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Cuttack: The Commissionerate Police Sunday claimed to have seized a car in which gangster Sheikh Hyder had fled to Telangana following his escape from police custody at SCB Medical College and Hospital here April 10. The Telangana Police seized the car and handed it over to...

Khurda: In a major crackdown, a joint team of senior officials from Nirakarpur and Jankia police stations busted a notorious inter-state dacoity gang Sunday afternoon. At least three members of the gang were arrested by police. According to sources, the arrested were identified as Anil...

Bhubaneswar: Y K Jethwa, the chairman of the state level committee that was formed to prevent hoarding and black marketing of COVID-19 medicines and medical supplies, had a detailed discussion with the Drug Controller, Odisha Sunday. A strategy was chalked out to intensify enforcement drive...

Bhubaneswar: Medical experts studying the trend of COVID-19 in the state claim that the second wave of the pandemic is more contagious and severe than the first wave owing to mutations. Dr Swayam Pragan Parida, Associate Professor (Community Medicine) at All India Institute of Medial...

Bhubaneswar: In view of the surge in COVID-19 cases, the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) Sunday decided to convert the Nilachal Bhakta Niwas on Grand Road in Puri into a COVID Care Centre for Srimandir servitors as well as officials. The administration of the 12th...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Sunday has restricted public entry into the 11th century Lingaraj Temple after four servitors tested positive for coronavirus. “Keeping in view the detection of substantial number of COVID-19 positive cases among the servitors of the temple as well as...

Bhubaneswar: The alarming rise in COVID-19 cases across the state notwithstanding, about 400 persons from Odisha participated in the mega annual congregation at Maha Kumbh mela in Haridwar, the Uttarakhand government said. According to the details provided by the Uttarakhand government, about 400 persons from...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 4,445 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, taking the total tally in the state to 3,72,703. Active caseload in the state stands at 24,568. Out of the 4,445 new infections, 2,574 were reported from quarantine centres while 1,871 persons contracted...

Bhubaneswar: Even as the state capital is witnessing an alarming rise in COVID caseload and even in number of fatalities, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) initiative of constructing two new crematoriums to deal with a larger number of deaths still remains in limbo. Earlier, in...

Bhubaneswar: The powers given to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in Odisha to bolster decentralised governance seem to have backfired. Several of the erring PRIs are now found indulging in massive misappropriation of taxpayers’ money under the nose of the state government. One glaring example...