Coronavirus

Jammu: Uncertainty hangs over ‘Amarnath Yatra’. The Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) announced Wednesday cancellation of the Amarnath Yatra due to coronavirus pandemic. However, within minutes the Jammu and Kashmir administration Wednesday the press note was ‘cancelled and withdrawn’. The 42-day- yatra was scheduled to...

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Pratap Sarangi has urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to clear the air for students who are anxious to know about their unfinished examinations and evaluation which got disrupted due to nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to...

New Delhi: The countrywide COVID-19 death toll rose Wednesday to 652 and the number of cases to 20,471. Hence there was increase of 49 fatalities and 1,486 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry. Total stats The number of active...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) withdrew the ‘containment zone’ restrictions from Suryanagar, Bomikhal and Satyanagar Wednesday. However, the three areas will be under active surveillance for the next seven days as a precautionary measure, the civic body said in a note.      

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government is expecting that nearly 5 lakh people are likely to return to the state from other states after COVID-19 lockdown is lifted, said an official Wednesday. Around 7.5 lakh people from Odisha are stranded in other states of the country. "Around...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Legislative Assembly (OLA) has set up a control room to help MLAs in addressing the issues related to migrant workers and students from their constituencies stranded in other states due to the lockdown over coronavirus. The control room has been set up...

New Delhi: In these unprecedented times, former Indian football captain Bhaichung Bhutia is playing the ‘Good Samaritan’. In fact he is doing a better job than the way he played top-flight football. Noble gesture Bhaichung Bhutia has opened the doors of his academy to shelter...

London: There are fears that terrorists may be looking to target hospitals and other places on the coronavirus pandemic frontline in the UK, according to a counter-terrorism officer who said that additional security advice is being issued to the country's National Health Service (NHS) Trusts....

New Delhi: The Centre asked Wednesday all states and Union Territories to provide adequate security to doctors and frontline health workers who are facing attacks from unruly people. In a letter to chief secretaries of all states and Union Territories, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla...

Tehran: Iran announced Wednesday 94 new deaths from the novel coronavirus but said the cases of people infected in the country was on the way down. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said the fatalities detected in the past 24 hours took Iran's overall death toll...