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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all Union Ministers along with over 750 Members of Parliament (MPs) will take a 30 per cent salary cut for one year and the amount will be used to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, Prakash Javadekar announced...

Mumbai: The net worth of India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani dropped 28 per cent or USD 300 million a day for two months to USD 48 billion as on March 31 due to the massive correction in stock markets, a report said Monday. The chairman...

Bhubaneswar: Sixteen new cases of coronavirus positive cases were reported from the city here late Sunday evening according to post on the Twitter account of Health and Family Welfare Department, government of Odisha. All the cases have been reported from the state capital itself. So...

Bhubaneswar: Two more new coronavirus positive cases were reported from this city Sunday. Among them is a 70-year-old man and a 29-year-old male according to a tweet by the Health & Family Welfare Department, government of Odisha. The 70-year-old man is a resident of the...

New Delhi: The number of COVID-19 deaths inched towards 100  Sunday along with a significant increase in the number of confirmed infections. However, the government assured there was no need to panic as the rate of spread was less than in many other countries and just...

Bhubaneswar:  Amid rising fears of grid collapse owing to imbalanced load during ‘blackout’ urged by Prime Minister Modi, state government Sunday said street lights, lights in hospitals and other essential services will remain on at 9:00pm this Sunday and urged energy consumers to refrain from...

Bhubaneswar: The novel coronavirus disease continued to spread its tentacles across Odisha as the state reported 15 more positive cases Friday, bringing the tally to 20. According to the Health and Family Welfare department, seven close contacts of the Suryanagar case (including wife, daughter and...

New Delhi: The number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 2,301 in the country Wednesday while the death toll rose to 56, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 2,088, while 156 people were either cured or discharged and...

New Delhi: About 400 COVID-19 positive cases have been found whose epidemiological linkage can be traced to the Tablighi Jamaat cluster, the Union Health Ministry said Thursday. Addressing the daily briefing, Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agrawal said 328 new cases of the novel coronavirus...

Washington: The coronavirus pandemic was still raging across the world, posing a test for countries and regions, as the global number of confirmed cases increased to 937,567, according to the latest update by the Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE). As of...