Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government today ordered immediate stoppage of all construction works across the State in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak. The order came hours after the announcement of total lockdown in the State from midnight of March 24 to midnight of March 29 as part of the preventive measures to fight the COVID-19. [...]

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation tonight at 8 pm, his second address in five days, amidst growing number of Corona infections in the country. वैश्विक महामारी कोरोना वायरस के बढ़ते प्रकोप के संबंध में कुछ महत्वपूर्ण बातें देशवासियों के साथ साझा करूंगा। आज, 24 मार्च रात 8 बजे देश को संबोधित [...]

Bhubaneswar: Jajpur MP Sarmistha Sethi has appealed the people to strictly follow the Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s advisory and guidelines on Coronavirus to keep the deadly virus at bay. The Lok Sabha MP urged the people to adhere to the lockdown clamped by the Odisha Government as part of the social distancing measure [...]

Bhubaneswar: In major development, the Odisha government today extended lockdown to another 16 districts. With this the entire State has come under the lowdown from 24th March midnight till 29th midnight. Addressing a press conference, Odisha Government Chief Spokesperson on COVID-19, Subroto Bagchi said, the lockdown has been extended to all 30 districts. Notably, in [...]

Puri: The Puri District Administration is not leaving any stone unturned as the State is in a situation that is not less than any emergency. The administration has taken some tough decisions to implement the lockdown and has asked for everybody’s cooperation. In a video message issued, District Collector Balwant Singh details the situation and [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government, which has seen taking extra ordinary steps to curb the spreading of deadly Coronavirus, once again took a bold step to put stickers in houses of home quarantine people for stricter community monitoring. There are around 3,600 such persons who returned to Odisha from abroad. “For community monitoring of quarantined homes, [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today donated his three-month salary to the CMRF (COVID-19 Fund) to provide humanitarian help to the affected people. Stating that COVID-19 has created a great challenge for the entire world, the Chief Minister appealed all to donate generously to COVID-19 fund for a noble cause. “Extraordinary circumstance demands extraordinary [...]

New Delhi: In yet another significant development, the Lok Sabha on Monday adjourned sine die, 11 days ahead of its scheduled closure aimd the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in the country. Soon after the House passed the Finance Bill, 2020, the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla made the announcement of sine die. The Budget Session [...]

Berhampur: The Ganjam district administration today announced that all shops including grocery, vegetable and fruit markets will be closed after 4PM to next day 7AM daily except medicine stores during the lockdown period. “In order to contain the spread of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), all shops including grocery, vegetable and fruit markets will be closed after [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government today extended lockdown to nine more districts to fight the highly contagious Coronavirus (COVID-19). The State Government extended lockdown to full districts of Puri, Nayagarh, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Balasore, Dhenkanal, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda districts from tomorrow morning till 9pm 29 March. With this, Odisha locks down more than 3 crore population covering [...]