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Disclosing this, additional chief secretary (health) Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra said as announced earlier, Covaxin will be used in Bhubaneswar only. The state will wait for delivery of Covishield to start vaccination in other parts of the state, he said.

Two earthquakes of magnitude 3.5 and 3.2 on the Richter scale occurred in Assam's Sonitpur on Friday, said the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).

The Ludhiana administration on Friday decided to fix the rates of private ambulances ferrying Covid-19 patients.

A month ago, the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) campus was declared a containment zone, and gradually around 1,000 Covid-19 cases were reported from the campus. ​​​It had been a difficult phase for the students, but now, many have come forward to lend a helping hand to those suffering due to the pandemic.

Movement of essential services like law and order/emergencies and municipal services, media persons with accreditation and government machinery tasked with Covid-19 related work will be allowed.

The Government Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Cuttack in partnership with IG DRONES has started making drones. IG DRONES Delta 400 series has been catering to the needs of industries.

The state government has asked the district administrations not to cross the daily targets of RT-PCR tests set for them to avoid backlogs of reports amid rising infections in Odisha.

In the wake of the Covid-induced economic slowdown, depletion of revenue and requirement of more funds to address the healthcare crisis, the state government on Thursday urged the Centre to waive the charges of Rs 4,561.23 crore towards the deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) in the Maoist-affected districts of Odisha.

A cloth merchant who stared death in the face on the operation table, when he underwent a surgery for brain tumour, is now helping those without means to ward off the threat of Covid-19.

One worker was killed and two others were injured after an oxygen cylinder exploded during refilling at the Panki Oxygen Plant in Kanpur in the wee hours of Friday.

The Congress’ Assam unit on Thursday filed a complaint with the Election Commission alleging “serious discrepancies” regarding the safety of a strong room and electronic voting machines used in the recently held assembly polls, and demanded an inquiry into the matter.

The whole greater Imphal was declared a containment zone for seven days with immediate effect, suspending all activities and movement, except for emergency and essential services as Covid cases continued to mount in Manipur. The state on Thursday registered 314 new cases, the biggest single day spike since January this year, while five persons succumbed to the virus at different hospitals in Imphal in the past 24 hours.

The vaccination for people aged 18-44 years will be delayed by three weeks in Tripura, as the supply of Covishield doses has been deferred by the manufacturer, director of state’s NHM Dr Siddhartha Shiv Jaiswal said on Thursday.

Assam has sufficient food stock to last over three months even if there is a lockdown. Assam chief secretary Jishnu Barua on Thursday said the state has enough food stock and markets are operating smoothly. “There is no complaint of shortage of food grains and markets are operating in the state. We have enough to meet the requirements,” Barua said, ruling out a “complete lockdown” as of now.

Barely days after the forest fire in Lunglei district was extinguished, a massive forest fire, which originated from South Lungpher South, a small village near the Myanmar border Lawngtlai district in southern Mizoram, engulfed the ‘Phawngpui tlang’ since early Thursday morning.

With only 10-15% of the total Covid cases being hospitalized in the state, the pandemic situation may be well under control for the next two weeks, says the health department.

Two neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (neo-JMB) cadres were arrested with arms and fake Indian currency notes (FICN) over Rs 1 lakh by the special branch of Assam police in Dhubri district in lower Assam.

Assam police on Thursday said the third abducted employee of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) is alive and in the custody of United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (Ulfa-I).

Geologists in Assam have said there is nothing to fear as of now though some fissures have appeared on the ground in different parts of the state after an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hit the state on Wednesday morning followed by several aftershocks.

The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) on Thursday said the total number of injured people in the state has gone up to 12 and no casualties have been reported in last 24 hours.

A day after a strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the Richter Scale rocked the state, the aftershocks were felt on Thursday, too, triggering panic among residents.

A commander of Ulfa (I) was killed in an encounter with police in western Assam’s Bongaigaon district early on Thursday, police said.Based on intelligence inputs that Dwipen Saud, the newly appointed commander of Ulfa (I)’s western command was planning some ‘high profile’ abduction, police confronted him at Besimari under Manikpur police station.