Bhubaneswar: The minimum temperature dropped as cold wave conditions returned to some districts of Odisha. The drop in temperature is due to the northwesterly dry and cold winds, which saw at least 15 weather stations logging below 10 degree Celsius, a weather bulletin said. Kandhamal district experienced intense cold as Daringbadi and Phulbani town reported…
Bhubaneswar: With 15 Covid deaths on Saturday, Odisha reported the highest in nearly five months, as daily new infections dropped to 4,842, a health department bulletin said. The total fatalities rose to 8,575, and the total number of Covid positive cases climbed to 12,41,068, it added. Khurdha district which also includes capital city Bhubaneswar, logged…
Bhubaneswar: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approved the Covid-19 rapid antigen test kit developed by a private company in Odisha. The kit has been developed by IMGENEX India Pvt Ltd, Bhubaneswar with intellectual input from Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC). The kit can detect different variants of Covid-19 by using nasopharyngeal swab…
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The petrol price in Bhubaneswar was unchanged on Saturday with the rate in the capital city at Rs 101.81 while diesel price at Rs 91.62. In Cuttack the prices of petrol and diesel on Saturday were Rs 102.17 and Rs 91.97, respectively. Petrol and diesel prices are revised in India on a daily basis. The…
Bhubaneswar: Winter chill is set to return to Odisha and some districts are likely to be in the grip of a cold wave, the India Meteorological Department said on Friday. Minimum temperatures will be 3-5 degrees Celsius below normal in many places in the next three days, the Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre said. The weatherman forecasts…
Puri: The Jagannath Temple in Odisha’s Puri will reopen for devotees from February 1. However, the temple will remain closed on Sundays for sanitisation purpose, Puri collector Samarth Verma informed on Friday. Due to surge in Covid-19 cases in the state, the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), earlier this month had closed the temple for…
Bhubaneswar: Daily Covid-19 cases continued to dip in Odisha, where 5,057 more people tested positive on Friday, the health department said. The coronavirus tally stood at 12,36,226, while 10 fresh fatalities pushed the death toll to 8,560, reported PTI. The state had logged 5,901 single-day cases and eight deaths on Thursday. A week ago, it…
Bhubaneswar: A book containing sketches of 50 prominent freedom fighters from Odisha was released in the SOA campus on Wednesday coinciding with the country’s 73rd Republic Day. Written by Prof. Siba Charan Nayak, former dean of NIT, Rourkela, the book titled ‘Odishara Pachas Swadhinata Sangramee’ and mainly meant for children was released at a function…
Bhubaneswar: Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University completed 25 years of its existence with a lot of promise for the future, SOA’s pro-chancellor Prof. Amit Banerjee said on the occasion of Republic Day on Wednesday. Unfurling the national flag at the University office on Wednesday, Prof. Banerjee said the time had come to attune…
