The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a two-day yellow warning for heat wave for five districts in Odisha. In a bulletin, the weather agency informed that the hot westerly wind is blocking the wind from the sea towards the state’s coast due to the weakening of the trough from Jharkhand to southeast Madhya Pradesh. This has resulted in a sharp rise in the day temperature at most places of the state. Issuing the warning…
Odisha government on Sunday announced free Covid vaccination for people aged 18-45 years. The state government will bear the entire cost of vaccinations. For this 10.34 lakh doses of covaxin and 377.00 lakh doses of covishield have been ordered by the state government. Rs 2000 cr will be invested to vaccinate around 2 crore people in the state. From May 1 people…
Jagannath temple servitors who returned to Puri after attending Kumbh Mela have been tested covid positive. According to the district officials, 127 people returned to Odisha after attending the mela of which 36 were sevayats from Puri. The report of five sevayats came positive. So far 47 sevatyats and 30 staffs of the temple have been infected with the virus. Considering the rising number Covid cases, the state government…
Indian railway runned a special train to supply oxygen from steel plants to different parts of the country. The first Roll On-Roll Off (Ro-Ro) Oxygen Express with seven empty tankers from Kalamboli Goods Shed in Maharashtra reached at Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Visakhapatnam on April 21. 15 tons of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) were loaded…
Oxygen shortage in many parts of the country is affecting the fight against COVID-19. Extending help to PM Narendra Modi, chief minister Naveen Patnaik has assured to supply oxygen to affected regions. He assured to ramp up the production of Oxygen to assist states in emergency situations. While Odisha is also witnessing a surge in…
Bhubaneswar: The state government on April 21 directed the private hospitals to reserve 50 percent beds for COVID-19 patients. Keeping this in view, the private hospitals having facility for 30 beds or more and registered under Odisha Clinical Establishment (Control & Regulation) Act 1990 are directed to ensure provision of minimum of 50% of available…
Senior leader and CPI general secretary Sitaram Yechury lost his eldest son dies of Covid-19 at Gurgaon hospital. 34 year old Ashish Yechury who was a journalist died on 21 April after a two week long battle with the Corona infection. Ashish, who studied at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai was working with News…
Around 300 passengers flee from Silchar Airport to avoid mandatory COVID-19 testing at the airport. According to the information, 690 passengers reached Silchar airport from six different flights on Wednesday, of which only 189 passengers underwent the Covid tests and six were found to be positive. Other passengers escaped the airport without tests The authorities…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the second country after UK to ban entry of Indian flights due to COVID-19 surge in India. No flights will fly passengers from India. Travellers from India are barred from entering UAE for 10 days from April 25 to May 4. However, Indians who stayed in other countries for…
Grappling with shortage of oxygen, Telangana government sought the help of the Indian Air Force to airlift oxygen from Odisha. Warplanes were sent to Odisha to procure Oxygen in tankers. This has been done to save three days spent on transportation by road. Telangana Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar along with the Health Minister personally supervised…
