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The Nuapada district administration has kept a vigilant eye on neighbouring Chhattisgarh as the latter has started witnessing a marginal rise in cases after a brief lull in the second wave.

Mangaluru City Police and Dakshina Kannada District Police have made surveillance stricter at interstate borders as per the directions of Karnataka home minister Basavaraj Bommai, who held a video conference with officials on Tuesday.

For the last six years, an engineer-turned-businessman Gopal Krishna Baliga and his wife Radhika, have been documenting butterflies from their home garden in Mannagudda, in the heart of the city.

A woman, who had returned from Dubai, was found murdered at her apartment in Brahmavar on Monday.

A report would be submitted to chief minister M K Stalin on the parameters considered for school reopening in the Union territory to take a call on a similar attempt in the state, the minister told reporters in Trichy on Tuesday.

At least five persons travelling in a car were killed and one sustained serious injuries when a truck rammed into their car near Trilochan Makada bypass in Jalalpur area of Jaunpur district on Tuesday morning.

Sikkim's Covid-19 tally rose to 22,623 on Tuesday as 226 more people tested positive for the infection, a health bulletin said.

The main accused in the alleged theft of gold and cash worth over Rs. 11.5 crore, has been caught in an arms act case in Delhi's Jagatpuri police station on Saturday night.

At least five people were killed while another person sustained serious injuries when the car they were traveling in collided with a truck in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur district on Tuesday morning.

It has been two years since Mohammad Alim, a resident of Puri, had caught a glimpse of Lord Jagannath atop the chariots during Rath Yatra owing to the ban on the gathering of devotees amid Covid. He may have to wait for another year to be able to take part in the state’s biggest festival.

It was not the Grand Road alone was desolate missing devotees on Rath Yatra. The Puri beach too wore a deserted look owing to the curfew imposed by the government to stop public gathering during the festival owing to the prevalent Covid crisis, resulting in loss of business for hundreds of small vendors.

People in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack missed the sight of chariots rolling down the roads yet again during the annual Rath Yatra on Monday due to the Covid-19 situation. For the second successive year the chariot festival was celebrated without the presence of devotees, cultural troupes and processions as temples in the cities observed the rituals inside the premises.

The Assam Human Rights Commission, taking suo motu cognizance, has asked the state government to conduct an inquiry into circumstances leading to the death and injuries to 12 people in alleged police firing since the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government took charge two months ago.

The double-laning of Burla ring road project to strengthen connectivity to Burla under Sambalpur Municipal Corporation (SMC) remains a non-starter five years after it was proposed.

Officials of Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) conducted raids at two prestigious clubs in the city for flouting Covid guidelines and sealed the clubs late on Sunday night. About 30-40 patrons were present in one of the clubs and they were being served food and beverages when the raid took place.

Speculation is doing the rounds of Naveen Patnaik carrying out a possible reshuffle of his council of ministers and that he is eyeing a date after the end of the nine-day Rath Yatra festivities, which began on Monday. Apart from giving more representation to women and backward castes, Naveen may include some new faces who had never become ministers earlier and bring back some former ministers.

Police on Monday seized some firearms and belongings of Maoists near Dhubusara under Kandhamal district’s Gochhapada police station limits. The seizure comes after the exchange of fire between the Maoists and security forces on Saturday, in which two commandos of the Special Operations Group (SOG) sustained injuries.

Students are facing immense problems in tribal-dominated districts due to poor mobile network. Most are preparing for different entrance examinations and are heavily dependent upon online classes. They often trek to nearby hills or climb big trees to access the network.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday laid the foundation stones for a state-of-the-art cancer hospital and a palliative care centre here at Infovalley. While one is the proposed Bagchi-Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, the other is the Bagchi-Karunashraya Palliative Care Centre.

After oscillating between 2,500-3,000 for nearly two weeks, the new infection count in the state on Monday came down to fewer than 2,000 (1993), for the first time since April 13.

More than Rs 7.44 crore has been collected as penalty for violating different Covid-19 restrictions and protocols across Assam in 2020, the Assam government informed the state assembly on Monday.

The three-km Grand Road, facing the majestic 12th century Jagannath Temple in Puri, was soaked in devotion as the sibling deities — Lords Jagannath and Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra — dressed in all their finery set off on their annual journey to their birthplace at Gundicha Temple on Monday, marking the first day of the much-awaited Rath Yatra in the state.

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The authorities often make spelling mistakes while writing the names of roads, gardens, circles and areas on signboards. People often make fun of them when they pass by and notice them, but only a few intend to bring it to the notice of the authorities, though they hardly respond or act.

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