Afternoon News Headlines (January 16, 2019)

ONI Bureau:  Good Afternoon Readers! Here are the Afternoon News Bulletin on Odisha, India and World by Odisha News Insight.

—   President Ram Nath Kovind appoints senior advocate Sanjay Jain as the Additional Solicitor General of India.

—   3 Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLCs have been disqualified from Telangana Legislative council on grounds of defection.

—   Sheila Dikshit will take charge as the Delhi Congress chief today.

—   Snow halts flights at Srinagar airport.

—   Lucknow: Prantiya Rakshak Dal (PRD) jawans stage protest over regularisation of jobs.

—   No threat to coalition Government: Karnataka CM H.D. Kumaraswamy.

—   Information and Broadcasting Ministry to lend support of Rs 500,000 to Jharkhand International Film Festival.

—   YouTube bans challenges, harmful pranks; testing new video recommendation format.

—   Kenya president says 14 innocent people were killed in Tuesday’s attack on hotel complex.

—   Heat wave in Australia as mercury touches 50.

—   Chinese Olympic champion Zhou Yang to become International Skating Union (ISU) Athletes Commission member.

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