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Cuttack: K Madhav Rao who was once a national kabaddi champion and represented Odisha in the sports now lives in distress in Cuttack City. He has dependant elderly parents, a source said. Owing to the series of lockdowns, Rao found no other option to eke...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 60 students intending to go abroad for pursuing higher education have so far registered for vaccination against Covid, BMC Zonal Deputy Commissioner Anshuman Rath Monday said. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has a special vaccination programme for the students who intend to...

Bhubaneswar: Decline in Covid-19 cases has already begun in the state. It will go down further in about a week to 10 days, director of health services Bijay Mohapatra said Monday. While briefing journalists, Mohapatra said, “Odisha is witnessing a decline in the number of...

Bhubaneswar: An inter-ministerial central team (IMCT) of Central government Monday started field visits to cyclone Yaas-impacted districts of Odisha to conduct a ground-level assessment of damages caused by the cyclone. The IMCT members had arrived in Bhubaneswar Sunday. According to a source, the assessment will...

Cuttack: Odisha Vigilance chief Debasis Panigrahi’s health condition deteriorated further Monday morning. The senior IPS officer will be airlifted to a facility in Kolkata later in the day for advanced Covid-19 treatment, a source informed. Panigrahi got infected with Covid-19 nearly a week ago. According...

Bhubaneswar: Converting the dreadful Covid-19 crisis into an opportunity, a handful of rural women from underprivileged communities in Khurda district are raising vegetable gardens at home, as a viable source of income during the lockdown that saw men, the primary breadwinners of their families, lose...

Khurda: The district administration has arranged a total of 750 beds at 23 Temporary Medical Centres (TMCs) in rural areas of Khurda for the treatment of people infected with novel coronavirus. As per a report, the administration has set up 23 TMCs for the Covid...

Bhubaneswar: The state government has set a target to cover around 5.26 lakh hectare land spreading over 705 micro-watersheds under the proposed Rejuvenating Watershed for Agricultural Resilience through Innovative Development (Reward) project over a period of six years. Chaired by Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra,...

Bhubaneswar: The state Health Department Sunday said that vaccination drive for people in the 18-44 age group will be expanded to 22 more municipalities and Notified Area Councils (NAC) with the availability of more number of Covid-19 vaccine doses. The government’s decision came at a...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 6,118 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally in the state to 8,19,214. The active caseload in the state now stands at 76,750. Out of the 6,118 new infections, 3,453 were reported from quarantine centres while 2,665...