Rayagada: Health minister Prasanna Acharya on Tuesday visited the cholera-affected pockets in Rayagada district even as two more deaths were reported from Kalyansinghpur village under Kashipur block taking the toll at 68.

The minister, accompanied by health secretary Anu Garg, visited a few cholera-hit villages and supervised the emergency relief operations there.

Later, he reviewed the heal

BHUBANESWAR: President of the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) KP Singhdeo has requested the Centre to issue a statement assuring the people of the State that there will be no loss for Orissa because of the Polavaram project.

Singhdeo today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi and discussed the Polavaram project.

New Delhi: With 76 new cases of dengue reported on Tuesday, the toll has risen to 1933.

Bhubaneswar: Refuting allegations that poor people in the KBK region died of gastroenteritis by consuming mango kernel and other uneatable stuff in recent months, the Odisha government on Monday claimed that Rs 2 a kg rice scheme was doing well in the area.

Allegations that the people are deprived of cheap rice in KBK region, is incorrect.

With number of deaths due to diarrhoea and cholera in Orissa

Cholera, diar rhoea and other waterborne diseases in Orissa

BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa Pradesh Youth Congress (OPYC) has warned that it will launch a statewide agitation if the State Government failed to check spread of cholera in the backward district of the State.

In a statement, OPYC president Pradip Majhi criticised the State Government for its inaction even though 140 persons have died of cholera and more than 500 are affected by the disease in Rayaga

Bhubaneswar: The 'vibrio cholerae' bacteria was detected in water sources of Southern Rayagada district where at least 34 people have died of diarrhoea in last two months, official sources said on Thursday.

Of the 16 water samples examined at the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) here, six tested positive to vibrio cholerae, said D N Nayak, the team leader of state health human resource m

Says majority of inpatients at Communicable Diseases Hospital is from suburbs
REFUTING the AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa

One year ago, if you had uttered the words

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