Coronavirus

Rourkela: The excise officials with the help of local police seized about 1080 litres of liquor from an SUV near Uditnagar overbridge in Rourkela town of Sundargarh district Friday. According to sources, the seizure was made while the illegal consignment was being transported to Malgodown...

Bhogarai : The three-week long countrywide lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus has severely impacted betel leaf farming in Bhogarai and Baliapala blocks in Balasore district, Betel leaf farmers are apprehensive of suffering heavy losses as they are not being able to...

Mumbai: As the Indian stocks markets reels under the coronavirus crisis, a report by Motilal Oswal says that India’s share in the global market capitalization is below the historic average. Currently, it is at 2.2 per cent below its historic average of 2.5 per cent....

Bhubaneswar: Amid COVID-19 scare, East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to set up 261 coaches as quarantine facilities across its jurisdiction in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The coaches will be kept ready for quarantining suspected COVID-19 patients at Mancheswar Workshop (51), Bhubaneswar station (46), Puri...

Bhadrak: Exercising Odisha COVID-19 regulations formed by the state government, Bhadrak collector Gyana Das has imposed total lockdown in certain areas of Bhadrak district from 8:00pm Friday to 8:00pm Sunday. In a notification, Das informed that the area of total lockdown will be the whole...

Daringbadi: A large number of people who have returned to Kandhamal district from other states in India are moving around freely even though they have been asked to remain in home isolation. This has created panic among the local residents of the district. Thousands of...

Cuttack: Odisha reported its sixth COVID-19 case after a man from Cuttack tested positive Friday. The man had recently travelled to Delhi. Authorities are trying to find out the persons he has come in contact with since his return, Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department...

Shergarh: Those who came out of their houses owing to some unavoidable reasons Friday were happy to see some portions of roads here in Shergarh block in Ganjam district being transformed into canvasses and beautiful paintings, featuring messages on COVID-19 awareness. Like all, the lockdown...

Mumbai: Hindi film Industry have taken to social media to condemn the gruesome incidents of physical assault and stone pelting at doctors and cops in different parts of the country including Indore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad among other places. Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor requested all to...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has urged the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in New Delhi to allow COVID-19 testing facilities at three more hospitals in the state. The names proposed by the state government are those of MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur,...