Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: To keep young minds fresh amid the 21-day lockdown, UNICEF in collaboration with the Odisha government has started an online competition titled ‘Mo Pratibha’. The programme will enable students between the age groups of 5-18 to spend their times in a fruitful manner by...

Bhubaneswar: With the number of COVID-19 positive cases gradually rising in the country, the Odisha government has readied two dedicated hospitals exclusively for coronavirus patients. The two hospitals were inaugurated Thursday by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, a senior official said. The total capacity of the...

New Delhi: Financial services conglomerate HDFC Group Thursday committed Rs 150 crore to the PM CARES Fund to support the fight against coronavirus pandemic. Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC Ltd, said: "These are uncertain and trying times for all of us. The HDFC Group's support to...

New Delhi: The Congress working committee met on the backdrop of country facing the coronavirus pandemic and took feedback from the congress-ruled states, as party has been suggesting various measures to help the marginalised sections and daily wagers. Party president Sonia Gandhi slammed the lockdown...

United Nations: The global economy could shrink by up to 1 per cent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and may contract even further if restrictions on economic activities are extended without adequate fiscal responses, according to analysis released on Wednesday by the UN...

Jerusalem: Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman went into isolation Thursday after being diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, his office said, forcing more senior officials into self-quarantine. Litzman, leader of the Jewish ultra-Orthodox party of United Torah Judaism, is in isolation with his wife who has...

New Delhi: After demiting his office as Congress president in June and attending last CWC in August when Sonia Gandhi was chosen as interim President, Rahul Gandhi Thursday returned to the Congress Working Committee meet to attend the crucial discussion on the Covid-19 situation. Rahul...

Kochi: The Kerala High Court Thursday stayed the state government order to state-owned Bevco to supply liquor at the homes to those who got prescriptions from government medical doctors about withdrawal symptoms and thus needing drinks. Congress MP TN Prathapan, who approached the court, said:...

Bhubaneswar: Reports of the 15 persons out of 20, who had attended the Tablighi Jammat meeting organised at Hazrat Nizammudin Dargah in New Delhi, have been received by Health department of Odisha. All of them have tested negative for COVID-19. The state government has identified...

New Delhi: Even as Maulana Saad Khandhlawi, the chief of Tablighi Jamaat continues to elude the police, sources close to him Thursday said that he has gone into quarantine in an undisclosed place. The Delhi Police’s crime branch has been conducting raids at several places...