Afternoon News Headlines (August 16, 2018)

ONI Bureau:  —–   Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik to leave for Delhi today to enquire about health condition of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

—–   I served as a member of Vajpayee ji’s cabinet for two years. He is a great leader and to work under him was a very good experience: Odisha CM.

—–   Odisha CM announces Rs 5 crore financial aid for flood-affected Kerala.

—–   Man commits suicide after hacking wife to death over family quarrel at Khalapala village in Dhenkanal dist.

—–   Farmers from Bargarh lock up IDCO tower in Bhubaneswar demanding immediate disbursal of crop insurance.

—–   Website of Pharmaceutical Science department of Utkal University hacked.

—–   Vajpayee critical, Special prayers for him across India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Sisodia visit AIIMS.

—–   President Ram Nath Kovind greets people on eve of Parsi New Year.

—–   Punjab Assembly session will be held from August 24-28.

—–   Four soldiers wounded in Kashmir border gunfight.

—–   NRCAssaam case: Supreme Court askes the NRC Coordinator Prateek Hajela to submit a detailed report in a sealed cover, with respect to the district wise percentage of the population not included in the draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) list; matter to be next heard on August 28.

—–   Kerala Floods: 12 more teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) – 6 from Delhi and 6 from Gandhinagar – are being airlifted to Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 18 teams are already deployed in the state.

—–   Earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale hit Nicobar Island region at 1.43 pm.