The Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday that India is placed second after the US in terms of daily Covid-19 vaccination numbers.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday urged private TV channels to disseminate messages for COVID-appropriate behaviour and vaccination of the eligible age group to create greater awareness among people.

Hours after Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik ordered a 10-day special drive for enforcement of Covid safety protocols, State Director General of Police (DGP) announced that the drive will begin throughout the State from tomorrow.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government of Pakistan has set the legal process rolling to buy the ancestral houses of two Indian film legendary actors and friends Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor, in Peshawar.

In the fight against Covid-19 second wave, it has been a day of a double whammy for the State Capital Bhubaneswar. Not only the new daily positive cases shoot up the 100-mark after 150-long days but also the first community cluster has been recorded at Tankapani…

Amid a steady upswing in the cases of Covid-19 in the State triggering the possibility of a full-scale second wave of the virus pandemic, the State government of Odisha has amended some regulations in its policy of quarantine for health care providers engaged…

The authorities of Veer Surendra Sai (VSS) Airport, Jharsuguda has decided to introduce  direct flight service from the airport to Patna in Bihar.

The outlawed CPI (Maoist) has claimed that CoBRA commando Rakeshwar Singh Manhas, who went missing after the April 3 ambush in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, is in captivity of ultras.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has warned of stringent action against unauthorised non-essential cultural programme celebrations in the city amid a spurt in the fresh Covid-19 cases.

Demanding a flyover and underpass at Khordha, leaders from BJP, BJD and Congress came under one roof in front of the Collectorate of Khordha on Tuesday.

The United States' Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, on Tuesday lauded India for "getting the job done on climate" and said it is a world leader already in deployment of renewable energy.

India hosted a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das which was the first meeting of the BRICS Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors under India's chairship in 2021.

Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) chairperson Sandhyabati Pradhan on Tuesday visited a Mahila Samiti in Kendrapara district and inquired into the sexual exploitation of a woman worker.

An assistant sub-inspector of police was on Tuesday suspended after a video showing five cops, including a woman home guard, in uniform dancing to the tunes of a popular Odia song inside a police station in Odisha's Jajpur district has gone viral on social…

Observing that India is a major player on a global stage, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry on Wednesday said that decisive action from the country now will determine what this transformation will mean for all generations to come.

In a bizarre incident, a group of people allegedly attacked two persons causing critical injuries inside a police station in Balasore district on Tuesday night.

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani topped the Forbes list of India's 10 richest billionaires with a net worth of $84.5 billion, followed by Adani Group chief Gautam Adani.

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 132.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.87 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

Forty doctors of Lucknow's King George's Medical University (KGMU), including Vice Chancellor Lt Gen (retd) Vipin Puri, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Google-owned YouTube, which has removed over 83 million videos and seven billion comments for violating its community guidelines since 2018, has announced to build greater transparency and accountability with making its Violative View Rate (VVR) metric public.