"Feels like COVID lockdown": Intense heatwave leaves Khajuraho's UNESCO temples, roads deserted; businesses shutKhajuraho experiences a severe heatwave. Temperatures are soaring to nearly 47 degrees Celsius. Normal life and tourism have come to a stan...
22 May, 2026, 09.38 AM IST
India-UAE energy agreement: This Emirati strategy has powerIndia and the UAE have signed a significant energy agreement. This deal allows the UAE to store crude oil in India's reserves. It also expl...
21 May, 2026, 11.49 PM IST
What Noida's factory protests mean for India's wage debateFactory workers' protests in Noida have reignited India's minimum wage debate. Rising inflation erodes real wages, impacting workers' purch...
30 Apr, 2026, 12.47 AM IST
Climate crisis is a gender issue, women face higher risks, less representationClimate change disproportionately impacts women, who are often excluded from decision-making despite their crucial roles in crisis response...
17 Apr, 2026, 11.03 PM IST
Food trees have great potential, but need skills to maintain themIndia's early summer bursts with tree fruits, from mangoes to coconuts, offering more than just deliciousness. Food forests, while sustaina...
09 Apr, 2026, 06.12 PM IST
Odisha asks medical colleges, CDMOs to increase surveillance, testing for potential COVID-19 surgePublic Health Director Niranjan Mishra in a letter to all medical colleges and CDMOs said: "The recent rise in COVID-19 cases across India ...
30 Dec, 2023, 03.04 PM IST
Odisha: 59 pc people yet to get Covid booster dose; state seeks shots from Centre"Only 41 per cent of the 3.25 crore eligible people in the state have taken the precautionary dose. The remaining 59 per cent should get it...
27 Dec, 2022, 11.27 AM IST
30% students didn't return to schools after Covid pandemic, Odisha govt findsAnalysing the daily attendance data from the schools as provided by the District Education Officers (DEOs), it was seen that around 70 per ...
14 May, 2022, 01.17 PM IST
Odisha logs 11,607 new COVID-19 cases, six more deathsAt least 991 children were among the new patients and the positivity ratio stood at 16.7 per cent as the fresh infections were detected fro...
19 Jan, 2022, 10.49 AM IST
Odisha logs 10,489 new COVID-19 cases, 3 more fatalitiesThe daily test positivity rate stood at 14.96 per cent as the fresh infections were detected from 70,117 sample tests. Khurda district, whi...
17 Jan, 2022, 11.42 AM IST
Odisha logs 7,071 fresh COVID-19 cases, biggest one-day spike in seven monthsOdisha's death toll mounted to 8,469 with one more fatality reported from Bolangir district.
11 Jan, 2022, 12.40 PM IST
Odisha registers 4,829 fresh COVID-19 casesThe new cases jumped more than 11-fold from 424 infections a week ago. The state had logged 4,714 cases on Sunday, while 4,852 infections w...
10 Jan, 2022, 11.31 AM IST
Odisha logs 424 new COVID-19 cases; single-day tally highest in 2 monthsThe toll rose to 8,463 as a 75-year-old woman from Bhubaneswar succumbed to the virus in Khurda district. Fifty-three other COVID-19 patien...
07 Jan, 2022, 11.53 AM IST
65% sero positivity in Odisha enough to tide over third wave, say expertsThe latest serological survey conducted in Ganjam, Rayagada and Koraput districts revealed a sero-positivity of more than 65% among the peo...
25 Jul, 2021, 11.52 AM IST
Odisha logs 7,188 new COVID-19 cases, 35 more fatalitiesOf the fresh cases, 4,026 were reported from quarantine centres and the remaining 3,162 detected during contact tracing.
29 May, 2021, 01.26 PM IST
Odisha declares 14-day lockdown from May 5 to rein in Covid surgeOn April 25, CM Naveen Patnaik had announced free vaccination for everyone in the age group of 18 to 44 years. This drive would entail a co...
02 May, 2021, 02.18 PM IST
'Way too early', says Odisha after praise on tackling COVID-19 outbreakOdisha drew appreciation from the Centre for being among the top two states in containing and combating the COVID-19 pandemic efficiently. ...
22 Apr, 2020, 04.00 PM IST