabad (UP): A railway employee who was quaratined and his coronavirus test report was awaited, allegedly committed suicide in Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Thursday. According to the official, Om Prakash (59) committed suicide on Wednesday and his Corona test report that came...

Jharsuguda: While a total of 5,123 Odias, including job holders and students, stranded outside the state, are likely to return soon. Those who have got themselves registered online for return, the district administration has made elaborate arrangements for their quarantine. The district administration had recently...

Sambalpur: While the nation is under lockdown, the artists of Western Odisha composed and released a song on social media, titled Hasuthile Phere Hasiba India. The singers have tried to make people aware people of the deadly coronavirus through the song. The song with a Western Odisha...

San Francisco: Facebook has issued 40 million warning labels across its services related to fake content around COVID-19, Its CEO Mark Zuckerberg has informed. Facebook has partnered with independent fact checkers who have marked more than 4,000 pieces of content related to COVID as false....

New Delhi: Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan in a video talk with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, streamed by the party, said that country needs Rs 65,000 crore to feed the poor. Raghuram Rajan said, “Rs 65,000 crore is needed to feed the...