Coronavirus

Madrid: Spain’s best-known bull running festival in the northern town of Pamplona has been cancelled. This is because of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Pamplona city officials said Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of people typically attend the centuries-old San Fermin celebration. In the festival...

Arindam Ganguly, OP  Bhubaneswar: In an attempt to motivate people to stay fit during the ongoing lockdown, the Odisha Sports and Youth Services Department has started ‘Fit to Beat COVID-19’ campaign under which the department is asking people to share their fitness videos using #FitToBeatCOVID19...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro Tuesday urged all the MLAs and MPs to inform his office about the people stranded outside the state amid the ongoing lockdown. Patro also said that the Odisha Assembly will soon set up a helpdesk for migrant workers....

New Delhi: The Centre told Tuesday the Supreme Court that it would not be possible to evacuate Indian citizens stranded in the US. This is because of travel restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Hence it will not be possible for the government to bring the...

New Delhi: The nationwide tally of confirmed coronavirus infections neared 20,000 with new cases reported from various states. The death toll also crossed 600, but the Union Health Ministry said the recovery rate has improved to 17.5 per cent. It informed that a record number...

London: Thousands of migrant workers from European Union countries serving as doctors, nurses, carers and cleaners in the UK are working on the front lines as COVID-19 outbreak rages on. With coronavirus death tally going past 16,000, the severity of this crisis has eclipsed the...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to extend its help to the Building and other Construction (BoC) workers in the wake of COVID-19 induced lockdown. This financial assistance will be executed through Odisha Construction Workers’ Welfare Board for the workers affected by the...

New Delhi: The Press Council of India (PCI) issued Tuesday a notice to the Maharashtra government. The notice was over prohibition of door-to-door delivery of newspapers and magazines in Maharashtra. The PCI sought an explanation and expressed concern over the issue. The Maharashtra government Saturday...

Bhubaneswar: With three densely populated northern districts fast emerging as novel coronavirus hotspots, the state government Tuesday rushed Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) and experts to contain the spread of the highly contagious disease, officials said. The move comes after Balasore, Bhadrak and Jajpur districts reported...

New Delhi: ‘Maulana Azad National Urdu University’ VC Firoz Bakht Ahmed, who is also the grandnephew of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, has recently written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He has urged the prime minister to extend the coronavirus lockdown for the entire month of...