Indian Entertainment Industry & Facebook join forces for mega ‘I FOR INDIA’ concert

Mumbai : The Indian entertainment industry has come together for a home-to-home fundraiser concert, I For India, in partnership with Facebook and Give India. 100% proceeds from the fundraiser concert will go to the India COVID Response Fund managed by GiveIndia. Associated  with over 100 NGOs, Give India is working on-ground to support the required…

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COVID-19: Lockdown extended for 2 more weeks from 4 May, says MHA

Bhubaneswar: Lockdown 2.0 is continuing, ahead of this Union Health Ministry has extended the Lockdown for 2 more weeks from 4 May 2020. Lockdown 3.0 listed 130 districts in the country in red zone, 284 in orange zone and 319 green zone. The new guidelines say “for the well-being and safety” of people, movement for all…

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Meritnation Offers Free Online Live Classes for Grades 6-12

New Delhi : The COVID-19 outbreak and the resultant uncertainty has impacted schools and educational institutes across India. Rising to the occasion, Indian Edtech major Meritnation, a subsidiary of test preparation leader Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL), is conducting special free live classes for students during the lockdown helping them continue their studies. Meritnation has opened…

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Winners of CODE19 Online Hackathon against Coronavirus in India Announced

Bhubaneswar  – Abhinand C and Shilpa Rajeev, two students from the Government College of Engineering in Kannur, Kerala, have bagged the first prize of $10,000 at the recently concluded CODE19 online hackathon against coronavirus in India. Their winning entry, called iClassroom, involved a modern virtual classroom for the millennial generation. It connects students with teachers through…

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Ambulance carrying Corona Patient faced accident at Cuttack

Bhubaneswar: An Ambulance carrying 3 COVID-19 patients from Jajpur faced accident at the Chaluaganj Over bridge, Cuttack. These patients were coming from Jajpur Corona Hospital. As per the sources, the 3 Corona patients are safe and have been moved to the SUM Covid Hospital, Bhubaneswar. The Ambulance & the accident place have been sanitized by…

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Utkal University encouraging sustainable technology & entrepreneurship in webinar

Bhubaneswar: For the promotion of the online education during this lockdown, Utkal Entrepreneurship and Career Hub (UECH) of Utkal University in collaboration with RUSA have started a series of webinars as a part of the University’s online teaching initiative starting last week. The second in the series, today’s webinar focused on “Sustainable technologies for livelihoods and…

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Paytm App enables stores & individuals to sell Vodafone Idea recharges to earn additional income

New Delhi, April 27, 2020: India’s leading financial services platform Paytm now empowers mobile recharge shops, grocery stores, milk booth operators, pharmacists as well as individuals to sell Vodafone Idea prepaid mobile recharges from their outlets. This move would help millions of mobile phone users including migrant workers, who are finding it difficult at the…

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Khimji supplied 100 hazmat suits to State police

Bhubaneswar:  Khimji Group, one of the leading business houses of the State provided 100 hazmat suits worth about five lakh to the Commissionerate Police in its fight against Covid-19 pandemic. Hazmat suits are used as personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent contamination. The air tight suits are made of plastic, fabric and rubber, along with an…

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Odisha Govt gearing up for contact tracing in COVID-19 hotspots in 3 districts

Bhubaneswar Odisha Govt gearing up for contact tracing in COVID-19 hotspots in Balasore, Bhadrak and Jajpur districts to trace the people who have recently returned from other states, especially West Bengal. The state government has imposed a 60-hour complete shutdown from 10 pm Thursday till April 26 in the three districts following a rise of COVID-19…

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COVID-19: Migration of labourers from Bengal is headache for Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The migration of workers from West Bengal is headache for Odisha to tackle the Covid-19 crisis. Though every State is facing the problem of reverse migration in India now . The daily wage labourers from various parts of West Bengal trying to cross the State borders from various way to enter into the Odisha border. And this is…

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