Bhubaneswar: Elderly are the worst affected among all during current lock down situation due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. It was revealed by a latest survey, conducted by Agewell Foundation, an NGO, working for the welfare and empowerment of older persons in the country since 1999. For the survey, 5000 older persons across the country were…
Bhubaneswar: THE Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday collected `17,600 fine from 88 persons for not wearing mask outside home and warned vendors selling vegetables, fruits and grocery items of heavy penalty if they too were found without masks during the lockdown period. BMC officials said continuing its drive against the violators, the civic body has…
Bhubaeswar: The Regional Meteorological Centre, Bhubaneswar forecast rainfall along with hailstorm and thunderstorms in many parts of Odisha and issued Orange warning for 15 districts in the state till Saturday morning. As per the latest weather bulletin, the Meteorological Department has issued Orange warning for the districts of of Kalahandi, Balangir, Sonepur, Boudh, Sambalpur, Deogarh, Keonjhar,…
Bhubaneswar: Govt of Odisha had implemented a partial modification in the lockdown norms. A notification regarding the same has been issued by the Revenue and Disaster Management Department. The order will not be applicable in areas under shutdown. Shops of educational books, electric fans and recharge facilities for prepaid mobile connection across the state will remain open during…
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…
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…
Bhubaneswar: 21/01/2010: AMRI Hospitals, among the region’s top private healthcare service providers, created a platform for cardiology patients to form Eastern India’s first cardiac support group. To be known as the Happy Heart Club, the platform was launched by a group of patients, who have been treated in recent times. l The need to set…
Bhubaneswar: 17.01.2020: The state has been covered with dense fog. Several districts like Anugul, Kalahandi,Koraput, Malkangiri, Sundergadh, Kendujhar, Balangir has got yellow warning from the state Meteorological Department. The coastal districts such as Paradeep, Kurdha, Cuttack and Puri are also faced severe fog density. Due to the heavy fog density visibility has been restricted and the…
Govt of Odisha deputed 43 senior officials and Doctors of the Health and Family Welfare Department to access healthcare services in five coastal districts which were badly affected by the extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani on 3rd may’19. According to a notification from the health department, senior officials and entomologists have been sent to Puri, Khurda,…
‘Cyclone Fani’, one of the strongest storms to batter the Indian subcontinent in decades, made landfall near Puri, on 3rd May 2019, lashing the coast with winds gusting at more than 200 km per hour. Over 10,000 villages and 50 towns bore its brunt, with over 1.4 million people still in relief centres across the…